The Leewit @ghost_bird@witches.town
Newly witchy. Older. Trans. She/her.
Thought I was over my cold while I was in the countryside, but now I’m back in London my vaguely asthmatic cough is back again 🤔
It’s a frosty morning and I’m headed back to London soon.
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very tiny self care reminder Afficher plus
Fish are said in legends to create "a peaceful atmosphere in a room," but this has not been canonically established.
It links to an article on shoelaces which notes that stormtroopers did not have shoelaces.
Rain stopped so I was able to walk along the river, getting scolded by wrens along the way. There’s a wobbly suspension footbridge built in the 19th century so the local landowners and their tenants could get to church.
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(And today I’m reading M John Harrison, who is an excellent antidote to yesterday’s Kipling but possibly a bit too much of what I’m trying to have a holiday from.)
It’s brighter today, but still raining, and the river’s risen. Jackdaws caw at me when I step outside.
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maybe someday videogame critique will move on from what clothes is the woman wearing and is the clothing a feminist
still reading Kipling Afficher plus
Kipling, alcohol Afficher plus
(I’m reading Kipling and wondering what a writer more skeptical of of the Empire would have made of the “bandits” his subalterns are chasing.)
Sitting in a cozy old building by the river, drinking coffee and listening to the rain.
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While not included on official lists, today, too, we remember all those who died in hiding, who died of suicide, all those erased in death. We will say your name. #TDOR
I made an alt account over at dice.camp for tabletop RPG stuff, but I’m having trouble getting my posts to federate. It’s @ghost_bird if you want to follow.
@ghost_bird i’ve never read “there is no cloud...” as condescending or necessarily as an entreaty to not use cloud computing, but as a reminder to remember and account for the systems of power and physical infrastructure involved when using those computers
Being condescending about computing-as-a-service is just the arrogance of an inexperienced sysadmin. I know this because I used to be that way myself.
I keep seeing “there’s no cloud - it’s just somebody else’s computer” but nobody seems to know where I can get an HA cluster and a set of geographically-distributed server rooms for £20 a month.
Here's a picture I think about every now and then. Thanks. https://witches.town/media/UU8pPdPLLCCdnRISzOg