Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

Are there any actually redeemable Pleroma instances, or are they all awful? Seems like every time I investigate one I end up adding it to my suspension list...

Me, reading George Orwell's 1984: "Wow, this is just like 1984."

What's with email newsletters always telling me it might take weeks to process my unsubscribe request?

It's a database, just remove me from it. It takes literally milliseconds.

I used to be an annual pass member at Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP), and one of the perks was getting to skip ahead of the general admission line for day passes.

Showed up one day to see a new exhibit, and got assaulted by a Karen who was absolutely furious that I "skipped her and her whole family" in the general admission line.

She got escorted away by security in front of her family, and I got a bunch of free shit.

10/10, would skip in line again. Renewing next time I go.

Do you have 11 minutes to spare, and don't mind sobbing?

Check this out: https://youtu.be/22fSspZCA-c

Okay, some notes since I didn't test this exhaustively before I posted about it:

The filter above works pretty well, but I found it to be a bit more effective to fitler "RT" without the "@", and the also filter "twitter.com", which will also filter any link to Twitter.

But if you're here to get away from Twitter, that should really do the trick.

Shamelessly plugging my own site now, where you can generate 50-video YouTube playlists of Demoscene content, sorted by type, including 4k and 64k: https://www.prods.page/

I'll keep updating this thread in the future with more of my favorites. Might start a separate Wild thread too.

As always, you can download this one: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=54538

Another favorite 4k of mine: Fan_tastic - Rebels & Alcatraz

https://youtu.be/_rH26Z1_IZs

You can download this one too: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=85684

And now let's watch something 16x smaller. A 4 kilobyte demo: The vanishing of Ashlar by NuSan

https://youtu.be/lAvug7LKiIE

Mandatory reading on this one: https://datunnel.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-story-of-urs.html

This entire animation is contained in a 64 kilobyte EXE file. Everything you see and hear is constrained to 64k!

You can run it on your own computer!

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=62935

I really need to talk about Demoscene more. I'm not much of a creator, but I love Demoparties and Compos.

Starting a thread about my two favorite categories: 4k and 64k.

These are computer programs that are restricted to a maximum file size (in kilobytes!), but must also remain graphically impressive.

Let's start with a crowd pleaser: the timeless by Mercury.

https://youtu.be/ie4u2i_5OdE

There's lots of Twitter users that have migrated here recently, and a good chunk of them have discovered the Mastodon Twitter Crossposter, which means your timeline is probably littered with sloppy looking retweets.

And you can rid yourself of them with this one simple filter: