Slade Watkins
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tech blogger & games journalist • opinions: my own & don't reflect my employers' • Signal: sladewatkins.06 / ✉️ tips@sladew.org / proud member of @voxtek.social
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omg!!!
but when is it my turn 😭🔫
but when is it my turn 😭🔫
December 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
omg!!!
but when is it my turn 😭🔫
but when is it my turn 😭🔫
me when i go on amazon and actually find what i'm looking for:
December 5, 2025 at 5:32 AM
me when i go on amazon and actually find what i'm looking for:
Something I initially missed was Gruber's follow up, which I'm linking because it is equally as fiery.
In-part: "So it’s not just that Alan Dye is a fraud of a UI designer and leader, and that Apple’s senior leadership had a blind spot"
Damn. daringfireball.net/2025/12/dye_...
In-part: "So it’s not just that Alan Dye is a fraud of a UI designer and leader, and that Apple’s senior leadership had a blind spot"
Damn. daringfireball.net/2025/12/dye_...
Alan Dye Was in Tim Cook’s Blind Spot
How could someone who would even *consider* leaving Apple for Meta rise to a level of such prominence at Apple, including as one of the few public faces of the company?
daringfireball.net
December 5, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Something I initially missed was Gruber's follow up, which I'm linking because it is equally as fiery.
In-part: "So it’s not just that Alan Dye is a fraud of a UI designer and leader, and that Apple’s senior leadership had a blind spot"
Damn. daringfireball.net/2025/12/dye_...
In-part: "So it’s not just that Alan Dye is a fraud of a UI designer and leader, and that Apple’s senior leadership had a blind spot"
Damn. daringfireball.net/2025/12/dye_...
I just moved to Cincinnati, OH from the Albany, NY area. Pretty good concentration of LGBTQIA+ people here! Though I'm eventually going to the DC area.
December 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I just moved to Cincinnati, OH from the Albany, NY area. Pretty good concentration of LGBTQIA+ people here! Though I'm eventually going to the DC area.
hoping to add +1 to the DMV gays population soon. I really just need to get my credit in check and then come visit to scope out the area again!
December 4, 2025 at 4:59 AM
hoping to add +1 to the DMV gays population soon. I really just need to get my credit in check and then come visit to scope out the area again!
I used to!! Been debating on getting one again actually.
December 4, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I used to!! Been debating on getting one again actually.
trust i'll be doing this because i have autism and a variable social battery 😭
December 4, 2025 at 2:36 AM
trust i'll be doing this because i have autism and a variable social battery 😭
idk what that is (mostly chronically offline online person you'll ever meet) so i'll take your word for it!!
December 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
idk what that is (mostly chronically offline online person you'll ever meet) so i'll take your word for it!!
I'd be okay with infinite scroll if the damn websites could MAKE IT WORK
Because let me tell you, the number of sites where infinite scroll is a thing but it bugs out every time is shockingly high
Because let me tell you, the number of sites where infinite scroll is a thing but it bugs out every time is shockingly high
December 4, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I'd be okay with infinite scroll if the damn websites could MAKE IT WORK
Because let me tell you, the number of sites where infinite scroll is a thing but it bugs out every time is shockingly high
Because let me tell you, the number of sites where infinite scroll is a thing but it bugs out every time is shockingly high
happened to me a couple weeks ago, and just before that somebody ACTUALLY got in somehow.
and i'm verified (no, I didn't pay for it lol) and have been for a while now! that should NOT be happening.
and i'm verified (no, I didn't pay for it lol) and have been for a while now! that should NOT be happening.
December 3, 2025 at 5:31 AM
happened to me a couple weeks ago, and just before that somebody ACTUALLY got in somehow.
and i'm verified (no, I didn't pay for it lol) and have been for a while now! that should NOT be happening.
and i'm verified (no, I didn't pay for it lol) and have been for a while now! that should NOT be happening.
I really need to get better about this, not next year, but now. I've been slacking.
Wish there was a way to remind me to write alt text each time ugh
Wish there was a way to remind me to write alt text each time ugh
December 3, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I really need to get better about this, not next year, but now. I've been slacking.
Wish there was a way to remind me to write alt text each time ugh
Wish there was a way to remind me to write alt text each time ugh
i'm lowkey thinking of getting rid of it because it's expensive and i have YT Music through work lol
December 3, 2025 at 5:26 AM
i'm lowkey thinking of getting rid of it because it's expensive and i have YT Music through work lol
can i come over and join? i have felt really bleh all day and need a reset ugh
December 3, 2025 at 3:25 AM
can i come over and join? i have felt really bleh all day and need a reset ugh
omg i love this! 🥹
December 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
omg i love this! 🥹
i am the very tired sleepy does that count
November 30, 2025 at 5:04 AM
i am the very tired sleepy does that count
also me most days 😭
November 30, 2025 at 4:54 AM
also me most days 😭
yeah definitely. there's a lot of work to do and i think it's our job as *the people* to make DC politicians and the institutions surrounding them remember that we want these people held to the standards they're SUPPOSED to be held to.
November 30, 2025 at 3:38 AM
yeah definitely. there's a lot of work to do and i think it's our job as *the people* to make DC politicians and the institutions surrounding them remember that we want these people held to the standards they're SUPPOSED to be held to.
something's gonna go down with Stephen Miller (probably some sort of criminal probe) the moment this admin dissolves and i'm gonna genuinely belly laugh so hard i won't be able to breathe because i would've called it in 2024 lmao
November 30, 2025 at 3:17 AM
something's gonna go down with Stephen Miller (probably some sort of criminal probe) the moment this admin dissolves and i'm gonna genuinely belly laugh so hard i won't be able to breathe because i would've called it in 2024 lmao
i mean okay i'm a slut for food but let's ignore that XD
November 30, 2025 at 3:03 AM
i mean okay i'm a slut for food but let's ignore that XD
hell yeah! i love popcorn haha. literally name time and place and i'll be there
November 30, 2025 at 3:02 AM
hell yeah! i love popcorn haha. literally name time and place and i'll be there
i didn't get a casting call. did you get a casting call?! what the fuck
November 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
i didn't get a casting call. did you get a casting call?! what the fuck