three years for a shit feature absolutely no one asked for as opposed to any few minutes to review PRs opened for forever to add functionality people have been desperate to see added.

you hate to see it.

Eugen Rochko (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image In December 2021 I set myself a goal: Add a year-in-review feature to #Mastodon before the next December. It's December 2024 and it's finally, slowly rolling out. It's not all that it was meant to be, because we couldn't prioritize it over all the other things we work on, but I didn't want to miss another year. #Wrapstodon

Mastodon (mastodon.social)

your fedi year in review

you were one profane motherfucker this year, reaching for "fuck" 168 times, "bullshit" 124 times, "heck" 122 times, and "piss" an amazing 1,951 times.

have a great time tooting in the upcoming year and thank for reviewing your year with us, the fediverse.

ACAB includes the kid singing about mommy kissing santa claus. fuck off, kid. let mommy kiss whomst mommy chooses.

the new yankee website, wherein artisans and craftfolk show the process of evaluating, maintaining, and enjoying older web structures using the traditional tools of the web 1.0 practitioners of yore.

any press release that includes a "forward looking statements" disclaimer is basically trying to get out from under the social contract defined by RFC 2119 (and potentially RFC 6919)

RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels

(www.rfc-editor.org)

RFC 6919: Further Key Words for Use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels

(www.rfc-editor.org)

firefox plugin that simply replaces the word "profit" with the phrase "unrestrained extraction and hoarding by the ultrawealthy" in every page it renders.

type of guy who moves fedi instances every little while so that anyone who's selected "hide boosts from ..." on his previous account now has to see his boosts again until they once again select "hide boosts from ..." on his new account.

I wonder what the average altitude of fedi servers is. how far above sea level is the fediverse in physpace?

@stefan I absolutely adore the idea of sitting there working on The Oregon Trail and thinking "of course people will will pay this hundreds of times over the course of months, what else would they possibly choose to do?" hahahaha

here we are, living in a world with absurdly fast communications between so many of us, kept so absurdly busy that we rarely find the time to sit and visit with the people around us and speak about the things that weigh on our minds and the things that bring our minds lightness. it's almost like those who perpetuate the structures of control in our society do not want the masses to be too contemplative. wonder why that is...

good morning fediverse.

yesterday I had reason to vaguely revisit the faint memory of a character in a story I read under duress almost a half-century ago. poorly remembered yet stuck in my head, a repeating refrain.

"I would prefer not to."

and so, in order to refresh my memory, I visited Project Gutenberg this morning and re-read the tale, now as a middle-aged man. it's far more haunting than I recalled.

for your consideration: Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street" from 1853.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11231

good morning fediverse.

coming at you from the front lines of retail here at Hemlock Bazaar where we are ready to help folk find the perfect books, records, toys, and other delightful curiosities for their gift giving needs, all without having to cross a picket line or enrich a billionaire!

I mean, tell me it wouldn't be cool to drop a link to an album in the fediverse and have this happen

#mastodev #webamp

@ajroach42 the inevitable social network they build using the interactive help subsystem of the government-sanctioned and mandated attendance tracking system at the school that's woefully insecure is going to be off the fucking chain and I cannot wait to hear about it someday

empire states sure love a good prohibition to burn through resources doing nothing but alienating people. makes ya wonder what else could be done with those resources.

a whole new generation of people who will be extremely well versed with changing numbers on official looking documents using photo editing software. huzzah!

congrats to the youth of australia whomst apparently have been turned into subversives and pirates of the airwaves en masse. may your exploits be heralded by your peers in song for years to come, kiddos.

being stoned in a straight world is a lot easier than being straight in a stoned one.

Arlo Guthrie, "Alice Before Time Began", 1969

#createANuisance

#groupWGetsItDone