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y'know like, m'yah? (moth nyah)


karobit
@karobit

like, you're going through your social media feed, scrolling some arbitrary amount with your finger on the mouse wheel, and you stop in such a way that you see this on the bottom of your screen.

a close up of a gray pvc pipe against a dark stone sloping surface. what appears to be a white substance is pouring out of the opening of the pipe.

and you think "oh man, is this one of those fatbergs people find in the sewers, slowly oozing its way out? and you scroll down to see this.



dog
@dog

This is a new one. I've never actually seen a website admit that autoplaying videos are a punishment for users they don't like, rather than a way to try to attract users.


amydentata
@amydentata

autoplay: punishment

ads: punishment

algorithmic timeline: punishment

idk how this affects the average person but makes me want to pay money even less than i did before, and i started at zero


johnnemann
@johnnemann

That we've moved from a model of making people want to pay money for something they desire and instead forcing them to pay money for something unavoidable. Less like selling someone a new toy and more like a utility bill.

I was searching for a babysitter in Copenhagen the other day, as one does, and the only services on the internet force you to pay a subscription just to access their database of people. There's no alternative, no real sales pitch, no guarantee that you'll even get what you want. Just "you have to pay us for the chance that someone else will be able to provide you a service".

I think it's an inevitable part of the separation of humanity out of every piece of society, turning it all into mediated transactions where you're more an aggregate number to be sold to another business than a person.



folly
@folly

i am still aching in pain having fallen out of my chair laughing from this incredible trifecta of reviews for cranberry juice on the kroger app

  • this first one, you might be fooled into thinking is normal. many people comment about how hard it is to open the oceanspray bottles, and their caps being a nuisance. however, that belies the fact that this person's technique for opening the bottle is therefore to squeeze the bottle so hard it pops the top off??? a feat of immense strength that has to be greater than what it takes to unscrew even a very tightly sealed cap?? Love it BUT!
  • the second is the review that originally caught my eye, as its formatting feels much more natural and human than you typically get from reviews for grocery items. but. who is drinking THREE LITERS of cranberry juice in seven hours? who anticipates it so much they buy cranberry juice in a jug so big i could not lift it?? "ima be so cranberried up" as an affirmation for how prepared we are for what's ahead of us, so perfectly capturing its meaning. but i don't think i would be able to sleep for the number of bathroom breaks i'd need to take if I were that cranberried up
  • and the incredible third one. kanaya diction followed by a preposterous statement and the oh-so subtle typos. did you know: I think you commercial with a mother kicking a clown in the face if very offensive and a poor choice of promoting your product. maybe this is everything we the other consumers needed to know about buying this cranberry juice but were too afraid to ask