Because we need good news: Gary Larson is drawing again (he bought a tablet, taught himself how to use it, and suddenly drawing was fun again): https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/
This. Just, this.
Just noting here that I found it much easier to write satirical political fantasy about the UK electing an ancient Lovecraftian horror from beyond spacetime as Prime Minister with a mandate to eat everyone's brain before the real-world USA basically said "hold my beer ..."
Saying the quiet part out loud: billionaires don't want the little people around, they want us to quietly go away and stop existing on their dime (because obviously all the dimes belong to the deserving poor, er, billionaires).
This is eliminationist rhetoric, aimed at you (and me).
Just awake again after a nap when I got home from trekking by public transport halfway across Scotland to get to a non-local hospital appointment at 8:45am on a Monday. Aaargh.
Vision still blurred from myrdiatic eye drops: now waiting to get a priority date to be stabbed in the eyes. (Cataract surgery.) The magic words seems to be "this is preventing me from working," because Capitalism.
OH DEAR GOD (and by god I mean cthulhu) … https://mastodon.ie/@fuzzix/114191128172499797
This is why you shouldn't buy a Tesla—or any other product of a Musk-owned corporation.
Suing their own customers if they talk about a bad experience (or a fatal crash) is a SLAPP offense in those parts that have such laws.
Welp, just seen the specs on the new Mac Mini and been pricing up a fully loaded M4Pro for nostr:npub1jvn4k2u849va6ehrnaaqvg78he60hcc7zkt4un6w77qjkrcmnndsk3uj7g. The sirens you can hear in the distance are the fire engines preparing to hose down my credit card.
I jest, a bit: I haven't ordered anything yet. The price of anything over 2Tb of SSD is *ouch* enough I want to sleep on it first. But on the other hand, nostr:npub1jvn4k2u849va6ehrnaaqvg78he60hcc7zkt4un6w77qjkrcmnndsk3uj7g needs > 2Tb of SSD for sure ...
(I'm not getting one myself. At least, not this financial year.)
nostr:npub1nu968lpe4mqdkjzurvz00e70yfdyqypay2q2xrr2ae9h4eljxcjqykl6r5 Nitric acid fumes look that colour. Or maybe some other nasty nitrate? (NO, NO2 …)
nostr:npub1nu968lpe4mqdkjzurvz00e70yfdyqypay2q2xrr2ae9h4eljxcjqykl6r5 When are they digging up the Milk Snatcher's coffin?
So doge, very meme, I old, go bye now
If you're attending the Cymera SF festival in Edinburgh next weekend (May 31st to 2nd June), among other things there's a charity auction to raise funds for the Scottish Book Trust's New Writers Award, along other things.
I've just donated a signed first edition hardback run of the entire Merchant Princes/Empire Games series, published from 2003-2022 and occupying roughly 30cm of shelf space! Hopefully someone will bid on it and help fund the writers award ...
https://www.cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera2024-events/2024/4/5/auction?rq=auction
nostr:npub1eyszugs46q4ngd8tgeysnkwve20n9wewj42lac9cp7s2jrk52u2qce6x02 I find it enlightening to follow these exchanges: then block the Reply Guy before he replies to a question I haven't asked yet ...
nostr:npub1v25agxyewmkaymja35krfzx2xq0hwc750rng5h8dqryk393pkwsqjwxljv It totally can. Americans ALWAYS tend to overestimate their importance in the perceptions of non-Americans.
US Politics in a nutshell:
The US forked British Monarchy™ in 1776, but froze the dev branch with Constitution 1.0, so didn't bother to backport any of the subsequent bugfixes and security patches (1831, 1918, 1938, etc.) from the main British branch.
Anyway, you've got a bunch of British Monarchy™ users who instinctively want to tug the forelock but don't have anyone to tug it *at* and it upsets them because homebrew is no good—it takes 700 years of inbreeding to roll your own nobility.
TFW you buy your spouse a shiny new maxed-out Macbook Air ... then discover the toilet is leaking.
Sigh. Plumber scheduled for tomorrow morning (yay!) at "you want me to be awake WHEN?" o'clock (boo!)
Fingers crossed that it's just a leaky gasket, not a whole new bathroom ...
Remember folks, ChatGPT lies with total conviction about easily verified facts, like this claim that solar eclipses can't happen anywhere in our solar system.
that nose
Thinking about creating a british website for news and discussion of liposuction and steatopygian reduction treatments.
Going to call it Arse Technica.
nostr:npub1xnfqm8ajuzaulrxnpnfgdc3l6xtjtuafdw9cvfjsjtw3hhx6t2lq94jqth That doesn't work so well for AppleCare+, especially if you're going to expense the whole thing for your business.