Notices by Everyone Deserves Nice Things (suzaneraslan@anticapitalist.party), page 12

@frickhaditcoming I'm totally fine with them doing whatever they want to do in their own space, and totally support SWs using it to promote their work, but like... stop bleeding over into the rest of Mastodon on the presumption that every woman is inevitably an active sex worker looking for clients.

4. Don’t presume that sex workers are tech illiterate and need your fucking advice as a john on getting more people to their profile. Sex workers are savvy AF on this stuff and have been since the internet started, bro.

I have absolutely no problem with sex workers, at all, and I appreciate that people are trying to make a living, but:

1. Don't advertise to me on Mastodon. Period. Ever. But SPECIFICALLY via unsolicited DM when we have never once interacted.

2. Don't presume that because someone is a woman that they are a sex worker. Like, this should just be common fucking sense.

3. EWWWWWWWWWWWW, JFC, EWWWWW.

1st pic: shot (an unsolicited DM I received from a complete stranger presuming I'm an active sex worker looking to find clients and recommends a marketing platform)

2nd pic: chaser (their gross profile)

3rd pic: downs whole bottle (their single public post being a review of a sex worker that includes the phrase "one you wish you could stow in your suitcase to bring home!")

One of my favorite things in the world is that paleontologists have an incredible sense of humor when coming up with descriptors for things in the fossil record.

For instance, "zombie taxon," or a fossil that washes out of one layer of geologic formation into a much younger one, thus appearing as if it rose from the dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_taxon

Or "Elvis taxon", for a taxon that seems to reappear in the fossil record after an extinction, but is in fact a new taxon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_taxon

Given that it took about 10 seconds before dentists started saying it was actually really bad for you to brush with charcoal whitening toothpaste, I can't help but think it's an incredibly elaborate, Instagram ad version of that old "black mouth candy" prank.

LOL, I watched the entire season of Pose today while I was home sick and now I am upset that there's not about 100 more hours to watch.

@witchfynder_finder I do this ALL the time. "I should go to the store 3 blocks from my house and get X" then I stay inside all day and am like, "Awww, man, I didn't 'get' to do the thing I wanted to do!"

@mooncake SING IT, COMRADE! SING! IT! LOUD!

@shoutcacophony @cosine IWW seem to be decent, depending on the city.

@dumpling Honestly, if I didn't love going to different places so much, I would have just given it up... I traveled a lot when I was a little kid because my parents were divorced, and I would fly by myself from the time I was 5 or 6 and I LOVED it. Now, it's the worst part of every trip by FAR, and I include the time that I had bronchitis + the flu for 9 days in Venice in December.

@dumpling I am sorry I am 2 days late responding to this-- it's been a busy week.

Yeah, I've weirdly not encountered that this time around, and I'm not sure if it's that the current administration is so bad at their job that they don't realize my last name is Middle Eastern, but after September 11th and during the beginning of the Iraq War, I was CONSTANTLY "randomly selected" for pat downs and luggage checks when they saw my name on my boarding pass.

Woke up with this in my head: “Not a Rebel (Margaret Thatcher)” by Mexican Institute of Sound https://youtu.be/Vpgb_bhmKYE