Charles Castleberry

@MythingPerson
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Retired software architect, traveling the world, living out of my backpack, currently in Cuenca, Ecuador. Taoist, Buddhist, reader, gamer, mudita addict, INTJ, Bacon Number: 3, scifi/comics/anime fan, queer, mostly ace, and can't taste bitter. Gnostic by nature. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🧘‍♂️🖖 🇺🇦
Dabbling in Fiction at:https://ao3.org/users/MythingPerson and https://www.hamlet13.com/
PronounsAt your discretion
Current Games#ElderScrollsOnline, #Nightingale, #Enshrouded, #Valheim, #DuneAwakening
Listening toImaginary Worlds, The Memory Palace, Dear Hank & John, Serious Trouble, Breathing Space (Scifi western anthology), Camlann, Answer Me This
#Heated Rivalry made a well deserved sweep of the Canadian Screen Awards last night and Nadine Bhabha’s acceptance speech was spot on for anyone trying to understand the secret sauce.

"To the powers that be who are trying to reverse-engineer this massive success, the formula you're looking for is: believing in the creatives who have stayed here, empowering them to tell the stories they want to tell, and giving them the resources to do so. You will get really good TV."
I knew this looked familiar…

I still can't get over the fact that solar panels are silent and still

Like I taught pinball repair classes on power supplies and transformers etc, when electrons are pumped along a wire it's 'cause there's a spinning magnet pumping them along

I'm here gawping at these completely still, completely silent Things just pumping electrons along all 🦝 "BUT WHERE'S THE SPINNING MAGNET!" like a time traveller looking at a Land Rover and shouting "WHERE, is the HORSE,"

They don’t care who you are. If you oppose the donor Epstein class and demand fairness and accountability, you are vilified.

Filed under: You Can't Fix stupid.

Yesterday I got a spam email that contained only the instructions on preparing a scam email. 😂

So now I have posted those, in full. Ladies and gentlemen, start your spam filters!

https://ambitonline.com/nextrelease/2026/05/some-idiot-just-posted-the-instructions-for-a-walmart-phishing-scam/

#scam #spam #phishing #CyberSecurity

Some idiot just posted the instructions for a Walmart Phishing scam!

I love it when idiots screw up this badly!

Ambit Online
What went right this week: the good news that matters

New life-changing inventions, a global triumph for renewables, and England’s first Dutch-style ‘cycle street’, plus more good news

Positive News

Rereading Slow Gods, by Claire North, for my monthly sf book club. I rarely reread books, but you never go wrong with Claire North, and it’s such an excellent book.

> “And you are using the wrong form of ‘apology’ again. There are four forms in Adjumiri. You should have been taught the one that suggests you experience empathy without owning responsibility”

> “What is the point of the stories we make if they do not tell people something true?”

#bookstodon

Fossil fuel propagandists spent SO much money trying to get me to not use solar power and all it took to completely defeat them, like ALL the way No Reservations Left defeat them, no last little "well they might have had a point about -" I mean totally crushed, propaganda money wasted I Am Now Radicalized About The Sun, was one fucking sunny day with three $45 secondhand panels and a battery

Alright I've had two Actually Sunny days on my three (count 'em) old cheap secondhand solar panels that I raccooned off facebook marketplace and this coincided with hearing politicians argue about solar on the radio so I now have a Political Opinion About Solar Panels

It is this

Solar panels. Solar panels everywhere. Solar panels EVERYWHERE, on EVERY roof, Right The Fuck Now, every single doubt or worry I ever had about these things has been completely resolved just by holding panels in my hands and watching the power move silently into my battery to watch telly with tonight. House in cloudsville? Solar panels. House under the biggest densest tree in the world? Solar panels. Even in the shade they're still putting out power. Even fifteen years old they're still putting out power. Every worry I had was based on lies. My only regret is that I didn't start sooner. Solar panels everywhere right the fuck now.