A child with matches
is #fascinated
and seduced by the flame

Clueless are they
about bad consequence
if power is misapplied

Say hello
my soon to be scorched citizens
to flame thrower diplomacy
unleashed
by our Juvenile King
who fiddles from his bunker
a flammable
regime change symphony

#vss365 #poetry #poem

‘I'm endlessly #fascinated by the #nude’: #SomayaCritchlow’s #intimate and #confident #drawings are on exhibit in #London

‘#TripleThreat’ at #MaximillianWilliamGallery in #London is #British #artist #SomayaCritchlow’s first #show dedicated solely to her #drawings

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Entertainment #TheArts #Sketching #Culture

https://www.wallpaper.com/art/exhibitions-shows/somaya-critchlow-triple-threat-maximillian-william-gallery-london-review

Dear #Linux before breakfast friends, 

Why use, not use or amuse #Penguin #empowered hardware? 

Here is my #stirring #story from Windows to Linux user, be interested in ‘earing yours? 

I am #familiar with many #versions of Linux. The first one I tried was #Slackware which I installed from an already out dated #CD. It took me 5 weeks to sort of get a browser (#Netscape I seem to remember) on half the screen. I was #curious and my computer friends looked at this rather pathetic display with pity and #incomprehension. What madness was this? 

I continued, getting Linux Magazine and realising I could barely understand 5% of what was being discussed.

I was a beginner again. So began #distro #hopping with very condescending ‘help’ from the penguinated.

However …

One pre alpha distro was able to provide me with advice on my numerous #questions. Eventually I settled on using this distro, once I got it working at speed. Puppy Linux. 

#Puppy was small, VERY fast and continually different. As far as I was concerned if a distro was slow, why not use Windows or Apple? 

I still distro hopped but worked very hard for much of the required donkey work for Puppy. I was #fascinated by programming languages but not much of a programmer. So it was mainly #Wiki, #forums and helping #noobs, which is were Puppy became much friendlier and usable. 🤣

After many #experiences, too many to go into I am now using a rolling release, #Manjaro, #Raspbian for my #Raspberry Pi’s and one olde computer with Puppy. Barry Kauler who created Puppy is now working on #EasyOS. However I am retired from new experimental distros. Now I prefer my Windows free #choice as I move towards #FOSS. Free and Open Source Software.

Quite a ride … How is yours going? 

Wow 🤩 I didn’t see this talk go by! #inspired #excited #fascinated

“Think of language models as squishy, biological creations and treat them as tiny, specialised reasoning engines”

by @[email protected] at @smashingconf

My #sisterinlaw keeps #demanding to know if I’m a #top or a #bottom and it’s getting #weird.

She seems #fascinated with #knowing, and I’m not sure why. I’ve never answered because…1) I don’t think it’s any of her business and 2) My husband is her younger brother. If I answered, I’d also be #sharing #privateinformation about his #sexlife.

#LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #SexualOrientation #Sexuality #Family #Relationships
https://www.queerty.com/my-sister-in-law-keeps-demanding-to-know-if-im-a-top-or-a-bottom-and-its-getting-downright-weird-20230804

He[#Billionaire] does, in a manner, cast a spell, such as that which imprisoned princes and princesses under the shapes of falcons or stags. He has truly turned men into sheep, as Circe turned them into swine.
-G K Chesterton
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Utopia of Users (1917) #FairyTales #Story #Magic #History #Stuck #Oligarchy #Fascinated #Lies #GKChesterton #Quotes

As they say in the gushing articles about him in the magazines, he is a fascinating personality. So is a snake. At least he is fascinating to rabbits; and so is the millionaire to the rabbit-witted sort of people that ladies and gentlemen have allowed themselves to become.
-G K Chesterton
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Utopia of Users (1917) #FairyTales #Story #History #Journalism #Billionaire #Oligarchy #Fascinated #Authoritarianism #Tricked #Lies #GKChesterton #Quotes

Bad government, like good government, is a spiritual thing. Even the tyrant never rules by force alone; but mostly by fairy tales. And so it is with the modern tyrant, the great employer. The sight of a millionaire is seldom, in the ordinary sense, an enchanting sight: nevertheless, he is in his way an enchanter.
-G K Chesterton
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Utopia of Users (1917) #FairyTales #Story #History #Government #Spiritual #Lies #Billionaire #Fascinated #GKChesterton #Thoughts #Quotes