Heh heh heh. Call me childish, but I bloody love Viz.
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mastodon 4.7.2Rarely entirely serious. Fond of otters and dogs. A bit obsessive about music. Partial to videogames and mucking about with old computers. Keen but inept archer (getting better though). English. British. European. A tech lawyer by trade but mostly tooting about other things. Tries to be a good ally. Definitely a bit over-privileged. He/him.
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Joined April 25, 2022
Currently listening to:
Suede, Suede, and more Suede. Slightly obsessed with The Blue Hour.
Currently playing:
Control Resonant
Trans rights:
are human rights
Otters:
make everything better
Puppington at 6 months. Such a pretty girl. #DogsOfMastodon
Please admire my puppy’s very smart new tie.
I mean, really. #DogsOfMastodon
This dingus has had all her shots and is about to be let loose on the world. Be afraid. Be very afraid. #DogsOfMastodon
As England* fast approaches full-on drought, and as water continues to leak from our shitty old mains pipes even faster than it’s evaporating from our inadequate number of reservoirs, and as the local water monopolist sends us yet another unctuous email about how we all have to pull together to save water (and the investment of the French and Canadian pension funds that own it), I ponder once again just how many of this country’s ills are the direct and predictable consequence of Margaret Thatcher’s weird obsession with selling off core national infrastructure.
(* I don’t presume to speak for the other UK nations.)
Found my new favourite otter meme.
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@AbramKedge@beige.party @NormanDunbar@mastodon.scot don’t worry, the real weapons-grade bellends have moved on from BMW. They drive Teslas now.
Imagine how angry Bill Hicks would be if he were still alive today.
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@cmsdengl@mas.to @rozeboosje@masto.ai "Now, write it out a hundred times, and if it's not done by sunrise I'll cut your balls off."
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@WiteWulf@cyberplace.social in fairness, I think it’s more the mind-boggling thought that every person alive today had a mother and a father, who each had a mother and a father, who each had a mother and a father … and so on. If you go back even ten generations, that’s something like 1,000 people who had a role in bringing about each person alive today.
Which is kind of incomprehensible. One of my favourite bands wrote a song about it.
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@NotTheLBCGuy@mstdn.social This deserved more applause than it got. It's magnificent. Bravo, sir.
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@Geri@veganism.social You forgot:
Build at least one affordable house.
Cut your taxes and increase everyone else's.
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@alexpsmith I mean, we're talking here about a social network whose most popular posters include a sentient hotdog, a bloke from Bromley, a woman who makes keyboards that go "quack", and a very big dog.
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@sqhistorian@dosgame.club well, @Recta_Pete@oldbytes.space is kind of the oracle when it comes to all things ST.
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@veronica@explains.social Very much this. There's this weird logical fallacy among technical people, that goes something like:
"I have spent a lifetime acquiring the knowledge, skills and experience to make Thing X trivial. Therefore, doing Thing X is trivial. Therefore, anyone who doesn't do Thing X has only themselves to blame. Therefore, I am very smart.
By the way, I use Arch."
So, here's a thing. I've been trading mark-ups with a vendor for a client on a licensing deal, and the feedback coming back from the vendor has been increasingly weird. Well, I finally got to talk to them today and it turns out they don't have a lawyer and have just been feeding my comments into Claude's new legal macguffin. Which explains why an agreement that should have been sorted out in two days took two months. Apparently Claude thinks I'm a very good lawyer though, so there's that.
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@Tattie What an excellent thread. For me, the frustrating thing about Dawkins is that he was once a serious thinker and has done good work, in his time, but seems now to have become the thing he set his face against. John Cleese Syndrome, you might call it. Or Germaine Greer Syndrome. Either way, a tragedy, really.
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@lpl Actually that I could get behind. 16 year-olds trying to grow a 'tache are invariably ludicrous.
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@foolishowl@social.coop @woozle@toot.cat @Tattie@eldritch.cafe Indeed. And it's a shame, because it has dulled what was once a sharp and critical mind.
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@raymierussell@mastodon.scot it would be very, very funny if the only teenage boys who can access porn are the ones who can grow proper ‘taches.
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@NorcalGma2@sfba.social I don't interact much, but I always enjoy your posts and your lovely dog.
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@fesshole@mastodon.social I used to think that nobody could be this crass, but then my wife went for a curry with our very right wing neighbours once (I couldn't go, I had to work, thank God). Apparently the husband literally did this. Poor Mrs Wife was mortified.
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@NorcalGma2@sfba.social That is, as the kids say, "goals". Congratulations to the both of you.
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@Wen You may well be right. I for one would be saddened by that - I think it would be a diminution of all concerned - but I entirely get it.
I do sometimes wonder if there might be merit in a federal model, along German lines, where the basic rule is that the home nations govern themselves, but certain things are agreed to be dealt with at federal level where it makes sense to do so (e.g. currency, defence).
It may also be far too late for that, and that ship may well have sailed.
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@FloatingOnion@cyberplace.social for me, it’s mostly just a massive eye-roll. It was more of a pain in the arse for my client, because it took absolutely ages to land a perfectly simple deal, and nobody could work out why the other lot were behaving so oddly.
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@hollie@social.coop Lovely little device, isn't it? I bought one on a whim and I'm so glad I did.
Hadn't heard of Crosspoint though - thanks for that!
John Healey is an interesting choice as Chancellor. Don't think anyone saw that coming.
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@IOUnix@fosstodon.org her puppy breath absolutely reeks right now, TBF. Think she ate something inadvisable.
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@dolanor@hachyderm.io the whole affair was just very silly and a bit of a waste of everyone’s time.
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@lordsplodge@brettspiel.space that seems logical. Based on today’s announcement around VAT on energy bills, it seems Burnham is willing to spend more broadly though.
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@anon_opin@mastodon.social Why not? I mean, we already tried everything else up to and including sending Charlotte Church.