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  Updated my /now page: https://antonyfb.com/now.html #indieweb #personalblog #blogging #SmallWeb

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  562 words on the WIP, working title 'The Cold Room.' Not exactly flowing, but the first act is starting to take shape. #writingcommunity #horrorlit

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  Great article from @404mediaco https://www.404media.co/how-i-bought-a-private-jet-by-selling-10-subscriptions-to-404-media/

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  Starting reading 'There Is No Antimemetics Division' by QNTM. First section is decent enough, keen to see where it goes. #HorrorBooks #reading #readingcommunity #bookstodon #books

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  Finished reading Mark Fisher's 'The Weird and The Eerie.' Really thought-provoking. I'm glad I took my time with this and read it in short chunks. I'll be drawing on these ideas for my own writing for quite some time, I think. #weirdfiction #nonfiction #amreading #bookstodon

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  There's nothing on the ballot for my constituency today. Nevertheless I hope all who can participate in either the Scottish elections, Welsh elections, or local elections get out there and vote. I'm particularly interested in seeing what happens in Wales. Cymru deserves so much better than it's getting from Westminster and Welsh Labour have shown they don't have it in them to demand it. Plaid might offer some hope. I'd be voting for them if I lived there, no doubt.

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  Kettlebell workout this morning was rough going. Did Dan John's Running Back Complex for five rounds with 2x 16kg bells. That's descending ladders of clean and front squat; I did 4-3-2-1. It was actually my rack position that gave out before my legs. I'll put it down to all the pressing I did yesterday.

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  Going to get my knee x-ray'd today. Trying to work out if there's a way I could act like the titanium plates and such are news to me. 'Not even sure why I'm here, never had any surgeries or anything.'

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  RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@afb/116418887792420255 Bottled it. The tech lined me up perfectly for a spot of tomfoolery but I opted to act like an adult. I'll endeavour to do better next time.

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  I've learned that when making a social faux pas at work, telling them I have autism is a much less effective strategy for resolving the situation than saying I'm a Taurus.

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  I, for one, will not be clicking on a single link today. Happy April Fools etc etc

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  Given that it's #worldautismawarenessday I'll repost this blog entry: https://antonyfb.com/blog/am-i-autistic.html #autism #autistic #mentalhealth

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  RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@afb/116328899954840392 Turns out I'm actually clicking on quite a lot of links. April...fools?

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  @GramrgednAngel@beige.party I've only read one of his, 'The Only Good Indians.' I did really like it. I need to read his more recent stuff. Seems like he releases books more often than I get a good night's sleep.

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  Parenting a toddler while being a person with anarchist leanings and just a smidge of nihilism is kinda funny sometimes. He's sitting there playing with Silly Putty, I'm thinking about possible applications for Serious Putty (C4). Purely theoretical, of course. Personally, I strive for nonviolence. The toddler? Not as much.

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  Thinking about provisioning another VM from @OpenBSDAms when I've got a bit of spare coin. I'd like to move my personal blog over there. There's nothing wrong with my Debian box from Hetzner, I just prefer OpenBSD and I like that the lads in Amsterdam pipe a bit of their earnings to the upstream project.

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  One minor parenting perk: my three-year-old has these tiny fingers that make my crusty little rat paws look like normal-sized human hands by comparison.

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  New sofa. Our old one was a two-seater that was begging for death. Had a good run but nothing lasts forever. This new one has the toddler seal of approval, it appears. I'm in love with the earthy green colour, personally.

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  @famousblueben@mas.to Never heard of 'em, just threw on a track out of curiosity. Definitely got something.

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  Listening to 'Love Like Blood' by Killing Joke. It, like most of the music I listen to on a daily basis, was released in the '80s whereas I was born in the '90s. It's got me wondering if there were people born in like 1961 who spent the '80s and '90s listening almost exclusively to 1950s acts like The Cardinals. Must've happened, but I find it weird to imagine for some reason.

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  @theresmiling@ibe.social I've got a personal blog at https://antonyfb.com and a horror fiction site at https://ferenbrooke.com – both also on the Gemini protocol (nothing to do with the chat bot if you're not familiar) at the same URLs.

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  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@katemorley/116164581027674779 I'll most likely be voting Green in the next GE. Been a loyal Labour voter for my entire adult life (except my first election – 2010, I voted Lib Dem. Whoops!) but we need to pull the Overton window back to a sane position.

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  Reworked the landing page text on my horror fiction site a bit. I still need to pretty up the header, but I think I'm moving in the right direction. #geminiprotocol - gemini://ferenbrooke.com/index.gmi #indieweb - https://ferenbrooke.com/index.html #horror #horrorlit #weirdfiction #webfiction #shortstory

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  What with being born in the '90s and growing up in Cambridgeshire, this guy was basically the boogie man to me. #cambridgeshire https://www.elystandard.co.uk/news/25913037.soham-murderer-ian-huntley-declared-blind-attack

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  Catching up on the new Mock The Week. Hadn't realised how much I missed it.

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  @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange Not necessarily. Tactical voting is quite common and becoming more so. It's possible we end up with no party having a majority due to the anti reform vote coordinating on a constituency-by-constituency basis*. I consider that the most likely outcome, probably with some sort of 'progressive alliance' coalition government as a result (Labour PM, mix of Green/Lib/Lab ministers). Labour+Con is also possible as an 'establishment coalition' but that...

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  @peterkotrcka@mastodon.bsd.cafe I'm curious, which features in bash convinced you to use it rather than the default korn shell? Or is it just a familiarity and compatability sort of thing? Reason I'm asking is that I use bash on my Linux boxes and ksh on my OpenBSD boxes, can't say I really notice a lot of difference in interactive use. Wondering whether I'm missing something.

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  RE: https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUK/116147553248382659 I'm just an autistic layman with a contrarian streak, so I could easily be talking out me arse, but I can't help but feel 'theory of mind,' a bit like the concept of 'general intelligence,' is psychological dark matter. It looks like there's something there but we don't know what it is or how it works, or even whether it's one thing or a bunch of phenomena we don't know about interacting in...

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  @izder456@ieji.de I'll give that a go, cheers.

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  RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@82mhz/116138397359698786 Definitely gonna steal that idea for a blog post.