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Occasional doodler. Descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits. Used to be @PencilBloke on the birdsite, but no longer.
Player of TTRPGs, fosterer of cat.

This instance on a computer in the Netherlands. Also same username @mastadon.social but also here because small instances are better? I feel like my grandma trying to program a video recorder.

#Audiobook time.
Listening to some classic turn-of-the-20th-Century literature. I have two observations.
1) My god, were authors back then paid by the word? This needed an editor. Sorry, Joseph Conrad, but tighten it up.
2) Oh no, the reader is Doing Voices. Not slight differences so each character is distinct – that's good and helpful. These are... *performances*. I think what he's aimed for with the main character who says the most is something in the region of "asthmatic bulldog".
I know I'm probably naive to be flabbergasted, but the federal transportation safety investigator announcing in the immediate wake of two plane crashes that it won't be emailing any news updates but only announcing them on a Trump-supporting billionaire's proprietary platform, has gasted my flabber.
https://fxtwitter.com/NTSB_Newsroom/status/1885734974298435943
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I wonder what my magnificent fuzzy boy would look look in a christmas hat, I wonder whether @eclectech can help with that?
Robin Ince beginning #qedcon Sunday morning.
Dr Idz Mughal kicking off #qedcon2024 with social media health influencer misinformation and now to spot it. #qedcon
25 Movie Review Special: The Rock with Steve Johnson | Poisons and Pestilence

The second of our movie review specials. This one looking at The Rock (1996).    With Steve Johnson https://x.com/CBRNEsteve?t=_sSXmOA7t4xGzvcW8TUYPA&s=09   I do not own the rights to the trialer used here  under fair use.        Epic rap battles  https://youtu.be/_wYtG7aQTHA?si=RltWpU_VOW9xwvHh

On this day in 1567 Hans Staininger, burgomaster of Braunau am Inn, died when he tripped over his own extremely long #beard.

(Image credit: Wikimedia Commons user 'Mattana' https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Braunau_am_Inn_003.JPG )

File:Braunau am Inn 003.JPG - Wikimedia Commons

The queue (wonqueue?) for the #KnowledgeFight live show at #QEDcon
After an excellent yesterday, people starting to arrive in the #qedcon main hall for #KnowledgeFight's Dan Friesen to talk about #AlexJones.