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🎗️ Stop the war. Bring them home.
🏳️‍🌈 Infosec software developer and really-bad-puns guy (he/him)
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SINGAPORE??
A screenshot titled "Top Traffic Locations". The ranking shows: Ireland: 827,912 United States: 405,090 Singapore: 90,111
December 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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You have GOT to be kidding me. Am I going to get a "Google Cloud Wrapped" next?
Cloudflare Your Cloudflare Year in Review is here
December 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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They fixed the icon composition too so now it looks great in clear WOOHOO
A screenshot of icons in iOS 26 in the "Clear" setting, showing (left to right): Backbone, Bluesky, Discord, Facebook. All icons are properly using a clear "Liquid Glass" background and a white icon foreground.
November 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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oh my god
OCR-transcribed text: "But in an interview with NBC News, the Hares admitted that leaving Abilene for Russia had been hard. Their plan to rent an apartment in Moscow fell through, and the family ended up living on a farm south of Moscow, taking care of chickens, rabbits and horses in exchange for free room and board, all during Russia's notoriously harsh winter. The family gave their landlord's son $50,000 to invest in a car importing business, but the son ran off with the money and Russian police were no help."
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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I kinda like it EXCEPT for how iOS 26 clear mode doesn't seem to know how to modify it, it can't even cut out the icon shape
A screenshot of 4 app icons on iOS, showing Bluesky as the odd one out with a lighter background due to the system being unable to convert the icon to "dark mode clear" as the rest.
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Update: they've silently raised the price for me too, I've just noticed in account settings when I went to skip this month.

No email, no notice, nothing.
TITLE: Payment Information CONTENT: You're skipping July 2025 Choice. Your next bill is for US$14.99 on August 26, 2025.
July 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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If you mostly use the “Discover” feed, you can customize it by tapping “…” on a post and choosing “Show more like this” or “Show less like this”. Tapping “Show more[…]” on @catsofyore.bsky.social posts will, over time, populate your Discover feed with more of their posts.
A screenshot of Bluesky, showing the “More”/“Options” menu of a post, highlighting the option “Show more like this”.
July 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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(Here is the same text-photo but with the text added as alt text, read with OCR. Posted in two parts because it’s over the limit of 2000 characters.)
PART 1/2 We've seen a wide range of accusations regarding the use of Al-generated content in The Alters, and we feel it's important to clarify our approach and give you more context. Al-generated assets were used strictly as temporary WIPs during the development process and in a very limited manner. Our team has always prioritized meaningful, handcrafted storytelling as one of the foundations of our game. During production, an Al-generated text for a graphic asset, which was meant as a piece of background texture, was used by one of our graphical designers as a placeholder. This was never intended to be part of the final release. Unfortunately, due to an internal oversight, this single placeholder text was mistakenly left in the game. We have since conducted a thorough review and confirmed that this was an isolated case, and the asset in question is being updated. For transparency, we've included a screenshot to show how and where it appears in the game. While we do not want to downplay the situation, we also want to clearly show its limited impact on your gaming experience. In addition to that, a few licensed movies that the alters can watch in the social area of the base were added at the final stage of development. While those were externally produced, our team was not involved in the creative process, and these required additional last-minute translations. Due to extreme time constraints, we chose not to involve our translation partners and had these videos localized using Al to have them ready on launch. It was always our intention to involve our trusted translation agencies after release as part of our localization hotfix, to ensure those texts would be handled with the same care and quality as the rest of the game. That process is now underway, and updated translations are being implemented. END OF PART 1/2 PART 2/2 To give you a better understanding of what a small part of the overall scope of the game's narrative layer they are, those few external movies are approx. 10k words out of 3.4 million across all languages in the game, or just 0.3% of the overall text. The alternative was to release those specific dialogues in English only, which we believed would be a worse experience for non-English-speakers. In hindsight, we acknowledge this was the wrong call. Even more so, no matter what we decided, we should have simply let you know. As Al tools evolve, they present new challenges and opportunities in game development. We're actively adapting our internal processes to meet this reality. But above all, we remain committed to transparency in how we make our games. We appreciate your understanding and continued support as we work towards that goal. END OF PART 2/2
July 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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It’s rude to stare #MarioKartWorld #NintendoSwitch2
June 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Okay MUBI, I’m not sure I’m the target audience for that but alright
A subscription promotion notification from MUBI, saying: Title: 10.99 a month. For 4 months. Content: Watch more great films, like PUSSY. For a lot less. No strings. No ads.
May 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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wukko what did you do
A screenshot of a tweet by @wukko, right below an infinitely spinning loading indicator, implying it’s the last tweet loaded or posted before the outage. The tweet states: i didn’t expect github workers to be this fast at building chromium for arm64 macos so much power for free???
March 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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A meme of Tiffany Pollard going “BEYONCÉ?” but with the caption “KOJIMA?”.
March 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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tired: this sounds great
wired: this song is fire
inspired:
A screenshot of a YouTube comment saying: "MY HYMEN?????????????".
March 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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February 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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okay but have you considered:
A (very small) screenshot from Gamers Nexus' benchmarks, of just one graphics card's model name -- "NVIDIA RTX 4090 Cybertank", dated December 2024.
February 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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They sent out an email about this, but strangely they never documented it online, so here’s a screenshot:
A screenshot of an email from Cloudflare about GitHub permissions changes. Email contents follow. We are updating the GitHub App permissions. With these additional permissions, when you get started with a template on the Workers platform, Cloudflare can automatically create a repository on your GitHub account and deploy the new repository for you. You will receive an email from GitHub requesting updates to the permissions of the Cloudflare GitHub App on December 18th, 2024. The requested permissions changes are: Old Permissions n/a Read-only access to Contents New Permissions Read and write access to Repository Administration (used to create repositories on your GitHub account) Read and write access to Contents (used to push code to the created repositories) Content permissions will only apply to repositories you have given Cloudflare access to, configurable in your Cloudflare GitHub App. Cloudflare will always require your consent to initiate the use of the actions permitted by these permissions.
February 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Joining the group VC like
A screenshot of a Batman comic, showing Catwoman entering a place saying: “Hello! Batman? Pookie?”
December 12, 2024 at 2:53 PM
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what if you bring back the old Twitter handle:
A screenshot showing the web domain “punished.ca.it” is available for registration.
November 30, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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I can’t not see that photo like an Animorphs cover
A book cover of “Animorphs: The Threat”, by K.A. Applegate. It shows a teen boy “transforming” into a dog.
November 26, 2024 at 11:25 AM
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instantly reminded me of that one meme
The original image in the post, but with the captions added: Top: “I can be your angle…” (typo intended) Bottom: “or yuor [sic, your] devil” (typo intended)
November 14, 2024 at 1:39 PM
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The Thing (1982)
Screenshot of a tweet with an image and a caption. The image shows a window with a crooked sign saying “please don’t let the cat out. No matter what it tells you!”, and a cat sits next to it, intensely staring at the camera with wide-open, unusually large eyes. The caption above the image says “horrifying warning I seen [sic] on the way home from work”, with a crying emoji to signify cry laughing.
November 14, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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I didn’t know the “D” in “DST” stood for “Dick”
A local news screen that says “Turn your cocks [sic] BACK one hour tonight”. Subtitle says: “WNEM TV - Bay City • Saginaw • Midland • Flint, MI”.
November 4, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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Reopening Twitter after browsing Bluesky for a while:
An edited screenshot of a dark, scary corridor in Silent Hill, showing a scared SpongeBob
October 22, 2024 at 11:45 AM
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no one:
charli xcx and billie eilish:
October 18, 2024 at 12:13 AM
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oh hi
Patrick Star, from SpongeBob SquarePants, looks over a fence with a huge, open mouth smile.
October 17, 2024 at 5:46 PM