The knights and ladies rode to hunt, their cats astride their gloved hands. They were released to pursue prey; some returned a mouse, others brought newt or frog, and some simply had a nap.
The noble whose cat seemed most content was declared the mistress or master of the hunt.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
"It's easy to install :
npm install -D somesuch"
Where do I type that?*
What does it do?
Who should I ask?
I wish new projects wouldn't assume new users know how to magically setup the environments. They're keeping a whole swath of people from even getting started
*ᴵ ᵏⁿᵒʷ ʰᵒʷ ⁿᵖᵐ ʷᵒʳᵏˢ
happy fathers day if your dad sucks i'm your dad now. i'm so proud of you
RT @nise_shi@twitter.com: the real jrpg power fantasy is having the social skills and being confident enough to talk to every inhabitant of a city you’re visiting for the first time
stainless steel tubes production...
Speaking truth to power comes with a cost, I guess.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/06/15/what-does-it-take-to-get-a-cartoonist-fired/
RT @ClareGS87@twitter.com: Big fan of the Victorian criminal who had a tattoo saying "long live France and french fried potatoes"
I look up at the night sky.
"That's a pretty universe, God. You are wearing it well."
"Thanks," I hear in a faint whisper, "it has pockets."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
me: i'd say there's no clean water around for miles
player: so are you saying Michigan has no clean water post-apocalypse
me: not to get too political, but Flint doesn't have clean water *now*
Case in point: Disneyland workers barely surviving, homeless, food-insecure, while the CEO makes $400+ million. Cyberpunk dystopia is here, it's just megacorporations are good at papering over the dystopia with gloss, roller coasters, The Oasis mass-entertainment... and just buying the algos, engines, and editing rooms that manufacture consensus-reality.
https://medium.com/the-guardian/disneyland-workers-face-ruthless-exploitation-their-fight-is-our-fight-4bbfa80359
2018: begging your parents to stop watching so much TV because it rots their brains / not to believe everything they read on the internet
Someone figured out how to take violence completely out of a monster raising game while still having conflict
https://ooblets.com/2018/06/the-secret-ooblets-feature-weve-been-working-on.../
I bloody love The Claws of Axos.
IF YOU ENJOY SOMETHING, THROW MONEY AT THE CREATOR OF WHATEVER PRODUCT YOU ENJOY.
This goes for porn, art, games, books. If you actually want the thing to keep existing, actually pay for the thing please.
Me, as a pirate: The real treasure is the friends we made along the way.
My shipmates: Is that why you're burying us alive?
Me: It's among the reasons, yes.
people writing songs are so fucked up like, they sit around one afternoon and come up with some words and then put them in a random "good" order that sounds "Good" and then they have to fucking shout them at hundreds of people over and over for 35 years
Bad idea of the day: running a script that speaks random words aloud all day while you leave your phone at home, in order to chaff your audio-surveillance-based ad targeting
oh my god
RT @chantastic@twitter.com: i told a friend, in photography, what the tech teams considers "soft skills."
he laughed and said "your industry is so fucked. you're saying that being human is a 'nice to have'." https://twitter.com/kurtiskemple/status/1005470813754216450
Just about to start Planet of the Spiders and finish Pertwee in my Doctor Who From The Beginning Watch.
3rd regeneration ahoy!
