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DC Deejay 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦<p>If nobody has made a horror movie about this exact scenario yet, the time is now.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BadIdea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BadIdea</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TerribleIdea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TerribleIdea</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WeAreNotGonnaMakeItAreWe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeAreNotGonnaMakeItAreWe</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.axios.com/local/raleigh/2025/04/08/colossal-biosciences-clone-red-wolves-and-extinct-direwolves" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">axios.com/local/raleigh/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">4/08/colossal-biosciences-clone-red-wolves-and-extinct-direwolves</span></a></p>
🔹🐌 DeeLynn 🐌🔹<p><a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23BadIdea" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BadIdea</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23MAGA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Resist" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Resist</a> this 💩‼️ For 5 million dollars each … nutty boy is willing to open the door to Russian oligarchs… hey he knows some that are good people<br><br><a href="https://media.tenor.com/AMGl1uatjfkAAAAC/this-is-such-a-bad-idea-samus-paulicelli.gif?hh=280&amp;ww=498" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a man with long hair and a bea...</a></p>
Pseudo Nym<p>&lt;singing&gt;"We built this city on rock and roll!"</p><p>We really should have used concrete and steel! </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/badIdea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>badIdea</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a></p>
Different Than<p>Thinking I should write one of my trademarked "dumbass but fun sci fi stories" based on the premise....What if university professors had qualified immunity?</p><p>"Yes, Mrs. Johnson, your son did get shanked by a gang member, and yes, I did make 'interviewing a gang member' a mandatory part of my course, but I can tell you I have a very aggressive faculty union and your lawsuit will just waste your time and money. More importantly: don't you think education is the most critical need we have in our society right now? Do you really want to tell the judge that you question the value of education?"</p><p>Yeah, I'm thinking this has legs.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scifi</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/badidea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>badidea</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/orIsIt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orIsIt</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>highered</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/professor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>professor</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a></p>
titaniumbiscuit<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@whynothugo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>whynothugo</span></a></span> Have all your internal links clicked on page load by some JavaScript, so that they appear purple ("already visited") instead of blue. <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/badidea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>badidea</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/plzdontdothis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plzdontdothis</span></a></p>
Nicky🦨✌️<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@scott" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>scott</span></a></span> good to know we UsAians aren’t responsible for this <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/badidea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>badidea</span></a> lol</p>
Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:<p>The currently visible content is not longer than the window height? Well, then let's reconfigure the scroll wheel such that it doesn't scroll vertically but horizontally instead!</p><p>When there's more content, let's switch back. 🤦‍♂️ </p><p><a href="https://graz.social/tags/Badidea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Badidea</span></a> </p><p>Yes, I'm talking to you, <a href="https://graz.social/tags/MediathekView" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MediathekView</span></a>. That's a really bad dark pattern.</p><p><a href="https://graz.social/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UX</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/HCI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HCI</span></a></p>
Raeyn<p>Made the mistake of trying to sneak up and bury my face in one of our kitty's tums. He wasn't impressed, and now my face is covered in plasters. <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/whups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whups</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/badidea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>badidea</span></a> </p><p>I did make sure to give him a treat as an apology. It's not his fault that I did what I did.</p>
FreddyB Aviation Photography<p>Is this even necessary? Gross, I mean oreo's are at best a poor Hydrox (I know I totally dated myself) but for christ sake why would you want a Sour Patch Kids / Oreo colab?? <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sourpatchkids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sourpatchkids</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/gross" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gross</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/oreo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oreo</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/badidea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>badidea</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/colab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colab</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/wrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wrong</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/hydrox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hydrox</span></a></p>
Lars Wirzenius<p>My new startup is an AI service that reads you system log files and produces animated movies based on them. As a user you get to choose the genre: action, comedy, horror, etc.</p><p>Don't worry about giving my service access to sensitive log file. My data gathering phases exploited several zero day vulnerabilities to collect log files from all Internet connected systems already. You're welcome.</p><p><a href="https://toot.liw.fi/tags/joke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>joke</span></a> <a href="https://toot.liw.fi/tags/startup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>startup</span></a> <a href="https://toot.liw.fi/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://toot.liw.fi/tags/badIdea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>badIdea</span></a> <a href="https://toot.liw.fi/tags/reallyBadIdea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reallyBadIdea</span></a> <a href="https://toot.liw.fi/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a></p>
Harry Sintonen<p>I don't think it is smart to teach users to divulge passwords to third parties. <a href="https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/google-overhauls-chromes-safe-browsing-protection-to-scan-password-protected-files/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/security/2024/</span><span class="invisible">07/google-overhauls-chromes-safe-browsing-protection-to-scan-password-protected-files/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/chrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chrome</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/badidea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>badidea</span></a></p>
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸<p>It’s late.<br>I’m not thinking clearly.<br>So a ‘bc.social’ Mastodon instance for British Columbia sounds great right about now…</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/bc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bc</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/twitterMigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>twitterMigration</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/badIdea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>badIdea</span></a></p>
andre<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://m6n.io/@fuzzychef" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fuzzychef</span></a></span> I wish Manning would go for satire only but this one seems to be real:</p><p><a href="https://www.manning.com/books/build-financial-software-with-generative-ai" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">manning.com/books/build-financ</span><span class="invisible">ial-software-with-generative-ai</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/BadIdea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BadIdea</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/FinancialSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FinancialSoftware</span></a></p>
Lard Motel<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.beaware.live/@BeAware" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BeAware</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@SDF" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SDF</span></a></span> </p><p>OK I should be <span class="h-card"><a href="https://threads.net/@lardmotel/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lardmotel@threads.net</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/TestAnimal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TestAnimal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/BadIdea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BadIdea</span></a></p>
cjsims3000<p>spotify should reconsider this. This is a good device that is being discontinued. <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Spotify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spotify</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/BadIdea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BadIdea</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/112504198779918698" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">flipboard.social/@TechDesk/112</span><span class="invisible">504198779918698</span></a></p>
Em-squared<p>Got up nice and early but all that's done is make me even more tired. I think I need to outsource my decision making.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BadIdea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BadIdea</span></a></p>
BoisterousBard<p>These machines are abominations, I will continue to say this until we eliminate soft drinks altogether. </p><p>This is as good an idea as AI art, let's be honest. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/BadIdea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BadIdea</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/BadIdeas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BadIdeas</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/SugarDrink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SugarDrink</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a></p>
Champagne<p>I’m thinking about taking a four day - wheels up 🛫 to wheels down 🛬 - trip from the North East United States to Berlin, Germany with the sole intention of securing a guaranteed entry to the 2025 Berlin Marathon. </p><p>This is probably the best dumb idea I have had in a while. </p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/running" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>running</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BerlinMarathon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BerlinMarathon</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/runnersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>runnersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BadIdea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BadIdea</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>travel</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ProjectStupid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProjectStupid</span></a></p>
Hippy Steve<p>Throwflame unveils robot dog Thermonator — with flamethrower attached — The Ohio-based firm have announced the $9,420 bot is available for purchase by the general public and government agencies for the first time.<br>___</p><p>It's like the This Is Fine dog, just snapped and decided to don a flame thrower to burn it all down faster.</p><p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TormentNexus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TormentNexus</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/ThingsNoOneAskedFor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsNoOneAskedFor</span></a><br><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/BadIdea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BadIdea</span></a></p>
chribonn<p>Are Tethered Caps a good or a bad idea?</p><p>Are they useful or do they get in the way?<br>Do you rip out the cap when you open the container?<br>Will they still be here in a couple of years?</p><p><a href="https://twit.social/tags/TetheredCaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TetheredCaps</span></a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/GoodIdea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoodIdea</span></a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/BadIdea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BadIdea</span></a></p>