chaotic good boy

they/them, chickens are my thing this used to be a fandom blog but its mostly just whatever these days

[batshit-auspol]

Please enjoy the infectious laughter of the Australian senate struggling to keep its composure while grilling a man about bee semen

[batshit-auspol]

Regularly forget we posted this and then are hit like a brick with notifications like this one

[manga-and-stuff]

Source: Vinland Saga ヴィンランド･サガ

by Makoto Yukimura

[jabberding0]

Yuantong Link Chain

[busket]

something very intimate about how slow this machine is moving. feels tender and loving

[armadillorollup]

biology of a stapler

[armadillorollup]

some more speculative staplings

[graffitinight]

When you try to talk about enshittification, it sounds like conspiracy theories. (I'm not crazy)

Amazon made their service worse, to force people to pay for Prime.

Nowadays, if you order from Amazon, there is a week long delay before your package is shipped. (on purpose)

I remember when orders would ship out the same day. (I remember - it was real)

YouTube didn't used to have ads. Now, ads play in the middle of videos. (it's worse than TV ever was)

The best can opener I have owned is over 40 years old. Modern ones just don't hold up as well. (The ones I bought new broke ages ago)

The bread machine my mom got for her wedding lasted 30 years. It's been replaced twice in the last 5 years. (How can you fuck this up?)

The cardboard tubes in the middle of toilet paper rolls have gotten larger. (This too?) Companies increasing the price of the product while selling you less. (REALLY?)

It sounds crazy. (it's the truth) When you talk about it, YOU sound crazy. (it's true)

Even when people believe you (do they really), all they can say is "it sucks". (it's too big) Because the problem is so big, so pervasive, what can we even DO about it???

To get the necessary laws written and passed, we need politicians, to get the politicians elected we need information campaigns, to fund campaigns we need money, and all the money is being hoarded by the people profiting from enshittification. (it sounds so fake)

So I talk about enshittification (it sounds crazy), so people don't forget that things have been made worse on purpose (it's true), even though I sound crazy. (maybe I am)

[grimboigio]

It's called planned obsolescence and it was invented when lightbulbs could still run for 1000 years. Enshittification is the web-specific (and more specifically social media) version of that.

[bob-artist]

Planned obsolescence is also a specific thing, but a lot of what's going on right now (in addition to planned obsolescence and enshittification) falls under what some people call "skimpflation." That's what the enlarged toilet paper rolls are. That's what it is when my hummus brand costs the same but now suddenly has guar gum instead of the actual amount of chickpeas needed to make hummus thick, or my yogurt and hot sauce brands reducing their fruit, herbs, and spices and replacing them with "natural flavor."

This stuff was at its peak in 2023 when my last business of ferrets got old and Tux was dying of kidney failure and Kit was dying of IBD. Nothing radicalizes you more than buying the exact same brand of paper towels (Bounty, which I've ragequit), using the exact same amount, and suddenly having diarrhea soak onto your fingers every time because the paper towels are now only 60% as thick as they were last week. And this stuff has just continued since then.

It's sometimes shocking to me how many people don't notice the degradation of quality. (I have a food allergy so I have to check food labels every time; I know a lot of people don't.)

What makes it so unacceptable is the dishonesty of it. It should be considered a deceptive business practice. Rising prices do sometimes go back down, but these companies never go back to increasing their quality.

[faustianbargain]

one of the funniest things about disco elysium to me is that kim never once gives an appropriate amount of fucks about harry’s medical emergency. you’ll be like kim help i don’t remember what a car is and he’ll say detective can you please get your shit together i’m trying to do my fucking job here

[bifrosted-flakes]

[animentality]

[achievement-hunter]

[textandimageenjoyer]

[figglypuff]

[necrolentil]

Goddamit i hate this fucking post. I hate it because obviously if “twelve” followed the same pattern as the other teen numbers it wouldn’t be “twoteen” it would be “seconteen”. Think about it. It’s not “threeteen” it’s “thirteen” as in “third”. It’s not “fiveteen” it’s “fifteen” as in fifth. So with that in mind, you count “first, second, third, fourth, fifth,” and so on, so eleven would be “firsteen” and twelve would be “secondteen” or “seconteen”. “Firsteen, seconteen, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen….” It just drives me absolutely mad everytime i see this post that this obvious pattern was overlooked and i cant hold in my rage anymore.

[improper-integral]

[naidje]

They should make Carrie White a fat trans girl in the new show

[naidje]

She asks to play volleyball with the girls team. They start a harassment campaign against her. Her mom's a rabid gender critical radfem mumsnetter terf. At the prom she sets a gymnasium full of transmisogynists on fire with her mind. You get it.

[eatingmarkerz]

jarona guy

[hunter-rodrigez]

So I do 3D modeling and printing as a hobby, and a few weeks ago I designed wheel guards meant to prevent office chairs from running over cables and clothes... or your pet's tail.

I got the idea from cowcatchers old locomotives used to have.

Anyways, yesterday I uploaded the model to Thingiverse, and just hours after uploading it, the Community Relationship Manager of the whole website left a comment suggesting I enter the model into a competition that's currently being held on the site.

So I did... and now it's in third place not even a day later. First place is $500, but the competition still has a month to go.

Then the Community Manager contacted me again, telling me they want to feature my model in an upcoming design promotion.

Just, what is happening? I mostly made this thing for myself in, like, an hour, and now it's suddenly super popular? This is all a little bit overwhelming 😵‍💫

Other models I worked on for weeks didn't get nearly as popular. I swear, it's impossible to predict what people will like.

Anyways, if you want to print the wheel guards yourself, you can get the model here or here.

I also made a quiet version you can stick furniture felt pads on.

[chekhovs-raygun]

@bonyfish

[anti-parent]

teamwork makes the dream work. and dreamwork. makes shrek

[anti-parent]

fantastic. i love it. i posted this after my wife said it yesterday and as i was doing it i was like "this can't be an original thought. as soon as i hit post someone's going to say 'you stole this from a tweet from 2014' and i'll say 'no, i stole it from my beautiful wife.'"

[yesornopolls]

do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?

Do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 3 days 1 hour

[la-scriba]

game of chess but with real people but all the pawns are trans women and if they get to the eighth rank they get a lifetime supply of estrogen

[la-scriba]

nope!

[lovecrafts-iranon]

It is too. they just have to take some pieces to not get in each other's way.

[la-scriba]

Are there enough pieces to do that for every pawn though?

[lovecrafts-iranon]

yes. easily.

[la-scriba]

Show me.

[lovecrafts-iranon]

1. e4 e5 2. Ne2 d5 3. Nf4 exf4 4. e5 Kd7 5. e6+ Kc6 6. e7 Qd6 7. e8=Q+ Kb6 8. d4 Be7 9. Qf8 Bf6 10. c4 Be5 11. dxe5 c5 12. e6 d4 13. e7 d3 14. Be2 f5 15. Bf3 Nf6 16. O-O d2 17. Qc2 d1=Q 18. Be3 fxe3 19. e8=Q e2 20. Be4 fxe4 21. f4 e1=Q 22. f5 Qc3 23. b4 Nd5 24. f6 e3 25. f7 e2 26. Qfe7 e1=Q 27. f8=Q Qe4 28. cxd5 c4 29. Qe2 Qcd3 30. Nd2 c3 31. Nf3 c2 32. Nd4 Qde5 33. d6 c1=Q 34. d7 g5 35. d8=Q+ Ka6 36. g4 Bf5 37. gxf5 g4 38. f6 g3 39. f7 Qh4 40. Kg2 Qhf4 41. Kh3 Qff5+ 42. Kh4 g2 43. Qg7 g1=Q 44. f8=Q Nd7 45. Nc6 bxc6 46. Qb8 c5 47. b5+ Ka5 48. b6 c4 49. b7 c3 50. Qbc8 c2 51. b8=Q Qce3 52. Rb1 c1=Q 53. Rb6 axb6 54. a4 h5 55. Qef6 Qed2 56. Qfg8 Kb4 57. a5 b5 58. a6 Ra7 59. Qcd8 Rc7 60. a7 Kc5 61. a8=Q b4 62. Rf4 Qdd6 63. Rg4 hxg4+ 64. Qh5 g3 65. h3 g2 66. Q7h7 Qgh2 67. Qbb7 Qea1 68. Qfe7 b3 69. Q7e6 Qhh1 70. Qef6 Qfd5 71. Kg4 g1=Q+ 72. Kh4 b2 73. Qgg2 b1=Q 74. Kg4 Qge1 75. h4 Re8 76. Qhe5 Qda2 77. Qhe4 Q2b2 78. h5 Q2a2 79. h6 Q2b2 80. h7 Q2a2 81. h8=Q

[la-scriba]

Wow. Good work.

[dialupmodern]

i was asked to post this, speedrun is heating up

[datasoong47]

Interesting that both go beyond the original parameter of "promote all pawns" and also avoided capturing any of the promoted queens or the original queen, thus also making the maximum number of possible Queens on the board (18 Queens!). I suspect it would be possible to shorten the number of moves a little if you allowed Queens (whether original or promoted) to be captured. It's also funny in that White and Black kept alternating between having forced mate sequences

[fleshengine]

reads the words "forced mate sequences" and gets so hard I pass out

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Sam Handwich.

[sufficientlylargen]

If Pikiwedia says it it must be true.

[zooperdoopers]

I made Pikiwedia real. Works for any Wikipedia page. Use this wisely :)‌

[sufficientlylargen]

Oh, wary dell vone

[zooperdoopers]

Goodmorning to the Anthropic Claude AI training scraper that suddenly decided to request 660 thousand pages (exactly the number I had remaining on the starter plan) and brought Pikiwedia down. 

Sudden switch from diverse user agents like chrome, safari, messenger preview to Just Claudebot. I'm not even mad though, this is maybe the funniest thing possible, because I've inadvertently poisoned their training data with thousands of fucked up articles with normal urls. 

Pikiwedia perseveres, back up with a better robots.txt. I hope Anthropic has a gery vood time with Pikiwedia's data :))

[kuttithevangu]

the new fantasy genre, popehunk, encompasses all books in which historical figures responsible for real atrocities are presented as sexy and potentially suffering from a cute lil' anxiety disorder

[fellator]

this fetish stuff is getting out of hand what the fuck is word play