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"What’s your favorite gaseous compound? For me, it’s that sweet ozone that comes off a fresh copy or laser print job!"

unironically there's something about the fumes from certain diesel engines that i really enjoy smelling. i don't know enough about diesel engines to know if it comes from a poor combustion or what so i'm not sure how to specify
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"firstly happy birthday - secondly, do you enjoy video games loosely or strictly about golf, and what's your favorite one of those"

thank you! took me a while to reply to this ask because i was thinking about it and then i forgot about it. i haven't played a lot of golf games but i mostly like online multiplayer ones because they're really fun to play with my girlfriends who are all in different countries. vertiginous golf and golf with friends are two recent [...]
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in a moment of lovely synchronicity i rediscovered this David Byrne quote today.

"It can often seem that those in power don’t want us to enjoy making things for ourselves—they’d prefer to establish a cultural hierarchy that devalues our amateur efforts and encourages consumption rather than creation."

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every year some hotshot rockstar 10x developer reinvents iframes and PHP-CGI with javascript

getting dating site spam with subject line "Julia could really use some dick right now"

me too Julia, me too

mutual aid request, boosts appreciated 

I guess I need to do this. The math works out that for the next few years I'm simply not making enough money and I'm already dangerously close to burning out so hard I may not be able to keep my job. I'm holding on for now but I need help, plain and simple.
gofund.me/d879d330

i'm overdue to make a rewrite rule on my nginx server that serves a banner telling anyone visiting my page on a chrome useragent to switch to firefox

miscourse 

remember when we tried to call "no context" "fractalia"

i think it's funny when people who rag on others for not making their posts acessible say shit like "a11y" "k8s" "i18n" /sj

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i think it's funny when people who rag on others for not making their posts accessible enough use tone indicators /r /nge

here's an fix you can download to stop microsoft from injecting ads into google chrome's download page: getfirefox.com

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