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Last Notes

2026-06-15 23:00:40 UTC

I know a lot of people were waiting for quote toots but one thing that immediately irritated me about 4.5 is that boosting now takes 2 clicks by default. That's a 50% reduction in boost efficiency! If you are like me and find that kind efficiency hit unacceptable, you can enable quick boosting in user preferences. Give that baby a click and keep on boosting like a champ!

2026-06-10 23:04:56 UTC

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers and prospective party-goers! :bc:
Due to a surge in fake account sign ups, I am closing new registrations for now. If you would like to sign up for an account, please contact me directly or have a party-goer recommend you.
Thanks, and Beige-bless :bb:

2026-03-08 04:55:07 UTC

Just a reminder: No matter how much you wish violence upon someone, no matter how evil and vile and reprehensible they are, no matter how sure you are that they deserve to be removed from this earth, either by intentional action or happenstance, Beige Party is not the platform for expressing this opinion.
I can make a lot of compelling moral arguments for this position, but the most immediate and salient point is that advocating for violence in general, and political violence in particular, puts you, me, and the entire instance in legal jeopardy. Don't do it.

2025-10-09 23:01:58 UTC

For anyone who signed up recently and experienced long delays in getting their accounts confirmed, that was due to me dealing with a lot of real life stuff right about the time that the BlueSky exodus was happening.
Everyone should be confirmed now but if you did not get a confirmation email please DM me. I am once again at the helm of this rickety beige boat and we are still accepting new sign ups.
Beige-Bless :bb:

2025-10-09 21:33:22 UTC

The thing to remember about social media is that it's human beings all the way down

2025-07-30 17:59:54 UTC

A lot of people have asked me what the name "Beige Party" means. I now present the definitive explanation:
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2025-07-29 05:04:51 UTC

This is a test
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2025-07-01 03:26:03 UTC

*listening to Cambodian psychedelic rock from the 60s and early 70s*
Wow this stuff is really great!
*googles the artists for more information*
oh no

2025-07-01 03:06:32 UTC

Hello! Welcome to the Fediverse! Please be cool. Please. I am begging you. Just. Be. Cool.

2025-05-13 04:11:07 UTC

Emoluments clause? In this constitutional crisis??

2025-05-12 17:27:46 UTC

THIS IS ANOTHER TEST!
Ok, I think I've got a fix for our poll problem. Long story short, it's not a bug in the Mastodon code and entirely a result of me having no idea what I'm doing. I recently moved the Sidekiq services to their own server and I forgot to increase the max poll options there as well, which lead to this weird behavior where only local votes got counted for polls with over 4 options.
So, as before, please vote, especially if you are outside of Beige Party so I can test if the fix is working. Thank you!
So, who are your Guys?

2025-05-11 23:18:10 UTC

THIS IS A TEST!
This is a test of the polling system. Please vote, especially if you are outside of beige.party. I'm trying to prove a theory that since v4.3.4 polls with more than 4 options only record votes from the local instance.
Who's your #1 muse?

2025-05-11 23:16:48 UTC

2025-05-06 03:43:15 UTC

Air Travel: For when you absolutely positively must step in pee pee

2025-03-17 20:00:52 UTC

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc:
Once again we're being inundated by spammers. I have been blocking these accounts as soon as I get the reports, but I have not been able to follow up with all the reporters. From here on out, if you report a spam account and don't hear anything back from me, assume that I have suspended it. If I have any questions about the report, I will contact you. For non-spam reports I will still follow up with you once I have resolved the report.
And thank you for reporting! This is important work that keeps the fediverse usable.
Beige-bless :bb:

2025-02-13 03:02:37 UTC

Oh hi! I was Just thinking about what part of the country I should move to based on which coalition nation I'd rather be occupied by when this shitshow inevitably reaches its logical conclusion.
How are you doing?

2025-02-12 07:44:59 UTC

Hey Google, navigate to the Gulf of Amnesia.

2025-02-06 21:48:33 UTC

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I think this is some sort of Single Sign On that allows you to log onto PixelFed with your Mastodon account. For whatever reason you can't do that with your Beige Party account, which makes sense, we're a fairly small instance. This doesn't mean we're blocked though. If you search for that account from Beige Party you can still follow it. You don't have to log onto PixelFed to follow an account from there.

2025-02-01 21:07:32 UTC

Just some fencepost moss. No Whos detected...yet.
#mosstodon #lichensubscribe
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2025-01-31 02:14:40 UTC

You know how in Titanic they spend half the movie showing you the entire length and breadth of the ship and all of its nooks and crannies in sumptuous detail, and then the last act is the process of slowly taking it all away, piece by piece, until there's just a single slab of wood, all the possibilities set up at the beginning collapsing into this one bleak immovable point?
For some reason I've been thinking about that a lot lately.

2025-01-28 21:10:23 UTC

Wait, so you're telling me the powerful elites got behind some nutjob that they thought they could control only to find out that they in fact can't? If only there were some kind of historical precedent that could have warned them of this possibility.

2025-01-21 03:57:19 UTC

Today I needed a silent Monday. Here's some stuff I saw.
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2025-01-16 04:46:22 UTC

As someone who has spent most of his life terrified by the possibility that someone somewhere might be mad at him, moderating a Mastodon instance has certainly been some excellent exposure therapy.

2024-12-05 20:44:08 UTC

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Same, the Giger artwork is seared into my memory from a time long before I even knew who ELP was. Even now, when I put on the record, the music doesn't register nearly as deeply for me as the album art does. The art is the main reason I still have a copy in my collection.

2024-12-05 18:39:00 UTC

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The music is fine but you're really buying it for the album art

2024-12-05 18:37:05 UTC

Brain Salad Surgery is just goth Whipped Cream & Other Delights

2024-12-01 01:45:42 UTC

State of The Instance - November 2024
We're continuing to be inundated by new spam accounts. I've been getting around a couple dozen reports each day regarding spammers. This is too high of a volume for me to respond individually to each report, but I am suspending the accounts as soon as they come to my attention, so please continue to report. And thanks for remaining vigilant.
Another thing that has come up recently is the bridge account to Bluesky. I've had a lot of questions regarding this and whether or not we are federating with Bluesky. As far as federation goes, Bluesky is not built on the ActivitPub protocol like Threads is; it uses its own proprietary AT protocol, so there is no way to directly federate with Bluesky from a fedi instance. What the bridge account does is repost things between the fediverse and Bluesky so that Bluesky posts are visible on the fediverse as if they were fedi posts and vice versa. It's fairly simple to use: you just follow (at)bsky.brid.gy(at)bsky.brid.gy. The account will follow you back and then the posts you make on Beige Party will be posted on Bluesky as well.
I first became aware of this account when it was reported for sending unsolicited DMs to people who were liking posts that were being bridged from Bluesky. These DMs amounted to advertisements for the bridge service so I blocked the account for acting like a spammer. However, I subsequently received inquiries from several other party-goers about using the bridge service. Based on this, I lifted the suspension to allow our users to bridge their content to Bluesky.
I've decided to treat Bluesky differently than Threads for two reasons:
1. Bluesky is not on the fediverse and can't federate with use directly the way that Threads can.
2. While there seemed to be consensus about not federating with Threads, I have heard from several people who were interested in bridging their content to Bluesky.
However, if you'd rather not see any Bluesky content, this can be accomplished by blocking the bsky.brid.gy domain from your account profile.
As always, I invite you to share your thoughts on the matter in the replies.
Ok, on to the numbers!
New sign-ups:
In the month of October, we gained 11 new party-goers, for a total of 593 users. Of those, 375 have been active in the last month.
Welcome new party-goers! if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me directly.
Finances:
For the month of October we received $480.00 in donations. After PayPal fees, that comes out to $424.35. We had $2,331.14 left over from September, so our total available funds for paying the October hosting fees was $2,755.49.
The hosting fees for October break down as follows:
VPS Hosting: $143.46
Foreign Transaction Fee: $3.87
S3 Storage: $12.86
SMTP Relay: $17.00
Total: $177.19
After paying the hosting bills for October, we have $2,578.30 left in donation funds. That's enough to keep us running for over a year, so we are in good shape. Thank you to all who donated!
For those who would like to donate to the ko-fi, you can do so here:
ko-fi.com/drinky
The link can also be found in my bio and on the about page for the site.
And as always, thank you to all the party-goers. It looks like we are heading into some tumultuous times, but those are the times when humor and an appreciation of the absurd are the most important, so keep on Beigein' in the free world!
Beige-bless :bb:
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2024-11-26 18:03:28 UTC

Flowing through the effluvial streets on an electric neon rickshaw. Hey lady! Yes, you! I see you standing over there all stationary and unsatisfied. The thing that would make your life complete in this moment is two wheels under your ass and seven billion hot-pink needles stabbing your eyes, wreathing you in the twinkle glow of city streets. See the pale strangers, all sharp angles and upturned grimaces. I will paint them upon your breast that you may feel their pointy elbows jabbing you deep in your bosom. The jagged pulse of the moonlight and the sweaty steam-stink of the city’s hot breath will permeate your soul. This is The City, the only real one on Earth, where the halal man pushes his tiny cart upstream against a flood of honking snarling machines that long only to smear his guts upon the asphalt. The city’s clogged arteries crave the rush of your blood. The cackling street vendors yearn to grind up your frail shivery bones and sell them on steamed buns with little packets of wishes and antipathy that ravenous denizens must open with gnashing teeth. Smell that city air! Feel it bore into your lungs like the bark beetle gorging on vital essences! Feel your bones and hair grow sere and brittle! Let the hot steam wash over you and dissolve you away. The city that never sleeps and always steeps. Why are you still standing there on that hard concrete and not stepping into this dream?

2024-11-06 03:59:36 UTC

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I was too tired to deal with this shit in 2016. I am way beyond too tired now.

2024-11-06 03:57:26 UTC

FUCK

2024-11-05 21:59:42 UTC

I have to complete my self evaluation today and I really just want to write, "This year I did work and you compensated me for it, as per our agreement."

2024-10-24 19:05:58 UTC

Them: We're forcing you to go back into the office because we believe work is more meaningful when employees are together and have a shared sense of comradery.
Me: So, unionize?
Them: No, not like that.

2024-10-10 02:51:20 UTC

Well the first day of the clean out went pretty well. The landlord is a really nice guy and we were able to make a sizeable dent. I know I'm not going to be able to sort through everything in three days, but I've made an honest effort and was able to put some keepsake type items aside. One thing that really hit me hard was finding every Christmas and birthday card my wife and I had ever sent my dad on a shelf next to his computer desk. It's the kind of thing you wish you knew about a person while they were still alive.

2024-10-08 20:22:58 UTC

At an airport bar and briefly saw a news chyron asking "What's up with Gen Z?" Idk, they slap? What else do you need to know Mr news man?

2024-10-08 20:05:07 UTC

I'm gonna be in Albuquerque for three days on some pretty dismal business and the only thing I've got to look forward to is the food. I fully intend to eat (and drink) my emotions while I'm there. Any recommendations?

2024-10-08 19:38:36 UTC

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc:
I've been getting a lot of reports on spam accounts and porn bots today. It's too many reports for me to respond individually to everyone, but please keep reporting. I am suspending them as soon as they come to my attention.
Beige-bless :bb:

2024-10-05 21:14:27 UTC

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc:
I've gotten a lot of reports on new spam accounts in the last 24 hours. Please keep reporting, I will continue suspending them as they come up but I will not be responding to each report individually because there are just so many right now.
Thanks, and Beige-bless :bb:

2024-08-21 18:20:10 UTC

Shaming my dogs when they bark too much by telling them to, "Be Best." They do not like it.

2024-08-20 15:18:27 UTC

I have defederated from fediverse-lite(.)com. It promotes Christian facism and homophobia. I'm feeling ambivalent about including receipts because even with a CW it can serve to amplify hate speech. And I really don't like writing out the alt text for screen caps of hateful bigoted posts. If anyone would like to confirm for themselves just take a look at their about page, specifically their block list and the reasons given.
#fediblock

2024-08-17 19:01:02 UTC

I recommend defederating from shortstacksran(.)ch. The admin is an obvious troll.
#fediblock
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2024-08-15 17:04:22 UTC

This is your semi-regular reminder that Elon paid $44 billion for Twitter
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/112/967/100/564/278/157/original/f99420eb6de38e7c.jpg

2024-08-14 04:19:48 UTC

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Oh, that suspension would have only affected people trying to view the account on beige party. There may be something additional going on with your instance if you can't see the account.

2024-08-14 04:17:45 UTC

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Also, the Cosmically business was because it became more than just being anti-Israel, he was starting to rail against Jews in general.

2024-08-14 04:14:19 UTC

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I did suspend him pretty early on in the life of this instance, but I think it was a bad call on my part, so I have now reversed it.

2024-08-13 05:02:54 UTC

Props to Elon for designing a vehicle so hideously ugly that I can pass it on the freeway in my dented-up 2006 kiwi-green Honda Element with the check engine light perpetually lit and still credibly point and laugh at the huge wanker in the shitty "truck"

2024-08-13 02:29:17 UTC

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Yesterday he "X"ed about running some scaling tests and I thought "Oh that's cute, are you doing that all on your own?"

2024-08-13 02:15:51 UTC

Hmmm...so apparently trying to make your failing social media site also be Zoom is a bad idea

2024-08-10 16:28:30 UTC

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LMAO. As dumb as these people are, I am constantly amazed at the new depths of dumb they are able to mine.

2024-08-10 16:19:00 UTC

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Oh I'm just ranting about the "Tampon Tim" thing which is supposed to be an insult but is actually a compliment.

2024-08-10 16:12:23 UTC

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Well, men shit, so of course that's perfectly normal. Even though it's objectively gross and not normal, and probably the greatest joke God ever played on the human race.

2024-08-10 16:03:51 UTC

As someone raised by a single mother, who, once I got my license, often got sent on errands to go buy pads, and who has continued to do so, having been married for over 20 years to a real live woman who's a whole fucking person with bodily functions and everything, I really appreciate the type of masculinity that doesn't wilt in the face of totally normal and necessary sanitary products.
If there's one thing these fascists have made abundantly clear is that they value women primarily for their reproductive systems. And then they are gonna get squeamish about the normal functioning of that reproductive system?
And these are the same people who think you should have no problem seeing some white dude cosplaying in tactical gear carrying around an AR-15 in public.
Fuck these Nazi clowns and their fragile china-doll egos. I don't claim to know what it means to "be a man" but I sure as hell know it doesn't involve making women feel shitty about their bodies and forcing everyone around you to wonder if you're gonna murder them at any given moment.
How about just trying to be a decent human being?

2024-08-09 05:27:37 UTC

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc:
YouTube links in German? Warum nicht?
I've been getting reports of YouTube links showing text in German, and then the links being broken when you click them. I looked into this and I think it has to do with our servers being hosted by Hetzner, which is a German company (Though the actual servers are located in Finland). Preview cards are cached at the server side, so the German version of the YouTube page gets grabbed for the preview card. If you actually click the link itself, it will take you to the correct page, it's just the preview card that's broken. Though, the preview card is the most prominent clickable thing on the post so this is understandably confusing.
One thing to note, this only happens with the shortened youtu.be domain urls. These are what you get if you click the share button under the video. If you get the full URL (with the youtube.com domain) from the browser address bar, the preview card will load correctly. The problem is that it's pretty hard to get the full URL on mobile. I had to get the shortened link in the YouTube app, paste it into Chrome and then request the desktop site to get the full URL.
Edit: @npub15n7…t9fk came up with an easier way to get the full URL: https://beige.party/@RolloTreadway/112930593747828218
Needless to say, this is not ideal. This started happening relatively recently, so I suspect this might be a bug in the Mastodon code. I also noticed that, at first, clicking the link would take you to a generic splash page with German text, now it just sends you an undefined page that doesn't load, so it seems like things might have changed with the most recent update.
Until it gets fixed, there's not a whole lot we can do about it. For now we'll have to get by with workarounds:
1) If you see one of those posts with the broken preview card, try clicking the actual link text above it to get to the video.
2) If you're posting links to YouTube videos, make sure the URL you're using has the full youtube.com domain.
You can find more information about this phenomenon here: https://mastodon.world/@mlanger/112914323157956296
Or just type "YouTube links German" into the search bar. It looks like a lot of instances are having this problem because Hetzner is a popular hosting service for Mastodon instances.
Beige-Segne :bb:

2024-08-08 16:35:40 UTC

Walz's ability to cut through the bullshit clearly and succinctly is such a joy to behold. The simple statement of "Mind your own business!" feels profound in a political landscape where the right complains about a "nanny state" when what they're trying to create is just a fascist nanny state where the government is all up in everyone's business. The Democrats are the ones who are saying just let everyone be themselves. That's a pretty simple and broadly appealing message, and it's so refreshing to hear a politician just say it directly and unapologetically, not because it polls well, but because it actually reflects his core values.

2024-08-06 20:48:32 UTC

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Yep, you can just sign up. I require entering a reason for sign ups, but you can pretty much put anything there, it's mainly there to discourage spammers.

2024-08-02 22:05:14 UTC

I've never really watched Olympic surfing before, but it has quickly become one of my favorite things to put on in the background while I work. It's mostly just people bobbing around in the swells with beautiful scenery and the constant roar of the surf, and then occasionally something really cool happens. It reminds me of Scandinavian slow TV.

2024-08-01 23:57:24 UTC

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it's so weird to be weirded out about being called weird

2024-08-01 23:46:10 UTC

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And I'm not just the admin of an instance full of weirdos; I'm a big ol' weirdo myself.

2024-08-01 23:45:17 UTC

Calling the fascists weird isn't ruining weird. Weird can be a compliment if you don't happen to be an insecure chest-puffing man-child. The fact that they are so triggered by it is the point. It makes weird even better.

2024-08-01 15:14:35 UTC

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👀 What that cloaca do?

2024-08-01 04:15:06 UTC

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc:
State of The Instance - July 2024
Well, better late than never! I'm in the Pacific time zone so it's technically still July over here. It's been another busy month so I'm running behind again, but I did want to briefly go over moderation policy, because I've gotten a few reports related to an issue that's not covered by our current server rules and I would like to have a more defined policy in place.
New Rule Proposal: Content Attribution and Generative AI
When I started this instance I pretty much just ripped off mastodon.social's instance rules because I figured they knew what they were doing over there and their rules seemed like a good place to start. Over time I have tweaked them slightly to further clarify things that I thought were too ambiguous, and for the most part I think they have been sufficient to effectively moderate this instance. But I adopted these rules in late 2022, before generative AI really took off.
Since then, mastodon.social has adopted a new rule:
Rule #6: Content created by others must be attributed, and use of generative AI must be disclosed
Content created by others must clearly provide a reference to the author, creator, or source. For adult content, this should include performers. Accounts may not solely post AI-generated content.
What I like about this rule is that it's founded upon the principle of proper attribution. If we are posting content that is not our original creation, we should provide attribution so that it is clear who the original creator of the content is. This is generally good manners, and if we're talking in terms of copyright, it's the law. I live in the US, so in order to start this instance I had to register as a DMCA agent, which means I'm legally required respond to DMCA takedown requests.
Unfortunately, as we all know, Silicon Valley tech billionaires are exempt from such trifles as obeying the law. They designed large language models that are basically automated mass-copyright-infringement machines. They knew that they were violating the law, but they did it anyway because they figured that if they could get generative AI to the point where it actually worked, everyone would be so amazed by the technology that nobody would care about the massive copyright infringement going on under the hood. This tactic seems to have worked, which is, to put it mildly, not great. Like it or not, however, this technology exists, and it will continue to exist, so we need to deal with it.
I know there are those who will disagree with me on this position, but I don't think it makes a whole lot of sense to punish people for using these tools. The fact of the matter is that it's not us who funded this technology, it was billionaire assholes like Elon Musk. Generally speaking, most AI-generated content I have seen here has just been silly fun, and I think that living through the slow decline of global society, which has been instigated by billionaire assholes, entitles the rest of us to have a little silly fun as a treat. Given all that, I think a fair compromise is to require that AI-generated content at least be attributed as such, so that people are aware of the source of the content and can make their own decisions about how they choose to interact with it.
I'm not really sure what to make of the adult content clause. I haven't had to deal with that much here, and to the extent that I have, most of it has fallen into the "original content" category. I don't see any reason not to adopt it, so I am proposing that we adopt mastodon.social's rule as written.
I invite you to share your thoughts in the replies. As always, whatever policy we adopt, I want to make sure it's something that we can all understand and build a consensus around.
Ok, on to the numbers!
New sign-ups:
In the month of June we gained 25 new party-goers, for a grand total of 460 nifty non-fungible fedizens. Of those, 260 accounts have been active in the last month.
Welcome new party-goers! if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me directly.
Finances:
For the month of June we received $290.00 in donations. After PayPal fees, that comes out to $253.53. We had $1,803.44 left over from May, so our total available funds for paying the June hosting fees was $2,056.97.
The hosting fees for June break down as follows:
VPS Hosting: $129.57
Foreign Transaction Fee: $3.49
S3 Storage: $10.87
SMTP Relay: $17.00
Total: $160.93
After paying the hosting bills for June, we have $1,896.04 left in donation funds. That's enough to keep us running for about a year, so we are in good shape. Thank you to all who donated!
I've already mentioned this in a previous post, but I'll restate it here for greater visibility. I have recently come down with a spot of that awful affliction known as hope, and I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that most of you are here, at least in part, because you really don't like fascists. That was a big reason why I started this instance in the first place. So, if you are a US citizen, and were planning to donate to the ko-fi this month, I would encourage you to consider donating to ActBlue instead:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kamalaharris2024
I know this is specific to US politics, but unfortunately the consequences of US politics do not remain politely confined within the borders of the US, and a fascist takeover of this country would have disastrous effects around the world. I won't make a habit of mentioning US politics in my official capacity as admin of this instance, but the stakes of this feel too high for me to just stand by and say nothing.
For those who are unable, or would just prefer to donate to the ko-fi, you can do so here:
https://ko-fi.com/drinky
The link can also be found in my bio and on the about page for the site.
And once again a big thanks to all the Beige Party-goers. I am really proud of the community we have created here, and that has everything to do with you fine folks.
Beige-bless :bb:
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2024-07-19 02:33:17 UTC

:bc: Attention Beige Party-goers! :bc:
I've gotten several reports on the account of the Nazi that runs poster.place. Naturally, I was confused because I had long since defederated from that cesspool. I did a little investigation and found out that they were using some redirect service at momostr.pink to mask their actual alt account at coracle.social. I have neither the time nor the inclination to play web sleuth with these idiots, so I have defederated from both instances.
There were some folks following accounts listed under momostr.pink, but it seems this instance's main goal is to obfuscate real account names by generating obnoxiously long aliases that redirect back to the original account. This is highly suspicious behavior and I already have one example of it being abused, so I'd rather play it safe and just defederate from the whole thing.
If anyone at Beige Party was negatively impacted by this, please let me know and I will consider changing the suspension to a limit, so that people can follow individual accounts on that instance, though I would be highly suspicious of anyone trying to obfuscate their identity in this way.
Beige-bless :bb:
#fediblock

2024-07-05 18:52:17 UTC

Well Germany lost but I can't really be mad. That was a beautiful goal by Merino.

2024-06-29 23:44:53 UTC

If ever I wonder why I moved to Portland, I need only to take a stroll down the street.
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/112/702/557/392/750/794/original/e3a73d849b80dc13.jpg

2024-06-29 18:55:52 UTC

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Prost!
https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/112/701/417/140/635/005/original/91f050010f28aefd.jpg

2024-06-29 18:38:48 UTC

Well it's happened, I have ventured forth from the house. There's no way to watch #euro2024 in the US without buying a $70 streaming package, so I will just have to console myself with a nice beer and some tacos while I watch Germany in the round of 16 at my local soccer bar.

2024-06-27 18:38:11 UTC

Lately I've been dealing with a pee mystery around the cat box. It appears that some cat is perching on the edge of the box, thinking they are fully in, and then just letting it rip all over the floor.
At first I suspected the fat orange cat, because this really seems like the kind of dumbass stunt he'd pull. He's the gentlest, most friendly cat you'll ever meet, but unfortunately it seems that the good lord did not see fit to bless him with very many brains. Previously I've had to put down moisture detector alarms in the corners where he'd sneak off to go pee, to try to annoy him into knocking that shit off.
Finally I got fed up with cleaning up cat pee every doggone day, so I set up a motion sensor camera to catch the perpetrator in the act, and to my surprise it wasn't Big Orange, but the 18-year-old super senior cat that's completely deaf and is either going senile or simply has no fucks left to give at this stage in her life.
So now I'm trying to engineer a solution that doesn't involve me cleaning the litterbox mat and the floor every single day. For now I'm going to just put down some puppy training pads to catch whatever doesn't make it into the box, but I'd like to figure out some kind of design solution that would prevent her from perching directly on the edge of the box.
I feel like I'm Matt Damon and this cat box is my Mars.

2024-06-25 17:51:50 UTC

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would know

2024-06-25 17:49:12 UTC

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I'm not sure if this is the exact show, but there was a show around this time where someone dosed the water cooler back stage and everyone was further out in space than usual for the show. There's a lot more stage banter in this one, particularly from Jerry who didn't talk on stage all that much, so I wouldn't be surprised if this was that show.

2024-06-25 17:44:41 UTC

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Alt Text for audio:
[Band tuning up, crowd yelling and clapping and whistling]
Bobby: Patience, patience...
Jerry: If everyone in here learned about two dozen jokes, what you could do, is like, before each gig, you know, before each set, you could like do a whole big number of telling jokes to everybody around you, man, and like, say there's four people around you, that's a lot of jokes if everybody knows twelve jokes, you know, twelve different ones, that is—[to audience member yelling something] Quit it, man.
Bobby(I think): Put it on me!
Jerry: That way you can avoid—
Bobby: Then you can—
Jerry: —all that, uh, clang, bang, and you know, whistling, hooting and all that.
Bobby: Then you can learn about twelve songs, and then everybody could come to these things and you wouldn't have to have a band because you could just all entertain each other.
[Audience applause and cheering, more tuning sounds]
Bobby: Then the guys with the front seats would be out of luck, though, because there wouldn't be so many people around.
Jerry: The people in the front row could take up knitting.
[Someone in the band (maybe Bill or Mickey) calling to Owsley "Bear" Stanley, the audio engineer (and chief engineer of the psychedelic revolution)]
Bobby[mumbling]:...get up here and do something productive by god...
Jerry(I think): Bear! Bear!
[More tuning sounds, someone (probably Bill) calling to Bear to turn on Mickey's microphones]
Bobby: Hey Bear! Turn on Mickey's microphones!
[More tuning, random vocalizations by the band]
Phil(I think): Let's have a spotlight for the announcer please
Zacherle[in a deep dramatic voice]: Good evening!
[Audience applause]
Zacherle: So nice to see you, Count Dracula!
[More applause, band tuning in the background, Zacherle chuckling]
Bobby: This ain't a show, it's a party.
Zacherle: Good morning, my name is Jonathan Schwartz
[Audience applause and laughter, Zacherle chuckling some more]
Zacherle[overly dramatically]: I want to wish you all a happy Valentines Day.
[Applause]
Zacherle: I was gonna come down the aisle in a casket but the damn thing broke!
[Audience laughter]
Zacherle: I'm still bothered by those crabs I caught at Channel 47.
[More laughter, Bobby mumbles something]
Bobby: Anyway, it wasn't a casket, it was a banana crate.
Zacherle[laughing heartily]: My boy! [to audience] Well, well! This is glorious Sunday Morning...
[Audience laughter]
Zacherle: The Grateful Goddamn Dead!
[Audience applause, band counting into Casey Jones]

2024-06-25 17:44:03 UTC

The intro to the second set of this Dead show from 2/14/70 at the Fillmore East is pretty famous for legendary late-night horror movie host John Zacherle's intro of "The Grateful Goddamn Dead!" as heard on Dick's Picks Vol 4, but I was more tickled by Jerry and Bobby's banter at the beginning. It would serve as a pretty good mission statement for Beige Party:
https://ia800901.us.archive.org/23/items/gd70-02-14.early-late.sbd.cotsman.18115.sbeok.shnf/gd70-02-14d1t06.mp3

2024-03-21 05:04:33 UTC

Remember in Blues Brothers when they end up at the Nazi rally and the point isn't even that Jake really hates Nazis, it's that Nazis are about the biggest losers that anyone could imagine. They are portrayed as completely pathetic dead-ender assholes.
Or in the Rocketeer when the mobsters find our the Sinclair guy is a Nazi and join forces with the FBI to stop them because Nazis are clearly the worst thing.
Or when Christopher Plummer rips the Nazi flag in two in Sound of Music.
None of these films were making bold political statements. The Nazis were the bad guys because that was something that everyone in the audience could agree one. Dunking on Nazis was a guaranteed crowd pleaser.
When the hell did we stop agreeing on something so simple and self-evident as Nazis Are Fucking Losers?

2024-03-07 18:14:32 UTC

Some people may claim the Like button does nothing but it's actually the equivalent of giving the author a small kiss on the lips

2023-12-23 00:12:43 UTC

Such a relief to learn that all of my problems are in my head. The thing that I am trapped in and can never escape.