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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Welcome to Computer Fairies, where the ✨​sparkles✨​ are lively fairy dust, not lifeless AI slop.

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Don't blindly believe everything you read online, tempting as that is. Do your homework first. This video series will help you do it well: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8d

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Remember to pop your filter bubble every so often. If you think you're not in one, you're trapped in one and in for a rude awakening.

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David Revoy

The Degraded Search Engine

Bonus speedpaint: peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantas

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

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The current state of Internet-connected refrigerators 

Ars Technica, 2026-09-23, "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges":
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0

Meanwhile, dumb fridges keep refrigerating and freezing food consistently and predictably for as long as electric power lasts and the machinery stays in good working order.

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Rules I live by: 

Be nice when you can. Be mean when you must. Be kind always. Never be cruel.

Never mistake niceness for kindness, nor meanness for cruelty. Cruel people depend on you making this mistake, tricking you into backing cruelty because it's nice to you and standing against kindness for being mean to them.

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Maddy 🏳️‍⚧️ :neofox_floof:

Friendly reminder that 'nice' and 'kind' are not the same thing.

Niceness is withholding information or opinions when they may be vital, to avoid 'rocking the boat'.

Kindness is telling your bestie when their friend is saying fucked up shit about them behind their back.

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dmiException 💽

hot take, foss 

FOSS maintainers don’t owe you anything, even thanklessly maintaining the software forever.

Furthermore: It’s okay for software to not be updated with new features, as long as it doesn’t have known security holes.

It’s not a bad thing to have something that doesn’t change, even if modern software developers would like you to think that you NEED a constant stream of “feature updates” and “redesigns”.

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spam 

Hey, ${COMPANY},

Who should I be speaking with about senior living investment allocations on your end?

Thanks,

Lauren

---==[/]==---

Hi, Lauren:

Get in touch with Dr. No, our head of cold leads. His email is no@no.no, and his direct line is 1-800-NO.

Thanks!

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6502

pov you clicked on me

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Foxes in Love

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/
Copyright: foxesinlove.net

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devils 🐯

Earth update: new cat added

#MastoArt #Cat

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New smol cat landed.

National Geographic, 2026-09-17, "Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years": nationalgeographic.com/animals

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InOtterNews

Crossfit, croissant, it's all the same...

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Master Flesh of House Tzimisce

Petition to rename GNU Image Manipulation Program to Super Lovely Utility for Textures

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New robocaller trick, as captured by (probably too quickly deleted) voicemail:

20 seconds of hold music, then a voice states your purchase of a supremely expensive phone is nearly complete and that, "if you did not authorize this purchase, press '1' to connect to a customer support representative."

It's supposed to feel like you called them, instead of them calling you.

The voicemail message ended after that calm voice spoke.

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Adam ♿

In case anyone needs it, #Windows Media Player "Legacy" still works on Windows 11, still supports skins from wmpskinsarchive.neocities.org/ and is happily playing #FLAC.

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I have found myself writing utterly incomprehensible spaghetti code in a completely goto-less programming language. Take that, Dijkstra!

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Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 ☀️

THERE ARE NO RULES STOP YOU CAN JUST WRITE YOUR TOOTS LIKE A TELEGRAM AND NO ONE WILL STOP YOU STOP

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Give me a drink, bartender.

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Arson Copperflame

Why does the SSH keygen not play cool chiptune music?

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I have high hopes for
The operating system
Based on Be, Haiku.

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