The gingerbread man lives in what he believes to be a gingerbread universe, where all matter is gingerbread.

Gingerbread, da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di, da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di, da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di, da ba dee da ba di

• Funko (of Funko Pops) bought an AI tool to search out brand infringement
• AI files a claim against Itch.io
• Itch’s registrar decides to Leeroy Jenkins it and takes down Itch’s domain without bothering to clarify or validate

would probably be funnier if we hadn’t already lived through decades of Q and tea party and Covid and anti-vaxxer and anti-flouride and flat earther and birther – artist is trying to parody right-wing idiocy but we’ve already seen far stupider stuff in real life

one video talking about Paul Watson: “wanted for the crime of being a fucking legend”

Chinese “hackers” walking through wide open backdoors installed by our very own intelligence agencies …

(estimated) 52M membership × 32% denial rate = baseline 16M suspects

flip the question around: Why would you think this wasn’t a scam?

(considering what’s left behind on Xitter, that’s probably a good thing)

(since no one can afford a house even with perfect credit)

The Little Trashmaid

if you love the worm, it pulls the trolley handle

(angry upvote)

Bluesky isn’t federated (another privately owned monolith that’s promised it’s coming Soon™) and recently got funding from a company with “blockchain” in its name (and there’s already rumors that despite claims otherwise, ads will be showing up in the next year or so)

that being said, Bluesky does offer much better blocking, muting, and moderation options than Mastodon (Mastodon devs have been digging in their heels) as well as better on-boarding and curated follow lists

• Bluesky and Enshittification
• It’s Bluesky. The Nazi Bar is Bluesky.

Stonetoss is a nazi.