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dropmaw.bsky.social

I follow human beings.

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I'd have a lot more patience for the stunningly unoriginal idea of "enshittification" if BoingBoing wasn't the absolute best example of it I could think of

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The most ridiculous consequence of this kind of nonsense — prioritizing the needs of publishers and distributors over the simple and clearly non-infringing desires of end-users —

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

When you die in Brisbane you respawn at the Queen St Hungry Jack's

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Hey, dummies: you have to work out which one of you is the Good Cop before the Oval Office meeting jeez

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Imagine being so horrendous that, desperate to shore up a second go, you place an order for The Substance only to wake up in a White House bathroom finding Elon's face staring back at you from the mirror

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Xfinity is sending me a truly amazing number of messages about deleting an email address they made for me without asking that I've never used I mean okay I GUESS it's good to be noisy about this but geez Louise

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Not even 10am and I've made GDB dump core. Gonna be one of THOSE days, huh

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Youtuber: "if you want to say that zero is a natural number that's also okay" Me: a bold strategy, let's see how it works out for them

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

A little soundbite that lives in my head is Maggie Siff as Rachel on Mad Men: when she realizes that Don is asking her to completely abandon her life and run away with him, she asks "What is this, the end of the world? Just do whatever you want?" That's been coming up more and more for me lately.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Another day in an open-plan office, another day spent carefully adjusting my workspace by literal degrees to keep my sightlines free (well, free-ish) of distractions: valued co-workers eating, working, moving, talking. I'd love to see a workplace where the C-level desks are also open-plan.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

I've never been able to explain to people that they live in a representative democracy and so statements like "taxes should not go to this; let the citizens decide" are at best ill-formed. The citizen have decided. You just don't like it.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Me in late 2024: I'm tired of seeing Trump's face all the time Monkey's Paw: >finger curls<, Musk books a flight to Florida

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I'm so old I remember when Python docstrings weren't total trash. I'm lonely

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

AMERICA: At last, we have brought forth on this new continent a great nation where everyone can speak freely and pursue true happiness no, not like that

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments