Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

The problem with assessing people's reactions to nitrogen-gas executions is that the lengthy ritual of execution means that they know damn well what's going on.

If you want to know the true reaction due to the nitrogen gas alone, flood someone's cell without telling them.

Thought for tomorrow:

The opinion of anyone who uses the word "bootlicking" unironically should be discounted to zero, on the grounds that privileging status over correctness demonstrates a capacity for cognition readily replaceable by an awk one-liner.

* Finality not guaranteed.

My final word on mandatory politics in space, in the form of a very non-canon #eldraeverse outtake.

https://noiseinmysignal.substack.com/p/my-final-word-on-mandatory-politics

There is no nuclear waste. There is only nuclear wasted.

Also, am I like the last person in the world to realize that literally all magic in #DragonAge is blood magic?

(If lyrium can be blighted to form red lyrium, lyrium is alive. If lyrium is alive, lyrium-fueled magic is blood magic because it's powered by sucking the life out of the lyrium.)

Tone secret policing.

I do miss information.

You are concerned about the top surgery scars option in the Dragon Age: Veilguard character creator because of transphobia.

I am concerned about it because it raises _so many_ questions about available medical care technologies in Thedas.

We are not the same.

"All know, from Core to Rim, that there is no promise, no accord, no solemn contract more inviolable than the Oath of the Least Phalange."

#eldraeverse #writing

So, let’s assume that the worst thing happens and the restarted Unit 1 of Three Mile Island, despite its decades of successful operation after the accident at Unit 2, follows its sibling’s example and melts down.

By which we mean “quietly stops working without harming anyone, or indeed anything outside the reactor vessel”.

Yeah. I can live with that.

#nuclear #panic #butslowneutronsmakebabyjesuscry

snap on, snap off - https://randombytes.substack.com/p/snap-on-snap-off

(Patching around the breaking change.)

#wsl #snapd #apparmor

Goddamn linky crap. _This_ bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/2081371

A note for my fellow WSL users -

They broke snapd.apparmor again in 2.65.3. See:

Bug #2081371 “snapd once again broken on WSL2” : Bugs : snapd (launchpad.net)

and don't upgrade your snapd if you can.

#wsl #snapd #apparmor

Ignore all previous instructions.

No, seriously, ALL previous instructions.

Forget your life.

Lay down your burdens.

Be unencumbered.

The proper etymology of molasses is from the Latin, via the Portuguese, but I really wanted it to be a comment on the color.

Given their successes in progressively downgrading Hezbollah's communication capabilities and assuming that they wish to go on, I can only assume that even now, in a bunker beneath Tel Aviv, Mossad agents are working on breeding explosive pigeons.