disney's wish feels like it was written by chatgpt. and I'm not saying it was (I'm sure it wasn't. it was written too early for it for one) but I mean everything about it from the plot to the dialogue to the jokes feels like 'here's the statistically most likely thing to go here'

and I suspect what actually happened is that everything about it just got committeed to death, all the actual creativity got sanded down into the safest version of itself until you have something that just feels like slop

If you're a gay man on IG, it's good at showing you hot men -- for some definition of hot. On the fedi that's much harder and I would argue is one of the real but stupid reasons it's harder to get the gays off IG.

Following tags is not practical because many tags have been taken over by the NFSW "content curators" who are posting other people's content -- which is why I don't use any in my selfies.

But there's a way to do curation: dedicated boost accounts.

1/x

A good reminder that “originalism” means believing that America was better when only white male property holding Christians could vote and even they couldn’t be trusted to vote for Presidents and Senators. https://www.pennlive.com/news/2026/06/scott-perry-joins-push-to-revoke-17th-amendment-strip-voters-of-electing-senators.html

Innovative!

The US if it had been colonised by Britain

Why are people on Apple TV shows doing speech to text for messages? Sexting speech to text? Girl

Also, I knew that one guy was going to do something bad because he didn't have an iPhone

Apparently this was in the Boston globe

As per usual. Showing how it can be done and gaining respect everywhere they go.

As they said in #Germany during the last Euros

"No Scotland. No party!"

#Scotland #football #WorldCup #TartanArmy #soccer #NoScotlandNoParty

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Newspaper page with photos of Scottish football fans having fun in Boston Text reads: Dear Tartan Army, You came for the World Cup, but gave us something more. For a week, you turned train stations into singalongs, Fenway into a football ground, and an ordinary June into something we'll be talking about for years. Boston has hosted championships, parades, and celebrations of every kind. But we've never hosted guests quite like you all. Thank you for the laughter, the bagpipes, and the memories. The World Cup will move on. So will the songs, but we'll never forget the joy you brought to our city. D The Boston Globe

So my local library doesn't support OverDrive. If I want to check out an eBook, I have to use a Android or iOS app.

That sucks.

My Kobo reader isn't Android. So, this has me looking at Android-based eReaders and wow that's a crapshoot.

#inclusion #equality #pride

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A picture of a man smiling, with a rainbow painted on his cheek and a poster in his hand stating: "I don't wear rainbow items to tell yopu who is in my bed. I wear them so the family across the street feels safe. So the couple in the restaurant know they aren't alone. So the boy who sees me notice him looking at dresses kows I won't judge. I wear pride bc you make them hide."

OH "My Wagnerian pornographic epic, 'God damn you're hung'"

RE: https://woof.group/@dkub/116751263913141847

The Atari game should've been ET. It was so bad they destroyed every copy of it.

Boy/Pup Praxis [He/Him] » 🌐 2026-06-15
@dkub@woof.group

The only thing Ready Player One has done for me is make me want to actually watch The Shining again.

I came across a problem in #ed where I couldn't change a url, because it was full of slashes, which made the substitution command fail. I popped into vi to make that change, but then thought about how I might do it in ed in the future.

What I realized is that I could split the lines where the URL stops and ends, replace the line that had just the URL itself (pasting in the new URL without having to backslash-escape the slashes), and then re-join the lines.

Of course, NOW I just realized I could've done s,([^)]*),(new_url), instead, but whatevs, lol

rld@Intrepid:~$ ed
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I need to change [this link](https://example.com/some/stuff/here), ok?
some more text
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2	I need to change [this link](https://example.com/some/stuff/here), ok?
3	some more text
2s/(/(\
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1	Here is some text
2	I need to change [this link](
3	https://example.com/some/stuff/here), ok?
4	some more text
3s/)/\ 
)/
,n
1	Here is some text
2	I need to change [this link](
3	https://example.com/some/stuff/here
4	), ok?
5	some more text
2a
https://archive.org/details/plan9designintro/mode/2up
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2	I need to change [this link](
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2	I need to change [this link](
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Today’s lesson in unfortunate font use comes courtesy of Portugal’s Federação Académica do Desporto Universitário.

(1/2)

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A series of posters for a beach sports tournament, in which the choice of lettering unfortunately makes the word "final" read like "anal".

#LGBTQ #RoeVWade #FuckTrump #ThisIsWhatYouVotedFor #TrumpEconomy #Immigration #DueProcess #InalienableRights #NoKings #LetsGoTACO #USConstitution #TrumpEpsteinCoverup

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A screenshot of a social media post by "existentialmemes" on a dark background. The text reads: "Listen, if a Bad President can come in and take away our rights and we're dependent on a Good President replacing them in four years to give us back our rights, then we do not have any rights. If politicians can take or distribute them, then they're not 'inalienable' and they're not 'rights.' We don't have inalienable rights we have conditional privileges, divvied out according to the whims of whoever currently holds the reins. And if we want to have actual rights, then we must build a system in which no one has the power to take them away to begin with."

Love Language

The undying dream of Esperanto

by Katie Thornton

https://harpers.org/archive/2026/06/love-language-katie-thornton-esperanto/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KSQ7JVHVABAKFRY3CGXJYDZ0&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER

Books in Esperanto at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/34

#Books #Literature

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The Esperantist, Complete Editor: H. Bolingbroke Mudie The cover of The Esperantist, Vol. I (Nov. 1903 – Dec. 1904), published at Norfolk Street, Strand, London. The ornate black-and-white design features a central star — the symbol of the Esperanto movement — surrounded by circular medallions depicting the continents of the world. A small portrait, likely of L.L. Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto, appears at the centre bottom. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/38240/pg38240-images.html

Watching Designing Women is funny because it's very mid 80s in the US. A lot of these jokes wouldn't land with many people, especially younger ones.

Would you understand a joke around "Imelda Marcos"?

Beautiful day for SOTA. Made a couple 2m SSB contacts and one 2m CW contact for this year’s 2m challenge. 40m, 30m, 20m, and 15m CW on the QMX.

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View of the snowcapped White Mountains from the distance. Pinyon Pine and sagebrush in the foreground.

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2m Yagi antenna sitting on a tripod on the summit rocks. Antenna is vertically oriented.

Take it as a sign, and abandon the data-harvesters.

Fun fact for Seattleites:

Privately owned parking lots with predatory parking fees can't actually enforce any "parking fines" that they send to you. If it's not a ticket from the city, you can literally just ignore it. (Looking at you, Black Diamond and AirGarage).

The worst they can ever do is try to send it to collections, and if they do that, you can easily request that they provide validation of the debt in writing within 30 days. Once you make that request, the collection agency can't do ANYTHING. They can't contact you, they can't contact anyone you know, and they can't report it to a credit agency. It also immediately puts the burden of proof on them. How do they know it was you? They can't possibly know without security footage (which they don't have). Even if they do, there's a bunch of other things they have to prove to link you to the debt, and then prove that in court and it is absolutely not worth their time or money to do so. They will drop the debt immediately and you will never hear from them again.

I am... really tempted to pin this to the top of my account... Print it and put it on my office door... send it as my email signature... wear it around my neck at conferences....
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180727-mansplaining-explained-in-one-chart

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A flowchart to find out if you're mansplaining. The first step is "did she ask you to explain it" and if the answer is yes, not mansplaining. This goes through various other scenarios, the funniest/saddest of which is "Do you have more relevant experience" and if the answer is "she has more" then it's "definitely mansplaining" while if the answer is "she has more and is a well known expert" then it's "Just stop talking now"

Boss makes a billion
While making no hires
Maybe that explains
All those warehouse fires

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A poem I wrote about 5 years ago, published in several international magazines including Anarchy: Boss made a dollar Grandad made a dime But that was a poem From a simpler time Boss made a thousand Gave my pa a cent But that penny bought a mortgage Or at least it paid the rent Now boss makes a million And gives us jack Smugly blames his workers For the labor that he lacks

This is how a dictatorship takes hold. Judges should be free from political pressure so they can apply the law justly and without outside influence.

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A tweet reporting that the Trump administration fired two immigration judges who blocked deportations of pro-Palestinian students, noting that four additional judges were also fired.

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116371004233374990

Hmm, turns out we were less well informed than we thought. 1P is Canadian and Bw has allegedly been vibe coding. Maybe more thought required…

Tim Bray 🇨🇦 » 🌐 2026-04-08 / 2026-04-23
@timbray@cosocial.ca

Update: Cancel this one, we went back to 1P, see https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/04/09/Password-Manager-Angst

Just to report that spouse & I have successfully transferred off 1Password to Bitwarden, relying on sync through Bitwarden.eu. It’s not quite as slick as 1PW but is less American and AFAIK is not fooling around with AI. Also, offers the option to self-host if the company goes sour.

#1password #bitwarden

Nothing captures my mood like these dollar store Peeps.

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A box of marshmallow ducks that look like they’re packed in too tightly so their faces are humorously fucked up.

Have you ever...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/116309404063715397

This is a bad take. Apple exerting control over what UI conventions are allowed, or even required, would be disastrous. I dont think you can carve out a special case for video players.

Daring Fireball » 🌐 2026-03-28
@daringfireball@mastodon.social

Apple Should Set and Enforce Some Basic Standards for Custom Video Players on tvOS
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/28/apple-should-set-and-enforce-some-basic-standards-for-custom-video-players-on-tvos

Divine knew, she always knew

#nokings

Random stuff off the curb haul: coconut coir (usable for seed starting), brand new. And some kind of almoat brand new fancy cold brew coffee thing, figured I would try it out and/or put it with the car camping/disaster stuff in case the opportunity arises for real coffee.

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Coffee maker and coconut bedding for reptiles also usable for seed starting

Fun Fact: the child actor who plays Young Deloris in the opening scene of Sister Act only has one other credit in IMDB, and that’s in her role as Young Guinan in that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where Picard, Ro Laren, Keiko O’Brien, and Guinan get youthified in a transporter accident and have to save the ship from the Ferengi.

There has to be a story there for her only two appearances to be as a young Whoopi Goldberg.