As promised. Middle ID’s.
(Thanks to @joshcheek aka joshprops)
To this day, whenever I seen Natalie on another show, I assume that she is playing Wendy Watson on a deep-cover assignment.
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OH GOD, this pic tho! Someone PLEASE tell me the original source.
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So far, today has gone better
I spent this morning watching Big Clive tearing down a cheap USB charger which, for unfortunate part-failure reasons – passed mains straight through to the USB port. Sadly for the makers, who actually seem to have given a fig about design – and who’ve actually gone to more trouble than seems common to build a reasonable piece of kit, they were let down by a parts failure.
Anyhow, the thing is gently soothing to me, reminding me of sitting reading while my dad would strip down and repair electronics.
So it finally got me motivated to try and move the cable from the knock-off apple supply (which said “MagSafe” but actually appears to provide the full 85W regardless of whether it’s connected or not) to the old apple one I had which had a faulty cable. I’ve got an array of toys here now, most importantly in this case my temperature controlled iron which was complete overkill (and proved I need a different tip for it – so I’ve added some new tips to the selection of stuff that I’ve got in my AliExpress cart…for later).
Anyhow. The general impression when I stripped the knock-off one down was that it was poorly made:
Although I didn’t get in to actually looking at the design. After a fair chunk of time and a bit of a battle I managed to desolder the apple cable and replaced it with the one from the knock-off – which seems to be working nicely. The poor apple brick is now held together with tape tho’.
I also trekked out to return the case I bought from Blinq – they turned out to be very nice people, giving me a chunk of refund for the massively delayed motherboard delivery – and promising to refund the money from the case that was smashed in transit.
Also, the nice guy at the FedEx place taped the box shut for me, when I asked about tape :)
Then I headed over to what has become my favourite computer store and started peering at cases – explained my predicament (i.e. it normally lives out of sight, so I want something that’s functional, has lots of bays, and is also fairly cheap) – and they produced a second hand case for $45. Bargainateous, if you ask me.
Having got home I commenced the joyous task of rebuilding my PC using a new motherboard but the same everything else – not really an upgrade, more a side-grade.
Once thrown into the new case, it booted straight up and seems, surprisingly, pretty happy. I’ve now started trying to sort out the pigging mess the file systems had become – with the spurious resetting problem seemingly better (it just moved 160 Gig of files in one go, and before that another 90 Gig), it’s looking like it might be possible to at least get it working and the files back where they belong. Once that’s done I can start contemplating the possibility of sorting out a raid array for it.
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this is horrible.
[CW: Rape culture, murder, everything is sad]
Every single thing about the murder of Ingrid Lyne is horrible. Lyne—a local woman, a medical professional, a mom, and a human being—was murdered after planning to go on a date with a man she met on the internet and had been out with before.
Her remains were found in recycling bin.
It is profoundly tragic and sad and unfortunately extremely indicative of the fact that misogyny literally kills people and that men are one of the single biggest threats to women’s safety.
You would think that, given the details of this extremely awful, painful, terrible thing, it couldn’t get worse. And yet somehow, people are making it worse. Because of course they are.
Should we know better than to read the comments? Of course. But as several people have informed us, the comments on this story confirm that rape culture is the realest of real.
Yes. People are literally blaming this woman for being murdered.
Look, in the United States, three women are killed every. Single. Day. by intimate partner violence. Intimate partner violence accounts for 15% of all violent crime in this country. At least one-third of women killed in the United States are killed by their partners.
One of the most dangerous things a woman can do is live her life.
We know our readers are better than this, but maybe tell your friends. Tell your family. Misogyny kills. Violence against women is deadly. And it can’t be stopped by women staying home.
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We’ve got your Death Star plans right here, and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it. I can only imagine how frustrating it must be to realize just how much the plot of your favorite movie hinges on the actions of one woman (accompanied by a team full of dudes anyway). I guess it’s kind of like realizing that the name of your men’s rights movement is wholesale stolen from a movie written by two trans women. Oh, the irony. But I digress.
You see, we’ve got more than just your Death Star plans. What we have is this realization that these worlds—these rich, fantastic fantasy/sci-fi/everything worlds—don’t just belong to you anymore. They never really only belonged to you. They belonged to all of us, and always have, despite how hard you’ve tried to erase us from the narrative.
Dear Fanboys Angry at Rogue One‘s “Mary Sue” … (X)
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No! Uncle Ben!
Why did I laugh at this?
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*shakes fantasy authors by the shoulders* You have magic! You have other worlds! You can do literally anything! Stop writing about bland white people oppressing other bland white people for their ability to shoot multicolored sparklers out of their fingers! Where are my black-skinned dragon riders? Where are my alternate magical philosophies between cultures? Where are my stories about indigenous civilizations using magic to fight off would-be colonizers? Where are my mathemagicians? Why are you like this?!
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So
yesterday on my break, I had a chat with two other female coworkers about creepy things men have done to us at work that made us feel physically afraid.
I highly doubt guys ever sit around and have these conversations:
“Last week there was this girl at the counter, she’s twice my age, and she’s asking for my phone number, asking what time I got off work, telling me I’m handsome, keeps trying to touch my hands, and she wouldn’t leave until I called over a manager, oh my god it was so creepy, like is this girl going to be waiting outside when I’m done work?”
“OMG last year there was this girl doing the exact same thing to me, but she ACTUALLY DID GO SIT IN HER CAR AND WAIT THERE till I was on my break and SHE WAS WAITING OUTSIDE FOR ME. She sat there in her car for TWO HOURS to see if I came out.”
Seriously guys, have you ever had this chat with one of your male coworkers? No? You know what? Every single girl has a story like this. Ask them. Ask them to tell you a story about how a guy made them afraid at work. I GUARANTEE YOU, every single one of them will have one. If not them personally, they will have a story about a time when a friend phoned them in tears or a time when they had to go pick up a sister or something. Something. Ask your male coworkers to tell you a story about a girl making them feel unsafe at work. Ask them. See how many stories you get.
Guys, you seriously have no idea what it’s like to be a woman. You say “it can’t be THAT bad!” despite the fact that we are telling you, over and over and over, YES! It CAN be that bad!
Would you please just listen to us?
