The ultimate irony here is that there’s one easily available drug he can take that would help immensely.
And I would put a lot of money on saying he’d never take it.
If you know, you know.
Been meaning to climb up on the hill overlooking the Arade bridge at sunset for some time. Needed the right tide and light and a round tuit.
Got all of them. Two of these are from the Fuji XE4, one is from the iPhone 16 pro
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I am a fan of British sci fi author, Peter Hamilton.
One trope he consistently returns to in his universes is the group of humans who buggered off somewhere to try to build a post scarcity society of some kind.
And each new iteration, it feels like the seed group gets closer and closer to a transsexual polycule.
And I’m utterly here for it.
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Trans? Leaving the UK?
Useful to know which countries are on Rowling’s radar and which ones she doesn’t think about.
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went from building planes that could take negative 3g and recover from an inverted dive*, to...whatever the 737 is...
*With some minor damage like loss of a stabiliser and the undercarriage blowing off but who's counting, it still landed
@Kincaid The Max is probably now quite a decent aircraft. It has the compromised version of the LEAP because the landing gear is too short, but it does surprisingly well regardless.
But as originally produced, it was a murder plane and unfit for purpose, simply because of this stupid bit of software that made piss all difference to normal flying, but could be tricked into killing everyone on board remarkably easily.
It's still there, but it's been defanged now.
Bluesky: say what you like about it, but it’s nuclear block combined with the zero tolerance blocking culture that’s developed there has made it far less combative than most social media platforms.
And I think it’s superb. Honestly, I’m gonna get a lot less fussy about blocking at the slightest provocation.
Gonna start with the Reddit wankers who downvote every comment you make while ostensibly trying to have a conversation with you. That’s just rude and they can fuck right off.
Sadly confirmed, lemmy suffers from being beset by tedious playground bully wankers just as much as Reddit.
“Why is there so little content here?” Maybe it’s because you treat posts as an opportunity to exhibit your superior dixkhead prowess?
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In US law they pronounce the “v.” in case names as “versus” or “vee”. So we get the famous case of Roe v. Wade. But in English law for civil cases like this we pronounce the “v.” as “and”, thus rendering the case name as “row and wade”.
Or so I thought. It occurred to me just now that if the case had happened here, it’d be a judicial review. So would be called something like R (Roe) v. Wade, pronounced “the Crown (on behalf of Roe) and Wade”.
But! It was in 1973 when we wrote judicial review case names differently. It would probably have been something more like R v. Wade ex parte Roe.
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Asked a simple question on a Lemmy ADHD forum. Plenty of people answering questions I didn’t ask. Nobody answering the one I did ask.
So that’s a thing, I guess 🤷🏻♀️
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Seeing Orion always makes me remember the years I spent on the road in the early '90s, cold winter nights driving on the interstate highways of the Western United States.
An interesting mix of feelings: cold and lonely but peaceful and reassured. If I can see Orion I can find my way home.
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On Christmas Eve in this year of grace twenty twenty-four, my beloved and I are preparing a bewildering variety of vegetables.
In the photo: a kilogram of beet roots, plural in type and in quantity.
Elsewhere, half a kilo of black salsify, and an unknown quantity of celeriac, kohlrabi, and radishes.
All of it heaved out of the ground, this morning, at the allotment.
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Εμμηνόπαυση (Eminopause) was the Greek word for menopause, so, while I don’t know what the -archy word be, but one would clearly refer to the rulers as “Your Eminence”
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@David Mankins @Steve Gisselbrecht works for me.
“Your eminence wants to know if you can just not”
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Asthma attack of a great time to discover that your inhaler fell out of your pocket in the car.
It’s ok. I have it now.
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New British House of Lords appointments announced. UK politics is just a contest to see who can run the most transparently nihilistic grift and still get cushy life tenure in Westminster.
Sordid fucks
There needs to be a way to restrict the number of political peers who can sit in the Lords at a time. Either they can elect some number of their own body similar to the hereditary peers or have a first-come-first-served each day to allow them in.
The subject matter experts are useful, they help beat legislation into some sort of usable shape. That's the Lords serving a useful function.
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Be American. Vote in Trump. Catch polio. Yell at stars and plane.
They’re having a bit of a funny turn, aren’t they?
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@David Hough the “hoping it crashes and burns” thing doesn’t work.
Exact same thing happened with Hitler. They don’t go quietly.
On a smaller scale, see Brexit. It was a clusterfuck but they ploughed ahead anyway and now the country is just coming apart at the seams.
Useful questions that in-universe characters could ask:
What kills the people sent out to clean?
Why, despite us clearly having been down here a very long time, does it seem that everyone sent out to clean dies after about the same amount of time? Why is the threat not diminishing over time?
Why were these very well stocked silos ready and waiting and apparently very well matched to the threat outside? (In the books, Lukas does ask this question and gets an answer, and the answer is correct but incomplete).
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Curious thing I’ve just noticed about my progesterone prescription. It’s for 28x100mg capsules, fine, but the capsules come in packs of 30. So every month the pharmacist cuts two capsules from the blister pack before sending the rest to me.
What happens to these little pairs of progesterone capsules? Is there someone who finds themselves with a box containing 14 little two-capsule blister packs? Is any of this worth anyone’s time and effort rather than letting me have an extra two?
(It's a lifelong, cheap, uncontroversial medication, so indeed it seems like unnecessary faff for everyone to dole it out a month at a time -- even increasing the interval to 2 months would mean no-one would have to faff around cutting up anything.)
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@womump While I have one that comes in boxes of 84 as 3x21s and am prescribed 28 at a time, so I *usually* get one full strip and a 1x7 cut off another. But not always.
I am on some things which are one-month-at-a-time only, and this isn't one of them.
(Also, the chemist has an auto-repeat system which works on a calendar month, which is 🙄 )
It’s quite astonishing to watch the Bluesky people keep digging that hole.
Now apparently they auto remove any post that has the house number and street of Jesse Singal in. As a result, literally everyone on the site now knows what they are, thanks to the Streisand Effect.
Muppets.
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Juliette: “Your generator is under water so how do you have power?
Solo: “IT has its own power source”
Juliette: “From where?”
WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER. THAT IS THE RIGHT QUESTION TO ASK!
By the way, Juliette, how’s that nasty wound on your arm?
It’s fun watching this having read the books.
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@A Spectre, Haunting but then there’s no point to any of it.
It would be like sealing off Barnsley for 500 years to create a society that didn’t know about, say, plastic, and leaving a vault outside the sealed off area with loads of stuff in that nobody else touched because of the reason, and also you were so scared of your future civilisation knowing about plastic that you were willing to kill your self and your coworkers because you know about plastic, and by the way, the rest of the world is out there knowing about plastic and could rescue you at any time by just walking up and knocking and just decides not to, and by the way you literally have radios which you could use to call for help and they could hear you and you would hear them, and planes, which you would see in the night sky flying past, etc etc etc.
Humanity being dead is a central plot point. The entire premise makes zero sense if it’s not.
I like words that end in -id. Placid. Flaccid. Limpid. Insipid. Intrepid. Turgid. Putrid.
Seems weird that they sound negative even when they're positive.
lucid and, dare i say it, pellucid
livid, morbid, rigid
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Local DIY barn is full of Christmas tat, except most of it looks like it’s been designed by generative AI. Upright boxer dogs wearing 19th century military uniform while looking vaguely cutesy and shit like that.
It’s all very uncanny valley.
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@Christine Burns MBE 🏳️⚧️📚⧖ This is Portugal, but the tat is just … tat. The vibe is “festive, but off”.
Black Mirror shit.
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Weak!
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