Leraje

Any hobbies down there in Somerset?

A.glass of wine with you Sir!

Hornblower is OK. I enjoy some of it but O’Brian has a knack for humour and tragedy thats mostly absent in the Hornblower series.

Favourites include Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series, Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy, Susanna Clarke’s Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell, Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings series, Ursula K Le Guin’s Hainish cycle.

Currently reading Le Guins Dispossessed.

Resist. Join a protest, help out with a campaign or org, pushback when you see it online. Everything, no matter how big or how small counts. It increases the net good in the world and it also helps your own mental health.

I use Metro (link goes to f-droid) which does something with lyrics. I don’t use that feature so I’m not sure if it searches for them or just displays them if they’re embedded in the file.

Good player though, doesn’t look like it escaped from the noughties. Local files only, no streaming.

For UK, Which.

As an atheistic Satanist, ceremony and ritual matters. They can be used to mark events or share community and the science behind their benign effect is substantial.

They don’t have to be long and drawn out. The collective I’m with (not CoS or TST) offer unbaptisms to help those who might have theist trauma for example and those last just a few minutes. Its what they can do that matters, not how long or expensive they are.

From the article OP linked to:

Behind the giant donation is Daniel Berntsson, founder and co-owner of the internationally successful IT company Mullvad.

“This is a donation from me personally,” he wrote in an email to Flamman.

Wikipedia article on the party he donated to. Started off as a quasi-Marxist, became red fash seems to be the summation.

Oligarchs, frustrated with dealing with their political sockpuppets, start just buying countries.

I’m not sure Jack Nicholson can only play themselves but he does seem to get cast as the unhinged character quite a lot.

Fork it, carry on with being FOSS for now, develop a few killer features that everyone will love that would take a small FOSS team years to develop. When it becomes the industry standard, make it closed source. A year later start charging for it.

Because they’re parasites?

I’m not sure the argument that they bring in money via tourism is accurate. No tourist comes to see them, they come to see the Palace etc. Tourists still visit the Palace of Versailles even though there’s no monarchy in France.

I mean, yes, I agree - don’t use them - but this is less an issue of stopping using Meta and more about worrying about who around you is. With this tech, you don’t need to be a Meta user, you’ll still be captured, stored, tracked and sold.

you would read it

I couldn’t make it through book 3 of that series. Oh hey, a new character - I wonder if they’ll rape/be raped by a close family member or die hideously? Maybe both?

Martin endlessly confuses unrelenting misery for an interesting plot.

1980’s Stephen King has entered the chat.

I switched from Bitwarden to keepassxc (pc) and keepassdx (android) and installed syncthing (pc) and syncthing-fork (android) to sync the db file a couple of weeks ago - all works fine, no dramas.

One of the most disturbing things about Blue Velvet is that Dennis Hopper got the part by telling David Lynch he had to play Frank Booth because he was Frank Booth.

Threads - UK based movie from 1984 which is a speculative fictional account of what would happen in the event of a nuclear war.