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I don't use the term because I don't want to make someone feel shame about their body but I have always read uses of 'small dick energy' as insulting, not organ size, but the culture of toxic masculinity that believes the ridiculous idea that genital size is indicative of value.

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Over many years, I have been gradually replacing all of the paragraphs in the Ship of Theseus Wikipedia article.

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@incurablehippie Oh my, it gets better… this is the response the big man managed to muster 🤣

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If you pay attention to how people who either have questions about or openly oppose trans people/trans rights/trans medical care, you'll notice that they always talk about abstractions and unknowns.

What "How do you define the word woman?" has in common with "More research is needed." has in common with "Trans women could dominate women's sports." is that none of these have to do with anything concretely happening, now, in the real world.

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@bethsawin If someone pitched libraries today, it would be a startup hawking a monthly subscription model with different tiers and cheaper plans where you don't have access to new books. It would be valued gazillions thanks to proprietary partnership with publishers.
Free public libraries is such a revolutionary concept.

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@bethsawin @KLB See also the #origami nail clipper.

Yes, it's done from a single piece of paper. There are videos of the designer folding one.

So I'm dating a woman who is allergic to oranges, not an allergy I had previously encountered, and this is forcing me to confront certain uncomfortable truths about myself such as the fact I am a complete fucking hipster who owns Angostura Bitters and togarashi sessoning

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I have noticed a lot of my friends from Twitter have adopted adding alt text since moving here. You don't get an award or anything, but *I* noticed the change and I think more highly of you. I will kiss you with tongue

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It's not the breach that customers remember, it's how a company responds.

With that in mind, @carlypage and I look back at the most badly handled data breaches of 2022, featuring DoorDash, Samsung, LastPass, Revolut, and Rackspace, to name a few.

More: techcrunch.com/2022/12/27/badl

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@afewbugs Even trendier pursuits like gig going suffer from this. Support acts, set times, curfew? Only on social media.

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@afewbugs it is so frustrating! I can see why some may think editing a webpage is too much faff, but surely they need to make sure the info is out there more easily? I hate having to go to Facebook!

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@afewbugs
really, the dissolution of twitter ought to be a stern lesson in what a horrid idea it is for organizations to only do updates to social media.

But I don't expect many to recognize it.

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@afewbugs My pet peeve has been Discord.
Don't get me wrong, it's a great tool, the servers are feature rich, the bots useful, integration with other services like OBS and Twitch and games an absolute masterpiece.
But it is synchronous, rolling and constant. It's not like a forum or a page, so don't put stable and important information on it and expect it to be a file server or bulletin board or about page!

Also desperately trying to justify my grumpiness in terms of wider social needs, but surely putting the information as text on the website is more accessible than in a Canva picture of a Christmas tree? Particularly unimpressed with you, Library

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Is this a millennial thing, to expect there to be useful information on the website? Do gen Z just go straight to social media? Do I have to admit that I'm finally old? Should I have come to terms with that when I was planning a trip to a garden centre?

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Something that makes me very "get off my lawn" in my old age is the way organisations and companies don't seem to update their websites anymore, they use social media instead. I've had to check for holiday opening hours on the pages for my local library, climbing gym, wholefood shop and garden centre, and only the garden centre had them, I had to go to Facebook or Instagram for the others.

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