Alright we got an hour or so until #MONSTERDON, your weekly goofy monster movie watching party! This week we're watching MOTHRA (1961), the very first movie with Bugmom. Nothing quite like a kaiju with its own musical number :D
If you'd like to avoid the livetweets, go ahead and set up a filter for the hashtag now! If you'd like to join us, we start at 9pm Eastern, and you can stream the movie gratis and ad free right over here: https://archive.org/details/MOTHRA_201905
@craig_patrick Active participation on that site by people/orgs with significant followings is what brings advertisers. It is therefore direct support of the site. @mastodonmigration
@JenWojcik Apple made two big campus bets in 2019: Austin and San Diego. I worked for Apple at that time, and I recalled that I could count the people who were even interested in Austin on one hand, and mostly because they have family connections there. Everyone recognized in 2019 that Texas was going down the Fascist dumpster hole, and Austin was part of it.
Then the pandemic hit, and no-one made a move.
Now that Apple has foolishly leaned into RTO (ironically, to a large extent driven by the need to protect their real estate investments, I assume), they are trying to attract people to those campuses again. Now that abortion access is basically gone from Texas, you can bet anyone with a uterus isn’t going to step foot in that state. Same goes for trans or queer folk: who the hell would go to Texas in the present day, knowing they don’t even want you to exist?
Beau of the fifth pointed that right after the abortion bans were being passed. When you couple it with the climate challenges, Texas, the US south, maybe the red center of the US are not great options. Climate alone makes the choice of destination iffy.
@philip_cardella@Pineywoozle@StillIRise1963 Thanks to this idiot, the term "rapid unscheduled disassembly" has entered our vocabulary. I can't wait to see how he pisses away his fortune. The Tesla suits are coming, and his labor troubles in the EU are just beginning, as Twitter's value keeps circling the drain.
my only gift giving advice is to consider: binoculars. I've bought them at almost every price range for people ages 4 to 89. people LOVE them. you can use them for concerts, stargazing, spying on squirrels, whatever
Since putting up what amounts to a clothesline on my roof a month ago, I've managed to transmit and make contact with 37 states (and multiple countries) using 10 watts.
This is the power equivalent of putting an LED lightbulb on my roof, flicking it on and off, and having the east coast see it and reply.
No, no, no. In my youth I was a NY Times copy editor. I would not have permitted this—no one would. We’re not inside the heads of Trump’s lawyers. They SAY they believe the judge is biased, but that doesn’t mean they really do.
@JamesGleick Particularly galling because that is the reasoning they often use to avoid using the words "lie" and "lied": we can't know what they really believe.
I said this before on the bird site but it really is true; I distinctly remember reading Ayn Rand as a teenager and thinking “this is some real bullshit she is trying to pull here”. As pulp it is fine, but this is not a serious philosophy for serious people.
@gknauss@codinghorror Some British expats introduced me to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio series. Then I got to watch most of the series. It warped me even more. I was already a Whovian.
I know I’ve said this before, but as someone who goes into industrial process environments a lot, the lack in of decent ppe, especially FR gear, that properly and safely fits feminine bodies is a frigging travesty. It’s one of those things that actually leads to a culture of poor safety, because nobody really talks about it - guys typically don’t think about people wearing a bra or hairpins and how they could melt to a person in an industrial accident, and women feel like they have to shut up and be one of the guys. And almost everything that fits better requires a lengthy online order from backstock.
Anyway if you are planning on working in that space and aren’t a men’s size M-XXL like nearly all the gear, I’m always available to talk.
@hacks4pancakes I have say, the irony of your name, in relation to your specific issue made me chuckle. When I first glanced at your toot, I thought it was some kind of marketing gimmick from Carhartt.