Craig 'VI' Slee: Wednesday Consultant
@mrvi
Cripple. Writer of Stuff and Things. A dream of Cold Albion. I write and talk about disability, ableism, magic, myth and story. 🥟 Some sort of wizard. Here since 2023. Mastodon Profile: | Website:
I've seen and reposted a few of these but for me, the GOAT is Marlene Dietrich in MOROCCO (1930), so all of these, and more, but particularly the left of the tryptich.
Been using DDG for years myself for years, but yeah, I've started doing this too.
"NameTag would revive a type of technology Meta said it had sunsetted in 2021...[it] paid $650 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by Illinois users and, in 2024, agreed to a separate $1.4 billion settlement...it had unlawfully collected biometric data from users."
Google Pixel 9a Pro, Firefox 150, tested with legacy login and also with and without extensions. Same error with both. Tried it with did but same. Will try flushing my cache
Also, fucking VALAR VENTURES??? "Oh, it's just Thiel & Co being Tolkien nerds". Does nobody know who the Valar were in Tolkien's legendarium?? Because that says a LOT about how they see themselves.
So, I'm currently using witchsky.app on desktop, which descends indirectly from forks of deer.social Deer has/had a specific set of options available for customisation which got built on. See screenshots
Cat out and out disconnecting yer webcam when yer a) a crip, b) it's plugged into the back of the PC, and you can't get to it yerself, c) your partner's out and d) your meeting starts in 5 min, is a THING. Look at this adorable MENACE.
I keep seeing so many people on social media obsessed with having a take, in times of crisis. Hell, I've done it too. But remember: You DON'T have to have one. It's ok to say I have no idea. Also, see image:
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy Dead on
Hell yeah. [Kermit flail.gif] Congrats to @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social and on to stretchgoals! Let's F'ing Go!
My story is the tale of two pragmatic fellows: Jerem the Silent, cursed, agonised, and endlessly wounded -- and Vran. who is the Throne-Walker, a crip-sorcerer who is beyond such pedestrian (geddit??) binaries as living or dead. Join us for a tale which exceeds healing and fixing as solutions.
So as UK person my only concession to Thanksgiving was buying 20 Chicken McNuggets and peeling the coating off most of them to piecemeal feed it to my cat who is just too damn cute
I know its WaPo but fuck off with your 'AI' 'freebies'. You're worse than any pusher of drugs as a detriment to society
Man this cat is ridiculous. We joked we could call him Lemmy, because he purrs like a motor, for maybe half an hour, settled on Sid because Obsidian. Have been using Sid yesterday and today -- little response. Partner says maybe Sid isn't right? Calls him Lemmy & he immediately meows & trots over.
Kitty update. Litter trained already. Loves the furry winter blanket we use in winter so much he licks it while making biscuits (we think he's trying to nurse?). To our great rejoicing did a massive crap half the size of his body, which we had been worrying about. Totally black toe beans
So a friend heard rumours of a stray kitten going in and out of shops. Posted "Is this your cat notices" etc, but they have 3 cats of their own. So we are babysitting a beautiful unchipped, unsnipped Nameless Black Void until Monday, when, if no-one has replied to the posts, we shall Vet checkup.
@faineg.bsky.social out here getting name checked as "Trump critic" in international news. Bluesky has the juice etc etc
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains I was very much a rock and metal kid, and aside from the general dance vibe of the 90s, wasn't fussed by it. Then this came along in '94, blew my socks off, and I've been a THE PRODIGY fan ever since.
So I am of course by no means a massive Guardian fan, but man, sometimes the editorialisng in the liveblogs is SO biting. Ooof.
So I expanded on a bluesky post a little, wrote a blog and x-posted it to facebook, which I rarely use. Friend shared it and someone *really* didn't get on with it. But having to explain daimons being used in something which is Ancient Greek related, & that they are not a WH40K thing makes me sad
Yes, I was up at 5am and on Bluesky/atproto. Didn't even notice this. Self-hosting allows insomniacs to be too powerful!
How I feel about people treating LLMs as actual humanesque entities, instead of a series of prompts designed to hack human sociality responses for profits.