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  "Use the website not the app" is probably the most important thing you can do on this list. There is a reason why everyone is pushing you to use apps. Its not because they're better (heck, a lot of the time they're buggier than just using the website!) It's because using the app provides them more personal data, locks you into a restrictive and extractive ecosystem (apple or google play), and conditions you to assume their ownership of your experience. https://programming....

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  Just blocked some douche who's trying to tell me how to mastodon. The only one so far, though, so that's good. Fun fact - did you know that if you don't like someone's post, you can just scroll past it? It's true! You have this power! We ALL have this amazing power! You don't even have to post a reply to do it!

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  Me: "how did you forget to eat lunch??" 14yo: "I was busy, okay?" Me: "busy with WHAT?" 14yo: "stuff!" Me: "schoolin's? learnin' the maths? What was it? Getting an education?" 14yo: "stop" Me: "was it read'n and writing?" 14yo: "IT WAS DRAWING" Me: "drawing what?" 14yo: "DRAWING RADISHES WITH SEXY LEGS, OKAY??"

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  I continue to maintain that Biden was one of the worst presidents in my lifetime - mostly due to an accident of timing. If he had been president in 2016 or 2000, he obviously would've been a huge improvement over Trump or Cheney, respectively. Heck, even in 2008 or 2012 or 1996 he would've been.. fine. But after covid, BLM, 4 years of Trump 1.0 abuses, & subsequent open insurrection by literal fascism, he was the wrong person for the job. He gave the fash 4 years to prep https://jor...

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  I honestly forgot these filters were white. 😂 #CRBox

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  oh yes

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  RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/117309130198960411 And yet those losses won't come out of his paycheck, so no real lessons will be learned.

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  POV: you reeeeeally have to use the bathroom but it's occupied. #CatsOfMastodon

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  Twig says it's sleep-on-hoomin time, not be-productive-and-get-errands-done time. Who am I to argue?

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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@gothamist/gothamist-igeoft02z/-/a-9OGGzbzVQkuTBnW9SJF-xQ%3Aa%3A3807498986-%2F0 I laughed so hard at this story because _EVERY_ _SINGLE_ _IMAGE_ of the cat shows people holding it like it's going to explode. Even the catnappers walking down the street with it. And the cat's "please kill me" expression, omg. People, THAT IS NOT HOW YOU HOLD A CAT. 😂 😂 😂

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  @curbstickle@anarchist.nexus @Epzillon@lemmy.world What's the "overly expensive video switcher" that you're using? I have an android TV with broken CEC (a Pi running Libreelec works fine one my other tv, but not this one).

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  Sweet, I don't have to pack the kid's school lunch for monday. Thanks Clove! #CatsOfMastodon

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  Some asshole locksmith company attached a STICKER on my front door. An advertisement for their company. Even if I did need a locksmith, I sure as shit wouldn't choose a company like that!

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  RE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/117040206331760983 I remain firmly convinced that *most* people should not be allowed to drive. 😂

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  My wife & kids are away (the kids at camp, my wife for a conference). As such, I have turned the living room into a proper bike shop. Currently 4 bikes in various states of repair - my wife's road bike, my father-in-law's brand new bike, the 9yo's new bike, and a folding bike. I have a new cassette for my mid-tail bike, too, but I think I'll order new tires first before I replace it. #BikeTooter

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  That time in 2014 when I won a chicken coop in a raffle, but there were no ziptrucks available and it didn't fit in my friend's car - so I biked it home. I just happened to be wearing a #Seattle #DisasterReliefTrials t-shirt at the time. #CargoBike #CarryShitOlympics

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  RE: https://social.ridetrans.it/@Andres4NY/113626681357898120 Sadly I've only made 2 of them for the house (I need to buy more PC fans), but I still use these filters. Here's why. Currently, the outside AQI in Forest Park near my house is 235 ("unhealthy for living creatures", if memory serves). #CRBox

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  The blinds are up and the windows are open. Hopefully one of the neighbors walking by sees my 9yo and I standing in the dining room, tshirts halfway up, seeing who can make the loudest armpit fart sounds.

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  the 9yo made a fortune teller out of seaweed

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  I like how you respond to someone's email, and gmail is like " Gmail has detected that this message is likely 550-5.7.1 unsolicited mail. To reduce the amount of spam sent to Gmail, this 550-5.7.1 message has been blocked. For more information," and then a link basically telling you to go fuck yourself.

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  lmao

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  I'm kind of jealous that my kids get to go to sleepaway camp, especially afterwards when they come home and talk about it. When I was the 14yo's age, I spent my summers watching shitty reruns on TV. Basic over-the-air-with-like-7-channels TV; we didn't have cable. I would often go to a friend's house (who had cable) to watch MTV. It was incredibly boring.

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  Here's a basic desktop feature that should exist that I've never seen: a Do-Not-Disturb-while-typing. Like, I'm mid-fucking-thought (and sentence) in this email and suddenly I get a message like "hey do you want me to pick up falafel on the way home?" Like, yeah, I want to see that message, but I want it delayed by 60 seconds so I can finish my thought/sentence before I start thinking about yummy food!

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  Once again , I find myself thinking about how much nicer this playground would be without a highway right next to it. #BanCars

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  Jesus. So apparently Clove has Feline odontoclastic resorptive disease, and had to have *14* teeth removed.

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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@gothamist/gothamist-igeoft02z/-/a-FFs-yIYkSm2vwQfEdJyUag%3Aa%3A3807498986-%2F0 "“Taking away parking is just going to be a crisis,” said Ubarri. “If they could find a way to put it on the sidewalk, that'd be great.”" Eh, go fuck yourself.

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  It's Clove's emotional support cable/cord cover. #CatsOfMastodon

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  "thank god I get two days off from school so I can spend them arguing with my sibling the entire time!" -- my kids, probably

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  tired: #SelfHosting w/ a commercial NAS device wired: Buying a case and building your own NAS inspired: Murray's Cheese charcuterie board -> NAS

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  @owlsintowels@mas.to "like a hairy durian" 😂