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xe picked this handle aged 16 and is disappointed in xirself for not being able to drop it for something that would now suit xir

one of the best things about the hundred was the consistent visual language. the Moval Invincibles' goldleaf sideseams and numbers are hideous

The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds. Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.

Adam Conover@adamconover.net · 4mo ago

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

The failure of RSS to hit the mainstream lead to: - The death of the blogosphere - The death of personal websites in general - The rise of social media as primary news sources - The oversized role that content curation algorithms now play in our lives - Chronological View RIP

I really do think we need to pull back a whole load of conversations to 'human rights are inviolable and valuable and important, and they're for every fucking human' and that's so fucking depressing.

Labour promises fuck all and delivers even less. They Choose not to improve things for their own purposes and you desperately want to believe they are trying their very best all the while they also actively do terrible things re: immigration, trans rights, climate, ai

There should be more books, movies and TV shows featuring new friendships in adulthood. Most you see are people thrown together because of ridiculous circumstances. I want to watch regular middle aged women finding their tribes.