Half hinged: Lent, by Autoheart

Unhinged: Mr Brightside, by The Killers

I am not so sure. You spent some effort here to signal yourself.

Okiedokie. I don’t like you, if that makes you feel better. ❤️

Distributed Death of Self Attack

Inaction is still an action. Not improving the world around you is a choice to accept it. You need to choose your battles, of course, but choose none and I will judge you accordingly.

Right? I was expecting to see beige CRT monitors on the desks here.

You’d have to register and be accepted, same as Mastodon. The difference is that the Mastodon instance you post from “owns” your identity.

Nah, he’s harmless. I just want to cause him problems post mortem.

“I am recording this message as testimony in case I die tomorrow April 20th 2026. It is not an accident. Johan the noisy upstairs neighbor who throws cigarette butts onto my balcony and yelled at my kids for laughing too loud may have poisoned me. Do not let him get away with it.”

Yeah, I started reading about it and felt like “yeah ok the protocol design goal is interesting. May solve Mastodon’s issue of losing your “identity” when switching instance. Let’s see how/if they managed to make it work…”

Then I got to a list of testimonials and the first one was by Uncle Bob saying something about “freedom” and fuck me if that guy isn’t a red flag on fucking fire.

Further reading did not impress.

So yeah looks like it’s more of a dipshit culture war totem than a technology.

Copy-pasting stuff in order to annoy people, then belittle and argue with them when they are annoyed as if you are being attacked.

From this, an urge urge to compare yourself with one of the great thinkers.

Just… Chill. Handle some discourse, will ya?

Oh, that’s a biggie. Can I think about it?

Because the reasons you have for not actively effecting this change apply to everyone else as well.

True. Culture, history, etc as an experience is valid.

It is where people pretend it is important to quality and taste, I call bullshit.

As for the experience… If the old bearded Italian man who served you traditional cheesemelt pig in wooden clogs while singing Por Trancone Parditto were to, say, replace the cheese with Swedish Gulost and not tell you… You would have the same experience.

Not saying it’d be the same, but that the food taste and quality are entirely separate from the authenticity.

Ah I see you are enjoying yourself. Would you care to know that you are, in fact, enjoying yourself incorrectly?

There is no joy to be had the way you are doing it. If there is, it is a fault in your character.

Tradition and authenticity is bullshit.

Food from good ingredients prepared well matters more than if the cheese was stared at for two hours by the sheepwife of the mayor of Scrumthrorpeshireffield.

For example: Wine tasters were clear that French wine just tasted better than Californian wine. They were extremely convinced. Then they tried a blind test and hoo boy did everyone get pissed when they couldn’t tell the French wine was better without knowing it was French first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_of_Paris_(wine)

If people offering criticism offend you so much, just stop listening to them 🫡

Leaving when others are getting fucked is making a stand and having principles. Yay applause.

Going lalalalala and staying on right until you get fucked is just whatever. Don’t brag please.

A Celebrity Does A Grift.

This happens a lot.

In crypto, it usually goes like this: Celebrity makes a coin. Uses fans goodwill to make them buy in. Coin gets rugpulled (oh no!) as in the celebrity and their tech friend cash out and leave the fans with a dead coin worth 1% of what they paid.

The celebrity will then say they were flimflammed. Fooled. Duped. Tricked. Teary apology. Very sad. Victim like you and me. Very also kept the advance $50k from the tech people. Also kept the cash they got from rugpulling. Don’t ask about that.

“CEO of shoddily coded autocomplete app says it will kill us all and he should get a trillion dollars to stop it.”

Basically the same headline repeated 8392 times the past three years, just phrased differently.