It is very annoying to discover, while writing about #palaeography - in which the shape of letters matters very much - that Times New Roman changes the shape of the letter a depending on whether it is italicised or not. #harrumph
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#fediverse #SocialMedia #Bluesky #harrumph
Seeing... interesting comments this week in defense of Mastodon/the fediverse, as if the recent activity on Bluesky is an issue for people here.
Sure, when folks leave Twitter/X and just bounce over here cold it's work for admin support here.
People leaving here because Bluesky may be perceived as more inclusive and less "techie" could be an issue. Are they right?
Otherwise:
If you've got a social network here that works for you, why worry?
#college #reading #longreads #harrumph
So yeah, that recent Atlantic article about those darn kids not reading hefty, overlong classics?
Here's a response from one of the teachers who were interviewed:
Carrie M. Santo-Thomas · The Atlantic Did Me Dirty
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◯ @matt @LibrarianRA Why are Statler and Waldorf on the bottom row? They were always in the balcony. #harrumph
Can’t tell you how disappointed I am to be in Louisiana for the first time and find out that the restaurant where we stopped for dinner is out of grits. #Harrumph
I liked #AMurderAtTheEndOfTheWorld less. It's slickness, double timeline, frozen Icelandic setting and of course the whodunnit hook kept me watching. Kudos for working in a critique of our tech billionaire economy and reference to the human made apocalypse. But it lost me for really sloppy attention to actual logic. How does a main character escape out a door in a hotel that's been frozen in when it takes police hours to tunnel through ice to get in? And walk across snowfields to the north coast (carrying a child), when that journey almost killed two other characters, to meet a boat waiting through a blizzard in a miraculously ice free bay?? #Harrumph
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If #snl doesn't go after #Apple and the Chinese govt for cancelling #JonStewart this weekend, there's no point to the show anymore.
If anyone knows anyone who knows someone who knows someone who writes there, tell them I said to do it AND make it funny! #harrumph
Had to switch to supermarket eggs because foxes kept eating the ones brought by the milkman. Pale yolks make for unappetising scrambled eggs compared to the lovely crocus yellow of the local ones.
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For one thing, MMS hasn't been updated since the naughties, so sending video to a Green Bubble zone produces potato results.
There are other features that stop working when you're not in iMessage.
Of course, Apple loves to give people the impression that there's something wrong with Android, rather than letting their users realize that iMessage is not texting, but whatevs.
I'm kinda sick of the whole situation. And spoilt little iBrats. #Harrumph
Telling me I have to agree to cookies BEFORE telling me I’ve hit a paywall #harrumph
Just musing on how un-reassuring it is when a paid professional makes the *same* error year after year… and we remind them that they confirmed IN AN EMAIL what we’re asserting.
It irks me that other companies, who aren’t that *on it*, will be missing such (what I consider) shoddy business practice. #harrumph #accounts
