Notices by DialMforMara (dialmformara@wandering.shop)

do I know anyone who lives in #Seattle & works in Issaquah or Sammamish that I can carpool with so that my commute isn't an hour and a half? I can help pay for gas

https://www.audubon.org/news/when-bird-birb-extremely-important-guide

The Audubon Society weighs in on which birds count as birbs.

I've got another article up on Ars Technica! This one's a review of @gretchenmcc 's book Because Internet

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/11/because-internet-makes-a-linguists-case-for-l33t-speak-other-online-text-fads/

TIL from @switchingsoftware there's an open-source Minecraft clone
https://www.minetest.net/

Anybody in Seattle want to help kids with their homework one night a week? The library is looking for more volunteers.

Come to my Monday afternoon session and make it less boring

does anyone have experience applying for COBRA? HR says I don't get asked to apply until after job benefits end, and I'm worried about getting my prescriptions in the time in between

It hasn’t, but it’s sat next to me and held my hand while I changed myself

Star Trek TNG envisions a future of radical gender equality where everyone wears minidresses and leggings on formal occasions

Rawr

any time I start getting antsy about Pokemon Go aggravating my arthritis, feel free to remind me to stop playing

I plan to keep at it until Ralts Community Day, but I'll probably stop after that

so at least remind me not to fight Team Rocket

Today's task is the one computers could do better--I'm comparing information about celebrities on Wikipedia and Wikidata to see how well they agree.

Wikidata insists that Milo Yiannopoulos is an example of a human. I kinda want to correct that to Ooze.

Depression is a form of lycanthropy. It turns you into a were-edgelord.

Mobile apps that play loud ads even after you've figured out how to turn off the sound in the app

"When we put the proposal together in 2015, I was slightly worried that emoji would have blown over by the time of the conference..."

*wonka face* uh huh

unsettled by the realization that the most useful information in your county's guide to the municipal election is who endorses each candidate

My thoughts about #KingdomHearts, copied from Discord

It scratches my complexity itch. Also my beautiful anime boys itch.

Like seriously you need to get deep into the weeds for it to make sense, and it's both transcendent & amazingly stupid

But if you want a story about two boys who love each other helping each other deal with mental illness and breaking an ancient cycle of violence, it's worth your time. Just be ready to skip the terribly written Disney sections when they get to be too much.

Apparently a cure for the common cold was discovered in the mid-80s, but nobody uses it because it interacts badly with hormonal birth control.

This fun fact brought to you by the science conference @Canageek is at, which is holding a memorial session for the crystallographer who discovered it.

I wonder if, now that more people in North America are using non-hormonal birth control, they'll start working on it again

What's a good non-sweary substitute for "fucked"? As in "I want to work for your bicycle company because I want to feel like we as a species are not totally fucked"

I guess I don't have to see the new Godzilla movie now. It'll probably be just as boring and stressful as this Two Men Being Large At Each Other fight.

(Godzilla fans don't @ me, monster movies are not my thing)

I was all set for the Nikki Cross fight to go somewhere, like either they win and Alexa refuses to share the title, or Bayley wins and Alexa blames Nikki

But like nothing happened

I just want the one who's like me to not get screwed over

(Side note: even if Nikki gets screwed, she's still incredibly over, which is good at least)