has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane

Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!

Silicon Valley, 2025:

"ban minors from installing software" is the "ban books from school libraries" of our age

just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

if universities are war zones, does that mean I get combat veteran benefits

DM means Dishonorable Message. If you need to speak with me you can do so in front of everyone, in the light of god

the overlooked benefit of dial up was that noone could call me during my internet time

Sometimes a user will post a joke and then that very same user will post something sincere. And I as the reader am expected to understand this, using my brain?

guy in 3000 bc: remember when tools were made of stone 🪨 now every thing is bronze 😡 we used to live in cave ⛰️ now we sleep in hut 😪 instead of hunting ox 🐮 we make them pull plow 🌾 who else wish we could go back 😩

Blocking a reply guy on Bluesky takes too many clicks. It should only take one.

I love my job as the guy who adds a fake “keep me signed in” checkbox to every website that does nothing

I'm so used to bar bathrooms with cutesy signs that I had to stop here and ask myself if I was a Mario or a Wario

Pointing at the $18 drinks on the menu and asking the waiter if this is "rage bait"

Working together (pair/mob/ensemble) helps with fixing inefficiencies in the system in a way that it amplifies the pain that every single individual felt when working in isolation, but because everyone was suffering alone, the pain was perceived not as high to address it.

1/5

About 48hrs ago American TikTokers, incensed by the upcoming ban, and the gloating of Zuck/Musk about people returning to their platforms, decided that they were Americans and no one was going to tell them what to effing do.

So they downloaded RedNote - a Chinese social media app

I’m in support of Bluesky showing the “Required in your region” for the German Moderation Service to indicate that the German government is forcing Bsky’s hand to hide certain content from its sensitive German users’s eyes, even if it’s a sad reminder of the regionalized nature of the modern 'net.

Until I make the time to set up a socials cross-posting thing, you‘re probably better of following me on Twitter. twitter.com/netnostalgic