Format: Aside

CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American by @edent@edent (shkspr.mobi)
When I was a small child, I took an IQ test. One of the first questions I stumbled on was “A piece of candy costs 25±. Jonny has a dime. How many nickels does he need to buy the candy?” My 7-year old brain popped. WTAF is a nickel? Or a dime for that matter? We don’t have those coins in my co...

I never knew what exactly put me off on the most used captcha system out there but now I do. It’s not only the foreign language but the assumption I’d know what the pictures are about at all.

BTW we usually have taxis in RAL 1015 (light ivory) here in Germany but nowadays other colours are possible – just not very common.

shovels and rakes and implements of destruction by crystalcrystal (chicky.blog)
Chinese takeout and self-pity are on the Thanksgiving menu today. Like this:Like Loading... This year, I won’t blow smoke up anyone’s ass about how thankful I am for things. Shawshank‘s been gone for 279 days. I’ve had to take care of myself since that morning – and that was even before th...

Rooting for you @crystal. You’ll make it! (And your BossRPh rocks).

Example domains by Jan-Lukas ElseJan-Lukas Else (jlelse.blog)
Did you know that there are official example domains that can be used in documentation? example.com, example.net and example.org are all example domains of the IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, which are explicitly intended for use in documentation.1 In documentations or even in sample ...

Nice. Didn’t know, may use now 🙂

Corona-Leugner: Wasser marsch! by DanielDaniel (danielehniss.de)
Was gestern in Berlin geschah, hat den Staat nicht an den Rand des Umsturzes gebracht. Aber es motiviert und konsolidiert eine Bewegung, die von dem Gedanken beseelt ist, das eigentliche Volk, eine schweigende Mehrheit zu reprÀsentieren und kurz davor zu stehen, den Staat ins Wanken zu bringen. Was...
The Sound of a Landslide Not Happening by John ScalziJohn Scalzi (Whatever)
This election should have been a landslide. Faced with a choice between a decent, if uninspiring, former Vice President with a long and solid track record of competent governance, and literally the worst president since the Civil War era -- a president under whom the economy cratered, corruption reigned, human rights were stripped and mocked,


Oh, Scalzi ♡

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2020/11/08/the-sound-of-a-landslide-not-happening/

My feeling on this in well formed sentences 👍

This isn’t the end. I am not relieved.

Hat tip @Szlauszaf