Amanda Unvarnished

The EARN IT Act is back and it is still bad and it wants to scan all of our messages: https://act.eff.org/action/the-earn-it-act-is-back-seeking-to-scan-us-all

—@evacide

hi friends

it’s so easy to think we’re not good enough, that we failed, that we haven’t accomplished all we set out to

but we are always our own worst critics, and are so often unkind to ourselves

don’t listen to the doubt

you’re amazing and I love you 💜

—@tillybridges

I’m thinking maybe I’ve seized the wrong day.

—@qurlyjoe

Server: Any questions about the menu?

Date: I don’t think so, I’ll hav—

Me: *disgusted* Yeah who chose the font?

—@Kickpedal

My favorite exercise is a cross between a lunge and a crunch. I call it lunch.

—@Wilbur72

people: we are really struggling to find places to live where we don’t have to pay 3 job’s worth of income just to be there

tech companies: we hear you. how about we invent software that takes something a lot of people love, namely writing, and sucks all the joy out of it forever? will that help?

—@walruslifestyle

I’ll have a blog entry about it soon, but before then, you get to hear about it first: A full transfer of the USC Cinema sound effects library, which includes the work of Sunset Editorial and their hundreds of sound effects.

You can browse the collection here:

https://archive.org/details/usc-sound-effect-archive

—@textfiles

@rolle I am part of the generation that knew Jabber, that was happy to see Google embrace the Jabber/XMPP protocol: anyone with a gmail address had an XMPP instant messaging account interoperable with all other servers.

And one day gmail closed to other servers. Most users, already on Google, then asked others to create a gmail account to continue communicating.

I don’t want to go through that again. “Embrace, extend, and extinguish”, again.

—@lebout2canap

Bottoms without pockets shouldn’t be allowed to exist.

—@aurooba