Craig Russell

A crap mask

Why does this vendetta mask have an accountant’s hair cut?

Figured it out on a dog walk...

An earlier (3 chaps back) incident happened without clear purpose, meaning the motivation for this scene wasn't clear.

Characters aren't furniture, they can't be moved around without a reason.

I'd forgotten that. Now I know what's happening and more importantly why

On advice I’ve sketched out the scene. Helps to see it more clearly

I’ve got a scene. I know how it begins and I know how it ends, but gaaad it’s a struggle to write.

Words are dripping out agonisingly slowly.

A sentence a day is still progress though right??

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A ceiling

Another ceiling

Morning. Here’s some ceiling photos I took a while ago.

Guess where they are?

This was great 👏

This writeup illustrates clearly why "distributed systems" are highly vulnerable when so many supply chains lead back to the same supplier.

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Incident.io tracked 1.5 years of person-time responding the Monday's AWS outage. Of course the true cost across affected organisations is much, much, higher.

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Some people happen to stop aging and live for ever

Democracy may become more digital, but it's direct participation that would be revolutionary, not that we vote with our phones.

Nation states have had their time, but I don't think a "global government" is their natural successor.

I like this but don't fully buy into it.

IMO if it's sustainable it stops being capitalism, as capitalism is inherently unsustainable.

YouTube video by Big Think Why 2025 is the single most pivotal year in our lifetime | Peter Leyden

We are on the cusp of a new type of society

Financial Capitalism → Sustainable Capitalism
Representative Democracy → Digital Democracy
Nation States → Global Governance

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Whoever you are, my one #Canadian reader, I love you! 🇨🇦

Seems to be working, she’s fell asleep with them still going off

For my human ears they’re not especially loud here, but must be terrifying for a dog’s hearing range

My dog wearing headphones

Noise cancelling headphones while the fireworks are going off

It’s been in my TBR pile for a while. I’ve felt I need a run up to get into it!

I read End Times and wanted to go deeper

Thanks 😐

Books

Choose my next read
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Me holding a big mushroom

Found a monster bolete

a man in a floral shirt is smiling with his hands on his shoulder Alt: a man in a floral shirt is smiling with his hands on his shoulder

Ohhhh! I sold 2 more books on KDP last week 📚

Agreed. Sent the Greens a few quid ‘cos good politics is hopeful politics.

This is where The Booker Prize nominees write: from kitchen tables to a cemetery bench From kitchen tables to bare desks (and even a cemetery bench): 12 writers from the Booker Prize 2025 longlist on their favourite writing set-ups

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A cake 45 x 45 =2025

1980 babies, this year your #birthday is mathematically unique

#cake #genX

Mandatory government IDs are common in many countries. They’re useful, reliable and help to deliver better public services.

But they will do nothing to stop illegal workers in the UK.

This is a good idea, badly sold.

Today we decided that if teleporters existed people would definitely piss through them

What Entropy Can Predict About the Future of Authoritarianism - Dame Magazine “And now we must act in complete unity, strongly against anyone who is trying to shut down our strength, the unity of our nation!” The crowd of thousands gathered, against the backdrop of a grey sky i...

"If you can recognize what it takes to disrupt a functioning system, you can see that these systems, regimes, and their political leaders are vulnerable to collapse."

Today @katelovesmath.bsky.social uses physics and science to help explain our political moment with a dash of optimism.

If for nothing else, we need answers to this question to hand so that when crises occur so we have choices about how we respond – rather than merely “do the same and hope”