“A decade of growth!”

My doc says this about the mole on my back. /s

Stay classy, young men.

Yeah, COVID was an excuse for a lot of companies to kill their customer service departments and make their automated systems even worse.

I think it might work. A lot of what Joe Pera does is sort of deadpan humor anyway, so part of the joke is lack of tone or emotion. His voice is very calming because he’s sort of monotone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSUilYKcRMA

Here is a link to the full episode of “Joe Pera Talks You Back to Sleep” which is a beautiful episode. Give it a shot and see what you think. The autogenerated closed captioning available on this episode seems mostly accurate to me. DVD copies have great subtitles, not sure about digital variants.

I’ll never stop being sad it got cancelled. I wear my Tree TV sweatshirt with pride.

Dr. Katz Professional Therapist is also in that wheelhouse of quiet, calm, and sweet. It also features H. Jon Benjamin of Bob’s Burgers fame.

Dang, I only read his blog, and only sporadically, I hadn’t realized he had a presence on Bluesky. That does seem peculiar considering his other stances. You’d think he’d recognize the issues Bluesky’s funding presents.

Member when Grand Theft Auto was a massive danger to freedom because of the Hot Coffee mod?

Rockstar 'members.

Going further back, the media tried to pin the blame on DOOM, and the level the shooters designed to look like their school.

…because he already owns a domain and independently publishes his blog? He’s not part of the substack world.

Having your own site is the original decentralized internet. I can understand dumping all your effort into things you fully control. Doctorow handles it similarly these days.

How is that even legal to sell that without CC…

I thought the proliferation of touchscreens and screen readers was enough to show that regular society doesn’t give a flying fuck about the needs of the disabled?

A braille terminal costs a cool couple thousand bucks, so what’s a poor blind person to do? Get stuck using a fucking smartphone and screen readers.

Like even the equivalent of an Amazon Kindle for blind people is $700. A Kindle isn’t cheap, but holy fuck, it’s not $700, it’s more like $150.

http://www.orbitresearch.com/product/orbit-reader-20/

It’s obscene and makes me sad.

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I’m starting with the man in the mirror

I’m asking him to change his ways

And no message could’ve been any clearer

If you wanna make the world a better place

Take a look at yourself and then make a change

Obligatory Michael Jackson.

They want to dissuade buyers by being a conspicuously noisy and annoying neighbor to the point that the house sits empty for a while.

Which, like, if your first thought is to do this, maybe you actually are an annoying neighbor and you’re doing everyone a favor by letting them know.

I submit that these songs aren’t necessarily terrible but terribly overplayed to the point that they’re painful.

I swear half of Mariah Carey’s fortune is Christmas songs alone.

Also the whole “Boomers spent their entire lives and our entire lives trying to re-live their own childhood Christmases,” since the majority of original Christmas songs are from that period.

Also some people love Christmas music so this could backfire.

*takes extra deep breath

…this is the song that doesn’t end / yes it goes on and on my friends / some people started singing it not knowing what it was / and they’ll keep on singing it forever just because / this is the song that never ends / yes it goes on and on my friends…

Fuck I hated middle school

Thanks for the pointers.

Already am.

Oh, I know. We’re slowly dismantling every system that gave the US a good name in the world.

This is kind of funny because I know the pain of accidentally blocking a CDN I still need access to when it comes to my Pi-Holes.

Even more frustrating when the thing you’re trying to block is hosted by said CDN, so you can’t actually block it without also blocking the thing you need access to.

Whoopsie doodles who would have thought this stuff was hard!

Get involved with Mutual Aid groups.

Learn some basic First Aid.

Make connections with doctors and nurses who want to escape this broken system and get them involved with Mutual Aid groups.

This last part shouldn’t be too hard, depending on where you live. I live in a progressive city with lots of doctors with good values who already do tons of charity work as it is. Getting them involved wouldn’t be too difficult because they’re likely already involved at some level. I’ve had doctors and dentists who volunteer at our free clinics for those without medical coverage, so it seems like taking the next step into Mutual Aid is probably something they’re game for.