RiverTriesToMakeStuff

Just yesterday I was musing on whether Morrissey denied us the possibility of a supergroup featuring Smiths Mark E., Patti, Robert and Elliott.

...Leave it off.

Which is in itself hilarious. Microsoft suffering an entirely confabulated PR hit straight from the technology they're forcing down our throats - love that for them.

@margaret.bsky.social Cool People candidate?

I can see it as a euphemism for haemorrhoids.

Honestly, the CIA is the Jeffrey Epstein of government depts. with its evil fingers in multifarious awful pies. There's no level they won't stoop to. I'm sure they'd secretly fund certain genres of music as a psyop if they thought it was useful, like they did with abstract expressionism in the 50s.

The Kurds should take the weapons and run.

It's really disheartening to see what seemed like a dead slur re-emerge, particularly among people who I thought didn't say it because they knew better, not because they felt they weren't allowed to.

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...if ya know what I mean.

Haha, I haven't!

Hard to do that remotely en masse.

...scams that have happened on Kickstarter etc where someone raises a large amount of money all at once and then disappears. That doesn't work so well if you're getting it month-by-month, for specifically costed things.

...this is how much we need to keep going for another month, take it (donate) or leave it (let it end). It could fit into a larger pattern of small organisations/teams/projects pivoting to direct funding rather than relying on 'VC' scumbags. Maybe it's also more resilient to the 'cut and run'...

I guess it gets complicated when you get into the weeds of hiring personel etc, and the dynamic nature of costs for running a business overall. It also maybe starts to have more significant overlap with Patreon at that point. Definitely I think it'd be great to see more 'things' overall saying...

Thanks. I wish I had any of the technical skills or resources needed to get ideas like this off the ground.

I think that online communities can do incredible things when there's radical transparency and a mutual commitent to aims other than profit-at-all-costs.

...player base wanted to. Ideally the service would be structured as a community interest non-profit which would meet its own costs and pay its staff but otherwise provide the cheapest/least predatory hosting possible, perhaps limiting customers to those who operate on broadly the same principles.

It could have something of a chilling effect on donations past the breakeven point, and create a sort of month-to-month survival atmosphere. But it would mean that if the players of a discontinued game want to collectively host it and keep it alive, they could do that for as long as the...

It's astonishing frankly that they didn't go with the 'slurry' angle in their own marketing.

it's super transparent what it costs to run XYZ, and people who donate can see exactly the effect that their contribution has (and the services their chosen projects get for their money). It would also mean that the people running projects no longer have to act as middlemen for donations. #gamedev

The shutting down of Myrient and various other things due to hosting costs makes me wonder whether there's a niche for a service (could be called 'PoolFund' or something) which provides combined hosting and crowdfunding. Ie. the costs for each month are shown publicly as a progress bar, so that...

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Hell of a post to misread.

I feel like a french maid who is also a heavy shedding breed is a bit counter-productive. I'm not going to pay them to just be hoovering up their own fur constantly.

The queue for the toilets can be killer.

Finally the horny shitposting/shit hornyposting I was promised.

'Dear diary, today I fell over' 🤔

Ta Ta Taaaaaaaaaaaa - Shock Horror Sound Effect YouTube video by Mr. Siren

That gif simply must be paired with this sound effect.

I dreamt I inherited £80k last night and I'm not saying I want anyone to die but it would be really bloody handy right about now.

I have a soft spot for CSI, mostly because it was by far the most shocking, violent, obscene show that was allowed to watch as a child because it was ultimately about 'getting the bad guys' using intellect and technology. Much preferable to how things work in this crapsack world.

Oh yeah! I forgot about the fire risk issues from powdered food production.