@errant @zzt @davidgerard I'm literally in the woods cackling.

@randahl Plus annexing parts of Mexico.

@afewbugs yeah, I can't count the times I look at a 10 and think - damn, the soggy molluscs beat me too it

Alice Weidel is openly lesbian, lives with her Sri Lankan wife & their children. Co leads Germany’s far-right AfD(a party that opposes same-sex marriage, promotes a narrow idea of the traditional family, campaigns for mass deportations). Why is it surprising? Look around us for answers.
Being part of a marginalised group does not automatically make someone’s politics progressive. Identity tells us something about a person’s experience. It does not tell us what they choose to do with their power.

@david_chisnall Much deserved, just for looking for alcohol-free port 😂

Curiosity made me try a de-alcoholised wine some time ago. I found it quite disappointing.
Maybe it wasn't served at the right temperature, but despite all the expected flavors were as expected, the absence of alcohol made it a very flat grapes juice.
I suppose alcohol is a strong (primary?) vehicle (chemically/physically speaking) to scents and tastes, boosting their channeling to our sensory experience.

#WritersCoffeeClub Sept 8. International Literacy Day! Share a moment when a reading of your work surprised you.

September 2017.

vBSDCon.

I wasn't there, but someone (I think it was Benno Rice?) did a live reading of "Savaged by Systemd" with George Neville-Neil reading the part of systemd.

For charity.

Every so often, George would come across a line so offensive that he would balk until more money went into the bucket. It raised several hundred bucks.

Just shows you, there's no problem so bad that it can't be leveraged for good.

@AnarchoNinaWrites I keep fucking saying: Asking for things like unions & fair wages & worker's rights & corporate regulation etc. is how we tell Them™️ there's a peaceful way of doing this, so that we won't have to end up dragging them into the street & beating them to death as their mansions burn...

These days, whenever I get an ad for a service I’m already using, I regard it as a small victory. I have succeeded in platform/publisher not knowing much about me at all

What you could call the plan as of [[September 2026]].

I will do what I can when I have to. For Lady Burup!

@thomasfuchs very beautiful!

@urlyman @j9t They'll almost certainly have to go through the comms team if they want to do a published interview.
Contact them at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/cabinet-office#org-contacts - they're usually friendly and helpful.

@thomasfuchs having very recently been to a 30th anniversary screening of Trainspotting and a 35th anniversary screening Terminator 2, I feel this completes my feeling-old trifecta.

And a huge physical library full of classics, special editions and more artbooks (already read like 20% of them, during my back pain days, so I might need to expand the library even more with more books).

I'm preparing for the apocalypse... with books and art :D

#book #books #art #drawing #reading #ff7 #finalfantasy #finalfantasy7

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so uh, now that he’s platforming DHH on his podcast, your reminder that brodie robertson is a weird bigoted channer

between DHH, brodie, that fucking ex-googler Linux is Best guy doing an anti-Palestine disinformation campaign on fedi, lunduke, liam of gamingonlinux, linus torvalds himself… it really feels like a lot of the loudest influencers and personalities in this space are mask-off assholes up to no good, doesn’t it? it really feels like they’re doing that thing fascists do where they normalize casually doing horrid shit in a space.