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#petpeeves

Pro tip: If you ping me on text/IM & I ask, "what do you need", don't be rude & ask for a "quick call". Type what you need & let me be the judge of whether it warrants non-async communication.

...or don't be surprised if you get ghosted.
#petpeeves

People who send unsubscribe requests to the mailing lists they're trying to unsubscribe from piss me off.
People who reply to those unsubscribe requests on the list piss me off more.
People who reply to those unsubscribe requests on the list and give wrong information about how to unsubscribe piss me off most of all.
Correct answer: look in the headers or footer of a message sent to the list for unsubscribe instructions and follow them.
#PetPeeves #GetOffMyLawn #OldManYellsAtClouds #netiquette

People who do not understand the concept of "right on red after stop" piss me off. That is all.
#PetPeeves #GetOffMyLawn #OldManYellsAtClouds

Mulheres que dizem "obrigado"

#petpeeves #irritacoes

It's time for a "sound of silence" roundup of meetings industry pet peeves. Do they resonate? What am I missing?

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/meeting-industry/2023/05/sound-of-silence

#meetings #PetPeeves #AirQuality #evaluations #PayingSpeakers #eventprofs #assnchat

Season 3 Episode 2: Our Literary Unpopular Opinions

Welcome to Fake Book Club Podcast, Season three, episode two! We’re sharing our unpopular literary opinions about books, reading, and romance. Will you agree or disagree? Do we end this episode with our friendship intact? Listen and find out…

Listen Below!

Listen on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0x1PNDmSQZApeI1zOe5oII?si=kT6Rwmp5Q6G8urOV6iAHGg

Listen on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/0U_TdlAMyMQ

Also listen at the following places:

Things Discussed In This Episode

Is It Just Me, or Are the Books Getting Fancier? A Guide to the Special Editions Trend

The Benefits of Graphic Novels: Why They Count as Reading

What’s the perfect length for a book?

Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan

Edinburgh Nights series by T. L. Huchu 

The Midnight Taxi by Yosha Gunasekera 

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Soften The Blow by Bread Tarleton

Disclaimer: Links to Bookshop.org are affiliate links and the store will receive a small commission if you purchase through those links.

I just stumbled upon another pet peeve: solutions looking for problems #petpeeves

I really wish people would learn how to use the word “myself” correctly.

#petpeeves

Documentary pet peeve.

Documentaries with multiple people contributing to the discussion throughout but only identified on screen the first time is a pain for people like me who have trouble remembering who everybody is.

#Documentaries #Films #PetPeeves

#PetPeeves
People who complain about emergency room wait times.
Just be thankful you're not seriously ill or injured enough to get priority treatment.

;;; GOD HELP ME after thirty odd years I STILL do BOTH OF THESE by accident sometimes

(bind-key "C-x C-c" (lambda () (interactive) (message "You almost exited!")))

(bind-key "C-x C-z" (lambda () (interactive) (message "You almost suspended!")))

#emacs #petpeeves #dotemacs

@twcau I had no idea that gesture existed 😕

this is one of my annoyances / #PetPeeves with #Apple as well – failure to provide any in-app or on-device help / documentation for this stuff & rely on “serendipitous discovery” 🙄 which of course just means you often never “discover” how to do basic things on your phone unless you just stumble on them 😤 and for those of us who normally #RTFM for fun (& profit? 🤔) or general interest or professional competence, there’s just no FM to R… 😜

they do have the “Tips” app but I’ve found it so patchy that I deleted it from my phone. I just downloaded it now to see if it had any info about this pinch & swipe gesture in Safari but nope ¯_(ツ)_/¯

what I did discover though (in the Tips app) is that there are now three tab bar layouts in Safari – “top”, “bottom”, & “compact” – & the layout I had was the compact one, which I don’t recall ever selecting as I didn’t realise there were any options to set (there in the Settings app rather than in the app itself of course, because Apple 🤪)

if you switch it to “bottom”, the tabs button / icon is restored, but it takes up about twice the space at the bottom of the screen (until you scroll the page). I’ll be switching to this layout since it’s the closest to what I previously had

also, FWIW, I did already know that you can slide across the tab bar left or right to swipe to the next tab open tab in either direction, but as you say there doesn’t seem to be a single-hand gesture

now, I don’t use Safari as my primary browser (tbh it’s about fourth), but I do use it occasionally if I need to temporarily reduce the strictness of my browser settings to access some janky website. so I use it often enough for this change to screw up my muscle memory 🫠

I’m sure some folks either don’t notice such things or just blithely accept that crap changes in unexpected ways in this “smart” device world we now live in, but for “power users” 🤔 and #neurodiverse folks who either care significantly about the tools we use and / or are significantly bothered by regressive changes (or just by change for the sake of change), this stuff matters 😤

#UI #shitUI
#UX #shitUX
#neurodiversity
#accessibility

It's time for a "sound of silence" roundup of meetings industry pet peeves. Do they resonate? What am I missing?

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/meeting-industry/2023/05/sound-of-silence

#meetings #PetPeeves #AirQuality #evaluations #PayingSpeakers #eventprofs #assnchat

Here's a letter I just faxed to a specialist medical practice with which I had an appointment last week.
This new trend of every single entity you interact with insisting that you give them feedback afterward has got to stop. It is fucking stupid and fucking annoying and nobody likes it.
At the absolute minimum, every single entity that does this needs to give the customer an easy way to opt out.
#PetPeeves

It's time for a "sound of silence" roundup of meetings industry pet peeves. Do they resonate? What am I missing?

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/meeting-industry/2023/05/sound-of-silence

#meetings #PetPeeves #AirQuality #evaluations #PayingSpeakers #eventprofs #assnchat

I Hate Exclamation Points! https://mtwb.blog/posts/2025/rants/i-hate-exclamation-points/ #writing #amwriting #blogging #bloggingcommuntity #petpeeves

#PetPeeves - Appointments at a set time but you have to arrive 15 minutes early - so the appointment is really for 15 minutes before the set time, but they plan to be 15 minutes late.

Dear website developers,

What I don't understand is why, if I've given you permission to put cookies on my computer, you need to ask me the next time if it's okay to put cookies on my computer. Surely the fact that they are already there means I shouldn't have to click away your stupid pop-up.

#petPeeves #UX

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It's not 1995 anymore. We can do four-letter extensions (and lower-case filenames!!)