mastodon 4.7.2Bat who uses tech hobbies and furry silliness to stave off the existential dread of life. Shadow librarian and creator of utility software to aid in the righteous cause of copyright infringement.
He/him.
A perfect example of how to write news headlines with an information gap.
What popular travel item? What airline? The headline can't tell you - if it did, you'd have no reason to read the story. Better to keep the mystery and let people's curiosity guide them into clicking.
If the manipulation isn't so obvious people won't even realise they are being played.
I made a thing. Out of a shipping pallet.
I now know the difference between cheap scrap wood and good quality wood: A £6 tub of wood stain.
This structure shall be installed above a gate to stop intruders from climbing over it.
Project Clear the Alley hit a problem: A neighbour pointed out that some residents actually want the alley to be impassable, because of concerns over thieves using it to access back gardens.
The neighbour did throw in a bit of casual racism to make it quite clear which ethnicity he believes is responsible for the thieving, but even so, it is a valid concern.
Well, then. I'm going to have to do something about the flimsy wooden gate, adding bolts and concrete fixtures and spikey bits on top.
The panel improves.
Catering's printer filled the waste toner bucket.
No printer means no price labels, no allergy labels, and thus no food for anyone. The catering printer is critical infrastructure. So of course there is no spare toner bucket.
Once one thing for it then.
There is toner everywhere. I look like a coal miner. My clothes are covered. Everything I touched is covered. I've had to throw buckets of water over the outside area where I worked to wash away the toner, which only turned it in to a sludge.
The site rewrite is done. Now people can not care about my site in two protocols. At least it looks neater. I shall have to release my gemtext to html converter.
Many such scripts exist, but they all share the flaw of being written in python and not perl. This is the sort of thing perl was written for.
Bleh.
As expected, the "We aren't fascists, we just want to purify British culture of forigners and perverts" party has made the sort of electoral showing that firmly establishes their viability. No longer a mere fringe protest party, but a serious player in British politics.
We aren't at the stage of death camps and purges yet, but the possibility of them is on the horizon.