⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

please, my wallet, she’s very sick https://www.lego.com/en-ie/product/venator-class-republic-attack-cruiser-75367

#LEGO #StarWars

MOC 51794 - The Card Players (Paul Cezanne)
#lego #art #paulcézanne #afol #afob #moc

A Collection of Imaginary Software

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/09/a-collection-of-imaginary-software/

#art #design #floppy

You heard that the BBC has set up a Mastodon server. Wonder what their thinking is?

@cubicgarden from their R&D organization is going to come to FediForum and explain what the BBC are doing and why.

If you are interested in media and how it relates to the Fediverse, you will want to come to this FediForum session.

More info and registration: https://fediforum.org

#bbc #fediforum #media #press #news #tv #radio

Seven-day-long battery life? Better security and privacy? Who needs that? It has an action button and USB C port that was invented ten years ago. That is the iPhone 15 in a nutshell. The whole thing (event) could have been an email newsletter. 🤡😂

Brandon spitting fire over on gamedeveloper.com

(Title: "The Death of Unity". Subtitle: "If you're starting a new game project, do not use Unity.")

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the-death-of-unity

And finally we have Apple saying it actually likes USB-C on its iPhones. Huzzah!
12/n
#AppleEvent #iPhone15

You know you’re getting older when the names of online services become nouns before you get around to finding out what they are.

The gates at the entrance to the church in the town I used to live in are falling apart. I know this because there is a GoFundMe appeal looking for... twelve thousand pounds... to replace the gates.

I cannot help but wonder if those people donating couldn't consider giving the money to a cause whose parent organisation doesn't have £10.3 billion of investments under management?

Just feels like there might be more deserving organisations, who, you know, don't have more than the GDP of Kosovo.

I love my smart TV. I love the way it takes a long time to boot up because it's trying to refresh the advertisements on the home screen. I delight in the way it randomly restarts because it's downloaded an update without asking me, each of which makes the TV slower and slower with every subsequent install. I adore the way it buries the apps that I want to use, and that I use without fail every single time, below the apps that it's being paid to promote and which I have never touched in my life and would never use without the cold metal of a glock pressed hard against my sweating temple. I am infinitely thrilled by the way the interface lags constantly, due to the need to have one thousand unnecessary animations rendered on hardware ripped wholesale from a ten year old phone. I feel myself borne aloft on wings of pure joy when I am notified that my data will be collected and analysed to determine my useage patterns. Even now I am writing this from a field of beautiful flowers and soft luscious grass as I lie and look up happily at the bright blue sky, smiling happily to know that this is the future of technology

Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination, report finds:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/11/voter-id-in-england-led-to-racial-and-disability-discrimination-report-finds

Science v. Religion

Heart racing, I run, the slapping of webbed feet just behind me. I stumble twice, but reach the car and slam the door, howling in triumph. Turning the key, I’m greeted with a dry clicking sound. The blood freezes in my veins. From outside the window, I hear a dark, throaty laugh.

A note to American authors, especially of fiction set in the UK :
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Using 'hard' as a signifier of alcoholic makes English speakers laugh because it is so stupid.

"Cider" is ALWAYS alcoholic, if it wasn't it would just be apple juice!

You don't call wine 'hard grape juice' or beer 'hard hopped malt liquid' so why do it for fermented apple juice? It just makes you look silly.

Just stop!