Christopher

Alysa Liu stole her hairstyle from an Australian

(I stopped being religious about paying with cash wherever possible a year or three ago, and carrying is a lot more fiddly now one of my banks has gone branchless, and the other is harder to get to because I'm working more hours)

Intermittent eftpos issues continuing in Perth. Issues at The Good Guys and Farmer Jacks yesterday, then today I had to pay for petrol with a bank transfer (but FJs was fine).

Watch out on your way into the shops if you don't have alternate payment methods on hand…

One of the most egregious Oscar snubs in history is Clueless. Inventive, great script, tight as FUck, incredible casting, holds up, AND Mona May should have won for best costuming

If you haven't heard our OST yet, here it is! 🎵🎶

The vibe we were going for is "Otherworldly" and "Positive Depression" meaning tunes that you can still dance to even if you're really depressed. lol

My game, my soundtrack. SOUND ON 🔊

#indiedrop #indiegame

Indeed!

But I'm also a bit disturbed by the outcome of the Lauren Mastrosa case, which involved a book about consenting adults engaging in a debatably questionable but not uncommon kink, so that one's two hops removed from any actual harm so far as I can see.

Nothing *too* specific. suchnerve on twitter expressed similar a few days ago I suspect in response to a vague uptick in people complaining about other people watching shows with terrible protagonists.

your irregular reminder that writers (also actors and viewers!) don't always morally agree with everything their characters do, and depiction is not the same as approval.

I'm a bit disturbed that someone's facing jail time for the behaviour of fictional adults—there weren't even any fictional children involved, never mind real ones.

And there’s this: bsky.app/profile/iwil...

Conservative Georgia town pushes back against ICE detention center: ‘We are Americans after all’ Social Circle, a mostly Maga town, builds strange bedfellow coalition against plans to convert warehouse

"The Social Circle city manager was contacted by ICE...

“They asked me to turn on the water,” he said of a 1m sq ft warehouse nearby that the government plans to use for locking up as many as 10,000 detainees.

“I told them I’m not going to do it,” he said...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

uuugh. Why oh why do air fryer catalogue listings not give internal basket dimensions? I want to know if my crockery fits!

Yeah it's really good for things like throwing together a tiny albeit brittle parser for data from a known source in a few minutes that would've taken me an hour or so otherwise, especially if I can give some implementation guidance ("use this stdlib call, don't allocate anything")

There's still time for feature requests!

I gather it's being made in Poland, and is a pretty accurate depiction of landlord DIY over there 😂

This looks fucking hilarious

This kid rules so fucking hard.

You’re welcome!

Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal - Wikipedia

For almost all CDs (with the exception being about 20 million nonstandard CDs that Sony BMG sold between 2005 and 2007¹, but even those are fine on anything other than old computers) you don't even need to be that fussy about what you play them on :)

¹ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BM...

I think @jeanette555.bsky.social 's been getting back into RSS feeds? Blogs are returning.

(so no, getting stuff on physical media is not in itself a guarantee that the evil corporations can't steal back your shit, much as audio CDs not having DRM is. But it's the lack of DRM that saves you, not the medium.)

I get why Flash had to die, but also look what they have taken from us 😭

Argh, stop conflating ownership with physicality. Just give me my DRM free files, that I can keep forever (and backup!) without taking up shelf space.

(also y'all know that there's been software on CDs that phones home to license servers since the dawn of the CD, right?)

haha YES.

I should do that.

the code I wrote a week ago does a Blocking request to POP the Rightmost element of a list, so the error handling code and comments are littered with BRPOP, which I keep reading as Britpop.

There should be a bonus medal for dropping a perfect f-bomb faster than the NBC censors can catch it

Israel plays fast and loose with conflating itself to the Jewish people. But that's the thing - EVEN IF THEY REPRESENT ALL JEWS, AND EVEN IF GENOCIDE WAS THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE US, IT'S STILL WRONG.

The end.

That's the point.

orange cat dipping his foot into an upside down water bottle lid full of water

a little cup?? a little cup of water for Donnie??

oh my god these people on Love Is Blind being like “Florida has a great education system” and then inaccurately explaining menstrual cycles and fertility lmfao