I'm going to guess (and hope) that she won't be doing that again...

And yes, I COULD get a new printer (I suppose). But I still have ink cartridges for the old one! Until the last drop of black ink is consumed*... I shall persevere!

(*Which, at a rate of about one printout ever two months, might take a while yet)

Ain't technology great?

It takes me 40 minutes to print two pages of text. Because my PC won't recognise my 20 year old bubble jet printer, so I have to transfer it on USB stick to an old netbook, which never was particularly fast but REALLY has to ponder over a 23kb word document.

I struggle to be nice to my characters...
It happens, on occassion. Almost by accident.

Fat (sausage?) fingers...

I'm quite sure they'll have all these unfortunate kinks in DHS/ICE policies sorted out by the time of the World Cup. Quite, quite sure...

Read my short piece that clashes AI robots and fortune telling together...

While ICE agents being held to account for threatening behaviour, kidnapping, and murder would be most welcome, it can't have escaped many people's notice that the DOJ has moved to dismiss - not pardon - the charges of seditious conspiracy for the remaining Jan 6 rioters.

Pope criticises 'tyrants' who spend billions on wars, days after Trump spat The comments follow a high-profile spat with US President Donald Trump, who called the Pope weak on crime.

Gosh, I wonder who he is thinking of?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

(Putin, Netanyahu, and Trump, would be my three guesses. Do I win a prize?)

It’s a telling indicator of media desensitization that the US government’s ongoing program of murder on the high seas—which according to the perpetrators has killed fourteen (14) people this week— is no longer a subject for much serious or sustained news coverage.

Doesn't have to mean throwing open the doors - just has to be the better option than the back-route, and, ideally, one that is a one-shot efficient approach (you get processed faster, and once your claim is processed, no mucking around, no legal limbo, your status is pretty much known)

As with "small boats", to which the obvious solution is bigger boats, the way to undercut the scammers and exploiters is to provide a fair and documented route for those who need it. Doesn't have to be free -just has to be cheaper than the traffickers going rate.

Fake Gay Panic with lashings of "now we're not going to believe anyone who actually is gay, and we're going to make them prove it in the most invasive and dehumanising ways possible, thus punishing all the asylum seekers, but probably not those who exploit them"

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Israeli triple-tap strike kills three paramedics in Lebanon, officials say Lebanon's government condemns as a

Calculated, and monstrous:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"91 health professionals have been killed and 208 other wounded in the war, with more than 120 Israeli attacks recorded on ambulances and medical facilities."

I SEE your squirrels...

AND raise you 12 homicidal vikings locked in the bodies of squirrels...

Here in the UK, you can't easily connect these to the grid, because, grid. But it makes SO much more sense to do this than to encourage individuals to stick one on their roof, or to turn fields into solar farms (though, done smartly, there can be dual use grazing/solar etc)

Newsflash, Americans! God is NOT on your side.

And nor is Trump.

'Bit of pain' worth long-term security from Iran, Bessent tells BBC US Treasury Secretary said a

'Bit of pain' worth long-term security - Bessant
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
vs
"US war on Iran was a 'mistake',", "not convinced that this conflict [had] made the world a safer place" and "long-term economic pain globally" - Reeves
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wonder who is right?

Paper cuts? :)

I for one would not, going forward, submit a story anywhere that uses D2D. And am looking at how to close the account - which (surprise, surprise) D2D doesn't make easy or obvious...

Signup fee and annual charge changes at #Draft2Digital mean any publisher who chooses it to host royalty payments for a multi-author anthology needs to now NOT do that. Most royalty share anthologies never get close to $100 a year, heck most don't even pay the $10 that triggers a payout...

"Storage" comes in two shapes - making use of a glut, and filling the gap when there's little wind or sun. A glut COULD be used to power (say) extraction of CO2 from atmosphere, or breaking down water to make clean hydrogen. But that doesn't solve the short-term shortages.

Wind turbines and solar have come on by leaps and bounds, both in terms of extent and efficiency. But storage lags, rather drastically. And storage is vital to remove the need for stop-gap gas (or nuclear, possibly). Shifting demand is a useful, but small part of the puzzle.

Donald Trump photo op at St. John's Church - Wikipedia

Do please remember - Trump has form. Lots of it. All bad.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_...

Still selling his Trump bible (who profits?):
edition.cnn.com/2024/03/28/u...

And who can forget countless prayer circles and weird glowing orb photo-ops... His religion is as fake as everything else.

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Followed, in about six months, by the inevitable fuckups and the attempts to rehire lost skills (on lower salaries and job specs...), and the blaming of retained staff for not embracing the slop hard enough.

How big a step is it to questioning everyone? To demanding documentary evidence as proof?
But what if the penalty to getting your looks based judgement wrong was a discrimination/harassment case? What if there were financial and legal costs to forcing someone to justify their choice of toilet?

'Bit of pain' worth long-term security from Iran, Bessent tells BBC US Treasury Secretary said a

If the deterrent for nuclear weapons, real or imagined, is not MORE nuclear weapons, then perhaps the UN is right after all, and no-one should have them - not the UK, not the US, not France or Russia or Israel or China or India or Pakistan or North Korea...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thus proving that, as far as America as a whole is concerned, Pope Leo is a far more astute and less venal businessman than Donald Trump. But heck, we knew that already, right? Anyone remember "tariffs"?