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Do customers actually like this?? I prefer to be completely ignored by staff and seek them out myself if I need help. Forced smiling and conversation is dreadful.

Don Quixotic

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

Anyway, maybe 2026 will finally be the year of Linux on the desktop 😂

My Linux laptops have fallen apart physically before the software was ever a problem. My current laptop is from 2019.

But I know what you're saying. My dad is going to get a new laptop because his won't update to W11.

I don't know what kind of money people are made of, but I'd rather get a few more years out of a perfectly good laptop using a different OS than spend $$$ on a new one.

As a Linux user, I politely disagree.

Of course, it depends on what you're doing. If it's word processing, spreadsheets, and internet, no problem. But people have to be willing to try a different OS from what they're used to.

I wonder if someone had a text-to-speech error...

I block them because they seem like bots to me. Especially if they followed without ever interacting.

Hey, a reminder that I’m looking for work. I’m an award winning writer and editor serving the community. My book Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction just won an Ignyte award! I’m looking for clients, and would love to work in narrative games.

Get in touch with me!

What's the issue with this? Other than the crazy price.

Legend. 😎

I was well over 30 when I wrote and published my first novel, and fully agree with you!

This is How You Lose the Time War limited edition!

They’re real! Limited editions of THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR, available soon!

About the resume, you might have a good job now, but the job market is volatile. Always keep one eye on other opportunities in case your current job goes bust. It's often easier to get a pay rise when changing jobs than advancing in your current job.

1. Maintain an exercise routine. Doesn't have to be crazy, but keep your body moving around.
2. Don't ignore health conditions. Things might start cropping up now. Don't let doctors brush you off.
3. Pick up a hobby if you don't have one already.
4. Keep your resume updated.

Hey. Stuff sucks, the suits behind this app are terribad, and shit just isn't gay enough

Now's a great time to support your indie trans authors

People are laughing at the aioli-scented book, but smell is one of the things that e-books can never give you: a core sense that evokes strong memories and emotions, a hunger for skinny fries and dipping sauce, a deep desire to visit your favourite eatery, and even a covid test

Nightwish. I would suggest Oceanborn and Imaginaerium to start.

Oceanborn is one of the few albums that I enjoy listening to with the songs in order, rather than on a mixed playlist.

I yearn for organisations that behave professionally 😭

Need a CEO who sits quietly in their office and releases boring but functional updates on what's going on in the company. Maybe do a photo op once in a while as a little treat.

Here are a bunch to get you started. If you are unfamiliar with @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social it's a digital magazine publishing short stories and poetry by Black SFFH authors for going on *counts on fingers* 10 years? Good lord. Co-founded it. Won a Hugo. Etc. go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p

In Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek, he notes that the potter’s wheel predated the wheel being used for transportation. The need for vessels was more urgent than the need for a new form of locomotion. It made me think of LeGuin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction:

There really is a George Orwell quote for everything right now:

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

An air purifier with a HEPA filter is excellent for filtering the pollen out of the air in your house.

Some people also benefit from wearing a respirator (P2 or FFP2 that fits well) outside when pollen is very high.

Basically anything to reduce the amount of pollen getting into the sinuses.

Map of countries that have recognized Palestine (the majority of the world). New Zealand has not recognized Palestine.

Maps without New Zealand (derogatory)

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

So they are something like a modern survey marker denoting property boundaries!

Luckily, these days if you go over the boundary, you will get into a legal fight with your local council or neighbours, rather than face death 😬

Unfortunately incorrect: this had nothing to do with parking and everything to do with a type of building creep.

When buildings were torn down and rebuilt, new builds often encroached and built over existing road infrastructure, narrowing the street's width. Sennacherib set up steles to stop that.

Te Pāti Māori speaking te reo Māori, an official language of Aotearoa NZ, during Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, in our Parliament, where they are democratically elected representatives of the people, should be celebrated as a signifier of progress and decolonisation.

That Labour geezer can hush.