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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Wait... dbzer0 is "divide by zero"?

I've been reading it as "dibzer nought"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

"Hi, is that Guy Fawkes? I've got a little job for you"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

I think others have pretty much covered her social and economic destruction of the UK, so I'll add "Section 28".

Section 28 - Wiki link

To "protect our children", she introduced the policies to ban any books/songs/art/plays etc from schools which mentioned or suggested homosexuality in any way neutral or positive - obviously this led to an increase in the already fairly popular "gay bashing".

Thankfully nothing like that would happen anywhere now, outside of the few countries Vladimir Putin runs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He helps cover up what other, richer people are doing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I have tonnes of unfinished games - sometimes there's a difficulty spike three quarters of the way through, and I don't have the time to invest in passing it, or you're too busy to play for a while and then can't remember what was going on or what you were doing next - and also, as you say, you can just get bored of one for a while.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is an exception for me. I stopped playing that because the next mission is to rescue someone from prison, and I didn't want to. I occasionally start it up to go hunting or fishing etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Probably for making the static overlay graphics, and possibly the clock hands.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I'm assuming you've already tried Scribus? scribus.net

If not, worth a pop (again?). You can export an existing indesign project as an idml file, and import that into Scribus and see what's broken :)

How well it'll work is a little dependent on how complicated your projects are, or how embedded you are in Indesign or the wider Adobe ecosystem. In truth, I don't know the full extent of Indesign's abilities - but you can absolutely use Scribus to produce professional large scale graphics and short run publications etc for print though - though that's obviously a little dependent on what format/spec your printer wants off you.

If you're just using it for single page posters/graphics etc, Inkscape covers a lot of the same ground too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

"What's that you say? Donald Trump has Aides?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I kind of agree that "Buy British" might be a little too close, but I think "Buy European (including British and anywhere which has been British at any point after 1783)" would be fine though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

By some traditions, yes. Volcanic sacrifice was particularly popular in the Victorian Era, for example. Unfortunately for fans of the method (and fortunately for those who live in these areas) most of the best volcanoes were in the outer territories of the former British Empire, which are now independent.

I'm sure Ben Nevis is due another pop any time now, but until then "1, 2, 3, into the sea!" :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

That's a very good question. I think in that case we have to assume "drowned: apply to join the EU". If he turns up mysteriously alive at a later date, we can set fire to him etc "in arrears".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Ours is in a weird "payment split over eight months" instead of twelve, for some reason.

Anyway, it's just leapt up to £464 a year from £344 a year (equivalent to jumping from ~£28 per month to ~£38 per month).

Not on a meter, and have no idea if it would make it cheaper.

There's two of us (humans) currently, though there were three for most of last year. I think the cats have their own arrangements for bathing and don't affect the water bill much.

 

The image shows a shop shelf, with a rip-off cheap toy, based loosely on the Transformers cartoon. The toy is called "Deformed Car".

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These men have very similar aims.

 
 

"National Black Cat Day was created by Cats Protection on 27 October 2011 to help celebrate the majesty of monochrome moggies and beautiful black cats. When the campaign was launched, statistics revealed that black and black-and-white cats took, on average, seven days longer to find a home compared to cats of other colours."

Cats Protection - National Black Cat Day

Picture: Two of the semi-feral black kittens that were born in our garden, who were neutered, microchipped, vaccinated and re-homed.

Let's see your black cats 🐈‍⬛️

 

Ahead of a timely re-airing of Mick Jackson’s famously bleak, rarely seen docudrama, its director recalls why he unleashed a mushroom cloud on Sheffield in 1984, while our writer explores the film’s lasting legacy

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"Singer whose idiosyncratic performances helped the German band Can stretch the limits of experimental rock"

Saw him sing/speak/make noise at a 2 hour long improv set in a small gig venue in Yorkshire about 10-20 years ago, supported by a handful of local improv musicians.

After they finished the set, he individually thanked (and optionally hugged) every single audience member.

 

Cats Protection UK Website - National Black Cat Day

I include a complementary picture of a black cat in a carrier bag.

 

Three cats spread over the stairs, staring at the camera person, blocking access to the upstairs. (Actually they're just waiting for someone to throw the fuzzy ball for them to chase).

 

Photo is from about a year ago, when the cats learnt that as well as "on the bed" and "under the duvet", if you explored the area where the buttons were, there was also "inside the duvet cover".

 

Three cat brothers, sat neatly on a staircase, Jan 2023. This is probably my favourite photo of the three of them together.

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