philpem.bsky.social
Software preservation, electronics, software and ham radio, maker of things. The kid who liked to take things apart and never grew out of it.
Occasional SFF and comics fan. Not a furry, kinda adjacent.
Mostly active on https://digipres.club/@philpem
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I figure people whose attitudes boil down to "I should get to dictate what other people do with their body" should STFU and get in lane.
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It's wild, I was at the pub with a mate and told them about the time my boss wanted to book the Met and I asked him to book the Ibis instead. I'm glad they backed down, I had a comfy bed, working lights and sockets, AND a slap-up breakfast. Only time I've felt like a king staying in an Ibis!
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Maybe the extra £2 is for an extra rasher!
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Bluesky's model hinges on the expectation that someone is going to spawn in to Bluesky with elaborate knowledge about how the platform works, immediately find a custom feed that doesn't suck or follow 200+ people out of thin air. Instead, they open the Discover feed, go "this is shit" and leave. 3/3
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Wile E. Coyote Finally Kills Road Runner Then Immediately Wishes He Hadn’t
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It wasn't until recently that I learned the wasps mostly become assholes when they get drunk on fermented fruit. So the easy way to keep asshole wasps away is to pick up and dispose of all the fruit and berries as soon as they fall off the plant.
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And I am here today to say, being yourself is the ONLY thing that matters.
Be who you are. Love who you love. Be attracted to whoever even if that means no one.
That’s all being queer is. Being you.
Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.
Happy pride month!🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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There's always one. Sometimes several. All creatures welcome, innit?
I'm boggling at the words "family nature of pride", it's a LGBTQ+ event?
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When we had a cat, I heard it was called "kneading"
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Anyway, any UK lawyers want to help a bunch of broke authors fuck up a company?
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Right, here we go. For those who don’t know, Unbound (now Boundless) is a UK publisher that started out as a crowdfunder. It did good things! Handled all the fulfilment, and then handled wholesale physical and ebook distribution after the book was published. I put a book through them in… 2019? Here:
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Figured as much. Seemingly not the bits of the internet I frequent as your post was the first I heard of it. Though I've been aware of the bar's rep for a while...
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Is this the "for backers only" post from earlier today? Bit rich if it is...
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£28k of backers money has disappeared into the ether to fulfil one man's idle fantasy. It's not even clear if all the KS rewards went out.
The retro gaming community need to collectively stop funding these grifts and enabling these parasites. It keeps happening again and again.