squeaky?! ao!!

[thanks to] the psychopaths in treasury and the adam smith institute, the whole british economy — and it’s only more true today — is built around the idea that value comes from the interfaces between the things that do stuff, not from the things that do stuff.

diagram of british rail privatisation; on the left, just the british rail logo, on the right, a public owner of tracks and stations plus a complex marketplace of infrastructure maintenance units, track renewal units, train operating units, freight operators, rolling stock companies, regulators, and a franchising authority

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMoqYwGgsjA

future facts according to avenue 5 (2020)

  • google collapsed
  • pacific is toxic now
  • no more cows or maybe cattle in general?
  • huawei wars
  • richard branson fed to his own pigs
ira 🌷🐰 (@irina) [archived]

adobe acrobat just gave me a loud audible notification to make it my default pdf reader.
it is 2am. i have not opened a pdf since turning this computer on. wh-

#night shift#irina's rambling
bark. bark bark (@bark) [archived]

open a pdf. acrobat will not tolerate sitting unused.

this has been your first warning.

shuppy (@delan) [archived]

“He's defective. He wants everyone to open PDFs all of the time. He's obsessed.” talkie toaster from red dwarf with adobe acrobat icon

maybe three holes was the code for three stash houses?

sweating two buttons meme, where the top panel with the buttons is the “Call Status” window with two giant checkboxes labelled “Pertinent” and “NonPertinent”

70% of the alkanes are gay

belter creole, language codes “qbc” and “art-x-belter” (for now)

Belter Creole [lang belta], language codes “qbc” (iso 639-3) and “art-x-belter” (ietf)

belter creole has two language codes, “qbc” and “art-x-belter”. but how?

“qbc” is from the “reserved for local use” area (“qaa” through “qtz”) of the three-letter iso 639-3 language codes, like “eng” for english, “cmn” for mandarin chinese, or “ckb” for sorani. conlang code registry is a project to informally coordinate “assignments” in this area for conlangs, and that’s why belter creole is “qbc”. who knows, maybe someday it will transcend the expanse (2015) and upgrade to a standard code, like toki pona did from “qtk” to “tok”.

this reminds me of cambridge g-rin, a project to informally coordinate “assignments” in the rfc 1918 address spaces, that is, private ipv4 addresses like 10.0.0.1 and 192.168.0.1. in both cases, a public registry that allows anyone who knows about it to avoid taking someone else’s spot.

“art-x-belter” starts with “art”, the iso 639-3 code for “artificial languages”. the “-x-belter” part uses an ietf extension to those codes (bcp 47) that lets you add “private-use” extra details, and that’s why belter creole is “art-x-belter”. internet standards love “x-” for private use. see also http headers like “X-Real-IP” or “X-Forwarded-For”, or mime headers like “X-Spam-Score”.

by the way, another language code with private-use extra details is in the html spec, of all places. thanks hixie :)

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html class="split index" lang=en-US-x-hixie>
<script src=/link-fixup.js defer=""></script>
<meta charset=utf-8>
[...]
made with @nex3's syntax highlighter
shuppy (@delan) [archived]

or as i learned to call you, baobeir

“I’ll see you soon, baobei.”
#erhua#儿化#firefly#firefly (2002)
shuppy (@delan) [archived]

or as i learned to call it, good gatho

“Mighty fine shindig.”
#firefly#firefly (2002)#good gatho
shuppy (@delan) [archived]

take my love, take my love, take me where i cannot love
i don't love, i'm still love, you can't take the love from me
take me out to the love, tell them i ain't lovin back
burn the love and boil the love, you can't take the love from me

shuppy (@delan) [archived]

or as i learned to call you, baobeir

“I’ll see you soon, baobei.”
#erhua#儿化#firefly#firefly (2002)
shuppy (@delan) [archived]

or as i learned to call it, good gatho

“Mighty fine shindig.”

or as i learned to call you, baobeir

“I’ll see you soon, baobei.”

things you can’t do in australia due to the water level

man in a crimson suit, surrounded by his mob colleagues, yells “nobody fucks me!” and dunks someone’s head in a toilet

Julius Nicholson: “You see this onion blåhaj?” Julius Nicholson: “Watch.” [Julius Nicholson eats onion blåhaj] Julius Nicholson: “You see what I’m doing? I’m eating the onion blåhaj.”
tweet by the6p4c 💻🐶 @the6p4c (locked): box labelled "onion bhaji" and my brain goes "oh, onion blahaj"

what kind of shitass irons a print

cheese from reservation dogs ironing a printed tee

no sudden move (2021)

you know how people steal catalytic converters? what if we made a heist movie about stealing catalytic converters

you plagiarised a documentary out of social embarrassment?

i sometimes buy the big issue out of social embarrassment.
i don’t plagiarise a FUCKING doco >:(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ&t=3302s

the wire (2002), season 4 episode 9 “know your place”, frame showing pryzbylewski’s students entering class. on either side of the door, there are signs with red text on a yellow-red gradient background, much like a “tasty hot delicious” chips box you would get from a kebab shop in australia. one reads “Math Rules!” and the other “Choices Have Consequences”.
Tasty HOT Delicious
Tasty HOT Delicious
Tasty HOT Delicious
Tasty HOT Delicious


note: may be broken with “dark theme” setting on chrome for android
fancy version but currently firefox only
Tasty HOT Delicious
Tasty HOT Delicious
Tasty HOT Delicious
Tasty HOT Delicious

why are they running windows xp in 16-color mode

also what is this ie6 browser extension

clicked on a video about south africa today

@dimitrivlachos5089 - 19 hours ago

It breaks my heart. I am a South African, I love South Africa and I hate to say that I am one of the people that have left just over a year ago. I didn't want to, but as a young professional the economic death spiral was just not something I could survive in. Especially not when overseas opportunities promised a lot more on top of safety and electricity and all those basic needs. I would gladly go back if I could.

The saddest part is that the country absolutely could provide for everyone. The ANC has failed us horribly and I am hopeful that after the next election we may see some improvements again.

86 likes @patsmythe1880 - 21 hours ago

I’ve lived in SA my whole life and have always believed that (provided you have the financial means) you’re able to externalise a lot of these issues (solar & battery system, borehole, private healthcare, private schooling etc.) and still live a good life (cheap property, domestic workers, holiday houses, natural beauty etc.). If you speak to most educated, employed South Africans, they will tell you the same thing. 

Despite having private security (as most that can afford it do) we’ve been exposed to violent situations (held at gunpoint) on 3 separate occasions. I’ve also lost my great uncle (murdered on his farm) and nearly my aunt (shot in an attempted hijacking). 

It’s taken a while, but I’ve come to realise I simply don’t have the risk appetite to remain here. I don’t know what living in a 1st world country is like, but know that I place more emphasis on safety than material “things”.

[…]

29 likes @Aw3some98 - 22 hours ago

As a South African, I had the privilege to move abroad back in 2018 and I can say its so sad to leave the country I once loved behind, but there is no longer a point to ever go back due to the shear amount of Loadshedding and danger just commuting around the city. I feel like we need a new government who has their eye on the prize and can bring everyone together to work towards a common goal and ensure long lasting success in our nation. Thank you Sam for bringing attention to this issue, as I feel like its needs to be addressed internationally more if we have any hope of fixing South Africa’s shortcomings.

1.1K likes @volrath__ - 8 hours ago

I was born in Joburg to British patents, we left during the uprisings (my dad worked for Anglo American who was targeted regularly)... But I still have family living in SA...

Its been truly heartbreaking to see whats happening, I feared and truly believe the ANC lost their way when Mandela passed away, his desire to rebuild South Africa through forgiveness has passed with him, those in power seem to want to gut the country for their own gain...

I really hope that next year we see the change needed, i just hope that whatever the new government looks like doesn't keep the same broken pattern and begins to reinvest in SA and begin to bring it out of this spiral 

4 likes

i have never seen so many wailing and malding afrikaners in one place as in this comments section. good god

with the spread of cuppy dog literacy across all demographics, we could be having cuppy dog banks, cuppy dog hospitals, cuppy dog buses…

https://youtu.be/m72_8EfqCtc

approximately 7692 blåhaj

“You know what $300,000 can get you in Tempe?” BLÅHAJ
Soft toy, shark, 100 cm
$39

Tempe
🟢 Click & Collect - Available
🟢 Store - In stock

me

“Oh, do you? The fucking Hercule Poirot of fucking piss over here.”

(also try reading that in malcolm tucker’s voice)

i don’t want you to panic, jack.

jack harkness with an “H” symbol on his forehead, indicating that he is a hologram, rising from the bottom of the frame jack harkness again, continuing to rise upwards arnold rimmer’s head peeking up through a table

i want you to stay absolutely calm.
i’m coming out in a moment, and i want you to keep your cool.
are you ready? here i come,

“He just ate the big dog dick.
Sucked that pooch bone dry!”

i think i hauve covid

tef (@tef) [archived]

current status

the uk goverment is launching a campaign about how successful our tech industry is

it's called, i shit you not: "the unicorn kingdom"

shuppy (@delan) [archived]

i call app britain

“The surest way to tame a prisoner is to let him believe he’s free.”

waiting for my capacitors to arrive like

powder: “come on, mouser, i need you!”

you can get a usb spectrometer?!

Tim Chevalier (@tjc) [archived]

Drove by the Palantir building today and didn’t even stop to urinate on it

shuppy (@delan) [archived]

malcolm tucker: “darlin’, i wouldn’t fucking piss on you if you were fucking allergic to piss, right?”

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