evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

@Wildheart_Baby Everything driving me mad atm. I can't bear to read any more news today. I've been driven to drink.

It's Snowpy!

#MeanwhileInCanada

Things we didn't do:
- Start the fire
- Shoot the deputy
- Steal the cookies from the cookie jar

Things we did:
- Tried to fight it
- Shot the sheriff
- Put the sham in the shama-lama-ding-dong

Things we will do:
- Survive
- Rock you
- Walk 500 miles
- Walk 500 more

Things we won't do:
- Get fooled again
- Back down
- That

Things we will never do:
- Give you up
- Let you down
- Run around
- Desert you

(Oops:
- I did it again)

I occasionally still pop over to The Other Place.

On the whole it just reiterates why I moved - I have to focus on the few accounts I want to catch up on because the rest is *argh* - but sometimes there is something delightful.

I don't think Ben Cameron is over here, so I just want to point people at this amazing axolotl plushie.

It is SOOOO cute.

#plush #toy #axolotl

https://www.doodlesbyben.com/axolotl

2015 musk: AI is the biggest potential threat to human life, we must be very careful with it
2023 musk: it is important that we let the AI become racist

Mal wieder einen Porzellanladen zerdeppert? Grund genug, ein Versteck zu suchen! Ich hätte da ein paar gute Ideen. Und ein paar schlechte.

It's astonishing (i.e., not credible) that they only just noticed. Where have they have been? The man's been a clamorous, thundering bucket of clanging narcissism and incompetence for two decades at least. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/04/hes-gone-full-trump-tories-turn-on-boris-johnson-over-partygate?CMP=share_btn_tw
#borisJohnson #Trump #partygate

New guide to "Finding Undocumented APIs" by @Leonyin at @themarkup – looks useful for internet studies researchers as well as digital reporters!
https://inspectelement.org/apis

Just added to this resource for our data journalism students at @kingsdh: https://github.com/jwyg/awesome-data-journalism/

You didn't ask for this, but let me tell you that Quake 1 runs at over 2000 fps these days.
#quake #retrogaming

Computer problems are recursive. As soon as you gain knowledge that is sufficient to solve your previous problem, you'll start using computers in more obscure ways and start getting even more obscure problems as a result.

I'm continuing to put my favorite comics up on Mastodon. Enjoy this helpful guide to bird photography.

I’m watching ‘Why Women Kill’ and frankly, I don’t need this kind of encouragement.

A funded PhD to investigate the use of ARGs for archaeological storytelling!

(and yes, *alternate reality games*, not augmented reality)

https://www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/postgraduate-study/research-postgrads/pgr-fees-funding/big-smoke/

#PartyGate being back in the news has reminded me about when my mind wandered from the Downing Street garden party to the Garden of Earthly Delights, and insisted I made this.

#SueGray #UKpolitics #art #PhotoShop #Bosch #silly

We might need a bigger vault. 🤔

Coworker is a #crossstitch fan.

I remember the olden days before social media, when most Internet communities were built around message boards.

Both lightly-moderated and heavily-moderated communities were fun for different reasons, but what I discovered over time was that if moderation falls below a certain point, the result is always pedophiles and Nazis.

As I predicted, #Twitter is basically a few pedophiles short of being the next 4chan.

It's #WorldBookDay in the UK! Obviously focused more on reading books, but here's a graphic on what you're picking up if you sniff them 📚https://www.compoundchem.com/2014/06/01/newoldbooksmell/

My husband was given a bird feeder with camera for his birthday recently and it's proving very delightful...

the truest meme I have ever seen