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Lost in the mass sterilization and boringification of macOS UI design was the incredible diversity and uniqueness that user-created themes brought us. Is it really better for humanity that every window has clean, antiseptic lines decided on by a handful of folks at Apple Park?

To summarize: we used to be a proper society!!!

(Shout out to @girlie_mac. Via: @osxthemes)

Before the internet kittens had to call everyone individually to explain how small and cute they were. Ca. 1920 - 1935. collection.powerhouse.com.au/o

gotta stay ahead of the curve. gonna become the world's first 7g consultant

Page 339 - How did you find out?

Remember how I said last page that it was longer than usual? Well this one's *even* longer lmao

Kind of girl who boasts additional undocumented features

I know almost nothing about bikes, so by 'fix my gear setting' I mean adjusting the tension in the wire between the gear control on the handlebar and the gears so the steps on the controls match up with the gears

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I love my bicycle repair guy. He showed me how to fix my gear setting and said he isn't charging me for something that small

JK Rowling just donated £70k to some anti-trans legal case. I still have £61k in outstanding legal bills for my case seeking legal recognition of nonbinary gender in the UK.

I do not have the energy to continuously fundraise for this, and the all of professional I've approached for fundraising help won't work with individuals. If anyone knows someone...

Here's the link again.

If anyone wants to make a large (more than a couple thousand) donation, please contact me directly, those have to be handled directly and then reported to Crowdjustice so they can list.

crowdjustice.com/case/non-bina

You're trying something new and difficult with some program or other, and you watch a very helpful YouTube video explaining it all, only to find the video is 6 months old, the UI has changed unrecognizably since, and you still have no idea what's going on.

Thanks, endless useful churn that promotes product managers.

Technology doesn't have to be a black box you can't repair.

My dad's stereo amplifier comes with a detailed paper schematic, showing you in detail what every part is and how they fit together.

Sealed, unrepairable technology is a choice manufacturers have made.

We're ending up with new generations thinking that "spend not mend" is the only way, because they've never been exposed to anything else.

Look, I don’t want to sit around and be snarky while very tired people run around trying to clean up, but I do hope that next time we don’t delude ourselves into thinking that combating spam isn’t a hard social (as opposed to technical!) problem
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Nobody really want to admit it but the reason this platform hasn’t had to deal with spam is not because it was designed on top of a genius-level federated protocol and only populated by nice people but because nothing here was worth targeting with abuse

OH: "We are very sorry about the convenience caused by this delay"

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