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Dan Hon
@danhon.com

I legit think some of the belief and experience that the economy sucks is also sheer exhaustion from shit like this and notification fatigue and every single shitty tech-mediated interaction of which there are hundreds a day

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social

i don’t think venues should be allowed to email me just because i went to a show there one time

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Dean Vipond
@deanvipond.bsky.social

It’s the fucking *neediness*, man. I bought an LP off eBay and Royal Mail delivered it, like normal. Then I get an email saying “how did we do?”. Netflix emailed me to say “don’t forget to finish Brooklyn Nine Nine!” Lads there’s 9 seasons and we pop a random episode on occasionally for an easy laff

Dean Vipond
@deanvipond.bsky.social

Just yesterday, I looked up train times to Edinburgh so I could tell my partner which one to book for her and our son. Like 2 hours later The Trainline email me asking “did you still want to go to Edinburgh?” No you pricks, I never did. Jesus Christ.

Robert Atkins
@ratkins.net

Just because he is/was an arsehole doesn’t mean he was wrong: Scott Adams postulated that “after a certain point complexity is fraud” and I’m terrified when booking flights these days in case I get the date or time wrong and burn €250! Exhausting!

Nick Drage
@sonofsuntzu.bsky.social

I was particularly struck by "Now I have a janky set of firewall rules in Ubiquiti targeted at Spotify’s video CDN. YouTube just arbitrarily turned on Shorts and maybe you can turn them off now?" - AFAICT you don't have a technical background, but this really is the only option available?

Chris Selogy
@cselogy.bsky.social

I love getting emails about me looking at something on their website trying to trick me into buying it when I didn't do so the first time. Let me look at things in peace.