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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 9h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Hannah B @hannahb.bsky.social · 1d

I have jumped into watching campaign 4 of Critical Role, as it goes up onto YouTube. I have not seen any before. Just under five hours of video severally tested my attention span but I liked it a lot.

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Hannah B @hannahb.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve spent an hour going ‘ugh’ at the Announcing Your Projects During The Ongoing Global Trash Fire of it all but still. I don’t get joy very often.

Hannah B @hannahb.bsky.social · 3d

Pleased to be able to say that I’m directing Pontypool at the Loft Theatre next year.

I’m grateful to the company for being allowed to entertain and disturb the theatregoers of Leamington Spa.

PONTYPOOL - The Loft Theatre Company

LOFT STUDIO “…all kinds of superfluous things appear related to each other. That means something’s going to happen. Something big. Something is always about to happen.” Shut in his church basement stu...

lofttheatrecompany.com

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Hannah B @hannahb.bsky.social · 8d

Happy Birthday!

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Hannah B @hannahb.bsky.social · 15d

Meanwhile I went from ‘WTF is Murderbot’ to ‘have watched all of Murderbot’ in a very short space of time. Great stuff.

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Hannah B @hannahb.bsky.social · 15d

I’ve enjoyed Alien: Earth as a series in itself. Not sure I enjoyed it as an *Alien* series, but enjoyable overall.

Hannah B @hannahb.bsky.social · 18d

What awful news. Sorry for your loss.

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Hannah B @hannahb.bsky.social · 26d

Apparently everyone else discovered this yesterday.

Hannah B @hannahb.bsky.social · 26d

Another day, another finding out one of your favourite YouTubers has gone down a terrible politics rabbit hole. sigh.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 26d

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

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Hannah B @hannahb.bsky.social · 27d

First rehearsal of my friend-and- colleague’s play tonight. Obviously as the stage manager, I will not say everything went well until the entire production is down in November. But as first rehearsals go it was a decent one.

Hannah B @hannahb.bsky.social · 28d

In the background of a YouTube video, heard a cover of a song I couldn’t quite place. Brain went on a series of side quests, humming it until it unsealed an old memory of a Shirehorses parody, which google eventually helped find the actual song from.

Can’t say my subconscious isn’t thorough.

Hannah B @hannahb.bsky.social · Sep 11

I’m glad this has made it over here. It’s both joyful and heartwarming, and the thing I read in the wings whenever I need to cry on stage.

sea shanty stan account ⛵️ @anarchoshanties.bsky.social · Sep 11

This one's maybe a little on the ling side, but trust me, it's worth it. I've cried reading it multiple times.

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mylordshesacactus

Carpathia received Titanic's distress signal at 12:20am, April 15th, 1912. She was 58 miles away, a distance that absolutely could not be covered in less than four hours.

(Californian's exact position at the time is... controversial. She was close enough to have helped. By all accounts she was close enough to see Titanic's distress rockets. It's uncertain to this day why her crew did not respond, or how many might not have been lost if she had been there. This is not the place for what-ifs. This is about what was done.)

Carpathia's Captain Rostron had, yes, rolled out of bed instantly when woken by his radio operator, ordered his ship to Titanic's aid and confirmed the signal before he was fully dressed. The man had never in his life responded to an emergency call. His goal tonight was to make sure nobody who heard that fact would ever believe it.

All of Carpathia's lifeboats were swung out ready for deployment. Oil was set up to be poured off the side of the ship in case the sea turned choppy; oil would coat and calm the water near Carpathia if that happened, making it safer for lifeboats to draw up alongside her.

He ordered lights to be rigged along the side of the ship so survivors could see it better, and had nets and ladders rigged along her sides ready to be dropped when they arrived, in order to let as many survivors as possible climb aboard at once.

I don't know if his making provisions for there still being survivors in the water was optimism or not. I think he knew they were never going to get there in time for that. I think he did it anyway because, god, you have to hope.

Carpathia had three dining rooms, which were immediately converted into triage and first aid stations. Each had a doctor assigned to it. Hot soup, coffee, and tea were prepared in bulk in each dining room, and blankets and warm clothes were collected to be ready to hand out.

By this time, many of the passengers were awake-prepping a ship for disaster relief isn't quiet-and all of them stepped up to help, many donating their own clothes and blankets.

And then he did something I tend to refer to as diverting all power from life support.

Here's the thing about steamships: They run on steam. Shocking, I know; but that steam powers everything on the ship, and right now, Carpathia needed power. So Rostron turned off hot water and central heating, which bled valuable steam power, to everywhere but the dining rooms-which, of course, were being used to make hot drinks and receive survivors.

He woke up all the engineers, all the stokers and firemen, diverted all that steam back into the engines, and asked his ship to go as fast as she possibly could. And when she'd done that, he asked her to go faster.

I need you to understand that you simply can't push a ship very far past its top speed. Pushing that much sheer tonnage through the water becomes harder with each extra knot past the speed it was designed for. Pushing a ship past its rated speed is not only reckless-it's difficult to maneuver-but it puts an incredible amount of strain on the engines. Ships are not designed to exceed their top speed by even one knot. They can't do it. It can't be done.

Carpathia's absolute do-or-die, the-engines-can't-take-this-forever top speed was fourteen knots. Dodging icebergs, in the dark and the cold, surrounded by mist, she sustained a speed of almost seventeen and a half.

No one would have asked this of them. It wasn't expected. They were almost sixty miles away, with icebergs in their path. They had a responsibility to respond; they did not have a responsibility to do the impossible and do it well. No one would have faulted them for taking more time to confirm the severity of the issue. No one would have blamed them for a slow and cautious approach. No one but themselves.

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Hannah B @hannahb.bsky.social · Sep 5

It is a bit weird tasting.

Hannah B @hannahb.bsky.social · Sep 5

Almond milk might work, it’s a bit thinner. If a bit almond-y.

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Hannah B @hannahb.bsky.social · Sep 4

It has so much personality for a weird little eyeball guy!

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Hannah B @hannahb.bsky.social · Sep 4

All this, but also I liked what they did with the eyeball monster (she says vaguely to avoid spoilers)

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Hannah B @hannahb.bsky.social · Sep 3

If, like me, you’re squashed by the unending weight of thinking what to eat three times a day, this is a nice useful thread.

Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · Aug 24

Restarting this thread because it quickly became a mess of cul-de-sacs and subthread dead ends. Hopefully I can create a thread that’s more followable with better flow

Frankenstonk’s Monster @stonkers.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thinking about starting an ongoing thread that’s just posts of the cheap meals I’m making during this latest bout of unemployment, in case it might be helpful to anybody looking to eat cheap food that isn’t a massive pain in the ass to prepare

Hannah B @hannahb.bsky.social · Sep 1

If you’re signed into YouTube, it’ll be in your history tab (called Library on the TV app)

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · Aug 28

Weird Al's appeal is selective for me but this is lovely.

Frank Collins @cathode-ray-tube.bsky.social · Aug 28

One of the many little delights on the two-disc edition of The Sparks Brothers is an interview outtake of ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic rapturously playing ‘This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both of Us’ on the accordion. It’s sublime. youtu.be/s8xzdy2cxqo?...

This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us - "Weird Al" Yankovic

YouTube video by alyankovic

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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · Aug 25

*breathe in*

I am not a dumpster fire.

*breathe out*

I am a dumpster phoenix.

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Hannah B @hannahb.bsky.social · Aug 24

Thanks to my grandfather’s overly-relaxed attitude to babysitting, I saw Scanners when I was about 4. Didn’t work up the nerve to watch it again for about 20 years.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · Aug 21

age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers!

age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends

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Hannah B @hannahb.bsky.social · Aug 20

Enjoying Alien: Earth from a ‘sci-fi series’ perspective, but it’s not quite landing for me from an ‘Alien’ perspective. Enjoyable overall though.