Hugh @hugh@ausglam.space

Get a load of this conference paper from 30 years ago, it is so ZING! on academic journals: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxlbeayLWxeRLTB2cmVmaVpscUU/view

I'm interested in what ausglam.space users think about this from @darius - https://runyourown.social and in particular his Mastodon fork Hometown: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown

If you were thinking of auto-deleting your old toots I have good news - I made a thing for you (me): https://github.com/hughrun/ephemetoot

"Refreshments" otherwise known as highly refined carbohydrates.

Well that was an expensive game of catch with the dog 😢

So this looks exciting: https://sitejs.org/

aaargh

https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Electron/issues/1339

Certainly, rendering the apps I use daily unable to open themselves or any other files is extraordinary.

"The apps you use every day, made extraordinary" says Apple, where "extraordinary" means "unusable".

hmm, this may the point at which I should feel contrite about clicking 'later' when offered a 'tour' of the new OS.

Oh FFS I stupidly upgraded MacOS and now I ...can't open any files. Thanks Apple, you gigantic dickheads.

Gonna add "specialises in 'Aboriginal Studies' (sic) vs specialises in 'Local History' " to my public libraries map.

Hoo boy.

“Non-violent resistance is about resisting, not just being non-violent.”

Grog has finally snapped.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2019/oct/12/parliamentarians-deserve-our-wrath-for-30-years-of-inaction-not-climate-protesters

I mean it is a little bit terra nullius as well but that's par for the course.

Finally reading my Dad's self-published biography of my grandfather and now I'm through the compulsory family history backgrounder I have a greater appreciation for just how shit the lives of nineteenth century women were.

PSA for ausglam.space users, I might upgrade us to v3.0.1 today

The ALP is now such a zombie party they can't even decide whether to support a motion that *even the MP tabling the motion* says commits them to nothing on its own, because "it might not get the numbers to pass". What a useless bunch of hollow men.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/oct/12/moderate-liberals-urged-to-break-ranks-and-vote-for-climate-emergency-motion