Endless short video feeds are completely inescapable for me; i can’t use tiktok, i couldn’t use vine, I can’t watch youtube shorts. It’s the same way I can’t play video games - if I engage with them it is impossible to disengage until something physically forces me to look away. I sat for seven hours last night watching videos thinking to myself “I should go get my coffee that I left in the kitchen; I should go to bed; I should go to the bathroom” and I couldn’t make myself move until tiny bastard had to go outside.
Anyway. uBlock origin is great because it blocks ads but you can also use it to totally block elements that are tar pits for your brain. The youtube shorts player has now been banished from my firefox.
This is yet another reason that I prefer stuff that can be used in-browser rather than in exclusively in-app. Way too easy to have a stream of content projected directly into my eyeballs with no action or choices needed on my part when I’m looking at the app passively instead of looking at a website where I have to choose the next video to watch.
And I can still see the shorts logo at various places on the homepage but I can’t see the shorts displayed to click on. It’s worked for about five hours so far.
I also use Leechblock and I’ve got a few things set up to block at all times and I added www.youtube.com/shorts/ to that list with the tab automatically muted and a blur over the videos so if I open that page i just get a silent blurry mess. But right now, I can’t see any thumbnails to click on from the main page and if click “shorts” in the sidebar FF is set up so that I have to take multiple steps to see anything.
I got literally zero hours of sleep last night so if any of this is broken or fucky it’s because my brain is too.
im singehandedly repairing jewish-goyische relations through my outreach with my facebook friends
I briefly forgot there were normal humans named Elijah and wondered why this person thought they were getting messages from Actual Prophet and Messiah-Herald Elijah the Tishbite.
….yeah me too.
Me three.
Imagine getting visions of someone else’s holy prophet and having to text your friends like “….what am I supposed to do with that?”
I have not laughed that hard in so long I literally cannot remember when.
there are some autistic “traits” that people find really annoying but that are inherently kind
like overexplaining. a lot of autistic people didn’t have certain things explained to them because “everyone knows that.” so when an autistic person overexplains something it’s not because they think you’re stupid it’s because they know how it feels for someone to assume you know something you don’t and just not ever explain how or why. it’s a kindness. autistic people aren’t annoying or stupid for this. they’re kind.
