S.T.E.F.A.N.

Joke attempter. Mildly annoying. Occasionally humorous.

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2025-10-26 04:28:10 UTC

*flashlight under chin*
It was a still, moonless night much like tonight, the darkness congealed in the sky like three-day-old top ramen, at 1 AM. A frontend developer named Chad needed just one package. No problem. He typed npm install.
EACCES: permission denied.
He scoured Stack Overflow for answers. He cleared his cache. Deleted package-lock.json, committed package-lock.json. Nuked node_modules. Nothing. The errors only got weirder... gyp ERR! stack Error: \make` failed`.
He even considered contacting his team, but it was 3:30 AM, and he already knew their answer: "It works on my machine."
In his desperation, he even tried Yarn, but the more he pulled at all the loose threads, the more frayed he got.
Then a thought occurred to him, and he laughed maniacally. "You want to play games? Let's play games!" He clacked furiously away at his keyboard. Then, as his index finger hovered over the return key, he took a pause, realizing what he was about to do. He typed the forbidden incantation. The one he swore he'd never use…
...sudo... npm install -g
He ran npm… as root.
They say he went insane, and some nights, if you leave a bowl of ramen out, you can still hear him in his office... moaning about how his laptop was haunted by malware and conflicting permissions, trying to figure out why his linter won't install.

2025-10-20 20:01:21 UTC

I've been here a few years and I'm still not sure if I have the concept of the Fediverse right. I have some mutuals who have been here a while and seem to misunderstand it too. So here's my attempt to rubber duck it:
I think when you come from Twitter/Bluesky/Facebook/etc to join Mastodon, you see it through the same frame of reference of a centralized platform and moderation. There are two important distinctions.
The first distinction is that while Mastodon is the most prevalent Fediverse app, not everything you see in your timeline originated from a Mastodon app/server. There are other microblogging apps like Misskey, Pleroma, Friendica, or dozens of their forks. There’re also other interest-specific apps like Pixelfed for photo sharing, Peertube for video, Lemmy for link aggregation. Or bridges from other platforms. So even though you may be using a Mastodon client and server to view and post content, other people might be using something else to post and interact with you on the Fediverse. In other words, it’s more accurate to refer to the ecosystem as the Fediverse rather than Mastodon.
The second distinction comes out of the first. The Fediverse is not centralized and therefore, neither is moderation. Anyone can host their own server and they can connect it to the rest of the Fediverse or be completely siloed, they can block other servers, or be blocked by other servers. Sometimes A instance can see B instance but B instance can’t see A instance. Your instance might block a server or permanently ban a user so you don’t have to interact with bad actors, but there is no way to permanently remove a server or user from joining the rest of the Fediverse. On the flip side of the coin, your instance can have more granular control over who/what is blocked instead of relying on a small centralized opinionated moderator team. Also, you can migrate to a different instance if you don’t like the moderation policy of the one you’re on.
Sometimes I see people comment on moderation, the nice vibe, how awesome the people are, or how there are “no nazis” on “Mastodon” or “the Fediverse.” The nitpick is that your experience is not the whole Fediverse experience, your experience is the unique combination of your blocks/mutes, your instance, server mods, blocked servers, your mutuals, and their mutuals. You might feel like you are in an utopian version of Twitter, but there are parts of the Fediverse that are way worse than Twitter/X ever was, with instances catering to former users of sites like 4chan and Kiwi Farms. If you didn’t know, thank your mods.
So basically, the Fediverse is not just Mastodon, and your moderated instance and friends are why your experience is enjoyable, not the Fediverse itself.
Note: I will edit this to correct anything that is wrong, so please feel free to clarify or correct any inaccurate statements.

2025-10-14 21:28:57 UTC

Yes, yes, we call ‘em toots. Yes, it's a euphemism for flatulence. Go ahead and get it out of your system.

2025-10-09 20:39:04 UTC

Who cares about the Nobel Peace Prize, it was all just a PR spin because the manufacturer of TNT didn't want people to remember his nickname was the merchant of death.

2025-09-27 23:58:03 UTC

When all the branches of government have failed us, protest remains our strongest voice against tyranny. They fear this power, which is why they are turning our own army against us.

2025-09-10 04:11:25 UTC

John Roberts: *wakes up in cold sweat* ahhhhhh fuck no fuck no fuck no!!!
Mrs. Roberts: What's wrong dear? Was it one of those woke Christmas ghosts whining how you sent Tiny Tim to the gulag?
John: Nothing like that, I had the nightmare again where everyone had their student debt relieved.

2025-09-05 07:12:23 UTC

Please don't make fun of RFK Jr.’s voice, he can't help it. A box fan got stuck in his throat when he found it on the side of the freeway and tried to eat it.

2025-07-01 22:32:24 UTC

It’s hard for younger people to understand Jimmy Swaggart because he was from a different socio-political era when scandals involving prostitution and war crimes could temporarily negatively impact your career, as opposed to now, where they actually improve it.

2025-06-27 15:11:02 UTC

in a 6-3 vote, the supreme court has agreed to change its name to the inferior court

2025-05-13 06:03:59 UTC

Don't destroy the piece of you that is cringe. Destroy the piece of you that cringes.

2025-04-24 10:12:16 UTC

Good job aggressively holding the horn down for an extended period of time to point out my driving error instead of a brief heads-up honk. You really embarrassed my car in front of all its little friends.

2025-04-03 17:23:40 UTC

If only there were some kind of system of checks and balances.

2025-03-26 20:08:04 UTC

If I were added to a war planning chat by accident, I would simply say, “Why don't we try sending them an Edible Arrangement and see if we can talk it out before we escalate things?”

2025-03-24 20:49:46 UTC

I'm available on Signal, or as I like to call it, Wars with Friends.

2025-03-12 04:37:17 UTC

Them: Keep up the Tesla boycott, it's working!
Me: I'm doing my best 👍🏼 *continues not being able to afford a new car*

2025-01-31 02:47:30 UTC

President guy with a grade school vocabulary implying that non-whites are intellectually inferior.

2025-01-25 04:48:22 UTC

Why can't everyone just be cool?

2024-11-09 07:59:24 UTC

What's that? You wanted yet another unsolicited opinion on the election? Ok…
If Democrats want to win elections, they need to gain some self-awareness and step outside their bubble instead of blaming and alienating the electorate. As their base erodes, it's crucial to try to understand why. For the first time in my lifetime, the trend is shifting, and this year, Republicans won more lower-income voters while Democrats won more affluent ones. Labor unions and minorities, once reliable supporters, feel they have been taken for granted and question their loyalty.
“It's all about the economy, stupid.” Rising housing, gas, and food prices decimate paychecks and max out credit cards. When someone can't pay their bills, charts about how awesome the stock market is aren't going to pay their bills. Mocking or belittling their struggles isn't going to win them over.
Trump is a dirty liar and conman, but his empty promises exploited people's hopes and desperation for economic relief, which is why he won. If Democrats want to win again, they need to return to their roots and focus on real solutions to aggressively improve wages, protect workers, and rein in price gouging.

2024-10-14 16:29:52 UTC

Fascism doesn’t go away when it loses an election. Each attempt to take power is like a beta test so they can tweak their tactics for the next round.