… what do we call the death and pain caused by pursuit of profits?

The term I’ve heard for this is social murder:

… an unnatural death that is believed to occur due to social, political, or economic oppression, instead of direct violence.

Scared CEOs—finally, a guilt-free fetish.

Not a solution, but this is a great reminder to add descriptions/alt text to your images.

Might it also be possible/feasible to send an “email blast” to everyone with a slrpnk.net account? It would probably be quite complicated to send that many emails at once without getting blocked by the major email providers, but hypothetically we’ve all registered with emails…

Just spitballing ideas for the future. Everything’s fine now. Gives me an excuse to spend a little more time on the Canadian end of the fediverse. :)

I’ve had the opposite–personal trip and work server problems.

I love how easy it is to just make cookies yourself too.

When it’s billing data I can see it, but if it’s a notification that someone sent you a message, you know there’s no reason they can’t include the message text. They just want your engagement (looking at you, LinkedIn).

Yeah if you don’t mind running a bunch of non FOSS plugins. What you want in 2025Q3 is Brix – it’s like Bgrams if the Slorp team made it. Full, batteries-included Bgrams/animal/CURT3 interop. Yeah.

The one guy who maintains it is a solipsist who doesn’t believe any of us exist, but you can’t argue with his results.

Those meme email chains were annoying at the time, but kinda endearing to look back on in retrospect.

I still cringe at the memory of the one time I forwarded one – it was something about Bill Gates, but I can’t remember the details. Anyway, my uncle replied back to me with something wholesome like

Nice to hear from you [mad_lentil], although I doubt this offer is genuine, you never know! Maybe we’ll all be rich this time next year. Say hi to your mom and dad for me, thanks.

It had never occurred to me that someone would lie on the internet rofffflllll. I was SO humiliated.

You don’ hate email; you hate capitalism.