Hezekiah ✡️⚧Ⓐ☭ @metapianycist@queer.party

a terminal program calling itself a "terminal emulator" has the same energy as a notes app calling itself a "virtual notepad"

Love the implication that you make fish bait by taking a clam and smooshing it with a hammer #AnimalCrossing #ACNH #NintendoSwitch

* First, before you place your order, look up your EBT PIN.
* You need to allow all pop-ups, temporarily. You can only check out your order if it can display an EBT verification window at a certain step.
* For similar reasons, you need to disable your adblocking and JavaScript blocking add-ons, temporarily.
* Everything in your cart has to be eligible for EBT. The check-out is supposed to be able to handle an order where part is on EBT and the other part is on a credit card, but if you try to do both, then the transaction will never go through.
* If the transaction still won't go through, probably one of the groceries has become unavailable, and it didn't tell you. Everything's flying off the shelves fast right now. Close the tab, open the front page of Amazon, edit your cart, and then try to purchase again.
* Once you finally get to the EBT PIN screen, move carefully, because this is the most inaccessible UI for a PIN that I've ever seen. It's almost like a deliberately annoying minigame out of Nancy Drew Interactive. Wait for the screen to rearrange the locations of each button after you've entered each digit, and make sure you don't hit the wrong buttons because they moved.

The above knowledge comes to you from a very tense evening helping a loved one buy groceries online while the site fought our every step! We eventually succeeded! 🏆

ben folds spacetime

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#mastoAdmin

Hey all, manitu.pirati.ca was scraping all of the followers lists for all of our users, hammering our instance pretty hard.

Check your logs for 89.238.64.144 and 2a00:1828:2000:195::2 we had 2000 active TCP states when I nuked them.

current mood:

there are no reported instances of $THING occurring so you do not need to worry about $THING happening ever because $THING occurring is obviously impossible since there are no reported instances of $THING ever happening thanks for coming to my ted talk

While the state takes its time with those stimulus checks, here's another way to directly help with bills, or receive direct help.

https://billsupport.org/

#Covid

sorry transphobes, earth is trans

US folks: Instacart's workers are planning a strike on Monday. Don't cross the picket line.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4agmvd/instacarts-gig-workers-are-planning-a-massive-nationwide-strike

Between grocery stores unpredictably running out of things (and it's not just staples that they run out of here lately, but moreso random stuff like Arizona-brand iced tea) in a way that mimics the effects of official rationing, and the knowledge that hundreds or thousands of people will die perhaps preventably every day because of something we hadn't heard of a few months ago, this really is like living through wartime. And not "sheltered from the daily effects of our own country's imperialist invasions" wartime like we've had in the US throughout my lifetime.

if u put white pants and white floppy hats on the blue man group they'd look like smurfs

Don't forget to put your own mask on first.

I mean this literally - if you are asymptomatic, this will _strongly_ reduce the risk that you spread the virus to the people who handle your masks on their way into initial decontamination wash. If you are making masks destined for community use, it's even more important, since they may not see a thorough decontamination wash before being handled/worn.

if you refuse to pay your rent because you "organized" with people on the internet, your landlord will just laugh and evict you

as many people as possible under a single landlord have to strike at the same time in order for the strike to be effective at all. plus, you need a plan, some kind of idea of what legal muscle you need to be able to summon when the landlord fights back, and an idea of how you'll deal with the inevitable blowback, because there WILL be blowback

I just wrote a real check out for 420.69

it's really fucking nice.

the hype-death of the universe

there are massive invisible objects in the sky

"Tom Nook is just an awful landlord" is the "what if mario did drugs because mushrooms and abused animals because he jumps on turtles" of that series