Oh good, even the shit is getting enshittified. Glory to capitalism.

(I'm on a ranting roll, might as well carry on) If I write "Beyerdynamic" in the search box, I'm really looking for "Beyerdynamic". I don't want to see results for Audio-Technica. Really. I already have Audio-Technica at home (really, they're lovely). You don't sell Beyer's? Just tell me that.

... and the abuser's "look at what you made me do" language.

This might be just me, but I'd say making a video about how to reduce anxiety and chopping off all the pauses between sentences might be a smidge counterproductive. "please watch this whole [25 mins] video" Yeah no, I dropped off after 3, it was giving me <checks notes> ah yes anxiety.

wtf Apple?! I just created this file on my other computer, dropped it into this one via iCloud, and you're pulling this shit on me? And then you wonder why people don't take you seriously when it comes to computers...

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms “What’s so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work’s already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the first place, eh?”

Pray tell, what destructive moral ideas? Dark enlightenment, perchance? Ah sorry, wrong country.

(sidestepping the major issues for a moment...) Marble? With those keyhole fittings? Carved on the inside to precise specs to fit the pins? Also... marble for armrests? Does he not have elbows like regular humans? ... fml.

I'm not crying. You're crying. youtu.be/iJIE8sAOs3w

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

Not sure I've asked this before, but what the fuck? Christmas fireworks? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Looks like someone farted after eating a bag of golden powder.

DT: "Why aren't Europeans buying American cars?!" KP: "Hold my beer........." www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

RIP Chris Rea. 😔

I really think that people not knowing how to learn things and then think about them is a huge problem.

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We're good, thanks, most MAGAs don't tend to leave the USA anyway.

Notice how Trump and Republicans were having the worst couple weeks in the administration's history and they decided to pivot to hardcore attacking trans people?

Which words have given you happiness this year? I’d love to hear them. (And if you fancy some distraction over the holidays, do give my word game Two Words a try. twowords2.page.link/play)

I'm about to lose my fucking shit at Microsoft yet again. These <insert strong expletive here> broke *fucking Notepad*! 🤦🏻‍♂️

Anyway, this happened. Alas, it shall have to stay in the box for a bit longer because the thing that pays for such things is hell this week. @guitarmoog.bsky.social

... so about that ballroom...

And proving that you miss 100% of the shots you don't take, DHL failed to deliver to the contracted address. The concept of "last mile delivery" seems to be foreign to <checks notes>... a delivery service provider.

Hey DHL, any chance you could do what you were paid to do and a) deliver the parcel that's been sitting in your warehouse for at least 2 days now, and b) to my address, rather than a random drop-off point because "oh we're too busy to fulfill the contract we have with our clients"? kthxbai

getting kids up at the asscrack of dawn is bad for them! we’ve had actual research on this shit! it doesn’t build character, it just means they’re tired and cranky and don’t learn as well

Eyes. On. The. Ball. Someone is trying to convince you an experienced political operative was caught by surprise after 11 interviews with the same journalist. Do with that what you will.

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That "substantial drop in inflation" has a name, but people won't like it...

It cannot be emphasized enough how each passing day reveals more and more that politics is mostly about making life miserable for entire groups of people.

Generations. That's how long that one is going to take to clean up.

So many people are going through a very difficult time right now, but they still have to show up for work or school like it's any other Monday. Please be kind to each other, and give each other a little extra space today. If someone is a little quick to over-react, please respond with kindness.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Does anyone want bar work in central Hackney? My friend really needs good staff at The Globe, just off Mare Street/near Hackney Central station

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Erm wtf, I could swear I was already following @katmabu.bsky.social, but just had to refollow? Is bsky going down the same road as that other hellsite, or did I miss something?

Please don't let my listening to Dave Matthew's Band keep you from drilling and hammering every fucking friday afternoon since forever, our lovely neighbour who also fills my bedroom with cigarette smoke at 3am every night. Sorry if my Kali LP-6's are too loud for your fucking drill.

Long shot, but does anyone in Switzerland have an emergency Theremin to loan tomorrow night ( Friday 12 December )? #ViaMardot is playing a show in St Gallen, and the airline lost her equipment!!! We can help pay for a courier if needed, please share to get this message out!! #theremin #switzerland

I'm sure asking potential tourists for their past 5 years of social media will fix that. And by fixing that, mean "knocking it down to -100% less".

Can we not hear from the guy who was chaperoning fascists around in Vegas, please?

Too early to say McLaren deserve to lose this championship? Not the drivers, the team.

Ah now I understand why websites publish lists of the best wotsits of the year / decade / millennia. It's so they can shove the same fucking ad in between items -- just counted 20 before I got bored.

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Can't wait for them to complain that Europeans and Japanese don't buy their cars.

BREAKING: People making shit worse are surprised that shit is getting worse.

<opens BSky> Ah, I see reality is still on drugs. Sigh. <closes BSky>

If you consistently ask artists if their work is generative AI, you're actually being more discouraging than generative AI is.

Hey Guitar folks, anyone in Europe want to buy a Strymon El Capistan? reverb.com/item/9338202...

Apparently this was peer reviewed... I wonder if by 2 other LLMs. #dataviz