The Internet, 1997:
Hey everyone! The walled gardens of Microsoft, CompuServe, BIX, GEnie, The Well and AOL are over! We're all doing open DARPA email protocols and this new World Wide Web thing! We and our tools shall all evolve to a transcendent form of planetary intelligence!
The Internet, 2017:
All TV is on a dozen proprietary streaming services so we're putting DRM in your web browsers. Also Apple, Facebook and Google are all pushing a different, incompatible, slightly less sucky C.
grrr, tumblr's shitty "safe mode" means I can't look at cool weird porn my friends link me without creating an account
let's just build a libre federated replacement with activitypub already
Reminder of the evils of #birbsite... #twitter https://social.coop/media/4EwwtzmJpe5aGGGxLlE
They say every Jedi builds their own lightsaber
So do Jedi have a shed full of old amateur lightsaber builds that cause RSI problems or intermittently sputter and die?
And is every Jedi perennially unhappy with some feature of their lightsaber, distracted from fighting Sith by ideas for how to improve the design, as soon as they save enough to order more parts?
Wait do Jedis do group-buys of lightsaber kits to take advantage of volume discounts? That shit must be expensive in small quantities
moaf (meat loaf)
girl did it hurt when you fell from heaven?
actually? yes it did
they severed my wings with burning holy light and I felt the wrath of god herself, then plummeted to the ground, infinity miles below
but what most hurt was my pride, my eternal joy of being of the high kin, erased, never to bask in the glory again, doomed to roam the land of the mortals or worse
it hurt like you will never know, human
now leave me alone with my grief
Are there any brass players from the Northeast US on Mastodon? Would they be considered… horn-y in Maine?
ah yes, it's the month of heckoween, or as those of us who still respect the old ways call it, all hecko's eve
Kids are callin' it Animal Zoomers. She set a dumpster on fire behind a Thai BBQ and huffed the fumes until she thought it was rainin' sardines.
What the f—
Mario originally punched Yoshi in the head to make him stick out his tongue in SMW
http://www.wmur.com/article/super-mario-yoshi-punch-reactions/12558288 https://mastodon.social/media/1aiymmKLU16N7Q9WQUA
tfw your soldering iron is open source, has custom firmware available, and someone makes Tetris for it.
What a time to be alive.
GET EQUIPPED
WITH
LIFE ENDEAVOR
Some really interesting points about the effects custom emoji might have on federation: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/5107
@HTHR i don't know why but this post made me aware that the incognito icon is an upside-down man with glasses and a moustache, mouth agape in shock
@er1n hmm... perhaps if there was some way to find and patch out the license check... 🤔
my mind says 'solo rezz the most effective player on the team'
but my heart says 'solo rezz the Pharah because that's bae'
@kara @jasminehenry you can still cancel boost... just not with the same muscle memory buttons we've been doing the whole time 🙃