I signed up for the Reddit secret Santa once like a decade ago. Spent a bunch of time researching what to get, and made a really thoughtful gift bag of candy and toys from Western Canada based on what my recipient told me he liked.

The person who got me as their recipient sent me a $5 Amazon comic book for a video game I’ve never played. It looked and felt like the grocery store fliers you get in the mail.

Oh and whoever I sent my gift to claimed he never received it.

@TheBreadmonkey good advice all year round

I love how much Thomas Massie hates Pete Hegseth.

What a horrible Stream to have a curse! Paul is playing Castlevania: Belmont's Curse. https://twitch.tv/loadingreadyrun

SpaceX announces Starlink Mini 2 with a swappable battery that it says can operate for over four hours without an external power source, reportedly for $999 (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/tech/1031028/spacex-starlink-mini-2-satellite-internet-terminal-hot-swap-battery
http://www.techmeme.com/261110/p47#a261110p47

@evan The ads readers see are the ads on your site, not someone else's.

@ai6yr I guess why their houses burn down they'll reconsider what they did

Since I want to download my own discography from Bandcamp (because it's all tagged and with nice covers etc) I had to add a price to one of the albums.
On the upside, now you too can download the whole discography for the low low price of 0.50€, right on time for missing #bandcampFriday as is my tradition.
https://pgcd.bandcamp.com/

Optimized sheet music, Y/N? #SheetMusic

i never used reddit. what is reddit secret santa?

There is a German one on feddit.org every year. It’s a small community though. !wichtel_unter@feddit.org

Yea, it just sticks out for me because it didn’t die because of disinterest as a fading fad, it got shutdown because of corporate enshittification >:(

TLDR DON'T BE A DICK x

TLDR DON'T BE A DICK x

Just a quiet word - as I boosted a silly joke of someone I'm very fond of earlier, opening them up to a bit of a shitty take. And someone else I'm very fond of posted about blocking people with shitty takes and had a shitty response in return. Let me be clear - I realise I reach a lot of people comparatively on this site - and I am not down with that sort of thing. I do not care about followers or clout. I do care about the people here. If you feel like you have to admonish people in some way, without having any basis of understanding of who they are or their motivations, please take pause enough to either try to understand their story, and consider whether YOUR response might be shitty. Even if you think it might be well-intentioned. And I would be grateful if you don't follow me. I'm not a joke or meme account. I don't post stuff because I want to be widely popular. This is my community and I care very deeply about it. We're all trying to pull in the same direction and you thinking you're a big hero and being shitty to people who actually are, makes you look ignorant and harms this very sacred space for many. X

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Just a quiet word - as I boosted a silly joke of someone I'm very fond of earlier, opening them up to a bit of a shitty take. And someone else I'm very fond of posted about blocking people with shitty takes and had a shitty response in return. Let me be clear - I realise I reach a lot of people comparatively on this site - and I am not down with that sort of thing. I do not care about followers or clout. I do care about the people here. If you feel like you have to admonish people in some way, without having any basis of understanding of who they are or their motivations, please take pause enough to either try to understand their story, and consider whether YOUR response might be shitty. Even if you think it might be well-intentioned. And I would be grateful if you don't follow me. I'm not a joke or meme account. I don't post stuff because I want to be widely popular. This is my community and I care very deeply about it. We're all trying to pull in the same direction and you thinking you're a big hero and being shitty to people who actually are, makes you look ignorant and harms this very sacred space for many. X