Does anyone know if there's a way to get #Bluesky to stop deciding that certain replies are too shitty for me to read and not notifying me about them? I mean, it's not necessarily that Bluesky is wrong in any given case. And I know I can still find them. But I'd like the notification. #moderation

I'm sure that the wording of these tests is deliberate for these exact reasons, but it's things like this, in IDR Labs' 'Communism Test', that throw me. "Artists should have no private ownership (or copyright) over the works that they create." But this needs some clarification. 👇

Eisenhower

Got to give credit to whoever's idea it was to make coats by cutting the feet off sleeping bags and sewing on some arms. No question they do look cosy. One day we're going to go around in Dalek-like travel machines where the inside is basically just your bed with extra floofy blankets.

Actually, I'm being unfair. It's not all people, of course. Just Humans.

In-store announcement in the supermarket pushing their pharmacy: "You may have undiagnosed high blood pressure." I'm like, well, yeah. I would imagine I do. I'm in a fucking supermarket and people are fucking infuriating.

Just the FIFA Peace Prize winner and host of the 2026 World Cup

If you want me to be impressed at your argument that some other country should not have nuclear weapons, you're going to have to not possess an arsenal of your own while you're making it.

Well, that'll teach me. There I thought #AKnightOfTheSevenKingdoms might be a little less utterly pointlessly bleak and futile than #GameOfThrones was... A little more light-hearted, perhaps. Of course not. It's still a GRRM-based production—so no: it's obviously going to be grim as balls.

The way websites - @snopes.com in this case - just breezily say "Disable Your Adblocker" like I set it up in the first place and have the godsdamned computer engineering degree to actually do that. I suppose the obvious alternative is to subscribe, which I would definitely do if money was free.

Seriously, as a private citizen, it's fine. Lie all you want. If you lack integrity and aren't concerned that no-one trusts you, go ahead: lie your arse off and face social consequences. But once you've chosen to set yourself up as an authority—a politician, a reporter—then lying should be a crime.

"Hello good morning I am calling from Three, your service provider* to let you know your SIM card will be deactivated in 24 hours." "Cool, knock yourselves out." "I beg your pardon." "Go for it." *click* Scammers are no fun any more. (* It's not. That was a bit of a giveaway, honestly.)

I find myself unaccountably annoyed by computer applications that talk to you—via error messages and other pop-ups and things—in the first-person plural. "We're getting things ready for you", says Windows. "We're working on that" as it tries to load a spreadsheet.

I've decided that everything is a nuisance. Spreadsheets especially, as it happens, but really just generally everything. This is my official position. Thank you for your attention to this matter and shit.

Yes, this is technically a subtweet but it goes generally. Please stop vague-posting. Say what you mean and clarify what you mean it about. "If You Know You Know" is some elitist gatekeepy bullshit. The internet is best used to share knowledge, not for you (if cap fits) to perform having it.

Oh, fine. So it seems this was, in fact, a man with actual Tourette's. I'll grudgingly accept and acknowledge, then, that this particular incident did not represent the BBC making excuses for bigotry. I guess even state broadcasters need to take breaks occasionally.

Apparently the fascists of the "Reform" party have competition in the even more extreme "Restore" party. Ajoi, they're drones more helpless than I was. What will the next batch will set up as? Rebuild? Regenerate? (Heh) Recreate? Rehash? Rephrase? Reiterate? 🤦‍♀️ www.thecanary.co/trending/202...