Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a crow it came up that she has never been sat on by a cat. Like, not even once during childhood.

Another colleague admitted they also have never been sat on by a cat.

My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on by a cat.

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Have you ever been sat on by a cat?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.

lolsob. Developer attempts to replicate liquid glass in CSS and in the process accidentally discovers a novel and rather serious browser vulnerability

https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/12/svg-clickjacking/

"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"

( via @citrusui )

i don't think comparing website size to the apollo guidance computer program memory size is fair or meaningful

the AGC was doing trajectory calculations (something that is quite easy to build a computer for).

the website is putting raster images on a high-resolution screen (something that is significantly harder to build a computer for, and also not a concern whatsoever for people going to the moon in the 70s).

I was thinking how kooky the Compact Disc logo is if you really look at it closely, so I’m making an entire typeface inspired by it. As you do…

#Retro #Typeface #GraphicDesign #Typography #WIPWednesday #Glyphs

My stance on the current trend of using The Lesser Key of Solomon at work and in one's personal life:

1. There's no evidence these evil spirits really are the 72 princes mentioned in The Lesser Key (and their innumerable minions). They only started telling us their "names" after someone incorporated the text of Ars Goetia in a (poorly-worded) binding ritual.

2. There's also no evidence that anyone's binding rituals actually work. It's always the same thing: Belial is asked to clean someone's house but burns it down instead and then everyone blames the binding ritual, summoning circle, wand, chalice, etc.

3. While most wizards report that making dark pacts with imps improves their spell-casting ability there are plenty of other familiars that are safer and more trustworthy.

4. There's a trend of reassuring people about this by asking spirits like Asmodeus the Prince of Lies if they are being truthful. This feels naive at best and actively malicious at worst.

5. It's not clear to me that risking your immortal soul to make your boss a bit richer is a good idea, to say nothing of risking your immortal soul to do a better job keeping up with email.

6. Just because everyone else has already torn innumerable holes in reality and brought forth legions of demons into our universe does not change my own feelings about it, though it certainly motivates a heightened level of interest in exorcisms and abjuration magic.