@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-03-26 14:45:34
…it’s not even that. It’s just ugly. Bad layouts. Bad margins. Bad proportions. Awkward animations. Flickers and flashes. Content peeking through all the negative space so that the screen is filled with visual noise. It feels designed by committee. It feels pasted together.
The feel of Apple products has covered a lot of ground over the decades. They’ve felt elegant. They’ve felt basic. They’ve felt bauble-y and cute. They’ve felt futuristic. They’ve felt practical. But this is the first time I can recall an Apple product feeling •cheap•.
@jake4480@c.im2026-05-27 21:31:27
@groupnebula563@mastodon.social2026-04-26 21:41:11
FYI: I’m cleaning out my following list, unfollowing people that aren’t really contributing to my feed, only post/boost drama and politics, etc. if you’re reading this post and don’t want to be unfollowed, value genuine interaction, etc., don’t worry, you’re exactly the type of being I want *more* of on my feed
EDIT FOR CLARITY: by "don't really contribute to my feed" i mean "flood it with politics and drama and crap"
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-04-26 12:06:25
Starting the day with going through the #bergwelten magazine once more. Sometimes I wish I'd knew the focal length of the photos.
Later we did two nice walks near #dietramszell and enjoyed spring and the sun. Wrist is also feeling better.
We saw really a lot of cyclists. But …
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-05-30 22:37:03
PS.
Here are the two outlets. This is probably not how it will look in the end, but just a starting point. Once I have the water flowing how I want it to, I will use pond foam sealant to lock the rocks into place and force the water into its final channels and patterns but as you can imagine there is some trial and error to be done before that big step.
For noe you can see there is a fold of liner sitting vertically betwewn the rocks to split the channel. I really have no idea where the water will get to once at full force so this might be too high, or too low but it should not be too far off.
The main thing is that the water is contained within the greater system around the tree. That's the trickiest part right now.
It is a wonderful tree. We don't want to drown it.
Speaking of which, if you are wondering about water. Yes. This is thousands of litres of water. But at this point I am not worried if I need to fill up and drain the bog filter a few times. All extracted water will go into the rest of the garden anyway, so aside from a little evaporation, nothing will be wasted.
Still waiting on it to fill. Looks like it won't be full before quitting time. oh well! Back tomorrow water experiments!
#pandemicpond #PoolPond #gardening #portalberni #home #yard #bloomscrolling #BackyardProject
@samvarma@fosstodon.org2026-04-27 03:23:57
Octopussy: felt like it might be classic for the first half hour, then devolved into the same bland mush as the other Moore films. Man, the rewatch of the catalogue is completely changing my relationship to the memories of these films.
And I don't remember them ever actually improving from here...
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-26 02:01:10
A surge in AI-generated "pro se" cases, or lawsuits filed by self-represented litigants, is democratizing the legal system but consuming more court resources (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-03-16 10:22:41
On the first day of the #PTSD intensive, we talked about the shooting. I had felt like I was done with that, that it didn't have anything left for me. But there was something still that filled me with rage... that is still confusing and enraging.
It wasn't actually being shot. I wasn't even the possibility of death. I had been prepared to die. I always knew that was possible. It was something else.
I remember Marc Hokoana's face as he pepper sprayed pacifists, smiling and taunting, joyfully hurting people who he knew were refusing to respond. I remember their flags, the kek flag, literally a Nazi battle flag replaced in 4chan colors with the clover 4chan logo instead of the swastika. How many people have been tortured, have died? How much suffering, that these people not only welcomed but celebrated, joyfully participated in.
The cruelty was the point. It was the plan, the plan he posted to Facebook, the same plan as they have always had, of torturing people until someone responds and then murdering them. Inflicting trauma, responding with overwhelming force, showing how "big and strong" they are because they can always escalate.
Try to stop someone from peppers praying people, they shoot you. Shoot back, like Michael Reinoehl, and they send a death squad for you. But we keep standing up, so they keep escalating to the slightest imagined infraction. Now they just murder you for being in a car, for filming at a protest, for existing.
The bar for what justifies murder or torture will continue to move lower until there is no one left, or until they can no longer escalate.
The feeling of helplessness is still not the biggest thing though. It's the joy with which they inflict this on us. That's it. That's the thing.
CW: gun violence, abuse dynamics
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/the-creature-ptss-5-day-1
@sean@scoat.es2026-05-26 16:06:21
Didn't get my phone/camera out in time, and very hard to make out in the bright sky, but I saw SNBD4 as 3 or 4 planes flying in a cluster, north of the field (and above the pattern) at CYUL. https://scoat.es/@yulalerts/116641706128627569
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-05-22 16:41:00
Politico shuts down two AI-driven products following a November 2025 arbitration ruling that found they violated the union's collective bargaining agreement (Kathleen Floyd/Washington-Baltimore News Guild)
https://wbng.org/2026/05/22/politico-ai-arbitration-victory/…
