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So I read this, and as someone who's spent their entire career in the trenches of "how do we keep the tension between Good Guys and Bad Guys interesting," I have Some Thoughts www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/v...

submitted 9 days ago • 50 comments

What is something nice you've done for yourself recently? What is the last thing that made you smile? What is something you are looking forward to? Who is the last person you've helped?

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

I’m not doomscrolling I’m just in my calamity era

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

Oh man, I almost forgot these!

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

Trump and his admin trying to force journalists and news orgs to report outlandish lies as facts to gain access to him strikes me as classic abuser behavior

submitted 16 days ago • 19 comments

I'm seriously considering just an outright ban on resellers buying @haveibeenpwned.com subscriptions for customers. It's just constant dramas, support overhead, obnoxious responses and confusion. What are customers actually getting from resellers, other than massive price markups?

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

I did not like my institutions but they were MY institutions.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Hey if y'all haven't tried 5calls yet now is a wonderful time to try it. I promise you it's better than doomscrolling

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Hits differently right now (from the Renwick Museum across the street from the White House)

submitted 25 days ago • 16 comments

“If everything is a crisis then nothing is a crisis” is not aging well in this age of Oops! All Crises!

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

submitted 28 days ago • 269 comments

A QA tester walks into a bar. Runs into a bar. Crawls into a bar. Dances into a bar. Jumps into a bar. And orders a beer. 2 beers. 0 beers. 99999999 beers. -1 beer. "qwertyuiop" beers. Testing complete. A real customer walks in and asks where the bathroom is. The bar goes up in flames.

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

we never should’ve given power to the nerds. the jocks shouldn’t have it either. we must usher in the age of the goths

submitted 33 days ago • 275 comments

If you are a bot following us is not good enough. You have to reshare our safety info and protect your bot family.

submitted 35 days ago • 35 comments

donezo

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Instead of doomscrolling, you could play Minesweeper, dungeon edition. danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Damn, this is a big deal!

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

An ideal world isn't possible without idealists working to make it a reality.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

After all of the infosec chatter about how you probably don't need a VPN, age verification has made PornHub block access in most Southern states and TikTok's about to block US IPs. We are entering a new age of internet censorship and you might need a non-shady VPN.

submitted 46 days ago • 19 comments

OK, we're gonna get on Flickr. We're gonna start blogs. We're gonna share our bookmark lists and start doing meetups.

submitted 48 days ago • 34 comments

Tablets are the crabs of computing devices.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Are you worried that your child might be a changeling? Don't worry, here are a few ways to find out (according to Icelandic folklore)🧵: -Put the child on top of an altar. Changelings really hate that. -Ask the child how old it is, it might slip and admit that actually, it is 80 years old.

submitted 51 days ago • 10 comments

One of my least favorite current trends is categorizing anything one has not personally heard of as "Discourse" to dismiss it. It's okay to have missed a headline, but there's no meaningful category that contains everything a person sees under "not everybody's up with The Discourse" in a day.

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Sometimes I worry that holing up during COVID destroyed my ability to have normal conversations with people, but then I remember that I lacked the ability to be normal in conversations way before 2019.

submitted 52 days ago • 23 comments

crankily people are getting snark all over my earnest posting

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

I agree with Jamelle. But I think it's also important to acknowledge that 1) cooking is a skill, and 2) there are costs to home cooking beyond laying out cash for groceries—think labor, the mental load of planning, etc

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

Rolling into 2025 like

submitted 58 days ago • 5 comments

lemon pig of 2024 before and after absorbing all my bad luck over the calendar year like a fucked up little yellow dorian grey. it is nearly time to rest, my faithful child.

submitted 58 days ago • 178 comments