Can we have an acronym for “that was an autocorrect but it was funny so I’m deciding to keep it”?
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The only alternative to dying is living forever, which honestly sounds way way WAY worse.
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This is a great overview of everything that’s been going on the last week or so. At some point every sentence is more terrifying than the last. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/musk-federal-government.html?unlocked_article_code=1.u04.xhE4.ck6UnxiB2l4_&smid=url-share
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Nobody ever made a CD player that scrobbles over WiFi, did they? I think WiFi was becoming ubiquitous just as CD players were being universally discarded.
Would be so cool, though! I’d almost be less surprised to find a *turntable* that scrobbles, these days.
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“has Oliver Platt in it” is a genre
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This is an extremely esoteric thing, but #WordPress doesn’t offer an archive page for “standard” posts (within the “Post Format” taxonomy). URLs like `/type/status` work, but `/type/standard` doesn’t, since the “standard” Post Format is just the absence of a Post Format.
But if you navigate to `/type/foo`, it *does* send this string (`foo`) to the `WP_Query`; so `/type/standard` can be made to work, with a tiny little plugin I wrote:
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It’s always a little goofy when a science fiction show/movie tries to have a punk band railing in earnest against some fictional sci-fi villain.
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I know I heard this last year but somehow forgot to keep listening to it. This is great stuff. https://sarahmarychadwick.bandcamp.com/album/messages-to-god
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I am not nearly tuned in enough to what #KillRockStars is doing these days.
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Wasn’t there a federated podcast directory someone made? New episodes became posts? #fediverse #podcasting
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“While you frame this as a conflict about ambition, I hear you wrestling with a profound question: What defines a life well lived?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/well/mind/ask-the-therapist-gottlieb-hard-work.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tU4.EkDA.eIercIQvrsA6&smid=url-share
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As much as I’ve read about BotW and TotK, I’ve never really seen anybody talk much about the style of their art. They eschew the polygons-and-textures look for these painterly, comic-like swaths of color. And while I don’t play a lot of video games, I haven’t even really seen it imitated.
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I need to read an article whose title is “An art expert talks about the paintings in ‘Severance'”
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You’re allowed to complain about something that defies credulity in a sci-fi story if the question you’re asking isn’t “How did they do that?”, but “Why did they do that?”
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eBook purchases from #Kobo can also be set up to benefit your local bookstore. #Bookshop https://www.kobo.com/retailpartners
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I bought a CD on eBay. It just arrived in an Amazon box, with a gift receipt, along with six metal rings — evidently for horse bridles — also with gift receipts.
The only possible explanation is that the eBay seller didn’t even possess the CD. They sent it as a gift to me from Amazon, and added the 75¢ rings to hit the free shipping minimum.
And I paid way more on eBay than I would have on Amazon.
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HTML and CSS mostly use American spellings (`color` vs `colour` for instance), which is partly why `aria-labelledby` — whose double “l” is “rest of the English-speaking world”-ian — always confuses me. I’m always writing `aria-labeledby`.
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Sometimes Meg Baird comes on unexpectedly and I remember how much I absolutely adore her https://megbaird.bandcamp.com/album/cross-bay
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Almost went to the theater to see The Substance again on a big screen tonight, having already seen it in September, it’s that good.
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[normal person, posting to Mastodon] “I just discovered XYZ, it’s so great!”
[all of Mastodon, in a single resounding chorus] “Oh, you shouldn’t be using XYZ.”