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@melissasage Like, Bill Gates is obviously trash, but Apple had more than a few ads where the premise was, "Look at this ugly nerd who looks just like Bill Gates!!!!"

(apologies to John Hodgman)

@melissasage Some other endearing traits of Steve Jobs: having a weird hate boner over Bill Gates and using Apple ad campaigns to mock Billy G's appearance, specifically, even tho Steve was also a nerdlinger

@melissasage @marie_joseph@eldritch.cafe And shamelessly bragging while lying and stealing credit for others' acheivements

@melissasage According to urban legend, Steve smelled so bad they put him on the nigh shift at Atari so he would be less offensive to the nostrils of the other workers.

I will dig up a good source later.

@melissasage We also ignored everything his Atari co-workers had to say about him re: washing his stinky ass

Where is the Telegram stickerset for rotund wolf-boys?

On top of all this, the top 2 Billboard Hot 100 singles were

Believe, by Cher

and No Scrubs, by TLC

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1999 was the year that the following songs were all released:

1. Mambo No. 5
2. All Star
3. Smooth
4. Nookie
5. Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen)
6. Steal My Sunshine
7. Thong Song
8. All the Small Things
9. Livin' The Vida Loca
10. My Name is

I grew up being told that mambo and disco and new wave were corny music, but this was the same era that brought us fucking nu metal. I would 10000% rather listen to campy dance music than that shit

Perez Prado, the god that gifted us the riff from "Mambo No. 5" is genuinely good, tho, and you should listen to him. He does that little yell a lot.

@melissasage Marx's Capital, one sentence at a time.

Might have to divide it up into each clause at a time, since those sentences can get pretty long, tho

Linda coming in with a strong contender for Tweet of the Decade just under the wire

(uspol in image)

on sex education timing, unnecessary cancer scares 

In my fifth grade class, a few kids were worried they'd developed breast cancer. There were informative ads on TV at the time describing hard lumps in one breast which do not move freely. They'd scoured the library. The working theory was that the drainage field behind our school held toxic effluent.

This was, of course, normal early breast tissue development.

Selectively hiding information from children about their own bodies is cruel.

That extra t is there just to remind you of Scarlett O'Hara. Her parents knew her character from birth.

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half the people memeing on mambo no 5 weren't even alive when that song was released

Oh. I almost forgot. The fucking extra t's in her first name. Fuck that shit. That's the whitest thing I've ever seen.

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the people ask me "Melissa, you haven't posted a selfie in weeks, are you still hot??" and I would like to assure you that yes, I am

selfie no ec :BoostOK: #finefemmefriday

I don't know how many n's and/or s's are in Scartlet Johasnaahg's name, and I don't care to.

Every time I have to write that name, I resist the temptation to look it up and be correct.

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