Tonight in #Deltarune I've managed to bring myself to like 30% belief (up from 1%) in the last 5 minutes that (rot13)xevfvfgurebnevatxavtug(/rot13) It's the lighting, man, the lighting. And other things. But the lighting is what's sticking with me.

day 5 of asking bsky to address the safety concerns with auto hiding replies based on an opaque algorithm we cannot turn off

You know, if I were running Bluesky, and I saw that many people use a Graphic Content warning as a means of hiding (non-graphic) spoilers, I would introduce a Spoiler warning tag, which seems A) trivial to implement B) a desired feature C) beneficial for Graphic Content labeling as well *shrug*

6 years later, and I'm still just as bitter that they only had playtest cards in Mystery boosters at Magic cons. (I don't know what they've done with them more recently, since I haven't been playing.)

I've said it before, but if your website lets me A) jump to footnotes with hyperlinks and B) jump back either with another link or by hitting the Back button, you *will* make it into Heaven.

Five Ways to Build a Story Around an Unlikeable Protagonist Thoughts on hateable, problematic, and morally bankrupt characters. reactormag.com/five-ways-to...

Of all the times not to add alt text, I think the most egregious might have to be "post was too long so I took a screenshot and posted that instead".

Link to the Past Dark World mentioned: main overworld music immediately pops into my head.

Yikes! Just saw a post where A) 5 of the 7 replies were hidden behind "show more", B) All 5 were critical, but none were rude or vulgar, and C) one of the replies had a whole thread under it that wasn't visible until I tapped on the reply!

"These Eyes" is a great song.

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I also saw that Elon thought he got off a sick burn about Oates using too many semicolons. Hey, super-literate dipshit. You use semicolons in a list when one of the list items already has a comma in it. (Sorry, I try never to post about this asshole's tweets, but I was weak.)

I am so glad I looked up what Blinkist is after seeing that "Elon just loves to read" ad from Twitter. They summarize books. He's proving he reads books with an ad from a company that saves you the trouble of reading books.

Kafka takes over on a Trial basis.

I'm pretty sure roughly a third of The Powerpuff Girls Movie's promotion involved Space Ghost characters, and at a point where Cartoon Network and Adult Swim were really starting to give up on Space Ghost being a thing so what does that tell you youtu.be/aTTTpLP-NTQ?...

Damn, they should've asked me. I'd have advertised it for them. -- guy who saw The PpG Movie 3 times in one week because he (correctly) expected it wasn't going to be around for a second week

it's cool how I've been drinking from cups for probably 43 years and sometimes I will still just utterly fuck up the process and dump coffee on myself

The bioluminescence on Palm Beach Waiheke Island has been insane the last two nights. Amazing atmosphere with many people swimming and splashing in the surf. Magical night. Never seen a traffic jam like it though on our sleepy little beach! Pics by Indy Bombuwala.

Not me reading a Deltarune discussion, and suddenly having the urge to look up the etymology of "bishop". "[...] from Greek episkopos [...] from epi- "over" (see epi-) + skopos "one that watches, one that looks after; a GUARDIAN, protector" Emphasis added.

Not that everyone isn't more or less saying this already, but: Getting eight senators who aren't up for reelection soon/at all to do this is a clear signal about what sort of thing Senate Democrats *do* care about. They are showing you their flashing red weak point.

Sometimes you have an idea so dumb that you HAVE to do it (I didn’t get this up in time for Halloween though)

Remembering when I tried to put oshi marks in my Twitter profile, to indicate which Hololive VTubers I was the biggest fan of, and after agonizing over it, could only narrow it down to 9. (This is a sign that you like everybody, and oshi marks are not for you.)

One of the great things about classic game shows is noticing how they create the illusion of "the host has arrived on stage just in time". When you're looking for it, you can tell that Ruprecht was standing one foot out of view until his cue.

David Ruprecht almost shinesparked in this episode of Supermarket Sweep

Maybe this is purely an aesthetic hangup of mine and it doesn't bug anyone else, but there are (counts) *eight* distinct Aang creature cards in the new Magic set. Does that not make them feel a little less special to some folks? Or that the design team is having to pad the file?

The pain of having a quality reply already composed in your head before noticing that replies are restricted.

The best part of '60s sitcoms was when they'd occasionally defy the conventions. Darrin and Endora team up against a common enemy. Oliver has had just about enough of the government harassing his neighbors' pig son. Etc.

Just saw an auto-translated YouTube comment change a perfectly normal 2024年7月6日 into 7/6/2012 But yeah, it's gonna master subtle context real soon now.

The best part of '60s sitcoms was when they'd occasionally defy the conventions. Darrin and Endora team up against a common enemy. Oliver has had just about enough of the government harassing his neighbors' pig son. Etc.

"if it isn't" is what makes this a Socratic dialogue

SOCRATES: No god is a philosopher or seeker after wisdom, for he is wise already; nor does any man who is wise seek after wisdom. PLATO: Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom. DARRYL, SOCRATES AND PLATO’S FRIEND: well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers

@aaron.bsky.team i know you’re more interested in talking about camera specs or whatever, but can someone please address the SAFETY CONCERNS with the automod. what happened to composable moderation? what happened to users being in control?

Imagine being proud to have made this. To still be shoveling billions of dollars into it. "In response to concerns, we have increased the font size on the warning label we put on our bottles of bleach shaped like circus clowns."

Was going to post about a small crisis of principle, but I worked out what I ought to be doing instead. Go me.

Every thing about these screencap cards over the last 3 UB sets has been a complete mess. A total embarrassment. Some of the worst looking cards ever printed.

The move here for democrats is to make this the campaign ad for every single election but then also actually make it come true KEY PART

I still think going in and adjusting your moderation settings is a good idea because I don't currently trust BSky to get any of this right, but it's fucked that none of that even has any effect on "show more replies".

Yeah. Just a note that A) you may want to tap on this when you see it, as it is often hiding perfectly good replies B) come the fuck on Bluesky

Ever been so annoyed you made a video?

He did not have the requisite mens rye-a

Not only did I change Rude to "show", I put everything else on "warn" at least temporarily, because I don't trust that this site is labeling anything accurately.

Thank you to (cool) famous people for continuing to use social media even though people will just jump into your replies and call you Brak or Mr. Peanutbutter like it's your name.

I feel like the answer is "no", but I'm going to ask people who might know rather than trust my ability to search for the answer: Is there any way to read a Discord channel's very large backlog that doesn't involve jumping back to a date and then reading until Discord decides to lose your place?

Love to try a logic puzzle and run into a contradiction 90% of the way through ... ... and then to repeat that process FOUR TIMES. Sunk cost. Sunk cost.

there is a support account no one posts on. there is a SAFETY account that no one posts on

@pfrazee.com can we please address the safety concerns with this automod? this is putting people like me in danger. (i am tagging you because your team refuses to use official channels to announce rollouts and policy changes. this is a change that was announced by you.)

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"Trump wants them to strike down the tariffs. It's a face-saving move." Brother You have him confused with someone with savvy AND someone who doesn't love tariffs with every fiber of his being