If you’re cool with Invidious you can use instances via the Yattee app. (Not sure if it’s available in every territory though.)

https://github.com/yattee/yattee

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yattee/id1595136629

You… you shut up. 🥲

“It’s tempting to say we’re stepping into a new world where all forms of media cannot be trusted,”…

Yes, we are and it’s shit for the human mind to have to constantly do a double take on everything to make sure it’s actually real.

“but in fact, we’re being given further proof of what was always the case: Recorded media has no intrinsic truthfulness, and we’ve always judged the credibility of information from the reputation of the messenger.”

Sure subjectivity, biases, and other factors skew things, that’s a thing. But I’m sorry, “Any information humanity has ever preserved in any format is worthless.”, is quite the fucking claim.

Been using Bear Blog for a few years now and it’s been very cool as a small static blog platform.

No excess menus, no ad junk. An enjoyable experience all around.

The ability to filter comments actively as you mark them off as completed is magnificent.

You mark a comment, it hides itself. Neat and tidy, fantastic.

Why doesn’t Adobe do this, you ask? Who the fuck knows. Especially since you used to be able to in Acrobat.

Why? Were people complaining it was too helpful?

Adobe sucks but InDesign is still pretty much the standard; it begrudgingly does a pretty good job.

Affinity Publisher is coming along nicely though. And yeah Scribus is not too bad either.

Word being a word processor also sucks at document layout. Most software that isn’t made for laying out documents suck at it, but people all try. My god do they try…

Excel is okay as long as it stays in its lane.

It is not okay if you’ve ever worked in a printshop or do graphic design and people send in newsletters or brochures or some shit done within Excel.

Excel is many things; it is not fit to layout documents. Blegh.

I don’t know what’s sadder the giant Safeway sandwiches going from $9.99 to $13.99 or my mortgage about to go up like 200 goddamn dollars…

But where else do I get my malt vinegar fix?

“You’re awfully loud over there. You haven’t tried to just let the world be all night.”

“Pfft. Look at Alice over there-”

“Muhfuccin Batista Bomb!”

DEATH 💀

Charlie Huston’s “Caught Stealing Trilogy” or “Hank Thompson Trilogy”. One of my favourite modern noir pieces of work. A damn solid 3 book series about a guy who gets mixed up in shady stuff and can’t seem to find an exit.

I actually found and read the last book first, not knowing it was a trilogy. Which made me think it was trés cool how things in the past were referenced and added more weight to the main character/world. Turns out it was book 3 of 3. 🤪

All three made/make it hard to get into clunky modern pulp/noir style fiction since.

Hey pig piggy pig pig pig.

Not to flagrantly self promote but that’s what I did with neocities. Used it as a static linktree alternative:

https://thepjn.neocities.org/

(Again, provided as an example, not “look at me”.)

Neocities : https://neocities.org/

Just never interact with anyone. Christ, it’s not that hard people! (This comment doesn’t count.)

Interesting. Will give it a look. Thanks!

Yeah. Surely they’ll listen, one of these years… 🤪 Might be a while yet now that they’ve got their fancy new “AI” toys to play with.

Always looking for an alternative…

Beans… I was afraid of that, had hoped my search skills were just letting me down. Thanks though!

Just admit you’ve been watching old SNL clips on YouTube, Pete.