arctic pie (he/him)

My fucking father in law is gonna eat this shit up. We’re going out to his family gathering next weekend and my son has a really cute rainbow and pink outfit he’s been dying to show off. For context, this extended family has an ex-in law who came out as trans and whom they violently hate, so my kiddo won’t be exposed to them too much as he grow up. Alas, the old G-pa in law doesn’t have much longer so we gotta go hang out with peeps.

Its because they signed up for Twitter

Ive heard a handful of Christian leaders say things like, “I know its all gonna end in flames eventually, so I’m happy driving my massive SUV thank you very much”.

Assuming you’ll get captured before having to pay the consequences for climate breakdown, while knowing fully that your actions are causing the destruction of the world, should result in legally having all of your property confiscated and given to a refugee family.

I mean, tbf, he’s pretty racist himself

I’m actually shocked and not shocked at the same time…

Remember when Windows 10 was “the last operating system”?

It doesn’t do algorithmic recommendations like GoodReads or Storygraph. Its much more of a feed-based system of finding books via observing what others are reading. It takes some work to curate a following list that fits your tastes, but if you go to your favorite books and actually follow the people who feel similar to you, then over time you will start to get some wild recommendations by seeing the stuff they are picking up or marking as “to read”. I much prefer it to algorithmic recommendations because it adds a human level of complexity - for instance, an algo isnt going to recommend a book that was published 40 years ago that has almost 0 online data about itself, but a person I really respect could say its one of their all-time favorites and now I have a new book that I literally never would have heard about anywhere else except for that one person.

To be honest, I freaking love bookwyrm so much. One of my favorite ways to burn time online is to find books that come across my feed that are missing info like cover art, description, etc. and to fill it all in. I’ve spent hours doing this and it feels so cool, like I’m actually part of maintaining the system.

Also, Ive found that the people on Bookwyrm tend to like books that I really love that are also potentially kind of niche, so Ive found a lot of really great book recommendations that I never would have found from Goodreads or an algorithm.

I’m curious what/if any info can be retrieved from Matrix servers?

I really hope that we’ll be able to maintain a strong resistance and fortification against Meta taking over the fediverse.

As an American, its always so encouraging to see the things that come out of the EU

Jesus its like Elon Musk was the prophet for the Fuckheads Who Will Ruin The Internet For Money. Big Tech can suck my asshole.