Good morning Mastodon. I trust Monday is greeting you with all the enthusiasm and excitement you desire.
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
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.
Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.