Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

A very long overdue network for me to leave. It's been owned by Microsoft for a long time. It's corporate culture filled to the brim with AI slop is repellent.

But their bending of the knee to allow hate speech against transgender folks finally did it for me.

I've given the one month warning to folks who know me on LinkedIn.

If you're still on #LinkedIn perhaps consider leaving as well?

https://www.onepict.com/20250730-linkedin.html

BitTorrent never asks for age verification.

happy MOUSIE MONDAY 🎉✨ (new holiday i just invented to replace friday)

Have some rubber mouse maddies i dreamed up, and some quadrupedal interpretations of
@crashlapine 's mouse, sesh 🐭

if you run an online group (a discord etc), take five minutes to check that the permissions currently are what you thought they were. over time, stuff accidentally gets clicked when you're in a hurry, and platforms love to take the excuse of introducing changes to reset permissions to what they "think" you'd want.

I'm happy to report that the glitches that could happen in #curl when you did more than 2.2 billion transfers in a single invoke are now history.

https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/18096

2005: it takes 3 hours to build out a Windows PC and configure it to be secure, uninstall third party shovelware, and install software and set it up for a user.

2015: it takes one hour to build out a Windows PC and install software to make it ready for a user.

2025: it takes 3 hours to build a Windows PC, configure it to be private and usable, uninstall or block Microsoft spyware, and install software for a user.

You know it's hot when the cat melts

pov it's 2007

So next time you use a bike lane in Ontario, thank a sex worker.

You know, I sometimes feel like I'm being kind of a bitch by refusing to subscribe to Substack newsletters, refusing to share Substack links. But this is why. Substack is a right-wing social media platform that uses its token left-wing writers and apolitical newsletters as cover. I don't want any part of that.
https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/114939115888742842

#BookBan #Parenting #MAGA

You don't find it funny that the people so concerned about "the children" can't be bothered to parent their own?

You can tell that capitalism is working because the first trillionaire is going to be someone who owns a car company that sells clown cars which fall apart when they’re not exploding and locking you in, a rocket company that builds exploding rockets, a tunnel company that does nothing, and the most antisocial social media platform there is.

#Musk