FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

“the side fell off” catching up on recent alaska airlines flights on tiktok

haven’t told anyone to “just fucking google it” in a while

i haven’t suddenly become a better person, it’s just google doesn’t really work any more

this is a distribution map of honeybees, I find the fuck-no hole in the middle hilarious

I've appropriately adjusted my expectations for this sushi restaurant.

properly defined guides and standards like these are why not only floss but any graphic-design-is-my-passion "material" "design" UI will never beat windows 95

(h/t https://www.tumblr.com/weaselsblaugh/738714942422859777 for more dissertation about it)

It's incredible how much space is given to a few people in motor vehicles vs so many more people on foot or wheels. It's a vast inequity.

Nowhere is this more stark than #ShibuyaCrossing; the world's busiest pedestrian crossing with as many as 3,000 people crossing at a time. Compared to around 12 cars fromone direction of the junction in one sequence. #Urbanism #CitiesForPeople

‪have you tried making up a girl to experience joy vicariously through? have you tried making up a girl who reminds yourself so strongly of who you want to be that you can't help but follow in her footsteps?‬

have you tried making up a guy to be joyful at?

A lot has been said about Steamboat Willie entering the public domain in 2024. But also, 2024 is the year "The House at Pooh Corner" by A.A. Milne enters public domain, which is the book introducing the character Tigger.

there's something to be said for learning a new language. even one from a relatively similar culture to your own can be enlightening. for example, before learning swedish, i did not realise that “rule of law” is an anglo-american concept. it's not so commonly used in swedish.

Huge yikes.

Kagi is now partnering with Brave to power its search results — and they seem to be dismissing their users’ concerns regarding this partnership with a company that’s notorious for being led by a proud anti gay rights supporter.

Just as I’ve consistently advised against using Brave’s products, I now advise against using Kagi as long as it contributes to a homophobic business.

There can be no neutral politics when it comes to people’s rights and lives.

https://kagifeedback.org/d/2808-reconsider-your-partnership-with-brave

one of the annoying things about being a person who occasionally writes speculative fiction is that sometimes you'll have a momentary misunderstanding or incorrect thought and instead of just going "heh, that was weird and wrong" and going about your day, you'll stop and spend an hour thinking about BUT WHAT IF IT WAS SO? HOW WOULD THIS CHANGE SOCIETY? WHAT ARE THE RAMIFICATIONS?

which is great if you're looking for story ideas, of course, but sometimes you have other stuff to do.

When my eldest was in kindergarten, they came home one day with an assignment to count something in their house.

We got a note from the teacher the next day, which I will paraphrase (because it's been 12 years): "Your child is very bright and clearly knows how to count, but you should probably explain that you don't actually have 15 computers in your house."

Our response: "Oh, you're right, Z missed a few in the basement server rack, it's actually closer to 25."

https://todon.nl/@schratze/111692939659656421

I imagine it's only a matter of time before some site like Facebook or discord adds a "feature" where they train an AI model on each of your contacts when you talk to them, so that if you ever ask them a question and they're away from the phone, it can have the AI model respond instead.

"your friend isn't here, but this is what we think they'd say:"

For your own mental health, if an app has a "streak", you should break it at least once a week as a habit.

The longer they get the more unnecessary stress it'll give you.

They use it to drive numbers and cash flow, it's absolutely not a good thing and doesn't benefit you at all.

#PSA

Felt like drawing Xenia the Linux Fox. Oh, and poking a little fun at Linux.