I’m so sick of stuff... Buying it, subscribing to it, replacing it, convincing ourselves it’ll spark joy Social media trained us like obedient Labradors: sit, scroll, consume And now we’re obedient little little lemmings Read my rant here... open.substack.com/pub/marinapu...

Putting the "website down detector" on Cloudflare is roughly equivalent to putting the diesel backup generators in an easily flooded basement.

He said "Amen" straight into the drop Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible

Was woken up with wisdom tooth pain during the night. Only realised in the morning that it was at 2:30. It finally happened, the joke became a reality

Unicode Consortium scrambles to create seahorse emoji to prevent runaway AI consumption

Great move this. SSO is not an enterprise feature!

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Just got ID’d at the shop. Whilst I should take the compliment, it was for ibuprofen for a bad back; should that not be ID enough?

🔴Online Safety Act is Forcing Brits to Hand Over Their Data to ‘Unregulated’ Overseas Corporations With Questionable Privacy Records Age verification firms used by social media platforms include company tied to a Trump-supporting billionaire and a firm set up by former Israeli intelligence ...

Age verification needs to come up with a better name

“You shall not pass”

Anyone else born before 1999 notice that boredom is not a thing anymore

the website: please please please download our app please please please please the app: oh shit didn’t think that’d actually work. what the heck do we do now?? screw it, webview time

Yorkshire Tea, I love you, but that’s not how equations work.

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The only time this isn’t true is when they’re talking to the dog.

Around the mid-to-late 2000s, we changed to a different kind of tech industry. You started a company, made a lot of promises, kind of made a thing, and waited for Apple, Google, Microsoft or Facebook to buy you out. Creating useful things was no longer the point.

Anyone else feeling the fatigue of creating accounts on various new social media platforms and writing a breezy introduction about yourself whilst still doom-scrolling all the existing ones?