Pauliephonic

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Chief Nerd Inflyte, Belfast

Billionaires are looting the world.

We're not in a recession, we're in a robbery.

#TaxTheRich

What do you do? - I edit fiction. - What does that mean? - Well, to cut a long story short. - - - - - - - - - Yes?

Just a reminder to anyone who clings to belongings, afraid to use them and break or wear them out -

I'm looking at all these stickers people gave me years ago. They're not sticky anymore. I was afraid to stick them, and now they can never be stuck. I never got to enjoy them. This applies to everything. Toys, shoes, anything. Use it and enjoy it. If it gets ruined, you got to enjoy it instead of it degrading having never been enjoyed.

Reminder: Many bsky links require a sign-in, and are, hence, useless to anyone who is not on bluesky.

I am not on bluesky. I have reasons not to be, that I won't bother rehashing for you.

If you want to share things on mastodon, you might want to consider using links that are usable by people who are on mastodon.

People are shocked to discover they need to fact-check ChatGPT and I'm having the uncomfortable realization that they never fact-checked their uncle's Facebook posts, their friend's medical advice, or literally anything Google's top result told them, and suddenly the last decade makes sense...

Found online years ago...

The entire Dune cycle is based on a terrible pun.
1. The spice is called melange.
2. The spice confers power and longevity.
3. Melange is a French word for variety.

In other words, variety is the spice of life.

Why does no one ever talk about this?

Dear restaurant owners, do not link to Facebook. Otherwise, your customers see:

- Error message: Safari cannot open the page because the address is invalid.
- A big login prompt, that cannot be dismissed.

What your customers don’t see:

- Your menu
- Your location
- Your opening hours

.door {
max-width: 90%;
float: right;
}

#memes #CSS #webdev

25 years ago I had a colleague who had grown up in the PRC. He had a forest of newspaper clippings pinned on the wall of his cubicle with stories about school boards in the US banning the teaching of evolution, discussion of sexual health, and stuff like that. When I asked him about it, he pointed and said, "Every one of those is an engineering job moving to China." I've been thinking about that a lot over the past week…