@sbisson With that number in the name we'd have to assume the 'F' stands for 'Fahrenheit'.
Well, I guess that was the last working day of my fifties.
@peterw I misread that as involving around 30 women, which intrigued me as to how deep & meaningful it could be, but also as to how loud it must be.
@writingslowly I know, right? We didn't fight the Punk Wars for this!
(I actually really liked them. There was just a tad too much soloing and grimacing for my taste. The fact that the lead guitarist (also lead singer) is a woman makes the soloing and grimacing unusual, which in itself is sad, of course.)
Big Thief were good, if tending toward the prog at times.
Finished reading: Against All Things Ending by Stephen Donaldson 📚
Not going to say much about this here, as I’m already well into the next (and final) volume, and they’re very much a single story.
Books 2024, 12
@sbisson Have they added threaded replies yet?
@hollie I’m dancing barely perceptibly sitting here thinking of it.
@jsnell Good to see you using the correct spelling of 'theatre'. Enjoy your time in my homeland, and I'll see you on the stage just down the road from here in a couple of weeks.
@adders I saw ‘Stanley Cups’ and thought, ‘Is that a tennis tournament?’
Great sense of relief this morning. Starmer’s speech makes me feel like it’s the early days of a better nation.
Well, let’s hope this exit poll is something close to accurate. Labour landslide, as the whole country was hoping for. (What do you mean, not the whole country?) Me, I’m not counting any chickens. At all. I have no chickens.
Andy and Jamie walking out to Centre Court, and the BBC are treating like a final. Quite rightly.
As we settle in for the long night ahead, John O’Farrell’s piece from last weekend is worth a read: Are you suffering from symptoms of hope? Here’s how to cope with the prospect of a Labour victory.
@adactio Though none of the books visible in your photo seem to be about the British Isles.
@jsonbecker Heh, thanks for all that. I may or may not check it out. I think I found it slightly frustrating to read about it but not know what it was.
Almost as if you were subtweeting the novel. Or reminiscent of the kind of Facebook post where the person just says, “Well that was annoying!”
@jsonbecker But what was the book? Who was the author? It sounds fascinating.
@jer_gib Well yes, this might encourage me to do exactly that.
I keep thinking I should write about the current state of what we are calling AI. Trouble is, I still can’t quite decide what I think about it. Or why it makes me feel the way it does. Or even what, exactly, that way is.
Currently reading: Beyond the Light Horizon by Ken MacLeod 📚
Not so much currently reading as nearly finished. The final volume in Ken’s excellent trilogy, and looking forward to seeing him at Worldcon in Glasgow in August.
@JohnPhilpin That’s a great piece, thanks. I ‘m not familiar with Gallagher.
@yorrike This is where we have to be careful about numbering: Disney have started counting from the Christmas special, so I assume when you say episode 2 you mean 'Space Babies'? Whereas here in the UK, 'Space Babies' is episode 1.
Either way, I'd recommend carrying on at least until UK episode 3, 'Boom', which is written by Steven Moffat, and is excellent. The following one, '73 Yards' is, if anything, even better. In my humble opinion, of course.
@JohnPhilpin I think that one would have been more obvious to me as a newspaper, certainly.
Or we have words…
And you can always use both.
@JohnPhilpin I see that, but it doesn’t help much in the other direction!
@odd I was just trying to find that, but I couldn’t. I remember seeing something to the effect of ‘Speak Selection’ somewhere, but can’t find it.
@JohnPhilpin My emoji-blindness is affecting me here. The Apple pepper-pot widget? Torch widget? The second makes more sense, but it doesn't really look like a torch.
Hmm, copied & pasted it into a DuckDuckGo search, which suggests it's a 'rolled-up newspaper'? Doesn't look much like that to me.
Emojis are stupid (G,D, & R).
@odd Yes indeed.
@Miraz I'm more than slightly shocked to realise that, even though it's gibberish, I understand on a second reading what they're trying to say. I may be wrong, but:
We've been trying different things. We don't waste money. We care about people. We get genetic material from Aotearoa. We work with other organisations, and sell our stuff around the world.
Even if that's right, though, it still doesn't tell us what they actually do.
Doctor Who discussions are going to get confusing. Seems Disney are calling the Christmas special episode 1, ‘Space Babies’ episode 2, and so on; while the BBC call ‘Space Babies’ episode 1.
1 & 2 have their moments, but it doesn’t really get going till 3, ‘Boom!’, when Moffat takes over.
@mmetcalfe Where is that?
@amerpie I’m not sure I’d say common, but they’re not unknown. You used to see a big jar of them behind the bar in old pubs. Don’t think I’ve seen them anywhere else, and I’ve never seen them with added colour.
@wfm Fantastic news! What a debugging job those NASA people have.
@kimonostereo Honestly, this kind of BS is why I sometimes think the whole ‘intellectual property’ idea should just die.
@petebrown On hundred percent agree. I didn't experience this myself when my kids were young, but the idea of it — of parents behaving like that — horrifies and disgusts me.
What are they like at the school play? "Act better, Tyrone! You missed your cue!"
@JohnPhilpin Left for back and right for forwards, of course.