rhubarbjin
@rhubarbjin
“I did not have children. I did not transmit unto any creature the legacy of our misery.” —Machado de Assis
In my 20 years as a programmer I've never heard anyone use the "cyber" prefix unironically. Meanwhile, internal mailing lists look like this... 😄
An evil vizier named Jaffar wants to become sultan by marrying the princess, so he has her suitor captured and thrown in a dungeon. This is a completely original idea that literally no one else could come up with.
The situation in Europe is especially stupid, because various industries are in *desperate* need of labor but everyone is too fucking racist to admit that they need to hire foreigners.
Well, well, well... look at little Miss Atlanticism selling out her so-called allies in Eastern Europe.
Really baffled when I see the reply counter silently going up. Like, why do people bother to reply at all if they're gonna immediately block me afterwards? I won't get to read it, no one else will get to read it, they're literally typing into the void!
Tangentially related, but I recently rewatched Disney's Lady and the Tramp and I was surprised by this throwaway gag during the zoo scene. As recently as 1955, evolution was such an uncontroversial topic that Disney felt comfortable making an explicit reference to it.
Maybe you saw this video by @theserfstv.bsky.social? He starts with a (genuinely funny) bit where he pretends to be shaun for a couple of minutes.
Install one of these in front of his office. You know, as an incentive.
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Well, Twitter got blocked for a couple of months. I think that was the deciding factor, more than whatever tantrums Musk was throwing at the time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockin...
“We can do you fascism and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you fascism and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the fascism. Fascism is compulsory. They're all fascists, you see.”
“Are you impervious to facts and logic” asks person who is impervious to facts and logic 🤔