Dang. Well I’m going to continue to put spaces, because it looks nicer. If people can spell “all right” as “alright”, then I can put spaces around my em dashes!

Edit: https://proofed.co.uk/writing-tips/en-dashes-and-em-dashes-in-us-and-uk-english/

That’s not how it looked. You had the little green squares as well that moved around as they were defragmented back into place.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kPv1gQ5Rs8A
That’s the business!

Why should you stop? I prefer to use em dashes (when I’m on my PC. I used to know the alt code for it). I’m not going to stop using them. By the way, I put spaces around my em dashes, but I notice you (and ChatGPT) don’t. Now I have to look up which is correct.

Yeah and it’s an em dash, not the regular hyphen on the keyboard (as you’ve used). ChatGPT does like a good em dash. Also is it true that trump can’t actually read? That time starmer gave him the letter from king Charles, he looked at it blankly before giving it back and asking starmer to read it. That really gave me “I can’t read” vibes.

I seem to remember Musk’s defence on the paedo thing being that in South Africa, it’s not meant to be taken literally and it’s just a generic insult.

Mr Musk told the court this week the phrase “pedo guy” was common in South Africa, where he grew up.

So if a bunch of South Africans started calling Musk paedo-guy on Twitter and elsewhere, it’s just bants and not defamation, right?

She’s the US version of Nadine Dorries.

Michael Spicer - The Room Next Door: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yInoZ8uIAao

He’d find you on the couch.

Don’t watch it alone, it’s actually mentally exhausting. I managed two alone, no more. Watch it with at least one other person so you can snark it as you watch. Fateful Findings was probably the worst. If you’re not brave enough to face them alone, Kurtis Conner and Space Ice have snarks of the full films.

Also his films do get taken off YouTube for copyright. Internet archive has the full collection though.

USers.

Excuse me, it’s not piracy if it’s Nintendo.

Budgies!

My oldest nephew was born in 2003 and I was still having to manually remove red eye using Paintshop Pro 7 from my mum’s digital photos of him when was about 6 or 7.

Less noise from cars and less pollution from cars. Roads safer to cross.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-52114306

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52065140

80s baby. I had to make do with the knockoffs (the green cat one was a nano pet clone that worked perfectly and the octopets one was really fun except it was always freezing), because the official ones were sold out forever. I’ve had the two TamaGos on pause since last year haha. Tamagotchi Angel has been rereleased, but it seems kinda boring.

Mate, come join us at the @actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe group on Mastodon. There are a lot of fellow autists who will be there to lend an ear if you need to vent or need some practical advice. I recommend the autistics.life instance. I have the same issue irl, people will expect me to be there when they need me, but now that I need someone on my side, they’ll happily throw me under the bus. You’re not alone, even if it’s just a few randos online.

As an autist, Finnish culture sounds perfect.

Add an exclamation mark at the start.

!bewholesome@lemmy.world

!bonehurtingjuice@lemmy.ca

This annoys me. It keeps showing me cyan, but only giving me the options of green or blue. Cyan is neither. It’s freaking cyan! It’s a subtractive primary colour!

(Don’t get me started on art teachers insisting the primary colours for paint are red, yellow and blue. Naff off with that crap. Go look at printer ink, then naff right off again.)

I think I read it wrong. I thought it was making fun of tankies. The mouse ignores the death trap for free cheese. The tankies ignore China’s abuses and praise it because it has free healthcare? I used to see that sort of thing unironically all the time before I blocked grad and hexbear.