Step 1: Report a copyright violation of my website to the host via its "abuse@" email address.
Step 2: Receive an automated response that I have to fill in their web form.
Step 3: Fill in the web form, which was a 250 character limit for the description of the problem. it says you can attach a file; it doesn't offer any suggestions what should be in it.
Step 4: Wait 24 hours.
1/2
Step 5: Receive an automated email telling you to fill the form in again, but this time include all the information they need.
Step 6: Fill in the form again, this time including all of the information (mostly me swearing I am telling the truth) into a Word document and uploading it.
Step 7: tbc
Whenever I do this, I always get the impression that these companies are making it as hard as humanly possible to report a violation, so they don't have to do anything.
Hmmm. I have just found a piece of paper on which I have writte:
'Scenes
- "the buzzies are swarming" (it's pollination time).'
No clue what I was thinking when I wrote it.
@a284283e No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no.
Have a solidarity hug. 🤗
@a284283e The neurotypical place a lot of value in finishing things, and in not being a quitter.
This does not work for the people who have so many ideas they simply can't finish them all, but live in hope that one day they will.
My guitar is very keen to begin its journey to a new home where someone might actually play it, but the Freegler coming to pick it up has been delayed.
@b884d87d There's a scene in one book of David Edding's Belgariad series where two wizards are having a magical battle. One of them gets overwhelmed, panics, utters a spell he really shouldn't and effectively wipes himself from existence.
So... yes 😀
@b884d87d I wanted to be the kind of person who plays the guitar. I thought I would spend my evenings round a campfire playing with friends.
In the entire 10+ years I have owned the guitar, I haven't had the kind of friends that enjoy sitting around a campfire.
😆
Looking at all your possessions and asking yourself whether you can live without it permanently [bin/rehome] or temporarily [earmark for storage] or must keep handy is quite exhausting.
The amount of stuff we accumulate with the intention of using it "one day" is frightening.
[On an unrelated note, 'earmark' is an odd word.]
@2e712288 It sounds more like maybe it searches through episodes when you're looking for something. I dunno.
I think it certainly wrote their marketing email for them!
@2e712288 "Predictive Demographics is key to discovering podcasts with the right audiences for any campaign goals. And for the first time, we're able to make these accurate predictions based solely on the spoken word of the podcasts. This helps advertisers to discover podcasts with untapped potential, which in turn enables more podcasters to make more money from their craft."
So now we know.
It has cooled down to the point where I am once more wearing the Electrostatic Slippers of Doom. They tend to build up a static charge on the living room carpet, which we only discover when Ryan gives me a hug.
This leads to a situation where I occasionally cringe away from touching him, only to remember I am not actually wearing the slippers....
In Germany, Freiheitsfonds (The Freedom Fund) has bought around 850 people's freedom by paying the fines they cannot - incurred by travelling without a ticket on public transport.
At a cost of more than €800,000, they reckon they've saved the state around €12m, based on the estimated cost per day of keeping someone in prison.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66664823
Geodesic domes containing projections of AI-rendered images depicting "ideal eco futures" featured at the Earth Edition exhibition in California.
The ten-day event was located at the California Institute of Art's (CalArts) campus in Santa Clarita and sought to "shift the tone of the conversation around the climate crisis" with AI technology, large-scale immersive installations and climate-oriented work by over 40 individual artists."
#solarpunk
https://www.dezeen.com/2023/09/25/earth-edition-installations-california-eco-futures/
My decluttering efforts are going well. So far, I've sold two boxes of books, donated 2 large bags of clothing to charity, Freegle'd a dehydrator and recycled a load of old envelopes and empty jars.
Meanwhile, Ryan has... pondered what he can live without.
I tried to explain to my mum that I was exhausted by being surrounded by people all weekend.
She said “but it’s just us now”.
She has been talking non-stop since Friday afternoon. They’ve now got the tv on so loud there’s nowhere in this flat I find the volume comfortable.
🙉
My parents were talking about autism yesterday evening, because a friend of theirs has a daughter who is autistic.
And it sounds like she is a savant - very artistic and a talented musician. And she’s got a job, with a theatre company. Which is brilliant for her.
But the conversation was very much about the great lengths the medical profession had gone to, to fix this poor girl and turn her into a functioning member of society.
🧵
And then my dad was talking (from his entire lack of experience) about the small army of adults who are autistic and have never been diagnosed, and could be walking among us!
If only they also could also be diagnosed and fixed and become productive members of society.
(And this is why I will never tell them I am #ActuallyAutistic).
She’s still p*ssed that my brother now works from home and uses their 4th bedroom as his office, meaning my parents can no longer stay with them.
She takes it very personally, like it’s all done to deprive her of a guest room.
(Ryan and I are adamant we don’t want a guest room, because it would be a waste of space, and we don’t want my parents to visit.)
We told my parents we were hoping to move house, and my mum is now doing what we predicted she would - telling us exactly what we need in the next house.
Remarkably, this always sounds exactly like what she needs us to have - four bedrooms, so we can each have an office and there will still be a guest bedroom.
Or, if needs must, a 3 bedroom house with a room downstairs that could be used as an office, leaving us with… a guest bedroom!
She’s still p*ssed that my brother now works from home and uses their 4th bedroom as his office, meaning my parents can no longer stay with them.
She takes it very personally, like it’s all done to deprive her of a guest room.
(Ryan and I are adamant we don’t want a guest room, because it would be a waste of space, and we don’t want my parents to visit.)
News flash: my parents don’t think a certain celebrity’s reported sexual indiscretions should be front-page news. There are MORE IMPORTANT things to cover, dammit!
(They’re watching tv. They are loud. It’s like a bat shit version of Gogglebox.)
@2e712288 My parents used to own a hotel, and on one occasion I was staying there, and they only had one other guest, who was a commuter who lived there during the week.
Late that night, I was privileged to discover that he really needed to get his prostate checked.
(He was a doctor, so probably he had that covered.)
Ah… guest house plumbing. The only way you can tell whether the noise coming from beyond the wall is someone running a tap or emptying an overfull bladder is by how long it lasts.
(Long enough to type this, so…. Tap!)
@2e712288 I think it's the second one. He was on remand, and plead not guilty to the original charges, so this extra charge is being added onto the same trial.
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