Mark Goody @marramgrass@nitech.online

Prime Day has gotten too commercial. We need to get back to honoring what this sacred day is really about

The #Dune FB page delivers

The Chengdu WorldCon has officially announced the finalist for the 2023 Hugo Awards.

https://en.chengduworldcon.com/news3_35_95_32_66_76_50/125.html

‘Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune the cost of which should be shared by the community… No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.”

- Nye Bevan, 1948
Congratulations, NHS, 75 today

The #NHS is 75 years old today.

I wouldn’t have my mum or children with me if it wasn’t for the NHS. Cancer treatment and IVF, plus resuscitation at birth.

I would be in permanent debt to pay for hearing aids.

My two best fiends who are both disabled and self employed would be in addition bankrupt if it wasn’t for the NHS.

The NHS is the most progressive and compassionate creation of a UK government ever - we must ensure it’s survival and speak up for it in the face of elitist attacks.

When people say "extreme leftist" I imagine a person who extremely wants everyone to have good food, clean water, shelter that's safe and accommodating, health care, community, and meaning, all in a diverse and thriving ecosystem, and will do almost anything - including changing economic and political systems - to get it.

Is that what they mean by extreme leftist? :P

Any #Elixir developers in the UK fancy a copy of Real-Time Phoenix (https://pragprog.com/titles/sbsockets/real-time-phoenix/)?

I ended up buying it twice a while ago and would like to pass one copy on as a freebie to someone.

Again, UK-only please due to postage.

#MyElixirStatus #PhoenixFramework

My wife called me in a panic, to say the children were playing doctors and nurses.

I asked why that was a problem, and she told me they'd just booked flights to Australia.

This afternoon's mood is sponsored by "If I Were A Fish" by Corook, a queer, non-binary artist.

https://youtu.be/dx_vMONe3tM

#Corook #IfIWereAFish #music #queer #NonBinary

This doesn’t sound like such cute advice given the number of people in tech that women need to stay away from

(EDIT:: It's been claimed and collected now!) Commodore 64 breadbin, NTSC (w/US power supply), manual and original box, some carts - Must be picked up from W.Yorks, UK.

At what point does it go from grave robbing to archeology? Asking for a friend.

Shhhrrrr-Shrrr-Shrrrr

#reddit #krita #MastoArt #humanart

The knockoff playstation controller angle the media are blatting about wrt. the Titan loss is a red herring.

The sub is designed for computer control, so obviously using a cheap, standardized input device is what you'd expect. It's so cheap/standardized they can carry a spare or two if they want.

The real question is whether it SHOULD have been software controlled, and what quality and safety metrics the developers used. (Submarine architecture is incredibly conservative for good reason!)

I knew a French sound engineer years ago.

I knew a Czech one too.