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Don't blindly believe everything you read online, tempting as that is. Do your homework first. This video series will help you do it well: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8d

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Remember to pop your filter bubble every so often. If you think you're not in one, you're trapped in one and in for a rude awakening.

It's taking me a month of Sundays, but I'm slow-cooking my code into something I like.

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Do not move fast and break things.

Move purposefully and fix things.

Is there a slow software movement?

as in a pledge to ship only well-tested and polished software and only do it very occasionally instead of deploying slop multiple times a day that your users will have to ingest like a king's food taster

It is completely unfair to refer to Microsoft as Microslop, because that implies a small quantity of slop.

Overwide pride flag stripes with words on them feel like the words should be scrolling side to side with '80s cracktro tunes blasting out the speaker.

...this sounded funnier in my head
also made a textless version
(feel free to use credit not necessary but appreciated)
vaguely inspired by the nonbinary "no binary? no problem" one i saw
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Some random trivia living rent-free in my head:

The Fisher Price Laugh & Learn Game & Learn Controller knows the Konami code.

Here's to all the kids who were born with non-default settings; to all you who put the effort in to figure yourselves out.

You're amazing and deserve to be celebrated.

I'm glad you're here 💝

I feel like whoever is running the phishing op to scam fediverse people out of money may not be that great at their jobs

⚠️ Scam warning: there are accounts posing as Mastodon admins claiming to offer "rewards" or "payments" or "partnerships".

These are scams. There is no reward or payment schemes on Mastodon. No genuine admin would ever send this kind of post or reply.

If you see scam posts like the ones in the screenshot below, report them by clicking ⋯ on the scam posts and then selecting "report".

#Mastodon

This video thumbnail image passed through my stream. To me, it looks like two cartoon race cars competing with each other over who can make better race car noises with their mouths.

lewd, usgov, safety recall, somehow not the onion 

U.S. Food & Drug Administration, 2026-02-25, "Lockout Supplements Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Boner Bears Chocolate Syrup Due to Undeclared Sildenafil": fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-

Sildenafil is the active ingredient in Viagra.

From the release: "This undeclared ingredient may interact with nitrates found in some prescription drugs, such as nitroglycerin, and" EXCUSE ME, WHAT

When you install KDE software on a Thinkpad, it turns into a Kinkpad

#KDE

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