mastodon 4.7.3Curmudgeoness & bluestocking. Politics Indigo, language ultraviolet. She/her.
Currently disabled, former engineer. Lover of bad puns & good books, science-ey stuff, & people & stories everywhere.
Love is love. Humans should be treated humanely. Race is a stupid but interesting construct. Bigots can fucking Bite Me.
@JelliedHeals@mastodon.social @incurablehippie@verified.mastodonmedia.xyz The plan is that all of the museums in the world safeguard the artifacts currently in their position while assiduously making arrangements to return them to their places & peoples of origin.
*Wait, what? You mean that’s *not* the plan?
@incurablehippie@verified.mastodonmedia.xyz @selzero@syzito.xyz There are some people in Greece who would be happy to help with that.
*not just Greece. Pretty much every-damned-where.
There’s an old blues lyric that goes:
“If I ain’t love you;
Then grits ain’t groceries,
Eggs ain’t poultry,
And Mona Lisa was a man.”
And it’s got me wondering about that last one…
@swisslet@mas.to @essjax@essjax.com The settlement offer is interesting. Because you don’t have to buy your land, you don’t get to sell it if you decide to leave the island.
But you are expected to build a house on that land. The PI gov’t will make you an interest free construction loan; but again: if you leave, the debt comes with you while the house stays on the island.
Could be a pretty slick racket if more (read:any) people were interested in moving there.
@monkeyborg@triangletoot.party @finn@surfin.dog Where else would you keep your spiders?
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk @ehproque@paquita.masto.host @aimaz@mstdn.social @dancinyogi@mastodon.sdf.org The Aussie usage gives “Root, root, root for the home team” a whole new meaning.
I am migrating instances, so, if suddenly drop of your feed, you can check for me at gorfram@beige.party
*there's nothing at all wrong with libretooth.gr - it's just that, in beige.party, I Think I Have Found My People.
@selzero@syzito.xyz “Comfort scrolling?”
@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org (psst: Bill Murray)
@swisslet@mas.to @essjax@essjax.com (not sure what the 3 months references- the time between sailings of the only public transport off the island?)
The Wikipedia article says they get about 700 applications/year & approve an average of zero. So I guess they’re not actually running a racket where, once you’ve finished building your house, they collude in making life there so intolerable you abandon your investment.
(Either that, or they’re running that racket really badly. 😜)
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk @dancinyogi@mastodon.sdf.org It seems to be local to the US west coast (& may, come to think of it, be local to my mother).
@monkeyborg@triangletoot.party @finn@surfin.dog Underrated toot!
@dancinyogi@mastodon.sdf.org @DoubleTreble@cupoftea.social I wish there were an option between 2 & 3. IMHE, sometimes, “I love & appreciate you” is a lovely, simple, free-standing statement. Often, it is the introduction to criticism or bad news.
So, when I hear it, I never know what to feel until its context is made clear.
@swisslet@mas.to @essjax@essjax.com Nine white men, who believe strongly in their racial & gender superiority, six Tahitian men & 12 Tahitian women strand themselves on an island & create their own culture & society. What’s that going to look like 233 years later?
*see also: “insular,” def.
@Virginicus@universeodon.com @MrShoggoth@toot.community But isn’t there still going to be a trial? To set the financial penalty, or to try him on other counts, or something?
@cynblogger@sfba.social @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk @dancinyogi@mastodon.sdf.org Was your friend from the US west coast, by any chance?