Notices by Lydia Conwell :mastodon: (lydiaconwell@todon.nl)

Computers were more impressive when they were crappy.

It would be like, wow! you made that crappy thing do that?!

Now, it's just pixels and stuff.

#Computers #Crappy

@aral I think they were joking. @UsagiTsukino @grrlscientist

#CraigMurray | Starmer and Lammy are Terrified

"So why did the UK, and the UK alone, say that it is not responsible for ensuring that other parties comply with international law, adding later a specific reference to the Geneva Conventions?

It is perfectly simple. #Starmer and #Lammy are terrified about future charges of complicity in Israeli war crimes. So the UK, only, feels it necessary to emphasise that they do not bear legal responsibility for Israel’s actions."

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/06/starmer-and-lammy-are-terrified/

#GenevaConventions #Gaza #Genocide #TheIsrael #UK #UN #weaponsIndustry

@aral I just see a future where everyone is manipulated and controlled by governments and corporations that pre-empt everything a population will do.

#AsaWinstanley | Illegal police raid on my home won’t stop me covering #Gaza

'... the “counter-terror” police have been weaponised against the Palestine solidarity movement, and against journalists who report critically and accurately on Israel.'

https://asawinstanley.substack.com/p/illegal-police-raid-on-my-home-wont

#Palestine #CounterTerrorismPolice #CounterTerrorismLaw #Journalism

I smile when I see this message ...

But how will I ever be able to read a Canary article again?

I started #reading Lady Chatterley's Lover and I'm not sure what to make of it yet.

I mean, I've only read a couple of chapters so it's early days.

But I've got a feeling its main USP is a controversial-for-the-time liberal attitude to sex and I'm not sure I'm going to find it all that interesting.

I'll give it a go though.

Actually, one concept that impressed me a lot is how it is mentioned one of the pits had been burning for years because it would take thousands of pounds to put out. So the surrounding area is permeated with burning and smoke.

It certainly sets a particular scene.

#DHLawrence #LadyChatterleysLover #books

My latest #ScienceFiction #novel is available in #eBook format!! 💫

It's about two women agents who are highly skilled fighting with blades. While they are undercover in enemy space, they find themselves in need of a new pilot. But they quickly attract attention from the oppressor enemy soldiers, which further threatens their mission.

It is a novel inspired by Western settler #colonialism and the taking of #indigenous land.

https://books2read.com/u/bWa70q

#Books #Writing #SelfPublishing #Scifi #Resistance #IndieWriter #Cyborg #Espionage

I should really spellcheck before I poot

But those yellow ribbons people wear are today's Swastikas.

Looking after #cats is really easy.

All you have to do is give them everything they want all the time.

So the new Harry Potter TV show is just going to be a remake of the movies because writing new material is too difficult apparently.

You know when people go all pale when they've had a shock ...

does the blood all go to their legs to help them run away?

#AskFreddy

It is definitely one of my favourite #TimeTravel movies

It being contained in a small location keeps it enjoyable and stops it getting too messy. And I think this is partly because it's a Japanese film.

If it was made in the West, I imagine it going into something much bigger, somehow leaking out from the location, with the film makers probably trying to make some deep, mind-bending loop ending.

This movie is entirely unpretentious but very, very clever.

#Movies #TimeTravelMovies

I watched a really enjoyable #Japanese movie called Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes.

It's basically about a guy who discovers a two minute lag between two laptop webcams, and very quickly discovers he can have conversations with himself, with his future self revealing things about the future 2 minutes ahead.

It's called a #ScieneFiction comedy, but really it's just a playful take on time travel. The characters take this simple premise then expand upon it, taking the two minute future/past scenario further, with pleasing results.

Strangely, many of the scenes are replayed from a different perspective but they don't feel repetitive or become tiresome. Pretty much everything is foreshadowed as well, so the sense of peril is diminished, but it's still very enjoyable and somehow it doesn't matter.

What drives the film forward is how it takes you through the time travel logic. It's complex but not difficult to follow. It all seems carefully thought out and you could sit and carefully work it all out in your head (I didn't) but it's playful enough to make you think you don't need to scrutinise it too much.

And it's all set in one location in a shop/office building. It's all neat, simple and contained, and it's contained within 70 mins.

It's a good film.

#JapaneseCinema #Movies #Films #Scifi

#Skwawkbox | Labour cancels women’s conference amid ‘bonfire of equalities’ as Starmer goes full Farage

"Keir Starmer’s Labour has cancelled its women’s conference citing, according to party sources, the “political risk, security risk and legal risk” of proceeding with the conference after the High Court’s ruling on transgender issues. All Labour’s women are deprived of their conference in order to exclude trans women."

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/05/24/labour-cancels-womens-conference-amid-bonfire-of-equalities-as-starmer-goes-full-farage/

#Trans #Labour #Women #Equality #Starmer

#Skwawkbox | Israel’s handful of ‘aid trucks’ is pure #PR. After months of starvation, it will not save these kids

"Kids were starving in Gaza BEFORE Israel’s blockade. A few trucks now for Israeli and western propaganda is too little, too late – lift the whole blockade NOW"

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/05/20/israels-handful-of-aid-trucks-is-pure-pr-after-months-of-starvation-it-will-not-save-these-kids/

#Gaza #Starvation #Genocide #propaganda

#DeclassifiedUK | UK leaders have betrayed those who fought in WW2

"Once the Nazis were defeated, the postwar world established a key principle. At the Nuremberg trials in 1945/46, the German leaders who were executed were convicted primarily of waging aggressive war. As the International Military Tribunal noted, aggression “is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime.”

Since 1945, British leaders have dispensed with the notion that invasions constitute such a crime.

The UK has itself deployed its military forces for combat over 80 times in 47 countries since the end of WW2. These episodes include outright invasions – notably Egypt (1956), Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003) – and interventions to remove governments that were tantamount to invasions – such as British Guiana and Iran (both in 1953), Indonesia (1957), Libya and Syria (2011)."

#War #UK #WW2 #MarkCurtis

I just discovered that there is a word spelt similar to the word Torturous which is Tortuous, which means something different.

#Words #Writing

When I read discussions of TV shows, movie franchises, etc. so many people seem to mentally divide good media companies and good TV/movie franchises from bad media companies.

They're all the same really, regardless of how progressive the franchise appears to be.

You can enjoy TV and film, but I'd recommend you don't make media companies your heroes.