@EDVARDS @rafial

well that’s… interesting. thing is, I got no notification about most of the follow requests. so I haven’t a clue how long they’d been waiting.

I’m quite capable of curating my own stream and don’t need “double secret” help.

#mutter #grumble #kvetch

Dear every YouTuber ever: we have our own music playing locally already, thanks. Don’t need your muzak droning along with you (besides, you’re playing @ 2× speed, anyway). Here for information; you’re not entertaining. #grumble #getOffMyLawn

@jlroberson wtf? #Grumble

audiences and their applause are like heroin. I am a junkie. this town is making me jones something fierce.

due to circumstances, the last open mike I attended was last Saturday and the next one is a week from next Sunday.

there’s another one I’ve wanted to attend, but you have to sign up on their Facebook page. that’s so out of touch they might as well require you to have a Myspace account.

who’s in charge of their web presence? they should be replaced.

#whine #grumble #kvetch

blah, blah, security, blah, what if someone logs into your #AppleID? Wouldn’t you want to know?!?

APPLE’S ENDLESS CRIES OF “WOLF!” HAVE TRAINED ME TO IGNORE THESE WARNINGS.

Plus it just makes them look clueless.

Like the endless “your wallet was detached from your phone at the address we know to be your home” and the “your AirPods are following you” stupidity. #grumble

Does the Province of New Brunswick understand what a colossal pain in the ass it is that people calling out from it are identified as “No Caller ID” — which lumps them in with all the telemarketers (which the phone companies refuse to filter out) and also means you can’t directly return their calls? #grumble

If people are going to create a new template document, they should be required to use the same names for all the styles. #Grumble #TooLateToFix

My mission with the Spanish bank failed today. Some sort of systems failure, so I have to come back on Monday. #grumble

why be so rude when you could just be quiet? #grumble

If you don't generally walk
And then you walk a lot
Your feet complain

#writing #poetry #grumble

Why is being alive so fucking tiring?!?

(I have no plans to not be alive, I'm just tired...)

#grumble

Today's "hey looks like they don't do digital" moment:

Instead of just emailing or texting us the information, the person *takes a photo of a PDF open on their laptop* and sends that photo to me via WhatsApp.

I've blurred the details, but the picture also crops out some of the text.

🤦

Honestly it feels especially meta doing alt text for this image.

#grumble #grump #MaybeItsTimeForABreak

Video resolution is not the same as video quality. There are many times when 720 would be a fine resolution for what I want to watch, but #YouTube cranks down the quality so low that it looks like crap. I have to bump it up to 1080 if I want a good picture. #grumble

Arrrrgh! Right. I have given up trying to do the medication maths, and since I have only one of the (half way useful) big painkillers left anyway, I’m back on my standard #ChronicPain medication regimen. If I’d have too much #ibuprofen I’m hoping the damage is short term and reversible. It certainly doesn’t seem to have helped the post-surgery pain, swelling, and bruising all that much. #grumble.

@matt the current batch of designers at  do not share my priorities. #grumble #kidsToday

I've had two students not show up for scheduled meetings two days in a row now. Why does that happen? #grumble #grumble #grumble

Daylight Savings Time is a crime against man and gods.

#grumble #dst

Getting secondhand reports of interlibrary loan librarians fielding requests with complete citations for sources that don't exist - because #chatGPT made them up whole cloth - and wasting good chunks of staff time. Back in my day, people had to at least search for real sources to download or borrow and then ignore. #grumble

@arstechnica I am so unhappy that with the death of my 27” 2014 iMac I had to settle for a 24” last October.

At least I didn’t miss a new one by months. But what is Apple thinking, not giving us a real workstation? The 24 just doesn’t do it.

#iMac #Apple #Grumble

Spending the day drawing various client graphics in #Illustrator – my most & least favourite app. Been using it since 1996. Adding another entry to my list of gripes – look at the state of the banding on this semi-transparent gradient stroke.

Still, no better tool for the job #GraphicDesign #Grumble