The "payment reference field" for my Portuguese bank does not allow accented characters.

Oh ... kay

The world is going to burn from climate change while Nazis run amok trashing what's left of our dying civilisation not because there's nothing we can do to stop it, but because the people who are in a position to be able to stop either are all too fucking thick to do so.

I need a fucking drink.

I think I understand his advertising strategy. Create a site full of techno libertarian fanboys who are not anywhere near as clever as they think they are, but who are demonstrably willing to throw money at any old crap if they think Ayn Rand would have approved, and then present it to unscrupulous con artists, wanting to sell scams like NFTs or bitcoin or whatever, as a captive audience of gullible losers who will buy any old crap as long as it “owns the libs”.

He may not be doing this on purpose, but scammers will absolutely see the value in an audience of a few million gullible right wing arseholes who won’t complain about terrible service and who have money to burn.

Apparently the “basic biology” nut jobs on Twitter, when they’re able to post, are going on about how it’s biologically impossible for trans women to lactate.

Meanwhile, I’ve literally had tea made with my own milk.

There’s a new alternative to Twitter that I’ve developed and am accepting signups. The best bit is that you can run your own instance on a laptop, or even your phone! And it’s free!

Here’s how it works: open your notes application. Write out up to 280 characters. Repeat using new notes if you want a “thread”.

Then delete the whole lot.

Given nobody can actually read anything you post on Twitter, this is functionally equivalent to actually tweeting, except with far more uptime and no Nazis yelling at you to buy bitcoin for your grandma.

You’re welcome.