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• Post #3042081

  Weird: @ivory has been setting my post visibility to “followers only” by default. It’s not a bad default, but I’d prefer my default to be “public” for the first post in a thread and “unlisted” from then on. Sent email; will report back.

• Post #3042080

  Whoa, remember when people would send silly email to president@whitehouse.gov as if it’d be handled with humour or proportionality?

• Post #3042079

  (wheezing)

• Post #3042078

  “This is a powerful argument against the containerisation of shipping.” — @stilgherrian, “The 9pm Capybara of Hope with David F Porteous” (2026)

• Post #3042077

  “Horses weren’t retired out of malice. They became uneconomical to keep. There is no economic law preventing the same happening to humans.” https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory

• Post #3042076

  I’d ask how many of you have “enshittification” muted, but…

• Post #3042075

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116675565029199560 New tic: BECAUSE INCENTIVES

• Post #2584908

  I think I’m getting allergic to grift. Thirst traps, click bait, thumbnail face, weird flexes, reaction shots… there’s a weird greasy feel to it all, like too much codeine.

• Post #2584907

  “This isn’t an accident. This is…” not as well schemed as it seems in hindsight, I reckon? We don’t need a conspiracy to explain it: incentives are enough. We’re livestock to them, sure, got it; how are we going to get out of this pen?

• Post #2584906

  “The Aristocrats”, only the punchline is “shareholder value!”

• Post #2584905

  FFS one of my Mastodon clients quietly tossed replies I tried to post from a more relevant account

• Post #2584903

  @ai6yr was it you with the HOA strife recently?

• Post #2584902

  Goal: screen print T shirt for joke before context flushed to the Lethe. Quality goal: bootleg Bauhaus T-shirt, Melbourne, 1990. UV transfer with a resin printer LCD sounds quick and fun but I can’t find an off-the-shelf design and I’d never finish home-brewing one. Cricut® shite is too stiff on shirts; any of you tried ironing it on screen film?