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Not here to subjugate or serve.

“Don't misdirect your rage” :vegan: :antifa: 🏴

Reasonably nice human being.
Decentralisation proponent.
Unrepentant ska fan.
🧅 enthusiast […]

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axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy
#brussels at night
January 29, 2026 at 8:56 PM
axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy
Seriously, it's a chat system we use for business, you now a professional setting, why would you suggest I react with "😘" or "🫶", what's wrong with you?

Also, the list of "frequently used" shows emojis I've literally never used. Again, what's wrong with you Slack?
A screenshot of Slack showing the supposed "frequently used" emojis: some of them like 🫶, 😂, 😆, 😏 or 🛝 I have never used. 🛝, really? Did you even know there is a slide emoji? I didn't, until i was informed it's "frequently used" (by whom Slack, by whom?).
January 29, 2026 at 11:54 AM
axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy
#london at night.
Moody photo of a cobbled London street. The street winds to the right between the brick buildings, lit up by a few yellow streetlight under a dark blue sky. A lone car is postured on the right. It isn't clear where the street leads.
January 27, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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How shady does this look? A Firefox add-on from "Developer" called "Wallet" that has the word Meta Mask in its description and a similar looking fox for a logo. Sheesh.
#infosec
Screenshot from the Firefox add-ons website showing what's described in the message.
January 24, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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Starting to wonder, what's the likelihood Trump does not realise Greenland is not the size of Africa, as the Mercator map projection would lead you to think, but much, much smaller, the size of Alaska and California put together?

This much becomes obvious when […]

[Original post on mstdn.fr]
World map using the Mercator projection, where Greenland appears to be the same land mass as all of Africa. World map using the Gall-Peters projection, where shapes are distorted but relative areas are true to reality, showing Greenland to be a fraction of the land mass as all of Africa. World map using an approximation of the AuthaGraph projection, where Greenland appears to be about the size of the Arabian Peninsula, and much smaller than Africa.
January 22, 2026 at 9:29 AM
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Enjoying getting back into #converge. Hard to believe a band can be as immensely aggressive, heavy and often overwhelming while also being simply excellent and completely focused.

And some of the song titles :chefkiss:
"Fault and Fracture", "Bitter and then Some" […]

[Original post on mstdn.fr]
Screenshot from Genius.com: – andmamightcallitnoise: Even with the lyrics right here I can’t hear what’s being said – Cheremenin: welcome to converge
January 20, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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If you'd like more reasons to be angry at HMRC.
Screenshot: "For your security, we signed you out We did not save your answers. Sign in"
January 16, 2026 at 6:37 PM
axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy
I find it amusing when people say "utilize" instead of, you know, "used", for no actual reason at all.

"What's the cheapest phone that can utilize this feature, I wonder?"

It feels like trying to sound French and sophisticated.
A version of the Sophisticated Pooh Bear meme with regular Pooh: USE sophisticated Pooh: UTILIZE
January 16, 2026 at 3:38 PM
axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy
Look, i really like #nixos, but downloading 12GB of packages from the café's wifi just to update a Raspberry Pi 4 and a VM feels like taking the mickey.

This makes me wonder how workable this is on the long term for regular home user.
Screenshot of a terminal session running "nix flake check" on my Nix flake. It shows that Nextcloud can be updated and then some information about the how the flake is being evaluated: it requires 587 packages to be built from source and 1459 to be copied (ie: downloaded directly from the cache), for a grand total of 12.106GB of data transfer.
January 12, 2026 at 9:16 AM
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@alex Yeti Sports ! Ça faisait bien longtemps que j'avais pas lu ce nom :D

Je viens de faire 319.3 !
capture d'écran de Yeti Sport avec un résultat de 319.3
January 11, 2026 at 10:03 PM
axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy
Clearly what Kurt stood for.

WTAF.
January 10, 2026 at 7:48 PM
axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy
Terrifying British checkbox.
Screenshot of a checkbox titled "I am a Crown servant".
January 7, 2026 at 7:33 PM
axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy
This is considered to be a multimillion dollar piece of real serious business software.

It can't automatically make sense of a space in a regular pattern.

But by all means Atlassian, throw "AI" at it to "improve" it, rather than fix snags that have made people's […]

[Original post on mstdn.fr]
Screenshot of Jira's time tracking entry menu throwing an error when entering the 2h15m as time spent: "Check your entry matches the time format" Screenshot of Jira's time tracking entry menu throwing no error when entering the 2h 15m as time spent.
November 18, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Borrowed from c/memes
– I'm buying the new Steam Machine. – But Pater, there's no Fortnite or Call of Duty because it's Linux. – I just told you I'm buying it, you don't need to sell it to me.
November 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy
Google is now showing you random images in Google Presentation, for "inspiration". This is supposed to be a work tool.

What happened to this company?
A screenshot of a Google Presentation popup called "Inspiration", with a AI-generated image of (quoting the text directly superimposed on the image) "A teddy bear dressed up as a warrior on top of a mountain, cinematic photography sunset lighting".
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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There are pro-Israel demonstrators in front of the Forum Kentish Town where #bobvylan are playing. There are weird hybrid Union Jack + Israel flags, and now they have started a chant of "Yes, yes to the IDF". A few minutes ago someone on a PA announced they were […]

[Original post on mstdn.fr]
Pro-Israel demonstrators in front of the Forum Kentish Town in London, with a line of yellow vest cops in front. Pro-Israel demonstrators in front of the Forum Kentish Town in London, with a line of yellow vest cops in front.
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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@taziden je crois que cet emoji manque cruellement à notre serveur: :partybara:
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy
Please explain why you need Alexa "AI" to answer the same question IMDb has been answering since the beginning of IMDB, Amazon?

Did you forget how to do a basic SQL query?
November 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy
« Gna gna gna, les fromages véganes c'est pas des vrais fromages, ils s'affinent pas… »
Et là, ça va, il est assez bleu ce bleu ? :blobraccoon_peek:

Brixton Blue de la Fauxmagerie, oublié pendant une quinzaine de jours.
Photo d'un morceau de fromage bleu végane Brixton Blue de la Fauxmagerie, dont la surface est entièrement recouverte d'une fine couche de cultures bleues grises.
October 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy
Big Tech does not understand "no", episode 2419103.
Screenshot of a Google Calendar popup: Use Gemini to take notes Automatically generate and share notes from your meeting Learn more // Turn on
October 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy
Conférence à l'école Polytechnique. Je regarde une cafétéria du campus, qui affiche une magnifique infographie sur l'importance de réduire la consommation de produits d'origine animale pour limiter l'empreinte carbone de son repas. Je regarde ensuite l'offre : rien […]

[Original post on mstdn.fr]
Affichette "l'empreinte carbone de votre repas" avec une infographie montrant un histogramme de barres verticales se réduisant. La première barre est intitulée "Repas classique à base de bœuf" (sic). La deuxième, un peu plus petite "Réduire les protéines animales". La troisième, largement plus petite "Remplacer la viande rouge". La quatrième, un peu plus petite que la précédente "Choisir des produits de saison". La cinquième, un peu plus petite que la précédente "Choisir des produits locaux". La sixième et dernière, environ moitié des trois précédentes et un 20e de la première "Repas végétarien de saison".
October 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Apparently, this is what the most tasteful company in software design, Apple, considers good in 2025.

Please, let's all try not too laugh too loudly.

Via https://www.nngroup.com/articles/liquid-glass/
A screenshot of Apple's iMessage up using the new Liquid Glass design and an image in the background, as apparently encouraged by the app. A translucent message box with text in it is barely readable and images shown in the conversation are layered on top of the background image in a crowded and haphazard way. The overall screen looks like a 9 year-old's idea of "cool".
October 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Extremely cool graffiti seen today in #shoreditch in #london.

The neon effect was even more striking in person. Very impressive and cool artwork and skill.
A graffiti of secondary Simpsons characters (Krusty the Clown, More, Barney) done in the style of fun fair neon lighting tubes, with orange and green palm trees, striking yellow lines for the characters and a giant blue and red glass around them (for some reason).
September 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy
I mean look at this, Service Fee? Venue Facility Fee? Handling Fee? Yes please!

Where can i get more of these wonderful fees you so generously provide?
Screenshot of the price breakdown for 2 tickets for a concert in London, where each ticket is 49.50GBP but end up costing nearly 10 more (20%) because of the various arbitrary fees added by TicketMaster.
September 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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"Perfect for any occasion"

Baby's first porridge, Johnny's bar mitzvah, a sensual candle lit night in, a fascist social devolution, this sauce can do it all.
Photo of a bottle of West Indian EXTRA HOT pepper sauce by Encona. Above, a little panel reads: perfect for any occasion. Lower, a drawing of a graded chili pepper shows it going over the maximum grade, with a little explosion cloud over the chili pepper.
September 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM