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Been thinking a lot about media recently, and I think a lot of writers and creators really need to understand the importance of pacing and a strong first impression.

The intro of Mario & Luigi: Brothership was dull, and turned people away. The first few episodes of the RTD 2 version of Doctor Who were bad and turned people away.

In both cases, the creators stuck the boring and audience alienating stuff at the start, and lost a sizeable percentage of said audience.

I found this #throwback from a few years ago. I'm thankful to whoever made it.

#foss #linux #debian

I just logged into FaceBook for the first time in years and it’s filled with the most insane AI slop

At least I have cool music to listen to that my brother made.

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The app on my phone is one of the only social media apps I have that is an actual benefit to my life. It's less addicting and more giving.

Silly #poll time:

How do you pronounce "been," as in "How have you been?"

#Language #Linguistics #English

What's large, grey, and doesn't matter?
An irrelephant.

#DadJoke #DadJokes

This is a proposal to expand the tried tl;dr standard for further usecases.

The authors propose

pw;dr - paywall; didn't read
ai;dr - ai, didn't read

This is a draft.

When do doctors get angry? 

is killing the 😭
No more blue screens... it's now the Black Screen of Death 🥲
theregister.com/2025/06/26/mic
But the though... aw.

At this point just using *any* Microsoft product, let alone Windows, is inherently a security risk.

theregister.com/2025/07/23/mic

Complaining (sorry) 

Arguing online is annoying, it seems like my points never get across

Windows 10 dies Oct 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy new hardware. But if your PC’s from after 2010, it’s not obsolete — just held back. If you install Linux there are no license fees, no forced upgrades, no ads and spyware. You can find help at the endof10.org/

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