Mikey Phantasm

for real though, is there a law that chinese tech companies have to have absolutely terrible websites? i'm embarrassed that it took me like 30 seconds today to fingerprint insta360 based on their website

Maybe I'm grumpy, but the latest trend of web stores is genuinely awful. Every company has a website and a separate store. Neither will have specs you need or good product photos, but both will be inundated with large marketing lifestyle videos that don't even show the product

extremely glad I skipped the race, do better @f1tv.bsky.social

Tried to make a joke about using ResEdit and discovered that in the year of our lord twenty-twenty-six the iPhone will correctly capitalize ResEdit

You know the more I think about it, "Tommy" probably wasn't even really using the right word with 'disavow' which is usually used in terms of responsibilities, so no, obviously AES isn't responsible for the existence of a political party in Egypt.

maturity is seeing this and not getting mad, but realizing that this could apply to anyone you see on the news

We really need a name for this phenomena where journalist play dumb and pretend that personal responsibility just doesn't exist see also: the estranged parent articles @michaelhobbes.bsky.social has been sharing, *exact* same theme

the only good thing the RAND corporation ever made

Still waiting on Abdul El-Sayed to disavow older versions of PHP

Prior to this I would have said one of the worst framework vulnerabilities was the Rails deserialization attack, but this being a language level issue is wild. As a side note we're going to figure out real fast who had any kind of sane security model on their hosting and who didn't...

I miss @PHP_CEO

Ugh saw someone quote post the opencode guy and now all his skeets are getting pushed to me and I don’t need all these bad takes

Also ya'll need to get of my lawn. That fake hot wheels picture that was going around was so incredibly wrong they forgot that the bottom of the cars used to be METAL. Matchbox too.

Fun fact about the American healthcare system: most places you can hire a midwife out of pocket for a birth and still spend less than a hospital birth with full insurance coverage. When I was comparing plans at a job years ago their estimate for the best covered plan was like $7-9k out of pocket

OOOh Ray Delahanty droppped a new CityNerd about Philadelphia on Nebula. Secretly hoping he eviscerates Philly as I've really come to hate that city over the years.

The Top Gear Reliant Robin Space Shuttle is way more impressive than a falling Tesla.

hang out I have a few underconstruction.gif I might need to contribute

Why isn't there a Woody Guthrie style "This car funds fascism" sticker that we can plaster on Teslas in parking lots??

this is like hitler launching a symposium for jews how could the organization that systemically covered up and enabled someone like savile for decades be trusted with anything like that??

Is there a scraped alternative to TV tropes without ads? I don't care about ethics at this point, you can't access tv tropes with ads disabled, and the ads are so intense the site is unusable with them enabled (browser froze)

I grew up with the christian ideal of "watch what media you consume, like you would watch what you eat." I.e. don't eat garbage - don't consume garbage media. That's like the first thing that pops into my brain when people try to justify using Twitter/X: you can't make me eat garbage, get lost.

Genuinely can't imagine showing the whole world my own ass by getting up and shouting "I DON'T KNOW WHAT WOMEN LIKE" from the rooftops with your own name, and being proud of it

speedometer : speedo :: pedometer : pedo ?? I can't be the only one that has this stuck in my head

Petition to switch the US to the British pronunciation (and spelling) of paedophile, which just sounds so much more disgusting than US 'pedo' which always makes me think of pedometers.

Hey #song and #music people, what are some good examples of songs that mimic automotive journeys, but musically? So far I've got - Beep Beep, The Playmates - Autobahn, Kraftwerk - Red Barchetta, Rush

Queue “The Boys are Back in Town

This is a terrible idea. Lojack already exists for this business model and is very commonly used outside of cars on valuable equipment or theft concerns.

My face when people are shocked at the sex crimes on fancy college campuses. Where do you think these politicians and famous sex pests learn it from??

I'm sure there is a fun German compound noun for this (or at least there should be) cc @kenjennings.bsky.social

Is there a word for when you are annoyed with the relative difficulty of a Jeopardy clue? Was watching one of those "this week in final Jeopardy" videos, category was famous buildings, I got really excited only to be deeply disappointed that it was super obvious (Flatiron Building).

Gee Firefox, thanks for making my browser look all weird and shit for no apparent reason. Glad to see that software developers are focusing on the important bits like random gradients on UI interfaces. I'm getting too old for this shit.

honest Cardle 1/5 Streak 1🔥 Total Score 1103 🟢 🟢 🟢 www.playcardle.com

Just caught myself saying, “so Brendan Fraser is more of the thinking-man’s himbo?”

Just had a realization that most of my favorite Youtube channels don't take any sponsorships.

Playing around with the idea of making my own aluminum, machined woodworking jigs by designing something in CAD, and sending it off to JLCCNC or SendCutSend or something. Not going to save any money over commercial designs, but it's more affordable than I thought it would be. #woodworking

I see folks posting new stuff for Rails, and I wanna be happy for them, but the chance of me using Rails in 2026 is slightly less than me taking up Fortran or COBOL.

Consider this my petition to rename *that* fucking guy as TFG if we want to stick with initials

On one hand, having thirteen folds in a phone will be *somewhat* inconvenient, but think of how special you'll feel holding(folding?) it in front of others, realizing your immediate superiority, by spendmaxxing your phone

I would join any religion that has cheese as a sacrament soo fast

sometimes I'm a little dense, but I managed to pull it out at the last second Cardle 5/5 Streak 2🔥 Total Score 1087 🔴 🔴 🟢 🔴 🔴 🟢 🔴 🔴 🟢 🔴 🔴 🟢 🟢 🟢 🟢 www.playcardle.com

One of these is my actual ICQ number....

I can think of no two places with greater dissimilarities in "transplant" discourse than NYC and Oregon.

Genuinely wonder if software is going through a "mass produced houses" phase. With the ease that new software can be built, we are abandoning and throwing away more software than ever before. When you know that what you're building won't last, how much care and attention do you put into it?

Just went to "back in my day" someone on em-dashes by saying, "I've known how to type an em-dash on a mac for..." and then I paused for some head math and came up with 30 years?!? Rude.

Okay, but we're still more angry at Robert Kraft and the billionaire class than we are at Ed Sheeran, right? right??