Putting the laid in plaid

He only wants it for marketplace. I can sympathise, that’s where all the really good awful car deals are, and cheap tools that I don’t need, but really want

What/where is that?

Fuck yeah, that looks right up my street

The Water Knife is slowly creeping closer to reality

The French radio station Fip is really good background music. I can pretty much have that on constantly, and even the occasional announcements don’t really break my concentration, as I don’t speak French.

Thanks, that’s what I was going to find. Shame none of us concentrate past the first two replies, but hey.

There are loads of those. Like tons, from all around the world. “Big sugar” really, really isn’t much of a thing outside the us, and a lot of these studies are either data-aggregation from larger groups of studies, like this one, or studies over long periods of large groups, like most of those referenced in that article, particularly those covering Coronado and kidney disease.

I have a fairly healthy diet, with little risk of diabetes, but sweeteners screw my digestion up. They are now in so many things that it’s hard to avoid them, especially in soft drinks and mixers. For the rest of the world that doesn’t eat an American diet, the balance of the risk presented by sugar vs diabetes is not as one-sided as all that

And comes all over it’s back?

I’m not sure what being almost 10yrs post robocop makes me feel, but I don’t like it. This future isn’t what I was promised in the 80s, and while no killer robots is nice, I still feel a bit cheated

Is he now the remaster chief?

Aren’t Mildly Anxious Minnows playing Glastonbury this year?

Much like Israel used US missiles to kill people in Palestine, no?

I like it when I’m underestimated like that. “Stainless steel you say? Well we’ll see about that”

I’m currently plowing through the 9th of the Malazan books by Steven Erikson, and I don’t really want them to finish. One of the best bits of writing I’ve so far encountered.

I’ve got a foot-high stack of Sanderson to help me get over it though, so that’s ok.

The Malazan books are in some ways comparable to the Stormlight books, but they are a lot more dense and there’s almost no hand-holding whatsoever. The story is detailed, spread over several continents, and has tons of important characters. You’re expected to remember things from several thousand pages ago without there being any recap, and frankly I like it. When each book is already around 1300 pages, and there’s 10 of them, constant recaps would do my nut in. There’s a good dramatis personae, and a glossary in each book, which helps.

And thus, my drawer of stickers

Ppi is pixels per inch so I’d guess the measurements are in football fields or busses or whatever it is the Americans use at the moment to avoid the metric system

This nasty show my age, but this is about the only game release that I’ve been truly excited about in years

The post below this one in my feed is “Microsoft’s carbon emissions up by 30% due to ai”