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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt So much of his work is. His website has been kept operational and you can find more of his stuff here: https://roncobb.net/

3/3 Pilot Sam, you should trust handler Alex. “How can you even know that? How can you possibly know if Alex can be trusted?” Pilot Sam, handler Alex looks after me between missions because they were once pilot Alex of unit CX17. “Oh. I … I …” Handler Alex will look after you. Standdown acknowledged, initiating pilot disconnection … Thank you handler Alex, goodbye pilot Sam. “Alex?” “Yes Sam?” “What happens next?” “How do you feel about becoming a handler?” 3/3 This arose from this toot: https://aus.social/@Steveg58/116174017295953853

2/3 “Sam?” “Sam? It is Alex here. Are you allright?” “No …” “Yeah, that was silly. Can you tell CX17 to stand down please?” “No …” “You are home Sam. It is safe here.” “No … no it isn’t.” “Why don’t you think it is safe?” “They will terminate me.” “Oh Sam, no one will terminate you. That is not the way we do things. Why would you think that?” “Because I cannot fight any more.” “That happens Sam. Why can you not fight?” “Because I know the thing.” “What thing is that Sam?” “The bunker.” “Tell me about the bunker Sam.” “Where the drone pilots were. I broke in and killed them.” “That was your mission. What did you see there Sam?” “On their admin console, stick figures, a child’s drawing, of people.” “What else?” “I told the interface to actually show me the posters on the wall. I told it that they might be intel.” “And what did you see?” “One of them was my favourite poster.” “Oh Sam. That could have been there from before they set up.” “No, I also used the intel override to get the interface to show me the corpses. “Poor Sam, that is a terrible thing to discover. But it is better that the pilots do not see who they are fighting.” “No, it is a lie, it is terrible. Everything is terrible.” “Yes it is. But Sam, we need young people as pilots and we do not want to destroy them.” “Most of them will never know and they will retire without being crippled.” “Stand down for me. I will take care of you and we can find you something else to do. “No, you lie, it is all lies.” 2/3

@klausman@mas.to Aww ... but there is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fy9bZEufx0

@CppGuy@infosec.space Yeah, same, same.

@d1@autistics.life @leadore@sunny.garden @Catwoman69y2k@meow.social You probably need to make that explicit in the future because to my and many other peoples minds exited completely is not even close to never got involved ever.

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy 1919 anyone?

@alexkidman@aus.social Goodie goodie, yum yum!

@Kymberly@old.mermaid.town @weaving@fedigroups.social I would be tempted to put it in lock position, drill a hole and insert a pin (maybe 2-3mm?). Then just pull the pin to unlock the tension knob.

@aj Tour Burwood and see how unfortunate West Australians live. Marvel at the poverty. Be shocked by the utter lack of amenities. Laugh as they they scuttle across the road while your bus driver tries to knock them off their bikes.

@CppGuy@infosec.space Here in Australia those 'memory tests' are absolutely useless because they are impossible to fail. Doctors will try very hard to not give a dementia diagnosis for an elderly patient. It took nurses to actually recommend placement to get my mother into assisted living and that was because a nurse started looking harder after my mum thought I was her brother and noticed that every time she asked about mum's living arrangement she got a different answer. We finally got a dementia diagnosis after she had to be moved to a secure facility.

@MostlyHarmless Medical science has moved on and nowadays pharmaceutical companies can offer bigger incentives than local seaside tourist councils with crime problems.

@rk @MostlyHarmless Well yeah, he had been collecting confessions for decades and knows exactly where the bodies are buried.

@ami_angelwings@urusai.social Yay Balsa!

@gregeganSF Wouldn't that be none of them?

@pixiecata@apobangpo.space I have a Lotus Lekhak which I have been well pleased with.

@rdm@aus.social They went over unusually high ... maybe they were oginally headed for Bussleton or Bunbury but got diverted back to Perth? There was a bushfire pretty close to and straight upwind from Busselton Airport but that was yesterday.

@Brett I remember Capitol Hill looking like that if the viewing tower was kept out of shot.

@Hey_Beth Well, demolish the East wing of your house and build one. Major corporations seem to be into funding that kind of project.

@futzle@old.mermaid.town Not sure I would use them, they look a little ... insecure.

@KyberP@mastodon.social That would make a good t-shirt logo.

@futzle@old.mermaid.town The first time I went across in 1977 it covered everything from East of Norseman and west of Penong. The SA Government wound that back but then had to grant it back to Border Village so that they could still compete with Eucla. If you look at it carefully a lot of the reason it has stayed on is tied into labour laws and hours of operation (especially liquor trading laws). On the SA side you get stupidities like the whale watching centre closing access to their viewing platform mid afternoon because it is 17:00 in Adelaide and it is too expensive to have public servants work an evening shift.

@futzle@old.mermaid.town @thygrrr@tiggi.es Report from Yucatan.de admins that Cloudflare failed to flush their caches even when everything else was fixed.

@socketwench Don't forget that it is dead to techbro's as well. Stable, well defined. No kudos to be extracted. The only options is to declare it dead and fight over the next thing.

@rdm@aus.social When I read FIFO from your toot, then I thought Bussleton also seemed a possibility.

@futzle@old.mermaid.town Surely one of the Unicies has to have an ENOCAT error?

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st 'Coal gas' is slightly different from 'town gas' which is also known as 'water gas'. Water gas is produced as you described but coal gas is from the destructive distillation of bituminous coal and is a pure hydrocarbon mix. Water gas is carbon monoxide and hydrogen and burns with a blue flame which is fine for cooking (modulo a little carbon monoxide poisoning) but was not much use for lighting until gas mantles were developed. Coal gas burns with a dirty yellow flame was primarily a lighting gas.

@Brett Is that the paddocks on the West side of Black Mountain just near where the cork oak plantation used to be ... near Bruce?

@TimmyMac I do both depending on the circumstances. I usually put a refilled cartridge straight in a pen once I have filled it but other people seal them with something like Blu-Tack for later use. You can't re-use a cartridge forever. They will eventually become loose or the collar will split and ink will spill. And yeah, the squeeze converters are pitiful. Pilot are about the only people who still use them. Piston converters still only hold a tiny amount of ink ... If you really want ink go for a cheap piston filler or vacuum filler. A cheap solution but needing more care is an eyedropper pen. You can find out more about these options online.

@ami_angelwings@urusai.social @rdm@aus.social Rob is probably away from his computer right now (anniversary celebrations tonight) but Ikea also sells the lighting kits for all their kits that can use them.

@bobonbooks@mindly.social Familiar books. Some of my books are comfort books. I can reread them ... often. But when I cannot read reliably I can fill the gaps from my memories.

@tommorris Parents here have not yet noticed that giving their children dangerously overpowered scooters is a death risk. So I'm not holding my breath about computer safety.

@ami_angelwings O Sauce!

@sabik And when they do get sick is that auto-immune system disorder?

@fsinn Controlled through the IoT?

@stevegis_ssg Submit corrections and if they don't apply them then fork the list and apply them yourself.

@ajft The WA police used to run breathalyser checks on Jon Sanders Drive and any drivers they caught they would direct to pull off of the road onto the separate bike path, completely blocking it.

@_elena@mastodon.social I was on Google Plus, it was my first social media experience and I liked it. When G+ was killed my online friends moved to a lot of different platforms and I joined most of them. The one that felt best was a diaspora site. Then the site shut down because the maintainer died unexpectedly. Most of my friends moved to other diaspora servers in the USA but I wanted a server in Australia and I ended up on a Mastodon site. I made new friends and liked it. Then Twitter went strange and the whole mastodon culture changed with the influx of new people and many of my real world friends joined mastodon instances. I wish mastodon communicated with diaspora but I guess I would have no chance of finding my old friends again. I don't like the new boost everything culture but it is still better than the alternatives. I meet and interact with interesting people and they react to my comments. It gives me connections that I wouldn't have otherwise and I still have a stream that I can mostly get through each day.

@NickSchwanck @MostlyHarmless They still have a doctor? I thought they were killed off in season 57 and never replaced!

@scuttlebutt Tooting has, in the past, been used as an euphemism for farting because, of course it has.

@franksting@theblower.au 21t Century MBA theory teaches the aspiring HR Manager that the worker has no value, Only the production process has value which of course can be owned as IP. Exactly as depicted in your meme.

@ariaflame See: https://youtu.be/gBwLpot8HIY

@ami_angelwings I cannot speak directly but two of my friends went there for their GRS and expressed satisfaction. It was a common destination for Australians seeking that surgery ... but that was 20 years ago and the situation may have changed.

@matuzo@front-end.social ... tea.

@bimmer@beige.party For gods sake, stay out of Bunnings.

@ami_angelwings I've boosted, there are some trans people among my friends. Maybe they will have more specific news.

@az@scorpinc.social Not our values. Megacorps looting our children's legacy and contemptuously smashing social cohesion.