rooney (not the famous one)
harmoniousanger@zeroes.ca
<p>After decades living in Victoria (yes, I know Maщa), I found myself transplated in 2025 to Port Alberni. I expect the reasons I stay may differ from the reasons I came here. Plus, the scenery is epic. Epic.</p><p>Obligate cyclist, as not all disabilities are visible or obvious. Post-covid complications are interfering, and I ain't calm about that.</p><p>I have a working memory as often as not. This occasionally gets me marked as a dangerous radical and less frequently a hopeless romantic.</p><p>I hit linux on the way to learning vector spaces, and now I can't grok why MS software is used anywhere.</p><p>Mad Skillz enough to make adults swear out loud, but acutely aware that "specialization is for insects."</p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/CBS8" class="mention hash
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Post #3642920
Irregular reminder that no officer is innocent. #ACAB
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Post #3525129
Discussing cinema with Jeff today and the question of exposition came up. Quite a few horror movies work *really* well when nothing is explained and you just have to roll with it (e.g. Alien) and quite a few are made worse by attempts to explain (his example: Back Rooms, which I have not seen (and Jeff still thinks it's a good movie despite it)). So, the question comes: is it a hard and fast rule, "don't do it", or is it an expert rule, "don't do it yet"? I figur...
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Post #3360903
@jwz@mastodon.social @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer You're going to hate the piece that Doctorow released today. Spoiler: he's lost the plot.
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Post #735106
I missed monsterdon and now have &gt; 2500 new items...