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The 6 year-old is continuing to get into musical theatre by watching Cats...

...that's the 1998, rated-18 for awakening content, direct-to-video adaptation, not the one that single-handedly destroyed the Honmoon a few years ago.

Schrödinger's Prat 2d ago

David Njoku 2d ago

The following thought has not been fully thought-through.

*****

I'm Black. I love being Black. I take pride in the achievements of other Black people

But being Black is different from all my other identities: Nigerian, British, woke, F1 fan.

Being Black is not an identity I picked for myself or inherited by birth, it's one that was given to me by people who hate me (and those who look like me). I'm Black today cos 400 years ago someone wanted to enslave my ancestors.

#blackmastodon

Schrödinger's Prat 2d ago

People often report that "engagement" on BlueSky is low.

And I see that. I'm pretty sure I could post my suicide note on there and no one would notice.

Schrödinger's Prat 3d ago

Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I'm really not bothered by Nigel Farage's cameo bloopers, because trying to record something, being interrupted by a notification, and screaming "FUCKING CUNT!" is the single most relatable thing that man has done in his entire life and it might be the only evidence we have that he's not a Reptilian in a skin suit.

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Schrödinger's Prat 5d ago

If I was feeling extra spicy, I'd say that £-for-£ we probably get more educational benefit of it sitting on a server being used by all of two people in an obscure CS module than we do having a Vice Chancellor.

Schrödinger's Prat 5d ago

Got an email from a business analyst about my use of some open source software we have. Now, I don't use it. It's kinda rubbish (it's "very open-source-brackets-derogatory").

But, also, it's FOSS. There'll be a server cost to hosting it, sure, but I struggle to believe that this cost is anything but a rounding error on the heinous quantities of money undoubtedly being thrown at AI. And if the licence for the proprietary equivalent was yanked, I'd rather have it as an option even if it is shit.

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Schrödinger's Prat 5d ago

Back in't day, when I was opening a 300 page thesis with something like 100 ChemDraw objects in it, on a netbook of all things, I addressed this problem by filling a document wallet with dry ice and putting it underneath.

This probably contributed to it fully will-not-even-power-on dying a year or so later.

Schrödinger's Prat 5d ago

Rendering some 4K videos while also trying to upload the completed ones, and Clippy just popped up to say "It looks like you're trying to turn this laptop into a frying pan. Would you also like me to launch Chrome to finish the job?"

Schrödinger's Prat 6d ago

Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫6d ago

We have the ampersand, &, as a short form for the conjunction "and".

I think we need an ampersbut as a short form for "but".

I propose the Tamil number 10 character, ௰ , because it looks like a butt. Lowercase omega, ω, would also do.

Schrödinger's Prat Mar 21

The sun is shining, kids are running around the park, someone has their window open blasting summery music in the background...... If movies have taught me nothing else, something very, very, very bad is about to happen.