https://youtu.be/EuUyROUN-Bg?si=YboaUH-iSE_8mPTo&t=573

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Cartel del certamen

Comprar LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO (editorial Libros del Futuro)

Sinopsis:

Bran tuvo una adolescencia complicada, y su vida adulta no es mejor. Una sucesión de pérdidas familiares, una gran cicatriz en la cara y sus circunstancias personales han forjado en ella una personalidad esquiva.

Y como si fuera una maldición añadida, la protagonista hereda y debe hacerse cargo de una casa familiar, epicentro de buena parte de las desgracias que se abatieron sobre sus seres queridos.

Una visita a la enmohecida y arruinada vivienda, ubicada en un pequeño pueblo madrileño, sumergirá a Bran en una travesía angustiante por túneles oscuros, estancias claustrofóbicas y seres terroríficos.

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Portada de LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/pbm2braille

This amused me greatly. #marx #socialism

I prefer The Thing, myself.

Original vs. Remake

Today’s film: Night of the Living Dead

Which do you consider to be the superior film?

Please boost for more responses.

#BlahbylonsFilmPoll

Romero once said that he got inspiration from an unexpected source: the "Black Smurfs" story by Peyo. I can't find the source (I'm commuting with a crappy connection).

Awesome. Discovered that I forgot the master passphrase for my server's encrypted disk. Again. After the last crisis, I saved a copy. On the laptop I just nuked. Fortunately, I still have all the disks setup from last time to just copy everything back. Always one disaster ahead of annihilation.

No sé cómo, pero voy a estar en la mesa redonda del día del tentáculo. Si os apetece ir, ya sabéis ❤️

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De 16 a 17.30 Disidencias en el mundo editorial: diversidad, representación y formas alternativas de publicación. Imparte: José Jorquera Blanco (moderador), Sheila Moreno Griñón y Hendelie De 18 a 19.30 Taller expediente Iberia (juego de mesa) Imparte: Pablo Vergel, Tomás Hijo y Santiago Tomás Hijo y Santiago Eximeno

"Alone with Everybody," by Charles Bukowski

https://allpoetry.com/Alone-With-Everybody

#BlahbylonsPoetrySelections

Tears for Fears - Shout

https://youtu.be/Ye7FKc1JQe4

Reseña de mi libro YO NO SOY PAVEL:

https://retratoliterario.wordpress.com/2023/09/05/yo-no-soy-pavel-de-angel-ortega/

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Portada del libro YO NO SOY PAVEL

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@yogthos Similar story... Guy goes to return software, but they won't accept an opened box for a return. They will, however, exchange it for an unopened box with the same software. After getting an intact box, he waited for a shift change to return it to a different worker.

I'm a big fan of the movie and the Stephen King's book. I consider both to be totally different stories with a somewhat similar plot and characters with the same names and I like them for different reasons.

Regarding the movie Lolita, it's OK, but the depiction of the eponymous character there invalidates somewhat the overall idea: Sue Lyon (the actress) looks too adult for what the book is trying to convey. The character in the book is clearly pre-pubescent and looks like a child.

Lo que sí sería triste para mí es que esa desaparición supusiese pérdidas de puestos de trabajo, que no lo sé aunque tampoco me extrañaría.

CC: @luisgarciareal@social.politicaconciencia.org

https://unixsheikh.com/articles/tips-on-how-to-structure-your-home-directory.html

A bit cumbersome for my taste, but there are some good ideas there.

Contemplating that time in the 1520s , during the Ottoman siege, when Budapest was saved by Same Elliot and Woody Harrelson.

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Sculptures of two knights, one who resembles Sam Elliot and the other Woody Harrelson. Text reads: Contemplating that time in the 1520s , during the Ottoman siege, when Budapest was saved by Same Elliot and Woody Harrelson.

But the best geriatric game is, of course, Doom.

CC: @ledeuns@bsd.network

CC: @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

Anyone who doesn't shout and jump in the PA-PA-PA-PAPAPA section, sadly lacks a soul.

CC: @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

Molly Crabapple, artist and activist:

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There is no ethical way to use AI art. They are all trained on stolen images and all of them are built for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing human artists.

It Follows (2015)

This is such a fun movie with a somewhat unique premise.

#BlahbylonsMovieRecommendations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkZYbOH0ujw

I've been helping some friends and colleagues block some of the site scraping bots that are feeding "AI" models. Decided to take some of my notes and make something others could use too. It's a work-in-progress. Happy to add to or correct things.
https://neil-clarke.com/block-the-bots-that-feed-ai-models-by-scraping-your-website/

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never got bullied but I remember a kid that did when I was growing up. Let’s call him Mike.
>scrawny. pasty kid. Curly hair, ginger, wore glasses.
>no friends
>constantly picked on by everyone
>I was pretty much the only kid that was pleasant to him. Never really had it in me to be a dick to people.
>Didn’t talk to him much though. Mostly just a smile and a headnod in the hallways
>spent most of his lunches writing and drawing in a notebook by himself
>everyday, constant bullying
>one day on the bus home, it was worse than usual. Don’t remember what exactly was said, but it was bad.
>I sat there and minded my own business
>kid goes home and hangs himself
>next day at school, everyone talked about how much they missed him and how they all loved him
>words cannot describe my disgust
>his funeral is coming up, I go only kid from my school that shows up his mother runs up to me
>you must be Phil! Mike always told me how you two were best friends! He always told me about all the fun you guys had etc etc
>It dawns on me
>everyday at lunch he was writing down made up stories of he and I hanging out and having a good time
>the thing that really haunts me, the thing that still keeps me up some nights now, 15 years later, is what she said next
>I just know that if you were on that bus you would have stopped them

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Anon was there

If you live in a city with tall buildings, take a look at the night skyline. The buildings probably have flashing lights on them to help aircraft pilots to identify the shapes of buildings and not fly into them.

You might notice that the buildings flash in synchrony, even though they are hundreds of metres apart. What's going on?

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Chicago skyline at night; photo by Petr Kratochvil.

Yesterday’s Mystery Person was Karen Silkwood.

From Wikipedia: Karen Silkwood was an American chemical technician and labor union activist known for raising concerns about corporate practices related to health and safety in a nuclear facility.

She worked at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site in Oklahoma, making plutonium pellets, and became the first woman on the union's negotiating team.

1/2

"Britney Spears. Dead."

🤦 I'm so sorry.

Wait, are there any movie with a title that isn't made automatically funnier by adding "...Between my Legs"?

How shitty some people can be?

MYSTERY PERSON QUIZ

Do you know who this person is?

Give your answer or make your best guess below. (No reverse image search and peeking at other responses.)

His name will be revealed tomorrow.

Please boost for more responses.

#MysteryPersonQuiz

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Sometimes I even use napkins and buy receipts and pieces of torn newspaper.

Instead of using the group actor, it just picks a random person to announce new posts. Not the author, not anyone related, just apparently anyone on the server.

My best wishes and luck, it' all I can say.

How difficult could be to find another collaborator? You may have one or two different bands simultaneously, apart from the one you already have. You may even give different musical approachings to these different projects.

Just guessing. It's hard when you feel a collaborator is lagging the final work. I wish you luck.

No. I don't feel sorry. Hit. Hit hard.

Can't you both agree on some part of the material to be published right now, and keep working on the rest for, say, a second album, or an extended one?

obsdfreqd moved from tildegit.org to sourcehut

https://git.sr.ht/~solene/obsdfreqd

testing for the version 1.2.0 is welcome

#openbsd

If, on the contrary, it's the usual material from crappy bosses that only want to reaffirm themselves in their bossy bullshit, just tell them that it was "very remarkable and with very enlightening ideas" and move on.

I got nothin'.

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Killer Queen tweets: How do I teach my body that my flight or flight response is supposed to be for life or death situations, no answering an email.

Go #BlahbylonsDailyRetroMusic !

https://www.badspacecomics.com/

Sorry, Grace. DM me and I'll try to explain my treason.

ROUND 6

There's only one woman you can have sex with for the rest of your life. Who is it going to be?

Round 1 thru 4 winner: Gillian Anderson

Round 5 winner: Margot Robbie

Gillian Anderson was finally unseated by Margot Robbie. Will Robbie win again?

What is always superb in his work is the language economy, the to-the-point sentences, the lack of useless words and meaningless descriptions. Hemingway invented the modern prose and all of us readers and writers owe him a drink.

Aunque antiguamente se llamaba torneo «masculino», siempre se han podido presentar mujeres. Fue en 1986 cuando Susan Polgar [1] llegó a semifinales y le tuvieron que cambiar el nombre a la categoría y esta pasó a ser general.

[1] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zsuzsa_Polg%C3%A1r

ROUND 7

There's only one man you can have sex with for the rest of your life. Who is it going to be?

Round 1 thru 6 winner: Trent Reznor

Ok, this is getting ridiculous. Can’t anyone unseat Trent Reznor? My choice from Saturday was Bernal.

CC: @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer

If a book has an "absolutely uninteresting storyline", then it's not that "great" to me, so I drop it and get another one.

@lakelady

"And to be understood is to be leveled down,
And to be grasped is but to reach one’s fullness"

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58713/defeat-56d23d566b4c3

Pronounce
Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/pronounce
#smbc #hiveworks #comics #linguistics