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how many conferences do I have to speak at before I can railroad an RFC which fixes the fact that in all-day events in icalendar can’t have time zones through the IETF

attn, every fucking web app which takes text input: please stop making my keys do other things when I have the textbox focused

our replacement air conditioner arrived and I’m still puzzled at how the first one managed to arrive damaged in this way? glad we caught it when we did

not sure what to call the paradox wherein someone who would actually go build a decentralised social network is almost certainly not a person fit to deal with the social problems of a decentralised social network

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a cool thing about web apps being in shitty electron wrappers is that hyperlinks just don’t work anymore

hey does anyone have tips for transporting the Switch dock? I’ll need to put it in luggage eventually and I don’t want it breaking, does someone make something for this or do I need to go to my local “foam cut to ANY size” store and buy a switch-sized firm wad to secure it?

still *very* confused that more of the world doesn’t have compulsory voting

PLEASE STOP POSTING STEVEN UNIVERSE SPOILERS

JUST STOP

WE DONT HAVE THE NEW EPS YET

PLEASE BE FUCKING CONSIDERATE

I’m glad to learn that Link is definitely *chaotic* good

any way crossing my fingers they bother to deliver the burgers we ordered

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(WHAT SORT OF MONSTER MAKES № INTO A LIGATURE?)

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Oh oh oh for good measure: they recently started using a webfont which contains a ligature which turns “No” unconditionally into №, rather than only the literal № character, so our favourite vegetarian burger place now sells the “Number Bull Burger”

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I don’t think anything sums up our experience using DoorDash more succinctly than that their order page has an Apple Pay button which prints a console error which says their domain is not registered to use Apple Pay

Today at @SteelAndOak@twitter.com we met this lovely friend named Aura

like it would almost make me think it was a Nintendo of America development, except that the shape much more closely resembles the Super Famicom/European SNES shape? Maybe they wanted to design it once and split the difference? What an odd device!

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I’m still fascinated that the Super Famicom mouse was the same in every region, despite having what looks to be the North American SNES colour scheme of grey and purple rather than grey and 💚💙💛❤️

(it froze completely, on this screen, so I think the answer is “fuck off”)

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