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it's really impressive how jjba looks like if Tom of Finland made anime

@melissasage An oulipo-like instance where subsequent posts from the entire pool of users further reduce the number of allowed characters.

Example: User1 makes a post and can use all characters except for e. User 2 makes a post and can use all characters except e and £. User1 posts again, and can use all characters except e, £, and 8.

Once enough posts have been made to exhaust the entire character set, it loops back around to allowing all characters again.

@melissasage an app for your phone that you link to your account but then there's just a big button that says Awoo. When you tap it, it posts awoo

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only the latest person to make an account is the admin

what if facebook-style uniformity and minimalism had never taken over web design. what if all the boomers had joined myspace

the Staten Island Ferry is where racists who can't figure out how to use Twitter go to yell their racism at strangers

@melissasage You can only sign up for an account if you have a pre-existing Google, Facebook, or Github account. You can't choose your own username -- it will be the same as whatever the pre-existing account name is. The avatar will be the pre-existing account's current avatar. It is impossible to update either one after you sign up

fediverse bad idea hackathon. everyone engineer a truly godawful addition to the fediverse experience

@melissasage When you try to create a new toot or reply, you automatically unload whatever was in your clipboard at the moment into the textbox

@melissasage All posts stored and displayed as 5 second long, autoplaying video files with no pause controls. Once the video ends, the post goes blank and you have to replay it to continue reading.

Stack Overflow logic 

Q: How do I screw in a light bulb?

A1: Why do you want to do that? It would be so much quicker to use a torch. It you have a wind-up one you don't even have to buy batteries!

A2: I can't believe you don't know how to do that. You're such a noob.

A3: Have you considered just living in darkness? It's more possible than you think ;)

A4: I wrote a blog post about this four years ago. Check it out: link-that-does-not-work .com

A5: This is duplicate thread. Closing

:dopeswim: Did you know?

:dopefish: The Netscape Fishcam was the second public #webcam on the web. It went online in 1994 and it let you watch the Netscape office aquarium via a secret shortcut in Netscape Navigator by holding CTRL+ALT+F. I was a fan!

The camera survived the closure of Netscape and it's still online today as The Amazing Fishcam.

:dopeburp: Go on and take a look!

fishcam.com/

#retrocomputing

Carl Quacks was Carl Barks' negadimensional persona. He drew wealthy dog anthros who presided over a town full of talking ducks.

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Carl Barks was his name, and he was the first furry.

@melissasage The ~*~insanely~*~ great story of the Mac:

Jef Raskin starts work on it. Steve Jobs works on the Lisa, another Apple computer line. Steve names the Lisa after his daugher. Steve denies paternity of the non-computer Lisa. Steve gets kicked out of the computer Lisa project. Non-computer Lisa's mom fights Steve in court, because she is impoverished. Steve starts working on Jef's project, designing the Mac to be a less pricey version of the computer version of Lisa.

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