Bruce Klopsteins

@brucebitsmastodon.social

[Masterpieces of Japan @JapanTraCul]

Frontispiece to "Sharing an umbrella (Ai ai gasa)", by Ikeda Terukata, 1914

[Matt Bevan @MatthewBevan]

Can’t park there mate

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

Do you know what they should ban? Jugs that don’t pour properly. The ones where the liquid reaches the spout and then just runs straight down the side and all over the table. Someone designed those. That was their job. And they messed it up. Just think… your job is to design a jug… so you design a jug… you test it… and it doesn’t work… and you think… “Yeah, just sell it anyway.”

Metal ones tend to be the biggest culprits. And cafés will know they don’t work, but they won’t change them.

And sometimes, someone will say, “No, you’re pouring it wrong, there’s a knack to it,” and they’ll do the most unnatural pouring action ever to make it not spill everywhere. If something has “a knack to it,” it means it’s not fit for purpose! Having to use a workaround means, by definition, that the thing doesn’t work!!!

Anyway, as always, have an adequate day, folks.

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

One minute you’re young and wild, the next you’re constantly being told your phone torch is turned on.

[Matt Bevan @MatthewBevan]

I think this article is an extraordinary thing. It explains the difference between curious people and everyone else better than anything else I’ve read. https://t.co/myeXWoCT05

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

Just when I thought I had my finances under control, I had to buy a bottle of water from the airport.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Love this reminder from @tfadell

"Makers often focus on the shiny object—the product they’re building—and forget about the rest of the journey until they’re almost ready to deliver it to the customer. But customers see it all, experience it all. They’re the ones taking the journey, step-by-step."

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Magdalene J. Taylor @magdajtaylor]

walking around outside is like scrolling with your body

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

According to a 2023 study, the most commonly misspelled words in Google searches are ‘separate’, ‘zucchini’, ‘questionnaire’, ‘potato’ and ‘diarrhoea’.

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

Easter means spending Friday thinking it’s Saturday, Saturday thinking it’s either Friday or Sunday, Sunday thinking it’s Saturday, and Monday thinking it’s Sunday.

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Nessie and Millie. Neither of them ever really learned how to dig, but Millie is pretty sure it's like giving CPR. 12/10 no one tell her

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

Doñana National Park in Spain has a ‘Firefighting Donkey Battalion’. By eating weeds, the donkeys cut down the risk of forest fires. They haven’t had a wildfire for nine years.

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Koyuki. Please do not disturb her. She's in ice cream scoop mode right now. Needs to focus. 12/10

[Luiz Santos Official @LuizSantosMusic]

'I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.'
- John Coltrane
#jazz #art #quote

[Priyanka Lakhara @codewithpri]

IT’S WILD THAT THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO SAVE SOMETHING AS A PDF IS TO LIE TO YOUR COMPUTER THAT YOU’RE ABOUT TO PRINT IT 😭😭😭

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

Fun fact you can do everything you want with just HTML tables and people liked that version of the Internet a lot better

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

Snagging your jacket sleeve/pocket final boss.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

1. When you write something intended to be read by an important person, go through it and cut every unnecessary word.

2. The reader of anything you publish is an important person.