I had a great brunch with kid koala and some of his Patreon backers today. One attendee brought some cool records from Utah. I highly recommend joining his Patreon for cool perks like these brunches and special livestreams patreon.com/kidkoala

Before sharing a URL with friends, I manually remove any UTM codes/tracking info and replace them with "=butts". This has been a tedious process for years, but no longer!!! BUTTER is a new Chrome extension that removes that crap for you! Get it here: butterurls.com

Cleaning UTM codes from URLs and typing out "=butts" used to be a tedious process. Now I have a Chrome extension that does all of that with the click of a button! chrome.google.com/webstore/detai…

I'm looking forward to this interview and will probably sneak in a few questions about Jetpack Social's plans for Fediverse integration too.

#Quote painfully relevant to anything done to #Twitter since Musk: “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” ― Frank Herbert, #Dune

Screw spotify, let's do our own #BandcampWrapped 2022 lists. Here's mine: King by Gnome gnome.bandcamp.com/album/king God's Country by Chat Pile chatpile.bandcamp.com/album/gods-cou… AirTrash by Emily Hopkins emilyharpist.bandcamp.com/album/airtrash Mechanical Piano by Benjamin Mørk morkmusic.bandcamp.com/album/mechanic…

I've begun sunsetting this twitter account. I'll leave my existing posts up, but I've completely stopped checking this site. I might still post occasional updates (announcements, work stuff, etc) here, but not checking timeline/replies. I'm so much happier on Mastodon.

Under pressure from ̶h̶u̶n̶d̶r̶e̶d̶s̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶a̶c̶t̶i̶v̶i̶s̶t̶ ̶e̶m̶p̶l̶o̶y̶e̶e̶s̶ Elon Musk, Twitter deplatformed dozens of journalists , critics, and competitors (like Mastodon (@[email protected])) today, even though they didn’t violate the rules. Here's a thread of some of them:

Twitter modified the link in my bio so it goes to a different URL than it used to. I can understand if they removed it, or blocked it, but editorializing what I typed so it goes to a different URL is some petty garbage. See if you can spot the link-breaking change they made.

Incredibly grateful to have some awesome community and everyone who helped save our inventory yesterday. Video by Doctor Popular

Here's your annual reminder I'm no longer using twitter. I'm mostly on Mastodon these days (and loving it), but you can find links to all of my social media sites (Youtube, IG, github, etc) here docpop.org/about/