Catherine Cowie

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52yo bi, trans femme living in Naarm, 🇦🇺; have written music, administered fair elections, devised silly computer games (64ordle.au). Nuff sed for the mo.
Absurdleshttps://64ordle.au/
Show threadCatherine CowieOct 1, 2024
@Joel_Grant @pzmyers
Oh dear. Is it "Deathlord Al-Zawahiri" and a completely unresponsive ISP causing mischief again?
Show threadCatherine CowieNov 26, 2023
@quinsibell As you say, the horrific bushfires were so long ago that few people remember them, so I guess some retail stores don’t care if a niche of the public finds the reappropriation of the term for a sale somewhat odd and in bad taste. (Since when have advertisers cared about bad taste? Never.)
Show threadCatherine CowieNov 26, 2023
@CriticalCupcake Anniversary specials can be hit or miss, and this one was mostly hit. The villain was suitably nasty (we were waiting for the reveal and it was not disappointing), the threat of destruction comically ridiculous, the gobbledegook predictably nonsensical, but it was all fun and totally of a piece with where RTD left things over a decade ago.
I don’t think it can be understated how vital the positive trans representation in the episode is, given the state of bigotry in the UK. The fact that all of the usual suspects started churning their bile is evidence enough the show got it right, albeit clumsily.
Show threadCatherine CowieNov 24, 2023
@timrichards Flow-on effect from the enormous truck stuck under the Napier Street bridge over in Footscray?
Show threadCatherine CowieAug 22, 2023
@ptoothfish Oh yes, I had this wall frieze as well. It’s somehow survived any number of purges and I still have it in a storage box somewhere. Thanks for posting pictures!
Catherine CowieJul 11, 2023
Sarah BrownJul 11, 2023

David Tennant, of Dr Who fame, apparently said some pro trans things and now the TERFs are going after him on Twitter. His response is that he isn't worried because, and I quote, "I'll be fine, Terfs can't climb stairs"

I want that on a T-shirt. No, I NEED that on a T-shirt!

ETA: Apparently it was a parody account that said the stairs line. I still want it on a T-shirt.

Show threadCatherine CowieJul 9, 2023
@kevinbonham Hi Kevin! For perhaps obvious reasons I deleted my main Twitter last year. Glad to see you here.
Show threadCatherine CowieJul 2, 2023
@claudinec It’s fine to play late at night, but you might need to play in Pago Pago occasionally, which is fine – 64ordle isn’t trying to do a Wordle and scrub people’s streaks if they’ve travelled between time zones (which is a thing). And although I made a version of the 64ordle with fewer columns to make it minimally playable on a phone, it really isn’t meant to be played on a phone.
Show threadCatherine CowieJul 2, 2023

@claudinec By ‘visiting Pago Pago’, there’s the time difference between Samoa (UTC + 13) and just a few dozen kilometres away eastward, American Samoa (UTC – 11), so if you took a short trip from Apia to Pago Pago you’d leave on Saturday and arrive on Friday the day before, thanks to that pesky date line.

Thanks for playing the game! Do you try the hard, or is it just too unfriendly?

Anyway, love to both of you :) <3

Show threadCatherine CowieJul 2, 2023

@claudinec Yep. This is pretty much a known bug, that anything that acts like a URL (and the buttons for rows are just crude html anchor tags) can trigger the code in restart() which among other things moves from today’s game to tomorrow’s (or rather, from yesterday’s to today’s, from the viewpoint of now).

You can resolve this by:

1) go to 64ordle’s calendar

2) put your system clock at least three days into the future

3) restart yesterday’s game

4) optionally, reset your system clock and carefully play without reloading the page (and don’t use auto-complete, as it calls restart() !), or otherwise wait until after you finish to rejoin us from the future :)

5) finish yesterday’s game. This won’t increment your daily stats, so:

6) visit 64ordle.au/?mode=debug so as to increase your scores of official daily games.

I think that should help. And I know it’s an awkward edge case, but I sort of agree with the cosmic reminder that you only have 24 hours to play today’s game.

There’s one other nice way around the problem, but this depends on the restart () code *not having* executed (since it clears the daily guesses in preparation for a new day’s game), and I describe that as ‘visiting Pago Pago’. If you need more time to finish a game started just before midnight, change your time zone from UTC + x to somewhere with UTC + y, where x > y !

Edited to fix my obvious maths blunder, and add hashtags.

#SexagintaQuattuordle #64ordle