Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@social.cleverlibre.org

@morgfair Hell and damnation. At least an actual newspaper is covering it, which at least makes it harder for the industry and tame Feds to continue to say it's not happening.

And why is "Ohio" always synonymous with "industrial poisoning"?

@nitinkhanna @kjhealy

"America: Not yet so absurd that you can't even make fun of it."

I like that better than E Pluribus Unum. At least you know what it means.

@kjhealy British satirists must be weeping in despair by now. How do you parody any of this anymore?

@moh_kohn But mmmm! Tasty sovereignty! Come back for as many helpings as you like!

@harphat Well, mine appears to be back, none the worse for wear. Still assiduously avoiding the humane traps i've put out, and I've baited them with something I know he loves. Only caught the first time by sort of driving him into one, he'd avoided them for days before that.

OTOH for the most part I've been so busy that I haven't even thought about this until now.

Y'know what makes me feel old? A metric shedload of my best -- or at least prettiest and most remunerative -- work is in the form of Flash applications and animations. Nobody even has the flash plug-in anymore.

@opiejeanne @Popehat
Yeah, and a lot more obscure stuff. Hoogerbrugge's flash animations --now practically unplayable -- for example. Ditto a lot of RealMedia stuff. I have a CD full of that from a friend who produced it for UK online university radio and nothing that can even play it now.

@opiejeanne @Popehat I miss my turn-of-the-millennium web 1.0 content. Some of it is gone forever, even the Internet Archive doesn't have it.

@opiejeanne @Popehat You have no chance to survive make your time.

@Popehat Move "Zig"

@minouette Something about this fills me with a very particular fury. I often rack my brains to come up with some ingenious way to pressure China to clamp down on this irremediable horror.

@ottocrat Seemed likely somehow 😜.

Pure stream of consciousness here (probably to do with a particularly funny scene with George Innes as a very amenable railway engine driver), but if you haven't seen the 1975 BBC telefilm adaptation of Three Men In A Boat, dir Stephen Frears, screenplay Tom Stoppard, with Tim Curry and Michael Palin, well, do. I now find to my considerable surprise it's available on the Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/three-men-in-a-boat-1975_202102

Y'know what would be really nice? If those websites which give you a popup the moment you land on their page, got a report on how many users immediately closed the tab rather than interact with the popup. Especially if that number was a high percentage of all visitors. I'm doing my part.

@ottocrat Speaking of Brunel, don't know if this is quite your thing, but here's John Betjeman talking about the Great Western Railway. Rather a lot about Brunel in it. Something of a fave of mine.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0120330