i envision a utopian future for technology, where when you launch your computer there are no more programs, no more browsers, but just 4 buttons that say "Gamble", "Goon", "AI", and "Borrow Money At An Exorbitant Interest Rate"

It's only day 4 of Advent of Code 2025 and I am already at a stage where I couldn't be bothered to be optimal / elegant.

*shoving a nested loop in a `while true` while trying to imagine what would Disco Elysium Volition tell me a a moment like this*

Sigh. I should've been a librarian.

Palantir has pulled out of involvement with the UK Digital ID card, according to an interview with their UK CEO on Times Radio. They’re concerned about the reputational damage of being involved with an unpopular Starmer policy.

Do you ever have such a cold, crisp sip of water that you feel, for a second, like everything's gonna be okay?

Wish I could barely even literate. I can barely even read nowadays.

"We are the prisoners of our choices, and if we cannot walk free, than we can at least ensure our walls are decorated well."

I want to know now if he has anything to do with the New Sequence.

When the TTRPG comes out, he _will_ have something to do with it. A lot, if I can help it.
#fallenlondon

"The damage done by life, by time. These cannot be unmade, you remind him. What is cannot be undone by what is not, or has not been. "

Firmament goes hard out of nowhere.

Not quite sure how I feel about it now. It was always the intention, but somehow this hurts a lot more than all the previous steps in this quest.
#fallenlondon

This Kind Of Smart, Walkable, Mixed-use Urbanism Is Illegal To Build In Most American Cities

per some remarks in fallen london player survey responses, i'd like to make it clear that we never use generative AI and anything in our games which has too many fingers has too many fingers on purpose

Всем 2025

Доброе утречко

Воля сделает любой выбор правильным.

By the looks of it I'll have a company to play it with in 2025
Can't wait to try:
- Really posh English and fail miserably
- Do a heavily history-inspired Great Game campaign
- Do a 5 hour session with nothing but debates about scones, jam and cream

"But I can't hold on to it if I'm alone. It's hard to be a person without people around."

I just cannot with some of those stories. Shame they have to be so short.

#fallenlondon

Третья знакомая уже отправляется в саббатикал.
То ли завидую, то ли ещё чего - странное ощущение.

Надо бы подумать, а не пора ли и мне туда.

Это мое "то видео из интернета", которое всегда поднимает мне настроение. Оставлю его тут, на будущее.

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