I just made two Italians cry by showing them this.

That’s an occlupanid, a fairly common specimen, but still worthy of respect.

I was just thinking electricity should be charged at reverse volume, the more you use, the more expensive each Gw is. It’ll never happen, but if we wanted to tackle this issue, it’s what we should do.

We also use “I’m trying for a baby” as a euphemism for sex. In fact, my favorite euphemism is “just dropping the kids off at the pool”

I’ve been using Manjaro with Cinnamon for about a month now. It works great on an old Lenovo with 12gb ram. Probably going to stick with it when I build my desktop.

For Brits of a certain age: 0(1)81 811 8181

I think it’s middle, bottom, then top.

Why

WHY NOT? Why not just waste a week of your life creating a react project just to coverup your insecurities of how incompetent you are. Just Why not!

At least they’re self aware.

Do you hear a sea shanty?

Yeah, it should be “fig 1”, “also fig 1, but the other half”.

Shitting themselves in public. It doesn’t happen often, maybe only a handful of times over your life. But it will happen at some point. You’ll be at the urinal, or sat on a barstool, go for a cheeky fart, and feel a warm wetness you haven’t felt since you were a baby. Then you run to a bathroom stall, see what you can salvage, and excuse yourself from the situation.

It’ll happen to you at some point.

When most western governments are still highly influenced by the Catholic church, even atheists need to pay attention to who the pope is.

All of the Ubi-art games were great, Rayman Legends, Valiant Hearts and Child of Light, all fantastic games. And then Ubisoft said they would only make open world games. Idiots.

She’s a perfect Rio Morales, just saying.

Thanks very much for your advice. I’ve reworked my CV using Open Resume and updated it on all the job boards I’ve been using, hopefully that gets me further.

I’m also continuing to update my portfolio website and building out apps in different languages and frameworks to demonstrate my skills.

It just looks like the job market sucks at the mo and I just need to keep trudging through.

Thanks again.

The Evil Dead trilogy.

A younger friend of mine had started playing the Evil Dead game with some of his friends but had never seen the movies. I’d not watched them in years, so I invited him over to marathon them one weekend. We drank, ate pizza and did the whole trilogy, and we had an absolute blast. He loved how different each movie was, especially Heart of Darkness. How each one gets sillier than the last.

A few months later, Evil Dead Rise came out in the cinema, so we had to go see it. While this was much more a straight up horror movie (with a small amount of the Evil Dead silliness), I still enjoyed it (I find horror movies quite funny, like an emotional rollercoaster), but he was hiding behind his coat the whole time, terrified of what was happening on screen. That made it even funnier for me.

Family values are those values that don’t include a woman’s right to her own body, that don’t include our queer bretheren, our trans siblings, our immigrant neighbours in a world of immigrants.

Isn’t it funny how family values exclude so much of real families?

Google are killing it recently, broken installers, bricked chromecasts, ai slop masquerading as search results. Absolutely killing it.

Just finished Red Shirts by Jon Scalzi, a Star Trek satire about the disposability of side characters in sci-fi. Not a bad book, by any regards, but had a very simplistic writing style that got tedious at times. The best part of the book was when the narrative finished 75% of the way through the novel, then it spent three chapters exploring three of the minor characters from the narrative and the repercussions the plot had on them. This made the book worth reading, but I still felt a little unsatisfied at the end.

I’m now reading Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I’m only two chapters in, but so far, this looks much more up my street. Earth has become a fascist technocracy that sends its political prisoners to far off planets to endure forced labour. The descriptions of acceptable losses in the first chapter made the tense descent of the main character to his new prison planet all the more so. Interested to see where this one goes.

Yep, there’s been no repeal of the GDPR laws, so they are still officially on the books in the UK.