anybody have any advice about picking out a desk chair? the one I’m using makes my butt go numb if I don’t have my feet propped up on something, and I’m starting to think that’s not just a Quirky Bisexual Trait

the fun thing about DSA magic girl is that making a key for yourself ends up looking like this

there seems to be a risk of people actually seeing my writing these days and it makes me go full hedgehog in the footnotes – four defensive footnotes is after they were pared down

missing concepts in link culture?: https://maya.land/monologues/2022/05/20/missing-concepts-link-culture.html

there is one correct answer here and that answer is “seven dollars”, and I might also allow “six ninety nine” only if you live somewhere without any sales tax

i have a theory that when you meet someone who truncates something like “$6.99” in speech as “six dollars”, you know that person has never been broke

that’s not what performative means, vol. XXII

this feels like it ought to be achievable with money

i just want to be a soundtracked-with-a-harpsichord bitch is that too much to ask

saw a lament for the decline of blogs …. because nothing has come to replace the Greatness of the Atheist Blogosphere takes all kinds, I guess

don’t get into a definition argument don’t get into a definition argument don’t get into a definition argument

what would the goblin version of https://poolsuite.net/ look like (sans NFTs obviously)

#fashion

some day i am going to sit down with you all and we are going to talk about why fiber cement panels aren’t evil

on some level I can’t help but think, like – yeah, it sucks when you handle something sparkly and sparkle comes off on your hands, but if your response is to start publishing takes about “therefore no one should make anything sparkly”, just…. don’t. you can be inconvenienced by things without their being Wrong

when people get pissy about what they think web performance should be and they use personal websites as examples, there are a lot of good reasons to roll your eyes at that, but…

i would have to go to southcenter…. but…. fuck https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/the-muppets-71033

does anyone know what font this is? it’s cracking me up and i want it

http://listogram.glitch.me/ css columns wouldn’t work because avoid-break: column is really treated more as a suggestion … anyway you can see exactly where i gave up lol

tossing a whole project because i can’t fake a masonry layout w/o JS

astounded by the party of 3 i saw sit at a 2-top and one seat of an adjacent 4-top, and put jackets on the next seat over on the 4-top… who raised you like this

i like this energy

when i die i want a proper coffin shaped coffin. i also want one before that

you can’t give me a makeup shade of 0, my skin’s just Irish. what are you gonna do when some actual human biodiversity walks in? negative numbers?

re:abortion: a glorious twitter interaction that you could not have on this, the chaos platform, because the guy getting rekt would never join: https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1522576394391277568

still struck by the brain worms involved in calling this “pozzed”: https://tilde.town/wiki/conduct.html

thinking of pronouncing the o in cryptocurrency as a schwa, just to see whom it annoys

this one also a good candidate to be a #fediexclusive

i’m really more of a cherry ms

gotta tell you i’m used to an odd TLD causing problems but this one’s new

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/style/bereal-app-social-media.html why are people acting like this is a chill version of social media i cannot fathom having to – being able to – reliably get to my phone in two minutes

oh damn that’s because I totally missed the byline: it’s Michael Hobbes! if you like this piece check out the podcast Maintenance Phase, it’s a delight

if you’ve needed a survey piece on the realities of being fat to give somebody in your life, this one is way better than I expected it to be https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-you-know-about-obesity-is-wrong/