for some reason tonight I'm as twitchy as a maned wolf in a room full of mousetraps
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
for some reason tonight I'm as twitchy as a maned wolf in a room full of mousetraps
jesus fucking christ twelve hours of iSCSI and docker and cryptsetup and zero exercise and I'm about to fucking explode
November 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
jesus fucking christ twelve hours of iSCSI and docker and cryptsetup and zero exercise and I'm about to fucking explode
The Cabin in the Woods (2011): a touching story of star-crossed love between a misunderstood girl and an unfortunate wolf. Plus some other stuff. But guess which scene I remember best. Go on, guess.
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The Cabin in the Woods (2011): a touching story of star-crossed love between a misunderstood girl and an unfortunate wolf. Plus some other stuff. But guess which scene I remember best. Go on, guess.
I suppose it is right and good that dogs know how much they are loved, but not how hard and long we mourn them when they are gone.
November 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I suppose it is right and good that dogs know how much they are loved, but not how hard and long we mourn them when they are gone.
Huh. It's just occurred to me that as of about a year ago I've spent more of my life outside England, where I was born, than inside it.
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Huh. It's just occurred to me that as of about a year ago I've spent more of my life outside England, where I was born, than inside it.
One way to see how incredibly precise Edgar Wright's pacing and rhythm is in "Baby Driver": watch it on a TV that messes up and puts a tiny delay on the audio. You barely notice, yet suddenly the action scenes stop making sense.
November 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
One way to see how incredibly precise Edgar Wright's pacing and rhythm is in "Baby Driver": watch it on a TV that messes up and puts a tiny delay on the audio. You barely notice, yet suddenly the action scenes stop making sense.
A curious German practice which would be anathema in England: the recycling of graves if nobody's tending them. Checking the local authority's newsletter, a whole page lists the graves which have become unkempt and therefore candidates for clearing and reuse.
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM
A curious German practice which would be anathema in England: the recycling of graves if nobody's tending them. Checking the local authority's newsletter, a whole page lists the graves which have become unkempt and therefore candidates for clearing and reuse.
November 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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The way I’d worship idols if they looked like this…
(Stole pic from Twitter)
(Stole pic from Twitter)
November 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The way I’d worship idols if they looked like this…
(Stole pic from Twitter)
(Stole pic from Twitter)
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sure sex is great but have you ever supported your artist friends during the holidays by buying their lovely work?
November 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
sure sex is great but have you ever supported your artist friends during the holidays by buying their lovely work?
The PET scan is one of those sufficiently advanced technologies that still feels indistinguishable from magic. Hold still Bobby, we're gonna juice you with this nuclear sugar we made in a cyclotron and watch your internal organs light up with an antimatter glow.
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The PET scan is one of those sufficiently advanced technologies that still feels indistinguishable from magic. Hold still Bobby, we're gonna juice you with this nuclear sugar we made in a cyclotron and watch your internal organs light up with an antimatter glow.
Explaining to a relative, who moved to the American South and got religion, the meaning of the Alabama 3 song "Hypo Full Of Love". She looked incredulous.
("Exile on Coldharbour Lane" is a stonking album and I recommend it.)
("Exile on Coldharbour Lane" is a stonking album and I recommend it.)
November 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Explaining to a relative, who moved to the American South and got religion, the meaning of the Alabama 3 song "Hypo Full Of Love". She looked incredulous.
("Exile on Coldharbour Lane" is a stonking album and I recommend it.)
("Exile on Coldharbour Lane" is a stonking album and I recommend it.)
I never cease to marvel at the creativity and dedication with which young primates seem hell-bent on their own self-destruction.
(This post is prompted by a hasty foray to hospital for a H. sap. juv. which escaped its parents' vigilance, acquired a thing and, incomprehensibly, ate it.)
(This post is prompted by a hasty foray to hospital for a H. sap. juv. which escaped its parents' vigilance, acquired a thing and, incomprehensibly, ate it.)
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I never cease to marvel at the creativity and dedication with which young primates seem hell-bent on their own self-destruction.
(This post is prompted by a hasty foray to hospital for a H. sap. juv. which escaped its parents' vigilance, acquired a thing and, incomprehensibly, ate it.)
(This post is prompted by a hasty foray to hospital for a H. sap. juv. which escaped its parents' vigilance, acquired a thing and, incomprehensibly, ate it.)
Seeing authors post their most engaging first sentences, remembered "The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel," and now I'm halfway through Neuromancer again. And goddamn, that isn't even Gibson's best line.
November 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Seeing authors post their most engaging first sentences, remembered "The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel," and now I'm halfway through Neuromancer again. And goddamn, that isn't even Gibson's best line.
Definitely on the hard-geek end of YouTube, but @huskyteer.co.uk in particular might like this deep dive into the Saab Viggen's revolutionary CK37 flight computer by an underrated YouTuber.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf6b...
(maybe also @coelliptic.bsky.social)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf6b...
(maybe also @coelliptic.bsky.social)
November 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Definitely on the hard-geek end of YouTube, but @huskyteer.co.uk in particular might like this deep dive into the Saab Viggen's revolutionary CK37 flight computer by an underrated YouTuber.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf6b...
(maybe also @coelliptic.bsky.social)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf6b...
(maybe also @coelliptic.bsky.social)
If your plan to help someone involves you changing them, it's doomed before it begins.
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
If your plan to help someone involves you changing them, it's doomed before it begins.
I'm not going to confess to stealthily stalking our housemate's cookies while they were still cooling from the oven, but I feel this artist was probably watching at the time.
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I'm not going to confess to stealthily stalking our housemate's cookies while they were still cooling from the oven, but I feel this artist was probably watching at the time.
Worldpay just blocked a purchase I was trying to make because I was on the Mullvad VPN. When I switched off the VPN, the purchase went through.
Weird how that's exactly what I'd be doing if I was in their place and trying to suppress individual privacy.
Weird how that's exactly what I'd be doing if I was in their place and trying to suppress individual privacy.
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Worldpay just blocked a purchase I was trying to make because I was on the Mullvad VPN. When I switched off the VPN, the purchase went through.
Weird how that's exactly what I'd be doing if I was in their place and trying to suppress individual privacy.
Weird how that's exactly what I'd be doing if I was in their place and trying to suppress individual privacy.
I'm in the UK and helping an 87-year-old set up a SIM for her first smartphone, and first thing tomorrow I'm going to be burning a hole in O2's support phone lines and writing a letter to Ofcom [telecoms regulator] about obstructive and deceptive marketing.
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I'm in the UK and helping an 87-year-old set up a SIM for her first smartphone, and first thing tomorrow I'm going to be burning a hole in O2's support phone lines and writing a letter to Ofcom [telecoms regulator] about obstructive and deceptive marketing.
Huh. My textbook says the g-forces imparted by vertical wind shear increase linearly with aircraft speed.
If you think "how aeroplanes don't fall down" is a simple question, I shall stare at you beseechingly.
If you think "how aeroplanes don't fall down" is a simple question, I shall stare at you beseechingly.
November 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Huh. My textbook says the g-forces imparted by vertical wind shear increase linearly with aircraft speed.
If you think "how aeroplanes don't fall down" is a simple question, I shall stare at you beseechingly.
If you think "how aeroplanes don't fall down" is a simple question, I shall stare at you beseechingly.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Nicholas Hoult (seen here in "Juror #2") is a preposterously, ridiculously beautiful man.
November 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Nicholas Hoult (seen here in "Juror #2") is a preposterously, ridiculously beautiful man.
There's a certain age threshold where more than 50% of your exercise comes from trotting up and down the stairs repeatedly and forgetting why each time you get there.
November 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
There's a certain age threshold where more than 50% of your exercise comes from trotting up and down the stairs repeatedly and forgetting why each time you get there.
Wow, Tai Lung can really sing. (Chance streaming-music pick.)
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Wow, Tai Lung can really sing. (Chance streaming-music pick.)