I’m guessing that was the voice of Donald that we just heard.
That doesn’t happen like that in the book.
Also, why does Bernard know about the 51st silo? That’s only supposed to be revealed at the end, when one of them goes to repopulate the earth.
Trying to find my fabric tape measure to measure my boobs.
Of course it’s in the raspberry pi bits drawer. Of course it is.
I don't know what you mean *glances at tape measure that is coiled up with a network cable then coiled around the outside*
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Dateline, elsenet
Egg: Hi. My egg is breaking. What should I do?
Me: My sympathies. Try oestrogen.
Line goes dead.
Possibly too old for this shit. Anyway, oestrogen 🤷🏻♀️
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Sometimes we sleep, or may as well. The world of possibilities that contains and is contained by a day too much and too overwhelming to be but observed slowly through a fog. What shall I do today? Toss a coin.
Sometimes we remember, or remember feeling. To fetch from the vaults of memory is to remember afresh, and to remember afresh to feel afresh. To feel afresh is to reason afresh and it is all still true: this is still was still am still me I, feeling. But nevertheless afresh.
Sometimes we reach out. So fortunate I, who can be held without holding and still feel the warmth. Waves over waves.
I discovered the other day that the Scottish Baby Box, available free to everyone pregnant in Scotland, contains condoms. Bit late, you might think.
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I am about as safe and secure as it’s possible for a trans woman who isn’t in deep stealth to be, and the news is fucking _terrifying_ me.
We have got to find a way to survive the coming years, emotionally as well as physically. We have to be there for each other, but also for OURSELVES.
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Voting intention: 8th Jan 2025
Our new Voting Intention tracker finds Labour narrowly in first place, leading Reform UK by a single respondent in our samplefindoutnow
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Musk and Zuck: Engineering Free Speech
Under the guise of protecting free speech, an alarming alignment between government power and Big Tech’s corporate power is unfolding.Open Rights Group
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A month or so ago the weird gods of Internet advertising decided I needed a book on bomb scene investigation.
Now they’re offering me introductions to bloodstain pattern analysis.
Me: “Well you see, guv, you for Charybdis on your rudder. Gonna be expensive. Need a lift”
The wife: Is that worse than Scylla? Same problem but with a Liverpool accent.
Me: Here’s our Graham to explain how fucked your propeller is!
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"My mate down the pub can get you a new propeller though like"
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In which the EFF attempt to safe face by showing themselves to be complete muppets mastodon.social/@eff/113794035…
If you are trans, you have just been designated “the entertainment” on all Zuckerberg’s platforms.
Others based in the US will likely follow suit. Plan and act accordingly.
I’m having a bit of a cry
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One of the reasons I left FB was because they kept undoing my privacy settings. I don't know if they still do that but I have zero trust in them.
People who’ve read the Silo books know what the thing is that kills them when they go outside (words chosen carefully).
Now, hear me out. What if that, but for mosquitos and bed bugs?
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Health food woo people: Our hydrogen water bottle infuses your system with hydrogen for the … hydrogen benefits like … oh, you know, hydrogen.
My IBS gut, making hydrogen by the litre: Hold my Hindenburg
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@Becky Water != hydrogen though.
This is a separate issue over whether H2 has any metabolic benefit (probably not)
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Easyjet: Confirm that you have travel insurance before booking.
Me: Missed the point where THAT WAS ANY OF YOUR GODDAM BUSINESS
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If you played Jet Set Willy on the Spectrum as a kid you’ll be aware of the notorious Attic Bug. It meant that if you entered the Attic in a game, various rooms became instakills.
Today I read an explanation of the bug: bits of non-screen memory are being written to when one of the monsters in the Attic is “drawn”.
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Today is a special day. As the Earth passes the closest to the sun in its orbit, it’s moving as fast as it ever gets. Thus today, the 4th of January, is SPEED DAY!!!!
It’s also the 18th anniversary of me having sex reassignment surgery. That was a weird time.
Ok, so we now know the point of this Quinn character who wasn’t in the books (neither was Sims. I think he’s going to be the one to do the deed Sheriff Billings did in Wool; his character arc has been building up to that for ages).
Anyway, they have Quinn being the one who worked out that they need to forget.
Which, in the books, was Troy/Donald in Shift.
Suddenly it looks like the reason they’re taking forever to get through Wool is that they aren’t going to bring Shift into the story.
Which makes me wonder how the hell they’re going to explain why they’re down there, and why 8+ billion people died.
Zoe: Someone here is asking if you can make a true software random number generator using generative AI that’s been trained on enough entropy to escape the quantum analysis constraints.
Me: Maths doesn’t stop being maths just because you don’t understand it.
Zoe: I was just gonna say “Parklife!”
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