Bad Blood is easily one of my favourite episodes of television ever.

I kinda doubt my occasionally caustic and ribald sense of humour is conducive to opening up a conversation, but I suppose any comfortable ice breaker works.

do they put out one decent piece of long form journalism once every few months? I seem to recall reading a really good piece on the Street Fighter series (including the movie production) and other stuff like that.

maybe I'm reading between the lines here, but isn't the implied argument that… we're not really the users?

the beauty is that you can build your own personal blocklist. unlike with this new systems, it seems…

would you have accepted "countrified" though?

according to the technician answering stuff in a thread above this (erm… above being a relative term based on whatever my Disqus default settings are), apparently not?

I'm astonished that anyone thought this could possibly be a good idea at any point during product development, let alone QA and real world testing.

clickbait is among the worst things to happen to the internet. that specific variant in particular, not just the typical sensationalist headline / article type stuff, as that's been around for eons.

odds are pretty good they'll shed a decent chunk of users though.

another existential crisis incoming. great…

will that still exist? I guess it's ancillary to the site itself…

man, I forgot about Slashdot… and I used to actually pay attention to that site before it had its last gasp about five years or so ago…

ouch :(

sometimes I kinda wish I gave a shit about self-medicating again, since at least it was a sign that I was trying…?

when I was first diagnosed with depression etc., the doctor mentioned that maybe the only reason it had taken so long to be recognized was due to the fact that I used to exercise so much until I hit my mid teens.

it can certainly exacerbate things. (I'm thinking of the notion that most people just curate their "best self" as the version to be broadcast to the world.)

I wouldn't say there's inherently less room for forgiveness, though it can feel like an emotional minefield. it can make missteps loom larger than they really are though — at least, I often feel that way.

possibilities are grand! and as someone who shortchanges sleep repeatedly, in spite of the fact that I should know goddamn better at this point… well done on catching some Z's.

sea shanty themed prog-rock, with some pastiches of various genres thrown in there for good measure. what's not to love?