Indistinct Metalworker @rhiannonstone@sometimes.when.computer

waiting 10,000 years before i open any emails

my inbox is not a place of honor

unfollow me immediately if you believe time is real

yeah I want some #foss. some fresh ocean sourced scallops

A friend of mine wrote this summary of the literature on cloth mask effectiveness. Handy if you're trying to decide whether to mask up with homemade gear (short answer: do it) or getting into an internets argument with someone who thinks cloth masks are somehow worse than nothing. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qzSPni8odJ2nJuxTsgzTNlv62X6gp9uOl1wUqIRpxtU/edit

She didn't include this more recent paper (but promised to add it after I sent her the link): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258525804_Testing_the_Efficacy_of_Homemade_Masks_Would_They_Protect_in_an_Influenza_Pandemic

It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines,

we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.

If we were not so single minded
about keeping our lives moving,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves.

Perhaps the earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and then proves to be alive.

did you know: shakespeare's sonnets are still copyrighted, it's just that you're allowed to use them for whatever because of the fair youths doctrine

In the middle of all this, swallowed up in the noise, Colorado just abolished the death penalty and commuted the sentences of those sentenced to death.

"the death penalty cannot be, and never has been, administered equitably in the state of Colorado.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/colorado-death-penalty-repeal.html

I forgot I ordered this print a while back, it came in the mail yesterday and when I opened it this afternoon I started ugly laughing. I can't get a frame for it right now, so it's attached to the sleeve it came in and propped on the shelf near my record player. "Everything Is Fine", indeed.

("Ten Of Swords Everything Is Fine" from the Modern Witch Tarot by Lisa Sterle.)

@stelepami Let's seize and liquidate a billionaire's assets and get everyone stable housing and hot bras 🔥

Gabi Fresh just dropped a plus size lingerie collection with Playful Promises that's way more interesting than this season's Savage x Fenty: https://www.bustle.com/p/gabi-fresh-x-playful-promises-lingerie-collection-goes-up-to-44k-22629524

The City of New York has issued guidance on how to fuck during the Pandemic.

This is real.

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-sex-guidance.pdf

Mission District, San Francisco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_District%2C_San_Francisco

tonight on mastodon we see mambo no5 and babylon 5 memes colliding, the solar eclipse of the fediverse.

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, electronic music pioneer, has passed away at the age of 70 from leukemia

Imagine if the “no man can kill me/I am no man” loophole from Lord of the Rings worked in real life and suddenly women and non-binary people were just exempted from every contract, law, or regulation using gendered language.