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Thingus
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I like messing with stuff and spinning wool and probably other things too
he/him
I wrote a little RPG; https://thingus.itch.io/hench
Pond, ripples, but the ICC and other European institutions are slowly starting to pivot away from American software services www.theregister.com/2025/10/31/i...
International Criminal Court dumps Microsoft Office
: Rough justice? Redmond out as Germany's openDesk judged a better fit
www.theregister.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I'm frantically looking for a source for this, but I swear there's a story about an army that could not be stood against because of the cow that walked before it. Ivar fashioned a bow out of an entire tree and slew the cow with it, this being the first recorded indirect artillery kill.
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Famous achievements; killed a terrifying cow with a siege weapon
November 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Interferometer
November 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
In that they're both once-necessary compromises that arose from external pressures on the system and may limit its ultimate utility into a local maxima?
Or that they keep emailing you?
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Of course, you'll find reading this your gore-soaked hands difficult
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Roll-on deodorant makes a decent styptic in a pinch
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
(someone already said vibrator, smart guy)
November 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
A bit at a local wrestling promo had a manager delegate his job to 'chatGPT' - they caught it's weird helpful unhelpfulness very well
November 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I like 'mystery games'; it's what's at the centre of all of them, and it draws a helpful analogue to mystery books
November 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I find this man cosmically terrifying, there's nothing behind those eyes but joyful and willing acceptance of the algorithm
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
There's a second order effect; the more things you automate, the faster you get at automating things, the more stuff it becomes practical to automate. This is why we spend two days making sure our macros are right; it's a long-term pa... sorry, the deadline was when?
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Reposted by Thingus
This is now the most colourful thing I own, I need to figure out what to do with it
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 AM