@theruran @psf @vidak @alcinnz bearn in mind that even Symbolics would have gone RISC had they not run out of money first - their post-3600 architecture (the docs are somewhere online) was very RISC-influenced, and showed an order of magnitude performance increase

i wonder whether spinning Oklahoma's resumption of executions as "US state resumes program of human sacrifice" would make people think twice about casually supporting it?

i have 16 months to get myself moved to Scotland then

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/15/nicola-sturgeon-second-scottish-independence-referendum-october-2023

@christiaan probably less than taxpayers will save in not having to buy 15 different chargers :-P @EU_Commission

@clacke that link is consistently crashing my browser :-(

wow. the day has finally come.

i just put spaces in a filename. on a linux machine. *voluntarily*.

Hadean snowballs all round, i guess...

hmph! of all the people to get uppity about fanfic, i'd have expected new Who to not even feature in the list. given that, you know, *literally everyone involved in its regeneration* is there because, as part of their massive fandom, they wrote fanfic for classic Who

always nice to run something you haven't run for ages and watch it throw up a huge pile of linker errors

@clacke (well... i probably won't, but i'll try and remember i bookmarked it)

@clacke thanks! i'll remember that in future

she's also written a barnstormer of an article on the same theme:

https://katelynburns.medium.com/no-the-war-in-ukraine-wasnt-because-of-pronouns-c3e3e8f938a3

> If we were to accept the right’s conception of the cultural conflict at play here, that Putin is the strong man defending Judeo-Christian cultural values and Ukraine is the weak, decadent left, obsessed with pronouns, then the pronouns seem to be winning.

well, quite.

...

(also, fuck you and your anti-copy measures, Medium - all i had to do was press Ctrl-C before i let go of the mouse button)

Katelyn Burns has collated a twitter threadful of examples of today's fascist talking point: https://nitter.net/transscribe/status/1497592340202016769 (nitter.net mirror, sub other mirrors into the URL as applicable)

i guess that pretty much says it all

trans community: rallies round, does what they can to organise humanitarian aid, urges everyone who'll listen not to forget the people being bombed

the mainstream right: blames the war squarely on trans people, without even a hint of nuance. in an alarming number of cases, with even the same words.

folks, this is directed - and a prelude for (more) violent action against trans folk. consider the historical precedents. the fascists here think that the fascists in Russia have given them their chance.

stay safe, stay alert, stay together.

for the love of all the gods, someone please hide Famine's spurs and saddle

interesting - rather than put the price of their £5.99 plan up in the UK, Netflix have knocked it back down to 480p (it was 720p for a while)

shrinkflation isn't just something that applies to physical products, i guess