@liamvhogan @daedalus @ben_hr Liam, you can’t go calling everything a “State” just because it’s got organized accounts!
*Liam points to church. “State!” Points to RSL club. “State!” Points to ant hill*
@liamvhogan @daedalus @ben_hr Liam, you can’t go calling everything a “State” just because it’s got organized accounts!
*Liam points to church. “State!” Points to RSL club. “State!” Points to ant hill*
I have fallen down the rabbit hole of watching sketches by Canadian comedy duo Wayne and Shuster (h/t @dexitroboper, this is all your fault)
A lot of us Gen X Australian kids will remember them from ABC TV afternoons in the early 1980s. Who else knew that those shows were repackaged sketches from as far back as the 1950s?? Certainly not I!
I don’t think enough of us raised in the Christian tradition think enough about how when Jesus was born, there was a king (Herod), but when he was killed, there was a Roman governor (Pilate). It was a ridiculously volatile time in Judaea and it’s just completely ignored by the gospels, in a kind of “don’t mention the war” way.
Oh, and 0️⃣ *clank*
@liamvhogan This is much more high brow than the silly singsong drivel waltz that I am assembling. But maybe we could make a B-side…
@liamvhogan Keep going and you’ll get a writing credit.
I’ve been composing a song while driving home today. Tentative title: “Clank! I Just Thought of the Romans Again!”
Please support my patreon so I never have to release it.
@mike @liamvhogan @allrite GDI finding old toots is impossible on this platform. It might have been BOMT (Before Old Mermaid Town) in which case I have zero chance of finding it.
@mike @liamvhogan @allrite Wait, we’ve done this already, let me dig up the toots.
@liamvhogan Can confirm; that’s all of them.
@annthurium Raccoons are the same species as red pandas. The different coloration depends on whether they were printed in colour or greyscale.
@mike @liamvhogan I am pleased to announce that I have accepted the role of etc etc
Tomorrow, 26 September, is World Cassowary Day https://www.internationaldays.co/event/world-cassowary-day/r/recle3rDO8SnYpkAi
@liamvhogan That said, it takes a special kind of paranoiac to balk at running a TOTP seed on your phone when you’ve inevitably already got an app for it for your many personal accounts.
@liamvhogan We recently rolled out MFA to our employees, and I was ready with a tub full of yubikeys for the people who didn’t want to use their own phones. I ended up handing out two.
I never watched The X-Files, but I want to believe [sorry] that there was an episode where Mulder was convinced of some paranormal reason that computers behave this way, and Scully was able to demonstrate that no, it was just some race condition between the network and UI threads. Please regale me with your lived experience of the series.
Computer-touchers! Do you believe, deep in your heart of hearts, and against all material evidence, that computers recognize and behave differently around different people? They’ll gaslight some users when they are alone; other people can coax them into weird modes just with a touch; they fear the presence of the sysadmin and immediately work properly again.
@daveirving @liamvhogan @stibbons @Sophie If you have a cordless mouse, I pity you.
@liamvhogan @stibbons @Sophie See OP about mouse cables for an authoritative ruling.
@liamvhogan I’m imagining that you have to attend an interview, and Patrick Stewart is there in a suit looking over your accounts and announces that you can have the chicken.