So I’ve seen! I had a look at it and decided between the price and already owning a waffle iron I was going to take a pass, but I’m glad it’s finally out there for those who want it!
this song actually straight up calls out racism and cultural appropriation in the most blatant and unmistakable of ways
you know how patrick stewart said “People won’t listen to you or take you seriously unless you’re an
old white man, and since I’m an old white man I’m going to use that to
help the people who need it” ? that’s roughly what i think macklemore’s trying to do here, he’s trying to use his privilege to do some good in the world, i think
A big part of Macklemore’s discography is essentially him using his white male privilege to talk about important issues
Mac users rejoice! Four months ago, your generous donations allowed us to begin development on a version of New XKit for Safari. Today, we are pleased to announce that we have finally passed Apple review and are available on the Safari Extensions Gallery.
This is the first ever release of New XKit supporting Safari. We would like to thank Avi, Cris, Nathan, Jonathan, Miles, and our anonymous donors for making this possible.
As always, you can get in touch with us by sending an ask to @new-xkit-support or @new-xkit-discussion or visiting our live support chat. If no one responds in the live chat, it means the developers are currently busy/away/sleeping! Just wait a bit and someone will get back to you!
Why are they asking people to explain how communication works
“once I made meaningful human contact and it was amazing” – me, screaming into the blue void
apparently tumblr is a website made by aliens who have never communicated with anyone… it makes sense…
Okay, I know it’s hilarious to mock the Tumblr staff but having worked with dev and design teams from startups to multinational organisations: IF YOU LIKED REPLIES AND WANT THEM BACK, THIS IS IMPORTANT.
This is someone’s attempt to gather evidence to validate a community need for replies. Because that’s how this sort of bullshit works. You can’t just tell someone, “Obviously replies are useful, people use them to make human connections.” You need to have user stories and statistics and a bunch of other bullshit to justify spending time (and therefore money) on building and supporting a feature. It may seem obvious and fucking stupid but that’s how these processes work.
Always keep in mind, guys: the people who do the programming and implementing of these features are not the ones who get to decide what any specific features actually are. There’s someone else making overall design decisions about any changes in features and what the overall aesthetic and functionality of the website should be.
and there’s someone ELSE looking at ‘what makes us money’ and ‘how many people can we afford to hire for things like programming’ … and those guys, as far removed as their perspective may be, are the ones who ultimately dictate from the top of the corporate structure on down what the future of the website is going to be. every other department on down has to basically work with what they’re given.
eatingcroutons is absolutely right; I guarantee you this survey thing is somebody in one of those “lower” departments, who actually interacts with the userbase, trying to provide paper evidence they can put in a report and present at a meeting in front of the higher-ups, like “look!! this is what users want!! we should do the thing!!”
the ancient gentleman beside me spent the whole flight reading explicit gay erotica in large print on his kindle. we have landed and he is long gone but I will remember him as a good omen, a guiding light of following one’s heart to set me on my way. godspeed, gay porn grampa. you live on in my heart.