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@jalefkowit@hachyderm.io My dad gave me a very similar piece of advice which I use regularly.
Look to the left of you.
Look to the right of you.
Is there anybody else in charge?
No?
Then you are.
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Newest Book: The Mirrored Castle:
It me. In case you needed another data point.
RE: @Richard_Littler@mastodon.social
I, exceedingly wise:
But AI is diffferent. In this essay, I will…
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@giflian@techhub.social
Hire a cleaner.
My bedlinen gets changed every week, the floors are vacuumed, the surfaces are wiped, and what I get back in my time and mental health are more than worth the money.
Not to mention if you live in a shared house: no more rotas for whose turn it is to vacuum or clean. The cleaning fairy does it all.
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The more I think about it, the more I think that the True Meaning Of Whamageddon has been lost
Once you start deliberately avoiding Christmas songs, you're denying yourself joy.
Klingons enter battle knowing they may enter Sto'Vo'Kor should chance go against them, and welcome the possibility. Would a true warrior be scared of a Christmas Song? No! They would embrace the battle!
tl;dr - a Klingon would play Christmas music MORE OFTEN!
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- Groove Is In The Heart by Deee-Lite
- Mr Blue Sky by Lily Allen or ELO
#1 with a bullet^W no, they don't have those on Antona 🙂
Doing a Stargate Atlantis rewatch at the moment with commentaries, and I genuinely believe that if you want to create TV/Film on any level, this is the best training you could possibly have.
Currently watching the commentary for The Long Goodbye, and they're talking about the deliberate specific choices that were made by Torri Higginson, down to her *hairstyle*, so that you-the-audience would go back later and say "Oh. Yeah. Of course. Should have realised all along."
Boris Johnson.
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@jwisser@wandering.shop
NO!
I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU’D EVEN SUGGEST SUCH A THING!
…it’s much more fuel efficient to fire them out of the solar system and into the dark void between the stars.
"Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem."
Just up from a little nap. Can recommend.
Me: I wonder why the Beatles film Help! seems never to have been screened on television since I was a child. I recall really enjoying it!
Rewatch Answer: Brownface.
So. Much. Brownface.
Reminder that if you're on the fence about voting because your seat isn't a marginal so what difference will it make...
Voting is what turns safe seats into marginals. Do it for Future You.
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@cstross@wandering.shop I have about a dozen battered old paperbacks of those. They are *weird*.
@pinakographos Interested.
@theropologist
Are you…
… are you..?
… Garfield?
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@emilybache@sw-development-is.social I’m a huge fan of TDD.
But I still find myself, more than half the time, writing the code first.
Don’t have an explanation for why - perhaps habit?
Sixth most popular free fantasy action adventure?
I'll take that. 😀
The Crystal Sword is free till Monday: https://books.fatpigeons.com/b823fg88nx
Publication day for The Mirrored Castle!
Just $2.99 for your Kindle. 15,000 words of swordfighting swashbuckling adventure fun on an alien planet in the far future. There's also kissing. https://books.fatpigeons.com/eo8ynry965
Unsure if you'll like it? First one's free: https://books.fatpigeons.com/b823fg88nx
Beatles: The Meat
A Reverse Harem 60s Fantasy
After a few minutes disliking the end to the most recent Strange New Worlds episode (Level Five Transporter Accident) I thought about it and now think it’s a genuinely brilliant choice.
“I hate the puppet show! Star Trek is dead to me! Wah wah wah!”
“But it didn’t happen. T’Pring said it didn’t happen. You believe T’Pring, right?”
“NOOO! IT WAS ALL REAL!”