Shit, sign me up. I could definitely use some amusement.

Few things scare you like thinking you’ve lost one of the most expensive and fragile things you use nearly 24/7. And even fewer can make you feel like a complete idiot to realise you’re already holding it. Such a crazy crosswire of feelings.

It’s not. I have a Mastadon account (made it nearly a year before BlueSky). It was work. I have to curate it and the interface is awful. BlueSky was easy.

To be clear, I barely use BlueSky, either. I’m almost exclusively on Lemmy. But these platforms need to get their UX ducks in order, and I say that as someone who has adapted to tech and UX since the late 80s.

I barely have the energy for social media in the first place. Mastadon feels like work.

Oh is that what that noise was? I thought it was from when I nearly strangled myself with my headphone cable in standing, since I’ve apparently forgot how reality works today.

I’ve no idea what’s gone wrong, but someone else suggested weed. I wasn’t on it, but perhaps I should be.

No weed. Just pure unfiltered ignorance.

This sounds like literal wizardry to me. I love it, but I don’t get it.

Oh that’s cool!

Relevant XKCD

‘Look at the size of my penis parade!’

Get extra sauce. The whole point of bread is to carry sauce.

Oh hey, look at the meme I made and posted 6 years ago on Reddit, the last time this xenophobic moron was in office. It’s almost like we could have predicted this shit.

But no, I was ‘hyperbolic’ and ‘alarmist’ at the time.

(Sorry for the Reddit link, it was this:)

Title: I’m sure Macron would be very happy to work out travel arrangements.

Look, all I’m saying is give Pis a chance.

This cannot be real, wtf. This is cartoon levels of ineptitude.

Or sabotage by someone heading out? Please let this be resistance sabotage they haven’t noticed yet.

Yeah, sorry, I thought at first they were 3 separate, tapered lengths, but looked again and realised it’s one long looped steel.
It’s still almost certainly not related to hoops, but I dunno what it is.

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I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

You’re absolutely right, but as a UxD, until these platforms learn UxD, they’ll never work. They can’t.

It doesn’t matter how great they are, the vast majority of people won’t learn. And they shouldn’t have to. That’s why big commercial apps are better – good designers need to eat, and big companies can pay for their eggs.

It doesn’t matter how good your model is, without great UxD, you’re dead in the water.

I’ve had a scene for a horror novel bumping about in my head for a while:

Guy breaks into a house late at night, wearing a mask but unarmed, goes to the kitchen to grab a kitchen knife with which to subdue the elderly couple living there (he knows because he’s cased the place).

He’s surprised by the elderly woman who’s suffering from insomnia, but he’s closer to the knife block, so he has the upper hand, and he grabs the closest knife on the block.

Woman: After a brief moment of initial shock, she lifts her kettle from the burner. ‘Are you planning to kill me with a paring knife?‘.

The startled home invader looks at his knife, sets it down, and grabs a larger knife.

Woman: ‘That’s a bread knife.’ She pours her tea. ‘Would you like to try again? Look for one that’s not serrated.’

Guy drops the bread knife, tentatively lifting knives from the block.

Woman: ‘Vegetable knife, poor choice. Keep going. Fish knife, okay, but not the best. How would you like to kill me? Are we talking stabbing or chopping? It makes a difference.’

The scene goes on from there.

There were news crews outside the bus, and reporters asking questions. They knew they would be in the news. This wasn’t surreptitious at all – quite the opposite.