Kind: Notes

Gonna be an early bedtime tonight.

Oh wow it's after 11 already.

Get in Babkans, those of you on micro.blog, and other fedizens, we're doing Monday.

First, I'd like to congratulate Mastodon on its latest milestone, at least according to the Mastodon User Count bot. I realize that there is a dispute about these numbers, and that they do not cover the entire fediverse, but congratulations nonetheless.

John and I are just doing various chores around the house, and we will be cooking some barbecue briscuit baked beans with lil smokes later on because it's something that gives us a few meals and we enjoy it.

Also, we're reading the Tony Lord series by Richard North Patterson. We haven't rendered a verdict yet.

#bookstodon #today

Get in Babkans, those of you on micro.blog, and other fedizens, we're doing Sunday.

For my Christian friends, I hope you all have a meaningful Sunday. For the rest of us, including my atheist friends, I hope it's a fun or relaxing day, whichever one you would enjoy more.

John and I are just reading through the Rosato and dinunzio series by Lisa Scottoline. Breakfast has been consumed along with coffee, and John is taking a nap.

#today

OK cool by all means crack down on junk fees, but while we're at it we should really look into doing something about the cost of tuition and books and student housing. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/03/15/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-takes-new-action-to-crack-down-on-junk-fees-in-higher-education/

Our place is clean, we'll be squaring lunch away in about an hour, and then I am going to coast through the rest of this day.

(Sigh) I hate this timeline.

Chuck Schumer and other politicians in the US should not be attempting to interfere in Israeli politics by making public pronouncements about how Netanyahu is unfit and should resign.

At the same time, Tom Cotton is a performative virtue signaling little shit who doesn't give a damn about antisemitism and has no business throwing the label around so he can score political points. He can yell "Antisemite!" when he starts dealing with Maga's very own antisemitism problem, which Republican party leadership is still refusing to deal with even after October 7.

And before anyone tries coming into my mentions with "But leftwing antisemitism is worse!" I do not care whose antisemitism problem is worse at this point either fix your own team's problem or shut the hell up because I'm done tolerating it no matter where it comes from.

Get in Babkans, those of you on micro.blog, and other fedizens, we've made it to Friday.

John and I are just waiting for the cleaning people t o come this morning to do the bi-weekly cleaning, and other than that, I think today will be a slow one.

#today

I remembered to get the windows closed before the rain rolls in.

This was so not on my bingo card.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-14/x-removes-graphic-video-elon-musk-shared-over-rules-violation

This is absolutely messed up.

Targeted advertising is bad enough, this is far beyond the pale. I want to know how we opt out.

"How Evangelicals Use Digital Surveillance to Target the Unconverted
The hot new thing in proselytizing is an app that allows Christian conservatives to collect data on whole neighborhoods of potential converts."

https://newrepublic.com/article/179397/evangelical-app-targeting-immigrants-surveillance

2PM feeling in full effect. I will get through this day I swear.

Jaws finally updated. Settings did not port, so I had to redo those. It was looking like I might have to repair the install but fortunately that didn't happen. Lunch has been consumed. And the windows are open.

This picture smart stuff had better be absolutely amazing. Given the length of time this update is taking. Screw this, I am going to go get some lunch.

Jaws is still trying to update. This is going to be a long day.

Finally getting around to installing Jaws updates.

Get in Babkans, those of you on micro.blog, and other fedizens, we're doing Thursday.

Personally, I'm hoping we can just zoom through today and most of tomorrow until we get to the end of it, because this has been a long week and I'm tired.

It's supposed to be another nice day today with temperatures around 21C (70F), so maybe I'll take some advantage of that later with some time outside.

#today

The ‘Criminal Immigrant’ Canard:

Republicans selectively highlight cases like Laken Riley’s to promote malicious lies.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/the-criminal-immigrant-canard

Headache is gone and breakfast with coffee has been consumed, but I'm still feeling pretty snarky and lacking the patience to suffer fools today. Maybe this will change, maybe it will not.

Oh yeah one other thing.

We're supposed to be in the upper 60's (around 14C) here today and tomorrow, and then the temperatures are supposed to plunge again. So I plan to take advantage of this weirdness while I can.