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Alanna 🏴
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Steely Tran. Anarchist, autist, chipper shredder, feral cave witch. Venom dripped fresh daily!

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I'm so sorry, that's fucking awful.
November 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
("Live in 3 2/3 /4 Time" is the one you want btw)
November 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Yeah, I've ceded control in many an intimate situation, but that's never fucking happening.
November 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I'll take that as "no, Glenn Miller, due to cowardice."
November 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Don Ellis?
November 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I know absolutely nothing about hockey other than what I have seen on Canadian TV and that one time I did a show at Peterborough Arena and blew up most of a tannoy system.
November 30, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Also "wheel, snipe, celly!"
November 30, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Absolutely spectacular. Also.... **how are they getting that back?!**
November 30, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Bullied by my own Linux* installation. "We saw that thread complaining about still having to manually edit fstab in 2025, does baby need a timeout and a GUI?"

(very old heads may remember where "anything more than Vi for UNIX is for failures" came from)

*yes Richard, I meant "GNU/Linux"
November 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Are you not, aye?
November 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Always this. Horrible.
November 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Many people have speculated why so many developers and IT professionals prefer Mac for their personal machines and I think a lot of it has do with it consistently being able to perform basic everyday functions.
November 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"But you were playing it last night. I told you where it was, remember?"
"No."
"It's still loaded in the player."
"No."
"I saved the patch in SMB4K."
"No. You go to hell and manually edit fstab, like the old days."
"..."

*sound of Windows 11 starting up*
November 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"Well done, you have automatically detected and avoided the most fiendish hardware config issues. Now, let's listen to a song as a treat. It's on that NAS three feet away."
"You ask too much, lady! The seeming! The seeming! The barrier between worlds grows thin!"
November 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Reposted by Alanna 🏴
When you say that we don’t need to increase defence spending. This is who you’re hurting
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
"Headlines show shares dropping drastically in companies that manufacture handlebar moustaches and desert boots and also the publishers of the successful series 'Life After Divorce.'"
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Support ur local artisanal *checks notes* manufacturer of cluster munitions.

Um.
November 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Alright, and the continued employment of Adrian Chiles.
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM