Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 27/09/2026if the author didn’t namedrop doja cat and acknowledge the death of the monoculture I’d assume rolling stone had thawed out some frozen 90s guy who’d just learned about classism and told him there’s a country song that people are saying they’ve never heard of 060
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 27/09/2026seeing this for the second time on my timeline I finally sought the article out and yeah it 100% feels like it’s written by someone still trying to live in a world that does not meaningfully exist anymore 150
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 26/09/2026they're cosmetic items. for a single-player game. NO ONE BUT ME IS EVER GOING TO SEE THEM! WHY DO I EVEN CARE 000
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 26/09/2026I hate that control resonant has twitch drops because I hate twitch drops because I don't watch streamers because why would I want to watch a stranger play video games, but I hate even more that I'm a sucker who got FOMO'd into "watching" a stream muted & minimized in order to get those twitch drops 100
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 21/09/2026this only bolsters my belief in Roko's Basilisk But Specifically Just For Eliezer Yudkowsky To Get Wedgied And Stuffed In Lockers Forever 000
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 17/09/2026also love too only really need glasses because of the astigmatism. granted I am around the age where presbyopia starts to set in but my uncorrected vision is still 20/25 so my glasses are basically just reading glasses but for astigmatism 000
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 17/09/2026love too have different degrees of astigmatism in each eye so every time I get new glasses every rectangle becomes a trapezoid until I acclimate to the new prescription 100
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 15/09/2026also, for the uninitiated: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogcowen.wikipedia.orgDogcow - Wikipedia 000
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 15/09/2026this is in iOS 27. could nature be healing? are Easter eggs returning to software? (probably not at least to the first one, I don’t think we’re un-ringing the “computers woven into the very fabric of our lives” bell) 100
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 28/08/2026I was bitching about this on discord and someone pointed out that it displays what it thinks it heard so you can trivially verify whether it heard you correctly as long as you can read text on a screen which okay sure but that is SO not the point 110
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 28/08/2026has outsourcing your thinking to stochastic text generators destroyed your capacity for independent thought and now your stochastic text generator is refusing to order a pizza for you? Papa John’s AI pizza assistant can help! 010
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 28/08/2026thank god we have AI so now we can recreate the experience of having to wonder whether your pizza order was heard, understood, and entered correctly without the inconvenience of a human being on the other end 230
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 28/08/2026apparently you don’t even have to do anything cool to get your own combo at Dunkin, just being an “influencer” is enough 000
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 28/08/2026I have no illusions that I am or ever was meaningfully in touch with popular culture but few things drive that notion home harder than fast food collaborations with people I have to google to find out who they are, like this at Dunkin 100
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 27/08/2026just remembered how COVID lockdowns extincted a flu strain and am now angry all over again about...fuckin' everything that's happened since march 2020 020
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 24/08/2026plus like I’d argue that vampire survivors isn’t “self-playing” like idle clicker games are, and even those do require some manual play to get to the point where they play themselves. this whole article really just feels like the author complaining that games they don’t personally like exist 040
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 24/08/2026I was actually going to read to the end to see if the article somehow redeemed itself, only to find out that it’s paywalled, so I’m just going to assume it’s fishing for people to subscribe to hate-read the rest of it 160
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 19/08/2026imagine how disappointed a fish would be upon finding out that "findom" has nothing to do with fins 000
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 15/08/2026maybe YOU refuse but I would enjoy making temperatures seem much more grandiose by using metric prefixes. what sounds hotter, 105 degrees Fahrenheit or 405.6 decidegrees Celsius? or, for that matter, 313706 millikelvin? 020
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 15/08/2026which must be even too nuanced for us given how most things that use it seem to treat anything less than five stars as an abjectly and irredeemably negative rating 020
Reposted by Alex I. ThymiaDana Nightingale 🏳️⚧️ @danaenight.northsky.social · 12/08/2026trans women 2221634
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 10/08/2026…which was “fun” to discover as someone who had been taking one and not just to lose 10-20 pounds… especially since my employer downplayed the fact that there would be any new exclusions and didn’t make the document that lists them particularly easy to find 010
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 10/08/2026sometimes even if it is a trendy drug: my employer’s insurance/their PBM stopped covering any weight loss drugs, including GLP-1s (if prescribed for weight loss; they’re still covered for diabetes) this year 110
Reposted by Alex I. ThymiaRiker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 05/08/2026why isn’t the future the way we thought it would be 31512112
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 04/08/2026I wonder if cyrillic "kid's handwriting" fonts commonly mirror Я and И like latin ones mirror R and N 010
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 01/08/2026I feel like a hypocrite because I find pandering nerd-"culture" mashups to be eyeroll-worthy at best but at the same time I also think shit like danny dorito is hilarious, even though it's ultimately not especially different in spirit 020
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 31/07/20265 words from my birth year (1983) that describe my vibe beta test cryptid cyberpunk gender transition information superhighway it is legitimately hilarious to me that there are a bunch of tech terms AS WELL AS “gender transition” and “gender nonconforming” first recorded the year I was born 021
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 27/07/2026maybe the real Carmen Sandiego was the friends we made along the way 010
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 26/07/2026gonna default on my student loans and tell them it's because I didn't want to destroy something that bloomberg news called "beautiful" 030
Reposted by Alex I. ThymiaZoe Tunnell ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 18/07/2026ADHD really did exist forever huh 527872
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 14/07/2026hot take: we fucked up when we let computers get so important to society that developers had to stop putting easter eggs into software because they were seen as unprofessional and untrustworthy 0819184
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 12/07/2026chitter and chirrup at me with all the indignation you can muster, cat, but you’ll live. there’s plenty of other places to lay in the house. sorry if they’re not as satisfying because they’re not precisely as wide as your body. but again, you’ll live 020
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 12/07/2026like, sorry I don’t want to shut you in this room because I can’t keep the door open if I leave for more than a minute or else your big dumb idiot Maine coon brother might decide to come graze on some of the black spaghetti dangling under my desk and your mom will kill me if he electrocutes himself 120
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 12/07/2026oh, to be a cat and live a life where the gravest injustice I face is a human making me vacate the window on whose sill I had been lounging 120
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 09/07/2026it occurs to me that I kind of glossed over the fact that you will have to sacrifice some other key, like caps lock or a modifier key that you don't use as much, for this, since PC keyboards don't natively have Compose keys 000
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 09/07/2026oh yeah, I forgot about that, despite having accidentally activated it myself a couple of times 100
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 09/07/2026how you enable this depends on what desktop environment you use but it should be trivially googleable 110
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 09/07/2026most if not all Linux desktop environments have the concept of a “Compose” key, inherited (I think) from old commercial Unix workstations. basically you hit compose, type a key sequence, get a character that you don’t have a key for. like Compose 'a is á, Compose o/ is ø, and Compose -- is — 342
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 09/07/2026yeah. I think it comes more from our self-mythology around being a “nation of immigrants” and all that. in fact, many of the original 13 colonies actively solicited for immigrants to move here—Massachusetts and Pennsylvania are two that spring immediately to mind 010
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 06/07/2026I am 42 and I would do that because whenever my own doorbell rings I nearly shoot through the ceiling, even if I'm expecting it, so why would I want to inflict that on someone else 000
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 06/07/2026I feel like bill watterson probably has already used the internet, and it was probably only for about 15 minutes, until he saw something that made him react like cornelius in this achewood strip. watterson probably used a baseball bat or a golf club instead of a cricket bat though 060
Reposted by Alex I. ThymiaStella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 06/07/2026Hey guys. Stella here. Just wanted to say I figured out today that “baked beans” is an anagram for “naked babes”. Well, have a good one 461995225
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 04/07/2026you’ve just given me a flashback to the time I saw a bald guy wearing a neck gaiter that was close enough to his skin tone that he did genuinely look like an ambulatory uncircumcised penis. I still wonder whether he did it intentionally, or accidentally and somehow no one ever pointed it out to him 2281
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 29/06/2026the existence of neutral milk hotel implies the existence of a heretofore undiscovered acidic milk hostel and basic milk motel. in this essay I will 020
Alex I. Thymia @maia.computer · 26/06/2026shout-out to Pluto TV for having an all-Bob Barker-era Price is Right channel so I can relive my childhood when I have to take a sick day 000