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RickiTarr, 5 days ago to random

Alright, I'm not normally a person who talks about my dreams, but I usually have cinematic dreams and this one didn't have an ending, and I need your creativity.

I dreamed I was working at a Mental Health Institution. We were having some kind of government inspection, it seemed really off, they were paying special attention to certain patients. I inadvertently found out that they were from some shadowy organization, and they believed that certain people who had schizophrenia and delusions were actually seeing into alternate realities, and they were planning on taking them for training of some kind. It surprised me so much, that it actually woke me up, and I couldn't finish the dream. What would they use this for and why? Help me finish this in my brain!

atomicpoet, 5 days ago to random

What video game is better?

RickiTarr, 7 days ago to random

It still tickles me that the TERFS and Transphobes tried to claim Terry Pratchett as their own, and everyone who actually knew him, including his daughter, and co-author Neil Gaiman, was like WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, you couldn't be further from the truth.

skribe, 10 days ago to django

Django peeps. I want to link my languages table (English, French, Chinese, etc) to the word classes (Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, etc) table. It would be a many-to-many relationship, but I'm not sure whether to use a join table or the many-to-many model. What's the most Django way?

#Django #Python #SQL #Question

michael, 11 days ago to random

The more I’m trying to learn Arabic the more I’m becoming convinced that whoever came up with that script, did so with the express intention to mock learners.

How else can you explain that ج ح and خ all make very different sounds, whilst the sounds for ث and ط are essentially indistinguishable 🙄

RickiTarr, 12 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to random

Why do you follow me?

liztai, 13 days ago to random

Lol I am still using a pre-ban Huawei phone. That thing must belong in a museum or something.

If you are concerned about me being spied on, I am already being spied on by American corporations so I gotta be fair on the Chinese too 😆

NickEast, 14 days ago to hiking

#SilentSunday #Hiking #NaturePhotography #Nature #Photography
#May
#Southern #Finland #Åland #Hammarland #Sålis #Observation #Tower

@nature @photography @hiking

RickiTarr, 23 days ago to random

I'm going to start writing all my posts on old English, and daring people to correct my grammar and spelling.

vicgrinberg, 24 days ago to random

I worry sometimes about the impression (sad? desperate?) my "I'm in city X, does any mutual want to meet up?" make.

But hey: I am building my village. A village makes me happy.

My villages have always been digital. The geographic neighbors are there by chance and they will disappear when one moves.

The digital village? It's still here. From 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago. We spend days walking Berlin or London. They stay in my guest room. And it starts with: I'm in city X, do you want to meet?

NickEast, 24 days ago to books

Reader/writer question: In fiction what are some of your favorite worldbuilding details, the kind of thing you think is underused and underrated?

@fantasybookstodon @reading @writingcommunity

#Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity
#Mastobooks #BooksofMastodon #Bookwyrm #Bookworm #Book #Books #Bookstodon #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing

Australian prime minister labels Elon Musk ‘an arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’ (www.theguardian.com)

Australia’s prime minister has labelled X’s owner, Elon Musk, an “arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law” as the rift deepens between Australia and the tech platform over the removal of videos of a violent stabbing in a Sydney church....

skribe, 1 month ago to python

Python folks: in random.choices, does it always return the k value of choices? ie.

names = random.choices(names_list, k=20)

It would return 20 random names from names_list (including duplicates). What if there's not enough names in names_list?

I have some code that regularly returns less. I'm trying to determine if it's a Django problem. Similar (non-Django) code doesn't have this issue, hence my confusion.

#python #Django

davidaugust, 1 month ago to screenwriting

Finished writing a comedy sketch, send it off...

...and what do you know: turns out there's a comma missing.

Ah, the beauty of catching it after the email has gone out.

#screenwriting #writing #sketch #comedy #SketchComedy #writer

NaraMoore, 1 month ago to writing

#Writing

The problem with serials is your characters may develop habits halfway through you weren't expecting.

Even monkeys fall from trees

kcarruthers, 1 month ago to random

At the docs. Having a stress test when you walk on a treadmill but do they take account of one’s fear of treadmills? No they don’t. 🤦‍♀️

cstross, 1 month ago to random

Senior Conservative party officials worked on plans to hand over its entire membership database for a commercial venture that promised to make tens of millions of pounds, the Guardian can reveal.

Leaked documents show Tory executives discussed exploiting members’ personal data to build a mobile phone app that could track users’ locations and allow big brands to advertise to Conservative supporters. The party would take a cut of sales.

Conservativism eats its own!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/04/tories-planned-to-make-millions-from-members-data-with-true-blue-app

RickiTarr, 1 month ago to random

Tell me a silly/funny childhood story!

I'll start:

One time in Sunday School, the teacher was talking about the difference between humans and animals, and mentioned that Animals had Tails and humans didn't. I let her know this was not true, because my Dad had a tail, just in the front, instead of the back. The teacher was silent for several seconds, and tried to correct me in a church appropriate way, but I doubled down, and insisted that my little brothers also had front tails too. This got so heated that the teacher had to go get my parents to take me out of Sunday School.