But it’s cheaper for the studios. That’s why it’s here to stay - until something cheaper comes along.

I use FitoTrack, which I found on FDroid. It’s reliant on third parties (Mastodon, etc) for sharing, but it does all that.

While well-intentioned, this is never going to happen. The last thing the Authorities want is civilians being incentivised to take the law into their own hands to win top awards. Ahmed was a very lucky man. It could have ended there and then for him. And he still ended up being shot.

We were doing it in the late 80s at university. Showing a bunch of SF/F movies in a lecture hall on the weekend for five bucks. We made an absolute killing on the drinks and snacks, which we used to buy books for the SF/F club library.

Thanks, looking into it.

It receives from Mastodon, but I’ve yet to have any of my wafrn posts show in Mastodon (or elsewhere on the Fediverse) despite being mutuals.

Australia has had a massive Eurovision fan base for decades. It was a market just dying to be tapped into. Plus, the Australian broadcaster pays a sizable fee to participate.

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin.

I thought something like that had happened when I first read Cloud Atlas, but nope - that’s just how it’s written. I loved it once I understood.

In Oz, they certainly fucking do.

Went camping, set up the public BBQ, lit it. Vegan comes along and insists that we can’t cook meat on it because it will contaminate whatever she was cooking.

She turned a particularly interesting shade of green when I reminded her that it was public, had been used by a bajillion meat eaters, and meat contamination was the least of her worries - given druggies and drunks would piss on it in the wee small hours every public holiday.

She left soon after.

They regurgitated a Simpsons episode and replaced the dolphins with KuaToa?

Unfortunately, no. I didn’t receive it. I just checked.

Thanks for that. Was that posted to a newsletter? I’m surprised I missed it if it was posted on piefed.au. IIRC, I joined there around September.

As a Babylon 5 fan, me too. Paramount would kill the franchise. Under Netflix, there’s a chance we’d at least get to stream it and the possibility of new material.

They probably saw how well going hard against asylum seekers worked for the Australian Labor Party. Without that as a platform, the conservative parties basically had little to offer voters, and subsequently imploded.

The activitypub plugin for WordPress is great. I’ve used it on my blog for more than a year. All my reactions and comments come from the Fediverse now.

Except all those times where you learnt how to do something when you set it up years ago, and haven’t touched it since because it just bloody works. Then when you need to upgrade to a new machine you have to learn it all again.

Been using Linux for thirty years and it still happens.

It’s time to melt The Shat and have him as an annoying holo-creature on the Sulu and Chekhov adventures.

Wait around for two hours in case it comes back.

Nice work, but I’m curious if you checked out Novel Writer (https://novelwriter.io/)?