Of all the baffling decisions made, I think the funniest is the use of a hamburger menu icon that opens a small popover/dropdown of user options, next to an avatar that links to a different view. You can't convince me that a human designed this.

ah, so THATS why they created the "feed"

What if, culturally, we brought back ballpoint pen drawings and lettering cut out from magazines instead of getting the computer to shit out the same poster for every single event in existence?

*** REQUEST *** Kinksters, we are trying to increase the subscriber count significantly on our new YouTube channel. If you could subscribe, and encourage your friends to subscribe, it would be very much appreciated. www.youtube.com/@KinkIsMySup...

Imagine if recon had implemented a subject line in messaging. Yes, it would suck shit to actually use but it would at least be a gesture toward understanding how the app actually gets used, and also I would find it funny

We don't need to build a new app to take over Recon, we need a few hundred kinksters to crowdfund a private island so we all live at walking distance ✌️

One legitimately useful feature that might exist but isn't on recon's roadmap is the ability for conversations to be group chats, based on what's in the conversations API response. Hopefully it's not just being used for sponsored/'official' messages, though.

One of the more technically confusing decisions recon made for their new app was using a web socket connection that doesn't fetch the unread message count until about 5-10 seconds after an API call that returns details about every conversation you've had since you joined the site

The gym's dog is learning to use a treadmill right now, so today just got so so much better

Just found out this morning that directly linking to profiles using the guy's username was removed. Direct linking to the URL for a guy's profile also doesn't work. Is this a bug or is routing another deprecated feature, @reconnews.bsky.social ?

Simultaneously delighted that I don't have to do any significant rewrites based on the Recon feature roadmap, and also pretty disappointed by the roadmap itself

Helping a gym bro about to start a tren cycle:

One of the most bothersome aspects of the "leather is drag" discourse over the past month is that we are acting like there aren't entire fields of academia dedicated to studying culture, and that the voice of authority on the matter is a famous game show host

My professional teleprompter setup is: "3 storage bins on top of eachother"

Much like how Jared Keeso used Letterkenny and the character of Wayne to teach the world about neuroatypicality, he also used Shoresy and the character of Shoresy to teach the world about IBS. In this video essay, I...

Celebrating Pride Month tomorrow by meeting with a gay employment attorney to assess the rightful commonlaw value of my severance package

Posting a couple of things that make me happy, to cheer myself up

I saw this and decided that maybe sometimes unpacking privilege is more annoying than helpful

IML weekend post-mortem, in the style of PIKOTARO: I got LAID I got OFF *Hnggg* I got LAID OFF

I *will* say that I'm good with newbies for whipping. Always make sure I'm on, my whips are warmed up, and there's crystal light nearby.

Over the weekend someone asked me if I would say I'm good with whips. I had 2 answers for him: 1) There are times when I am 2) I could be better Once the high of a scene fades, I only see the wraps and the strikes that went deeper than I wanted. I should be easier on myself and also practice more

It me :)

Seeing a hell of a lot more "I bet the Leathermen are all triggered. Aren't you triggered? How does it feel to be triggered? Please tell me you're triggered." posts by people who care about contests rather than posts by people who are upset about a drag queen won a contest 🤷‍♂️

If you're a content creator Dom and don't sit in one of these while you call me names, you aren't getting a cent from me

Gave a guy wearing a Nasty Pig cap at the airport a "sup bro" nod and he didn't acknowledge me in spite of my Mr S shirt. Unacceptable.

Petitioning IML to use this background for future contestant photos

The only time it's acceptable to touch another man's Muir cap is if they're wearing it crooked intentionally. Then you are obligated to straighten it for him while reminding him "Cher could pull that off, but you're not Cher"

Walking into the "neon colored harness" section of the IML gear market:

The people have a right to know

If any of you call me your "IML family", understand that you are telling me that you are willing to do family things like pick me up from the airport when I come to your city.

Gentlemen start your "I'm actually not competing, I'm just wearing a title sash and a medallion because I competed at some previous year" counters!

If anybody wants to continue to use Google, adding -faggot (with the dash) to the end of your searches will trip their LLM's censor controls, preventing the AI summary from showing up and forcing Google to work normally Yes, this is real.

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live Propagandhi NOFX Goldfinger A Wilhelm Scream Bad Religion Rise Against Against Me! Rod Stewart Rancid Anti-Flag

Recon is introducing searching by location in an app that has supported searching by location for 20 years.

Messaging everybody I see online on Scruff at O'Hare to tell them I don't want to suck them off in a bathroom, I want to share a ride to the Congress with them

Timing my pisses just right on a plane so that it gets unpleasantly urgent while waiting to deplane 💪

slave packed a toaster oven for IML. If you bottom for me this weekend, you will get a fresh baked cookie during aftercare.

"worry about people who can't play" I see the person who wrote this has seen my crappy ropework

There's a type of AI-generated fetish imagery that I come across and find deeply amusing because it's always 2 guys who look identical to eachother who appear to be doing the robot with a blank look on their faces, with a 3rd guy in between them shouting at one guy's knees or crotch

I swear that if I arrive in Chicago and have to sign some kind of "consent agreement" at IML, just know I will sign it but I will probably get huffy about importing heteronormative consent methodology into a homomasculine space until I realize that nobody pays much attention to consent agreements.

You might think "well you couldn't, they wouldn't fit through the wires" which is silly because of course they can

Excuse me, enjoy powerful graphics as I do *what*, Meta Quest 3 advertisement?

I hope you're all ready for "fat motorcop Dave" at IML because none of my gear fits me right at the moment.

Showing up at the BLUF social with my brand new "Tom of Finland Gay Interest BLUF Full Uniform Jacket and Pants" from some guy from Pakistan who cold-DMed me on Instagram

Is saying "spicy time" when you mean "fucking" a form of gen z algorithm duckspeak or is it millennial infantile humor? Either way, stop it.

Shocked that it takes exactly 0 songs in Iceman before Drake starts rapping about fake friends

Come mix and mingle with the men of the Chicago Hellfire Club at their annual IMLBB Cocktail Party! It will be held on Sunday from 2 PM - 4 PM in the Lincoln Room in the Congress Plaza Hotel.

The petition calls on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to reject the ordinance, prioritize enforcing existing smoking rules and inform small businesses before imposing new restrictions that bar owners say would require staff to police customers.

www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... This is unbelievable -- The white house website runs on WordPress???