A nice thing about being a chronic insomniac with wildly unregulated sleep patterns is you're not really bothered by daylight savings.
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Phil Betts
@philbetts@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Art, code, society, foliage. PhD'd in Management (booooo) and movies? (yaaaaaay!) Probably the world's most pre-eminent Fox Searchlight Pictures scholar, 1994–2009. Real Little Miss Sunshiners (#Sunbeams) get it. Bisexual icon. Highly suggestible.
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I can feel another Battlestar Galactica rewatch approaching.
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@thomas@metalhead.club to all of your credit I haven't noticed it, so thanks for the great work you do!
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@medieval_illuminations@mastodon.social that lil pink camel just looks so happy to be part of this scene. :3
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@emmfoolery@dosgame.club I feel a strong need to warn you that as a nine year old I installed a floppy copy of Pacman vs Wolfenstein bought at Parklea Markets onto the school computer, and it had a virus that locked the system down. I then got tricked into admitting it was me.
The moral here is: if it's the nineties and someone says they read the logs and your name came up, they're bluffing - it's Windows 3.0, user accounts haven't been invented yet, and you didn't type your name in anywhere.
Learnt some sort of lesson and this morning DIDN'T walk into work in 88% humidity.
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"First they came for trusts, and nobody gave a fuck, because why would they?"
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@cstross @Dr_Bombay open tabs you should be able to use OneTab across both, then export and import.
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@xahteiwi@mastodon.social the first three are all grammatically correct, but subtlety different. The first would generally be frowned upon by most style guides as it's passive, though could also be intentionally ambiguous (it is not clear who will do the clarifying.) The second puts emphasis on the action ('clarifying' verb). The third puts emphasis on the ambiguity of the point (you could also say "the point is unclear" with an implicit action.)
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@emmfoolery@dosgame.club if by 'computer lab' you mean the desk in the classroom where one of only two computers in the school lived, then yes. Also, again, it is the 90s in this scenario, so time travel is a given, but then that should also solve your missing disk problem. 🤙
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@BathysphereHat@mastodon.online I once got to request a copy of THE seminal (and unavailable) 1975 article from an author, and got to say "congrats on inventing a field" (even though I disagreed with their position.) 😄
There should be attack ads in this format playing constantly.
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@ombialik your profile only shows up as following 35 people? If this is a case and not a glitch, you need to be following hundreds before your timeline feels like a good version of other algorithm-based platforms. 🙂
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@neoluddite @decryption for some reason this made me think of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQRqWxI9pDw
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@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu @jcoglan@mastodon.social yeah. Hopefully it's a counter position where it's actually a great time to be learning things, because no-one else is, and pretty soon you're going to have strong differentiation!
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@appassionato@mastodon.social ok but if you're a bird you shouldn't stand on rosemary because it might give people ideas. 😑
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@virtualwolf@toot.virtualwolf.org @yayKM@aus.social can't quite commit to the shaving - I look like Pugsly Adams when I do. And this 5-week turnaround is kind of annoying. We'll see. I'm actually several years away from my scheduled return to long hair, so may get bored when it hits the awkward mop phase.
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@AncTreat5358@lgbtqia.space perhaps look into dishes that have different sour, bitter, smokey, and salty ingredients if you can have those? Lots of fermented things can be very interesting. Smoking - or different kinds of cooking, can have a lot of different effects on the texture and flavour.
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This is a beautiful and moving tribute https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/feb/13/my-friend-jon-has-died
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@troberts They sure do have integrity! After all, it was only a CIVIL court that found him likely to have, on balance, probably committed war crimes.
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@fesshole whenever I'm making soup I sing "Soup! There it is!" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-FPimCmbX8
Ewwwwwww. This is very bad.
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@wtrmt@mastodon.social @JulianOliver@mastodon.social oh I definitely think there'll be a crisis. Just not for the reasons laid out in this article.
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@troberts@theblower.au #2 was really good. #1 from Olivia Dean is... fine? Very underwhelming, it's 20 minutes later and I literally can't remember much about it (which may be a sign of age.) Got a non-offensive eighties vibe to it? The slightly boring part of eighties music. It seems the kids are very mellow, which is a shame.
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@andnull@social.nouveau.community also as others have pointed out genies live in 'bottles'. They're actually quite famous for going back in and not being free to do as they please. 🧞
Bioshock was an absolutely stunning game with mediocre gameplay. The terrible part though was that it presented one of the best steampunk settings ever put to screen, and it was profoundly wasted on a Randian hyper-violent repetitive meh-fest.
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Mothers, lock up your daughters AND your sons. 💅