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There’s a madness to my method. 🥸

The Good News: I remember (!) someone told me to remember something.

The Bad News: I do not remember the thing I was supposed to remember. 🫤

Seems only fair I get half credit.

#ADHD #AuDHD #ADHDLife #Dory #JustKeepSwimming

Sold for $6.24M! You have successfully purchased… checks notes… permission to tape a banana to your wall! 🍌

Fine Print: Banana and tape not included.

“Sun purchased a certificate of authenticity that gives him the authority to duct-tape a banana to a wall and call it Comedian.” 🙄

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/21/nx-s1-5199568/a-duct-taped-banana-sells-for-6-2-million-at-an-art-auction

#IDontGetIt #DuctTapedBanana #TooMuchMoney #NotEnoughSense

See this is why I never read the Terms of Service.

“3.6.3 […] You therefore, grant us […] a non-exclusive, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, and sub-licensable licence to access, host, cache, store, transmit, reproduce, distribute and modify (only in relation to formatting if necessary), duplicate, adapt, translate and, create derivative works of, the User Content.“

It this typical? I hate it. Now I have to find another notes app. [Love Obsidian. Doesn’t allow handwritten notes.]

#GoodNotes #TOS #WhyIsEverythingCaca

Apple censors the word “idiot”? ¿Por qué?

I was trying to determine what the male version of “Qué idiota” is. “Qué idioto” sounds odd to me. Is it correct?

[Edit: Answer in comments! Thank you! 😊]

#Apple #Translation #Idiot #Español #Spanish #LostInTranslation

Looking for a water filter to remove microplastics. One of the top recommendations is for a plastic pitcher with a plastic filter.
#MicroPlastics #AllPlasticAllTheTime #LeSigh

Time for some remedial sexism training at Palo Alto.

“Woman NOT furniture. Woman human. HUMAN.”

#WhoThoughtThisWasAGoodIdea #Shame #PaloAlto
https://masto.deoan.org/@neurovagrant/112961172272448171

Ian Campbell (@[email protected])

i was sitting at the Franklin bar w/ colleagues watching as Palo Alto rolled this out. We were all looking at each other incredulously, asking things like "Is it 2009 again? Who the hell greenlit women in skin-tight black dresses with lampshades on their heads?" https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/14/palo_alto_networks_execs_apologize/

masto.deoan.org

I like it. Very fancy pantsy. The author byline links directly to their fedi account.

(Post with info: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/highlighting-journalism-on-mastodon/ )

#Ivory #Mastodon

Highlighting journalism on Mastodon

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“Today will be 21° warmer than yesterday.” #Weather #ThisIsFine
Why do they put pet treats in the loudest bag known to mankind? #conspiracy
400 toots to catch up on?! Do you people ever put down the internets?