James ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ’œ

@shaknais
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Author | Aussie | Written all kinds of tales over the years - romance, murder mystery, science fiction and fantasy and more.
Warning: Short term memory loss.
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Olympics align with Trump as transgender athletes banned from womenโ€™s games

Transgender athletes banned from womenโ€™s Olympic events by new IOC policy aiming for โ€˜fairness, safety and integrityโ€™.

Al Jazeera

Oh dear.
At bookclub* yesterday, everyone's holidays have either been cancelled, seriously curtailed, or put on hold pending price rises. That bastard Orange and his mate in Israel. ๐Ÿ˜ก

* no books

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-27/big-red-bash-cancelled-2026-concerns-outback-tourism/106490946

Big Red Bash cancelled amid site change and rising fuel prices

This festival usually sees people go all out, spending thousands of dollars and travelling thousands of kilometres, but a potential change in location and fuel concerns have deterred ticket holders.   

Donโ€™t trust, verify

Software and digital security should rely on verification, rather than trust. I want to strongly encourage more users and consumers of software to verify curl. And ideally require that you could do at least this level of verification of other software components in your dependency chains. Attacks are omnipresent With every source code commit and โ€ฆ Continue reading Donโ€™t trust, verify โ†’

daniel.haxx.se

I forgot how hilariously misleading the Mass Effect choices are.

Choice: "I'm sorry."
Sheppard: "It had to be done. You know that."

The drawing created by Vincent L'Epรฉe for the satirical French-speaking Swiss magazine Vigousse "Trump at the UN: a delirious speech" has won the Swiss cartoon award.

"She grabbed a jacket and wrapped it tightly around herself. Stepping out the back door to find the bucket, and drag it back inside. The icepick hit and tried to crack the surface, water bubbling into being around chunks of ice. Which was when she shoved her face into it."

#AmWriting

Hey, remember that time I made a Doctor Who audio drama?

Well I'm making another one! And you can get involved!!! You can audition here: https://www.castingcall.club/projects/doctor-who-fan-audio-the-festival-of-change

(or, if you don't have a CastingCall account, you can also DM me auditions here using the audition lines on that page!)

#DoctorWho

https://images.castingcall.club/project_images/image-1228627-Screenshot2025-09-27at4.29.37AM14.jpg

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116292437194618572

Coming soon - your orgโ€™s code powering every competitors products.

waitwaitwait i have one more!

ransomware but it ONLY targets orgs that use ms teams, and it spiders the entire calendar looking for any meetings that are open, and joins them with a virtual webcam and plays the never gonna give you up video - it joins randomly between 1-10 minutes into the meeting, repeatedly, forever, for every meeting.

until you pay