Dana the Elf

Yeah, this is a huge part of it. Not just planned, but *forced* obsolescence, and the complete inability to upgrade or repair anything.
The battery fails, and it's in the bin, because it's glued together, removing it will shatter the screen, and you can't buy the part anyway.
HATE "disposable" tech!

You can reclaim your privacy and detangle yourself from big tech, if you're willing to make the effort - these corporate greed-beasts have weaponised "convenience" against a population predisposed to find the path of least resistance.

The next phone I own will be something I build myself from a Pi.

I am glad for the reprieve from the heatwave with the rain, but I do wish my body didn't get completely wrecked by weather changes.
So exhausted and heavy.

Yeah, why is it that the most staunchest of conservatives are the ppl w/ the most damage. Because "therapy" is for weak-minded betas... /sigh
The kind of toxic masculine bullshit that gets pushed on boys and young men is gross.

Anything that causes a certain subset discomfort gets branded as "left-wing extremism."
Protests, a reminder that LGBTQ+ people exist, you name it.

I'm sorry your authoritarian parents/religion/whatever did a number on you. Seek therapy and stop pushing your problems onto other people.

“What should be a major tourism attraction for Sydney is being hijacked by left-wing extremists.”

It’s a queer pride parade. What on earth are you on about? Fuck off with your tourism nonsense

LGBTQ+ existence is "left-wing extremism" to these people - what they *want* is a colourful parade that brings in money, and quietly lets the queers exist. Once you start being noticeable, you're a problem.

Epstein’s circle being potentially/partially behind 4chan really upends the commonly touted idea that gamergate taught the alt-right how to recruit and operate

It redefines it as part of a bigger push that was already underway, which frankly makes more sense

Epstein had a (banned) xbox live account. Epsteins associates talked about using 4chan to manipulate people. Moot met with Epstein the day before they started /pol/. Epstein was buddies with Bobby Kotick.

Gamer culture was clearly something that was in their sights

I am not saying that Epstein personally was some sort of mastermind behind all this. But the files are a window into the lives and thinking of a lot of the kinds of people that DID push these things and view people as game pieces and chattel, and Epstein was a networking broker for many of them

Behold the single rarest PAL English release on the SNES. Exclusively released in Sweden.

And if a single Yank whines about "but you got Terranigma" I will strangle you with your own tongue.

I expected it to be tough, but uh... underestimated a little just how long it would take to reclaim the coffee table.

Starting a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle where every piece is part of a broad swathe of yellow, beige, orange, or brown, and expecting to be done within a couple days may have been a gross miscalculation. xD

Read this whole thread.

I knew 4chan kinda broke society in a lot of ways, but... I didn't fully realise it was like... the World Tree of everything awful today.

Today, I wanted to use some time to do something to take my mind off of the rapidly escalating global fascist revolution, and general cowardice in not pushing back. A jigsaw puzzle.
But I needed a tape measure to check it'd fit the table. Tape measure missing.
So, spent the day cleaning up instead.

it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”

And part is just that I'm so busy doing cool things when I do have the time and strength to do things that I just don't have time left!
I can't really share anything I'm doing yet, but when I can, I hope you enjoy it too. 💖

I've not been active much on The Socials, lately.
Part of it is laxed habits; I just don't check in out of habit after dropping Twitter for so long.
Part is chronic illness, and the time of year.
Part is just dismay at the world's descent into a new age of xenophobic, isolationist fascism.

i think my least fav genre of story is 'unremarkable average man with glaring personality flaws that never get addressed by the narrative keeps failing upwards while every single named female character falls madly in love with him for no discernable reason'

3D printers are awesome because if I need a thing of specific size and shape, which would be difficult if not impossible, and definitely prohibitively expensive to get online.
It's a problem!

Elon is exactly this desperate to have something human-shaped tell him it likes him.

The world before 9/11.

There is a *bit* of a rift between them, but I wonder how much of it is jealousy and resentment from the cops that the ice goons get to wear masks, and play with all the big murder-toys.

People feared computers because they didn't know how to use them, nor did they much care to learn.
So when forced, they learnt as little as possible, and called IT when ANYTHING went awry. They went through life treating it as the unpredictable magic box

There's a weird marriage of anti-intellectualism, refusal to learn, and Snake Oil selling Carnival Barkers that has festered around computers since they became ubiquitous that I find deeply unsettling and depressing.

At long last, China has built the megawatt-scale airborne wind system from the classic sci-fi novel "Do build the megawatt-scale airborne wind system to produce 10x more energy".

The combined representatives of three whole countries think *maybe* they'll have enough power together to hold ONE FUCKING MAN to account.

It is 42 degrees.
FORTY TWO.

Can we do something about the climate apocalypse yet??

Gotta say, it's incredibly annoying that developing a moderately serious food allergy has conditioned my body to respond to *all* allergens with the new reaction response.
So now it seems every time I suffer from Hayfever, I get the fun side-effect of *also* breaking out in hives.

They're DESPERATE for you to give up and accept the slop factory as The Future.
Don't.
The slop is bad, and you shouldn't stop pointing out that it is.