So when I told my mum about me I wanted it to be a little of an ice-breaker for her to brainstorm a new one with me. I had some ‘soft’ requirements - appropriate for my age, something I could shorten and greek-ish (deadname and my sister’s names both are, not like we have any familial link or anything). I’m the eldest of 2 and for years we have known her name had she been a boy but for some reason we both thought my other name was what she got called. Turns out it wasnt true and my mum said “oh no you were going to be called x”. And when I heard it I realised it fulfilled all my requirements, kinda suited me and it just felt nice, like it was mine to reclaim.

(Btw, username unrelated lol)

Still a scary amount being suckered into horrible rhetoric of sexism, transphobia and other viewpoints that only serve to reduce their own freedoms and quality of life.

Having agents.md is a silly criteria… One project I’m with is doing GSoC this year and another org recommended using agents.md to tell the AI that will inevitably be used that it needs to tell the person that AI copy paste will not be accepted and please don’t bother unless you can demonstrate understanding of what you are doing.

30 mins early!!! I can’t even imagine being 10 minutes late all the time, thats just catastrophic.

I still disagree that this requires a special privilige within a house. The people of the house can be of whatever religion. If we were to go down a road where the house was made up of people where we needed a particular makeup to represent different views then sure, like if we had to have a guaranteed population of gender, LGBT+, race and other protected characteristics but to just say religion needs special representation makes no sense.

Err, ok? Separating religion from politics is hardly a new concept though? I’m not saying religious wishes or groups should be ignored, I’m saying they shouldn’t have a special and separate right to everyone else to be present in a lawmaking house.

I know we don’t have a separation of church and state but the idea of religion being involved at all in politics is abhorrent to me. Sure, maybe they could have some kind of group that is consulted by members when it comes to deciding on legislation but the idea of them having direct voting powers in what should be an entirely secular house seems very wrong.

One of my greatest shames was making a full english breakfast pizza. I was being sent to Basildon for a whole week, week after week for and endless project I was doing and I think the project and the boredom of that Holiday Inn was making me insane. The hotel had one of those machines that make you a pancake. I ended up getting a few of those and assembling them into a pizza base, adding some tomatoes, bacon, sausage, scrambled egg, hash browns, mushrooms and black pudding to make it look like a pizza and then tucked in.

Honestly, it was fantastic, my colleagues never looked at me the same way again though.

“I think this House, Parliament, and the public more widely will miss us,” the Earl of Devon said.

We really won’t

I still have my Corsa C! Only about 50k miles but its still going strong.

Mentally, anything other than black lol. Generally light warm colours don’t work with me, yellows, oranges, warm greens etc.

Pretty sure its my Neopets, I set it up in my dad’s office before we even got internet at home

Oh weird, yeah its not going to be happy having weird names inside its own sync target folder…

I have mailbox as well and I used to be quite heavily involved in Joplin (on the community management and moderation side of things), what exactly is it you were trying to do that doesn’t work? I’d be interested to see, I personally still use a self hosted thing on a raspberry pi but as I pay for mailbox I can’t say it wouldn’t use useful to maybe swap to that.

As somebody who likes to do leatherworking, I love this, I’d love to see if I could get some samples of the processed cork. I’ve been a little obsessed with true vegan leather (i.e. plant, fungus based stuff and not just crappy plastic stuff, things like this cork, dried SCOBY etc.).

One thing I do find a little disingenuous though is their message that it is a “cruelty free alternative to leather”. I’m totally for vegan alternatives and that vegans are not going to be happy with products from dead animals but to imply that leather is somehow harmful is weird to me and a bit unfair. At least at the moment with current meat demands and for the forseeable future it is a byproduct of the meat industry (and before somebody comments, yes I’m aware that some organisations like PETA claim it is a co-product and also driving the worth of the animal and industry but realistically it is such a tiny portion of the animals worth and a huge proportion of animal hide is wasted and unused). If we hit some kind of tipping point with meat reduction and it starts to actually drive people to raise animals for the purpose of getting worth out of the leather, sure, but I’m not against that, I love to see more initiatives to find a decent alternative to leather for all kinds of different reasons but a lot of these companies like to keep that for themselves for their own finished products.

And this is why I find the statement disingenuous, because if they really were against what they see as animal cruelty in leather production then they wouldn’t keep the material entirely in-house for their own profit. So either the material itself isn’t sustainable for larger scale production or they are just virtue signalling and profiting.

Edit: did some more research as the material genuinely interests me and found this UK based company that also sell cork ‘leather’ products. https://www.thecorkcompany.co.uk/

Edit edit: I may have been too hasty in my opinion, did some more research and found some cork leather/fabric suppliers so it seems more that its just how they word it that makes it sound like they came up with the process. I do stand by my dislike of claiming that leather itself is cruel.

Edit edit edit: ok so it seems most of the supply is just like other vegan leather. PU backed rubbish. I did find some cotton backed ones but if it needs backing then its just not a real leather alternative.

If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime

Oh I didn’t see this yesterday. I broke my dry streak, hadn’t made anything in ages but I had a masquerade ball thing and decided to make my mask rather than just buy one.

RS Components in the UK?

My mother thought the lyrics to Roberta Flack’s version of Killing Me Softly With His Song was “Strumming my face with his fingers” (not strumming my pain).

Yup but you don’t find out about the present-day kid until the one off special they did in 2016