I've decided I'm a duct-tape software engineer: you stick me on a project and I try to hold my shit together.

Today I learned that @jessiegender.bsky.social makes videos so mighty they crash the Nebula app.

I'm not sure I can bring myself to agree with this take but I love the radical energy anyway

Send markup. Not too much. Mostly HTML.

Has *anyone* got a copy of the 1977 documentary move Gizmo! that doesn't have the completely mangled dedication at the beginning? I had a copy of it on VHS once, many moons ago. Many scenes and inventions and bonkers people and songs are etched on my memory. I would love a solid playable copy.

I appreciate being a material portion of the universe experiencing itself but the responsibility of have a body is a little much sometimes

Ruin a book with a car 1984 Buick Century

*comes up for air from the html mines* Tylenol? Really? I mean I was already on the "maybe don't take Tylenol" train because of the potential for liver damage with its low overdose threshold, but goddamnit this is how you redeem Tylenol in my eyes I guess.

Re: the current trend of "personal curriculums" Learning stuff is great and I will never say otherwise and I am one of those life-long-learners people like to invoke, but why are these folks so eager to format it like school? My gifted kid trauma is very confused.

I am "my very first cell phone had a walkie talkie in it" years old and yes my back hurts and I'm due for my night pills

Oh we're back on this are we

So I'm shopping for "mild flavor" toothpaste and I figure autists on reddit would have suggestions and I was not disappointed.

Can anyone tell me what quantum computers are doing right now? I don't care about potential, all the explainers explain how they could be good at a lot of things, I want to know what they're actually doing now.

I think it was @sundazed.bsky.social who professed a love for the bic crystal, but if you're one of those sickos, new York magazine has the skinny: the French bic crystal ballpoint pens are apparently the good ones.

Ok, am I hallucinating or is a thing (or used to be a thing) that if you're in trouble at a nerdcon and can't find effective security, go find either the stormtroopers or a bunch of klingons, because they're extremely likely to help you however they can? I can't find any evidence.

Ironically those features don't work in the bluesky app.

If you ever wanted to know what it's like to have ADD, this is a pretty good approximation.

Anyone got a couple of spare second graders to catch me up on all the cool dinosaur facts that happened since I was in second grade?

I think it's a sign of how cowed the American media is that we're getting pieces like "you have to understand, in Korean culture, it's considered very rude for someone to lock you in a brutal prison camp for a week for no reason." Like yeah, any free people would be offended by that?

I thought I was broken because of the complete numbness I feel toward violence, but I cried about some stranger's dog being put down today, so turns out it wasn't me after all.

For me? Relentless curation of my media. I use the subscription feed on YouTube, I made a list of my follows on bsky to cut down on reskeets. I only go to tiktok to check on specific playlists. I don't use Facebook or insta at all. I follow RSS on Feedly. I never give the algorithm control willingly

The Santa Clarita Diet. Still mad about it's cancellation on a cliffhanger.

I'm already tired of being made to wonder if I'm a bad person for not having complicated feelings about, yanno, everything.

Can someone go check on Lynda Carter? I've never seen her try to post through it before, I don't think she's ok.

Interestingly, the same trend among Republican graphic design has been well-observed for at least 15 years.

I find it endlessly cute that there is an entire subgenre of the internet now that are basically just second generation nerdfighter content creators. Perfection, 10/10, zero notes.

Is it because I'm a woman that when I talk to computer sales guys and say "I need top horsepower, price is secondary" they show me a midrange prosumer-grade i7 laptop about equivalent to what I already have? It's happened twice now.

I honestly didn't expect living in this particular timeline would mean I never know what decade it'll be outside when I wake up. Is it the 1880s out today? 1920s? Will today be stochastic violence or economic collapse or labor unrest or international chaos or McCarthyism out? Who knows!

Hey millennials, as a child, did you also have the experience of Mickey Mouse and the classic Disney cartoon characters being ubiquitous, but found their actual cartoons and, like, related media like books and comics, to be exceedingly lame? I couldn't quite figure out why they were a big deal.

Getting through the phone tree and the hold music at the IRS is always a nightmare, but boy howdy do the people that answer the phones give good phone.

Wait, Asvine is compatible with Bock nib units? I thought Asian fountain pens had their own nib unit format.

I just went to the Tron Dao website and read their "Tokenomics" explainer, which lays out the broad goals of... all the whatever they're doing over there. Basically, if you hold a lot of tokens, you get credit to do token stuff for free and get to sit on the board, basically.

Impressive, also cool, but a) what does the good front end dev on the team who writes all your CSS think of this finished work and b) woman you are a world class veteran technologist, this is not a use case that scales

I'm feeling posty tonight. Here we go: I don't like what preorder culture is right now, but with two exceptions, 1 is a Kickstarter deal where you essentially borrow production costs from the first 200 customers ahead of time, 2 when it's a thing I want later and I will forget immediately anyway

It bears repeating that my white, Republican mother reaaaaaly doesn't like to be reminded that her white, Republican mother was an illegal immigrant.

Look, I'm not saying that diamine writers blood is bad ink, it's not, it's a perfectly fine maroon brown, it has great performance and it's clearly having a moment, but I don't understand why it's so incredibly popular when sailor shikiori yodaki is also an option that exists.

Look, this is an excellent paragraph, the level of detail is just incredible, I'm not suggesting this is bad or pretentious or excessively wordy. But if any of you catch me writing like this I'm begging you to stop me.

Ok, in Annihilation, why is everyone so hung up on the symbolism or perspective shift of the tunnel tower when at the bottom of the tunnel tower there's a stochastic parrot made out of a slime mold or whatever that's so good at apocalyptic nonsense people die trying to read it

Baby.

I constantly mix up Requiem For A Dream with What Dreams May Come in my head, and this is a serious character flaw on my part.

a few things i believe about art: -artists create audiences. -audiences do not know what they want. that's what the artists are for. -there is no such thing as "objectively bad" art. -critical feedback is good and you must throw away 99.999% of it. -artists should want their audiences to suffer.

Margot, see that big fuzzy guy? If you go and bite his feet and just... Keep doing that forever whenever you can, the nice lady in the house will pet you and love you more and probably laugh a lot

Ok game nerds, I need game suggestions. I like like fighting games with a single-player story mode. I am also bad at fighting games and not very interestes in playing online against other people. This is one reason I've played the hell out of several Soul Caliburs. Also I play steam deck. Suggest!

My cat: *screaming* Me: I understand

Excellent short thread. As a fountain pen enjoyer I do get how "ooh shiny" syndrome can bite you, but also you should Google "cool stick collection" because it's exactly what it sounds like and just as wholesome as Rare Apple Guy while being far more accessible.

Charlotta Mohlin needs to go on the list with Gwendolyn Christie as the latest generation of Blonde Otherworldly Actresses Who Might Be Part Angel(scary) And Take All The Weirdest Roles And Act The Hell Out Of Them And Aren't Tilda Swinton This is my favorite type of actress. The other is Ann Dowd

Yup. I used to think they were an odd inclusion to the community until someone took the time to make a video explaining the problems acespec people face, and they're THE EXACT SAME PROBLEMS all the other queers have. They are us without qualification. I will fight you about it.

Old internet nerds, help me out. What was the name of the old forum that had no layout? It was like a cross between reddit and a chan board, and people paid for accounts?