Nobody Cares if it's Off Topic

[Noodles]

I mean, these could be the same eras.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

It's World Hamster Day so:

The Original Hampster Dance

The ORIGINAL Hampster Dance, meticulously recreated to be preserved in YTMND. This took more effort than you might think.

originalhampster.ytmnd.com

 

[Noodles]

Oh wow YTMND still exists.

 

[Free]

Uhh, OK... (The image gallery shows them off in all their (mistaken) glory!)



Maglink

 

[Noodles]

It gets better and better as it goes along.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

The only thing unrealistic in that was the Pepsi shirt, which is clearly Newfoundland, or Quebec.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

MisterJayEm (@misterjayem.bsky.social)

"bear suit insurance fraud" https://abc7.com/post/3-southern-california-residents-sentenced-bear-suit-insurance-fraud-scheme/18907444

bsky.app

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/dreams-2

 

[Noodles]

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/dreams-2

I understood that reference.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Happy Star Wars Day, everyone!

 

[Innula Zenovka]

This, by Tal Levin (of whom I am a great fan), could fit in several forums but is broader than any of them, so I'm posting it here because it's well worth reading. (Spoiler: It's not just about sandwiches, by a long way)

Notable Sandwiches #142: Turkey

Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I slip messily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,...

buttondown.com

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

“The disc's greatest lovers were undoubtedly Mellius and Gretelina, whose pure, passionate and soul-searing affair would have scorched the pages of History if they had not, because of some unexplained quirk of fate, been born two hundred years apart on different continents. However, the gods took pity on them and turned him into an ironing board* and her into a small brass bollard.

*When you're a god, you don't have to have reasons.”

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Colin (@colinstu@birdbutt.com)

Attached: 1 image I'm still angry/mad that the display/model tents in stores aren't actually just a tent for your pet that you can buy.

birdbutt.com

 

[Casey Pelous]

Colin (@colinstu@birdbutt.com)

Attached: 1 image I'm still angry/mad that the display/model tents in stores aren't actually just a tent for your pet that you can buy.

birdbutt.com

???? Nobody at Coleman thought of that? Does not at least one person at that company own a cat? WTF?

 

[Isabeau]

https://www.homesalive.ca/tiny-tents-alpine-green-tiny-tent.html

(the coleman ones look better)

They even have small sleeping bags for dogs!

 

[Casey Pelous]

If you're on a site like Payne Glasses or GlassUSA and use the "Try On Frame" feature while chewing gum, the glasses keep changing size. You can also make faces or squint or cross your eyes, and they will scramble to adjust.

I mean, that's what I've heard .......................

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

I guess for my birthday this year, I get SPAM.

My cell phone number, closely guarded for DECADES has apparently been found by the forces of cold-call/text-blasting.

Being consumed by flaming rats is too kind a fate for those bastards.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I guess for my birthday this year, I get SPAM.

My cell phone number, closely guarded for DECADES has apparently been found by the forces of cold-call/text-blasting.

Being consumed by flaming rats is too kind a fate for those bastards.

I have a Pixel 7 with built-in call screening that takes care of nuisance calls for me.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

I have a Pixel 7 with built-in call screening that takes care of nuisance calls for me.

I had white listing turned on on my pixel 5... Not sure if the 10 has it. It might be on, and stuff is s just slipping past it finally. Who knows. If it escalates I'll look into locking it down again.

Annoying part is that I don't want to decline a call because that can supposedly be detected by a robo dialer. (Rings fewer times than it just ignored). So I just let it ring.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Well, I finally managed to get myself permabanned from Threads. I had always figured my anti-MAGA snarkiness would get the best of me, but, no, it wasn't that at all. I had a fairly normal afternoon of posting replies, then took a break for a couple of hours for dinner and such. When I picked up my phone to see what was new in Threads, I found I had been logged out. Weird, I thought. So I logged back in, saw my profile page for about half a second, then saw a screen explaining my account had been permanently suspended. The reason? Apparently I had violated their terms of service regarding fraud.

Fraud? What the fuck??? They cited things like romance scams and the like as examples of what violated their rules, but did not explain what, specifically, I had done. Worse, the message went on to state that I had no right to an appeal, that all my content would be deleted, and their decision was final.

Fraud? I mean, I always expected I'd eventually be shown the door for being a snarky, liberal bitch. But fraud? And, of course, they didn't even show me which post supposedly violated their rules! So I have no fucking idea what they're even talking about!

So, fuck 'em. The place was turning into a MAGA toilet anyways, like Twitter did. So I have no interest in fighting it if that's even possible. I have Bluesky, but I think I'm going to take a little break from social media for a bit to rub my wounds.