I’ll take shitstorm for $100, Alex.

Elections are still coming. “Inflation” hasn’t been tamed. We’re also waiting for the next pandemic. Planetary thermal events are in progress. Mega drought in the American Southwest threatens to cripple hydroelectric power generation and agriculture for millions.

Normal? That’s just what they want you to think.

Arkansas, where transparency goes to die. Apparently.

Nope.

Engagement numbers help the IPO, this in turn would put more $$ in u/spez pocket and that I will not support.

You’re lucky if the communities you have followed survived intact or unaffected. The tenor of my feed was changing for the worse before the API protests. When I left, after? It was a shithole.

Sure, there are communities that I miss, that are absent, or have weak, or hard to find presences. But the solution isn’t to go lurk and buff those engagement metrics, in my somewhat Reddit hostile opinion.

Back of a church.

kbin.social to start with, posted in random, now another kbin. is being used, but I didn’t note the suffix.

US Congress, or one party thereof?

Don’t take it seriously. Don’t put up with toxicity. Don’t be afraid to do without.

Give it to me in raw numbers, how many Americans does that really mean?

Dunno why this would rate a down doot, it’s a little fluffy, but mildly informative.

With a side of hallucinations.

… try using a Macbook touchpad and then any other one after it.

^ This.

Have been given a current Surface Pro laptop for work and must use an external mouse, or rage in frustration that my 13 yo MBP has a better functioning trackpad.

Clarkesworld Magazine and anything from Skyboat Media.

Kate Baker narrates the former, Stephen Rudniki a lot of the latter’s content and both deliver sonorous, resonant readings that are easy to nod off with.

Along the same lines, but not a podcast, McFadden narrates a docuseries on all things Trek, “The Center seat”, on Amazon currently.

Credit card for the rewards, paid monthly. Keep cash for tipping and small stuff.

It all comes down to greed and enshitification in the end.

In a term? Dominion mentality. Add a little master/servant hierarchy, a pinch of patriarchy and stir well.

55” infotainment screen, in a fucking vehicle? That’s what I have in my living room. 🤯

Dark mode on mobile and I missed it, apologies. I am also too used to links being below photos, but that’s no excuse.

Bloomberg’s getting hinky, try the archive version here: https://archive.ph/RzUN3

So banning the word will eliminate the behavior?

That’s some epic magnitude magical thinking there, for damn sure.