vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026On multiple levels. My grandad was quite old when my father was born. He was working as a boy in the 1910s in a linen mill. Feels more like a story of a great grand parent for people around my age. 011
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Agree mostly, but public dissemination is different from public access, and open access is more to address the later. The public should have access to the outputs work that they have paid for. Is e-mailing the author enough for this? I think there's probably too much friction on both sides. 011
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Yes, my bags of frozen veggies have very colourful packaging. 010
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 27/04/2026The reform party (UK) always makes think of the impression of Preston Manning, leader of the reform party (Canada), that Royal Canadian Air Farce used to do. 020
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Reminds me of the hate that Drizzt knock-offs used to get in old D&D forums. 000
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 14/04/2026tried to figure out what they have against the Dutch royal family for a minute. 000
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Is the character your character's dad or do they only think they are your character's dad? 000
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 06/04/2026British people are so weird about heating and it doesn't even get actually cold in the vast majority of this country. 000
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 04/04/2026“You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.” 000
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Have you seen how proper espresso drinks are made? Much more similar to food prep than a beverage. 020
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I used to wonder during Trump I whether this was a reflection of his history in real estate. I.e. the power imbalance between Trump and a contractor he was trying to push around is actually much bigger than between the US and European countries. 261
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Nah, much funnier with the name "parts of Holland", which Wikipedia still tell is still recognized locally. 000
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 28/12/2025I always decide ad hoc for things like this and related questions like "do novellas count?". 010
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 24/12/2025I hope you chopped your onion super fine. Listening to my friends talk about making it while I lived in Qc, that seemed to be an essential part, based on how much they complained about doing it. One person I know owns a slap chop just so they can dice onions super fine for tourtière. 010
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 07/11/2025media.tenor.coma space ship is flying through the stars in a dark spaceALT: a space ship is flying through the stars in a dark space 160
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 28/10/2025It's like that Douglas Adams' quote about the size of the universe, but it's about London instead. 020
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 20/07/2025I thought something like this was happening when Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou. Maybe I was missing some nuances, but China didn't seem to really believe that Canadian officials couldn't just randomly order her released. 020
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 13/05/2025I wonder how much people are under rating the difference 2 makes. If you're saving for a deposit you need some serious savings before it's less than a year of saving time and if you're repaying a mortgage it needs to be more than 600k before the time the 20k saves you is less than a year. 000
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Vance is going to declare himself pope, claiming that the old pope told him he should. 000
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 16/03/2025I've always like: "Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." - Edmund Burke 000
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 26/02/2025especially after they figured out that asteroid isn't a risk. 000
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 19/02/2025An old colleague of mine once complained that people don't move more like fluids, since if they did they would speed up as the street go narrower. Though, that was for much less dense crowds. 010
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 13/02/2025I think part of it is approval rating. Trump is still above water there, for one of the only times in his political career. A lot of political people pay close attention to stuff like that. 010
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Every single time I see that acronym I'm confused for that reason. 060
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 02/10/2024Those are the readers I want to irritate though. Bloody prescriptivists, they literally ruin everything. 010
vrulg @vrulg.bsky.social · 12/09/2024There was a publisher that did something like that for a while iirc. They did exclusively genre fiction, and it was something like 15 years ago. 000
