The new Peter F. Hamilton book Exodus was great, if you like a bit of the ol’ space opera.

He only wants it for marketplace. I can sympathise, that’s where all the really good awful car deals are, and cheap tools that I don’t need, but really want

What/where is that?

Fuck yeah, that looks right up my street

Speaking from personal experience, knowing that there’s a reason I behave a certain way has been pretty liberating. I spent my whole adult life up to my late thirties thinking I’d broken my brain or was just lazy and couldn’t concentrate. Knowing that that’s just how my brain is wired has made me feel a lot better about myself, and be less harsh to myself when I fuck up, and then being able to learn coping strategies of others in a similar situation has also really helped.

If you can give up on a new hobby or whatever BEFORE you’ve bought all the things and made your life even more messy isn’t a bad thing at all. If you’ve lent into it and bought all the stuff and nonsense, try to cycle through past hobbies rather than pick up new ones constantly. Find hobbies that complement each other, or use stuff that you already own, and ones that have low cost to try out. If you’re not making yourself skint or your life more messy by trying them out, then trying and quitting doesn’t matter at all, it just increases the chance of you finding something you really enjoy doing.

The French radio station Fip is really good background music. I can pretty much have that on constantly, and even the occasional announcements don’t really break my concentration, as I don’t speak French.

What an awful day to have eyes, that’s one of the worst sentences I’ve read in a minute. “For now” is the unwanted garnish on that particular turd sandwich, he should be banned from practicing medicine anywhere as fast as humanly possible!

As if filling the centre of the city with shit student housing isn’t enough of a disruption, let’s bung in a massive car park, as opposed to encouraging out of town parking.

Why did it take reading about right-wing nutters to let me know about bacon-wrapped asparagus?! How am I this late to that particular party? Or is that a thing only for the fash?

But it’s open source, doesn’t it have to be good? Now I’m terribly confused

Thanks, that’s what I was going to find. Shame none of us concentrate past the first two replies, but hey.

Spicy mango margarita

There are loads of those. Like tons, from all around the world. “Big sugar” really, really isn’t much of a thing outside the us, and a lot of these studies are either data-aggregation from larger groups of studies, like this one, or studies over long periods of large groups, like most of those referenced in that article, particularly those covering Coronado and kidney disease.

I have a fairly healthy diet, with little risk of diabetes, but sweeteners screw my digestion up. They are now in so many things that it’s hard to avoid them, especially in soft drinks and mixers. For the rest of the world that doesn’t eat an American diet, the balance of the risk presented by sugar vs diabetes is not as one-sided as all that

Yeah, you gotta let it load sometimes

And comes all over it’s back?

That’s a tune. I need to listen to more of them, I only really came to know them because of their Stayin’ Alive cover, but the more I hear, the more I like them

Everybody gangsta ‘til Gavin rolls up with the claymore broadside

Oooh baby I like it

That looks awesome, and it’s a great idea to use brilliant sci-fi writing as the bones of a game, I’m excited to play it