Dirtysnowball

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Today’s AlienSideBoob from @JB is titled “A fairytale of the future”. https://aliensideboob.substack.com/p/a-fairytale-of-the-future

As he says, “Brought to you by my mental health needs. And probably yours.”

A fairytale of the future.

Brought to you by my mental health needs. And probably your's.

Alien Sideboob
Marina Hyde, in The Guardian.

John Birmingham: "My vote will change nothing and in one sense then, it will mean nothing.

"But it means something to me, and your vote should mean something to you too, if only the personal, moral significance of doing the right thing when so many others would not."

https://aliensideboob.substack.com/p/as-much-the-soil-of-the-pitjantjatjara

As much the soil of the Pitjantjatjara.

I caught a bus from Argentina to Trieste to cast a vote for YES in the Voice referendum. About twenty-six minutes in Roman peak hour. It was crowded and hot. Everything is crowded and hot in Rome at the moment, weeks after the weather should have turned towards the colder, darker edge of winter. The sun is reliably late getting up, and getting later with every day. But the days are scorching on the hot, black volcanic stones of the capitals oldest streets.

Alien Sideboob
Why I’m voting for the Voice #yes23 – Airminded

"Threads," flee the affliction #surveillancecapitalism #Meta #socialmedia

The media outlets who are carrying, "He was a normal guy, I never expected he'd do something like this," are promoting a framing that says a normal person can be pressured by shadowy forces to murder people.

Nobody needs to accept that framing. He was not a normal guy, he was a conspiracy theorist. This is the kind of thing conspiracy theorists do; He didn't "snap," he lived his dream.

You can wonder why he got that way, but he didn't "snap."

So, don't tell anybody, but we're going to announce Palm Pilot emulation in the browser at Internet Archive in the next week or so. I've still got to get descriptions in for the hundreds of apps that are uploaded, and add a few more classics. But if you want to help with that, or just let me know how it's going, ping me here.

But don't tell anybody! It's a secret!

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_palm

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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I've tracked down videos and GIFs not working on mastodon.social and mastodon.online to a rate-limit issue with our object storage provider and have raised a support ticket with them #devops