Bring back þe letter þ. How can you þrow out þe only rune in your alphabet?
Also bring back ð. But ðis time, except in very common words like þe which look nice þe oðer way round, don't treat ðem as interchangeable. Use ð for þe voiced one and þ for þe unvoiced one, like ðey do in Icelandic.
Enoȝ is enoȝ.
Fact check... false
thanks to ai, saying you're "dating a model" is a lot less likely to impress anyone nowadays
Whatever they take away from us, they can’t take our algorithm-chants.
(@mags 😅)
Here's the popup
The choice is obvious :ablobcatpopcorn:
Them: Can you confirm you have no more than 15 personal electronic devices in your carry on?
Me: (excitedly infodumping) Well, it really depends what you consider to be a device. Many of these computers themselves contain multiple smaller computers. Consider these microSD cards (waves a small anti-static bag around), each of which has a tiny ARM processor - designed by a trans person from the BBC Micro team, if I might go off at a tangent for a moment. Or the battery controller chip on the LiPo pouch protection circuit, which significantly reduces the probability of a thermal excursion. And let's face it, nobody wants a spicy pillow in their lap at 30,000 feet-
Them: Just say yes. (Pleadingly) Just yes. That's all I'm asking. I'm begging you.
Off to set up for the Gaussfest. See many of you tomorrow.
The list of #queer #LGBTQ #Trans friendly charities that I'm urging you to donate to you, who are accepting donations (these links go to their donate pages):
Galop: https://www.galop.org.uk/ways-to-give
Gendered Intelligence: https://genderedintelligence.co.uk/donations
Not A Phase: https://notaphase.org/?form=donate
Trans Actual: https://www.peoplesfundraising.com/donation/support-transactual
Trans Aid Cymru: https://opencollective.com/transaidcymru/donate?interval=oneTime&amount=20&name=&legalName=&email=
Trans Safety Network: https://ko-fi.com/transsafetynetwork/
Umbrella Cymru: https://www.umbrellacymru.co.uk/homepage/donate/
RE: https://morehammer.uk/@Lizzie/117364968415231148
#emfcamp folk, a reminder about the #tetrapod giveaway! You can enter until 23:59:59 on 31st October. Details are in the thread nested below. Please do share!
It can be different! For our #40C3 from 27-30 December, the Call for Content is open: talks, DJs, exhibits, punk, performances. The Call for Participation ends on 9 October (23:59 UTC) https://events.ccc.de/en/2026/09/12/40c3-model-citizens/ #Hamburg
Today I'm at the 9th E.DSO – EE-ISAC - ENCS – #ENISA Cybersecurity Forum
“Holding Together in a Changing World: Grid Cyber Resilience and Preparedness” - and as I have nothing to present, I might liveblog a bit in this thread. https://www.edsoforsmartgrids.eu/content/uploads/2026/07/9th-e.dso-ee-isac-encs-enisa-cybersercurity-forum_draft-programme-structure.pdf
the new TLD applications have been published and we were the only ones to apply for .meow so we can move on with the evaluation 🥳
https://newgtldprogram-aps.icann.org/applications if you wanna check them out for yourself :3
Relative to my age the Fediverse is full of...
Imagine the ASOS "hack" turns out to be viral marketing.
They announce a press conference, and instead it's a fashion show with a catwalk and all their newest lines. The ASOS H4CK3D Event. Fashion: Decoded.
BBC forced to cover it live.
I just saw a video of an AI executive saying that people will connect their brains to the cloud so they can have 1,000 times more thoughts.
Neurotypical people. Please listen to me. I promise you, with all the ADHD in my body-
You really do not want 1,000 more thoughts.
You may think you do, but you extremely do not.
the most important part of #Unicode history is when a mouse fell out of a light fixture and got added to the count of members present at a Technical Committee meeting (9 Nov 2016)
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16325.htm#:~:text=Mouse%20now%20present
Never give up.
Somewhere out there is an old manor house on the moors that needs a new shadow lurking in the attic, drawing travellers towards their romantically terrifying doom.