I was chatting with a stock photographer a while back. Apparently the most important thing is the tags that you give the photos. The best ones are abstract because you aren’t competing with “hand” and “pen”. If you can make your photo of a hand holding a pen fit “wistful” or “trenchant” then you have a better chance of it being seen. Making thousands of weird photos like a hammer/screwdriver/wand being held over a watermelon/plastic duck/brick by a clown/policeman/nurse and giving them abstract tags is the way to go.

That’s all right. I didn’t want my kids to have a habitable planet anyway.

Every time I want to do something, I have a look around the baffling ecosystem of frameworks and end up writing it from scratch because it’s easier than wading through the bullshit.

Oat milk is definitely the best. Better than moo milk for cereal, in my opinion.

I feel that I became a little bit stupider after reading this article.

Milla Jovovich, Resident Evil
Han So-hee, My Name

Short answer: yes.

Long answer: yes, it is.

This doesn’t really explain anything. Not least why I should use it.

When I’m not broken, an 8 mile cycle ride that takes around 30 minutes. I’m currently recovering from a broken kneecap and getting the bus in, which is about 20 minutes and 5 minutes walk each end.

The old internet is still there. It’s just dwarfed by the colossal amount of shit piled up on the shit sites.

As a general rule, stick to free and open stuff because the motivation of the people doing it is to give to the community, rather than make money. Mastodon and Lemmy/Kbin rather than Xitter and Reddit. Just stay away from Facebook. There are lots of old style bulletin boards still around for various interests, and they are often more used than FB groups.

I stopped putting adverts on my sites ages ago because I hate them so much. I don’t want to be part of the enshittification.

Quite. After all this shit I want to have a rest.

This is the correct answer.

Sounds like you are very similar to me and a billion or so other people. I don’t see much point in creating a label for yourself in order to restrict yourself to that label. You are what you are and don’t worry about it. I had a thing with a trans woman for a while and now I’m happily married with kids. Whatever I am has never had a negative affect on my life because I don’t worry about what I am.

Good policy. That’s me subscribed.

What the world really needs right now is another narcissistic dictator.

99.9% of people have more in common with an illegal immigrant than Elon Musk. Their problems aren’t caused by people arriving in small boats, but those arriving in private jets.

Does this mean that blood type O will become rarer over time and eventually disappear? Does it also imply that someone, like me, who is O- has a family tree with fewer branches on it than most people?

1. Do what you can. Reduce your carbon footprint by eating less meat, using cars less, flying less. OK, by yourself it’s not going to make a huge difference, but at least you will know that personally, you aren’t making it worse. Join a group that is trying to make a positive difference.

2. Concentrate on the little things that make you happy. You can’t stop climate change on your own but you can make something nice for dinner.

3. Value your friends and keep in touch with them. They probably feel pretty much the same as you do. Cheer each other up and support each other.

4. Get a hobby to keep yourself occupied.

That’s all I can think of.

Not sure we are talking about the same thing? https://gdpr-info.eu/

They aren’t wrong that this law isn’t fit for modern times, but not in the way they mean. It needs to be e expanded into a GDPR type thing.