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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
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
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
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
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, 05 Dec 2024 15:55:54 +0000
Ah, the Doctor cos-playing as Arthur Dent this Christmas. Nice. Can't wait.
Trailer's up:
Status at - Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:51:26 +0000
Content warning:re: ukpol starmer speech
Questions from the press here are all about migration, despite migration barely being mentioned in the speech and not being in the "goals" at all.
It is in many many ways the media that drives this insane frame about immigration being bad and reducing it being the main aim of government.
Status at - Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:44:49 +0000
Content warning:re: ukpol starmer speech
Everyone can see we're tired of people failing getting the job done, he reckons.
In summary then:
We will stay the course, and change the country.
Thanks for listening everyone, we'll be back with the next relaunch of government in another three months to say how we've changed again presumably.
Status at - Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:39:35 +0000
Content warning:re: ukpol starmer speech
Bad news for bats: the government won't accept nonsense about endangered bats delaying infrastructure any more.
Down with bats.
Status at - Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:37:00 +0000
Content warning:re: ukpol starmer speech
"Change and reform are coming"
Yeah. I think Reform may well be coming if this incoherent babbling about "change" is all we get.
Status at - Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:34:31 +0000
Content warning:re: ukpol starmer speech
Ah, goals:
1) Higher standards of living in every region
2) 1.5million new homes
3) More cops! Because nobody should feel insecure,
4) More 5 year olds in school.
5) Clean power by 2030
6) NHS Waiting-lists to be cut.Is this what they had in their manifesto? Or has it changed? Seems quite similar.
Status at - Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:30:26 +0000
Content warning:re: ukpol starmer speech
The country's government is like rising damp and Starmer's government will not be like a hairdrier.
Prisons are fucked, the NHS is fucked, the treasury is fucked.
His plan for change is long, and hard. 😊
1) Publish some milestones.
2) Have change from a mission-led government that changes things for change.
AI is crucial apparently, because it's unprecedented.
I guess that means it must be change. He's into change.
Except the fundamentals! They never change. National Security, financial security. Not changing those things. Not changing conversation!
Now he's going on about immigration for some reason, saying the last government had open borders?
Status at - Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:21:23 +0000
Content warning:re: ukpol starmer speech
He's at Pinewood Studios where they make up stories out of thin air and imagination in order to emphasize how real and genuine his words will be.
However tough things are for you and your family, trust the feeling in your bones that says really we're great anyway.
Don't use your brain for thinking about how screwed we are, use your bones!
Status at - Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:16:34 +0000
Content warning:ukpol starmer speech
What? Starmer is apparently re-launching his government yet again today after six months?
"Change" is to be the theme apparently. Again. So that's the same.
Is that going to be a change from the easy choice of taking money from pensioners and children, changed into the hard choice of taking money from billionaires and landlords?
🤔
We shall find out any moment now.
Status at - Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:25:50 +0000
This month's digest/email is on it's way to all the lovely decentralized un-own-able people who asked for it.
The rest of you centralized corporate fools cosplaying at decentralization can read it here:
https://dalliance.net/blog/nov24/
Featuring lots of bluesky stuff and things I've been building and playing and watching and reading when I had half the month off work.
First one posted to Hugo instead of Wordpress!
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Bookmarks
Things I have bookmarked lately.The Really Dark Truth About Bots - YouTube - Tue, 19 Nov 2024 20:44:50 +0000
Putin's Puppets on Twitter: Benn Jordan is counting the bots.
George Lucas Wasn’t Done With The Prequels, so we Finished Them - YouTube - Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:53:51 +0000
George Lucas had Star Wars stolen from him by Disney, and was never able to release a Special Edition of the Prequels. The crew takes it upon themselves to bring balance to the force.
Two Weeks in Beirut - Craig Murray - Thu, 14 Nov 2024 01:58:59 +0000
Craig Murray's diary of two weeks in Beirut. Sounds like war is mostly about bureaucracy and death.
Spain’s Climate Catastrophe – A Glimpse Into The Near Future – Media Lens - Mon, 11 Nov 2024 16:32:40 +0000
Media Lens on the Spanish floods and the press's pathetic response: "Unfortunately, the catastrophic floods in Valencia, Spain offer a
glimpse of how, in the absence of the kind of drastic action that is
currently nowhere on the horizon, human societies will ultimately be
dismantled and destroyed."
The End of US Democracy Was All Too Predictable by Jason Stanley - Project Syndicate - Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:01:30 +0000
Jason Stanley describes how democracys fall: "As Jean-Jacques Rousseau argued, democracy is at its most vulnerable
when inequality in a society has become entrenched and grown too
glaring. Deep social and economic disparities create the conditions for
demagogues to prey on people’s resentments, and for democracy ultimately
to fall in the way that Plato described."
AnarchoNinaWrites: "Went to bed outrageously pisse…" - jorts.horse - Fri, 08 Nov 2024 12:47:37 +0000
Anarcho Nina explains how to stop fascism. Don't deliberately fight cops, but if you put your body in the way of profit the cops will come and fight you: "There are people right now putting their bodies on the line to stop a genocide; join them. There are people right now putting their bodies on the line to stop banks boiling our kids like soup; join them. There are people right now putting their bodies on the line to stop weapons manufacturing; join them. There are people right now putting their bodies on the line to oppose police militarization and Cop Cities; join them. There are people risking violence to oppose fascist organization; JOIN THEM"
Project Gold - Blender Stylized Rendering Showcase - YouTube - Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:01:43 +0000
Latest Blender showcase animation, looks slick.
It's time to stop buying into tooth-fairy politics. No one's bringing salvation - Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:39:55 +0000
Johnathan Cook on why Trump won: "Kamala Harris didn't lose because she's a woman or because she's black. She
lost because, if your political and media system – rigged by donors –
limits the choice to two hardline neoliberal candidates, with anything
else denounced as “communism”, the most hardline, neoliberal candidate
has an edge. Over time, the system keeps moving further to the
hardline, neoliberal right."
Mantic Monday: Judgment Day - by Scott Alexander - Tue, 05 Nov 2024 13:10:54 +0000
Scott Alexander on #us #election #predictionMarkets: " Tomorrow - if we are so lucky - there will be a result. The great
function that has consumed us for so long will return 0 or 1. The
pundits who guessed 51-49 will be hailed as prophets; the pundits who
guessed 49-51 will get bullied out of public life. The winner’s campaign
operatives will be praised as world-historic geniuses, the loser’s
mocked forever as utter nincompoops. Thousands of lifelong public
servants who backed Mr. 49% will be tossed from DC like used toilet
paper and replaced with thousands of hacks who backed Mr. 51%. Funding
streams will go dry. Whole lands will turn to economic deserts. Fortunes
will be destroyed. A few people will make good on their exile and
suicide threats. Most won’t. The Union will either survive or not. If it
survives, we’ll do it all over again four years later."
voter analysis video from onion news network - Tue, 05 Nov 2024 02:00:16 +0000
ha. Very good. really rooting into the voting patterns