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'In dark times, should the stars also go out?' // queer socialist // pfp @wreckstate on twitter
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hmm I think I'll probably migrate over to treehouse today

NEPHEW: Does life get easier when you're older?

ME: [eating "ranch blasted" taco shells directly from the box because they are basically giant corn chips] Life doesn't get easier but you learn to adapt

hey. as a fat guy. do y'all mind not making shitty comments about the bastard's weight? for like three fucking seconds? fat people deserve more than to be the butt of your jokes about objectively awful people that already have incredibly memeable traits. get better material.
“In a groundbreaking development, Arizonans can now apply for worker's compensation if they contract #COVID19 while on the job.” https://www.kvoa.com/news/arizona/arizonans-can-now-receive-workers-comp-benefits-for-getting-covid-19-on-the-job/article_cc0e6292-5a63-11ee-af78-e74d184ce501.html

"Ladies! Are YOU looking for a good outfit for the office? Do YOU need to look professional and feminine?

Well look no further, because we at [EVERY FUCKING STORE YOU CAN FIND] have a MINISCULE collection of UGLY, UNFLATTERING blazers made of CHEAP, FLIMSY material in a DEEPLY LIMITED range of sizes!"

@parismarx Fun fact about a certain TLD:

“With the fall of Kabul the .af domain again came under the control of the Taliban. ICANN said it ‘defers decision making to within the country’.”

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/afghanistan-taliban-internet

The battle for control of Afghanistan’s internet

The Taliban has yet to decide what to do with the internet in Afghanistan. The same is true for the global companies that underpin it

WIRED UK

@parismarx I wish they told the whole story about the .io domain. It is uninhabited because the native islanders were evicted by force: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagos_Archipelago

As a result, the profits on .io go to the UK government, not a small island nation.

The islanders were expelled to allow the US and UK governments to build a joint military base on Diego Garcia.

Chagos Archipelago - Wikipedia

I didn’t realize how valuable domains can be to small countries. Anguilla, which owns .ai, gets a third of its government’s monthly budget from domain sales. Tuvalu, which owns .tv, could make $10 million a year from the domain, allowing it to pave its roads and expand electricity access.

https://restofworld.org/2023/whats-in-a-domain-name/

What’s in a domain name?

From .ai to .vc, inside the weird and lucrative marketplace of website addresses.

Rest of World
@admin wanted to check when y'all are going to upgrade to 4.2?

I just remembered the time when typing a capital letter 'O' in Telegram would crash it because I owned an NZXT watercooler.

https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/4259

Telegram crashes when typing a capital letter O into any chat. ¡ Issue #4259 ¡ telegramdesktop/tdesktop

Steps to reproduce Type a capital letter O in any message. Telegram crashes. This is reproducible on my desktop. The first instance of it showed up on 2017-12-11. Cannot reproduce on another system...

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