Notices by The research fairy 😷 🧚‍♂️ 🌈 (bgcarlisle@scholar.social), page 30

"They tolerate you, Odo, because you emulate them. What higher flattery is there? I, who can be anything, choose to be like you. But even when you make yourself in their image, they know you are not truly one of them. They know that what you appear to be does not reflect what you really are. It's only a mask. What lies underneath is alien to them, and so they fear it. And that fear can turn to hate in the blink of an eye."

:DS9: "Chimera"

Everyone should watch this news story about my fiddle teacher: https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/pei-s-denique-takes-fiddle-infused-electro-pop-around-the-world-1.4420874

The upside to Mastodon's search limitations is that it's difficult to get an accurate count on how many times I've made my "Cap 'n Bucky's Big Gay Wedding" joke

Sorry everyone btw

@Canageek We have some of that already, but most of us don't wear our robes except on very specific occasions :P

Me: Computer, show me what pro-police state propaganda directed at my four year old nephew would look like

Computer: PROCESSING ...

My supervisor recently bought a new iMac

On the very first startup it did this weird thing (picture attached)

He's had it like a week now and complains that it takes a LONG time to start up every day, despite being brand-new

Loading Word is also very sluggish

This is a strange constellation of computer errors to try to search for, so does anyone have some insight into whether this is a known bug/hardware thing?

I started this like yesterday and came back and couldn't remember why

So, without explanation, please choose between:

~ Cap 'n Bucky's Big Gay Wedding ~

Act 1 scene 1

INTERIOR BEDROOM / DAY

Cap: Bucky my love, I dreamed that Thanos had killed you!

Bucky: Shh, it was all a bad dream

Cap: I also dreamed that we had to constantly exchange conspicuously heterosexual anecdotes

Bucky: Oh you silly one, of course not

Cap and Bucky together: Because we have a big gay wedding to plan!

🎶 [Upbeat music starts playing because yes THIS IS A MUSICAL] 🎶

A little miffed that Disney never contacted me to tell me that they won't be using my screenplay, "Avengers: Cap 'n Bucky's Big Gay Wedding" for the next one tbh

Straight people sure do love to redefine the goals of queer political movements downward to the point where they're already met, don't they?

Straight person: "Yes I think you'll find the reasonable position to be that queer people want to be equal to, and by this I mean, absolutely indistinguishable from straight people. That's to say, if I can tell you're gay, you're being gay wrong."

@JubalBarca People of Scottish descent in Scotland: ...

People of Scottish descent outside Scotland: BAGPIPE KILT HAGGIS BAGPIPE BAGPIPE

People of Scottish descent in Scotland: He's nae wi' us

Every single person I know who's gotten into virtue theory, they ended up there by mentioning its existence once

Then later they get asked to describe it

Then suddenly they have to defend it, because "you're the virtue ethics person"

Then one day they wake up and they have a Philippa Foot tattoo and they don't remember how it got there

you ever see something and think <<DAMN I want to research that wait I don't have time its a mystery forever>>

Blue lab coats are just cooler