Ooooohhh. Civil forfeiture of their cars, vests, weapons, and face masks …

I miss my old phone and my old PC, with their limited memory. Every so often, my browser would crash under the weight of the tabs, and refuse to re-open unless I agreed to discard them all …

Make a mental commitment to spend at least 30 minutes going through tabs.

Scroll through all of them. If any are news articles and that news has been moved on from or it just makes me angry, close the tab. If it’s a news article but it’s more of an “interesting read” thing and I’m still interested, keep it.

Keep scrolling. If you find several tabs relating to the same or similar concepts, move them next to each other; that gives more weight to following through on that group.

If it was a “yes, I’d like to buy this but my card isn’t convenient” tab, if I’m still interested in it, get my card and order it. (I deliberately don’t store my card, to impede impulse buying.)

If it’s something I was researching (usually something I’m interested in buying) and I have the energy, keep researching. Once I’ve completed research, either buy the item immediately, or add it to my “things to buy” bookmark folder. I go through the folder a couple times a year and decide if the item still interests me. If it doesn’t, I delete the bookmark. If it does, I may or may not buy it then.

If it’s a video, download it and put it into my ‘watch these’ folder for later.

If it’s something I was thinking of for a friend (a meme, news article, something to buy), I’ll send them a text about it. If it’s after hours, I’ll prep a text, save it as a draft, then send it the next day.

If it’s a piece of fiction, I’ll group those together as well, then leave them for the moment: I’m interested in clearing tabs right now, not getting distracted.

If it’s a piece of reference material, I’ll either bookmark it or add it to a collection so I can come back to it later.

If it’s a recipe, I’ll copy it to Word, format it to my tastes, print it out and move it to the kitchen.

If it’s a thread that I wanted to read through, I’ll stop and read through it, then either discard it or bookmark it if I may need to reference it again.

If it’s a quick curiosity thing, I’ll give it a quick read to satisfy my curiosity and close the tab.

Eventually I run out of energy and browse the internet, opening up a few new tabs in the process.

Lilly does not appear happy with this turn of events.

Excellent clarification, thank you!

I am so sorry!

She also conveniently retired just a few days after she qualified for her pension.

They’re on extended break because they didn’t want to be forced into publicly voting against extending health care credits.

No.

Right. The US law enforcement personnel who’s authority ends at the US border.

Q. Why can’t you get the cat anything special for it’s birthday? A. Because every day is the cat’s birthday!

Q. Why can’t you get the cat anything special for it’s birthday? A. Because the cat already owns everything anyway!

Congratulations to Alaric, thank you for making his day special, and I hope you have many more happy years together :)

What. The. Fuck?

Trolls. This is one of the conversations we had, this one on a deliberately twisted claim he posted to Progressive Politics.

Got into a repeated argument with a guy here on fediverse this morning who was promoting “Mamdani is antisemitic” stuff. He was extremely adamant, and was following the same type argument structure as I used to get into with the MAGAts on reddit. I regret to announce that the trolls have arrived :(

That person is just so pissed he wasn’t born in this country …

I think it means that sales tax just came to the UK? Where what’s quoted on the tin isn’t the price at the register? If true, it’s going to make a lot of people very angry.

Crimea is part of Ukraine, but not it’s entirety.

There’s a difference between annexing Crimea and annexing Ukraine.

In an age of AI, propaganda networks, paid influencers, and fake news, it behooves all of us to challenge information from potentially non-credible sources.

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