evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

Things I DON'T want in my tech

• Spying
• AI
• "AI"
• Lies
• The thinnest touchscreen
• The largest touchscreen
• An app that is 15 apps
• An app that does things I don't know about
• A popup asking "Now?" or "Later?" without a "Never!" option
• An update that makes it all worse
• Exploding batteries

Things I DO want in my tech

• Privacy 🔒
• Security 🛡️
• Repairability 🛠️
• Pretty interfaces
• Buttons

#Tech #Enshittification

I continue to fail to do anything useful. Off to change that now. Definitely.

#sillyScribbles #boop #bird

computers were a mistake [remembers that I met my husband online] all computers not directly serving the purpose of socially interconnecting the world's weirdest 1% of people were a mistake

Hello! We are a small independent bookshop in Stow, in the Scottish Borders. We are no longer using Twitter, for obvious reasons, but could use some new followers on Mastodon and other social media channels - where our presence is smaller than on Twitter. Please help / share this is you can! Thank you.

If your upgrade to mastodon 4.4.4 failes with:
Couldn't find a script named "vite"
then try:
yarn add vite
before retrying the asset compilation

#mastodon

I told my twins that if I die they should Weekend at Bernie's me on a ferry to the Isle of Wight and push me off, to save on a funeral. They shared this in a primary school class on animal lifecycles. Cue concerned WhatsApp voice note from their teacher.

Borrowed from fakebook.

My daughter came home from school and said,
“Mom, you’re not going to believe what happened in history class today.”

Her teacher told the class they were going to play a game.
He walked around the room and whispered to each kid whether they were a witch or just a regular person. Then he gave the instructions:

“Form the biggest group you can without a witch. If your group has even one, you all fail.”

She said the whole room instantly lit up with suspicion.
Everyone started interrogating each other. Are you a witch? How do we know you’re not lying?
Some kids clung to one big group, but most broke off into smaller, exclusive cliques. They turned away anyone who seemed uncertain, nervous, or gave off even the slightest hint of being guilty.

The energy shifted fast. Suddenly everyone was suspicious of everyone.
Whispers. Finger-pointing. Side-eyes. Trust dissolved in minutes.

Finally, when all the groups were formed, the teacher said,
“Alright, time to find out who fails. Witches, raise your hands.”

And not one hand went up.

The whole class exploded. “Wait! You messed up the game!”

And then the teacher dropped the bomb:
“Did I? Were there any actual witches in Salem, or did everyone just believe what they were told?”

My daughter said the room went dead silent.

That’s when it hit them. No witch was ever needed for the damage to happen. Fear had already done its work. Suspicion alone divided the entire class, turning community into chaos.

And isn’t that exactly what we’re seeing today?
Different words, same playbook.
Instead of “witch,” it’s liberal, conservative, vaxxed, unvaxxed, pro-this, anti-that.
The labels shift, but the tactic is the same.

Get people scared. Get them suspicious. Get them divided.
Then sit back while trust crumbles.

The danger was never the witch.
The danger is the rumor. The suspicion. The fear. The planted lies.

Refuse the whisper. Don’t play the game. Because the second we start hunting “witches,” we’ve already lost.

1. Got out for a walk
2. Didn't get rained on
3. Saw a caterpillar

#ThreeGoodThings #sillyScribbles #nature #nonsense

#silentSunday #360degree #photography

It is important to find a good place to hide from the rain.

*nods wisely*

#sillyScribbles #bloomScrolling #nonsense

I will never apologize for a post

‘Surrender Catwoman’
by Karl Stevens #art #cats

Sleeping Fennel: SPOTTED
Beans: ENHANCED
#CatsOfMastodon

I’ll say the elephant in the room - due to the sheer amount of Salesforce customers who have been hit, and that Salesforce is a fully SaaS service - Salesforce should have detected and been more proactive about all of their customer’s data being stolen. https://databreaches.net/2025/09/11/exclusive-high-end-fashion-retailers-gucci-balenciaga-brion-and-alexander-mcqueen-hit-by-salesforce-attacks/

When your code works but no idea how

if I didn't already have a naming convention for network hardware, my new PoE switch would definitely be getting called Edgar

I like to think that the shooter in the crowd wasn't even planning anything, but then saw Kirk standing there talking about how gun violence isn't a big deal and how gun deaths are an acceptable price to pay for upholding the second amendment, and thought "ok I have the opportunity to do the funniest thing right now"

A bit absorbed in my own wee world at the moment as we get sorted for The Teenager starting uni. Super happy for them, but it is a Big Thing.

It's interesting how memories of my own youthful foolishness, that had been blurred with the passing of time, have shot back into focus as I attempt to pass on parental advice. Being grown up is such a shaky facade at times 😆

I'm going to enjoy having an excuse to head into the city though. I do like a bit of culture.

#sillyScribbles #Scotland #Glasgow

"Are you pondering what I’m pondering?"
"I think so, Brain, but why would a federated social network care about our anniversary?”

"Pinky and the Brain" debuted on 9 september 1995.