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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I call it, “subscription fatigue”.

    Work bought me an iPad. It was my first foray into iOS.

    I’m not sure what the app store was like before, but I couldn’t find a single app that didn’t have a subscription plan. Even a simple SSH client built using open source libraries wants $6.00/mo.

    I totally understand why people groan and do a face palm any time they see yet another app wanting to charge them monthly, hoping that once there you’ll forget that you’ve subscribed.

    The only reason that I paid for Sync is that I’ve seen the dev interactions and their dedication to the project. I would never ever pay for a software subscription from any of the big players. For a single person setup, I’m more than happy to do it. I donate to my favorite podcasts and my favorite designers from Thingiverse.

    Late stage capitalism and the rent-seeking economy sucks. But becoming accustomed to individuals paying other individuals is one of the things we’re going to have to do to make it suck less.






  • I was in South Texas a few months ago (not my idea).

    At a local H.E.B. There was a rack of Pride merchandise including t-shirts and bumper stickers that said “Y’all includes ‘all’”

    They were on clearance so my cynical brain leapt to the conclusion that nobody was buying them. Nooope. They were being destroyed and otherwise vandalized while on the shelf. This was happening so often that the manager decided that it was costing more to keep them on the shelves than the goodwill of the queer community was worth to him.

    Wake me up when a corporation does more than the absolute minimum during Pride. Otherwise it’s just more sociopathic virtue signaling from organizations that would happily sell Khmer Rouge branded glasses if they thought it would increase shareholder value.


  • It has all of the hallmarks of a successful media franchise.

    OG Jewish Christianity: The one-off movie that unexpectedly took off.

    Pre dogmatic canon: That time you let Sony try to make a CD ROM version.

    Post dogmatic canon: Bought out by a major corporation. Maintaining continuity becomes compulsory.

    Islam: Darker! Edgier!

    Gnosticism: A writer attends a cocaine party with his Neo Platonist buddies.

    Crusades and Inquisition: DMCA for a different millennium.

    Reformation: Fan fic writers rejoice!

    Counter Reformation: Nuh uh!

    Anglican Schism: What if we made this into a light hearted cartoon?

    Mormons: Somebody tells a producer’s son, an aspiring writer, that there is no such thing as a bad idea. As it turns out, this is incorrect.

    Modern Evangelicalism: Judge Dredd and The Punisher make tender love.