[Slop] So many issues with this image, but most worryingly: why are the tiger and rhino outside the zoo?

Today's my stop on the Bad Influence blog tour! Read my review of this fast-paced thriller that's packed with compelling characters and jaw-dropping moments: https://www.draliceviolett.com/blog-tour-bad-influence/ #bookmastodon #bookstodon

Well, it happened: We crammed our way into a crowded intercity train and someone was like WOW IT’S ODIN FROM MASTODON

So much for relaxing. Ended up spending ages in Waterstones second-guessing what Dad might like for Father's Day and his birthday. June-July is always such a gauntlet, it was Mum's birthday yesterday, and I realised at 11pm on Saturday that I'd got her presents but no card, so had to improvise […]

Quite remarkable that the first British government headed by a “human-rights lawyer” has been so destructive of human rights, civil liberties, individual freedoms and democratic values.

Just told my boss “we’re being reactive to emergent situations”, because it’s sounds better than “we have no plan and we’re making it up as we go along” 😂

Tbf I'm not sure I'd have gone to a youth club if there'd been one. As a teenager, I was basically terrified of my peers because they seemed so loud and confident and worldly, whereas I more or less didn't speak in group situations. I wasn't aware of many activities outside of school, but would […]

@alicemcalicepants this is such a great not-even-metaphor for how there are always events that are possible but which are outside the model.

Someone posted this in the group chat and I made a joke about a D10 that goes up to 11, but I don't know how many people got the reference (I'm the oldest) 👵 #boardgames

We were advised to keep a spreadsheet of international travel

Plan for today is to recover from the last two days. Although I do need to go to bloody town to pick up my bloody prescription and it's bloody raining.

I primarily use Tusky rather than web Mastodon, which sounds like a good thing today as Statichost (which I often use shortly after waking up to deploy the day's blog post) has a new UI and that was enough to deal with 😅

#mondaycovers Cutouts - Strict Machine https://musiccloud.io/DYeIv

Today's my stop on the Bad Influence blog tour! Read my review of this fast-paced thriller that's packed with compelling characters and jaw-dropping moments: https://www.draliceviolett.com/blog-tour-bad-influence/ #bookmastodon #bookstodon

#mondayrandom10 VLC, 7,967 tracks. I'd hardly skip any of these 😊 1. Blaqk Audio - Absolute Scenes 2. Jimmy Eat World - Dizzy 3. Chelsea Wolfe - Lone 4. Placebo - Lazarus 5. AFI - Rewind 6. Jucee Fruit - Danger 7. Crooner - T As In Tsunami 8. CHVRCHES & Hayley Williams - Bury It 9. Jimmy Eat […]

Oh yeah, my dad was giving me a lift home earlier when his car started beeping that it had updated its terms and conditions. One of the buttons gave the option to review them, presumably while continuing to drive?!

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Metric (72) Death Cab for Cutie (48) Sad Lovers & Giants (46) Fex (43) The Cure (41). #myweekcounted 623 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lfm_blue

Continuing this weekend's bird theme (also by coincidence I've worn clothes with birds on both days!) #silentsunday

I finally got around to getting some bear spray for when I go hiking and I need to share this pamphlet that came with it.

'For me, it’s less the em dashes than just the banal genericism. The feeling that anyone could have written this, because anybody could have ... Writing, especially in opinion, is about individual voice: how you turn a phrase, the anecdote only you can tell, that odd word you might have picked […]

Spotted this juvenile Carrion Crow having a rest on a fence post at a nature reserve today #nature #birds #wildlife #photography #naturephotography #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #uk #birdscrolling #corvid

@alicemcalicepants Jackdaws are cheeky bastards.

Thought I was making friends, then the fuckers stole my crisps! It's been quite a bird-y day, I just got out of a workshop themed around the archive of JA Baker, who wrote The Peregrine.

Plan for today: two or three author talks; writing workshop; probably crash out with a migraine because god forbid I do anything slightly novel (no pun intended).

Just accidentally typed 'Embadded Computing'. Accurate tbh.

Well, I expect BoardGameArena will see a lot of people drop out of their survey at the point where the questions start to exceed their understanding of French :blobcatgiggle: :BoardGames

Every single time... Shocking Breaking News shocks people and gets shared over and over and will still be shared in a couple of years with no fact-checking whatsoever... Fact-checking arrives and no one notices […]

The Doobie Brothers "Listen To The Music" https://youtu.be/nbVE-1rHyVY #JukeboxFridayNight #musicmusiciansandmashups

#alternatefridaymusic #forsaken going with my immediate lyrical association. System of a Down - Chop Suey! https://musiccloud.io/ievzS

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

Book festival talks/workshop all day tomorrow, party on Sunday, day off for R&R on Monday. Hoping I'll pick up some enthusiasm for it all along the way, because I'm not really feeling it right now 🤷‍♀️

#jukeboxfridaynight #musicmusiciansandmashups Suede - Broken Music for Broken People https://youtu.be/zVZJXddXqAA

Please tell me I'm not the only one who can't help but involuntarily roll their eyes at all the books titled "A ___ of ___ and ___"

An email I received yesterday has completely vanished. I can't find it ANYWHERE.

I'm reading an eBook about "Human Error" and I'm pretty sure the underlying formatting is trolling me!

Apple Music stop activating 'play random similar songs after the song I've chosen ends' challenge.

#thursdayfivelist #blowinginthewind Fex - Subways of Your Mind (NDR Version) (🎵 Like the wind, you came here runnin'... 🎵) https://musiccloud.io/pgShd AFI - The Wind That Carries Me Away https://musiccloud.io/Ew75x Something Corporate - Hurricane https://musiccloud.io/qwfSn Miki Berenyi Trio […]

@alicemcalicepants The moment you step over the door a flash blinds you, a siren screams and a red sign is blinking "Failed. Retake course"

@jannem the presentation is just a recording of someone going 'what are you even doing here?! Leave your computer and take an hour for lunch!'

@alicemcalicepants If you refuse to join because it's your lunchtime you already know the material and don't need it.

A lunch and learn... on work-life balance :blobcatthink:

All Modern Digital Infrastructure #ai #llm #llms #foss

Wake up y’all new structure ambiguity exercise just dropped. #linguistics

Save Our Libraries Essex now have a petition up against Reform banning promotion of Pride, Black History Month and other inclusive events in libraries: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/libraries-for-all?share=54b20381-9fd7-48d0-b7fb-f23e7dc5e08e

Save Our Libraries Essex now have a petition up against Reform banning promotion of Pride, Black History Month and other inclusive events in libraries: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/libraries-for-all?share=54b20381-9fd7-48d0-b7fb-f23e7dc5e08e

💅

Me: huh, this new Cutouts song sounds kinda like Goldfrapp. *looks up song title* Because it's a Goldfrapp cover. :blobcatdance: I like it.

RE: https://functional.cafe/@robertpi/116719973119932730 I love this bit: "The oldest person who filled out this survey was born in 1064, but assuming that was an error, the second oldest was born in 1938."