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sam henri gold

If you get called weird and don't mind, you're the good weird.
If you get called weird and get defensive, you're the bad weird.

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@dnsprincess

Good thing I'm an adultphile who likes women in my age range without kids! I don't mind getting called weird for that!

Gaslighting by childish people is only projection at scale. I'd behave if I were you.

sam henri gold

i just assembled a mini letterpress toy ama

Andy Piper

@samhenrigold what are you gonna use it for and do you have a mastodon logo to press

BenRiceM

@samhenrigold are you ready to take down the catholic church

sam henri gold

✅ Childless
❌ Cat
❌ Lady
✅ Miserable at own life and choices
✅ Want to make the rest of the country miserable

sam henri gold

seeing a post in the TL that blows past the 500 char limit

Григорий Клюшников

Oh, absolutely! There's nothing quite like the challenge of cramming every nuanced thought, witty observation, and deep philosophical musing into a tight little box of 500 characters. It's like a digital version of those infuriating "write your entire life story in 5 words" exercises, but, you know, on a platform designed to foster meaningful interactions. Because who doesn't love summarizing complex ideas and emotions in a way that would make a haiku seem verbose?

It's not like I have a lot to say or anything. Who needs to explain things fully when I can just cut out all the context, nuance, and flair? It’s practically a public service, really—saving everyone the trouble of reading anything more substantial than a headline. Let's face it, brevity isn't just the soul of wit; it's the whole darn body, mind, and spirit, apparently.

So yes, let's all strive to be the Hemingway of tweets, expressing our deepest thoughts in what amounts to a digital sticky note. Because if a thought can't be squeezed into a microblogging platform's character limit, is it even worth sharing? Spoiler alert: probably not, according to the prevailing wisdom of "I ain’t reading all that. I’m happy for you though. Or sorry that happened."

I mean, why should I bother crafting a well-rounded argument or sharing a detailed experience when I can just distill it down to a single emoji or GIF? After all, the true art of communication is best expressed through memes and oversimplifications, right? Let’s all celebrate the loss of complexity and the rise of the bite-sized, the oversimplified, and the overly reductive!

And those threads? Oh, they're just delightful. Nothing says "I had more to say but was tragically cut off" like a series of disjointed mini-essays strung together by numbers. It's like trying to read War and Peace through fortune cookies. But who needs coherence when we have character counts to uphold?

In conclusion (or, rather, in abrupt ending due to character limitations), let’s all raise a glass to the glorious brevity of microblogging platforms. Because the fewer the characters, the less we have to pretend we care about things like depth, clarity, or complete sentences. Cheers! 🎉

(making these kinds of jokes is one of the few things that ChatGPT is actually decent at)

Oh, absolutely! There's nothing quite like the challenge of cramming every nuanced thought, witty observation, and deep philosophical musing into a tight little box of 500 characters. It's like a digital version of those infuriating "write your entire life story in 5 words" exercises, but, you know, on a platform designed to foster meaningful interactions. Because who doesn't love summarizing complex ideas and emotions in a way that would make a haiku seem verbose?

sam henri gold

For the reader view summary loading animation, it draws the text-gradient-pulse outside of WebKit. Which I find interesting for a few reasons, most of which is that they couldn’t/didn’t want to pull this off using web technologies and had to dip into native world.

sam henri gold

what happened. we used to be a country.

sam henri gold

this feels very civilized

(i’m neutral on doritos btw)

sam henri gold

there’s something that sounds like the slack knock brush notification in Tik Tok – Kesha at 0m 23s and it throws me off every. single. time.

sam henri gold

this jiffy pop doesn’t give any microwave instructions so i’m just gonna wing it and say three minutes?

Григорий Клюшников

Don't all American microwaves come with a popcorn button?

benstiglitz

@samhenrigold you laugh but my family lost the only microwave we ever had growing up because a housesitter did just that

Marina Epelman

@samhenrigold Have you seen a Boston Terrier? It’s not even a terrier!

François de La Bruère

@samhenrigold I mean… don’t get me started with things called pie that aren’t pies.

sam henri gold

Meanwhile, over on LinkedIn, I’m reaching out to the Harris for President on behalf of #MastodonForHarris. I can only do this sort of thing because of the many, many contributions, boosts, and posts about our effort. You are proving what I am saying. The LinkedIn post is in the photo and here linkedin.com/posts/heidilifeld.

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GeoWend

@heidilifeldman ....hate to be that person...

Harrison?

Dr. Ferrous

@heidilifeldman excellent! I just shared your LinkedIn post with my network there. And sent you a connection request :)

Darwin Woodka

@heidilifeldman

There's an online engagement campaign call this afternoon if someone can hop on and give Mastodon a boost with the campaign there

events.democrats.org/event/615

sam henri gold

what a terrible world we’ve made for ourselves

Claude Zeins

@samhenrigold another banger from boingo is what I always say

David Bloom

@samhenrigold smart for Amtrak to advertise sleeper cars in airports tho

Григорий Клюшников

it somehow bothers me that Boingo is in no way related to Boeing

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Matthew Cassinelli

@samhenrigold It’s truly funny that this has been retracted because it doesn’t meet their editorial standards – because they can’t definitively prove he didn’t, only that he didn’t write about it

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