Congrats

See also cuktech.com

This clever Corvid I saw a couple of years ago had the perfect system figure out.

Drop a hard cracker upstream and wait for it at the little waterfall when it's nice and soft.

Second screenshot, “I’ve never met an artist so willing to ignore the continuity of her own show”. Unless the para is responding to a second person doing the Q&A alongside Moore.

I am so fucking tired of brioche being misused and that is probably the single worst, yet most infuriatingly pervasive example.

Some of the negative reactions to the Murderbot TV series have definitely been people who just make shit up to be angry about. The peak (or nadir, I guess) being someone trying to tell Martha Wells she wrote SecUnit to be female-bodied which… just no.

Trying and failing not to read a bunch into the rage-posting fan referring to Ron Moore as a woman because I’m sure they aren’t automatically assigning “terrible hack writer MUST BE A WOMAN” as an impulse

Also where I worked the political wing of reporting was completely detached from all the other areas: rodger.donaldson.gen.nz/archives/202...

But even when there were more lower/middle class folks and a plethora of political opinions, the only way to the editorial (and hence decision-making) positions was to be happy to run your paper in line with the owner's wishes.

I worked for a newspaper publisher in the 90s and back then it was an interesting flip from the era when journos could come from pretty much any class via an apprentice model to the expectation of being university-educated.

“At Newell's request, Judge Belinda Sellars, KC, didn't convict the executive.”

I love that your time with animals is divided between “ur-beasts that can hunt humans” and “smol beasts who cannot be frightened lest their highly strung hearts give out”

It also sustains the rationales for a lot of obnoxious and just plain unhinged behaviour by fans. “I made you rich so I am entitled to pester you, yell at do, tell you to hurry up and write before you die”

The least sexy men’s underwear

Well I just learned something about Discworld

being married is like being an anthropologist of one person in particular, and the field work only ends when one of you dies