I had a crash that took down Firefox, so when I restarted it it was the newest version (an update I'd installed, but hadn't restarted after).

I just went looking through the settings pages, which is a habit I've unfortunately had to get into because #Firefox and #Mozilla keep adding new anti-user fuckery in their continuing quest to drive users away from the only product they make that anyone gives two shits about.

And lo and behold, *this* is the new fuckery I found. Enabled by default. And it reinforces the need to go *check* for this bullshit every version update.

Firefox, if you had asked me how to cut my already diminishing trust in you to do the right thing by your users to near zero, I wouldn't have even dreamed this batshittery up. It's so much worse than I would have suggested. I have *all* the crap turned off - silently adding new crap and silently defaulting it to on is 1995-era Microsoft-screwing-the-users.

You feel you need to add this shit? Fine. But show me a dialog asking me whether I want it on or not when that version first starts. Don't turn it on behind my back and HOPE I DON'T NOTICE.

#fuckery #TwoShits #batshittery #abuse #DarkPattern #user #BehindYourBack #Enabled #EnabledByDefault #permission #AskPermission #sponsored #ads #privacy #version #update #bullshit

Unraveling: A Zine

I made my first zine today because I was bored and needed a vent. If you want a copy of your own, it’s free to download over here!

I hope you enjoyed this zine! I had a lot of fun making it.

-Castor

#art #batshittery #chronicIllness #CommunityCare #deconditioning #DigitalArt #healing #hyperindependence #MadMastodon #MadStudies #mentalhealth #perfectionism #zine

This man has been found guilty of being a cute psycho.

It is making me cackle that this photo looks like a damn mug shot 🤣

-Allēna

#batshittery #Emerson #Shitpost

Coffeeshop AU

Having worked in two different Starbucks locations for the better part of a year, I can confirm that yes, coffeeshops are an alternate dimension of fuckery. Except most of the time, in my case, the fuckery in question was me.

Storytime, fuckers.

In 2016, a few months after losing my dad, I decided it was a brilliant fucking idea to start working at a Starbucks while in Maryland college because I didn’t want to go back to Texas that summer and wanted extra pocket money in the meantime.

I ended up going back to Texas anyway and working through the summer at the local Starbucks in my town there.

It was there that I met a guy who walked in one day after I started teaching myself violin like the absolute shit gremlin that I was. We’ll call him Kylo. Kylo had a ukulele on his back that my over caffeinated brainhole mistook for a violin. Kylo and I got to talking so hard that I was reprimanded by my supervisor and sent packing to clean to the very batshit bathrooms that played host to all manner of filth. Kylo went home, or so I thought. Turns out he came back inside and gave me his number on a napkin or something. I don’t fucking know. It was a long time ago.

We got to talking more after I got off of work and didn’t stop talking. We started dating awhile later.

There was just one small problem.

I was a disaster. And I was one disaster in an unacknowledged DID system that was bursting at the seams. So the relationship went about as well as you’d expect.

In other words, it ended pretty damn horribly less than a month later. Not knowing how to process any of my insurmountable grief or anything I was dealing with at the time, I turned to my good old friend songwriting, and wrote and recorded my second album A Stranger Who Listened in the span of about a week. Fun fact, I recorded it in a practice room at a university in Idaho that I call “Mormon college”. Did I end up going to Mormon college later on? You bet your sorry ass I did. Fuck that place.

I followed that thing up a few months later with my extended play Nothing Will Keep Us Together and my album North, extensions of the same attempt to process… Well… Everything.

Another time, back at Maryland college, my headmate Eight decided to be the fucking drama and run a FUCKING 5k in full equestrian gear, though. I think we have photos still.

We are insane.

-Allēna

#barista #batshittery #exMormon #Kylo #Maryland #MarylandCollege #MormonCollege #MyCreations #why

My thoughts on programming, etc..

Do I have some programming knowledge? Yes.

Could I get more? Yeah, if I wanted to and had the fucking patience, so on, and so forth.

Do I learn more when I want and need to? Absolutely.

Do I mostly just use what I have to play around and shitpost? OHHH, YEAHHH.

-Allēna

#batshittery #chaos #Programming #specialInterests #webDesign #WebDevelopment

I love that y’all can probably tell how tired we are by how accursed the content we post on here becomes.

It was like that on Facebook and Shitter I mean, Twitter, before that, and it’ll be the same now and forever. Why the fuck not?

I’m having a blast 🤣

-Allēna

#batshittery #bullshit #chronicFatigue #cursed #insomnia #shitposting

A book Emerson found, defaced with love and chaos by yours truly 💛

We hold very little sacred in this house.

-Allēna

#annotations #batshittery #chaos #Emerson #FoundBooks #shitposting

A message to anyone learning a new skill:

This doesn’t just apply to cooking.

Xavier used to always tell me before he died that you have to learn the rules to anything before you can break them. And this man was a certifiable genius across the board – brilliant cook, chaos programmer, astonishing writer, ruthless editor. I swear he did everything by his intuition, too, but only after learning the rules of a skill enough to break them.

Damn near everything I can do, I first learned to do from watching that contrarian bitch of a man do life. He was a wonderful, terrible, grumpy, hilarious, Renaissance master of multidisciplinary batshittery, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. And I had to fail my way forward first until I found a way to do things that worked for me.

And I will never stop learning about everything I can get my eternally bored hands on, learning rules, breaking them creatively, rinsing, repeating, and having a whole lot of fun while I do.

So please, experiment, fail your way forward, break new ground. This is how you learn and find ways to do things that work for you. But also learn from the masters. There’s nuance in everything. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel.

Happy learning, and stay curious!

-Allēna

#AcceptanceMatters #actuallyADHD #actuallyAuDHD #ActuallyAutistic #art #batshittery #boredom #cooking #creativity #CripplePunk #failure #father #HopePunk #hopeposting #intuition #learning #SkillAcquisition #Xavier

Thorn in Y’all’s Side

Soooo during today’s most recent round of Internet Foraging, I came across this dubious little gem…

My internal medievalist, linguist, and my internal lack of gender are all screaming. Because, fortunately or unfortunately for everyone witnessing this beautiful piece of nonsense, this glorious character

Þ

is called a thorn, and it is actually pronounced like the “th” sound in the word “that”.

So, this incredible piece of Urban Dictionary nonsense is COMPLETELY FUCKING ACCURATE. 🤣😭

And if I haven’t been a big enough thorn in y’all’s side today, now I quite literally have been.

Enjoy having THAT piece of knowledge implanted in your brains, hehehe.

Stay tuned for more magic!!

-Lazarus

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