Piers Beckley

@giflian@techhub.social Hire a cleaner. My bedlinen gets changed every week, the floors are vacuumed, the surfaces are wiped, and what I get back in my time and mental health are more than worth the money. Not to mention if you live in a shared house: no more rotas for whose turn it is to vacuum or clean. The cleaning fairy does it all.

@jalefkowit@hachyderm.io My dad gave me a very similar piece of advice which I use regularly. Look to the left of you. Look to the right of you. Is there anybody else in charge? No? Then you are.

@jwisser@wandering.shop

• Groove Is In The Heart by Deee-Lite
• Mr Blue Sky by Lily Allen or ELO

@jwisser@wandering.shop Wake Up Boo by The Boo Radleys

RE: @Daojoan@mastodon.social

Boris Johnson.

@jwisser@wandering.shop NO! I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU’D EVEN SUGGEST SUCH A THING! …it’s much more fuel efficient to fire them out of the solar system and into the dark void between the stars.

@grickle@mstdn.social @Gargron@mastodon.social That’s good enough for me.

#1 with a bullet^W no, they don't have those on Antona 🙂

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Just up from a little nap. Can recommend.

Sixth most popular free fantasy action adventure?

I'll take that. 😀

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Publication day for The Mirrored Castle!

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Doing a Stargate Atlantis rewatch at the moment with commentaries, and I genuinely believe that if you want to create TV/Film on any level, this is the best training you could possibly have.

Currently watching the commentary for The Long Goodbye, and they're talking about the deliberate specific choices that were made by Torri Higginson, down to her *hairstyle*, so that you-the-audience would go back later and say "Oh. Yeah. Of course. Should have realised all along."

Beatles: The Meat

A Reverse Harem 60s Fantasy

Me: I wonder why the Beatles film Help! seems never to have been screened on television since I was a child. I recall really enjoying it!

Rewatch Answer: Brownface.

So. Much. Brownface.

Reminder that if you're on the fence about voting because your seat isn't a marginal so what difference will it make...

Voting is what turns safe seats into marginals. Do it for Future You.

@transworld@masto.ai

RE: @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

"Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem."

@cstross@wandering.shop I have about a dozen battered old paperbacks of those. They are *weird*.

The more I think about it, the more I think that the True Meaning Of Whamageddon has been lost Once you start deliberately avoiding Christmas songs, you're denying yourself joy. Klingons enter battle knowing they may enter Sto'Vo'Kor should chance go against them, and welcome the possibility. Would a true warrior be scared of a Christmas Song? No! They would embrace the battle! tl;dr - a Klingon would play Christmas music MORE OFTEN!

@andrewt@mathstodon.xyz I totally read it as polycule gift.

@pinakographos Interested.

@theropologist Are you… … are you..? … Garfield?

@BethanyBlack@mastodon.social Can recommend wandering.shop.

@emilybache@sw-development-is.social I’m a huge fan of TDD. But I still find myself, more than half the time, writing the code first. Don’t have an explanation for why - perhaps habit?