Simon Woods

Behind me, a filled room of 9/11 first responders, and in front of me, a nearly empty Congress. Sick and dying, they brought themselves down here to speak to no one. Shameful. It’s an embarrassment to the country and it is a stain on this institution.

– Jon Stewart

They should isolate the Apple Music or News team and force them to go through App Review, pay 30%, etc to get a better feel for what it’a really like.

– David Barnard, via Twitter

An interesting idea, eh @manton. 🤔

Up to 3.7 million pensioners who previously received a free TV licence will now have to pay for it.

– The BBC

Perhaps they should all just die… and decrease the surplus population.

We don’t answer to advertisers or venture capitalists. We answer to you.

– @smith, Bokeh: Private, ad-free, and user-funded photo sharing

Today I re-downloaded Instagram. As soon as I can use Bokeh I will remove Instagram and never look back.

Remember when you praisin' the butterfly

Don’t you ever disrespect the fucking caterpillar

– Royce da 5'9", Caterpillar

Significant parts of Facebook and Twitter run unattended.

– @manton, Unattended Algorithms

Meanwhile, on Twitter:

When a person tries to report hate speech, they are encouraged to have a heart-to-heart discussion. With the Klan.

– Megan Squire

Micro.blog is slower, but also more considered.

– @frostedechoes, Social Decay

@macgenie has often spoken about Micro.blog being “the slow social media” and the benefits to this become clearer as more people write about the platform.

We don’t need probable cause, sir. We can stop and search whoever we want.

– US border agents, via Nate Abaurrea’s Twitter account

America frightens me. The compliance, the silence, the depth of passive acceptance; it will all be remembered. We can record this now.

What’s beef?

Beef is when you murder motherfuckers on a beat, kill ‘em all, kill ‘em all

Nah, nah, what’s beef?

Beef is brothers dyin’ over shit that never mattered in the first place, lyin’ in the street

ISIS – Joyner Lucas ft. Logic

So so good.

Bokeh will be ad-free, have a chronological timeline, and will be private by default. That means that all accounts will start off as private.

– @smith, Bokeh: Private, independent, and user-funded photo sharing

A great addition to the diverse, independent web.

The statement went against everything I had experienced as a person who stutters.

– Pratik Mhatré, Self-Disclosure Statement

I like this speech a lot. It’s like a warm greeting in written form. Nice work, @pratik!

For now, Spotify is only focused on content promotion within its own service — not anything outside of its app.

– Sarah Perez, Spotify launches voice-enabled ads on mobile devices in a limited US test

Welp. There goes my Spotify account.

It’s test-driven space adventuring.

– @macgenie, re: Star Trek Voyager on The Weekly Review; Perspectives On Perspectives

😂

Girls/Girls/Boys by Panic! At The Disco is great but my favourite thing is this:

Two years ago i came out to my sister by jumping out my room’s closet and throwing skittles at her while this song played in the back

– les ortiz

Sometimes YouTube comments are brilliant. 😂

We always credit sources for news, tutorials, and other articles; we link to other websites profusely because the Open Web is a beauitful thing and because it’s the right thing to do;

– @viticci, 10 Years of MacStories

MacStories is one of the few sources of news I read.

More than 141,000 girls in all Welsh primary and secondary schools will be given access to free sanitary products under Welsh Government plans.

– BBC News, All Welsh schools to get free sanitary products

It’s shameful that we’re only beginning to tackle period poverty.

But everything about the presentation of release notes in this sheet is obviously bad.

– John Gruber, Bad UI: MacOS 10.14’s Software Update Release Notes

Note: I am posting this from a browser extension that includes a resizeable text field.