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alexanderhay

@alexanderhay@mastodon.social

#Writer of #horror, #fantasy and #scifi #fiction. #Shortstories and (eventually) #novels. Dank Goblin. 3,605th most popular account on Mastodon. Will talk bollocks about #Metal and #Warhammer all day. #WritingCommunity

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alexanderhay, to uk
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Good riddance, you vile little shit.

"May 24 (Reuters) - Britain's Communities Minister said on Friday he will step down as a member of parliament ahead of the July 4 general election."

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-communities-minister-michael-gove-step-down-mp-2024-05-24/

RustyBertrand, to random
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Earthquake!

alexanderhay,
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@RustyBertrand Literal or metaphorical? (If the former, hope you're OK, etc.)

alexanderhay, to Intellivision
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To fully understand the takeover of , imagine a hollowed out corpse, piloted from within by a armadillo, devouring the dessicated remains of its former rival.

Anyway, the shitposts on Atari Age should be a sight to behold.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/23/24163176/atari-acquires-intellivision-amico-console

alexanderhay, to news
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Grab your toasters, adepts! This is going to be 01000111 01001111 01001111 01001111 01001111 01001111 01001111 01000100 00101110 00101110 00101110

https://youtu.be/yGly_YNyEDY

qburns, to random
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11-year-old me and my best friend from down the street just put down our joysticks to high-five each other
https://mastodon.social/@verge/112491429963919174

alexanderhay,
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@qburns Indeed, but note that they didn't want the Amico...

alexanderhay, to london
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Hope there aren't too many pubs and off licences on Hodge's walking route, or she might end up seriously way-laid!

(This ghastly character is both a cynic and a moral entrepreneur, as well as a mean drunk, btw.)

"‘Sorry, no one is in’: few are at home for ’s ‘kleptocracy walking tour’

"Campaigning Labour MP knocks on doors of wealthy homes bought by foreign leaders who are subject to sanctions..."

https://web.archive.org/web/20240523123508/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/23/sorry-no-one-is-in-few-are-at-home-for-margaret-hodges-kleptocracy-walking-tour

ploum, (edited ) to random
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The kind of professor I’m trying to be at university:

EDIT: just to clarify, this is a screenshot found offline, not from one of my student. I’m more direct as I tell my students that "piracy is sharing knowledge and sharing knowledge is ethical and what I’m paid to do so please use libgen.rs and sci-hub"

alexanderhay,
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@ploum I for one am in awe at their professionalism! Not only did they tell their students which sites to avoid, but also gave the URLs just so they could put them on their block list! A true gentleman.

GossiTheDog, to random
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Google search thinks you should use glue to stick together a pizza as its AI is trained on Reddit, where 11 years ago a user called “fucksmith” posted suggesting it was a good idea.

alexanderhay,
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@GossiTheDog AI is essentially shitposting with all the fun taken out.

alexanderhay, to news
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is a weasel, and not even a very good one, but Starmer is both soul-crushingly dull and an utter shit.

alexanderhay, to news
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Labour party hacks inadvertently reminding us that things DIDN'T get better despite Blair's messianic flourishes.

alexanderhay, to UKpolitics
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By the end of this, Larry The Cat will have gone through more PMs than 'Boris' Johnson has had mistresses.

alexanderhay,
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@recantha Larry will last us all. He is the Great Political Survivor, especially when compared to Sunak and Truss.

alexanderhay,
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@elmussol I'm more concerned that they will all fuse together into a giant super-bastard, a shambling mass of blonde hair and wretched fleshiness, destroying all in its parth.

I hearby christen it the 'Boggoth'.

alexanderhay,
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@ferryoons I think Larry's got the advantage now, because any potential 'Big Dog' conquests will, effectively, be partaking in necrophilia at this stage of his life.

alexanderhay, to uk
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Remember that scene in Wall-E where the humans change the colour of everything, but it all remains the same? The UK is about to go through a similar process.

Anyway, the shit-throwers will be turned on full-blast on Keir Starmer, so that, at least, will be fun to watch.

ThePlant, to uk
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election announcement at 5PM!

HERE WE GOOOO

alexanderhay,
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@ThePlant Sigh. More like HERE WE WENT/

Lazarou, to random
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"Parliament will be dissolved"
"A Hung Parliament"

The violence within the system......

#GE2024

alexanderhay,
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@Lazarou Whenever I hear 'Hung Parliament', I think of a never-made Robin Asquith sex comedy called "Confessions of a Westminter MP", where he whips his honorable member out, and the Permanent Under Secretary for Women's Knickers purrs: "Ooh, now that's what I call a hung parliament!"

jdkiser, to linux
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You get spied on by Microsoft, any asshole in the world knows what to do: you get a Distro with a 25 year reputation, an indestructible economy shitbox laptop, you update once a week and that's your base, get me? That's your fortress of fucking solitude. That puts you, for the rest of your life, at a level of fuck you. Somebody wants to install malware, fuck you! Own your laptop. Have a couple flatpaks. Dont drink. That's all I have to say to anybody on any social level."

alexanderhay,
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@jdkiser I demand that the term "indestructible economy shitbox laptop" becomes common parlance.

shansterable, to technology
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Following a bunch of techies on Mastodon be like:

I am a run-of-the-mill Android-phone-Windows-desktop-Gmail-user but now I'm in the process of transitioning from Gmail and using Duck Duck Go to research how to set up a Linux desktop.

Oh, and also now Signal-curious.

What is this place? Some kind of privacy cult LOL?

alexanderhay,
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@shansterable That had better be a Thinkpad you're typing on!

alexanderhay, to microsoft
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Oh, fuck off.

"'s will be inside , and other , games: new features will search your inventories, offer tips and guides..."

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsofts-ai-will-be-inside-minecraft-and-other-xbox-pc-games-new-copilot-features-will-search-your-inventories-offer-tips-and-guides

alexanderhay,
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@IMYdev Given that there is no discernible benefit, they're just trying to screw even more data out of us, for something we've already paid for!

Lazarou, to random
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Microsoft are incredible, people already hated Windows 11 and now they've got this 'Recall' function which just grabs a snapshot of everything you're doing on your machine and letting whoever gets lucky to have a look too.
Somebody burst that Silicon Valley bubble, please!

alexanderhay,
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@Lazarou If I don't need it for work, I won't be using Windows after 10. Linux, you sweet, sexy little thing!

alexanderhay, (edited ) to ai
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"wants to please the user," said today in court. And in so doing, he raised the main problem with . They are not designed to give you the answers you need, but the answers you want. And if that doesn't alarm you, then you're part of the problem.

alexanderhay, to news
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If you want to smoulder with rage and righteous indignation, by all means watch the live coverage of the and its findings.

"Victims cruelly told they had best treatment."

Gross negligence on a hideous scale, and yes, multiple governments helped bring this disaster about too.

Over 30,000 people infected. Over 3,000 already dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peWGECv0RPQ

media_dept, to Spotify
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I'd appreciate if you could share this around. As someone opposed to for a dozen reasons there was only that was semi-ethical & gave musicians a fair deal. Bandcamp is under new ownership, had big layoffs, changed their terms & are starting playlists (likely to fill with AI music?). Thankfully coops such as Mirlo offer a place to share our music that doesn't simply enrich dubious tech giants.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mirlo/mirlo

alexanderhay,
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@media_dept I note with some amusement that all the Bandcamp nut-riders have suddenly achieved en masse radio silence. For all that, I hope Miro is a big success.

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