Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis
@thrownintosol.bsky.social
Tired and barely functional.
Autistic et al.
Profile Pic; @failnaut on Twitter/Bluesky!
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Looks like a guy. In early thirties, lol. South African in ZA / 🇿🇦 .
Anti-AI. I typo and repost a lot!
Autistic et al.
Profile Pic; @failnaut on Twitter/Bluesky!
Alt Text for Header and Profile Pic = https://shorturl.at/DFMN9.
Looks like a guy. In early thirties, lol. South African in ZA / 🇿🇦 .
Anti-AI. I typo and repost a lot!
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Autistics who hyper-fixate on the predominantly icy planetesimals proposed to surround the Sun at great distance should be called Oortistics.
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As someone who works on the interaction layer of software: it's this.
Stupid trends in hardware self correct after a generation or two, but *software* ratchets in the direction of unusable because designers are occupied with interaction patterns and not whether the fucking thing works properly.
Stupid trends in hardware self correct after a generation or two, but *software* ratchets in the direction of unusable because designers are occupied with interaction patterns and not whether the fucking thing works properly.
i think it's useful to look at areas where the *tech* has gotten much better while tech *interactions* have gotten way worse. streaming has gotten worse, google search has gotten worse, digital cameras are leaps better. apple's silicone is so good it's threatening their user upgrade cycle
it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
As someone who works on the interaction layer of software: it's this.
Stupid trends in hardware self correct after a generation or two, but *software* ratchets in the direction of unusable because designers are occupied with interaction patterns and not whether the fucking thing works properly.
Stupid trends in hardware self correct after a generation or two, but *software* ratchets in the direction of unusable because designers are occupied with interaction patterns and not whether the fucking thing works properly.
lol, lmao
Deciding "my little sussy baka" is a fine thing to say tells me that y'all have been teased by your atheist boyfriends and it SHOWS.
November 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
lol, lmao
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Fellas, is it moral to post?
November 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Fellas, is it moral to post?
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this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
this is quite the detail
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I feel like this story, about the Trump admin removing references to black soldiers and their plight in WWII, alongside their campaign to erase the histories of minority soldiers, should be a bigger deal, as its part of the conservative attack on objective truth. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/13/p...
Display about Black soldiers in World War II removed from US military cemetery | CNN Politics
Decades ago, as some of the bloodiest fighting in World War II ramped up in Europe, 19-year-old 1st Lt. Jeffersons Wiggins, along with hundreds of other Black soldiers in, were tasked with burying the...
edition.cnn.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I feel like this story, about the Trump admin removing references to black soldiers and their plight in WWII, alongside their campaign to erase the histories of minority soldiers, should be a bigger deal, as its part of the conservative attack on objective truth. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/13/p...
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holy fuck this works, even the shipping was free and i made an account minutes ago
square is giving away the $59 chip reader for free as long as you log in to your account to order it 👁️👄👁️
November 30, 2025 at 5:14 AM
holy fuck this works, even the shipping was free and i made an account minutes ago
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"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them
November 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them
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It stopped respecting the natural borders of other holidays, it’s been aggressively expanding its territory, this aggression cannot stand
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
It stopped respecting the natural borders of other holidays, it’s been aggressively expanding its territory, this aggression cannot stand
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The War on Christmas? No it’s The War of Christmas Agression
November 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The War on Christmas? No it’s The War of Christmas Agression
Russia: "but we're still the good guys"
⚡️Russia declares Human Rights Watch an 'undesirable organization'.
Russia’s Ministry of Justice designated Human Rights Watch an “undesirable organization” on Nov. 28, effectively banning the group from operating in the country.
Russia’s Ministry of Justice designated Human Rights Watch an “undesirable organization” on Nov. 28, effectively banning the group from operating in the country.
Russia declares Human Rights Watch an 'undesirable organization'
Russia’s Ministry of Justice has designated Human Rights Watch an “undesirable organization,” effectively banning the group from operating in the country, on Nov. 28.
kyivindependent.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Russia: "but we're still the good guys"
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It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
Fantasy Airlines core
dragonriders of pern, print ad, imagery (1984) archive.org/details/ANAL...
November 30, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Fantasy Airlines core
turning on the bathroom light when you go to piss at 4am and losing your retinas like
November 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
turning on the bathroom light when you go to piss at 4am and losing your retinas like
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he's being turned into a pastry before our eyes
France’s far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack
French far-right leader hit on the head with an egg
Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, was hit on the head with an egg Saturday, just days after another incident in which a protester threw flour at him.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
he's being turned into a pastry before our eyes
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Got to this quote in Legend of the Galactic Heroes
November 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Got to this quote in Legend of the Galactic Heroes
same ass what i'm doing [being disabled], but i wouldn't be a drain on everyone i know to a degree that aids in the (now-rare) suicidal ideation
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
November 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
same ass what i'm doing [being disabled], but i wouldn't be a drain on everyone i know to a degree that aids in the (now-rare) suicidal ideation
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Brigadier General Charles Harker, leading a brigade of Illinoisans and Ohioans in Sheridan’s division tried to copy his commanding officer’s stunt but mounted a gun that had just been fired. The red-hot barrel scorched his ass so badly he couldn’t sit a horse for weeks (18
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Brigadier General Charles Harker, leading a brigade of Illinoisans and Ohioans in Sheridan’s division tried to copy his commanding officer’s stunt but mounted a gun that had just been fired. The red-hot barrel scorched his ass so badly he couldn’t sit a horse for weeks (18
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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The Home Office seemingly operates under the assumption that asylum seekers secretly have money and documents that would allow them to go to some other country and tries to sweat them and smoke them out by petty cruelty.
Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The Home Office seemingly operates under the assumption that asylum seekers secretly have money and documents that would allow them to go to some other country and tries to sweat them and smoke them out by petty cruelty.
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I see the Indy is also going with asylum seekers being “banned” from doing something they were being forced to do unwillingly in the first place, so presumably this is how the Home Office‘s press release is framing its own admissions of incompetence and waste
Asylum seekers banned from taking taxis in new government crackdown
Asylum seekers banned from taking taxis in new government crackdown
Asylum seekers banned from taking taxis in new government crackdown
www.independent.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I see the Indy is also going with asylum seekers being “banned” from doing something they were being forced to do unwillingly in the first place, so presumably this is how the Home Office‘s press release is framing its own admissions of incompetence and waste
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The Home Office’s absurd taxi bill results entirely from its insistence on forcing people to move round the country without choice or notice, & to live on the breadline so they can’t afford public transport. That Mahmood didn’t know about it till the BBC told her shows how appallingly the HO is run.
November 29, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The Home Office’s absurd taxi bill results entirely from its insistence on forcing people to move round the country without choice or notice, & to live on the breadline so they can’t afford public transport. That Mahmood didn’t know about it till the BBC told her shows how appallingly the HO is run.
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Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.