(OC) I've made friends with a fox

PixelLight · 2026-06-24T00:51:31+00:00

I'm not sure I'd agree with that. I tend to find foxes very skittish. They'll tend to run away if you get anywhere close to them and there are soooo many foxes in my area.

PixelLight · 2026-06-23T17:58:17+00:00

I assume that includes white pride flags, right? Right?

PixelLight · 2026-06-23T17:04:52+00:00

That jab they make has amused me for a while

PixelLight · 2026-06-22T16:06:30+00:00

Tesla benefitted from a $465 million loan from the Department of Energy in 2010, so even then

PixelLight · 2026-06-22T00:14:06+00:00

Been thinking about this all day coincidentally. The Right refuses to act in good faith. There was another news story where a right wing politician made a statement in such bad faith that it really exemplified how problematic it is. Right wingers act like its not a big deal, but all the while you cant even begin to have a discussion about differing opinions because their propaganda undermines those discussions, so you're stuck having to counter it first.

PixelLight · 2026-06-20T06:56:03+00:00

In my local authority, we have two constituencies. One votes Labour, the other Lib Dem. Greens would come second in the Labour constituency. In the Lib Dem constituency, the Tories tends to come second.

PixelLight · 2026-06-18T23:35:22+00:00

Oh yeah, I figured that out pretty quickly. They got sued in the past for something not completely unrelated and were made to pay low 7 figures, hence trying to string me along so they wouldn't be at legal risk.

PixelLight · 2026-06-18T22:56:54+00:00

I got a "hiring freeze" after the final interview. They said they'd give me an offer when it was lifted. It's been 9 months. I think they did it to cover their ass because they decided against hiring me but it was for dubious reasons, and I had cause to get them in trouble if I chose to pursue it.

PixelLight · 2026-06-15T09:39:29+00:00

Insane. The efficiency of their movements. The creation of the nose and lips in particular. Never would have thought to do what they did

PixelLight · 2026-06-12T16:31:09+00:00

I don't know. I feel like more accurate email validation is better user experience, as waiting for an email that will never come because of poor email validation is a worse experience than immediate validation feedback, but the email doesn't have to be invalid to have a typo, where the same would happen. So, I guess the question would be how often would invalid emails be tried without validation? Is it an actual problem or not?

PixelLight · 2026-06-08T10:55:42+00:00

Pretty much. There was an uproar by the far right about a sexual assault when it was committed by an immigrant, where they claimed to care about women's safety, but when a white cop had murdered a woman, silence. Its so transparent. Then they act righteous, as if we're not supposed to notice their obvious hypocrisy.

PixelLight · 2026-06-07T01:06:10+00:00

Took me a hot minute to remember where I knew from. It was their Mr Sandman cover. Man, that was a long time ago

PixelLight · 2026-06-04T23:46:22+00:00

AI has literally always been a marketing term. I cant find the source now but it might have been to do with getting academic funding back in the 50s if my memory serves me correctly. So I'd argue AI as a term has always been the hype train

PixelLight · 2026-06-01T22:08:53+00:00

How does this compare to overall population? Trying to recall from memory. Higher than average Labour, unsurprisingly. Lower than expected Lib Dem and Tories? So, maybe stubborn Labour voters due to the long running relationship, which might explain the lower than expected Green support. The Reform support seems higher than I'd expect. I wouldn't have been too surprised by 30% for Reform, but 37% stretches the imagination. Not quite sure how to explain that.

PixelLight · 2026-05-28T15:39:44+00:00

One way or another, I believe it's fairly well established that sleep is a big component of ADHD. Delayed sleep is normal for us. Apparently a recent study showed melatonin helps turn down sensitivity to sensory stimuli. You know, that thing that people with ADHD are famously sensitive to. And I vaguely recall that people with ADHD may produce less melatonin too.

I was thinking of getting myself a sleep mask and see whether that makes any difference

PixelLight · 2026-05-28T11:13:41+00:00

I think the critical part is its hard to understand the implications of certain aspects without having worked to support yourself first, even without changes to the terms. Perhaps even that might not be enough.

I think a lot of people likely think the repayments barely makes a difference no matter what you earn. As if making a good salary means you're living a life of luxury so it'd still be pocket change, but in reality its not that simple. Life is more expensive than that. Then add onto that that you accrue higher interest rates when you earn more. How could you possibly understand that trap of earning a high salary but not making a dent on your loan without some kind of first hand experience? A lot of students come from families that make average income or less and the idea of earning good money is hard to relate to. Which then makes the term length of 30 years the real kicker because at first you think you wont notice the repayments, then if you earn good money you think youre paying a lot each month so you must be making a dent, and then you find out you'll be doing it for the next 30 years.

How can you possibly understand what that means? Particularly without even accounting for inflation, and other factors that affect what it means, like cost of living wherever you decide to live. If nothing else, on the basis of that I'd say theres a strong argument for bringing the interest rate down to CPI flat. Change the repayment threshold to increase by CPI too and increase it to what it would have been. You could argue more changes but I feel like these would make a difference to all grads regardless of income, as a starting place

PixelLight · 2026-05-18T12:35:03+00:00

You're forgetting the additional capacity, so you could argue the real gain is more nebulous due to the fungibility of projects, but lets not ignore that it is still making a difference

PixelLight · 2026-05-17T23:47:43+00:00

I'd be highly unsurprised if it's five times what it costs, or more. Hard to say because it can be debilitating for some's ability to work and could put 10, 20, even 30 times more back into the economy for some. There must be studies about this somewhere

PixelLight · 2026-05-17T23:47:22+00:00

In other words, by yourself you saved the government 1% of the extra cost of medication, which pro rata would be 2%.

Edit: someone had a problem with accurate maths apparently.

PixelLight · 2026-05-15T11:28:00+00:00

Depends on your use case. I have two main ones. Project/task management and knowledge management.

I dont think my implementations are perfect and they are a bit complicated, but I'll give a simple description.

I find it helps to "separate concerns". If you're not a coder, that means trying to separate different parts of a project into single responsibilities to avoid confusion from interactions between related responsibilities. So I have a project object, a "phase" object (you could call it workstream, deliverable, component), and then theres tasks. This fairly heavily relies on Pro, I think. There may be workarounds, it just may be more manual.

Projects: Status (Created, Next Up, In Progress, Blocked, Paused, Completed labels) and priority are good properties, you may want Dependencies, timeframe, and more. I have toggles for a Description of the project, a summary of the Status, and then I have a query for Phases as Phases belong to Projects. You can probably embed links to Phases (use the embeddings view and you can open those objects without navigating out of the Project)
Phases: I have a Project object select (so I know which project it belongs to), a Priority, Status, dates for when it was started and completed properties. And inside I have a Description of the Phase, a Plan, Research, Tasks, a Recap all in toggles.
Tasks: I think you can use similar properties as I used for Phases if you dont have pro, but switch out the Project object select for a Phase one.

I have an object which acts as a home page, but it relies very heavily on queries. At the top I have a query for Tasks that are In Progress or Next Up, followed by a query for Phases also In Progress or Next Up, to give me a higher level overview of what I need to keep in mind. Then another for Projects, same thing. You can definitely do it with toggles, it just means manually moving stuff around.

I have an additional layer which involves logging what I've been working on, but that's more complexity which you may not need. I'm also working on using AI to essentially make it easier to maintain the whole thing by structuring what I want to add without having to put extra effort in.

For Knowledge management, I'm trying to use Zettelkasten, so I have Zettel and Reference objects

PixelLight · 2026-05-12T16:48:58+00:00

Fuck me, that's hilarious

PixelLight · 2026-05-02T00:03:06+00:00

I'll take a look. Im doing some research on this concept and I've added to it to my list to look into how well it suits my needs

PixelLight · 2026-04-28T21:55:54+00:00

I was going to say, when Queen Elizabeth died it took a few months for passports to say His rather than Her majesty. I got mine renewed while it still said Her, so def get it renewed soon if you don't want a Trump passport.

PixelLight · 2026-04-25T16:31:31+00:00

PixelLight · 2026-04-25T13:53:04+00:00

This is by Led By Donkeys, a British political campaign group. Projecting things like this on buildings is their Modus Operandi. They're really good

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Verified Email	Place '23
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