ThomasW

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A brown fedora hat
A package of Finnish xylitol chewing gum or a Finnish chocolate bar
A spare pair of socks
A half used small hand sanitizer bottle
A random book
Bonus, if you are lucky: a half painted miniature

Not content with shooting children at school, America is now gassing them too!

And some think Europe is failing!

I just muted a certain 3-letter acronym of an US agency, and oh boy did it clear my feed… As i’m not an american nor do I live there, I do NOT want it to take over my whole bsky feed.

Auto-translation of news site: Storm Johannes overturned the Gävle goat. The Gävle goat has once again met an unfortunate fate.

Goat down! I repeat: Goat down! www.dn.se/sverige/stor...

No experience of that particular game, but in general the effect gets even better when you understand some French yourself, bc then you can formulate your own headcanon response in similar style

An alliance of all above

[ID: The Smofcon 42 logo. It is a stylised graphic in shades of green and yellow. In the centre is a flying saucer beaming up a silhouetted person stood on the ground. In the background is a large ringed planet, the outline of the planet encircling them. Across the top reads ‘Smofcon 42' and across the bottom upside down is ‘Don’t panic!’. END ID]

Stockholm here we come!

We’re at #SMOFcon42 from 5-7 Dec, with bids from Portugal, Poland, Canada, Norway, Scotland, France & Germany.
Ask #Dublin2029 questions at the Q&A (12.00 - 16.00 WET/13.00 - 17.00 CET on Sat) or join us at the International Party (from 18.00 WET).

Will we see you there?

Relevant, timely and thought-provoking (for me at least)

Yeah, i thought about that if a country has hyperinflation, the alcohol percentage can get into very hard liquor territory and beyond.

I was thinking along the lines: ”The Fed” (if american) or ”E.C.B. - European craft beer”, essentially playing with the nicknames and acronyms of central banks

Kinda relevant: which central bank or which country’s interest rate?

The lesson of genAI has very little to do with genAI.

The real lesson here is that as soon as your bosses found something that could approximate the worst possible worker in your team, they obliterated entry-level jobs.

It's not coming alive. That's nonsensical. But your bosses are already alive.

Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.

Spock holds a tricorder. “This whole planet is bullshit,” he says. Spock (c) Paramount. Probably, in an IP sense, but maybe not culturally speaking.

Ever have those days…?

That flight tickets are often cheaper than the same trip with train. We need carbon taxes.

SMOFCon is really good for those who want to know *how* to run a convention.

Election meme: 50.1 Everyone gets a puppy, 49.9 diarrhea forever

Everything feels like this now

How Finland has replaced coal power with wind in less than 10 years Wind power in Finland has more than doubled since 2020 to supply a quarter of the country’s energy.

Finland almost coal-free four years ahead of schedule. Coal power has dropped to less than 1% of its energy mix. Wind energy has more than doubled since 2020, now supplying 25% of the country's electricity while reducing consumer priceshttps://buff.ly/MOTqcuf
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selling memberships to 2026 yet?

the magical thinking about testosterone + estrogen is off the charts these days. the gender anxiety seething beneath the new right is unreal. they are frightened of the modern world--and of themselves. they might not like what they felt if they looked inside

www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-gend...

The next-next-next generation of #StarTrek will need to adjust to the fact that the Federation's model for "pluralistic democracy with moral authority" should now be the EU, not the US.

The plan is working. Boycotting Tesla is making right wing dipshits so angry that they are buying electric cars to own the libs. 😊

Uggi the dog and a copy of my book The Night Guest

I see Hugo nominations are open and people are doing eligibility posts and … I think The Night Guest is eligible for the novella category?

Anyway no pressure, just look at this pretty dog.

Now that corporations & entities are people, since you can run for US president if you were born in the US or were here when the Declaration of Independence was made, Canada is eligible to run for US president. So is Lake Michigan.

Somehow, Palpatine returned.*

[*No irony]

Inside me are two wolves: one thinks it is an ethics committee and the other wants a big nap.

Recent studies show that sea turtle populations are booming worldwide. Loggerhead nests off the northwest African coast: 35,000 from 500. Kemp’s ridley nests: 17,000 from 702, and a 2023 survey discovered 150,000 green turtle nests in New Caledonia. https://buff.ly/40AUae1
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Never Forgive Them In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...

Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.

www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

I see Yoon Suk Yeol has decided to move from the 'fucking around' stage of his failing presidency to the 'finding out'.