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Gavin Logan
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06How strange it is to be anything at all
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My kids are at summer camp and are going on a "shopping trip". The camp organisers told us they can bring up to £50. £50? My son is nine. I don't think I held a £20 note until I was 18.
From the people who brought you “is this barista flirting with me?” it’s “is this random text generator my girlfriend?”
Fudge you I won’t do what you politely suggested
Explaining alcohol to my children: “sometimes people take fruits or grain or roots and turn them into a poison that makes them sad or angry, but definitely stupid. And a lot of people like the feeling of being stupid. But it’s illegal for children because if you drink too much you die.”
Went from not knowing what a pinhole viewer was to building two in about half an hour. Should have looked out a window first though because it’s pure cloud for miles.
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@petrillic@hachyderm.io Time is long. Really long. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly long it is. I mean, you may think it's been a long time since Douglas Adams died, but that's just peanuts to time.
Silent Hill: Whitley Bay
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I can hear a Glaswegian teen say this to someone coming out of Starbucks
Any sufficiently bland library music is indistinguishable from a smartphone alarm
I would argue that they are not nerds, they are emotionally immature men, recipients of inherited wealth built on exploitation, cosplaying as nerds. For example, nerds are often intelligent.
I was at a parent's evening and said to a teacher that my son is interested in the facts about a subject but he may be less interested in the application of those facts. And my brain went "who tf are you to talk?"
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If I search "how to fix a washing machine" most, if not all, results are pages trying to sell me washing machines, the services of a plumber, or an article that looks useful at first but turns out to meander around anything concrete. Capital works like misinformation, to make it harder for us to find what we're looking for, or in this case, to alter the purpose of the web, to make it a shopping mall.
People be perceiving me
Despite having really low expectations, Obsession is a hell of a horror film. I feel like it's planted a parasite in my brain. If that sounds good to you, recommended.
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If the web is a democratic project, capital and LLMs are a force to undermine that. To the capitalist, the early days of the web, of any kind of computing that a person could create or alter themselves, were a kind of wild west, an unexploitable landscape. Automating this kind of work, and making that automation expensive is a way of "correcting" that, of literally seizing the means of production away from the riffraff.
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“I simply can't reply to each of you separately,” said the broadcaster, fighting back tears.
Capitalism is a virus from outer space
I think I'm turning into one of those EDC guys, which I think is the first rung to Doomsday Prepper or a "before turning the gun on himself" guy.
Some people can't imagine what The Great Filter might be. Look around you, what couldn't it be?
[Jon Spencer working in a pizzeria]: THERE’S 4 KINDSA CHEESE