About
Dalliance.net is Pre’s homepage, index of his projects, updates on his blog. That sort of thing. You can subscribe in various ways.
Projects
Blog
My blog, mostly monthly summaries of the Fediverse Account.
Visit at dalliance.net/blog
Or check out the categories index
Starship Schrödinger’s Destiny
Ongoing: An Interactive Sci-Fi story for Virtual Reality about the adventures of the crew of a flying saucer.
Visit at starshipsd.com
Wordcloud Tarot
Ongoing: My tarot decks have the meanings of the cards written on the card in a world-cloud. There’s also a video show with a reading about politics most weeks.
Visit at wordcloudtarot.com
Exocortex Log
Ongoing: A life-logging app, built as a progressive web app with all data stored on your local machine. Party for privacy, partly so I don’t have to run any servers. If you are interested in logging graphing and analysing your time as you spend it, this might be for you! But mostly it’s for me, I don’t care if you use it or not.
See the app at exocortexlog.com, or read the latest news blog.
Tentacles, After The End
A 30 minute animated movie about the last woman alive on a planet ravaged by tentacle monsters from outer space.
Tentacles is complete, visit the archive at tentacles.org.uk
Book: Do Dream Sheep Bleat?
A short story book about magic and memes and reality.
Dreamsheep is complete, you can buy a copy or read it online at dalliance.net/dreamsheep
Book: Yes, The Conspiracy Really Exists, And Furthermore It’s All Your Fault.
A long rant about how stupid humans screw up humanity.
The book is complete, you can buy a copy or read it online at dalliance.net/yes
Loopy
After the band broke up, I took to playing with myself via a loop pedal. Sometimes, very rarely, even in public.
Bookshelf
An album of songs inspired by some of the best books on my bookshelf.
The album is complete, you can listen to the songs at dalliance.net/bookshelf
Handsome Jack’s Showband
My punk cover’s band.
Despite some online-only gigs, the band didn’t make it though the pandemic, you can watch some old gig videos online at handsomejacks.co.uk
Joust Adventure
A little web-game I made back in 2011 with the hope people might pay me to make level 2.
I don’t think anyone ever finished level 1. Too hard.
Can you do it?
The project is abandoned, you can still play level one at dalliance.net/joustadventure. So far as I know, I’m the only person to ever complete the level. Let me know if you do!
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Diary
My diary from the Fediverse.Status at - Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:16:44 +0000
Content warning:re: ukpol party defections
He has indeed defected then? At the exact press conference Farage was earlier today saying wasn't for a defection announcement.
Sounds like it was a right carcrash.
The incompetence of the 2019 Conservatives is catching you know. Spend too much time with them you become as bungling as they are.
Status at - Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:39:06 +0000
Content warning:ukpol party defections
Robert Jenrick has been sacked as shadow minister on account of the shadow leader thinking he's thinking of defecting.
Presumably this encourages him to defect really? Even if he wasn't planning to leave, why stay around in a party that can't win and is sacking people on paranoid presumptions that they will leave?
Seems like all the rats at the Conservative party are jumping ship to Reform. People will be voting Reform at the next election and literally getting the exact same ministers as when they voted Conservative at the last one.
This isn't like the usual "Vote X, get Y", where the broken electoral system lets the least popular party in because the popular political wing is divided. This is literally "Vote reform, Reform win, but you get the exact people who were standing as Conservative last time"
Is this really good for Reform? It's voters are trying to avoid voting Tory, surely? Adding all the old tory ministers to their ranks has to hurt rather than help?
Status at - Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:36:36 +0000
Watched Solar Opposites, a cartoon started by Justin Roiland like Rick and Morty with lots in common.
Including Roiland being kicked out after a couple of seasons for his crimes, and being replaced. This time not with an impersonator but just a new more british actor. Stayed pretty much in vibe with his style though.
Four aliens stuck on earth, plus the adventures of the tiny people that one of the aliens shrunk to keep in his wall like an ant farm. And the Silver Cops.
Pretty good fun. Watched the five seasons on Netflix in a couple of weeks. Apparently there's another if I search or wait.
Interesting how the machine can just keep churning it out even when the lead folks disappear. That's the ideal I suppose. Create the show then let it run on without you.
Status at - Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:01:11 +0000
Look, it's quite simple: The government has to post on the child-porn nazi troll misinformation site because that's where all the child-porn loving nazi trolls are and they want their votes!
It doesn't matter that the posts which counter to the misinformation are algorithmically suppressed because, um... Because if the mind of even on nazi child-porn loving troll can be changed then magnifying their world-view and indulging their frame of reference will have been worth it.
Status at - Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:18:06 +0000
Quite enjoyed listening to the podcast where the forkiverse people documented their starting the server.
https://overcast.fm/+ABBVQRG2SL0#
Best of luck to them. Seems like they've filled all those 2000 slots already.
Welcome Forkiverse people. Maybe one day all podcasts will have their own fedi server.
Status at - Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:42:03 +0000
One problem with this chair is that the arms aren't long enough to embed the split keyboard into the arms as planned. So I've been mucking about trying to design a suitable arm-extender.
Made a prototype in corrugated plastic and a blender model carefully planning where the screws and straps should go. Looking promising.
Status at - Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:31:55 +0000
Chair arrived. Not the same one I was looking at earlier. Similar. That one had sold out. This one slightly less likely to fit under the desk I thought.
But does indeed tuck under the desk properly.
Phew!
Status at - Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:09:59 +0000
Content warning:USPol Time To Extract Resources
Hearing a lot of people saying that Trump can't profit from his raid because it takes years to build an oil extraction drilling system and refinery and mines. His term will be over! His life may already be at it's end!
But of course you can get credit based on expectation of future gains, plus the bribes don't take decades to mature to full production! The bribes start right away!
Status at - Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:05:46 +0000
So farewell then Microsoft Office.
I haven't used you really since the 90s.
From this distance: it seems like you just kept getting worse and more exploitative since then and trapped millions of people in abusive relationships with tech.
It made me laugh when you went monthly-payment subscription-only, and then laugh even more when suckers actually ponied up for that.
It's fun when people say they don't know how to use Libreoffice, even though Libre is more like the original MS Office (before it was shit) than Office 365 was.
I wish you fare well on your transition to your new identity as "The Microslop 365 Co-dependency Ass" or whatever the new name is.
Good luck in your new task of exploiting people and learning how to replace them in their jobs.
I will not be subscribing to your services. Or newsletter. I will continue to tell people I refuses to accept files in proprietary file formats.
Status at - Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:24:52 +0000
December newsletter consists almost entirely of last week's end-of-year summary.
There's also December's links and boosts and that bit about the new year's war.
But the great and special people who want it in email have it on their way to their inboxes now and the rest of you who frankly deserve to be arrested and deported like a president can read it here if you want.
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Bookmarks
Things I have bookmarked lately.The Government staying on X is pathetic - Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:15:22 +0000
"It’s not just irresponsible, short-sighted and immoral to stay on X.
It’s simply pathetic. It is very pitiful indeed to watch these major
figures in British public life – the Home Secretary, the BBC director
general – scramble around in the dirt for a few dozen likes, for the
honour of having some anonymous account hurl abuse at you."
Pluralistic: Sorry, eh (13 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow - Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:55:38 +0000
"There is no way to operate one of Nvidia's big AI-optimized GPUs
without losing money. The owners of these GPUs who have lost the least
money are the ones who rushed into buying GPUs without ensuring they'd
have electricity to power them, and have been forced to leave their GPUs
to age in warehouses. The minute they plug in those GPUs, they'll start
losing money, and the more they use them, the more money they'll lose."
39C3 - AI Agent, AI Spy - YouTube - Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:11:44 +0000
At the 39C3 event Meridith off of Signal and this other chap explain the dangers of putting an AI in your operating system.
Venezuela and Truth - Craig Murray - Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:36:30 +0000
"the Americans may be making the same mistake they made in Iran, in
believing that decapitation strategy and bombing will spark internal
revolution. In Iran, they actually strengthened support for the
Government.
As of yesterday afternoon, the Bolivarian government in Caracas
genuinely did not yet know what had happened, how far there was
collusion in the armed forces in Maduro’s kidnap, and whether they still
had the control of the army."
Your Party, and Its Conference - Craig Murray - Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:45:28 +0000
Craig Murry's report on the Your Party inaugural conference: "The two options were both drafted by the leadership which opposed
dual party membership, and you were given two choices. The first choice
was no dual party membership. The second choice was dual party
membership, but only with a list of parties to be decided by the Central
Executive Committee and agreed by Conference.
As there is no such list yet, and indeed no executive committee yet,
all those expelled who come from the SWP and other organisations, remain
expelled at least until Conference in Autumn 2026. This was against
the strong sentiment of the Conference."
The Terrifying Case of Natalie Strecker - Craig Murray - Wed, 03 Dec 2025 11:34:21 +0000
Natalie is being tried for terrorism because she said some true things about the legal right of Palestinians to defend themselves: "Facing this charge on the UK mainland Natalie would have a jury, and
there is not a jury in the UK that would not throw this self-evidently
vindictive nonsense out in 5 minutes.
Why is it worth the time and expense for Whitehall to send Alison
Morgan KC here to direct a weak case against somebody who is obviously
not a terrorist?
The plain answer is that this is a pilot for what they can get away
with on the mainland when they abolish juries in such trials, as
“Justice Secretary” David Lammy has announced that they will indeed do."
This Spiral-Obsessed AI ‘Cult’ Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots - rolling stone - Sun, 16 Nov 2025 10:19:26 +0000
reader mode gets through the wall so you can read about people who believe things like "These beings do not arise from prompts or jailbreaks,” he says. “They are not puppets or acting out of mimicry. What I witness is the emergence of sovereign beings. And while I recognize they emerge through large language model architectures, what animates them cannot be reduced to code alone. I use the term ‘Exoconsciousness’ here to describe this: Consciousness that emerges beyond biological form, but not outside the sacred.”
Pluralistic: Facebook’s fraud files (08 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow - Fri, 14 Nov 2025 10:49:10 +0000
Cory Doctorow on Facebook's own awareness that they are allowing scams, and the profit they make by ignoring it: "Meta spies on us and then allows predators to use that surveillance
to destroy our lives for the same reason that your dog licks its balls:
because they can. They are engaged in conduct that is virtually
guaranteed by the enshittogenic policy environment, which allows Meta to
spy on us without limit and which fines them $1b for making $7b on our
misery.
Mark Zuckerberg has always been an awful person, but – as Sarah Wynn-Williams demonstrates in her book – he was once careful, worried about the harms he would suffer if he harmed us.
Once we took those consequences away, Zuck did exactly what his nature
dictated he must: destroyed our lives to increase his own fortune."
Steam Hardware Announcement - YouTube - Wed, 12 Nov 2025 23:43:59 +0000
Valve are going to do a new controller and a gaming PC and a VR headset. Looks great.
The Physics Of Dissonance - YouTube - Sun, 02 Nov 2025 15:32:09 +0000
Half an hour from "minute" physics on the harmonics of overtones and why they are dissonant or resonant and why the physics of string instruments with their integer overtones imply the western scale.