“your text may contain issues” oh word counter application, you have no idea

the wattpad commentariat know that without a specified pay period, the acceptability of a wage cannot be determined

rituals of divination help get one in a witchy mood. do druids instead Touch Grass

labor organizing in wattpad comments

on nextdoor people are rabid about whether you should be blowing all the sidewalk leaves into the street (read: bike lane)

no idea if it’s gonna go anywhere but it’s nice that ppl are thinking about it https://quietcleanseattle.org/

a brief defense of vibes: https://maya.land/responses/2021/10/26/defense-of-vibes.html

i think sometimes media folks see tech stuff they don’t understand and assume it’s bullshit, where what they really need to be scrutinizing are the business aspects they assume are normal because Capitalism Is Fundamentally Fine, Right?

i wish i wrote about tech stuff less but mostly i wish non-techie people wrote about it better

for the record Hannah Gadsby is funny

so even if there have been really successful tactics of foot dragging and sabotage, the powers what be don’t want you to learn about them (even outside how they also hate e.g. labor history being taught)

conspiratorial speculation: the powerful love telling the average folks to Engage Through Discourse to change Official Policy re: the things they disagree with because then they can identify you and control the narrative, whereas they don’t have nearly the power to stop ppl on the ground from Just Doing Shit

has anyone written something good about the difference between “let’s work in good faith towards reform from within” and “let’s strategically sabotage from within” because there are definitely situations where the former seems deeply head-ass yet the latter might get good results…but I have not read enough about the latter to feel confident talking about it.

let’s all spend a moment thinking about whatever systems in which we cannot avoid complicity for whatever reason and how we therefore must use whatever opportunities we have to say that Actually The Ships All Need Painting Right Now https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-tip-off-from-a-nazi-that-saved-my-grandparents

https://songwhip.com/amberian-dawn/looking-for-you this song merits a 90s boyband style group dance performed by women with no makeup, bleached eyebrows, facial piercings, and bondage pants

in those cron scripts, tiddlywiki --save “[tag[]]” “[addsuffix[.md]]” rm -f /output/Draft* is how I get particular sets of files to work with – where “tiddlywiki” is the node app command

keyword blocklist aggressively. stop thinking “well someone might have something interesting to say about X”. once you get to the point where social media discourse on a topic feels like a mosquito whine, just cut it all out. private discussions with friends or blogs you like or whatever will cover it if it’s important.

wesley’s notebook is a beautiful personal site: https://maya.land/responses/2021/10/24/wesleys-notebook-is-a-beautiful-personal-site.html

so there is a verse in the bible (bear with me here) “for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” but from the vulgate latin it is impossible not to read as “for where your thesaurus is, there will your heart be also”

mgmt’s “when you die” works really well because it kind of sounds like “in the house, in a heartbeat” from 28 days later, but, you know, bouncy

my brother’s response: ‘lol you palette swapped your dog’

spooky scary CSS. why let merveilles have all the fun? :) .accountavatar-overlay-overlay, .accountavatar-overlay-base, .accountavatar { filter: saturate(0) contrast(500); mix-blend-mode: multiply; } .detailed-statusdisplay-avatar, .status__avatar, .avatar{ background: orange; background-clip: padding-box; border: 4px transparent; border-radius: 4px;} .navigation-bar > a {background: orange; background-clip: padding-box; border: 4px transparent; border-radius: 4px;}

she is too cute for me to even be embarrassed about this

I think i want insincere “thank you for your service” replies from them

every time I have to send emails to Very Important People about the quotidian failures of our systems, I am reminded of my two predecessors who explicitly left because of ops

the 9.9% are responsible for the political will behind all the shitty stuff he talks about, but Iiiiiii still bet you the 0.1% is getting more out of it

https://www.fastcompany.com/90687984/the-dark-truth-behind-what-makes-a-good-neighborhood the policy criticisms are Correct, but like… “But 60% of this corresponds to the mortgage interest deduction, which benefits only the 7 million or so households with more than \(100,000 in income. The bigger the house, the more they get. A further \)32 billion per year goes to covering the exclusion of capital gains taxes on inherited homes. [..] All but a few rounding errors land in the pockets of the 9.9%—every year.” Really? You excluded the 0.1%? No, you didn’t.

this is really good. i think it’s really good partially because confirmation bias but also the examples are :chefkiss: https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/p/moral-panic-journalism

twitter threads and chesterton’s fence: https://maya.land/responses/2021/10/21/twitter-threads-chestertons-fence.html

“the most attractive X I’ve ever seen” would have been the most attractive X out of, like, max 300, including people of all ages/sexes. we should talk more about how weird it is that we are constantly exposing ourselves to beautiful freaks now, no matter what your standard of beauty is

yeah lots of you are posting that you’ve blocked them, but how many of you have they blocked, huh? huh?? (shh don’t tell me, I want my moment of pretending this gives me cred)

i believe in us, evanaa. i believe we can make this crazy thing work

note that I do not know .. uh… why

we have a static ip and the real site still loads on phones, soooooooo

UPDATE: I can report I have finished the speedrun to being blocked by truthsocial.com

why would you bother setting up a fake analytics company? like, why? or was this, like, some epik employee’s teenage nephew saying “oh I can run matomo for you guys no problem”. is there some greasy kid in sammamish somewhere trying to figure out how to flex his ill-gotten gains without explaining to his peers that Behind the Great Success of Bonsa He Playing Role

let’s do a WHOIS lookup (on the first google result, as is only appropriate) so if they’re using dreamhost there’s no point looking for other stuff at that IP, but… interesting that this is… brand new?

Evanaa, I take it all back. Whatever they’re paying you, it isn’t enough.

you know what, I’ll look up that address – wait, what’s this?

Wow, time to give these guys a call! At one of these numbers! From their contact info! That they have listed as phone numbers!

We love to see coworkers supporting each other with helpful feedback!

Too few social marketers recognize that if you’re not getting down to the stomach lining, you’re not doing real social marketing. https://bonsa.net/blog-details.html

What’s this? A blog link, you say?

Evanaa, no!!

I only trust my analytics with the tier of provider who knows that 2005 + 15 = 2021

Evanaa babe the pandemic has been hard for all of us but you gotta get it together

Ah, really puts my mind at ease seeing their experience with Thousand of Comapnies

And these exparts’ attention to dotail, you gotta sea it to believe it

Business growing service! Sounds nice. Like gardening.

the trump social website is Innovative and technically sound and I’m definitely not looking forward to some data nightmare coming out of it because it’s been put together in a super high quality way with attention to detail so I’m sure their security is also top notch