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• Post #4495209

  A. was very supportive of my going on HRT. Her only worry was I'd be all emotional - and while I am a bit ;-) that part is fine What perhaps neither of us expected was the close parallels between her perimenopause and my HRT & shared experiences She's starting to fiddle with her treatment DIY style now (honestly the treatment from the NHS is just shite and so gatekeeper-y) & wants to watch me do my injection on friday :-)

• Post #4164899

  Your cookie banner is really fucking irritating without you getting cutsey with the option names......

• Post #4133005

  apparently Openai struggling with ad revenue... looking forward to product placement in LLMs: "ChatGPT - my car is broken what do I do?" "Well, first of all sit down with a nice cold Coca-Cola..." can't fail

• Post #3985442

  #photography #ulverston

• Post #3886819

  Currently re-reading the Wolf Hall trilogy. Henry VIII was a very trump like character- kind of fascinated that the vast majority of courtiers (ie people in his close orbit we know the names of) ended up executed. (& some that survived were executed by subsequent monarchs) The idea of being so lured by power that even knowing it's odds on you will be killed for it - it's somehow still worth having? can't really get my head around that

• Post #3739481

  this whole "you can't make jokes about someone who is dead" and in particular the tone of those posts indicate a very unhealthy relationship with death dying doesn't make you a good person (& goodness knows I can tell you - having been _right_ up to the precipice - I didn't sort my life out until after that!) dying is a NORMAL thing that happens to ALL of us (& everyone we know) death isn't a magic state of grace

• Post #2461854

  fed up of middle class white men opining about things that don't effect them "Oh I think Starmers doing an acceptable job in a difficult situation" NO he's waging war on trans people, non white people, disabled people, poor people, people with mental health requirements he's made our lives VERY much worse if you don't give a fuck about other people that's fine but do realise everyone can see that and values your views accordingl...

• Post #1632927

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116459560434179995 maybe *I* will review my position on the UK's claim to the Falkland islands...... (I mean...what? this has real "I'll tell the teacher you did a big fart" energy. Unless I guess he plans to invade somewhere (Falklands? UK?) to change things - which is not beyond the realms of possibility sadly )

• Post #1627029

  RE: https://mastodon.scot/@fionaorkneynews/116452914474424248 I visited the tomb of the eagles at the turn of the century - was January & I'm pretty sure I was the only tourist on Orkney at the time. Got to have loads of these sites to myself. I arrived at the seemingly random farmhouse with the tomb of the eagles and a chap came out to see me. I now realise that was Ronald Simison himself!!! he took me into his conservatory and showed a load of find. Then he said walk to a lo...

• Post #1496838

  I've always had a weird dysphoria about my male body hair - for a long time preferring a beard to having to shave but starting HRT prompted me to get rid of it & now, until I have the time/money for laser, I need to shave my face the safety razor is turning out to be quite good - now the "learning wounds" have mostly healed!! (Although shaved my legs with it - took 20 minutes to stop bleeding :-( ) pleased the HRT has, faster than expected, sorted out mo...

• Post #1496837

  transitioning didn't change my sexuality at all BUT it did make it make sense to me! in unrelated news - I bought all the rest of the Jemma Topaz books I didn't already have (and her new one!) https://jemmatopaz.carrd.co

• Post #1496836

  I mean our whole government are a complete vacuum - I'd accuse them of being power hungry but they are also so incompetent they don't seem likely to actually hang on to it - I presume they've settled for a few years of feeling important it's not just Starmer that needs to go - it's every single last one of them Didn't the Belgium's not have a government for a while - couldn't we try that?

• Post #1496835

  So the instance I’m on is super strict about blocking. Which is pretty nice in terms of lack of spam and harassment & nonsense. Just discovered that there is a list of filtered notifications!!! Sorry if you replied and I ignored you. You are likely in that list!

• Post #1496834

  so apart from the OG grifters (openai,anthropic,etc) and the spade makers (nvidia) - who is raking it in because they are using the "AI" that's leaving us all behind??

• Post #1496833

  trapped in a meeting (FOR THE WHOLE AFTERNOON!!!!!!) entertaining myself with selfies - I need to pay slightly too much attention to be able to read...

• Post #834454

  Supersilent box set (& beyond if we get that far) today https://bleep.com/release/76398-supersilent-1-12-box-set

• Post #834453

  RE: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/116300799324105148 I think the whole "young people are baffling" thing is a lot less there now than it used to be When I still drank the odd young person got "lectures" about this - including one poor young punk (With an ace mohawk) in a bar in Glasgow that got an extended rant about why him liking the pixies and other bands I had been into when they were new wasn't good enough ;-) poor chap

• Post #834452

  the whole "ai" race to IPO is very telling - take the money and run before people work out it's nowhere near as valuable as claimed (not saying it has no value - I think it will turn out to have but honestly - where are these companies or even people leaving me behind 'cos I'm not on the bandwagon - for a lot of people that like shouting at us all for not taking part they are suddenly very quiet about their amazing success.....)

• Post #834451

  saw a couple of clips of the HP thing - they've just remade it? with the same look, costumes, etc? and people that mostly look like the original characters? weird - all moral stuff aside (don't fucking watch it , don't give that bigot ANY money) - what is the point?

• Post #834449

  ok - quantiser is fully working! and I seem to be able to work again - bit of a mini burnout there I think - ugh NEED to get this bloody app out! but the end is in sight now modulate-able quantiser with custom scales IS as fun as I hoped. If you drive the notes really fast you can get some chip-tuney nonsense going on too! (when I come to a final tweak of control ranges might lean into that a bit more)

• Post #834448

  Was in two minds about project Hail Mary. But turns out Weir is a twat so I don’t need to think about it!

• Post #834447

  New Music "The other night, some what strangely for me., I awoke from a dream not knowing what it was about but instead filled with a strange sense of emptiness. I don't remember much of the dream but part of it took part in a field , filled with ceramic tiles. `the field was marked out in park of some kind. One of those dreams that leave you unsettled in the days afterwards - so I made this," https://soundcloud.com/junklight/an-empty-dream-in-the-field-of

• Post #834446

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116307692878307296 If only things that were entirely predictable, and a bit of planning and modelling of scenarios might have suggested were likely, didn't keep happening.... All our history books portray events as being instigated by Very Sensible Men - I feel like we need to revisit it all asking "actually - were they all fuckwits?" 'cos it would explain a LOT

• Post #834444

  God. Bored of trans people sniping it each other over on Bluesky This is why facism wins. They all absolutely despise each other but they don’t let that stop them from working together

• Post #684134

  Copied from Bluesky. This so captures my political feelings right now

• Post #654270

  found this interesting set of interviews/articles with or about Éliane Radigue (posted by Jez riley French!!!) https://theleafexplorers.blogspot.com/2020/04/on-eliane-radigue-as-usual-click-on.html I hadn't realised she knew Yves Klein very well (who's work I like very much despite an unsettling feeling that he's probably not that great a person - no evidence for that - just a sense)

• Post #654269

  ok - just found this in my old tracks. I've been meaning to do something with this for *checks notes* FIVE years!! just shoving it on soundcloud - it _might_ appear on a bandcamp release (the cover image is from this morning - I have no idea how my phone fucked the image up or why - but I rather like it - like when you used to get your pictures back from the chemist and some of them were like WTF?? :-) ) https://soundcloud.com/junklight/bright-landscape

• Post #654268

  water I #photography #ulverston

• Post #654267

  water II #photography #ulverston

• Post #654265

  oh what a surprise - spacex IPO is all smoke,mirrors and market manipulation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rS3fTbC7TE