C'est ici l'empire de la mort

According to sources nodding along to a coworker’s story about vacation home rentals, the conversation happening between strangers at the other end of the communal table at the Ocean Walk Café sounds way more interesting. “I can’t tell exactly what they’re talking about, but just listen to them—they’re having a blast down there,” said restaurant patron Daniel Beech, who was forced to endure three consecutive griping anecdotes about departmental paid-time-off policy while peals of harmonious laughter rang out from the livelier, more engaged, clearly mutually supportive group less than six feet away.

well of course but dont you want to provide your biometric data for your convenience?

she full on stared at me. she was like: but i need to put you into the system.

and i was like: need to? you NEED to? i don't want to give my email

and she was like: but...how are you going to return items without an account?

I just want to catch spelling errors and accidental double spaces and repeated phrases and whenever I use the wrong too/to or affect/effect and shit. But no. They've shoved AI up the ass of every grammar checking software out there and now they all fucking suck and make the most random, obnoxious, nonsensical suggestions.

I get why people keep saying this (and other versions of it like "Use Adobe alternatives" and "Use Google product alternatives."). But here's the problem: I do not create in isolation. Even my own 100% personal projects are getting sent to other people whether it's editors or printers or beta readers and unless every single person in that train is using the same products, things can get wonky.

Libre Office and Word handle formatting differently on the back end, which can completely break documents if you move them back and forth between the two. So if I write in Libre Office but my beta readers are still using Word, when I send them a manuscript for review there's a good chance things won't look right and my beta reader will not actually be reviewing what I sent them.

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The internet represents one of the few ways young people can escape the totalizing power their parents have over them. That these apps have been crafted to control their attention does not mean children should be banned from them, it means they should actually be regulated. If the internet is like "junk food" in their analogy, then the government needs to make the food safe to eat, not ban children from eating them.

I thought about just tagging this 'nuff said, but it's not.

I want to say something to all of the women under 50 on this site. Ready? You do not have to be over 50 to start taking up space.

It's digital ID and data snatching by force, with a side of information blocking. Put your IDs on this stuff, or else you can't use it, oh and we're gonna be tracing you all the time now and flogging your data to whoever wants it

Bans just make it more difficult and dangerous to access the same stuff, and for everyone

Parents are the ones who need the responsibility put on them to make sure little timmy is watching 10hrs of tiktok a day, or to stop using phones/tablets/tv as a form of childcare, but even then the government would find a reason to do what they are

March 30, 2026 - New Uber Eats delivery robots were sabotaged and vandalised in Sheffield, UK, with the vandals taking care to cover all of the many cameras on the robots with paint. [article]

Once upon a time, I only needed a VPN to get my freak on or browse another country’s streaming services. Now I need it to properly interact with my favourite fandoms and friends on Tumblr. Now I need it if I want to look at or ask a mental or sexual health question on Reddit. And, while I haven't encountered it myself, we've all heard about people being unable to access Steam gaming communities or watch videos on Spotify if any of it contains content 'the system' deems inappropriate. All to ‘protect the children’. Meanwhile, sexbots are allowed to carry on spamming their tits and asses all over dozens of unrelated tags, and psychotic bigots continue to harass and threaten people and communities they dislike. That's okay, but fanart isn't, talk about endometriosis isn't. Got it. Fuck your censorship, you incompetent wankers. Sincerely.