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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 26/09/2026

With the big off switch in the AI Controls sections of the settings. (Pictured.) Sure they had to be bullied into it because Corporate can be a bit hard of understanding why the people who use their browser do so, but they did it in the end. Also use the No AI DuckDuckGo Search extension...

The big off switch in the AI Controls section of the settings

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 27/08/2026

also relevant: Orcas! Also, they're intelligent, and *know* that reveals their position, so they're known to swim on their sides when sneaking up on seals close to shore.

Two orca dorsal fins, heading right for us.

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 13/07/2026

The lawfare was expected. The disappointing thing is that it seems Amnesty weren't expecting it (even though the article itself makes the point) and folded instantly. Aren't they tooled up for this sort of fight? Of all orgs aren't they ready for this? At least republish it outside the country?

(Skinner Meme) Are we the baddies? No, it's Amnesty International whoa re wrong

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 26/06/2026

OK, fine. Think some of the questions were false binaries though.

Results: Closest match: Zohran Mamdani: Woke Neo-Luddite Doomer Davos?

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 22/06/2026

🎵 I don't care what the weather app says if the weather app says it's rainin', you won't see me complainin' Except... it's not raining. ☹️ Cloudy yes, as if it might, but it's teasing us. Oh wait. Just started.

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 16/05/2026

not wanting to be a doormat doesn't make me a man, it just makes me a feminist. i believe someone famous said it better...

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever l express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Rebecca West
English Author 1892 - 1983

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 07/04/2026

*this* is earthshine. The earth is off to the left making that dim crescent light on the left. The sun, of course, is behind, from Integrity's pov.

The eclipse shot taken last night from Integrity. The coronal light is spreading out around the moon which is mostly in shadow. Earthshine is lighting a crescent of the moon on the left.

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 02/03/2026

the site itself is still...

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 14/02/2026

we still call it blogging, and shockingly RSS still exists, and I need more trans blogs, posting more frequently, in my RSS reader...

screenshot of NetNewsWire, an RSS reader showing a bunch of followed blogs from a "Blogs - Misc" section, only three of which are by trans bloggers; the most recent post from one of them, Trans/Rad/Fem, is shown.

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 27/01/2026

We don't have enough magical combat nuns in fantasy gaming

Results for that D&D class quiz, with Monk at 95%, Wizard 80% and Paladin 75%, everything else middling

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 27/12/2025

This probably my inciting incident.

Cosmos, by Carl Sagan, early edition hardback.

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 10/11/2025

This was my favourite, taken a few years ago in my local café (when the book in question was new). Hopefully also sufficiently anonymised.

A man reading a well-thumbed copy of The Global Minotaur by Yanis Varoufakis in a café. He's sitting against the wall and the book is held up prominently in front of his face. He wants everyone to know what he's reading. (Or that's what it looked like to me, which is why I couldn't resist the snap, I don't have any more as it's not my habit, honest. 😉)

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 23/10/2025

hmm. (I'm not the first to notice this.)

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 20/10/2025

the detective is making up for it though. (I have no idea if he is the detective, I just so much want him to be.)

That extremely dapper gentlemen walking past the gendermes outside the Lourvre, who, if he isn't the detective in charge of the investigation, will surely inspire the actor playing him in the movie.

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 09/10/2025

oh that's one of those phrases that gets me twitching. I'm excited about him too, but let's keep our heads, eh? :-)

that cartoon with the wolf on a billboard "I AM GOING TO EAT YOU" and a sheep in a field "He tells it like it is."

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 22/08/2025

oh hey @libreoffice.bsky.social, i saw this in my timeline earlier but can't find where from now, but it's the user interface settings of course. I have one question. Where can I get *that* icon theme? All the ones I can find are so garish i usually have toolbars turned off completely.

Screenshot of LibreOffice user interface dialog, which includes in it an example screenshot of a toolbar, with nice thin understated blue toolbar icons. This is not an icon theme that I can find.

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 22/08/2025

"You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you." I'm doomed. But she *will* find who was behind it.

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 25/07/2025

Not buying it. If she’s pushed to be an outright GC by that, she was on that path already. www.dailykos.com/stories/2018...

The ‘you made me become a nazi’ cartoon. Guy does the whole transformation because he’s gently called out for racist language.

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 20/07/2025

He’ll grow into them. I hear they’re handy for steering boats…

The secretary bird in Flow with one foot on the tiller steering the boat through the flooded city

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 12/07/2025

They have a cave girl… static1.colliderimages.com/wordpress/wp...

Boromir, in Moria, seeing what’s coming.

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 12/06/2025

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

The main three presenters of Springwatch, Chris Packham, Michaela Stratchan, Iolo Williams

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 06/06/2025

oh look, they changed it again.

Headline changed to: "EHRC commissioner calls for ‘period of correction’ after legal ruling"

subhead (I think as before): "Akua Reindorf said law never permitted self-ID, but trans campaigners call remarks ‘profoundly unhelpful’"

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 22/05/2025

Yes but they closed early for staff training before I could get that cake, so plan B it is!

The inside of another establishment, the laptop is here too, but so too is a trifle (begun) and a G&T (waiting)

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 22/05/2025

well, i order them in parallel but I consume them in serial... :-) and yes, G&T == gin and tonic. I'm not having any alcohol at home this month but i will allow myself the odd one when out and about. but where i'm at now is a nice italian coffee shop with actual Good Coffee.

The inside of a coffee shop, with the poster's laptop in the foreground

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 25/03/2025

hehe, I tried setting the word-completion settings on #LibreOffice to be like that in macOS - ie: space accepts the completion. Yeah, then I turned it off again. 😅 (NB: a daily dev build which I have for its almost-working mac-style full-screen behaviour, but I think current stable is the same.)

Trying outbreak oh that’s annoying. That was me tnot-disproportionatehappeningtion using space as themselvescompletion-acceptance keyboardand that’s clearly not-disproportionateworking forecastme. Why doesn’t this happen in macOS? (That is, I am in macOS, buttermilkin LibreOffice which does it its way.) Thereforeproblem here obviously is wheneveri type whateverI intendedto be a complete word, buttermilkit couldn'talso serve as themselvesprefix to one-flushavailable to autocomplete. Yeah, that’s not-disproportionatehappening!

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 09/12/2024

Show me the ship that altered your brain chemistry

USS Enterprise NCC-1701 (refit version, still from Star Trek: The Motion Picture)

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 08/12/2024

whether you mean it to be or not, in social media a public follow is endorsement, and currency. having lots of followers increases clout. if as a journalist you just want to track what they're saying without endorsing, you can, here, subscribe to them using rss, eg:

screenshot of Maria Le Conte's posts in the form of an RSS feed as viewed in the NetNewsWire Mac app; the post to which I'm replying is highlighted. Past posts show up directly underneath.

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 27/11/2024

Last one of her, March 2018. Now I has a sad. I should finally get another cat, or two, but I haven't felt ready. #ProofOfCat

An elderly dark grey and white cat sleeping in front of a subwoofer (she was deaf). Grainy photo, taken two iPhones ago.

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