Phil Rees

@phrees
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Worked in #education and #training organizations for more decades than I care to remember. Trained hundreds of people of all ages in #ITSkills. Helped academics develop #eLearning materials in #Cardiff and #Oxford.

Interests:
#Poetry #Butoh #ContemporaryDance #ScienceFiction #Horror #SpokenWord #Radio4 #Cinema #Theatre #Art #HomeSchooling

Learning:
#Lua #GDScript #Writing

Living on a #farm in the #BC #GulfIslands.

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Bloghttps://andtwelfthly.wordpress.com
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Github Pageshttps://phrees.com
@baldur Tech is a hammer. Everything else is nails.
dear diary, it has been 437 days since my husband disappeared under mysterious circumstances. alas, I am unable to inform the police, for I am a mere woman.

@VeryBadLlama He's just filled to the brim with christian love.

“The Millennials who will replace the freckles spineless degenerate boomers will be sure to settle accounts and amend the errors of the past century, ...”

I'm guessing "freckles" was a typo but these days it's hard to tell.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230303164303/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/lutheran-church-white-nationalism-rejection-1234690317/

Lutheran Church Rejects Takeover Attempt by Pro-Hitler Member

A nearly 2 million-member synod is fighting an attempt to turn its pews into a bastion for young fascists

Rolling Stone

@bouriquet @luckytran Not forgetting pension funds.

(And yes, that's the same AIER that launched the Great Barrington Declaration.)

https://www.aier.org/article/the-pension-fund-apocalypse/

The Pension Fund Apocalypse

The pension funding deficit of OECD countries could be twice the size of global GDP within a decade.

AIER

@rodhilton There also used to be an option to skip signing into or creating a Twitter account.

Karma gets us all in the end.

@Atropine @Daojoan Or punishing small presses and the authors they represent.

Reminds me of the time I got put into Facebook jail for updating the calendar events for our local library in a single batch.

@Daojoan One with a back catalog. Robert Rankin springs to mind. In 2012 he decided to publish his first 23 novels on Kindle.

In order to collect on the $1.5 billion in defamation judgments they won against Alex Jones, the families of the victims of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut have voted to liquidate the far-right conspiracy theorist’s assets.

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/to-collect-1-5b-from-alex-jones-sandy-hook-families-vote-to-liquidate-assets/

To collect $1.5B owed from Alex Jones, Sandy Hook families, creditors vote to liquidate assets

The families of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting massacre voted to liquidate Alex Jones' assets in order to collect on a $1.5 billion defamation award.

Law & Crime

@elmyra @gerrymcgovern When we take less there's more for others. What we need are mechanisms to divert some of the freed resources to those in need rather than those with greed. If we choose, personally, not to make crap and not to consume crap we're part of the way there.

It is analogous to a birthday party. When we disinvite the fat greedy toddlers everyone has a better time even though there is less on the table. You enjoy the cake more when you know it has not been licked by someone else.

@courtcan @HCBunny As a sexagenarian having realized I have nothing figured out I went into a period of deep internal reflection resulting in the insight that we do have something to look forward to. It's degeneration.

Might as well be dancing.