Looks like PayPal has gone down the road of many other big brands and is erasing any and all personality from their brand identity. The iconic double P icon that you all instantly know as PayPal is now relegated to just being an app icon and in some other select places is replaced with a wordmark that is just a modification of a font inspired by Futura. They claim the prominence of black is to pull away from how many other brands in the space use blue, yet the entire palette is still blue and is featured all over the identity. This is a downgrade on almost every level in my view.
Hello this isn't a threat but you must listen to the new Magdalena Bay album Imaginal Disk if you haven't already. It's a mixture of pop, synthpop, progressive pop, prog rock, space rock and psychedelia. It is so maximalist in it's production in the right ways, the drumming is insane, the attention to detail and massive amounts of different sonic layers on every track is stunning. It's fun, danceable, introspective, unique and yet familiar. It throws in some classic 80s synthpop and 70s drum sounds that are retro yet so forward thinking at the same time in how it's excited, the vocals are wonderful and incredibly passionate. There are so many good moments, literally everything on here is, but I gotta shout out Killing Time, Death & Romance, Watching T.V., That's My Floor, and Cry for Me - Cry for Me being a psychedelic opus that takes ques from ABBA’s Dancing Queen. This is a 10/10 album for me and I've heard some amazing music this year already before this, please give it a go. This album is a drug and I am thoroughly addicted to it.
it's incredibly ironic to me how a Google pixel 9 ad I keep seeing uses I want to break free by queen, considering how the pixel 9 and Google promote tools that are designed to replace human creativity from the equation
was in a store today and whoever had control of the speakers is a legend because they played never gonna give you up and rickrolled EVERYONE in the store lmao
gotta hand it to bluesky, considering the small team over there it's pretty impressive they've been able to keep the service from fully crashing even once from my experience (and also all the work individuals have done to maintain some of the most popular feeds) while watching over a million brazilians flooded the platform when twitter got blocked
the amount of times I'll make a post and have to instantly edit it because I only realise I made a spelling or grammar mistake after I post. this still happens even though I proofread before posting 
So The Onion’s new owners have updated the site, moving it over to Wordpress (it’s actually a lot nicer now), but that in turn has broken this bot. Everything else works other than the scraper. Issues seem to be:
The bot goes to https://theonion.com/latest which doesn’t exist anymore, I’d say it’d make sense to have it grab the top headline from the homepage instead since it only posts once a day anyway.
It’s grabbing the wrong link, not sure 100% what it’s doing but it might be grabbing the new link in the top left corner of the website that links to the membership page. I’m sure this can be fixed by just having the scraper go to the article page and grabbing the url.
Article’s publish dates are still there but likely have moved in the HTML structure from what I could gleam using inspect. Likely a simple fix of just telling the scraper where to look. This is likely the same thing that happened to how it grabs the start of an article’s body.
I tried figuring it out myself to try and get the scraper working again, but I have 0 knowledge of Node.js or scrapers. I understand what might be wrong, I think, but I simply don’t know how to code it. I was hoping someone with better knowledge of this stuff would be willing to rewrite that part of the code. It’d be nice to relaunch the bot with a new account, since it the last remnant of imadeanaccount. Plus, I just like this bot honestly. Happy to help if I can.
Code is here: https://github.com/imadeanaccount1/onionbot/
for my aoty rebrand project I had to use Photoshop to create the mockups (I usually use affinity designer and affinity photo) and my god Photoshop is slowest, clunky, and irritating software I've had the displeasure of using, it's mind boggling to me that Adobe gets away with shipping such poor software.
the real reason is jeffalo wanted you to experience what it felt like to have dial up internet
also yes, wasteof (and everything else i host) is currently slow for everyone, for some reason past my modem there’s 50%+ packet loss to the internet. it could be up to a week before we see any improvement.