curmudgeon extraordinaire says fuck off, fascists
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Make it Stop
Hopefully now that it’s 2025 organizations will stop their onslaught of pleas to donate to them. Theoretically, I am hearing from companies whose missions I support, but I’m getting spammed multiple times per day and it’s too much. One of these companies is emailing me 2-3x A DAY. Fuck off is where I’m at with…
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2024
Today is the last day of 2024, but the real Eve is January 19, 2025. The last day before the shit show begins in earnest. To everyone who decided to sit out the election because of a single issue: Fuck You. My review of 2024 is 0 stars. It had its moments but they were…
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Sex Scandal?
Funny how “sex scandal” almost always means “Rape.” Calling rape a sex scandal lets the rapist off the hook and makes it sound like the victim consented or just made a bad decision. It’s not a scandal. It’s a crime and the media needs to report it as such.
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Blocked
If you send me an email that has no text to remind me who the f you are, you get blocked. Maybe I did subscribe or for some reason want to hear from you. But who remembers every single vendor or service they’re okay with? I sure don’t. Don’t put your information in images that…
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Privacy in the Rear View Mirror
How on earth are users supposed to figure out what privacy settings have been set or enabled by default after an app or OS update? The settings are scattered all over the place and there is no effing way a normal person can keep track or even know about a new setting. Eff that, that’s…
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Billionaires Bending A Knee
TFG put out his For Sale sign in his first term. Billionaires are bending a knee to him because they want to buy secure in the knowledge that there are no brakes this time around.
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When UX is Hostile on Purpose
Back in the days when I was a web developer the community was all about the best design for users, use of white space, typography, what kind of menu, the best navigation scheme, how to make sure visitors could use your site without getting lost, getting eyestrain, or giving up. Today, most companies seems to…
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Happy Holidays
It’ll be four years until there’s another one. And that’s only if enough Reps and Senators have a backbone. I have my doubts.
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Cooperation and Gender
I’ve been procrastinating a certain task by bingeing FaceOff, an elimination show for people who do special effects/creature make up. Every week someone gets eliminated based on the results of what they created for that week’s challenge. It’s fun to see what they do and sometimes it’s just really amazing. Every now and then they…
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Oh, He’s a Criminal?
Oh, look. Matt Gaetz did everything people said he did. The party of “We’ll protect women” does the exact opposite.