The year is 2027, and the war that America launched on Canada rages on. Our first attempt at economic conquest failed in 2025, when they formed close ties with Asia and Europe to stave off the starvation effects of our tariffs. In 2026 we turned to outright military attack, in an attempt to turn them into the 51st state. We threw the first punch. In imperial.
It’s now 8 months into the conflict with the Snow Mexicans, with no end in sight.
Below is a letter from an American soldier on the front lines of the 49th parallel…
I went through some old photos of mine, and got reminded of this “fantastic phenomenon”:
1 program måste fortfarande avslutas:
(Väntar på) explorer.exe
Spelar upp utloggningsljud…
Klicka på Avbryt om du vill stänga programmet som förhindrar
omstart i Windows och stäng sedan programmet.
[Kräv omstart] [Avbry
I went through some old photos of mine, and got reminded of this “fantastic phenomenon”:
1 program måste fortfarande avslutas:
(Väntar på) explorer.exe
Spelar upp utloggningsljud…
Klicka på Avbryt om du vill stänga programmet som förhindrar
omstart i Windows och stäng sedan programmet.
[Kräv omstart] [Avbryt]
Basically, I was shutting down my netbook, but the shutdown was delayed, due to the system waiting for a program to finish. The program in question was explorer.exe playing the logout sound, and it was usually quicker to just wait, than to “force-close” it …
(I finally got myself together and chose “no logout sound”, but it took a while, due to not remembering it until I was about to shut down the computer, and then forgetting about it until the next time I shut it down.)
I know - the message is in #Swedish, so I’ve done my best to translate it to #English:
1 program must still be terminated:
(Pending) explorer.exe
Playing logout sound…
Click Cancel if you want to close the programme that prevents
Windows to restart, and then close the program.
[Require restart] [Cancel]
While going through some old diaspora* posts, I came upon a ten-year old post where I'm trying to remember a specific song, but couldn't figure it out. The song I linked to then wasn't it.
I did another search now, and it turns out that seven years after that post somebody uploaded the song I was looking for! "Epilogue", from the Clown EP (1996). I think I borrowed it from the library?
(via Twitter, from reddit; here’s what it’s supposed to look like: [1, 2])
(A bit over nine years ago, I posted this on diaspora*. I joined Friendica as of this year, and that post doesn't seem to have federated to here, so I'm re-posting it. "Because I can.") #repost
A bloke I worked with in the Post Office, was mad into McCarthy, Half Man Half Biscuit and the Wedding Present and the tapes he did for me became the soundtrack to my time trudging round my walk as a postie or flying round on my bike like a maniac.
McCarthy had the best political lyrics. Red Sleeping Beauty is one of the three best Thatch songs (along with Shipbuilding and Tramp The Dirt Down). I still wonder that they remain so relatively unknown.
When I was putting the record back in its sleeve, I noticed it had a stamp on the inside. My extensive research tells me that 376 Pitt St, Sydney is no longer the home of Ashwoods record store, but of Silver Fox massage parlour ($100 for 30 mins, apparently.)
The only thing that miharo song got wrong of course was "living at the bottom of the world" #TeReoMāori has it right with "the word for North meaning 'down' and South 'up' 😀
Finished #reading Terry Moore's "SIP Kids" yesterday, and finished both volumes of the "Motor girl" series today.
SIP Kids was a very light-hearted read after the Rachel rising series. If it hadn't been part of the Humble Bundle, I'd probably just lent it from the library instead of owning a copy myself.
Motor girl worked with other issues, but no Rachel rising horror. It's about a war veteran, and the PTSD after having done three tours to Iraq, and coping mechanisms, and now weaving actual reality with old reality. And fighting off government-but-not-government experiments. And UFOs. And then an aunt we've met in an earlier story has a supporting role in all of it.
So, as I suspected: From a #federation standpoint, posts originating from Friendica is probably the most effective? (The goal being posts that reach — and can then be re-shared on — both diaspora*, Friendica, and Mastodon.)
The Mastodon-Friendica connection works fine, but Mastodon posts reshared via Friendica doesn't seem to reach diaspora* (at least not within a reasonable time span 🤷).
Finished #reading Terry Moore's Rachel rising series (it, too, was part of the Humble Bundle).
I kind of stopped counting all the dead people after a while. And that was just the first volume.
I'm not much for horror, but quite a lot of it just went past me. Until the last volume. I could have finished it yesterday, but I had to take a break.
So. The story. It's biblical. Years of revenge, on a god-forsaken scale.
And in the middle of it all, there's a nice, non-violent, throwback to an earlier story.
xkcd alt-text: I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express.
Ett drama som utspelar sig 8 maj 1938, under Adolf Hitlers statsbesök i Rom. I ett övergivet hyreshus möts hemmafrun Antonietta och den ensamme radioprataren Gabriele. Den oväntade vänskap som blommar upp dem emellan förändrar deras liv för alltid.
Finished reading Terry Moore's Echo series, which was part of the Humble Bundle I bought a month ago.
When science out of curiosity leads to science for the better good but is run-over and exploited, and "just because something is possible, doesn't mean it should be done", and military who "just wants to one-up the other guys (consequenses? huh?)", and there are other things in life that hold value.
Do you feel like you no longer want to use services or pages based in the USA, maybe you can find an European alternative here. I am using a couple of them myself already (pCloud, pCloud Pass, Mastodon).
I finished re-reading the Strangers in Paradise series "yesterday" (a.k.a way past my usual bedtime 🫣). I think the last time I read them was maybe 20+ years ago? 😬
Can't really tell whether they've aged with dignity or not, as they hold sentimental value for me. I enjoyed re-reading them, though. I borrowed the first volumes from my library — we had a separate comics library! now it's just a (still very large, though!) section of one of the other libraries — and then got all of the albums, one or two at a time, as gifts. There's quite a bit of violence in them, so I don't think I'll let my pre-teen niblings read them for now.
Even though I have the 19 volumes standing on my bookshelf, I figured "why not throw money at electronic things?" — and now I have 26 additional things by Terry Moore, of which (as far as I can remember) I've read none before?
I read them on my e-reader, which is much more portable than the physical paperback copies: easier on my hands, and with the option to zoom. 🤗 👵🏼
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I finished re-reading the Strangers in Paradise series "yesterday" (a.k.a way past my usual bedtime 🫣). I think the last time I read them was maybe 20+ years ago? 😬
Can't really tell whether they've aged with dignity or not, as they hold sentimental value for me. I enjoyed re-reading them, though. I borrowed the first volumes from my library — we had a separate comics library! now it's just a (still very large, though!) section of one of the other libraries — and then got all of the albums, one or two at a time, as gifts. There's quite a bit of violence in them, so I don't think I'll let my pre-teen niblings read them for now.
Even though I have the 19 volumes standing on my bookshelf, I figured "why not throw money at electronic things?" — and now I have 26 additional things by Terry Moore, of which (as far as I can remember) I've read none before?
I read them on my e-reader, which is much more portable than the physical paperback copies: easier on my hands, and with the option to zoom. 🤗 👵🏼 My Kobo Libra H2O doesn't have memory space for the whole Humble Bundle at the same time, so I just transferred the SiP series. .pdf's definitely take up more memory than .epub's. 🙈
Now, to keep reading Terry Moore, or alternate with something else before the next series?
What happens when two comics artists ‘meet on the page’ to explore the tragedies of the Israel-Gaza war? Art Spiegelman, best known for his Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust memoir Maus, and Joe Sacco, author of bestselling graphic reportage Palestine…
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