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Cake day: May 14th, 2024

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  • Disgusting and unsurprising.

    Most web admins do not care. I’ve lost count of how many sites make me jump through CAPTCHAS or outright block me in private browsing or on VPN. Most of these sites have no sensitive information, or already know exactly who I am because I am already authenticating with my username and password. It’s not something the actual site admins even think about. They click the button, say “it works on my machine!” and will happily blame any user whose client is not dead-center average.

    Enter username, but first pass this CAPTCHA.

    Enter password, but first pass this second CAPTCHA.

    Here’s another CAPTCHA because lol why not?

    Some sites even have their RSS feed behind Cloudflare. And guess what that means? It means you can’t fucking load it in a typical RSS reader. Good job!

    The web is broken. JavaScript was a mistake. Return to monke gopher.

    Fuck Cloudflare.


  • If someone was uninformed and misinformed enough to think voting for Trump was even remotely in their own self-interest in the first place, then there is almost no disaster Trump can cause that will not be instantly reframed as “just imagine how much worse it would be under Dems!”

    Dying of COVID? Well at least you’re not dying from forced vaccination!

    Layoffs due to tariffs? LOL what’s a tariff?

    Can’t get benefits you need to survive? Well clearly the Welfare Queens left him no choice! It’s their fault!

    It’s no coincidence that Trump in particular and Republicans in general relentlessly attack education and free information. They’ve already brainwashed enough of the population to win elections, and they want to make sure the general population has no way out of that hole. This is why they’re attacking Wikipedia and Internet Archive. This is why Project 2025’s first order of business is to eliminate the Department of Education. This is why Musk bought fucking Twitter in the first place, most likely. This is why they’re now trying to repeal Section 230 (with the help of some Judas Dems), so they can bully any web site into taking down any information they don’t like.

    The information apocalypse is upon us.