Posts by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
(DIR) Post #Au84iobpML7EJMGna4 by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
2025-05-15T20:30:56Z
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@Nonilex The conversation would go like this:Uh, Donald, everybody knows what groceries are. You should stop saying that.No. I invented it. No one knew about groceries before me. No one was talking about it. Now everyone is talking about it because of me. No one has seen anything like it. I won because of groceries. They were up, but now they're down. Even eggs. Eggs are part of groceries you know. I invented eggs too. Before there were eggs there were only chickens.But why do we call the store where we buy food a grocery store?Really? They changed the name of the store because grocery was trending? See, I told you. Groceries are really popular. I made them popular. Before me no one talked about them. I'm going to put tariffs on them. Big tariffs, you'll see. Biggest tariffs ever. We'll be rich!But won't that make groceries more expensive?You should be ashamed, saying that. Who do you work for again?I work for you Donald! White House staff!Don't talk about groceries anymore. You don't get it. Everyone around here is dumb. Nobody gets it.Yes, sir.
(DIR) Post #AuZOep04LYnJSoMRMG by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
2025-05-29T00:47:44Z
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@kakafarm I enjoyed all four of them. I did find the adventures into 2nd person narration a bit frustrating, but on the whole, it is creepy, interesting, and beautifully written.I also like his novel Finch a lot. It is as if Sam Spade or Phillip Marlowe operated in a place where the oozing corruption was not hidden at all, but metaphorically expressed in the fungus that covers everything in town. Or try Borne, in which a scavenged pet becomes a monster that fights a monster.
(DIR) Post #AvKCkW50OlpzJ6e5Ue by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-20T14:49:28Z
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@stux @mastodonmigration @austin @jerry If my instance bridges, will I suddenly have my feed crammed with Bluesky content or can I block it all?
(DIR) Post #AvKCxCXYMDhUTG2z7A by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-20T14:51:47Z
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@stux @mastodonmigration @austin @jerry Can I also stop my posts from going to Bluesky?
(DIR) Post #AvKFKxzeIGTqDGeHGy by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-20T15:18:30Z
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@stux As you can tell, I want nothing to do with Bluesky. The whole reason to be on Mastodon is to not be on corporate media. There are a lot of people on Mastodon who feel that way. And in these times, when ICE agents and border security are surveilling people's social media feeds, it is an existential issue.
(DIR) Post #AwV1eD8VOvaUw4QrlQ by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-25T17:59:01Z
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@futurebird Even Aristotle admitted that most audiences do not have the patience or knowledge to follow a tightly reasoned chain of logic. That is why we need rhetoric to defend the truth. Pathos is the most powerful persuader of all. Kenneth Burke tended to use "propaganda" as a pretty close synonym for "advertising."
(DIR) Post #AwkFMzoeB8KfQk2xgO by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
2025-08-02T02:13:27Z
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@futurebird This is miscommunication across cultures. What Pica is saying is that the bowl is filled with the wrong stuff.
(DIR) Post #Ax2jrRjVRV38AgMBAu by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
2025-08-11T00:19:53Z
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@stux I had the same thing happen but my cat always brought in lizards. She was a weird cat.
(DIR) Post #AxGYeGvLwKFDbIquIa by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
2025-08-17T16:20:09Z
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@art Linux just works. Windows just updates.
(DIR) Post #AxhY9y1msQkjZkKUtM by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
2025-08-30T16:26:04Z
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#caturday #catsofmastodon Teddy thinks all furniture is cat furniture.
(DIR) Post #AxrvbIjUFIO48TN73I by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-04T17:01:21Z
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@futurebird Termites are enemies of ants though. I thought you would favor the ant side.
(DIR) Post #AzaGVLIjQVybnq5esK by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-26T00:15:13Z
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@futurebird Well, the ants just think, "You left this stuff out for us, thanks for the contribution!"By the way, we have both Argentine ants and the tiny tiny ones that are about a third of the size of the Argentines. When I was a kid we called them "grease ants" because they liked potato chips so much. What are the tiny ones really called?
(DIR) Post #AzaGzv1FC0YfGeUSqe by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-26T00:20:55Z
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@futurebird I'm in Southern California. I mostly see the tiny ones in areas that are not too far from the beach, though right now we are about 25 miles away.
(DIR) Post #AzqGmAbDfrd9C6H5O4 by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-02T17:33:45Z
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@stux define "improve."
(DIR) Post #B05OyPrAqREqkA40Y4 by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-09T15:58:52Z
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@Nonilex He's not talking and they aren't talking about him. So boring for a narcissist!
(DIR) Post #B0Dga4q0TipOjM2Vge by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-14T00:41:18Z
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@Nonilex No kidding! I have never used fingerprint or face ID on any iPhone. I thought I was alone in this.
(DIR) Post #B0Y9V2wDXULSRwxKme by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-23T21:39:28Z
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@stux I'm not a gamer at all, but that was coo!
(DIR) Post #B0ycoNzCkCxS6TlNZI by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-06T16:10:29Z
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@futurebird @Gustodon Squirrels do curse at you if you annoy them in some way, at least the red fox squirrels around here do, but it is usually of the "What are you looking at you big dolt?" sort of thing. I admire their feistiness.
(DIR) Post #B1ub3Ui3MkdH1lFR20 by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-03T15:24:04Z
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@futurebird But ants also fight wars and keep slaves, don't they? What they don't have is politics.
(DIR) Post #B2Ib6wRY3B0Wl2WfPE by jredlund@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-15T05:17:45Z
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@futurebird Doggerel is fun. Writing doggerel is how you learn the craft of writing more serious verse. Here is some fun doggerel written by Samuel Johnson as parody of bad poetry:I put my hat upon my head,And walk'd into the Strand,And there I met another manWhose hat was in his hand. Perfect meter, but nothing to say. And of course "The Night Before Christmas" is definitely doggerel, and also fun.