There really is a nasty, authoritarian streak that tends to float to the top of school senior management. I've seen good school librarians actually curate and promote lists of banned books. Not here any longer, I suppose.

For nearly 30 years, journalists have relied on the Internet Archive to see how stories were originally published, before edits, removals, or changes. We need to safeguard that. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

"Gets right on mine, thank-you for asking. Happy now?" ☑

Note to self: What fraction of passwords for sites with prescriptive and annoying entropy constraints are Fuck$SITE?

Brent crude is back over $100. What a great opportunity to really lean in on renewables and reduction (the USA has an ENORMOUS bloat of energy use to peer nations). The easy stuff can come first and there's a lot of it.

AI DOESN'T UNDERSTAND CLOWN EGGS

Oh Well...

People who STFU at gigs get to go home and return to their loved ones (if any) UN-STABBED.

When, for my sins, I worked for a streaming distro start-up, I used node-to-vec to congeal embeddings from Wikipedia's hierarchy of genres and Shitify's related artists. The nadir twixt "goth" and "industrial" was apparrently "Alien Sex Fiend". Proved it empirically. (Acid Bath's a good album.)

"Windy Militant leads his Basque-like corn grinders to war With windmill sails and bombs with nails they smash the town hall door" youtu.be/uwEQfdQ5vPw?...

Framing this as trying to stop the rise of Reform is disgusting. She's doing it because she wants to kill people. She's doing it because she is a cruel, vindictive person. She's doing it because she has more in common with the dictators who run the regimes these people flee from than she does them.

Borrow ~5 times the '81 average UK salary[1] and get a Barratt house, or just get one free with your cereal. Alternatively, save the boxes and do self-build. (Of course there's a UPVC door with a fan-light in the picture. Now it's indistinguishable from a Victorian terrace.) [1] Male, obviously.

Spotify sucks, I don't use it. When I worked for a streaming distro outfit, I built a crawler that trawled millions of PLs using genres as search terms. When we found one of our artists, we'd tell them. There's no "what PL am I on?" API. You can "borrow" the web API here: apify.com/augeas/spoti...

I remember (US) t'other half switching visas, trying to get a work permit while a p/t student, worrying if a lost job meant a lost visa. The constant sword-of-Damocles bureaucracy that, despite being handed their arses in Gorton, those bastards want to make last twice as long. I Fucking Hate Them.

Now there, to put it mildly, is something you don't see every day...

Meanwhile, on Ballards Lane, Finchley, Norf Lahndahn... (I'd like to wish all Murdering Theocratic Tyrannical Bastards a very happy Die Quite Specifically Not Peacefully In Bed. All Of Them.)

"I'm horrified... ...I smeared my opponents and bribed the press to be on my side... ...I fail to see what more a decent politician could have done..." youtube.com/clip/UgkxW5S...

Looking forward to the "May Poll"? "A man who would come here of his own free will... A man who would come here as a virgin. A man who has come here as a fool. Punch, one of the great fool-victims of history, for you have accepted the role of king for a day, and who but a fool would do that?"

God Rest Screaming Lord Sutch. It's just not the same, the Loonies might as well pack it in if they can barely manage three times the SDP vote. youtu.be/W00aUPXnzZo?...

"They make us feel indebted For saving us from Hell And then they put us through it It's time the bastards fell" youtu.be/on6DxBgfsDY?...

For all the lack of good electoralism will do, I could really do with some knife-twisting schadenfreude about now. Let's see those nasty, patronising school-ma'amish cowards twist on a skewer for a little while. How naive we were for not wanting to swallow their supposedly less malodorous shit.

Oh, bollocks. (When it was still financially and materially safe to visit the in-laws, one of the compensations of a transatlantic flight was enforced time made for sitting still and listening to Eliane Radigue.)

can these freaks keep making statements in public or to the media about what they think & believe cheers 🙏

"Cyclic tag systems based on elementary 1D cellular automaton rule 110 are Turing complete, rule 110 can be implemented in pure CSS, therefore CSS is Turing complete, but obviously no practical computation could ev- Oh FFS!"

the renter’s rights bill has caused the highest number of evictions in decades, and that was true even before this new spike. it has been so horribly managed by Labour, and the protections it secures do not go anywhere near far enough.

The same dipshit who wants to close down the Prince Charles Cinema too. Source: London Centric share.google/L7ADr0HOBH4K...

They're serial pub destroyers as well www.the-londoner.co.uk/exclusive-th...

Les Shitposts Dangereuses

A Clockwork Shitpost

Homo Sapiens is apparently the only primate with a chin. Therefore, WTF is Wes Streeting? www.newscientist.com/article/2515...

a trans woman i know is being deported back to the USA due to the Home Office messing up paperwork. her wife is desperately trying to raise the funds to prevent this. they have 48 hours before she’s put on a plane and might never be able to return. please, help if you can. they’re both terrified.

This is Fucking Horrible. (T'other half is American. If the visa hoops she jumped through were happening now while Reform Lite (tm) are fucking around trying to look and be as Nasty As Possible, I could be going through something similar. I feel bad enough for the American colleague I helped hire.)

5 pillars was founded by two guys with very close links to the Iranian regime and also heavily promoted a joint effort by British far right groups and an Algerian MP to push anti LGBT reforms transsafety.network/posts/far-ri... I hope Zack corrects things quickly

one of the most savage tweets I ever saw was by the former president of estonia on pretty much this exact theme, just a bit early

Almost, but not entirely, *unlike* Sprott's coupled quadratic recurrence relations, which also didn't used to move, make noises, and weren't green. The horrid thing's practically laughing at us. (Why shouldn't it, times like these?) sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pubs/PAPER20...

You should be boycotting the BBC

Shit Island deserves Comic Sans.

"In one corner of the ring That cherished myth Falling in love magically solves Every problem you've ever had In the other corner Spoon size shredded dreams The Gods must be lazy The movie goers must be crazy Mate! Spawn! & Die! My my my my my my... Mate! Spawn! & Die!" youtu.be/kDZaoPXMTK8?...

I look forward to pay-day the way Prometheus looked forward to his liver growing back, but at least I know that salvation is coming. Can we lift the obsidian slab off Juno long enough for her to breathe?

penny show on twitch twitch.tv/pennyyells

I know the courts told the GC wing-nuts to Sod Off, and so did the properly-run consultation. I know a sodding poll in the Metro is nothing in the scheme of things. I also don't want the wing-nuts to save a crumb of comfort or morale. (TOR for 'Droid reports its User-Agent as plain-old Firefox.)