Alison
@alegrya.bsky.social
Multi-crafty LSG, morning walker, WoW player, thoughtful and generally well organised. A lapsed tech writer, content governor who spends a lot of time volunteering and being shadowed by a staffadore. Burgeoning bookkeeper looking for opportunities.
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solved my laptop being cold in the morning in a dumb way
@piss.beauty/heater
CPUs can make a little heat, as a treat
tangled.org
October 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
solved my laptop being cold in the morning in a dumb way
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Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know)
Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you
Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you
September 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know)
Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you
Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you
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BIG BOAT STUCK
Company launches plan to refloat, salvage grounded ship in Northwest Passage
Updated Sept. 11 at 4:50 p.m. ET A plan to salvage the cargo ship Thamesborg is underway after the Canadian Coast Guard completed aerial and remote-operated vehicle surveys of the vessel, which sits g...
nunatsiaq.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
BIG BOAT STUCK
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Attention fellow AUSTRALIANS! 🇦🇺
We now have an official petition to parliament to STOP MASTERCARD and VISA from its campaign of censorship, restricting what legal products we can buy.
Please sign it now, and if you're not an Aussie, spread the word!
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
We now have an official petition to parliament to STOP MASTERCARD and VISA from its campaign of censorship, restricting what legal products we can buy.
Please sign it now, and if you're not an Aussie, spread the word!
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
September 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Attention fellow AUSTRALIANS! 🇦🇺
We now have an official petition to parliament to STOP MASTERCARD and VISA from its campaign of censorship, restricting what legal products we can buy.
Please sign it now, and if you're not an Aussie, spread the word!
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
We now have an official petition to parliament to STOP MASTERCARD and VISA from its campaign of censorship, restricting what legal products we can buy.
Please sign it now, and if you're not an Aussie, spread the word!
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
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Holy shit, and it's my birthday next week.
This six-layer stacked cheesecake, part chocolate, part coffee, is less complicated (one-bowl cookie layers, one-bowl cheesecake) and even more wildly delicious than it looks. I think it's got Weekend Baking Project written all over it, don't you think?
smittenkitchen.com/2018/08/laye...
smittenkitchen.com/2018/08/laye...
August 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Holy shit, and it's my birthday next week.
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Good of the UK to do it before us to show what a clusterf*ck it is
The introduction of age-verification in the UK this weekend appears to be an unmitigated disaster. Anyone accessing socials now has to upload ID, scan their face or otherwise verify. The outrage is widespread and everyone is just finding workarounds.
The government has gone into defense.
The government has gone into defense.
Starmer defends Online Safety Act as `child protection´
Rules introduced under the Act on July 25 require online platforms to take steps to prevent children accessing harmful content.
www.dailymail.co.uk
July 29, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Good of the UK to do it before us to show what a clusterf*ck it is
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With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
July 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
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As for my favourite spoonerized business name, it will never not be this furniture showroom in New Zealand...
July 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
As for my favourite spoonerized business name, it will never not be this furniture showroom in New Zealand...
As the temperatures finally cool in SEQ I'm starting to see the occasional knit pop up and am running up against how to figure out who is likely to be offended or pleased if asked about their knit. This morning it was a cabled vest on a gent at the local shops, if I wasn't already in my car....
July 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
As the temperatures finally cool in SEQ I'm starting to see the occasional knit pop up and am running up against how to figure out who is likely to be offended or pleased if asked about their knit. This morning it was a cabled vest on a gent at the local shops, if I wasn't already in my car....
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My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!
July 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!
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No financial data was leaked!
Just your identity, location history, loyalty programs, and enough PII to unlock a free trial of being you.
Just your identity, location history, loyalty programs, and enough PII to unlock a free trial of being you.
Qantas discloses a data breach after hackers gained access to a third-party platform with personal data of 6M customers, but says no financial info was exposed (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
July 2, 2025 at 4:51 AM
No financial data was leaked!
Just your identity, location history, loyalty programs, and enough PII to unlock a free trial of being you.
Just your identity, location history, loyalty programs, and enough PII to unlock a free trial of being you.
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I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
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Do not buy books from Dark Owl Publishing! The owner and operator is Andrea Dawn, a known white supremacist, who is currently on threads talking about plowing cars into protesters.
June 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Do not buy books from Dark Owl Publishing! The owner and operator is Andrea Dawn, a known white supremacist, who is currently on threads talking about plowing cars into protesters.
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Democracies do not mobilize their military against their own people. Authoritarian states do. This is a war-footing escalation, intended to assert control. Massive violation of 🚨 civil liberties and🚨rule of law.
CNN: We have breaking news now from the Pentagon. CNN can now report that roughly 500 Marines are being mobilized in response to the protests in Los Angeles.
June 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Democracies do not mobilize their military against their own people. Authoritarian states do. This is a war-footing escalation, intended to assert control. Massive violation of 🚨 civil liberties and🚨rule of law.
We're reaching the time of year when I one again go looking for patterns so I can knit Annie some pajamas that aren't too hard to get on her. Maybe I should just see if an old flannel works.
June 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We're reaching the time of year when I one again go looking for patterns so I can knit Annie some pajamas that aren't too hard to get on her. Maybe I should just see if an old flannel works.
Today has turned out to be a part-mitigated shitshow, a definite improvement from unmitigated.
Planning an event for this weekend. After 3.5hrs of sorting out a spreadsheet of deployment orders last night a co-planner leant back in their chair and said "I'm feeling good about this now"
Planning an event for this weekend. After 3.5hrs of sorting out a spreadsheet of deployment orders last night a co-planner leant back in their chair and said "I'm feeling good about this now"
a little girl is making a funny face and saying shut up shut up shut uuuuuuuuuppppp
Alt: a little girl is making a funny face and saying shut up shut up shut uuuuuuuuuppppp
media.tenor.com
June 3, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Today has turned out to be a part-mitigated shitshow, a definite improvement from unmitigated.
Planning an event for this weekend. After 3.5hrs of sorting out a spreadsheet of deployment orders last night a co-planner leant back in their chair and said "I'm feeling good about this now"
Planning an event for this weekend. After 3.5hrs of sorting out a spreadsheet of deployment orders last night a co-planner leant back in their chair and said "I'm feeling good about this now"
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Here we go.
I don't have much to say about this one to encourage you to read, and the title will turn many of you away - and maybe it should - but I don't know what I would do with myself if I didn't get this one out:
I don't have much to say about this one to encourage you to read, and the title will turn many of you away - and maybe it should - but I don't know what I would do with myself if I didn't get this one out:
May 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Here we go.
I don't have much to say about this one to encourage you to read, and the title will turn many of you away - and maybe it should - but I don't know what I would do with myself if I didn't get this one out:
I don't have much to say about this one to encourage you to read, and the title will turn many of you away - and maybe it should - but I don't know what I would do with myself if I didn't get this one out:
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Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia
May 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia
Typing persimmons instead of permissions is definitely not going to confuse anybody when talking about file access.
May 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Typing persimmons instead of permissions is definitely not going to confuse anybody when talking about file access.
I didn't intend to be a RTs account but here we are. It's a case of bantering elsewhere mostly these days. I've been quite an enjoyer of the cooler weather this week, finally getting to wear some knits.
May 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I didn't intend to be a RTs account but here we are. It's a case of bantering elsewhere mostly these days. I've been quite an enjoyer of the cooler weather this week, finally getting to wear some knits.
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Trans men’s insight on this is so fucking valuable in understanding the nuances of what’s going on with men. We need to be amplifying them, and hopefully cis men can realize what is actually the source of their loneliness.
This and
May 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Trans men’s insight on this is so fucking valuable in understanding the nuances of what’s going on with men. We need to be amplifying them, and hopefully cis men can realize what is actually the source of their loneliness.
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I learned to stop saying that things couldn't possibly get any worse in the new year because every year since 2016 has gotten progressively worse. 2025 is no exception.
April 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I learned to stop saying that things couldn't possibly get any worse in the new year because every year since 2016 has gotten progressively worse. 2025 is no exception.
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The Papal conclave is expected to start between the 6th and 12th of May. Eurovision is between the 13th and 17th of May. Social media is about to get very confusing.
April 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The Papal conclave is expected to start between the 6th and 12th of May. Eurovision is between the 13th and 17th of May. Social media is about to get very confusing.
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Mom, I do not want to get in the water.
Wait. No.
I do not want to get out of the water, Mom!
Wait. No.
I do not want to get out of the water, Mom!
April 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Mom, I do not want to get in the water.
Wait. No.
I do not want to get out of the water, Mom!
Wait. No.
I do not want to get out of the water, Mom!