Alhadis
@alhadis.bsky.social
Cynical optimist. I'm just here to post shower-thoughts, weird facts I've just learned (but have nobody specific to share them with), and other irreverent bullcrap. 🇦🇺 Nature lover and tree-hugger proudly hailing from Melbourne, Australia.
Of all the parallels between Nazi Germany and the Trump administration, returning to an older typeface more reminiscent of a "better" period in history wasn't what I was expecting.
Cue the MAGA loyalists 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 online instead of 𝔴𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰, because serif is the new blackletter.
Cue the MAGA loyalists 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 online instead of 𝔴𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰, because serif is the new blackletter.
December 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Of all the parallels between Nazi Germany and the Trump administration, returning to an older typeface more reminiscent of a "better" period in history wasn't what I was expecting.
Cue the MAGA loyalists 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 online instead of 𝔴𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰, because serif is the new blackletter.
Cue the MAGA loyalists 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 online instead of 𝔴𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰, because serif is the new blackletter.
Sooooo… I just completed my first (unnecessary) online age verification to prove I'm an adult.
Which could've been made easier by asking me "Is the word 'cringe' a verb or an adjective?", and answering to the former would unambiguously mark me as an Internet user with a fully-formed frontal lobe. 🙄
Which could've been made easier by asking me "Is the word 'cringe' a verb or an adjective?", and answering to the former would unambiguously mark me as an Internet user with a fully-formed frontal lobe. 🙄
December 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Sooooo… I just completed my first (unnecessary) online age verification to prove I'm an adult.
Which could've been made easier by asking me "Is the word 'cringe' a verb or an adjective?", and answering to the former would unambiguously mark me as an Internet user with a fully-formed frontal lobe. 🙄
Which could've been made easier by asking me "Is the word 'cringe' a verb or an adjective?", and answering to the former would unambiguously mark me as an Internet user with a fully-formed frontal lobe. 🙄
Having another one of those phases where both the online and offline worlds suck and my instinctive response is to delete my social media profiles and withdraw from the world.
So if I disappear from Bluesky, that'll be what's happened. Just a heads up for the literally zero people reading this. :-)
So if I disappear from Bluesky, that'll be what's happened. Just a heads up for the literally zero people reading this. :-)
December 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Having another one of those phases where both the online and offline worlds suck and my instinctive response is to delete my social media profiles and withdraw from the world.
So if I disappear from Bluesky, that'll be what's happened. Just a heads up for the literally zero people reading this. :-)
So if I disappear from Bluesky, that'll be what's happened. Just a heads up for the literally zero people reading this. :-)
I can't believe Halle Berry is 59, holy shit.
She's aged like a fine, athletic wine.
She's aged like a fine, athletic wine.
December 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I can't believe Halle Berry is 59, holy shit.
She's aged like a fine, athletic wine.
She's aged like a fine, athletic wine.
I just realised I've never worn sunglasses in my entire life.
Does that make me weird?
Does that make me weird?
November 29, 2025 at 5:50 AM
I just realised I've never worn sunglasses in my entire life.
Does that make me weird?
Does that make me weird?
Lack of sleep and an abundance of dystopian news makes Homer something-something.
November 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Lack of sleep and an abundance of dystopian news makes Homer something-something.
GitHub's experiencing server issues?
This is why I keep local mirrors of just about everything I depend on, both on a hard-drive and on my MacBook.
This is why I keep local mirrors of just about everything I depend on, both on a hard-drive and on my MacBook.
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
GitHub's experiencing server issues?
This is why I keep local mirrors of just about everything I depend on, both on a hard-drive and on my MacBook.
This is why I keep local mirrors of just about everything I depend on, both on a hard-drive and on my MacBook.
Elon Musk is so uncreative he probably poached his design for the Cybertruck from a fingerpainting drawn by one of his countless children. The car already looks like something a child would've drawn with crayons or KidPix, and since he doesn't need to credit a child it would've been easy plagiarism.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Elon Musk is so uncreative he probably poached his design for the Cybertruck from a fingerpainting drawn by one of his countless children. The car already looks like something a child would've drawn with crayons or KidPix, and since he doesn't need to credit a child it would've been easy plagiarism.
Crackhead bricktexting that continues to document my downward spiral into madness at 72-column resolution
(tagging @mydeathmachine.bsky.social because he's the only one nice enough to bother reading this crap)
(tagging @mydeathmachine.bsky.social because he's the only one nice enough to bother reading this crap)
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November 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Crackhead bricktexting that continues to document my downward spiral into madness at 72-column resolution
(tagging @mydeathmachine.bsky.social because he's the only one nice enough to bother reading this crap)
(tagging @mydeathmachine.bsky.social because he's the only one nice enough to bother reading this crap)
Sharing this for the benefit of my Canuck friends. 🇨🇦
@beaveinflow.bsky.social
@corwincannuck.bsky.social
@cridge17.bsky.social
@beaveinflow.bsky.social
@corwincannuck.bsky.social
@cridge17.bsky.social
Honest Government Ad | Ksi Lisims LNG
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Sharing this for the benefit of my Canuck friends. 🇨🇦
@beaveinflow.bsky.social
@corwincannuck.bsky.social
@cridge17.bsky.social
@beaveinflow.bsky.social
@corwincannuck.bsky.social
@cridge17.bsky.social
My worst nightmare is waking up in Sam Altman's body and being unable to move my eyebrows or speak clearly, my face a death mask of perpetual confusion and suppressed remorse and my every scream a croaky, stammering dribble of nonsense techbrobabble.
October 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
My worst nightmare is waking up in Sam Altman's body and being unable to move my eyebrows or speak clearly, my face a death mask of perpetual confusion and suppressed remorse and my every scream a croaky, stammering dribble of nonsense techbrobabble.
Holy fucking shit, I didn't even know it was possible to do that.
Why isn't the ENTIRE WORLD ALREADY DOING THIS?
Why isn't the ENTIRE WORLD ALREADY DOING THIS?
California bans noisy ads on Netflix, YouTube, and other streaming services
The end to volume jumpscares is in sight.
www.theverge.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Holy fucking shit, I didn't even know it was possible to do that.
Why isn't the ENTIRE WORLD ALREADY DOING THIS?
Why isn't the ENTIRE WORLD ALREADY DOING THIS?
Version control systems that aren't Git scare the shit out of me.
Any time I have to use SVN (or worse, CVS), I feel a physical sense of disorientation caused by every subcommand doing something or being named something different to its Git equivalent.
I can't be the only dev who feels this way… 😫
Any time I have to use SVN (or worse, CVS), I feel a physical sense of disorientation caused by every subcommand doing something or being named something different to its Git equivalent.
I can't be the only dev who feels this way… 😫
October 28, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Version control systems that aren't Git scare the shit out of me.
Any time I have to use SVN (or worse, CVS), I feel a physical sense of disorientation caused by every subcommand doing something or being named something different to its Git equivalent.
I can't be the only dev who feels this way… 😫
Any time I have to use SVN (or worse, CVS), I feel a physical sense of disorientation caused by every subcommand doing something or being named something different to its Git equivalent.
I can't be the only dev who feels this way… 😫
Ever wondered how cool it'd be if we pumped enough oxygen into Uranus that we could ignore the flammable methane that would set an entire planet on fire?
Damn thing would go up like a giant cotton-ball.
Damn thing would go up like a giant cotton-ball.
October 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Ever wondered how cool it'd be if we pumped enough oxygen into Uranus that we could ignore the flammable methane that would set an entire planet on fire?
Damn thing would go up like a giant cotton-ball.
Damn thing would go up like a giant cotton-ball.
42 km/h (26 mph) winds battering the neighbourhood outside at the moment, and the local suburban birdlife are HODLing onto tree-branches like those funny sad people from @foldablehuman.bsky.social's videos on GameStop and NFTs and shit.
October 22, 2025 at 5:26 AM
42 km/h (26 mph) winds battering the neighbourhood outside at the moment, and the local suburban birdlife are HODLing onto tree-branches like those funny sad people from @foldablehuman.bsky.social's videos on GameStop and NFTs and shit.
Reposted by Alhadis
More websites need to offer publicly-available database dumps like these:
datasets.imdbws.com
dumps.wikimedia.org
discogs.com/data
musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBra...
Redundancy is the key to data preservation, and I ain't waiting until AWS carks it again to find myself needing data on an offline site.
datasets.imdbws.com
dumps.wikimedia.org
discogs.com/data
musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBra...
Redundancy is the key to data preservation, and I ain't waiting until AWS carks it again to find myself needing data on an offline site.
IMDb Data Files Download
datasets.imdbws.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
More websites need to offer publicly-available database dumps like these:
datasets.imdbws.com
dumps.wikimedia.org
discogs.com/data
musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBra...
Redundancy is the key to data preservation, and I ain't waiting until AWS carks it again to find myself needing data on an offline site.
datasets.imdbws.com
dumps.wikimedia.org
discogs.com/data
musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBra...
Redundancy is the key to data preservation, and I ain't waiting until AWS carks it again to find myself needing data on an offline site.
A.I. = Appeasing Investors
October 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM
A.I. = Appeasing Investors
Images embedded in MP3 files can optionally be identified by a byte that describes what sort of picture it is (front cover, back cover, leaflet scan, etc). The ID3 specification defines the 18th type as "A bright coloured fish" and completely refuses to elaborate.
… as you do, I suppose.
… as you do, I suppose.
id3v2.4.0-frames - ID3.org
id3.org
October 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Images embedded in MP3 files can optionally be identified by a byte that describes what sort of picture it is (front cover, back cover, leaflet scan, etc). The ID3 specification defines the 18th type as "A bright coloured fish" and completely refuses to elaborate.
… as you do, I suppose.
… as you do, I suppose.
Whenever Australian nightmare fuel is discussed, I find that "giant flying bull-ants" don't get mentioned nearly enough.
And you thought jumping jacks were bad…
And you thought jumping jacks were bad…
October 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Whenever Australian nightmare fuel is discussed, I find that "giant flying bull-ants" don't get mentioned nearly enough.
And you thought jumping jacks were bad…
And you thought jumping jacks were bad…
Heard a lyrebird while out in the bush (though I couldn't see it). I decided to play the Seinfeld theme from my phone a few times in the hopes of reifying a 17-year old meme by teaching it some culture.
The Amazing Lyrebird of Australia - Unseen Footage
YouTube video by waverlyflams
youtu.be
October 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Heard a lyrebird while out in the bush (though I couldn't see it). I decided to play the Seinfeld theme from my phone a few times in the hopes of reifying a 17-year old meme by teaching it some culture.
Trump commuting Santos isn't the same as Santos commuting Trump.
So it really isn't a commutative operation.
#DadJoke #MathsHumour #OrderOfOperations
So it really isn't a commutative operation.
#DadJoke #MathsHumour #OrderOfOperations
October 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Trump commuting Santos isn't the same as Santos commuting Trump.
So it really isn't a commutative operation.
#DadJoke #MathsHumour #OrderOfOperations
So it really isn't a commutative operation.
#DadJoke #MathsHumour #OrderOfOperations