The UK isn't a country; it's four raccoons in a trench coat. Only one of them is a brown bear that outweighs the rest by 9:1 and keeps dragging them places they don't want to go (like: out of Europe), and the fourth raccoon has dissociative identity disorder and is self-medicating with cocaine because it's Northern Ireland.

RE: https://aus.social/@timrichards/116048465308558439

And ditto many Boomers back in the-day-before.
😂

@Nickiquote
@ifixcoinops
Dan, now it makes more sense why all those CEOs are so keen on mousetraps.

@backupbear
Unfortunately you can't cure terminal stupid.

<long sigh...>

@dirtwizard666
Hmm, seems like I made a good choice with the Dread Pirate @shlee
🏴‍☠️

@david
One of the first things installed in any new home should be the shrine to #Anoia.

@ashur
Forgot to mention I also spend a ridiculous amount of time messing about with image css trying to get it to look EXACTLY how my little OCD brain wants it and often fail spectacularly. But every failure is a learning journey right.

@ashur
My blog has 2 main purposes:
1. To leave a record of my genealogy research and my life for my grandchildren (or theirs).
2. To teach myself some php.
So I write drafts on a text editor. Including a short introduction in a separate .txt file.
Add html p tags around the paragraphs.
Drop the result into a .php template file containing basic html with php includes for all the static bits of the site, footer, header, navigation etc
Add a line to a CSV file that acts as my 'database' with date title of page, file name.
Test it on my computer.
Upload it to a personal domain hosted by my aus.social admin.
"Simples"
It's at lynfox.au if anyone is interested.

@geekysteven
You're gonna need a bigger 'position' - maybe the whole government

@Huntn00
Sorry most of that was directed at Ben's original post, but it was prompted by your comment about not seeing the wood for the trees. I should have acknowledged your input 1st. I was trying to keep my ranting as short as possible. It is so frustrating watching from afar and seeing Americans apparently letting their country be set on fire and worrying it will take us down with it.

I feel like most of the US is in that situation at the moment. Mainly due to the chaos the Republicans are creating.

@Huntn00
@Offbeatmammal @benroyce

It was midnight here when I last responded and I needed some sleep so I thought I'd just leave it at that, then I woke up to see more mentions than I'd ever expected on social media so I decided to take my own advice and continue "fighting".
I reread you initial responses to my comments Ben and I realised that you seemed to be doing what you accused me of; pre-emptive capitulation, with your comment about a general strike being unlikely even though Minnesota seems to be organising one.
Then the penny dropped... you are doing what the US has always done waiting for the Hollywood Hero or Marvel Superhero to sweep in and save the day.
That's what 'murrica doesn't understand, you don't win any battle like that. It's the tiny skirmishes that add up. World war 1 was one on the beaches of Gallipoli, the in the trenches of the Western Front from 1914 onwards not not in 1917-18 when you guys showed up to help mop up and claim YOUR victory.
And while you have a good claim to victory in the Pacific on 1945 you were only there because the Japanese Emperor was emboldened by your lack of reaction and tacit support of the Third Riech when WW2 actually started in 1939.

@bazcook

Yes this my worry too and even worse I think it may be left to what remains of the 'old empire' Australia, New Zealand, Canada, to clean up the mess. Not sure we can even rely on the UK (they have their own problems). But unlike last 2 times when the US was just late to the party, this time they will be the actual enemy.
I hate the whole idea but we can't ignore the possibility we may have to choose a position. We can't afford to retreat into a delusional bubble like the US seems to be doing. Pretending it's still a democratic country.

@ikuturso @benroyce

@benroyce

I hope you're right but I'm not saying capitulate I'm saying fight back don't just sit around waiting for him to start obeying laws which he clearly holds in contempt.
I agree that US citizens need to do something. I just disagree on what that something needs to be.
Surely when people are being shot in the face by a Gestapo-like internal terrorist organisation don't you think it's too late to rely on rule of law.

@benroyce

Are you just trying to be optimistic or do truly believe he will let you have elections again?
He said there would be no voting after the last one, and he's trying to start world war 3 so he can cancel them.
If that doesn't work he'll just destroy the opposition votes.
The only option he's leaving you mass uprising and probably civil war.

@jackeric
I used to use one doing data entry on a paper tape punch machine in about 1971... yes I'm that fucking old. 😀
And I just had to change the autocorrected d back to an f... maybe it would have been funnier just to leave it?
@benroyce @EugestShirley @Affekt @TheBreadmonkey

@astroPug
Or a guillotine!

@quietmarc

@BritishKoalaTea
Obviously not bad enough influences or it wouldn't have taken 3 years to convince you.
We need to practice more.
😉

On HN:

> Using an #IndieWeb approach i.e. #Selfhost, there's an intrinsic guarantee that a publisher has put at least some effort and resources to make their materials public.

> This ensures that the published materials have certain 🫶 #authenticity and inherent amount of 💎 #quality. Publishing them "the indie way" functions as a kind of proof of work: not a guarantee of #excellence but evidence that something 💗 #meaningful was at stake in producing and sharing it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457784

#SX

Wishing a happy arbitrary temporal boundary to all who celebrate.
😀 🎆 🎉 🍾 🥳

#newyear #newyear2026

So let me get this straight... I'm somewhere that's not what I would call corporate social media. I'm seeing freaking dragons, and, oh yeah, I'm writing descriptive alt text!! Yeah, okay, that is something I do now! I post about my indiewebsite, I report jacked up spam accounts... I'll probably get 14 boosts on this post next.