The woodpecker is back!

From five years ago.

I am willing to swap them for a small country estate with a swimming pool. Offers in excess of 50 hectares.

A podcast? About TTRPG news? In this economy?

See you at 8pm UK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jex4NX5nqA

#MUTRT #5eFeed #DnD #TTRPGPodcast #TTRPGNews

Somebody lost a treasured item.
From Bsky:

Lost a very special Coraline Cat at the Kneecap Crystal Palace gig in London on Saturday night.

Incredibly long shot but means a lot.

Any and all help very welcome.

Pictured visiting Big Ben and at the gig.

Short version, any organization that cares about children and doesn't think that blanket bans are an effective approach, you can just go "Oh, they got money from Vodafone, so they're only saying what Vodafone want them to"

You don't have to read actual statements, just look at the graphic, wobble your head, and say "I'm right" 5 times.

Someone I know is in a WhatsApp for "Smartphone Free Childhood" - they're not fully won over themselves, but are into stuff like parents in a school talking about not starting the peer pressure race of smartphones way too young etc.

Anyway a lot of them are really happy about the UK age bar on websites.

And someone was sharing a graphic of all the children's welfare organizations who think it's a bad thing, actually, and will do more harm than good and how "COMPROMISED" they are.

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Sweet dreams are made of geese
Who am I to diss a beak
The shareholders counted the golden eggs
Everybody's looking for value

Some of them want to goose you
Some of them want to be goosed by you
Some of them want to accrue you
Some of them want to be a goose

Number goes up
Value goes up (Layin' eggs)
Number goes up (Layin' eggs)
Value goes up (Layin' eggs)
Number goes up (Layin' eggs)
Value goes up (Layin' eggs)
Number goes up (Layin' eggs)
Value goes up...

Extravagant birthday requests from the youngest: "We'll camp in grandad's field and I'll have a pot noodle with the knight riding a chicken on it"

There's a 20 page Google AI magazine with one of today's Irish newspapers.

The message is not that Google's AI is better than other AIs, which is what you'd expect from an advertising supplement. The message is everyone has to start using AI.

They must really be shitting themselves.

I'm going to sleep. If anyone is wondering why the #inkscape website is down, it's because it's being crushed by AI bots again, so I've taken it offline.

I tried to put in more ip-blocks, and then tried to install Anubis. But I'm not a sysadmin and so this is just taking time to do. Can't do much of it tonight (this morning) so I'm afraid it's staying offline.

Edit: Thanks for the help from @thomzane getting the server back online. It appears to have been Facebook attacking.

An independent test confirms Krita delivers 90% of Photoshop's power for zero cost. As Adobe pushes its $20.99 monthly subscriptions, open-source alternatives are absorbing budget-conscious digital artists. #Tech #OpenSource #Krita #DigitalArt #Software
https://blazetrends.com/open-source-krita-hits-90-of-photoshops-capability-as-creators-abandon-adobe-subscriptions/?fsp_sid=43382

@mullvadnet@mastodon.online @lostgen@det.social not all views are equal. When the views are pro ethnic cleansing then we are not on the same side. I do not fuck with fascists neither do I fund them.
I cannot give you any more money and I will now have to warn others.

That's absolutely sad to read. The CEO of @mullvadnet is not only financing the far-right Swedish Örebro party, but he even is their main financer. 70+% of their money is his donation. He is the reason why they go nationwide this year.

For obvious reasons i cease to trust this service. Also i do not finance parties that aim for forced deportations.

https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/

#Mullvad

"balloons are a harsh mistress"

Title of my essay about how going outside, birthday year balloons, and the quality of knots employed by balloon outlets don't go well together.

"Humans are to blame for climate change".

Really? Is a Bangladeshi seamstress to blame? Is a street child from a Brazilian favela to blame? Or perhaps a subsistence fisherman from Somalia or an elderly tribeswoman from Papua New Guinea?

Some quite specific humans are to blame.

I've decided to listen to Neil Ciciriega's mixes today, which means I'm putting my head in my hands and going "Jesus fucking Christ" every 3 minutes.

https://youtu.be/LDiqNEtf5Ew?is=tQC2DEp24HCCP1Fd

Ogryn is Darktide is such gaming comfort food at the moment. Big lad with a big club. Job done.

So it begins, taken from An Grianan Fort overlooking the Inis Owen peninsula. Donegal Ireland

#Weather #Thunderandlightning #Donegal

For (low effort) example:

#Softbank #GooseWasNotValued