Been thinking about Sarah’s history of English royalty since William t he Conquerer. Let me know if I left anything important out:
Succession crisis -> civil war.
Civil war resolved, negotiated succession.
Descendant of negotiated successor pisses everyone off -> civil war.
Descendant forced to accept terms.
Stability for a bit while they’re busy fighting other people.
Succession crisis -> civil war.
Civil war resolved violently.
Succession crisis (religion). Civil war narrowly averted.
Dynasty goes extinct. Succession negotiated.
Descendant of negotiated successor pisses everyone off -> civil war.
Civil war resolved through decapitation.
Succession crisis. Civil war averted via negotiated succession.
Succession crisis -> civil war fizzles
Dynasty goes extinct (yes, Charlie, it did. Shut up)
Parliament is finally utterly fucking sick of this lot starting civil wars, installs German puppets. The end.
like this
reshared this
You’re scared we’re going to beat you at sports.
We’re scared you’re going to beat us to death.
We are not the same.
like this
reshared this
like this
like this
BREAKING! In a move that the Liberal Democrat party hopes will finally deal with their transphobe problem, they have handed the Sudetenland to the transphobes.
In exchange, the transphobes pinky promised that they won’t demand any further concessions, “you know, for a bit anyway”.
like this
reshared this
like this
reshared this
like this
reshared this
NEW! Force femmed immigrants in YOUR neighbourhood eating YOUR cat!
Trump watches some very weird porn.
like this
gz reshared this.
Apple: “And our new iPhone 16 has hardware ray tracing for unparalleled mobile gaming performance”
Mobile gaming:
like this
reshared this
youtu.be/Rf5pB31k3dw?si=dRuPVG…
Top 15 Realistic Games for Android and iOS 2024 | Best High Graphics Games for Android
My mobile gameplay channel (Tekkan Plays): @TekkanPlays It's crazy how good phone games look these days. I mean, who would have thought we'd be playing game...YouTube
@Alan Braggins bet I know which ones get played and played and played.
Never seen anyone on a train or plane or bus playing a 3D FPS thing on their phone.
But word searches and distant descendentes of Tetris? All the time.
Now smartphones are mature products we’re into the annual “this is an incremental upgrade over last year. I’m so mad replacing my 2 thousand quid perfectly functional phone with one that’s almost the same for another 2 thousand quid” cycle.
My brother in Christ; have you considered just … not?
I’m upgrading this year. My phone is 3 years old and the camera stuff is worth it for me. My step daughter is getting my old one, which she is thrilled with.
like this
reshared this
Yesterday I saw a discussion about whether you can smell in a dream.
As fate would have it, I had a lucid dream last night (I have a cold. That’s probably why), so I decided to test it.
Yes, you can smell in dreams.
like this
reshared this
like this
Sensitive content
Alexandra Lanes likes this.
OK, more digging. It's failing in line 231 of /var/www/html/src/Object/Image.php.
Which is this:
} catch (\Throwable $error) {
/** @see https://github.com/php/doc-en/commit/d09a881a8e9059d11e756ee59d75bf404d6941ed */
if (strstr($error->getMessage(), "gd-webp cannot allocate temporary buffer")) {
DI::logger()->notice('Image is probably animated and therefore unsupported', ['message' => $error->getMessage(), 'code' => $error->getCode(), 'trace' => $error->getTraceAsString(), 'file' => $this->filename]);
} else {
DI::logger()->warning('Unexpected throwable.', ['message' => $error->getMessage(), 'code' => $error->getCode(), 'trace' => $error->getTraceAsString(), 'file' => $this->filename]);
}So my suspicion was right: it's animated GIF avatars which are causing this. However, rather than fail gracefully, I'm left with a zombie worker job which seems to persist forever.
Progynova 2mg 3x28s - InhousePharmacy.vu
Progynova tablets (Oestradiol 2mg) are used for transgender hormone therapy and menopausal symptom relief. Buy quality medication from InhousePharmacy.vu.www.inhousepharmacy.vu
like this
reshared this
To an eSIM. I was previously dual SIMming with one physical and one eSIM, but now I’m dual eSIM and the SIM tray is empty.
like this
like this
like this
like this
Clara Listensprechen reshared this.
like this
Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw reshared this.
The press seems to have switched from “Trump’s brand of irreverent fascism is so sexy, we love it” to “Trump is a pathetic loser, and we can smell his fear”.
And honestly, I’m ok with that.
like this
reshared this
The story is whatever fascinates the media, who then become the story and feed the cycle.
It's great that the Harris team has managed to give them a new narrative to be fascinated by. This "happy warrior" story is working to feed the endless loop.
This is the first time the media's fascination with Trump's hold on what used to be considered normal people (which then amplifies the effect) hasn't been the focus of attention since 2019.
When I am empress of the universe, one of my first decrees shall be to make the past tense of “quit”, “quat”.
Because the lulz.
like this
reshared this
That's not actually irregular, it conforms to a clear pattern: Sit, sat. Drink, drank. Fit, fat.
@Rebeca @Chris Packham It is irregular. A regular verb in English has the following form:
Infinitive: (To) X
3rd person singular present indicative: Xs (or other standard plurals)
Gerund: Xing
Participle/preterit: Xed
And that’s it. There are some patterns of irregular verbs, but regular ones all have stem+ed as their past tense.
So would the pluperfect be ‘quot’?
Yikes! I haven’t used the term ‘pluperfect’ since I was fourteen.
Tired: Americano. Who the hell even knows what that is?
Wired: Espresso squash. Does exactly what it says on the tin!
like this
ocnurb reshared this.
Apropos of a conversation on Reddit, the British etiquette of offering tea/coffee three times, and refusing on the first two, thus:
Can I get you a tea or coffee?
Oh, no thank you.
You sure?
Yes, I'm good.
I'm making one anyway.
Oh go on then.
Now here's the thing: most of my social circle are geeks with some type of neurodiversity going on, and one thing we value is a straight bloody answer.
So it will go something like this:
Can I get you a tea or coffee?
Oh, no thank you.
OK.
I wonder how many thirsty tradespeople I've annoyed in my life?
like this
reshared this
like this
Dear heterosexual men: you’re finding bras hard to take off because they’re designed for us to remove with our right hand.
But you’re facing the other way.
Try with the left.
You’re welcome.
like this
reshared this
Menopausal cis women be like: “I know I could feel like I’m 30 again, but I think I’m gonna try feeling shit for a few years” 🤔
Trans women: “Why are you doing this to yourselves? Behold our lord and saviour, HRT!”
@Heather As I understand it, without a prescription it’s legal to buy them from abroad but not from the UK. It’s legal to possess them and illegal to supply them.
There are uk sites where you can have an “online consultation” with a doctor who will rubber stamp your purchase.
Finally some HRT is now available over the counter without a prescription at Boots
@Heather @Alexandra Lanes It’s absolutely legal to possess oestrogen for personal use without a prescription.
Trans women do it … a lot, because doctors are arseholes to us.
like this
Nine hours ago, due to a series of events I don’t wish to recount, I ate an entire Carolina reaper.
I now know that nine hours is how long it takes to transit my digestive tract.
I desire euthanasia.
like this
reshared this
Why Do We Still Have Semaphore Signals?
Network Rail invited me to take a tour of signalling through the decades, starting with the Littlehampton Signal Box - still operating semaphore signals - th...YouTube
like this
Sion [main] likes this.
So I have a little holiday rental business.
One of my guests just complained that there was sand on the beach.
Give me strength.
like this
The odd batshit crazy poor review won't hurt your business. Where in Portugal are you? My sweetie and I want to come visit (someday).
like this
So grit the teeth and don't get wound up when these people come into your life (just hope they move on soon).
I understand that apartheid nepo space Karen told the EU commission to “fuck your own face”.
It’s a … bold … move. Let’s see how that works out for him, shall we?
like this
Isabel reshared this.
@Captain_Jack_Sparrow @partnumber2 This is what you responded to. Where I'm very clearly not making a generalisation. You replied to this. This is what you've been basing your whole tirade on.
'People don't realise how corrupt the UK is because the British (let's be honest mainly English) know how to spin, minimise, evade & manipulate like no others. Even the British public has zero clue just how corrupt it is."
You engaged with me. You started insulting me. You wouldn't drop it. But please tell everyone how I'm the bully.
When I eventually got the joke, I belly laughed...
I feel that I'll never see an ellipsis the same way...
like this
reshared this
like this
With time a transnational facility might include this structure that has been gaining traction slowly against the will of fascists and empires
Reddit: you violate subsection 12, clause 14b, section g of the rules and we absolutely have the power to ban you and remove all your posts.
Fedi: I wrote a rules novel. What do you mean I can’t do shit to enforce it? If teacher existed, I’d tell on you!
like this
like this
Sarah Brown likes this.
Ben Curthoys
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Ben Curthoys
in reply to Ben Curthoys • • •BashStKid
in reply to Ben Curthoys • • •Sarah Brown
in reply to Ben Curthoys • •GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) reshared this.
Klepsis
in reply to Ben Curthoys • • •