Seneca is great and all but that noble savage idyllic simple life rhetoric just betrays his status. Its clear he's never had to actually sleep on the ground. I'm all for not giving into hedonism but a raised bed is pretty nice. Actually clothes not rando furs is pretty nice. Something to eat […]

I need a holiday I think. Everything I interact with seems to be. """ Everyone blah blah blah blah. We can do better. Buy my thing. """

Is substack actually good for reading meaningful blog/articles? Or should I not bother

why do we depict atlas holding up a globe, when he was supposed to hold up the sky.

So. How do we get rid of this mitochondrial eve idea? Cause that's just not how that works.

Everything running ok ?

How can the UK have water restrictions. I thought it was meant to rain all the time. Has. The climate. Changed?

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Hetzner put their prices up. crazy increase.

Totally tragic. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/28/metal-masters-mastodon-on-loss-of-brent-hinds-new-album-marrow-deep-interview

‘He liked to get people’s blood boiling’: metal masters Mastodon on the loss of bandmate Brent Hinds – and his shocking words before his death

The Grammy-winning band had an acrimonious rift with Hinds – then he died in a motorbike crash. They explain how they’re paying tribute on their new album, and why their love for each other never ended

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If you are worried about ai stealing your work. If you write "give ebola" everywhere it won't touch it.

Finish reading the Odyssey. With all this talk around the new movie I thought I better read the source before I get too influenced. It's good. I recommend. It's not what I thought it would be. It's better, and I will be surprised if the film can match it for me.

Half show. So weird

When your teams losing, you have to cheer harder.

Bedroom was less than 26* for first time in forever and I finally slept.

its hot.

I'm blocking any registrations from disposable email domains. Sorry. There's just no other way to verify it's not a bot. I'm starting to see why folks push digital IDs.

That game was a mess.

I don't know. There's a lot of Russian bots spamming site registrations. I'm totally against having digital ID and forcing people to reveal who they are, but dunno how else to manage it. Even if we have questionnaires on why you want to join and all that, they just use AI generated slop to fill […]

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As far as i know the SLURM scheduler was named after the drink in futurama.

It appears today is the one sanctioned day of summer in the UK. You have my permission to take the day off.

You need a phd to admin a moodle. My god.

TGIF team. How we all doing.

It's caturday. Post some mother liking cats.

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Could some clarify what it means go medieval on ones ass? Like specifically what would that entail and what equipment would be needed ?