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Logging all the things and (trying) to make sense of all the doings of said things. Opinions are my own and do not reflect those of any other being or entity.
Current Gamehttps://steamcommunity.com/id/crustyB
Still on EarthYep
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As I write this, I see the jackboots are already suggesting that the victim had a gun. Srsly? He was pinned to the ground. And you know who else had a gun? George Zimmerman. Don't tell me you can shoot a kid with a bag of skittles but you should trust a fat dude with an ICE badge and a face mask.
The fact that Renee Nicole Good's
family closed their GoFundMe after it
reached more than they ever
imagined and requested we instead
send donations to others in need is
exactly the difference between the
Good family and grifter Erika Kirk.

šŸ†• blog! ā€œAngels and Daemonsā€

A few weeks ago, I was clearing out some ancient backup CDs and floppy disks from my attic when I made a curious discovery. Pressed between a copy of Windows ME and a box-fresh copy of the original Duke Nukem Forever, I found a scratched and decaying Compact Flash cart. It was sticky and oozing […]

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Angels and Daemons

A few weeks ago, I was clearing out some ancient backup CDs and floppy disks from my attic when I made a curious discovery. Pressed between a copy of Windows ME and a box-fresh copy of the original Duke Nukem Forever, I found a scratched and decaying Compact Flash cart. It was sticky and oozing a rusty looking fluid. The writing on the label looked like my handwriting, but was illegible. I…

Terence Eden’s Blog

Unreasonably fond of the realization that the ā€œMediterranean dietā€ fad is a random second- or third-order byproduct of pension fraud.

I feel like there’s some sort of higher-level behavioural insight here, about how quickly people will latch on to things that give them any sense of agency over themselves, whatever the basis.

https://theconversation.com/the-data-on-extreme-human-ageing-is-rotten-from-the-inside-out-ig-nobel-winner-saul-justin-newman-239023

ā€˜The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman

Saul Newman’s research suggests that we’re completely mistaken about how long humans live for.

The Conversation

Computer science pioneer and United States Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper was born #OTD in 1906.

As far as I’m aware, she is the only person who has both a supercomputer and a US Navy destroyer named after her.

Image: Computer History Museum

Every time it snows where I live

šŸ†• blog! ā€œA Quick Guide to Filters on Mastodonā€

I do not care for the game of Rugby. After many wet and cold days on the school sports field, I had any latent enthusiasm for it beaten out of me. There is nothing you or anyone else can say which will convince me to take an interest in it. You may feel the same […]

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#HowTo #mastodon #SocialMedia

A Quick Guide to Filters on Mastodon

I do not care for the game of Rugby. After many wet and cold days on the school sports field, I had any latent enthusiasm for it beaten out of me. There is nothing you or anyone else can say which will convince me to take an interest in it. You may feel the same way about a specific sport, or the Great British Bake Off, or Linux. That's fine. We're all different. This can be a problem on…

Terence Eden’s Blog
There are 100 reasons to read this Humble Collection of @neilhimself but I'm doing it for the Norse Mythology story after playing God of War. https://www.humblebundle.com/books/neil-gaiman-dark-horse-collection-books
The Neil Gaiman Dark Horse Collection

We’ve teamed up with Dark Horse for our newest bundle. Get Neil Gaiman comics and graphic novels like American Gods & Norse Mythology. Plus, pay what you want & support charity!

Humble Bundle
I just presented Art Spiegelman with the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, on the same day that PENAmerica put out a letter signed by Art and Margaret Atwood and me, among others, protesting the latest round of book bannings.
https://pen.org/spiegelman-atwood-sign-pen-america-letter-against-missouri-book-bans/
Spiegelman, Atwood Among Signers of PEN America Letter Against Missouri Book Bans

Missouri book bans include graphic adaptations of the Bible and the Gettysburg Address, as well as Art Spiegelman's Maus and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

PEN America