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Why is it called a party pizza when it feeds only a single person and it's a regular pizza that feeds a party of people?

have two middle names, have no mobile numbers, have no debt, have seventeen cats and five partners, be the one that can’t fit in a database because whoever designed the schema only had two brain cells and decided there’s only two genders

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be the edge case that tech companies fear

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?

onepict.com/20250730-linkedin.

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.

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.

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

Does anyone have opinions about SourceHut? From my limited research, it seems much more ethical for source code hosting in a number of different ways than GitHub and GitLab.

That Substack allows spammers to stay and subscribe everyone to their spam blogs for them at will isn't news to me. My work's blacklist is full of them, all addressed to mail aliases that can't send mail.

That Substack is a Nazi bar, more literally than most social websites, both is news to me and explains so much else about it.

Ars Technica, "Substack's 'Nazi Problem' won't go away after push notification apology": arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

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.
mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/

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