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PNW critter whomst makes music, comics, and bad decisions. Squishy and soft. Contains chemicals; handle with care. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://plush.city/@fluffy, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

Modern remake of Back to the Future where Marty travels back to the olden days of 1996, when people were still optimistic about this whole “Internet” thing

I always find it funny when companies advertise themselves as having "a combined 50 years of experience" as if experience stacks up that way. Like, any given McDonald's shift will have at least 50 years combined experience in the culinary arts.

I've been told that my band name "Sockpuppet" has very bad SEO and that apparently is to blame for people not finding my music, as if people would normally be searching for my music by band name without having heard about me to begin with. This feels like a weird take to me.

wild seeing people posting to a thread about theoretical meth cooking on the Breaking Bad subreddit in such a way that sounds like they *want* to be on a DEA watchlist

The random plaintext summary on spam messages gets pretty weird sometimes. (This was yet another “I hacked your computer, ooo scary, send me bitcoin” scam message.)

fluffy 6:38 AM
Delivery Status Notification
the ceiling above you is breathing out.
the dark in your room is not feeling.

Just spent 16 minutes of my finite life watching a woodturning video where they were "woodturning" wine bottles and making something without explaining what it was, and I expected the reveal at the end would be either very silly or very annoying, and to my surprise, it was both.

It is so funny to me that so many YouTubers will say profanities and problematic phrases out loud, but then will put "algospeak" and other censoring into their burned-in image-based captions. Like, there is absolutely ZERO evidence that YouTube does frame-by-frame OCR or any sort of bulk visual […]

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so, Hank Green has admitted to using ChatGPT for doing research and writing notes, and I also had a bit of suspicion that the various apps "he" "developed" are also written by AI, and just now I decided to actually look at the website for his big one (Focus Friend), and I can't help but notice […]

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Tonight's silly activity: connecting to @zorinlynx's old MUCK while hanging out in VRChat with Zorin and a couple of other furries who also connected to the MUCK while we chat with each other simultaneously on the MUCK and in VRChat

a bit of recurring "how to grow your audience" advice I keep seeing is that the age of the album is over and that all music should be released as singles instead. What do y'all think? I definitely prefer albums as a listener, and also as a unit of musical storytelling.

Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice what could be just as easily explained by stupidity Harlon's Razor: Never assume that the slightest similarity between two stories is anything other than massive overt plagiarism

For months I’ve had an incredibly persistent accounts receivable scammer trying to convince my “accounting department” that I owe thousands of dollars to some sort of corporate training seminar. I wonder how much money they get this way, because I’m sure that they occasionally hit a target that […]

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