Recently growing pet peeve: People sharing a screenshot of some social network twoot. A few pixels of irrelevant avatar, a name and a short message.

The part that annoys me is that it's encoded as a JPEG or PNG and instead of using 200 bytes for the message and name it uses 1024 times that for the image.

Instead of repeating it in the alt text to make it accessible, just frigging omit the screenshot. Paste the fucking text. It's what quotation marks are for.

Nobody with a dialup modem would've ever thought this was anything but pure mindboggling insanity.

Bothers the shit out of me and I refuse to boost any such, no matter the message.

#PetPeeve #Screenshot #Rant #Insanity

"Though the moon had not yet set, the sky in the east was stained with light...."

What is that "though" doing there? These two states are not inherently contradictory! Either the moon is at a phase where it normally sets at or after dawn OR it isn't, and the moon shouldn't be up at first light, and this very mainstream litfic novel is about to turn magic realism on me. And I'm pretty sure THE ESSEX SERPENT isn't about to do that on page 355.

FAIL!

#BadMoon #MoonFail #pedantry #PetPeeve

Small Pet Peeve rant

It's Iran, not Eye-Ran.  

Why is that so hard!? 2 syllables.

Do they say Eye-taly? mumble.. mumble.. grumble..

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Pet peeve: Wrong language settings in #Mastodon posts, so I can't just click "Translate" 😬

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I still think it should be "body autonomy" instead of "bodily autonomy". It's being used as an adjective, not an adverb.

#PetPeeve #MyUnpopularOpinion

No, they didn't disappear INTO another dimension, TV sci fi writers. They disappeared ALONG one.

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