I regularly get despicable garbage on Facebook, for instance:
- “Historical” content that’ mostly AI slop, illustrated by “photographs” that are readily identified by Google as generated by their AI;
- Scam ads, e.g., advertising a business that never existed in the first place, with a “going out of business” once-in-a-lifetime sale;
- Scam ads, trying to entice me to download, e.g., malicious browser extensions;
- Catfishing contact requests;
- Contact requests from cloned accounts, including cloned accounts of friends who, sadly, passed away years ago.
Meanwhile, just the other day, Facebook apparently lost all my prior notifications. Not sure if it is a site-wide problem or specific to my account, but it was annoying either way.
And then… this. I regularly repost my blog entries to Facebook. Over the past year, they randomly removed three of them, for allegedly violating their famous “community standards”. (Because Meta cares so much about “community”. Right.) The three that they removed were
- A post celebrating the fact that my Web site was 30 years in existence;
- A whimsical post about the evils of chemistry;
- A post about Lindsey Graham suggesting that Trump should run again in 2028.
So why do I even bother with Facebook, then? Well, a good question with a simple answer: there are plenty of people — old friends, classmates — that I’d lose touch with otherwise.
That does not mean that I have to like the experience.
Anyhow, now I wonder if this post will also be banned as “spam” by their broken algorithms. Until then, here’s an image of our newest cat.
Marcel may be young (just over 3 months) but he already understands a lot about the world. Including Facebook. His facial expression says it all.
Why worry of posts :) people disappear there! My account was blocked – I guess the reason as it was the fall of 2022 and my page clearly stated my nationality and country of residence. Silly thing was that my account existed mainly to bind facebook api for allowing users to log in to my website “via facebook”. I haven’t much posted there (except sometimes about problems from my site – but rarely in the recent years). Facebook asked I should find 5 people among those connected with me in facebook who can confirm my identity.
I felt it a bit ridiculous as most of the people with whom I connected there were my web-site users from different countries (including some wonderful shiny black individual from Canada who mostly communicated in French) – whom I have no much hope of meeting in person in my life. So I thought if they really want such a “great purge” it is not quite wise to insist on my presence where I’m “summarily” not wanted.
Now the most ridiculous outcome. When “login via facebook” ceased to work on my website I posted a note that anyone affected are welcome to contact me by some means so that we can change their login type to username/password or github. Not so many people eventually reached me – but of those who did roughly half were from Ukraine. It was understandably a bit embarrassing moment but we got through it smoothly enough, even exchanging some general observations of it-related positions here and there.
Ah, sorry, actually when I clicked “respond” on this post I wanted to say that images on the most post of main page are unusually stretched (very tall), which makes words of “his facial expression” extremely funny. I’m not sure, but perhaps nowadays GPT5 could be given URL and question “why images are stretched here” to analyze css styles or whatever (I’m poor at UI technologies regretfully).
Thanks for reminding me. That’s a WordPress bug. I know how to fix it (done) I just forget to do it after WP version updates.
$ diff -bu wp-includes/media.php.orig wp-includes/media.php--- wp-includes/media.php.orig 2025-12-09 03:21:22.327729422 -0500
+++ wp-includes/media.php 2025-12-10 18:18:28.391599752 -0500
@@ -1957,7 +1957,7 @@
$filtered_image = wp_img_tag_add_loading_optimization_attrs( $filtered_image, $context );
// Adds 'auto' to the sizes attribute if applicable.
- $filtered_image = wp_img_tag_add_auto_sizes( $filtered_image );
+ // VTT $filtered_image = wp_img_tag_add_auto_sizes( $filtered_image );
/**
* Filters an img tag within the content for a given context.
There. Next time maybe I’ll remember.