Mike Burns @mikeburns@octodon.social

Every day I log on here and every goddamn day people are talking about shit with no indication of who started the bit.

Who in the entire fuck is Mark?!?

Barbados will became a republic, removing the British monarch as head of state as of Dec 1 2021:

https://labourhub.org.uk/2021/10/13/barbados-dumps-the-monarchy/

receiving a DMCA notice for distributing unauthorized candle codes and instructions for jailbreaking your own candles

anyway if anyone ever says that girls are dumb and traditionally female activities are stupid and all appliances made for ladies have to be incredibly simple for their dumb lady brains,

brain them over the head with a sewing machine

bc that complex gif is just about one part of the machine, and one type of stitch. there is more to it than that. there is way more. and to use a sewing machine, you have to know things like "how to adjust the bobbin tension", "how to adjust the tension above", "how to troubleshoot these two things being slightly off", "how to properly thread the machine through each little bit of this so it can work", "how to feed the cloth into the machine with the correct sewing foot", "how to use the foot pedal to make the machine work at the correct speed for you helping feed the cloth through the machine", "how to clean and oil all of this complicated machine as regular maintenance", so on, and so forth, and that's even before getting into how sewing itself requires a whole fucking lot of both math and intense mental spatial processing as you have to work out how to make this 3d object!

can't find whomever posted this first so i'm reposting it

life hack: are you tired of boiling water for pasta? just boil a bunch of it at once and freeze it for later!

Post-apocalyptic scenario where people mostly work in manual labour (e.g. smiths, millers) but use today's work titles as names. No more John Smiths working as customer relations managers, it's John Customer Relations Managers working as smiths

I'm a discontent creator!

building some mediocre closed source startup app thingy with tons of competitors ( i wonder why) in public on tech twitter

building something interesting (literally anything, a new programming language, an album, a website that breaks all design rules, you name it) in silence on the fediverse and then releasing it to everyone, like how one would release music

cw: graphic violence (drawn)

whenever i see a game can have two players i say 'aah, two can play at that game'

Here it is, someone left a bag of store bought sand on the beach

I've planted lentils in the city's flowerpots, everytime I walk-by and see these green little tufts it makes me laugh.
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*rolling eyes at coven of witches* ok, broomers

@mikeburns Anyway, yes. I finally made one: https://scribe.rip

There was thread on Metafilter years ago where someone said Clue is written like a kid's idea of a grown-up movie, which is a pretty great description #mastoween