@nprofile1q... While the UK has Trident it will always side with the USA. It needs the USA to keep it's pretend "independent" nuclear thread alive.

The UK can't go against the USA or the USA will remotely turn the UK's nukes off.

@nprofile1q... Lol. It's true, jesus love all sinners, even gluten and carbohydrates.

Even coffee and weed.

It's mad that anyone would set up a revenge cafe because of woke. What a world Jesus has wrought.

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!

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.

#microSlop #office #CoPiliot #ai #enshitification #poem

Thank goodness the USA elected the peace president. Could you imagine if instead they had elected a pedophile child-rapist willing to go to war for oil, and to distract from his sex crimes, while renaming the Defense Department the Department for War?

#usa #war

Hummm. Wonder if the UK will have to support the USA invading Venezuela because it's a member of Nato?

Or if we'll just support it because we also want western oil companies to have access to those oil fields?

Or maybe we'll sanction the USA like we sanctioned Russia for their illegal invasion?

No? Why is everyone laughing?

Anyway. These days it's cool to invade other countries and kidnap their presidents to steal their oil it seems. Even though the oil needs to stay in the ground.

🙄

#war #venezuela

@nprofile1q... Buffy is the best.

If you watch it then after S2 remember to watch Angel episodes interleaved properly like when broadcast it was broadcast so it's not all out of order.

Joss Whedon at his peak, strong female role models, set before phones were everywhere ruining dramatic tension, great characters that go in real emotional voyages producing real change accordingly.

(above in the blog if you prefer it on one page: https://dalliance.net/blog/2025/ )

Next year 2026

So, what for next year?

More than 12 Tarot shows,
About six Observers shows,
The main starship v0.4 cartoon,
Along with the pre-release of the main starship app
Improvements to the Exocortex app,
An improv class/show or two (one starts Jan, show March)
An new improv group?
Play a couple of Loopy gigs/open-mics,
Finish the bedroom stuff,
Don't get sicker,
Break zero bones,
Fix the camper in the spring,
About six festivals,
Maybe a foreign holiday,
Try and read more

Media stuffRewatched all of Buffy

Broken wrist meant I had to sit on the sofa for a month doing nothing really. I re-watched all 200 or so episodes of Buffy for the first time this decade.

What an achievement in TV production. Amazing show.

I'll watch it again next decade maybe.

Not that I read a huge amount. Hopefully more next year.Book of the yearFiction

"Outland" by Dennis E Taylor, and actually also his "Not Till We Are Lost"Non-Fiction

"Broken Money" by Lyn Alden.TV Show Of The Year

Think "Severance" was the most remarkable show I watched this year, with "Trek, Strange New Worlds" also being great again.

"Pantheon" was a pretty great cartoon, haven't seen the second season yet.

Had FunBought a car/micro-camper

Bought a van to do up as a micro-camper, and did a temporary rush job of that conversion myself while waiting in the list for the pro to do it.

Then the pro gave himself a health criss the week it was booked so I took apart my temp job and only got another temp kit-job in it's place.

Went out in it like four times during that and then broke my wrist and couldn't really use it or improve it.

Then had to take it apart even more to try
and figure out where the ad-blue hole was.

I will do a proper permanent job of the
floor and walls and ceiling and adjustments to the kit-job to make it the nicest it's been so far during the spring next year.

My assumption that the prior conversion
into a van and for wheelchair-access meant the microcamper conversion was half-done already turned out to be false.

If I buy a new one, it'll be one that has never been wheelchair adapted.

But it's going okay. Only scraped it once so far.Went to 3 festivals

Fewer than aimed for or booked, but I broke my wrist and had to cancel the second half of the summer.

Small World
Private friends camping thing
Good Vibrations, where I broke my wrist.Bitfest

Went to a conference about money and computers and fringe decentralized social media and it wasn't as boring as you might expect and felt pretty much like a festival.1 bedroom built

Exactly the target number! It's lovely.
Took 3 times longer than I'd hoped and
50% more money than I'd planned for really.

Still improvements to make but they will
be incremental and gradual over the coming year or two now.Made moneyPaid off the mortgage

It's been interest-only for 20 years so a big old lump sum payment that I never really expected to be able to make. Expected to have to sell and move at the end of the mortgage term.

But surprisingly the stocks ISA got high enough to pay it off after all, so I did that.

Cash-flow ruined by that and the bedroom but should start to feel a bit richer next year.

Health StuffRecovered somewhat from whatever that weird fit was at the end of last year.

NHS still has me on some sort of list I think, appointment might turn up next year. Last contact with them they were suggesting maybe November.

But the private treatment gave me the
MRI which
showed nothing weird and post-fit symptoms have been reducing.

Experimented with eating meat to see if that helped.Ate Meat

Tried eating meat for a month to see if it reduced the post-fit symptoms. Maybe it did? Tried vegetarian again and maybe it got worse?

Hard to tell with intermittent symptoms and a terrible memory.

Decided it's more likely to do good than harm (to me, entirely harm to the animals obviously), and eat meat till the end of the year.

While I'm better, I don't really feel fully recovered enough to want to change things so more meat next year I think.Drank far less

One of those symptoms is that booze tolerance dropped to like zero. Very rarely had more than four pints in a day this year and very rarely more than one night a
week.1 fractured wrist.

Much high number than the target there really.

Tripped over a guy-rope and fell onto the wrist.

Did two days of the festival and the drive home thinking it almost certainly wasn't broken and only confirmed it was when I got home and the hospital put it in a cast.