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"I think we’ll be cushioned by amazing technological development and sitting on Salvation Army furniture. Everything else will be crumbling. Government surveillance becomes inevitable because there’s this dilemma when you have an increase in information storage. A lot of it is for your convenience – but as more information gets on file it’s bound to be misused." ~ David Byrne in 1979

Pokemon!

Bowser is daddy

Trolls are just Koopalings

@melissasage It's Iggy, it's always been Iggy. As a small child, I fell in love with this beautiful lizard with a magic wand.

@melissasage Which bleeds into the problems with CSS and Javascript, and how we have these painful JS frameworks that allow you to build websites in code even if it's clumsy and uses tons of memory and introduces exploits that don't need to be there

@melissasage I feel like a lot of problems with HTML are due to the wrong kind of nerd looking at it and going, "Why can't I program with this??" because they don't know what markup is for or design is

I used to know a white drummer who insisted rap wasn't REAL music, because all it had was lyrics and a beat.

Imagine being so racist that you're a drummer who hates percussion and considers it unmusical.

Remember when everyone forgot what lofi or garage meant, and were dogging Julian Casablancas for not being a good singer

The chorus just ruins that song, it's so bad and they lean into it so hard

"Freak of the Week" is a trashy 90s pop song, but "He says it's all about culture and art, but the truth of it is that it rips me apart" is a really good line.

Spotify recs: Here are some artists you don't like. We need to really push 'em this week, so we don't care if they fit with the other stuff you listen to or not

Last.fm: Here are artists you don't like. We're basing your preferences on what you listened to 10 years ago, their crappy imitators, and what we can dig up on Youtube

Clippy is comrade