Bobby Brown @bobbyd0g@hellsite.net

Stop making excuses for your abusers and run.

Whew, Observer's profile on Craig Newmark is unflatteringly dull. He sounds insufferable and I can't figure out why I'm supposed to care what he does with his uhh, simultaneously "frugal" and "sizeable fortune" while he tenders ransomware as a weak contribution to worn-out US national security narratives.

Gotta say, It sure feels like Twitch is doing their level best to waste random gift subs. At least a half dozen I've received in the last few months have occurred when I wasn't watching the channel, in fact this one just popped several days after I *unfollowed* the channel when the guy was snippy with me for no reason. Some of them have been dispensed literally the moment I tuned in to a channel I ultimately found no interest in.

I only do subs for Subtember since Amazon doesn't take their cut.

Experiencing entheogenic levels of serendipity as usual

I'm grateful for everyone who's wanted to stay connected throughout all the platform upheaval, and I'm so ready to put an end to all that nonsense with my next project. I am absolutely burning to get back to work next week.

Gotta get through this next week so I can finish fixing Hellsite and get back to work on the big new thing.

The shocking completeness of devastation by the Israeli invasion is best described as a thorough demolition. And you know they have fleets of bulldozers ready to go. Today's question is:

Will the world grant Israel its coveted "liebensraum"?

I condemn the present American-Israeli scapegoat revenge massacre in the strongest possible terms; they seek only to outdo Hamas in the scale of carnage wrought upon innocent civilians. You need only take the words straight from the mouths of the State of Israel -- they very directly and specifically call the Palestinian people "animals" who should be swept from the land, equating all nearly-three-million of them with terrorists. They are deliberately striking hospitals and journalists. Wake up.

Wanna get depressed? Try looking up advice and resources for programmers who are blind. You'll get nothing but slickly-produced magical success stories about the one blind programmer at Microsoft or Google whose basic daily carryings-on look (sound) positively superhuman, and absolutely nothing to guide you to even the most basic function for yourself. Have fun with Narrator, somehow.

I'll be very lucky if my eyes ever stop doing this ... thing. For now it seems like I need to buy a projector.

Honestly, what they should be agitated and agitating over is the paucity of transcription and other accessibility tools made available by the corporate video platforms. If you're feeling the angst having to scrub through a video to find something, why don't you raise hell for Google asking why *still* nobody has decent control over or meaningful use of captions? Why you can't search them?

When somebody gets to criticizing "everything being a video tutorial these days", I get it, but there's a major factor they're missing. The people who would write something down are rarely the same people who make videos -- those who are would do well to include notes/transcripts. But regardless of whether it's your preference or not, discouraging the proliferation of video education is hostile to disabled people who struggle to read text. Chill.

I mean, why would the US object to Israel's scapegoat revenge massacre of over 7,000 innocent civilians after we massacred nearly a million Iraqis ourselves?