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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law)

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 2h

That sounds vaguely obscene, and if there's one thing I cannot stand, it's vagueness. (Dean A. Grennell) 3:O)>

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 14h

"Writing of such quality is wasted on a mere wastebasket; it should be saved for the document shredder." (A fanzine, back in the last millennium.)

Or the Raymond Chandler version: "I dropped it in the wastebasket, not having a trashcan handy." (Marlowe, I think.)

3:O)>

(Yes, I'm up really late.)

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 15h

Increase the pressure on them, maybe the GOP will go "Pop!".

3:O))>

MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 15h

I aim to please, so 🦆

MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 16h

<Rattle of penny in cup>

Hope that helps. 3:O|>

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 16h

Please, don't inflict that on innocent hardware. 3:O(>

MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 18h

Yes, but all the dissolved CO2 may have "interesting" effects.

What's the LD50 like for Aspartame, Acesulfame-K and "Enzymatically Produced Steviol Glycosides" anyway?

(I _am_ joking...) 3:O)>

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 1d

UK energy secretary Ed Miliband has approved Tillbridge solar, a major new 500MW solar farm in Lincolnshire.

It's the 10th nationally significant solar farm he has approved since taking office, bringing the total to 4.2GW.

Decision here:
infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/wp-content/i...

infrastructure.planninginspectorate.gov.uk

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 1d

Pondering the equivalent Loki rules. I think Rule One would be "never use a contraction if you can help it when Loki is speaking. He's an eternal deity. He's got time to say the whole word. Also he's fancy and pretentious."

LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 1d

Wile E Coyote's rules were both spoken and very specific.

The Rules:

1. The Road-Runner cannot harm the Coyote except by going “beep-beep!”

2. No outside force can harm the Coyote—only his own ineptitude or the failure of Acme products.

3. The Coyote could stop anytime—if he were not a fanatic. (Repeat: “A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.” –George Santayana)

4. No dialogue ever, except “beep-beep!”

5. The Road-Runner must stay on the road—otherwise, logically, he would not be called Road-Runner.

6. All action must be confined to the natural environment of the two characters—the southwest American desert.

7. All materials, tools, weapons, or mechanical conveniences must be obtained from the Acme Corporation.

8. Whenever possible, make gravity the Coyote’s greatest enemy.

9. The Coyote is always more humiliated than harmed by his failures.

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 1d

"Ulver laughed. 'It looks,' she snorted, 'like a dildo!' 'That's appropriate,' Churt Lyne said. 'Armed, it can fuck solar systems.”
― Iain M. Banks, Excession

Exactly what STING does to Shahed/Geran drones. 3:O)>

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 1d

Well. Things are pretty bad for the current regime. Look who they've pissed off NOW. (Watch to the end, it's not just footage from Portland. Surprise musical guest!)

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 1d

Or the Lamson-Paragon tube...

Sucks for those Working From Home, of course.

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Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 1d

It's amazing how many other contexts you can find in which to use the ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN line "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand."

Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 1d

Investors are betting big bucks on the idea that AI will create an explosion of leisure time...e.g. it was a key part of the public rationale for the massive $55bn takeover of video games maker Electronic Arts. But are they right?? (short thread linked to my column today www.ft.com/content/4011...)

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 1d

With sneakernet as the preferred delivery method.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 2d

Link's perm ban is wrong and should be reversed.

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 1d

I try not to use Google at all, especially following their enshittification with AI (though the relentless adverts and paid-for entries in search results started the rot).

Bing Translate for the usual stuff (pity it won't do Latin).
DuckDuckGo for searching.
Google Maps as last choice for planning.

MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 1d

The devil is very definitely in the details. 3:O(>

1) Replicate to hot standby datacentre (>100km away).
2) Incremental backups of critical data to magtape at both sites.
3) Monthly backup of essential data, also to tape.
4) Avoid Microsoft s/w!

It's not cheap, and the cost escalates very quickly.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday to the US Navy.

And in particular to the captain of the USS Missouri.

Who, when Cher walked out on deck in this, not in the jump suit they'd been promised, went:

"Ah. Fuck it. YOLO."

And later almost got stripped of command for it.

youtu.be/9n3A_-HRFfc?...

Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time (Official Video)

YouTube video by Cher

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creeping deadthoughts @allwrongthink.bsky.social · 1d

good morning

Darude - Sandstorm (Bard Hamelot Medieval Remix) [Bardcore]

YouTube video by Bard Hamelot

www.youtube.com

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 1d

This moose has done Disaster Recovery tests, and it was hard enough when you were talking gigabytes on magnetic tape at 6250 bpi and physical tape movement to an offsite store - the current data volumes mean continuous replication over gigabit links, and that reduces the number of generations kept.

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, but I remember the old Retrospect software (for the Mac), and its tagline (from memory): "In order to move forward it is first necessary to back up."

These days the problem is there's SO MUCH data that backing up (to a reasonable depth to recover from ransomeware) is more than they can afford.

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 1d

It's all of us, so you're in good company.

My goodness, that's a HOT performance! 3:O))>

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 1d

BRMB - I can't remember if it was always on in the machine room at Dunlops, but it was definitely on the tape operator's boombox (out of office hours) at Tricorn House (my second job). Tony Butler was _very_ easily trolled if I remember correctly.

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MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 1d

...so I apologised, disconnected, and dialled again (with the same result, but a more suspicious operator). I thought about this, then dialled the operator and explained I was having problems calling 424 2665 and could they try it for me? They did, got 999 again and "Yes, that's the problem I have".

MacAbre, Strange & D’Sturbing (Attorneys at Law) @cadburymoose.bsky.social · 1d

This moose took the phone number with him when he was forced to move house. OTOH[1] I can remember a friends parents number: 424 2665, which no longer works due to exchange replacement. Also I remember dialling that and hearing "Emergency, which service please?" due to an exchange fault...
[1] Hoof

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