Typically I embrace change; things aren't bad just because they're new or different. That being said, I don't care for the new theme in #mastodon43.

In advanced mode it's just lines, as if they implemented a wireframe's wires only. Visually noisy and hard to parse, with no shading to help indicate visual hierarchy.

Notifications are posts in a box in a column with shared borders next to other columns without shared borders. It's a mess.

We ordered food using DoorDash last night, and discovered they've added generative #ai descriptions to menu items to "help" the restaurants.

My wife almost didn't order a side of Mexican rice she wanted because it had confabulated a description of rice and beans. (The rice did not, in fact, come with beans)

This place has a metalwork shelf with sharp corners mounted directly above an electrical outlet you have to lean over to reach. I've now clocked myself in the temple TWICE plugging or unplugging something.

At least the shelf is stocked with medicine...

Last night, a bag of Fritos was left out on the kitchen counter. This morning I awoke to discover the bag had been slashed open as if by claws, and chips lay scattered about the crime scene.

Most people know him as Isaac, but by night he becomes... The Frito Bandito