The AWS outage today is a good reminder that there is no "cloud", there's just somebody else's computer.
20.10.2025 16:19 β π 2920 π 733 π¬ 35 π 36@metaphorraccoon.subspace.services
Josh // Seattle // Queer, Disabled & Neurodivergent Designer, developer, librarian, writer and open-source tech slut
The AWS outage today is a good reminder that there is no "cloud", there's just somebody else's computer.
20.10.2025 16:19 β π 2920 π 733 π¬ 35 π 362 skeletons, on left with veins, arteries, lymph nodes as they are in the body; on right with them being represented as straight cables like in the arranged neatly next to each other like in a server room
I finally cleaned up my messy cablework
25.09.2025 09:57 β π 5761 π 1899 π¬ 41 π 65A SKELITON LOOKS DOWN FROM HELL ON TO THERE OLD COMPUTER DISPLAYING "DA SHARE Z0NE" WEB PAGE , AND DA TEXT SAYS "I DONT WANT TO DISABLE MY AD BLOCKER, I DONT WANT TO ENTER MY EMAILL TO SEE MORE, I DONT WANT TO REACH THE END OF MY FREE ARTICLES, I WANT TO GO TO A WEB PAGE AND READ THE DAMB WEB PAGE " - THE PROMISE OF "GOING ON THE COMPUTER" HAS BECOME A PROCESS OF GETING BLASTED IN DA FACE WITH BULL SHIT WHILE YOUR TRYING TO LOOK STUFF UP, AND THEY DID IT ON PURPOSE SO THAT WE WOULDNT HAVE FUN FOR FREE, AND NOW THAT THEY RUINED ALL THE PUBLICATIONS AND WEB SITES, THERE TELLIN US "JUST ASK THE AI TO FIND SHIT FOR YOU" BUT WE ALREADY HAD AN APP THAT WOULD GIVE US INFOMATION THAT WE WANTED!!! IT WAS CALLED A FUCKEN WEB BROWSER!!!!! CAPTALISM MUST BE DESTROYED FOR THE USUAL REASONS BUT ALSO BECUASE IT RUINED THE COMPUTER FOR US!!! NO ONE LIKES THAT THEY BURNED THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA BUT WE HAD ANOTHER ONE 10 YEAR'S AGO AND INSTEAD OF 1 FIRE IT WAS 100000, PIECE BY PIECE, AND THEN THEY REPLACED THE DAMB CARD CATALOG WITH A COMPUTER THAT MAKES SHIT UP ,BUT IM STILL KICKEN A$$ AND IM GOING TO THE WOODS NOW AND THEY DONT HAVE ADS THERE YET SO GO THERE WHILE YOU STILL CAN - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
NO!!!!! - dashare.zone ADMIN
02.06.2025 18:42 β π 1991 π 723 π¬ 0 π 13The f*&%ing library.
08.08.2025 16:30 β π 1821 π 441 π¬ 18 π 5Have you ever accidentally found a fourth person in your polycule and it's been over a month but it's a lot to explain to everyone you've ever known - especially family?
01.08.2025 09:31 β π 15 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I would rather die than create an account to continue
30.07.2025 13:29 β π 7998 π 1480 π¬ 67 π 36they stored data on a bird
28.07.2025 20:17 β π 105 π 22 π¬ 6 π 1My new ADHD meds causing both brain fog and grogginess is super helpful
25.06.2025 19:01 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I love that starting new medications can either cause no problems with my diagnoses, or it can cause all sorts of problems, and I won't know until I have them.
23.06.2025 14:18 β π 20 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I feel like a Disney princess when hummingbirds come up to investigate me
18.06.2025 23:26 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Wikipedia has a chance to be a free, universally recognized, and comprehensive counterpoint to slop, at a time when that is badly needed
11.06.2025 17:07 β π 391 π 89 π¬ 7 π 3For my 35th birthday, my doctor is prescribing me a CPAP machine. Have I finally reached bear status?
11.06.2025 21:23 β π 21 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0A crop of the new iOS redesign showing their 'liquid glass' layout
Apple was one of the few tech companies I marginally trusted with accessible design, so I ask what the fuck is this.
11.06.2025 18:05 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A tuxedo cat hugging and licking my arm
The cuddliest goof even at 90 degrees
11.06.2025 17:35 β π 104 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0What if we made a skeumorphic interface design but it was π ΅πππππ Έπππ Έπ ²
09.06.2025 19:15 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What gender do you identify with? Strongly disagree Somewhat disagree Neither agree nor disagree Somewhat agree Strongly agree
Strongly disagree
08.06.2025 19:07 β π 2362 π 591 π¬ 36 π 70I keep getting gray chest hair and I was not prepared
07.06.2025 18:32 β π 14 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A tuxedo cat on my chest licking my nose
A little kiss
06.06.2025 18:12 β π 52 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Nam June Paik tee shirt showing a stack of television and computer monitors with each screen containing words from his quote I use technology in order to hate it more properly - Paik
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01.06.2025 15:34 β π 345 π 53 π¬ 10 π 4I used to be able to keysmash into Google and it would correctly guess what I was saying before providing accurate information. Now it doesn't even give accurate information if I correctly type what I'm looking for
31.05.2025 18:13 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I hope Google is aware of the lengths I will go to make sure I do not sign into my account on an Android phone.
31.05.2025 02:35 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Gray tuxedo cat lying in my lap with their paws on my belly
Lydia loves a lap and a belly
28.05.2025 18:38 β π 22 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A cat house made out of three cardboard boxes strategically taped together with duct tape
The same house from a different angle
I crafted cardboard boxes into a multilevel cat house
28.05.2025 03:41 β π 21 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0I want to buy a domain for the project I'm working on, but it's a $500 upfront cost. I need a job job.
28.05.2025 01:18 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0ravioli with soli (@SoliSolstice) on twitter: "what blows my mind about everybody neglecting human experiences in favor of being on their phone 14 hours a day is that like 95% of you suck at being on the phone. can't post for shit, 100 unread wikipedia articles in your tabs, getting groomed on discord. you are not good at it"
20.05.2025 18:59 β π 1792 π 461 π¬ 4 π 31If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you βnoβ
24.05.2025 10:37 β π 15061 π 4506 π¬ 148 π 243All cities are walkable if youβre Godzilla.
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