“Give us everything we want or we will stage an armed uprising, also we really really want to do an armed uprising and have been openly saying so for years”

Doesn’t seem like a group worth placating

God I hope they at least ask the women first.

Aaahahaaahahaahahaaahahahaa…

Yeah, that’s exactly how it will work!

All of these people who had already decided they wanted to vote for him after he mocked someone’s disability, insulted the parents of a fallen marine, and declared on tape that he sexually assaulted women.

Fuck these verminous excuses for humanity

Person, camera

Envy, I suppose. Couldn’t tell you the exact difference off the top of my head…

Al-gebra? Sounds like somewhere that needs bombing

Don’t mistake jealousy for respect

Pay attention to what you’re doing

Musk is happy to censor at the request of other far less democratic nations, of course.

Remember when MS brought Skype, and had it pre-installed and running at startup for every Windows PC, and you really had to fight to make it go away.

And then COVID hit, and everyone urgently needed video conferencing and had Skype pre-installed, and still no-one used it?

GE imaging kit (certainly their CT scanners) do (or did for as long as I used them) run on Linux.

Ain’t no mountain high enough?

He did the ice bucket challenge when that was a thing. Challenged one of his sons and Barack Obama, naturally. Also I couldn’t find an actual list of who challenged who with the whole thing, but I’m pretty sure no-one nominated him.

Remember when there was that anonymous -written open letter from someone inside the Trump administration, assuring everyone that we needn’t worry as grown ups were keeping everything stable and stopping him destroying alliances and the rules of law on idiotic whims?

Don’t know why, but I suddenly remembered that today. Don’t think it worked.

Surprised it’s a leaked video, and not a campaign ad

Longer fast primes can give you that tiny depth of field that gives that lovely separation between the subject and background. Pair with a bounced flash (assuming you’re indoors)* and you can get gorgeous images.

Downside is if you’re in a smaller area, a longer lens can make it tricky to frame up properly (you may find yourself trying to become one with a wall). A shorter zoom can give you a bit more flexibility (forget a big range zoom, they’re too slow and you won’t use half of it).

*Read it back, you’re outside! A diffused flash (ideally off-camera) can give you that nice separation closer up even with a slightly slower lens. I would try the 15-35, and a flash with an extension cord (and a diffuser attachment or bounce card!). Flash can also ensure you get a nice shutter speed (dunno what the shutter sync is on a R10, but you should be fine with the hand shake), and maybe a decent pair of gloves in case it gets cold as the night goes on!

Urgh…

‘There is a word in Newspeak,’ said Syme, ‘I don’t know whether you know it: duckspeak, to quack like a duck. It is one of those interesting words that have two contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it is abuse, applied to someone you agree with, it is praise.’

‘There is a word in Newspeak,’ said Syme, ‘I don’t know whether you know it: duckspeak, to quack like a duck. It is one of those interesting words that have two contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it is abuse, applied to someone you agree with, it is praise.’

I LOVE YOU KITCHEN GUN

“If we don’t publish their stuff, they’ll go somewhere else where we don’t get their advertising revenue we can’t check that their material doesn’t cross the lines of our standards which we don’t enforce because money. Therefore, not publishing them would be a violation of income free speech because they bring in money from their other fanatics couldn’t possibly post any where else and so is worse than not making money off publishing and promoting them”