Lady, EVOLVED @Lady@cat.family

i’m tired of career internet users posting thinkpieces like “the internet used to be good! now it’s bad! we can make it good again!”

no, you can’t, an essay in three parts :⁠—

• you say the internet was good? what made it good? more importantly, WHO?

• what happened to those people?

• what is stopping that from happening to those people again?

i might be writing an essay about the internet

Quit bemoaning the loss of the old web and take it back!

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gotta stop treating “after i joined Mastodon” as a reference marker for “recent”

a lot has happened in my life and a quarter of it happened while i had an account on this social network

there’s a lot you CAN say about games but like. why would you. it has ceased to be relevant

*slowly turns towards the nearest movie theatre*

remember when games were worth criticizing?! it was like a five year window you probably missed it

the music WAS better when i was a kid! the shows were more creative! the movies were better written, shot and directed! this is extremely distressing to me!

when i was a kid i cared passionately about staying up on what was cool and new in media but i did not anticipate that in a decade media would collectively have gone to shit

or at least become communists first

blue scholars already wrote the best rap song about fucking over a decade ago, other rappers need to stop trying with this one

it’s the best you can do as far as supporting “easy”, “low effort” pagination but the drawbacks are still pretty significant and doing the harder more cumbersome thing just seems a lot more preferable to me right now

this was a pain and i will probably revert it
https://git.ladys.computer/Shushe/commit/d3431e949fbbc8147ba188cb774e5176adf9fe18

sed 's/'"'"'/'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'/g;s/^/'"'"'/;s/$/'"'"'/'

compatibility! https://git.ladys.computer/Shushe/commitdiff/0.7.2..0.7.4

i also made my make·file work in dash (probably; we haven’t exercised ALL of its options yet), which is less embarrassing

i fixed the bug in my TSV parser https://git.ladys.computer/Shushe/commitdiff/6a5f3ba09e7cb44178811e4d9cdc63a394b8500e

apparently there’s a bug in my TSV parser

anyway i’d really rather be writing fanfiction and contributing to the culture rather than dealing with this