Does anyone know whether this prolapt [1] is medically certified?
:-)
* Had a good night's sleep. So despite it being cool, grey and wet I'm having a great day.
* I'd like to apologise to fellow Brits for the extreme weather this summer. I've got the same problem as agriculture - difficulty recruiting casual labour in the present circumstances. I had to borrow some sidhe. 😃
@Gina Happy Sysadmin Day!
I have a joke about the technology book I spent five years #writing, but it's obsolete.
@buttstuf@tilde.zone When are you on #tilderadio?
UK Politics take
Pubs should fucking die.
Nightclubs too.
Replace them both with social gatherings that don't entail getting piss-drunk in public, like board game nights or something. Or arcade machines set to free play.
Obviously, not in the middle of an ongoing pandemic, of course. What do I look like, a fucking Tory?
My composition students' final projects: 10-minute podcasts on research topics they chose. So far, they're quite enjoyable to listen to, far more enjoyable than reading academic essays they would have written on their subjects. The podcast format really helped students grasp critical rhetorical principles. Also, maybe in the COVID19 I just miss human voices...
Apparently some "privacy" activist decided to finally do a radical privacy meetup against the Surveillance state but I read and says to join using ZOOM! LMAO
https://occupyoakland.org/event/oakland-privacy-fighting-against-the-surveillance-state-3/?instance_id=311632 @stimulator @thegibson #facepalm
For you convenience, here is a list of open source alternatives to Zoom:
https://alternativeto.net/software/zoom-cloud-meetings/?license=opensource
#pandemic Fellow Brits welcome to my life with depression 2006-2018. You do know (according to a sample of one practitioner) our mh system is 30 years behind the times?
techie (MIS)
pronouns: she/shes (a correctness see Federal Court Dictionary and OED).