the hellsite records

30 and living in the land of oz. a pretentious crazy cat woman, miscellaneous music, the internet. i spend like 98% of my time on tumblr, and thus i have no social life and have become incredibly boring. wanna know more? click the "about me" button above this. and for considering followers: follow at your own risk.

[programmerhumour]

Made that feature you requested boss

[n4r3n]

We have done dat in Hungary too

[lady-wildflower]

2008: The Welsh reads:  “I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated.”

[ghost-opal]

Tech companies have discovered a new anti-pattern recently and its called violating your muscle memory by putting links to shitty features nobody likes where the most commonly used button used to be

[ghost-opal]

I call the kinds of UX designers who do this "tech pests"

[timeturner-jay]

An extension of this:

An ad popping up a few seconds after everything else has loaded, pushing everything downwards and moving itself precisely into the spot you were just in the process of clicking.

[isuggestrevolution]

i have a suggestion

[beggars-opera]

The tailors at Colonial Williamsburg made a suit for their cat

[vinceaddams]

The best part is that they were inspired by a diary entry from 1775, written by a 12 year old tailor’s apprentice who had been left unsupervised all day and decided to make a suit for a cat. Here’s a link to the blog post about it, but I’ll just paste the whole diary entry here:

“I had been at work about two months when Christmas came on – and here I must relate a little anecdote. The principal [the tailor] and his lady were invited to a party among their friends…while it devolved on me to stay at home and keep house. There was nothing left me in charge to do, only to take care of the house. There was a large cat that generally lay about the fire. In order to try my mechanical powers, I concluded to make a suit of clothing for puss, and for my purpose gathered some scraps of cloth that lay about the shop-board, and went to work as hard as I could. Late in the evening I got my suit of clothes finished; I caught the cat, put on the whole suit – coat, vest, and small-clothes [breeches] – buttoned all on tight, and set down my cat to inspect the fit. 

“Unfortunately for me there was a hole through the floor close to the fireplace, just large enough for the cat to pass down; after making some efforts to get rid of the clothes, and failing, pussy descended through the hole and disappeared; the floor was tight and the house underpinned with brick, so there was no chance of pursuit. I consoled myself with a hope that the cat would extricate itself from its incumbrance, but not so; night came and I had made on a good fire and seated myself for some two or three hours after dark, when who should make their appearance but my master and mistress and two young men, all in good humor, with two or three bottles of rum. After all were seated around the fire, who should appear amongst us but the cat in his uniform. I was struck speechless, the secret was out and had no chance of concealing; the cat was caught, the whole work inspected and the question asked, is this your day’s work? I was obliged to answer in the affirmative; I would then have been willing to take a good whipping, and let it stop there, but no, to complete my mortification the clothes were carefully taken off the cat and hung up in the shop for the inspection of all customers that came in.”

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

“I was hoping they’d beat me and forget about it but to my horror they stuck my work up on the fridge”

[zackbuildit]

Not just any fridge-

The public fridge

[hirocimacruiser]

Sakura Suzuki Mighty Boy Kei class pick up

[zmpl]

[bioluminescent-fungus]

no amount of butter or salt removes the nutrients from vegetables

[therosielord]

Also cooked vegetables are more easily digestible than raw vegetables! People always act like raw vegetables are the healthiest but that is NOT true if you have a sensitive digestive system. Roast that shit.

[wholesome-animal-images]

[spatort]

@sinnsenke couldn't leave this in the tags

[marinella-ela]

[is-the-cow-video-bad]

These are older calves, jerseys are notorious for continuing to suck into adulthood and some cows just like to suck on ears. I have a cow that does it to her herdmates and calves. This is fine

[wiisagi-maiingan]

I do actually find the term "main character syndrome" helpful because I think it really does a good job describing this trend where people think that they are the only ones who are interesting, who have hobbies and interests, who have complex internal lives, and who care about things like privacy and being treated with respect.

Anyway I just saw someone say that it's performative to read Sylvia Plath in a coffee shop and I am so deeply exhausted.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

And the thing is that I do think that there's some truth the idea that publicly engaging in hobbies is performative but not in the disdainful way that a lot of people think it? I think for a lot of people, doing things like reading their favorite poetry book or knitting or whatever in public is performative in the sense that they desperately want to form connections with other people with similar hobbies and so they're doing those things in hopes someone will talk to them about it.

And I don't think that's a bad thing! I think we are at a point in time where people are very deeply lonely and seeking connection in any way they can get it and sometimes that means being vulnerable and "cringey" where other people can see. And instead of judging them for that or making a disdainful tiktok or youtube "essay", maybe you should walk up to them and ask about what they're doing. You might just get a new hobby and a new friend out of it.

[saltedweather]

all this, but also, it is pleasant to work on hobbies in a pleasant place! How is it that we all bemoan the lack of third spaces and then put SO MUCH hate on people trying to do things in public?

[sagevalleymusings]

It is pleasant to work on hobbies in a pleasant place! Back when I lived next to a tea house, I would go there and camp out all day, literally from open to close, with my full-ass painting supplies.

I tipped very well, was constantly introducing new customers to the store, and if I was there long enough to run through one pot of tea I would buy a second one, well aware of the social contract of being a loyal customer. No one ever expressed frustration with me and to be honest pretty much no one ever came up to me to ask what I was doing.

And that was okay, because I was there to drink yummy tea and be surrounded by plants and art and soft music and the gentle backdrop of other voices. It was a very productive, relaxing space to be in, and there's simply not an equivalent in my own home. If I could afford it, I would rent a studio space. Working at a cafe is like that, but also there's free wifi and a never-ending supply of vanilla rose chai.

So yes, I agree that quite a number of people who work on their hobbies in public would be happy and excited to talk about those hobbies. But I think it would be a stretch to call it performative. It's performative in the same way all human interaction is performative.

[saildraws]

decomposition

lenticular riso prints!

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[anthonyhurd]

If only I could explain it better.

[redstonedust]

do you have faith that people can change? I find it very hard to

the self is always in flux innit? we're all changing all the time. doesn't neccescarily mean youre changing to be better, but you're certainly changing.

[letmeinimafairy]

Got swept by a sudden intense urge to make otters. River pebbles felt right for it, and I feel like there'll be a lot more. Will anyone be interested in a necklace with a pendant like this? Because I have a lot of pebbles 👀

[klapollo]

almost seven years deep into the 2020s this feels less like a retrospective evaluation and more like a prophetic vision

[stydixa]

CAMP ROCK 2008 - Dir. Matthew Diamond

[cyberxbattalion]

[wizardarchetypes]

never thought this day would come but i’m currently having a customer service experience so bad right now that i’m defecting from the employee regiment and joining the customers in their next battle. i don’t know who i am anymore.

[wizardarchetypes]

experience that makes me research local customer service supervisors for a global corporation and tag them in a LinkedIn post, to fall upon their mercy.

[wizardarchetypes]

long story short i have worked for a call center in customer service before and i knew something was not working out. i've had to call about this issue 5 times in 4 weeks because it's still not resolved, and each time the conversation has ended i've asked for an email confirmation of our conversation and a ticket number so i can call back and reference it with a new representative.

well every time i've called, the new representative has been like "i'm so sorry, but there's no ticket by that number. i have no record of you ever calling about this. i'll start a ticket for you."

finally, the fifth time i nearly burst into tears of frustration and i said "i don't want you to start a ticket for me, because it will be the sixth ticket created for this same issue. every week, one of your colleagues tells me they'll create a a new ticket for me, and then nothing happens."

they said, "i'm sorry but i have no record of those tickets existing." and i was like i KNOW. but they doooooo what is happening.

finally i got transferred to a supervisor's supervisor.

if you've ever worked in online customer service, you know that when a customer calls with a problem, you create a "ticket" that puts that issue into the system. if you can't resolve it, it goes into a ticket queue, where other people with the ability to resolve it select it, put it into their personal working queue, and resolve it.

well after 30 minutes of searching, this supervisor tells me, dumbfounded, that she's discovered a completely unique queue she's never seen before, where my tickets have been going somehow. a pocket universe queue that no one has access to or can edit or select from, not even her. she has no idea what's happening. she's like "yes, here are all your tickets, and no one can open them or comment on them or resolve them.....this is crazy......" and it's JUST my tickets in there. no one else's. of tens of thousands of customers.

all professionalism fell by the wayside. i told her i've worked with those queues before and also found that totally wild. she was like "what the hell is going on...." and talked me through everything she was seeing and how gobsmacked she was. we were both like "this is one for the books truly"

tells me she's going to have to bring this up above herself because this is a really big error on like, a coding level, that she has no idea how to resolve. tells me she will personally call me back tomorrow to update me.

four days pass with no word.

i call customer service again. random agent. explain the entire situation, including that last bit.

agent says "i'm sorry but i have no record of those tickets existing. i'll have to start a ticket for you. rest assured, it will be resolved."

i said, "no it won't be. it never will be. because they're in the special queue."

clearly not believing me, they said, "i've heard nothing about that. i'll start a new ticket for you."