Every newsroom’s style guide should insist on formatting it as “the so-called ‘Department of Government Efficiency'”
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There is an 11,000-line Sass file in Mastodon’s source: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/javascript/styles/mastodon/components.scss
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Sandra Bernhard??
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“The Academy Awards of course reflect what Academy voters like, but they also reveal what kind of story the voters want to tell about themselves.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/movies/sean-baker-oscars-speech.html?unlocked_article_code=1.104.yxmu.MUI9NfAE7zat&smid=url-share
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ActivityPub just doesn’t seem right for blogs, doesn’t anybody feel the same way? It’s just weird. We can have #ActivityPub *and* #RSS.
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We need a federated Letterboxd, *yesterday*
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#Ivory now has grouped notifications!! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274
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Hey a new Destroyer single #music https://destroyer.bandcamp.com/track/cataract-time
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Wow the new iPads Air *still* don’t have Face ID. I have a lot of mileage left in my M1, so I’m in no rush to upgrade.
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As someone who relies on quarters for laundry and has experienced the difficulty of getting banks to part with them, I want to “rob a bank” for an even exchange.
“ALL RIGHT, FOLKS! HERE’S A HUNDRED DOLLARS! NOW GIVE ME TEN ROLLS OF QUARTERS AND NOBODY GETS HURT”
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Hey good for them, for real https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/business/shopping-addiction-no-buy-2025.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1U4.XSTE.yPhs0AaUKaI0&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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I have an idea for a new kind of pomodoro method, where you can do whatever you want for 25 minutes, then for five minutes you have to do nothing. Really truly nothing, just sitting quietly and unfocusing your eyes.
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Conan is the only good thing we have left in this world
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I am aghast — AGHAST — at Adrian Brody’s behavior tonight
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As macOS started getting kind of “iOS-y” — Apple News using Catalyst, the weird reorganization of System Settings, etc. — I gave them the benefit of the doubt and assumed these rough edges would be polished over the next couple versions.
Instead, News on desktop — now in its seventh year — is still terrible, and now they’re spending their efforts on things like Image Playground and AI summaries.
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Anybody have any favorite self-hosted bookmark apps? I’m looking into #Linkding for its small footprint and active community.
I recently tried to switch from #Pinboard to #GoodLinks and I’m not super happy with it.
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If the 16e had a flush camera, I would seriously seriously consider buying it.
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Cool site of the day: “Museum of ZZT”: https://museumofzzt.com
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Does anybody else have the same sense I do that “dribs and drabs” only really became commonplace in the last 10-15 or so years? @grammargirl
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And speaking of the #iPod Nano, this is really fun to rewatch. He refers to “the iTunes phone” here, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GRv-kv5XEg