this is the exact reason my copy of Terry Pratchett's The Shepherd's Crown has never been opened

and the "what about me" complainers will complain regardless of the tax breaks. they don't care about their childrens' futures.

what car? any surprises? my MG4 isn't due until probably late next year

yeah. same issue. every time I click Add To Basket, I was told they were gone

when they were talking about Stephen's Green, the cartoon thing had Shergar buried in the top right

this is going to be a Lyons vs Barrys thing, or Tayto vs King.

I have the Faber one myself and love it. but I do appreciate that Penguin one as well!

oh no it ...hey!!

activity is definitely the answer. it keeps the black dog at bay.

I'm off to build an airlock for my shed - keeps me busy, and helps insulate it better for next year!

it's gray and wet, I'm stuck 9 hours a day in a shed with no human contact, in a body which feels both too hot and too cold. I wish I could just sleep through winter and emerge when it's not so shit.

...but I have major depressive disorder, so maybe it's just me and I should just get on with it.

does the Ambassador not know how to spell "Ambassador"?

"News that is sufficiently bad somehow carries its own guarantee of truth. Only good reports need confirmation."
Breaking Strain, Arthur C. Clarke

I build a library app last week for managing my books, and I just can't even be bothered compiling it, because I know I'll hate the code.

I'll build a basic one again tomorrow and see if I can get Codex to add some improvements in my own coding style.

I read A.M. Low's Adrift In The Stratosphere (1937) so you don't have to.

you're welcome.

shockingly bad sci-fi from someone who should've known better - the inventor of radio-guided airplanes (drones), and a founding member of the British Interplanetary Society.

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lol! I see what you did there. it bemused me

America did not stand alone after 9/11. It just forgot who stood with it. YouTube video by Tod Maffin

America did not stand alone after 9/11. It just forgot who stood with it. #nato #greenland
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the world is on fire, and my cat just died. finding it hard to concentrate on the final two chapters of my book right now.

reminds me of school. I used to enjoy going to school, and coming home from school. the bit in the middle? meh

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting “They killed my wife,” the distraught woman says, adding, “They shot her in the head.”

NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do."

“We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs.

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retitled my book to "The Paths Most Travelled"

it refers to quantum immortality survival involving following the most probable non-fatal paths in a branching timeline.

sounds complex, but that's why there's a whole book, and not just a post.

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great book. each scene is easy to read and you can just *feel* the atmosphere.

Ireland here. You are unfortunately correct.

chapter 9, first draft.

I need to do some revision on it to tighten things up, but I think we're nearing the end now.

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although on second glance, it looks like mine are later prints than yours

oh! I have a few of the early volumes of that series. beautiful paper

Chapter 8: Bruno

I wrote this chapter, revised it, then lost my revisions.

Just spent the whole day rewriting it. hopefully I don't lose it again ;-)

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3 hours diagnosing why @bronwyn-verens.bsky.social 's laptop was offline. a CAT6 cable, opposite end of the house, had rotted because a mis-placed screw had destroyed the sheathing on a single wire in the cable. that cable worked fine for ten years. pictured: tools it took to find and fix this...

spent all day installing Linux (Fedora 43) on three ancient laptops. it took that long because I couldn't find my USB sticks so was resorting to SD cards + adaptors, which are notoriously unreliable...

eventually found a stick, and everything was much easier after that.

now: networking, then Ceph

stupid enough that they would vote Trump in a second time. and they're right.

Ireland here. we're on our third. have to say, it's nice not to have an insane rapist as a president. you should try it.