I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.

- Jack Handey

Thanks for the clarification!

That’s weird - only a few weeks ago, there were rumors that Quick Share was going to be extended to also support iOS.

“It’s night time, Brad”

Chill. The graphic wasn’t made for this specific discussion. It’s a widely accepted way to group users of a service. In this case, the bell curve represents the adoption of something other than Twitter by Twitter users, and the driver isn’t “new thing to try” (in as much as neither federated or newer centralized microblogging platforms have much new to offer), it’s the slowly-heating pot of water that the frog is in.

I don’t disagree with what you’re saying, but Royal Mail was privatised a decade ago. It was floated on the stock market back in late 2013 (for around £2b, and despite objections from 96% of staff), and the government let go of their 30% stake in 2015. Křetínský was a big shareholder even then.

WhatsApp has channels (public feeds centered around topics, a bit like microblogging), communities (groups about a subject, much like Facebook Groups), and updates (temporal video/photo statuses to share with your friends). You might only use it for DM, but it has much bigger aspirations.

That’s definitely not Comic Sans. It’s similar – you can compare the screenshots in the image – but I’m guessing it’s a licensing or cross-platform thing and they’re using a Google webfont?

I’m from the UK. I found this funny, unreservedly. But I honestly really wish Americans would drop the “Cockney” thing and take the piss out of modern British accents instead. We’ve got a million of them and most of them are comic - let’s let Cockney die?

I’m going to assume you’re being wilfully ignorant but not trying to be an ass. “Gay” is more often used of men than women, and it’s perhaps more common for people to use “lesbian” for gay women, but it just means homosexual (or sometimes more generally not heterosexual), regardless of sex or gender.

Cambridge: “sexually or romantically attracted to people of the same gender or sex”

Merriam-Webster: “of, relating to, or characterized by sexual or romantic attraction to people of one’s same sex”

Oxford: “sexually or romantically attracted to people of the same sex”

Brittanica: “sexually or romantically attracted to someone who is the same sex”

Wiktionary: “Possessing sexual and/or romantic attraction towards people one perceives to be the same sex or gender as oneself.”

That’s the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

JWST is the 2021 James Webb Space Telescope, if, like me, you’re not plugged into this stuff.

Excerpt:

It’s looking more and more like the universal expansion was different when it was young than it is now. When it was young it was denser, galaxies were closer together, and conditions were just different. We know that dark energy plays a huge role here, causing the expansion to speed up, but how it does that isn’t clear.

you would’ve known that processed vegan food products are not the only alternatives

I think you should give them the benefit of the doubt in this instance – they could be dumb as a rock.

I really hate this meme template. Executives are responsible for their company’s decisions, but Arthur Fleck is not a role model.

ARMORED VOMIT DOLL 🪄

DIM MORTAL LOVE ROD 🪄

Agreed. I mean, it’s just a mullet, but you’re not wrong.

A cat, a plan, a canal: Pataca.

Kayak, rotavator, radar, pull-up, level.

A man walks up to a tailor in the agora at Delphi with a couple of torn chlamydes in hand. The tailor glances at him. “Euripides?”

The man nods. “Eumenides?”