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Philippa Cowderoy

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Executively dysfunctional, yet occasionally effectful programmer. Crazy trans dyke. Electronic music nerd. Autistic af. Plays lots of games in all the spare time that's no use for anything else. (she/her)

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I kinda put up with that for academic ones, but that's because it's still better than having to wait for a writeup

14.03.2026 02:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is one of many reasons I only turn them on for a mo if I missed something, yeah

14.03.2026 00:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

...normie lasagne?

13.03.2026 21:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Active and public transport complement each other. "We need transit, not bike lanes!" is wrecker shit. We need both.

13.03.2026 03:28 πŸ‘ 132 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This lot want people to know they're there and that one minor incident could land them in the papers the next day. It wouldn't be the first time by a long way.

12.03.2026 20:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They know they're not international operators themselves. That doesn't mean they haven't had actual, impactful influence here. Just means the US collectively have little reason to know about most of ours until somebody wants to cite them.

12.03.2026 19:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

(why care? Transferring systems)

12.03.2026 18:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

NTFS looks mostly like a *nix-like fs with extras - there are search tools, but there are absolutely things you need a files-and-folders model for too

(bonus shite: you have *two* home folders one of which most users have no idea about)

12.03.2026 18:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Downfall 2: Fall Downer

12.03.2026 18:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

LLMs don't sweat, therefore an LLM must never

12.03.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunately, if you're ambulance crew then "cop having an anxiety attack" is a bigger threat to your own life

12.03.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

talking of which, I should get to bed - tomorrow is a rest day

11.03.2026 23:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

(also, the thing where they used that episode for both character development and exposition of who the PKs are, yet it's still one of the most quotable for a totally different reason)

11.03.2026 23:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Muppets pissing explosives will never be outdated though!

11.03.2026 23:32 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"They're phonetically named for military bullshit" was a bit of a giveaway too, but yeah

11.03.2026 20:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not sure this is a result tbh.

The is no "respectful" way to falsely represent someone without their permission, after stealing their work to do so, for your own profit.

They're just testing the waters before doing it again.

Everyone should be dropping Grammarly.

11.03.2026 19:28 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Freely took Trump up on becoming a refugee" sounds like a "no cool people" filter to me, mind

11.03.2026 20:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wait 'til the tenner has a mushroom and the twenty a snake!

11.03.2026 20:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nowhere near as "elaborate", but a hall neighbour at uni got introduced to the birthday paradox the hard way: thought somebody'd told me his birthday in advance...

10.03.2026 22:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

you'll be wanting the XKCD "mol of moles" bit, then?

10.03.2026 22:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm sorry for your loss - but so glad that you had the time together that you did

10.03.2026 17:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Putting someone in a position of having to shoplift for food is worse than shoplifting for food

10.03.2026 13:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I just hope nobody's tried to explain the concept of total war to him

10.03.2026 13:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fitnote - It's like Deathnote but about a doctor fielding patient requests for basic admin. The protagonist is still a fascist monster, obviously.

10.03.2026 10:17 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

yep, and polling has shown that it's the *middle* class who are more hostile to "socially liberal" politics!

09.03.2026 13:01 πŸ‘ 94 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

well, mostly red

09.03.2026 17:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The reason is that the Greater Manchester police are very friendly with multiple of these far right streamers who brag about providing them with intelligence. It's been a local scandal lately with one of them being outer as a sex offender and the police saying he was always helpful to them.

08.03.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 100 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If the way that adults behave in public endangers the lives of children & your proposed solution is that the children change their behaviour in a way that is inconvenient & poorly evidenced to help rather than that adults change their behaviour so that they do not endanger children:

What the fuck.

08.03.2026 18:22 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is an attack Gillick Competence, and without a doubt the beginnings of an assault on the supply of birth control to young people.

I was 17 when I started taking HRT. If you’re over 16, then by English law you can legally consent to your own healthcare.

08.03.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 468 πŸ” 167 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 4

The Democratic leadership would prefer that you think of them as feckless cowards, when in fact they are Kissinger-like creatures who support massacring Iranians.

In Schumer and Jeffries's realpolitik, they get the war they want while letting the GOP pay the political price. Best of both worlds.

08.03.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 263 πŸ” 72 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 2