Notices by Martin Rundkvist (mrundkvist@archaeo.social), page 2

Come to think of it, you can do worse as a trans girl than grow up with a dad that sits the whole family down to watch the Rocky Horror Picture Show when you're 14.

Funny thing -- I'm an unemployed middle-aged white man who will never make as much money as my dad did. And still I don't feel any attraction to #fascism.

Swords of the Serpentine #ttrpg

I have made my friend David the gaming group's Chief of Military Affairs, because he's great at mastering combat rules and I am not. This means that the opponents in our #ttrpg fights actually behave competently! Every time the players get into a fight I give David the villains' stats and sit back, relieved. Highly recommended.

Polarisation? No, fuck that. I'm still at the same mainstream Swedish democratic socialist political position as I was 30 years ago. What you mean is that there are unashamed Nazis now. That's not a shared responsibility.

@cyberpunklibrarian
I'm a prime case, a poster boy extraordinaire, of the Happy Yet Ignorant #Linux User. I've been running #Ubuntu on a series of machines for over 18 years -- and I still don't know how to do anything at the command line. Because I've hardly ever needed to.

I see this newspaper article about second-hand clothes stores. And I think to myself, yeah, I should buy more second-hand clothes! Then I remember that I never actually buy any clothes at all. Just socks every two years or so.

#fashion #shopping #secondhand

Jag blir galen på det västsvenska bruket av konstruktioner som "hade varit trevligt". Grammatik-error.

Stockholmaren: Vill du gå och fika med mig?

Göteborgskan: Det hade varit trevligt...

Stockholmaren lommar besviken därifrån.

#svenska

@dalias
Yeah, I vet a lot of Wikipedia edits, but so far I haven't caught a reference to a fake source. This of course is much more difficult if someone's writing about a current global celebrity rather than a forgotten Swedish archaeologist.

People say that #LLM s are ruining the "free web". I don't see it. My favourite blogs are fine. #Wikipedia is fine. IMDB, Goodreads, the Swedish #ttrpg forum -- all fine. My own blog is still the same skinny bald guy typing on an actual keyboard in a Stockholm suburb. What's being lost?

#blogging #ai

Well played, Dagens ETC. Two news items on the same page:

* "Reform package intended to make Greeks start families"

* "Greece adopts strict new migration law"

Because of course you can't just teach the immigrants to speak Greek.

#immigration #greece

I'm confused and delighted! Wolfgang Kramer's 1995 classic El Grande is one of my favourite #boardgames. Not too long ago, I told someone that my copy of the game is missing a couple of tiles, and that I've made ugly makeshift replacements. And now someone in Nässjö has sent me super nice wooden ones! ❤️

A Leftie journalist hinted darkly the other day that the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would be an evil book because Musk loves it. That's just the "Hitler was a vegetarian" argument. Neither Douglas Adams nor #scifi fandom in general deserves to be tarred with that brush. Rather few of us are actually megalomaniac narcissist ketamine-addict billionaires.

#books #fascism

I wonder if entrepreneurs understand how massively impopular the term "entrepreneur" is.

#entrepreneurship

@libreoffice
Please, for the love of Haile Selassie, just get rid of the endlessly long list of uninstalled languages from the spell checker. I switch daily between Swedish and UK English, those are the only ones I usually want to see.

#libreoffice

Take a minute to ponder the fact that Western tradwife influencers are mostly really hostile to Near Eastern tradwives whose tradwife pedigree goes back unbroken all the way to the Bronze Age.

#feminism

@auscandoc

You don't have to vaccinate all your kids! Only the ones you want to survive!

#vaccination

@rasmusfleischer
Varför yttrar sig Expressens ledarredaktion om voodoo på Haiti!?

Sweden has a native species of brick-red forest slug, Arion rufus. The country has also recently acquired an invasive slug species that is likewise brick red, Arion vulgaris. Swedish people immediately forgot that A. rufus exists and started to exterminate all brick red slugs.

A Gothenburg study that asked people to send A. vulgaris specimens received 60% indigenous A. rufus. Because people just can't tell them apart.

#biology #environment

Real men microwave ice cream.