Month: 12 Iyyar 5783 (May 2023)

When an inconvenient fact undermines the powerful, it’s dismissed as a “left-wing” talking point.

Until the fact becomes harder to deny.

After years of mostly shrugging it off, the mainstream media is acknowledging that corporate greed is a major force driving inflation.

—@rbreich

@film_girl @anildash While I don’t want to argue with you about your definition of fun, I would say that calling Bluesky objectively more fun is going a bit too far. When you’re blind like me and Bluesky hasn’t made the effort to consider how its interface makes every single thing I do unnecessarily hard by not taking accessibility into account in its initial design phase, it’s hard to say that Bluesky is fun.

—@ppatel

How can we have killed the headphone jack while the real killer, PDFs you must sign with adobe acrobat, walks free? Justice is dead.

—@briannawu

welcome to the #crypto industry, where the bar is on the floor

—@molly0xfff

This is Jax. He loves a car ride. That is all.
#DogsOfMastodon

—@fraying

The power of decentralised servers strikes. Yesterday I wrote to the server owner of my music instance to see if he would up the limit from 500 to 1000. He said ‘nope, but I’ll up it to 2000 instead.’ Within a few hours, my one-man wishlist had been fulfilled, just like that. I didn’t expect such an almost immediate response, or even to have my message seen at all because people have lives and I’m just one person, but it happened. I guess therefore all I have to do is say ‘Thanks @steve, you rock.’ This post is already over the 500 char limit and yes, it’s not on the instance I’m talking about, but that doesn’t matter. I’m just making a point. Server admins, you have my respect. Well, the good ones anyway haha

—@FreakyFwoof