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amcooper@toot.cat

Palestine Will Be Free—Wonders about humanity sometimes—Slightly annoying—Crafter of bugs—Retired Lojbanist—Stuck in Occupied Ojibwewaki on Turtle Island—Supporter of small dogs—Most toots vanish after a month—Down with content<a href="https://toot.cat/tags/nobot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#nobot</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/nobridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#nobridge</a>

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Post #4365955
Sorry for all the judaeo-Christian references; I was raised by a zealous catholic dad and this is how I . . . exorcise my demons 😎
Post #4355904
Mitch McConnell: The Musical | Barry Blitt | The New Yorker https://archive.is/8cmjr #mitchmcconnell
Post #4145346
Just happened to spot a pic of Chantal Biya on here. She’s the fashion-plate First Lady of Cameroon. If you’ve never done an image search of Chantal Biya, treat yself you won’t be sorry.
Post #4124019
Nolan is dead to me after shooting in Western Sahara. Western Sahara is the Palestine no one knows about. Occupied first by Spain (1884) and then Morocco. FTG.
Post #4025781
The younger of the neighbor kids just wandered over for a chat. They’re starting to remind me of Alonzo.
Post #3971440
First vaccine targeting SARS virus family enters human trials | Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington https://www.ipd.uw.edu/2026/02/gbp511-vaccine-clinical-trial-begins/ #CovidIsntOver #CovidIsAirborne
Post #3960577
This tomato is the first food I’ve ever grown. It was pretty good! Good morning partypeople.
Post #3825468
Random work slack question: what would you put in a 1000-year time capsule? People think that’s just a normal question? Like we’re gonna be around in 1000 years? Like no one would ask that unless it never occurred to them we likely won’t. Do most people go around like this?
Post #3825349
Large dumpster fire the size of a small dumpster fire
Post #3767384
Good news everyone! "Lab-made sugar-coated particle blocks Covid-19 infection" https://www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office/news-events/news/2025/08/lab-made-sugar-coated-particle-blocks-covid-19-infection--possible-new-treatment-on-the-horizon.php #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne
Post #3741746
TIL that “Cirencester”, the English town, is not contracted in speech like all the other -cesters. Nope they pronounce every syllable. Siren. Ces. Ter. Not today and probably not tomorrow but one day England will pay for its myriad crimes. Good morning partypeople
Post #3723509
Is England real? Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate, York | https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/whipmawhopmagate (H/t: @wnd@fosstodon.org)
Post #3701216
Hey I have a linguistics question. What do you call the strip of greenery between the sidewalk and the street? TIL there are many English words for this, maybe none of them has primacy in USA, & I don't think I have a word for it from childhood. (ETA: I'm really struggling to understand why there are so many words for this in USA). Please respond with your country/region. Non-English responses welcome. Boosts—and I can't stress this enough—encouraged :boost_ok: #linguistics
Post #3700638
And a wild turkey, just now! Pics to come. #SmallCityLivin
Post #3630525
For the most part my since-college insomnia has been under control in recent years but every now and then… Last night the bedroom breaker tripped. Weird because we usually run the a/c and the fan and the air filter without issue, but last night just the a/c. Eventually at 2:15 I woke up as a consequence—no way to know when it tripped because there’s no power-connected clock in that room. Went down to the basement and flipped the breaker. But couldn’t get back to sleep for at least an hour. So...
Post #3481194
Ok I'm gonna biggup Paraguay, one of my favorite teams just because in Paraguay almost everyone can understand the big native language, Guaraní, as well as Spanish, and the players speak it on the field to confound their Spanish-speaking opponents. So congratulations to Paraguay! ¡Enhorabuena!
Post #3418807
A young Black woman named Tonea Nicole Miller was found hanging from a tree in Miami last week, having traveled down there from Michigan. The um local constabulary are trying to call it a suicide. I mean, no. There is no reporting on this except for the Black paper in Miami. https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/tonea-nicole-miller-death-sparks-justicefortonea-movement-after-woman-found-hanging-in-miami-park/article_c6f42bc5-ad82-4a6b-84f7-44197c0b4e94.html Let's keep this story al...
Post #3416066
70°F and sunny here in occupied Ojibwewaki, in the Great Lakes watershed. Popped out to the backyard, greeted a chubby bee, photographed some wildflowers which I’ll post after identification.
Post #2450628
The invasion of slop into #vim and #Neovim has got me planning to switch to emacs, but Drew DeVault has forked pre-slop vim ICYMI https://drewdevault.com/blog/Forking-vim/
Post #1829609
Good morning partypeople. Just gonna be straight with y’all. I don’t think drizzling pistachio butter on pistachio ice cream is a felony but if it is Imma need y’all jabronis to bus’ me out the hoosegow.
Post #606078
Ran down to the rental house to do a walkthrough. There’s a 12” high statue of Saint Francis on the right side of the house. One thing I don’t miss about NYC is the paucity of trees. Partypeople I was raised in the Wissahickon Valley and I love a goddamned tree!