The Magician ⎇ @petrichoran@computerfairi.es

one of the things I find most frustrating about creativity on the modern internet isn't just the many, often arbitrary, limitations enforced by corporations, but people's willingness or even eagerness to surrender to them

from "seggs" and "unalive" to nudity bans to filtering out queer keywords to llms telling you off for asking about things that are totally normal in fiction, huge swathes of the global human experience and imagination are roadblocked off by random people in far-away offices

"you shouldn't feel bad about not doing anything all day, capitalism is a human construct!!! 😊😊😊💜💜💜" i don't feel bad because i'm not productive in the capitalist sense. i feel bad because i've done nothing but scroll social media all day. being productive for the self regardless of capitalism is mental health too. fuck your toxic positivity

translucent trans floppies

a reminder that Mastodon is pulling in $24,480/month via Patreon alone, and they apparently have "insufficient resources" to pay a bug bounty on last week's massive security hole

Buffy: "The hardest thing to do in this world is to live in it"

Everyone watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Err.. no, the hardest thing to do in your world is to not get killed or impregnated by a demon 🤣

* If you're angry at Mozilla for their ill-advised commercial experiments, try the ESR version of Firefox.

* If you're angry at Mozilla for making bad privacy choices, try LibreWolf.

* If you're still angry at Mozilla for deprecating plug-ins & RSS support, try Pale Moon.

* If you're angry at Mozilla because Bryan Lunduke said mean things about them, then as someone whose previous project was torn apart after one of his videos called it a "woke fork", I kindly invite you to go fuck yourself.

not a human

Me as a young adult: PIRACY RRRRRR! MWUAHAHA FUCK YOU COMPANIES

Me now: After multiple decades in this digital hellscape I have accepted that piracy is the only true measure to media preservation

retro web revival is going to become such a niche that once people start funding it we'll see a renaissance of the dot com bubble

a PSA for non-fiber arts friends: crochet physically cannot be made by a machine. its literally impossible. no machine exists. so be weary if you go to a big box store and see a granny square sweater or something. someones labor is likely being blatantly exploited.