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okay youtube I was enjoying flipping through shorts to find recipe ideas, but for some reason you've started showing me people's...

okay youtube I was enjoying flipping through shorts to find recipe ideas, but for some reason you've started showing me people's cancer vlogs, end of life vlogs and injured animals

what did I click on to deserve this?

Nothing but respect for the way #unity can just come out with it and tell the world that they're willing to do anything to make money so...

Nothing but respect for the way #unity can just come out with it and tell the world that they're willing to do anything to make money so long as it doesn't involve improving their core product.

explaining to a large corporate client that while technically yes it is possible build a thing that sends spoof email as basically any...

explaining to a large corporate client that while technically yes it is possible build a thing that sends spoof email as basically any address a person could type into a form, no it is not a good idea and if it were my sender reputation on the line I would absolutely not (and also your messages will probably all go to spam)

#webdev

I've been interested in computers since I was a kid, but one of the things that disappoints me the most about the tech space as an adult...

I've been interested in computers since I was a kid, but one of the things that disappoints me the most about the tech space as an adult is how infested it is with a particular strain of right winger.

You know the ones. They seem really smart, until some propaganda piece agrees with their priors.

Then suddenly all critical thinking capacity is short circuited and they bleat "masks don't work" and "brown people aren't oppressed if they ARE truly inferior" and "trans athletes cheat at sports".

Almost fooled myself into thinking I could afford to move to a small condo in NYC.Then I noticed the nearly $1000 MONTHLY HOA FEE.Jesus...

Almost fooled myself into thinking I could afford to move to a small condo in NYC.

Then I noticed the nearly $1000 MONTHLY HOA FEE.

Jesus fucking christ.

BuT, HoW WILL tHEy pay fOr iT

BuT, HoW WILL tHEy pay fOr iT

Wankpanzer brain: "I need a big truck to tow things"What they tow: A trailer with two kayaks and a cooler.Dude a ford fiesta can...

Wankpanzer brain: "I need a big truck to tow things"

What they tow: A trailer with two kayaks and a cooler.

Dude a ford fiesta can haul that.

Me: has interests, puts them in bioAlso me: never posts about those interests

Me: has interests, puts them in bio

Also me: never posts about those interests

Really enjoying the ongoing ADHD medication shortage.The semi-regular game of phone tag with me, my doctor and whatever pharmacies we choose...

Really enjoying the ongoing ADHD medication shortage.

The semi-regular game of phone tag with me, my doctor and whatever pharmacies we choose to invite is fun, but I think my favorite part is paying the full co-pay for a partial prescription each time I pick one up.

as a voting bloc, parents may actually be more dangerous than boomerssome of my best friends are parents and I love them as individual...

as a voting bloc, parents may actually be more dangerous than boomers

some of my best friends are parents and I love them as individual people one at a time, but as a group they are utterly deranged

edit: a typo

⚠️ 🌶️saw the thing about "only parents should vote" and jesus fucking christ no what a terrible idea no serious person...

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saw the thing about "only parents should vote" and jesus fucking christ no what a terrible idea no serious person would validate an idea like that

parents as a group are sleep deprived, stressed, paranoid and ready to accept atrocities for others if the benefit to them is a 0.001% greater chance of their kids acquiring some undeserved marker of status

then as soon as their kids have flown the nest, they fight tooth and nail to prevent any new investment in the community that raised them

Discrimination? More legal than ever.Debt forgiveness? Legal if you gift us a vacation, but fuck those poors.

Discrimination? More legal than ever.

Debt forgiveness? Legal if you gift us a vacation, but fuck those poors.

Submitted a post on reddit which described something as:"akin to spinning up a new social media app without a plan for what to do when...

Submitted a post on reddit which described something as:

"akin to spinning up a new social media app without a plan for what to do when trolls start posting Nazi memes and CSAM."

It got nuked immediately by automoderator and I wouldn't think anything of it, except for the fact that loading ANY reddit URL while logged in to that account behaves SUPER MEGA FUCKY ever since.

I suspect I may have said one or two magic words that anger the machine.

Content warning:Birdsite"Would be great if all types of people would patronize my nazi bar."

Content warning:Birdsite

"Would be great if all types of people would patronize my nazi bar."

Just watched a clip of Orson Welles on youtube. Naturally the algorithm has decided I must have aged 50 years overnight and now the ads I...

Just watched a clip of Orson Welles on youtube. Naturally the algorithm has decided I must have aged 50 years overnight and now the ads I get served are for miracle dementia cures.

Checking the photos of any American dining establishment on google:- extreme close up of their facade so that you can't see that...

Checking the photos of any American dining establishment on google:

- extreme close up of their facade so that you can't see that it's surrounded by pavement and strip mall
- zero people in any pictures of the inside
- no picture of the food served without a pile of cheese, flood of mayo, or brick of fried batter

Content warning:Sexual Abuse, US PoliticsAmerica, come get your mayor. He's on too many pills, stumbling around drunk and abusing women.

Content warning:Sexual Abuse, US Politics

America, come get your mayor.

He's on too many pills, stumbling around drunk and abusing women.

Content warning:BirdsiteApparently if you visit twitter dot com without logging in they show you a default feed, which I suppose is meant to...

Content warning:Birdsite

Apparently if you visit twitter dot com without logging in they show you a default feed, which I suppose is meant to entice you to sign up.

I can't imagine that's working well, because every second post is elron with a bad rw meme and the rest is vapid blue tick nonsense or Quora-tier viral trash.

Content warning:bemoaning the state of transit-adjacent politics in the USAThe mayor of Paris promised to remove tens of thousands of...

Content warning:bemoaning the state of transit-adjacent politics in the USA

The mayor of Paris promised to remove tens of thousands of parking spaces from Paris streets and was reelected.

I can only imagine that if the mayor of a major US city promised the same, people would lose their fucking minds.

Content warning:The Last Of Us FinaleI've really enjoyed HBO's adaptation of TLOU, but the giraffe scene and following conversation...

Content warning:The Last Of Us Finale

I've really enjoyed HBO's adaptation of TLOU, but the giraffe scene and following conversation which felt so special in the game was hard to believe in the show.

The way the scene was shot, it was hard to believe that ellie could have seen the animals when she drops the ladder, and the conversation that follows felt like they were just reading lines in order.

It was an odd blemish on the series.