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   Ada Swordlace (swordlace@www.librepunk.club)'s status on Thursday, 30-Oct-2025 00:49:21 JST Ada Swordlace

   Anybody remember how twitter used to work over text message?

   I think I broke that feature.

   You could send and receive tweets, and do some basic interactions like following keywords - for example FOLLOW Guybrush Threepwood would text you any tweets about the classic Lucasarts Adventure Game series Monkey Island™.

   So one day at work I had an idea. I took my Nokia and texted FOLLOW lol.

   My phone immediately blew up. I got the next tweet someone posted that said lol. And the one after that.

   I tried to text STOP lol but my phone couldn't multitask, so every new instance of lol interrupted my attempt to stop them. When my phone's text memory filled up (300!), I found out it deletes old texts and keeps going

   So I turned my phone off to stop the flow (I didn't have unlimited texting, this was getting expensive!)

   When I got home from the office, Twitter was down. For a while.

   When it came back up, the text messaging feature did not come back up. Ever.

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   𝔑ℭ𝔎𝔫𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 (chevalier26@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 03:47:36 JST 𝔑ℭ𝔎𝔫𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱

   @dweebish @actuallyautistic I completely agree on all fronts. I remember having to do complex math problems with fractions like that and they were indeed a pain in the neck lol.

   My point in bringing it up in discussion was just a "this is equal to that" type thing. 15/16 is already in standard form, so there's not really a reason to simplify it further anyway.

   Though I don't understand how equating 7.5/8 (a hypothetical) to 15/16 means I "don't understand fractions" as my parents claimed.