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@JohnPhilpin Aha, you have achieved both image and text!
@manton I don’t know, man, Thompson’s suggestion smacks of mutually-assured destruction!
@vazquez That would have to be <cite>Blade Runner</cite> for me.
@JohnPhilpin I don’t see any selectable text in it, so I don’t think it’s any different?
@JohnPhilpin Yeah, quite likely! I don’t know about the Markdown accessibility thing. Would that be visible in Micro.blog? In NetNewsWire or similar? The reason being, if I want to link to something, I’d like to quote part of it, so I’d like to be able to copy & paste.
@JohnPhilpin Yes! This, so much this. All too often forgotten.
(It’d be nice if it was text, not just an image.)
@JohnPhilpin Also The White Album, but not Sgt Pepper or Revolver? Seems very surprising.
And Hootie and the Blowfish? I honestly don’t think I’ve ever heard them!
@thedimpause It was really hard at first! Until I … got it.
@bugshaw.bsky.social Have you got lodgers A to Y? Are you running some sort of hostel?
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Ha. Valid points, for the most part. But I don’t think they would have been handled any differently under any mainstream politician. So I just don’t understand why Starmer gets quite as much criticism as he does. Did.
@andrewhickey.500songs.com I’m trying to understand just why people have been so down on Starmer. He seemed competent, if dull, but that’s a lot better than the chaotic nonsense of Johnson, etc. What was your main problem with him?
@daveycraney All fair points except possibly one, which I’ll come back to in a minute.
The thing with both the anti-protest laws and and the anti-privacy ones: I don’t think they’ll be different under another PM, of either party. I fear that’s just the way mainstream UK politics is going. I don’t like it, but I don’t see it changing under Burnham. We live in hope, though.
On immigration and running from reform (or rather, towards them), yeah, hopefully those can change. Again, though, I do wonder how much the guy at the top is really in charge. We don’t have a presidential system after all, which is why they can change the guy at the top!
I’m not sure what you mean about attacks on trans rights. If you’re thinking of the Supreme Court judgement as to the meaning of ‘woman’ in the Equality Act, that was a clarification of the existing law, not a policy matter.
Anyway, I guess we’ll see what happens next.
@daveycraney I’m interested to know what you find so bad about Starmer. I see so much of this, and yet he seems objectively (inasmuch as I can be objective) to have been fine. Not great, but fine, OK. Certainly infinitely more stable and capable than anyone in the Johnson/May/Truss/Sunak array.
So why does Starmer get so much negativity?
@mmetcalfe In case your suitcase falls apart!
@manton Thanks, will do.
@manton I installed the latest version on my Mac and now I can’t run it. I also can’t post a photo in an @-reply, so here’s the generated alt-text of the screen grab:
> A notification indicates that the Micro.blog.app cannot be used with macOS 13.7.8 and requires macOS 14.0 or later to run.
I’m on an old Mac, so I can’t go up to 14. No biggie, but it probably shouldn’t have let me install it.
@alexwolfe What fun! I look forward to Ada’s further adventures.
@JohnPhilpin LiveJournal had that distinction two decades ago. Other sites too, probably. Slashdot? Maybe. It’s a good one.
PS: You’re welcome. You are.
@manton Ah, yes, I should have thought of that:
> Bluesky: Error refreshing token.
I’ll try removing and re-adding. Thanks.
@manton I’ve just noticed my posts having been crossposting to BlueSky since the middle of April.
@manton Looks like I had the same problem. There’s no ‘Send now’ button, just a ‘Sent’ notice.
@JohnPhilpin Thanks. Feel free.
@JohnPhilpin Seemed to work.
@johnnydecimal How do you tell if a website is vibe-coded?
@acct:imyke@myke.social I’m looking forward to listening to this one. But I’ve also realised: I’m kind of missing CGP Grey.