evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

One of Enid Blyton's darker books

Hugely excited to bring you a preview of Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch. Words crafted by Gabrielle Kent and I, and illustrated by Paul Kidby.

Words! Pictures! Oh my! https://terrypratchett.com/discworld/preview-tiffany-achings-guide-to-being-a-witch/

OH MY FUCKING GOD, TEAM. I am calling it: there's life on Europa. https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-113

I was always on the fence about the idea that Sunak was bad at politics, but it takes a special kind of negative talent to be criticised by Ford for relaxing regulations on car manufacturers. #UKpolitics

My anemone's anemone is my frond.

On Hold, listening to tinny music.

Robot Operator: We apologize for your wait, but we refuse to pay our Operators a fair wage, so never enough people are working here. Instead of accepting the blame, and fixing this, we tell the few people who work for us, they are simply not trying hard enough. Your wait will be 30 minutes to talk to an Operator who is about to cry, because everyone has yelled at them for having to wait so long. REMEMBER YOUR CALL IS VERY IMPORTANT TO US, but not in any demonstrable way.

I'm at that age

Another week I'm aiming to “get through”. I worry I'm going to “get through” one week after another until I'm on my deathbed. Would be good to pause and actually enjoy one or two weeks on the way.

Rishi Sunak helping the young

@SwiftOnSecurity on my new hire onboarding training deck I present I have a slide that just says:

“Dance like nobody is watching, Slack like one day it’ll be read aloud at a deposition.”

This is a huge benefit of working from home and it needs to be trumpeted from the rooftops. Any company that forces workers back with one side of their face and claims to be caring about the environment out of another should be called out.

Never do something so terrible you get Elon Musk to defend you.

keming: (n) what happens to words when your font has poor kerning

@bartek @tryst @SwiftOnSecurity
VINCENT: You know what they call a foot massage in Paris?
JULES: They don't call it a foot massage?
VINCENT: No, man, they got the metric system there. They wouldn't know what a foot is.

The existence of a Barbie Mount Rushmore implies the existence of a Barbie genocide and a Barbie settler colonialism. I have no idea what to do with this knowledge.

#Barbie

Went for a nice coffee with a friend this morning. Walked home and the weather was pleasant, and people I passed were friendly, and I followed a really cute curly-haired waddling dog for a while, and I was reminded of Kurt Vonnegut's urge to notice when things are good.

So, aye, hope you're all as well as can be this Friday.

#nature #photography #flowers #drawing #sillyScribbles

Once you open WireShark you realize all these machines are fucking eachother all the time.