Sismrnoth

@sismrnoth

Video games, art, books, linguistics, etc. Generally unable to Pick A Lane. Working on PhD in genre studies. She/her 🇿🇦 🇫🇷

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Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· 19d

Let nobody forget the classics

“why did you turn my friends into pigs i don't know maybe the real question is why are your friends so turn-into-pigsable”

Mallory Ortberg, Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· 20d

I really hope we make Disapproving Athena a thing.

Athena, played by Zendaya, giving an expression of disappointment and disgust that would wither me to my bones

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· 29d

Been playing this lately, and this is peak character design

LORELEI AND THE LASER EYES

The protagonist stands in front of the game’s hotel, wearing a disgustingly stylish 1960s Italian-style ensemble of cropped dark pants, a ruffled blouse and double-buttoned short jacket.

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· Jul 7

Cosy.

A picture of my couch and surrounding clutter. My cat is on the couch.

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· Jul 4

Pull these layers together and a coherent picture emerges. Decades of economic failure - deindustrialisation, austerity, the looting of state resources, the systematic underfunding of public services - has created genuine desperation. Into that desperation, a sustained ideological campaign by mainstream economic actors has injected the idea that the only path to recovery is for us all to tighten our belts and shoulder more pain; that the state cannot resource what we want; that what exists must be rationed. And into this world of scarcity, political entrepreneurs have inserted the figure of the migrant as the illegitimate queue-jumper.
Each layer enables the next. The material conditions create the desperation. The scarcity narrative makes it seem permanent and zero-sum. The xenophobic mobilisation provides a target that doesn't threaten economic power.

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· Jun 22

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Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· Jun 15

My book haul

Zadie Smith ON BEAUTY
R.F. KUANG Katabasis
PIGMENT STORIES
THE HAUNTED WOOD Sam Leith
Aya Kōda | Tree

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· Jun 15

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· Jun 12

New laptop sticker from the lovely @natparkprintshop.bsky.social

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· Jun 10

Random very English signs and names I have noticed

A station platform with the name “Mudchute”

Two road signs, indicating the street names “Back Lane” and “Streatley Place”

A pillar outside a house that reads “FORTY TWO”

A van that reads “Cumbria Hot Tub Services Ltd”

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· Jun 10

Windermere

An English country road lined with hedged and trees

A view over a green field with trees and hills in the background

A mossy wall made of stacked stones. Ferns poke out from between the stones. On the wall is perched a mossy wooden sign that says GREEN GABLES

A view over Lake Windermere. An oak is in the foreground, and you can see a jetty and boats. There are geese in the water.

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· Jun 9

Southampton

A derpy medieval lion statue awkwardly holding an English flag

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· Jun 8

London

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· Jun 7

London

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· May 2

Been getting back into reading on Libby since the end of last year.

A graph of loans over time. I borrowed 17 books in 2025, and 13 so far this year. There is a spike up in December 2025 and a smaller spike in March 2026.

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· Apr 24

Johannesburg is looking dramatic today.

A photo of the city skyline from the West, covered in clouds. Johannesburg, South Africa

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· Apr 24

This is a monstrous mindset. These things just aren't real to him.

Musk did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this article. Last month, in an interview with Bloomberg, he argued that his critics have been unable to produce any evidence that these cuts at USAID have resulted in any real suffering. “It’s false,” he said. “I say, ‘Well, please connect us with this group of children so we can talk to them and understand more about their issue,’ we get nothing. They don’t even try to come up with a show orphan.”

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· Apr 21

Skittles is such a beautiful dumbass

A grey tabby looking at the camera in confusiom

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· Apr 20

I really liked the Elden Ring manga, though. It leans into being a journal of playing the game, and as a result it is silly as heck.

A scene of the Elden Ring manga in which the Tarniahed encounters Blaidd chasing and catching a Scarab (he's just a dog chasing a ball)

HEY...
WHAT'RE YOU CHASING?

WAIT UP!

THIS GUY'S
NO WOLF.
HE'S JUST A BIG DOG...

AHH, SORRY, FRIEND.
WHEN I SEE SOMETHING
ROUND, I JUST CAN'T HELP BUT CHASE IT...

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· Apr 20

She heard I was going to open the tap. I should open the tap for her so that she can look at the water come out.

Peach, the ginger cat, is sitting on the dishwasher in my kitchen, staring at me with a combination of disapproval and expectation.

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· Apr 19

Peach looking offended that I touched her fluffy cat belly

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· Apr 18

Look, outages and software are complicated, so I'm not going to speculate. But why is this *postmortem* like this? This is some kind of facile LinkedIn-style insight from babies reinventing the wheel

you should add extensive observability before you have an outage. We do have a lot, but it's never enough! We need to add per-client o11y as well as get better metrics on when clients send small numbers of large requests.

It was all buried in there, but it was hard to know where to look when so much was falling over all at once. You need to have the mental discipline and high granularity in your metrics to be able to cut through the noise to find the real root cause. It's hard work!

Also, logging too much isn't great.

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· Apr 15

Skittles is being a supermodel again

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· Apr 12

Yes

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· Apr 12

Also, sure, FE Three Houses has the best story. The story:

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· Apr 3

Made some new holes in my flesh, just in time for the related holiday. New dagger and olive branch!

A photo of me! I am not good at describing what I look like.

My ear, with a new olive branch earring in my helix, and a dagger and two small hoops pierced into my earlobe.

Sismrnoth@sismrnoth· Mar 29

At the university yesterday, before it gets busy. I still actually like the Brutalism (and the view of Johannesburg in the background)