sorry for the jumpscare while you’re on holiday :)

wouldn’t you just love some snakeoil sauce on your snakeoil sandwich? imagine how good it’ll go with that snakeoil cocktail we’ve given you, on the house!

(which, ofc, is a limited-size cocktail. only 30ml! enough to get a feel for our snakeoil! but also it’s only 10ml/day. license levels. you understand, I’m sure.)

this gave me a good chuckle after a few Some Fuckin Days, ty

can’t wait to see what fresh horrors this shit unleases

the kids are fighting

ugh and the disease is spreading

I guess they couldn’t find enough marks ^W “investors” in the US

the Nazi bar distributing leaflets about indie Nazi feature nights is Concerned about this “accidental” distribution coming from their own printers and being handled by their own towncriers

(the context, in case you haven’t seen it)

the kind of people who think “look, no one said they don’t have empathy. they have empathy. I’ve seen it. it’s at their house tied up in the basement. apparently they have some kind of thing going on” is a normal line

why buy expensive corporate bleach when HCl is perfectly good?!

now listen, you might think this contributor seems like an utter cost,

continuing on the theme of promptfondlers shitting up open source (or at least attempting to), look at this nightmare pr

for those who may not software:

• this pr is basically unreviewably large
• it’s clearly just autoplag-sourced slop
• there is zero engagement from the person with the actual goals of the project or open source

(related tangent: @cstross’ Singularity series is a pretty fun topical dive about this, and he’s been following these nutjobs for probably close to 3 decades now)

references these two topics. I suspect the phrase itself in this case is a shitpost taking aim at some of the absurd bullshit TESCREALists come up with in their nonsensegabble, but … it is also the kind of nonsensegabble that some of them may unironically post

I present to you, this amazing screenshot from r/vibecoders:

(e: wrong. damn. tab.)

(e2)

remember, the actual design name is Liquid Ass

(still amazing that they PR blundered that, and how rapidly just that got fixed while addressing nothing else about this stupid thing)

I am waiting to officially leave the university to file a formal complaint

I am internally screaming

not that I blame you for this choice (in fact I get it), but it fucking suuuuuuuucks how many places and structures are overly protecting abusers. and it sucks even more how many people are being harmed out of that path as a result.

echoing what o7 said: sorry, this is messed up, it shouldn’t be this way

certainly better than seeing the damned cloudflare Click Here To Human box, although I suspect a number of these deployments still don’t sponsor Xe or the project development :/

hi it’s me, your locally undesignated wordsmith! in today’s wordsmithing, one not of my own but I thought worthy of known: robo-scab

(cred to @dgerard for linking upskeet that got me finding this. also I was so close; close but no cigar, I guess)

eyeballing the orange site top-frontpage, and:

shit should come with a strain warning