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 - Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:44:01 +0000
Content warning:UKPol Labour / Burnham
Hahhahhaa. 😆
The Labour party are utterly determined that they will obliterate themselves by proving themselves to be run by an executive committee who will not tolerate anything but extractive neoloberal capitalism,
They are a party against their own members.
Andy Burnham has been blocked from standing as a candidate for an upcoming parliamentary by-election in Gorton and Denton by Labour's ruling body.
Status at - Sat, 24 Jan 2026 01:10:37 +0000
Remember when the internet used to be a thing you could use to organize and spread word of your protest and dissatisfaction? It could spark an arab spring or bring down a government.
Now it's all like, oh, there's a protest and threat of general strike so Facebook are suppressing posts from the area and Twitter and demoting anything mentioning the hashtag.
We really should have never let the corporations control the selection algorithms. Not only do they distort it for money from advertisers, they suppress messages that conflict with their billionaire capitalist owner's interests in any way at all.
We must decententralize and decorporatize the internet. Its our only hope.
Solidarity with y'all striking and marching today. I see you here. I see that they can't see you from over there. The corporate internet is as selectively focused as the newspapers were now.
Status at - Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:53:24 +0000
Content warning:UKPol - Green Party Broadcast
Run Zack Run!
Glad to see lots of people liking and sharing the Green Party England&Wales broadcast this week. It's striking.
Hope it's happening in the corporate spaces too, though presumably the capitalist leaders there suppress it with their algorithms.
Zack is in general doing such a great job of speaking my mind really it's unreal.
All the other leaders just seem dazed and confused, trying hard to maintain the status quo, ensure that capital power persists and they don't offend their corporate donors.
Or worse, just blaming the poor and the helpless and threatening that hurting people will solve the problems England and Wales face (it won't).
Here's hoping it has some impact and the Green Party make huge progress because the country seems likely to just get worse and worse under any of the other party's policies and positions.
Status at - Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:17:11 +0000
I was thinking of joining bluesky but I'm confused and overwhelmed trying to determine which instance I should join.
Should I join the W instance? Or the Blacksky instance? Or the bsky-app?
It's too difficult and confusing to pick an instance so I decided to give up.
Status at - Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:38:52 +0000
Sounds like this "W stands for wee" social media thing isn't even actually government run. Just some company trying to do a bluesky fork and gather a verified identified user-base for their own private ownership.
Contribute to their private ownership of a giant user database at your own peril I guess. I know I won't be.
Status at - Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:49:06 +0000
Back to doing some improv, with a 8 week course on the mechanics and structure of story.
Seem to be a nice bunch. Everyone with the right energy and fearlessness. Nice diverse range of people.
Steve Roe leading the course. Him and his friend co-founded Hoopla 20 years ago and now its the biggest improv training school in the UK. Seems like a good teacher as you'd expect.
There will be a show on 19th of March. That'll be about the fifth one I've done. Its nice because you get to do some acting type stuff without having to learn any lines 😆
Status at - Tue, 20 Jan 2026 23:37:57 +0000
Pretty sure I will never register and post on a government-run social forum, even if it wasn't called "wee"
"Just going to boost this wee" people will say.
"Have you seen the president's latest wee? It was replied to by government vetted verified adults" they'll say.
"I was doom-scrolling wee all night" they'll say
Anna Zeiter, CEO of W, has told Bilanz.ch that W stands for “We.”
Status at - Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:31:03 +0000
Finished the VR game #behemoth, it has some of the best sword-fighting I've seen in any VR game. Excellent stuff.
Fighting that dragon was insane, holding on for dear life to it's back as it swoops around the sky, tying myself to it so I could fire arrows at it's weak-points. Great stuff.
Would have finished it months ago but didn't really have the space to play VR stuff much while the bedroom was being done.
Really good game for getting hot and sweaty and doing exercise and fighting monsters.
Loved it.
Status at - Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:03:14 +0000
Content warning:re: ukpol party defections
Badenoch says she's 100% sure no other shadow ministers will convert.
1️⃣ 0️⃣ 0️⃣ Percent!
That is quite sure!
I think I'd take that bet. Four years until the next election for it to happen.
Maybe by the end of the month.
Seems like such a crazy thing to say.
💯
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.
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Bookmarks
Things I have bookmarked lately.‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ – Media Lens - Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:22:15 +0000
"The British state-corporate media response was telling. The crucial
segment of his speech about the longstanding ‘fiction’ of the
‘international rules-based order’ and ‘the gaps between rhetoric and
reality’ was almost entirely buried. If we had responsible,
public-service news media in this country they would have quoted that
vital section, word-for-word, and provided relevant context and substantive analysis as to what it meant."
The UK is taking political prisoners to evade accountability for genocide - Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:23:08 +0000
"The UK is complicit in grave violations of international law and has not only failed to meet its international legal obligations, but has actively breached them. Some British citizens, concerned with justice, international law, and human rights, have peacefully stepped in to challenge their government’s wrongdoing. The state’s response has been to criminalise dissent while presenting repression as democratic self-defence.
Let us be clear: proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation is not an isolated act. It is part of the UK’s broader complicity in Israel’s oppression and genocide, and it functions domestically to silence those who seek to disrupt that complicity."
Trump's threat to Greenland must be a wake-up call for Britain - New Statesman - Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:06:59 +0000
Zack is the only party leader in the UK saying anything remotely sensible in an era in which America can't be trusted: "First, we need to disentangle our security apparatus from the United
States so that we can be genuinely independent. As an urgent first step,
the government should review how we might remove US bases from British
soil while maintaining our own security – and retaining the capacity to
support our allies in Ukraine. There are currently 13 US military bases
in the UK, operated by an estimated 10,000 personnel. If Trump were to
take military action against Greenland, we must be able to act swiftly
to remove America’s military presence from our country peacefully and
efficiently. The government should also cancel its £240m deal with US
firm Palantir, signed despite MPs raising serious security concerns about the company.Second, we need to ditch Trident – and fast. Even supporters of
nuclear weapons recognise the risks of maintaining a system that relies
on the United States.…
The Dilbert Afterlife - by Scott Alexander - Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:22:53 +0000
"Dilbert Achieves Self Awareness And Realizes That If
He’s So Smart Then He Ought To Be Able To Become The Pointy-Haired Boss,
Devotes His Whole Life To This Effort, Achieves About 50% Success, Ends
Up In An Uncanny Valley Where He Has Neither The Virtues Of The Honest
Engineer Nor Truly Those Of The Slick Consultant, Then Dies Of Cancer
Right When His Character Arc Starts To Get Interesting."
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."