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• Post #4443999

  I regret to inform everyone that my copy of QBittorrent escaped its sandbox last night and downloaded a whole bunch of content owned by major corporations, and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment and added those unfortunately-downloaded media files to its various libraries. I'm conducting an internal investigation to figure out how this happened, which will involve consuming these media files until the answers become apparent. Thank you for your cooperation during this trying time.

• Post #4307841

  The number of people who believe that, because a *mythological magical* creature possesses some aspect of a natural one, it follows that they must possess all aspects of that natural creature, is staggering. So, a follow-up poll to my previous mermaid one: Does Pegasus lay eggs or give live birth? #poll #BoostsEnforcedByExplosion

• Post #4217475

  I'm going to regret this, but if I were contemplating putting Linux Mint on my main computer, why would I want to decide on a BSD instead? #Linux #BSD

• Post #4095916

  Vital question of our age: We're not going to argue about whether mermaids fuck, but we are going to argue about whether they give birth to live babies or lay eggs. #poll #BoostsMandatory

• Post #4078747

  Once again I am begging for a fedi app which will let me hit a "I've seen this, please don't show it to me again after every single person I follow boosts it over the course of the next few days" button. I don't want to mute or block, I might even enjoy having seen it, but I don't need to see it seven thousand more times.

• Post #4053922

  Every online ad ever: Me, wearing a black shirt, facing left: I'm about to do something extremely stupid! Me again, wearing a teal shirt, facing right: Hey kids, you know who else did extremely stupid things? That's right! Jesus! Me, wearing a black shirt, facing left: Wow. My life has been changed forev... Google Play Store: DOWNLOAD [INSERT DODGY APP HERE] NOW OR ELSE!

• Post #3892252

  I'm not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a sheep in sheep's clothing. All the other sheep are nudists.

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• Post #3682141

  No, sorry, I will not be using "compute" as a noun. "Computation" exists and isn't a techbro weasel word. I'm not judging you if you use it, nor am I saying that it's not good English. I'm not being prescriptive. I fully expect the noun "compute" to be Webster's word of the year next year and that's fine. I won't be using it. Sorry.

• Post #3652569

  Fireflies are actually beetles. This has been your irregularly-scheduled firefly fact.

• Post #3629234

  Daft Punk keeps a file folder full of unfinished songs. That folder is labeled "Draft Punk."

• Post #3547983

  People genuinely don't know how thermostats work. My mother-in-law is convinced that turning the thermostat down makes it get colder faster. As if thermostats store some Platonic ideal of coldness which they let out in percentages based on how low you turn them down. I have given up trying to explain that that's not how they work, and in exchange the air conditioner is operating at whatever the Platonic ideal of coldness believes is 70°F.

• Post #3480630

  Anything you allow them to do to criminals, they will eventually do to you. I get that that's not a poem that well-meaning liberals can stand behind, but it's true. If you let them mistreat criminals, guess what, you're only a breath away from being a criminal. That's why, even if you don't have a moral objection to state-sponsored murder, you should have a practical one: if you let the state murder criminals, they'll try to murder you at some point. And I get that whi...

• Post #2568978

  Take me down to Paradise City Where the grass is green And the girls are jockin' Mike D to my dismay

• Post #2435659

  "There aren't any better alternatives to capitalism. History has tried them all..." I'm begging people to read some actual history.

• Post #2420450

  We Didn't Shart the Fire

• Post #2086489

  Speaking to white people and white people only, you benefit from systems of racism which you will never dismantle. You will always be racist. Act against that. Don't waste your time trying to undo your own past racism; be proactive and undo your future racism. Fight the system with the targets of it rather than trying to absolve yourself by removing yourself from it. What do I mean? You can't go back in time and give away your privilege. Instead, use whatever privilege you have...

• Post #1975254

  Jazz enthusiasts calling Star Wars fans "nerds" is pretty rich.

• Post #1952297

  "LLMs aren't going away" is no excuse to tolerate their use.

• Post #1866912

  I have an organizational system. I forget where I put it, but it's around here somewhere.

• Post #1765336

  To be or not to be? You know, that really is the big question, right: whether one should think that it's better to go along getting fucked by life or whether the best way to fight back against life, outrageous as it is, is to end it? That's... Heavy. Death. We don't like thinking about death, but really, is it anything more than going to sleep? A really good sleep, right? Ending all the pain, the suffering? Because life, as the Buddha says, is suffering. Hell, getting p...

• Post #1628613

  "Ignominious" is too good a word for what it means.

• Post #1609197

  Do I know anyone who has books available to purchase on Google Play who could use a sale?

• Post #1512445

  #ThrowbackThursday to a number of years ago when Bossy Boots was still debating whether or not to join us in the house. Spoiler alert: she is now an indoor cat. #Bloomscrolling #cat #cats #catstodon #fedicats

• Post #1468991

  If bad science fiction has taught me anything, it's that now, on the return trip, when everything seems just fine, Artemis will experience either an alien takeover which they'll have to defeat through human ingenuity and/or love; or a meteor storm which they'll have to take evasive maneuvers around by leaning in unison. Have we prepared them for this?

• Post #1376154

  Owner of a Bologna Heart

• Post #1244769

  I'm not going to argue, but if you go around talking about how Catholics have to obey the Pope, you clearly: 1) are not Catholic 2) don't know many Catholics 3) aren't even a mediocre student of Catholic history Like half of Catholicism is stuff Catholics believe in direct defiance of dogma. Hell, the Pope couldn't speak infallibly on matters of dogma until almost the Twentieth Century, and there are still a lot of people who have issues with that. Obey the Pope...

• Post #1105312

  I've made a certain amount of hay over the fact that you can sing Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Emily Dickinson (indeed, many of her poems) to the tune of The Yellow Rose of Texas, and it's a delightful way to sing it, but I have been remiss in not mentioning more strongly the amazing fact that you can sing Because I Could Not Stop For Death to the tune of The House of the Rising Sun. Just imagine, in your mental jukebox, The Animals, wailing away, singing Emily Dickinso...

• Post #1007501

  Seems like a good day to remember that, no matter what happens in the UK, there's always at least one unisex bathroom open.

• Post #952845

  Historically, Hitler had to shoot himself. Take that any way you like. #subtoot