[bloody-monstrous-wolf]

[electronicosmos15]

[earhartsease]

love that she's playing Careless Whisper all the while that old biddie is experiencing harp rage

[jackironsides]

WORLD'S STUPIDEST PROBLEM:

my mum loaned me her iPhone bc my android isn't working right, and I can't exit the settings because iPhones apparently no longer have home buttons, and there's no obvious other way to do it

[jackironsides]

I did, in fact, try swiping up from the settings, and nothing happened. Presumably I'm Swiping Wrong. It works from other apps, but not from Settings.

I'm increasingly not a fan of this "get rid of every button and only use gestures" thing, because I'm finding that my movements are apparently "wrong". I remember my friend with essential tremor who did many things on her phone with voice commands. Buttons are easy to use. A click from a button is something that doesn't need super fine motor control. But I cannot tell you the number of times my current phone thinks I'm swiping up when I intend to swipe down. It happens multiple times a day. The number of times when swipe text (because tapping a screen repeatedly makes the joints on my hands hurt) returns nonsense, because it didn't like the way I'd moved my finger across the keys.

I'm increasingly of the opinion that touchscreens are not the amazing boon they're supposed to be. I suspect they're something that is increasingly going to lock out disabled people, many of whom could manage switches or dials or buttons just fine. This is just one particularly obnoxious example of it.

I was also using an iPad when they added some other new swipe option where I had to remember to swipe up on my iPhone for something, and down on my iPad for the exact same thing. Or vice versa; I don't remember anymore. I've noticed that Apple has this tendency in their design these days where you have to memorise a bunch of secret handshakes to do anything, and if you stop using their devices and come back to them later, it's going to be completely unintuitive what you're supposed to do. I'm not a fan.

[jackironsides]

... I just had to look up how to turn off the phone.

I HAD TO LOOK UP HOW TO TURN OFF THE PHONE.

Can you imagine the kind of user experience FAILURE that is??? Pressing the same button I used to turn it on DIDN'T WORK.

WHY IS APPLE LIKE THIS. How is this supposed to be an improvement over before, when a phone behaved as you would expect, based on the previous twenty-plus years of experience with similar devices?

[baddywronglegs]

Blackberry were done dirty by a world who wanted the present to look like the prettiest future sci-fi had to offer.

[kyraneko]

A few weeks ago I accidentally trapped myself in a Corvette at the car dealership.

I was waiting around for non-Corvette-related reasons and decided to sit in the cool new supercar that they had unlocked on the display floor, got in, shut the door, enjoyed myself for a few minutes, went to get out and couldn't find a fucking door handle.

Cue about a minute and a half of me frantically trying to figure out how to open the door and weighing if it was worth the embarrassment of googling the dealership number and calling to ask them to come let me out, all while experiencing claustrophobia worse than in any cave I've ever been in.

Eventually I googled "how to open corvette door" because that seemed like the more discreet option, and, following instructions, discovered a tiny-ass button that, when pressed, opens the door. It was way too tiny and too easy to press for it to have a mechanical effect on the door, meaning it was probably electronic in nature.

A few days ago I got into my own car, shut the door, and found out the car wouldn't start because the battery was dead.

The trunk didn't have a keyhole and required a button to be pressed, which did not work because, again, the battery was dead; I had to fold down the rear seat to access the trunk and worm in and reach through to pull the emergency trunk release (again, less claustrophobic than Suddenly Trapped In Corvette).

Apparently it is now the fashion for any electrical problem in one's car to come with the Free Second Problem of being trapped in the car (or out of it, as I've seen cars with outside handles being clearly electronically assisted).

I do not fucking approve.

[girlwhodoeskratom]

Hanis Hussey @ Jean-Louis Scherrer Spring/Summer, 1988 Haute Couture

[deliciousnecks]

I have had horrible experiences with shape-shifters in the past.

[soberscientistlife]

[demi-shoggoth]

Yeah, this is why diamonds are a girl's best friend. Because they can be pawned if a woman has been abandoned and needs to have money on hand to rebuild a life.

[vampirecorleone]

"Give yourself over to absolute pleasure. Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh - erotic nightmares beyond any measure, and sensual daydreams to treasure forever. Can't you just see it? Don't dream it, be it." Horror Character Appreciation - Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) dir. Jim Sharman

[al-athir]

While standing in line trying to get some food in the southern Gaza Strip, he yelled at the journalist Fakri Ibrahim, saying: 'Send this picture to Israel and the world.'

[queer-as-city-folk]

I could be a terrible mayor for pretty much any midsized american city, I would begin building a light rail and then immediately start a fight with the police union

[queer-as-city-folk]

I might also try to build social housing on a golf course

[queer-as-city-folk]

I'd be very unpopular on the rich side of the city

[sorbusaucuparia]

careful with building housing on golf courses! a lot of times they're on flood plains.

[queer-as-city-folk]

Hmm, good point, but its either there or on top of the large parking lot downtown since the rest of the city is built up to much for large social housing construction

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

staff: our april fools joke this year is a silly feature that doesn't really do anything but give you a button to boop other users! they have to opt-in first though :)

me:

[timetravellingkitty]

it's been nice knowing you all

[mothergoddessofmadripoor]

[asynca]

this is a total normal thing for ANOTHER COUNTRY'S foreign intelligence agency front to say to American university students who are peacefully demonstrating against the genocide and oppression of Palestinians

[nando161mando]

Biden’s State Department in a nutshell.

[intersectionalpraxis]

This is the last birthday photo taken of Shireen before she was assassinated by the IOF nearly a month later:

Happy Birthday to an incredible woman who should still be here. You will always be remembered and forever missed.

[soon-palestine]

[alovelessmelancholy]

[mysharona1987]

They have turned the Palestinians into actual Guinea pigs for the military industrial complex.

We will see the robots and miserable remote controlled dogs at the next big BLM protest on American soil soon enough.