I get a twitch every time I see the damn sparkle icon/emoji.

Yeah, that one took me a minute. I think “drip” or “slow drip”? I know “drip” used to be a term but was never one I associated with “screwball” or “crackpot”. Usually I’d heard “drip” to mean something closer to “dull” or “boring”.

Veren zol fun dir a blintse

Pretty decent unless there’s a lot of animation / video in them. Calling, texting, looking up something on the internet, bank app, auth app, etc all work great. Some of the stock Android components don’t work super great with it, though, like the quick action buttons (though, arguably, they don’t work great on any Android phone either lol).

Feels sluggish at times but that’s just the e-ink being what it is. I mostly treat it like a dumb phone that’s also an e-reader.

I’ve always joked that coding as a hobby is just digital knitting lol.

I’ve gradually weaned off of smartphones over the last 18 months. Currently daily-driving the Minimal Phone and loving its distraction-free (or at least distraction-lite) ways.

I may not be analog like the article is highlighting, but I have basically eliminated the doom scrolling and have reignited my passion for reading (the one “distraction” the Minimal Phone does well is being an e-reader since it’s got an e-ink screen).

Roughly 1,600 TikTok posts were tagged #AnalogLife during the first nine months of 2025

I’m just going to ignore the irony of that and appreciate it at face value 😆

🎶I caught crabs in paradise. And, yes, I mean both kinds of crabs.🎶

This allows for seamless communication with biological cells

Smartphones in 2040:

Whatever. As long as I can run LineageOS or Debian on it.

Is Optimus Prime the original “boob windows” ?

To be fair, #32 is just me.

Because if we don’t build and profit from the Torment Nexus, someone else will

Agh. Beat me to it. 😆

1 is “Gladiator”

4 is “Black Swan”

9 is “Office Space”

10 is “Harry Potter” (which I’ve actually never seen, but I do recognize Delores Umbridge from other memes)

“Wear a human suit to hide your weird real self”

Probably just smells like old upholstery. Taxidermied animals don’t really have a smell

I was thinking that or they just have a lot of them.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2022/05/18/iconic-photos-give-rare-glimpse-of-smithsonians-storage-rooms/

Neat. I find it interesting that you’re encouraged to touch the exhibit at all. Usually that’s very discouraged.

4. Not everyone is a goddamned literal Nazi.

Is Disney in the wrong here? You betcha. Are they a shit media conglomerate? Oh, boy, yeah. Are they anywhere close to what’s depicted here? Not even remotely.

Goddamn, it’s like people around here call everything and everyone they don’t like a Nazi. Starting to not even sound like a word anymore.

Edit: To clarify: There are enough actual Nazis in the world as it is. Stop inventing new ones.