Reform as I say, not as I do – Follow the Money
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Stifling my laughter as I read some recent western Buddhist convert say they think Buddhist theocracies will be amazing. Who’s going to tell them about Sri Lanka and Myanmar and how very not amazing it was
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Panicked this morning as I exited the bathroom and spotted the clock on the landing.
I was all "shit, where's the morning gone? How long was I in there?" until I realised we switched from BST to "dark and miserable till March" overnight.Stay safe out there, people. You got an hour back!
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each day a graveyard
I leave flowers as I go;
#daily #DailyPoem #dailyPoetry #dailyWriting #Poem #poems #poetry #read #reading #Writing
each day a death each
day an unknown becoming known –
there was always time enough for this,
there will always be time
to mark as we pass, there
will be memory even
in action; there will be a
remembrance worth remembering. -
#TorontoElection It speaks volumes for Bradford's record as a Councillor for Ward 19 - Beaches - East York that his former constituents voted 65.4% for Olivia Chow, 31% for him, and 3.6% for somebody else. It would appear that the reports that he was a bad representative had more than a little truth to them.
I find this funny as I listen to CITY TV's coverage from his campaign event. As it did during the election, City is still trying to puff Brad and frame this disastrous result for him as some kind of confirmation of his greatness.
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I wish I could block The Columbian from search results as I try to research my voting ballot options because fuck them and their fucking paywall on fucking everything
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And speaking of feeds, as I did in the ep, let's make this a thread of RSS feeds. 1 per post. Stick these in your RSS reader of choice...
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Early 3D adventure games on 80s tech: The Freescape games
As I look more into old computer gaming, everything that turns up from the British computer market seems to just be the coolest thing I've ever seen. Many are probably familiar with Elite, which was already revolutionary with its early 3D spacetrader gameplay. But one British company, Incentive Software, released a string of fully 3D, first person adventure puzzle games in the late 80s, for both 8-bit and 16-bit computers, and I don't know how I hadn't heard of it sooner.
It was done using their specially-made "Freescape" engine, one of the earliest examples of such in the field, and a name proudly flaunted on the box of each game. There were 6 such Freescape games released between 1987 and 1990, each made of rooms filled with simple 3D shapes and interactive puzzles, and they're all quite a trip to play.
Here are some screencaps of the third and fourth, "Total Eclipse" from 1988, and its 1989 sequel "Sphinx Jinx". Chosen simply just because you're an archaeologist in the 1930s exploring a pyramid to stop a pharaoh's curse, and I love temples and deserts.
You're equipped with a pistol and a constantly-draining bottle of water (and in the 16-bit versions, a flashlight as well), and your health is represented by a heartbeat-ometer. You have to face mummies, illusory rooms, and a limited amount of total keys, so multiple playthroughs and mapping the pyramid out on paper are required to find the correct path.
Because the IBM PCs hadn't caught on in the UK as much as they had in the US at this time, the DOS versions of these games was on par with the 8-bit ports, limited to only 16-color EGA graphics. So, for completion's sake, I got an Amiga emulator running to experience the game for a second time.
The sequel, Sphinx Jinx, was only available bundled with the first as part of a "Special Pack" that was only released for the 8-bit computers, and never saw the PC, Atari ST, or Amiga. So, I set up a Commodore 64 emulator, too.
However, it runs pretty damn slowly, and it's supposed to be the hardest of all the Freescape games, so it's a bit of a slough. Luckily, ScummVM recently added support for all the Freescape releases, so they all can be ran natively with higher resolution and WASD+mouse controls.
For a lot more information and screenshots of each Freescape game, here's a set of great blog posts: https://hg101.kontek.net/freescape/freescape.htm
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Has changed all the clocks #changingclocks except the car as I haven't been out yet
Is posting this in sympathy with my fellow #changingclocks nerds who can't understand the angst others post about twice a year
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Curious, as I've been testing the upcoming Mastodon design in our dev environment for the past 2 days. The new design isn't widely available yet, but mastodon.social likes to test with real users and installs alpha versions early.
So, a quick poll for Mastodon.social users and anyone on other instances with the new v5 design enabled (feel free to share this to reach more people):
#Mastodon #Mastodon5 #MastodonAlpha #MastodonNightly #NewMastodon #MastodonSocial #Design #UI #UX
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My friends and comrades, as we come to the end of this day given to us by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, let us humbly reflect on our sins unto the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
"5. Help me treat the people I meet on my way home and at home as I would wish to be treated (The Loose Canon, The Book of Piraticus, Chapter 7, Verse #2; “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.”)"
😋 I confess to almighty Flying Spaghetti Monster and to you, my friends and comrades, that I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do,
through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault. Forgive our sins and renew us in the Lord.
R'Amen 🍜🍝 The Almighty and merciful Lord, the Flying Spaghetti Monster,
grant you absolution and remission of all your sins, true repentance, amendment of life, and the grace and consolation of Quob Holy Noodle.
R'Amen 🍜2026-10-25T19:17:33+09:00
#FlyingSpaghettiMonster #FSM #HolyNoodle #TheMeatball #TheSauce #Spaghetti #Ramen #Pastafarian #NoodlyAppendage #FSMism #FSMist #Pirate #DivineOffice #DailyOffice #Breviary
#날아다니는스파게티괴물님 #성면 #면발 #스파게티 #라멘 #파스타파리안 #해적 #성무일도 #성무일과 #매일전례 #시간전례 -
We're watching the rest of this this morning as I've an extra hour this Sunday ❤️🎶😊
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Took the bus to my polling place and as I exited onto the sidewalk this nice young man asked to photograph me for his project. I was in plaid coat, respirator mask and face shield so I agreed. No waiver, so…
Then I went across the street to vote and there was a line! So encouraging.
Walked home on the sunny side of the street (avenue).
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So, as is our October tradition, we’ve been watching scary movies every weekend. Tonight’s movie was Friday the 13th and it was…not as scary as I was expecting?
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Jon Batiste Shares Photos With Suleika Jaouad After Bone Marrow Transplant
“To put it as plainly as I can, the treatments that have been keeping the leukemia at bay…
#NewsBeep #News #Celebrities #CA #Canada #Entertainment
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Doing my California ballot today. Not as much research needed as I expected. 🤞
As others have said here, just looking at who's spending money for or against a proposition is often a pretty reliable gauge (although not always! looking at you, Planned Parenthood re prop 40)
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An attempt at alla prima painting. This was as far as I got before everything was too wet and colors were getting muddy. I think in the future, I want to start with a toned board and use a more limited palette.
#OilPainting #phoenix #camelbackmountain #allaprima #MastoArt #LandscapePainting
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AI ban should not be an excuse to exclude minorities, as I heard some communities started banning non English speakers who use machine translation
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People who insist on confusing loose and lose.
People who "identify as." (I identify as as an adverb).
Websites that just reload or have unhelpful error messages when you try to log in. ("Something went wrong.")
Text messages with web links in them (I don't have a smartphone).
People who smoke in hallways, public bathrooms, elevators, etc. when it's posted no smoking! What are you, in junior high?
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The Syrians Languishing in Israel’s Prisons
Hassan Saadeddin Mohammed scrambles out of a yellow tractor as I approach the plot of land he farms…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Israel #prison
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The little favicon + custom name design is nice, though it's not as easy to see what the URLs are (especially on mobile). There's also no way to verify links as far as I can tell.
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#Inktober No25 Fracture
"Ah ken ye love nature an want tae ease the hatchin by brakin the egg but that could be seen as ill-makin. Even tho that’d be ill-ta’en – as I’m sure you would agree.So … ye’ll no mind if I leggit then, will ye?"
#translation in alt txt. #Scottish #Scots #illustration #art #dinosaur #drawing
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Why the fuck did someone put what I can only assume is an evangelical worship song (I skipped it as soon as I detected religious vibes, and the cover art is very much giving “evangelical”) in a playlist titled “Chappell Roan Radio”?? What a fuckin jump scare
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@jaykuo
Of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_WebbonThe " #ChristianNationalists " are not #Christian in any sense of the word as I understand it.
But very consistent with the Crusades and "Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius (Kill them. For the Lord knows who are His.)"
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⚡️Muscovy was a village when Kyiv was already a city. As I wrote in 2022, "Russia's self-image as an eternal monolith masks its continuing colonial legacy."
On the podcast: https://www.decodingtrolls.net/p/podcast-future-russia-the-pattern
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Hot on the heels of a major conference, and as I have mild prosopagnosia (face blindness), here's how you can help: if you don't have a name badge, give your full name (there's plenty of "Lee"s), or some context (we spoke about query plans last month). Not being rude, I just don't connect faces or profile pics to names easily!
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If you are a British Gas customer - see if you can work out how to change account password as I bliddy well can't!
