IIRC, some of the Microsoft ones were designed by Susan Kare (who previously did the Macintosh icons).

It’s a subliminal reminder to wash your hands

Last year, you could not hear boos when Israel entered, but you heard some between the time the Greek flag (which is the same colours) was seen and Greece was announced, which seemed telling.

The Lemmy user base tilts alternative (queer, neurodiverse, subculturally niche, politically leftist beyond the mainstream centre-left and such), whereas sports fandom is coded aggressively mainstream, as part of what it means to pass the normality tests, so there’d be fewer sports fans than in a randomly chosen population. Maybe if there’s an influx of normies here, the sports forums will fill out.

May your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth with the force of a thousand caramels

“The Left” here being anyone who’s not an arsehole.

Now there’s a guy whose skinsuit fits awkwardly

When the base find themselves worse off, they’ll blame the wokes. It’s those goddamn gay Mexican muslim furries, what else could it be?

There’ll soon come a day when the C-suite officials of unpopular companies are only referred to by their initials, like the heads of spy agencies.

She was letting her freak flag fly, and more power to her

Time to Switch 2 a Steam Deck.

We don’t deserve cats.

Absolute unit.

“Cause I’m worth it, bitch”

Depends on which option would serve better to advance the plot

The inability to roll windows up into just the title bar, or to get Firefox to place each of its windows on the same virtual desktop as before, are major annoyances. Otherwise, Wayland runs better than I expected.

This is my surprised face.

Spoiler: it’s plastic explosive

My cat loves to lick plastic, but not actually bite it.

If there was any justice, Aaron Swartz’ ghost wouldn’t let him have a moment’s rest.