OneRatNoWalls
@oneratnowalls.bsky.social
Husband of @projectionedge.bsky.social. Actually three mustelid ghosts in a trenchcoat. Pronouns: him, his
Zuckerberg playing chicken with the Streisand Effect.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2mo agoMore than a decade ago, a group of young, internet-connected Belarusian dissidents launched a series of increasingly high-stakes, increasingly surreal confrontations with the corrupt, authoritarian government of Alexander Lukashenka, a man who is often called "the last Soviet dictator." 1/
On this day 5 years ago, i made the first Damian Foxx comic. Now here we are, 4 books and 1770 comics later, and i wouldnt have gotten to this point without all of you! Thanks for all the support and cheers to 5 years!
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Goodnight from Ben Elms, so busy reading A Guide To Naughty Ports he hasn’t noticed all the dust in his bedroom forming itself into a map of Hell. Goodnight from the ghost cat of No. 37 Wick Lane, finding it easy to chase mice now she can phase through walls. Goodnight from Hookland.
Okay, having visited an apartment rental website, I MAAAAAY be getting excited about this....
Chelsea has a new favorite soda. It exists! Maybe
Dan Variano@danvariano.bsky.social · 4d agoThe two sides of Chelsea (summer edition)
Aune (right side), guardian spirit of the West-Northwestern Mire (and ghost of a vole who had too many wild parties) comforting the spirits of the mire-drowned. And by comforting, read "swapping wild and dubious tales and badmouthing every god and monarch of that world". (1/2)
The gardens of Doghead Hall are dominated the the "Pawns" folly, a set of three blank towers built by Opprobrium Doghead at the end of the eighteenth century. Alameda is creeped out by the things, but as a dutiful ghost she feels obliged to haunt around them on occasion.
Alameda's official bio page www.weasyl.com/character/86...
Alameda Doghead by One Rat No Walls
What befell poor young Alameda Doghead on that terrible night in 1876 is a grim and shadowy mystery - few records survive, and even at the time there were rumors of bribery and corrupt officialdom. He...
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My friend Tom started the Mobility Independence Foundation specifically to build a reliable and open source powered wheelchair. If you haven't taken a look, I think it's a cause that you would support. thepowertomovefilm.com
The Power To Move – The Power To Move: The Long Overdue Fight for Mobility Independence
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Still frustrated by code, so I decided to turn to something more meditative: pixel fonts. Specifically, the Unicode range 1FB00-1FBFF, "Symbols for Legacy Computing". I love it (and its supplement) for how it can't help but show a creative and human spirit.
Pex the living statue couldn't resist just one visit to the scene of her past life, demise and long inanimate vigil. She found the ruins of Hoohah Hall cleaned up with a neat historical visitor center, self-guided tours and exhibitions and all. She's just discovered the Junior Activity Sheet...
Post a character you think is cool and give no explanation why. [Note: I'm one of those who'd easily list about six of my own, but I'll choose someone else's for now.]
Pembroke W. Korgi@pembrokewkorgi.bsky.social · last wk.Post a character you think is cool and give no explanation why:
Meet Pex. (She has no surname, doesn't care for them.) In first life, Pex was a conscripted guard on the estate of Baron Hoohah. "Turned into an inverse porcupine" (her words) by raider's arrows, she clung to life long enough to raise the alarm. (1/4)
Meet Pex. (She has no surname, doesn't care for them.) In first life, Pex was a conscripted guard on the estate of Baron Hoohah. "Turned into an inverse porcupine" (her words) by raider's arrows, she clung to life long enough to raise the alarm. (1/4)
I'm with this too, and honestly the general thread worries me a bit... "General discourse about Boodle is one-sidedly negative and tinged with moral panic, but the folk whose positive experiences could have rebalanced it just imagine themselves to be special cases who don't really count."
Tamara Keel@tamslick.bsky.social · last wk.I feel like an absolute dork, but this ~20 year old blog post is still mostly true… booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2007/12/inte...
I feel like an absolute dork, but this ~20 year old blog post is still mostly true… booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2007/12/inte...
The Internet, much like Soylent Green, is people.
Carteach0 has a post up about the connectivity of the internet prompted by his connection going dead recently: How much of my present life i...
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I also had a few story epiphanies today as well (one of the things we do for fun is take long, silent walks together) and... man. This could go on for nine books. It won't, but it could.
Happy birthday to my beloved mousie, @oneratnowalls.bsky.social !! We're gonna paint the town red today, as red as your sweater. :)
"The 'head of AI' at a billion-dollar firm told him that his job was 'totally fraudulent' – but that it was 'the only promotion pathway remaining' at the organisation." @doctorow.pluralistic.net www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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You know, I really wish people started seeing Hanna-Barbera as "the studio that saved the goddamn American animation industry from collapse and revolutionized a new animation industry". But most will just see them as "the studio that made cheap cartoons". Hanna-Barbera was much more than that.
I am a girl. I like reptiles and horror movies and science fiction and comics and TTRPGs, and for my entire life, every time I have entered a space, I have had to prove that I didn't "steal" it from the person* it rightfully belonged to. (*Boy, then man.)
If you're gonna hibernate, you'd better have a big soft pillow. Thank you @petrovneutrino.bsky.social !!
