Sismrnoth

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Video games, art, books, linguistics, etc. Generally unable to Pick A Lane. Working on PhD in genre studies. She/her 🇿🇦 🇫🇷

“why did you turn my friends into pigs i don't know maybe the real question is why are your friends so turn-into-pigsable” Mallory Ortberg, Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters
Athena, played by Zendaya, giving an expression of disappointment and disgust that would wither me to my bones
LORELEI AND THE LASER EYES The protagonist stands in front of the game’s hotel, wearing a disgustingly stylish 1960s Italian-style ensemble of cropped dark pants, a ruffled blouse and double-buttoned short jacket.
A picture of my couch and surrounding clutter. My cat is on the couch.
Pull these layers together and a coherent picture emerges. Decades of economic failure - deindustrialisation, austerity, the looting of state resources, the systematic underfunding of public services - has created genuine desperation. Into that desperation, a sustained ideological campaign by mainstream economic actors has injected the idea that the only path to recovery is for us all to tighten our belts and shoulder more pain; that the state cannot resource what we want; that what exists must be rationed. And into this world of scarcity, political entrepreneurs have inserted the figure of the migrant as the illegitimate queue-jumper. Each layer enables the next. The material conditions create the desperation. The scarcity narrative makes it seem permanent and zero-sum. The xenophobic mobilisation provides a target that doesn't threaten economic power.
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SPACE ABOVE AND BEYOND
Zadie Smith ON BEAUTY R.F. KUANG Katabasis PIGMENT STORIES THE HAUNTED WOOD Sam Leith Aya Kōda | Tree
Skittles the grey tabby cat/supermodel
Life is pain Au chocolat
A station platform with the name “Mudchute”
An English country road lined with hedged and trees
Southampton’s landmark clock tower
CITY OF LONDON JOHN TRUNDLE HIGHWALK EC2
A graph of loans over time. I borrowed 17 books in 2025, and 13 so far this year. There is a spike up in December 2025 and a smaller spike in March 2026.
A photo of the city skyline from the West, covered in clouds. Johannesburg, South Africa
Musk did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this article. Last month, in an interview with Bloomberg, he argued that his critics have been unable to produce any evidence that these cuts at USAID have resulted in any real suffering. “It’s false,” he said. “I say, ‘Well, please connect us with this group of children so we can talk to them and understand more about their issue,’ we get nothing. They don’t even try to come up with a show orphan.”
A grey tabby staring into the distance
A scene of the Elden Ring manga in which the Tarniahed encounters Blaidd chasing and catching a Scarab (he's just a dog chasing a ball) HEY... WHAT'RE YOU CHASING? WAIT UP! THIS GUY'S NO WOLF. HE'S JUST A BIG DOG... AHH, SORRY, FRIEND. WHEN I SEE SOMETHING ROUND, I JUST CAN'T HELP BUT CHASE IT...
Peach, the ginger cat, is sitting on the dishwasher in my kitchen, staring at me with a combination of disapproval and expectation.
you should add extensive observability before you have an outage. We do have a lot, but it's never enough! We need to add per-client o11y as well as get better metrics on when clients send small numbers of large requests. It was all buried in there, but it was hard to know where to look when so much was falling over all at once. You need to have the mental discipline and high granularity in your metrics to be able to cut through the noise to find the real root cause. It's hard work! Also, logging too much isn't great.
you should add extensive observability before you have an outage. We do have a lot, but it's never enough! We need to add per-client o11y as well as get better metrics on when clients send small numbers of large requests. It was all buried in there, but it was hard to know where to look when so much was falling over all at once. You need to have the mental discipline and high granularity in your metrics to be able to cut through the noise to find the real root cause. It's hard work! Also, logging too much isn't great.
A photo of me! I am not good at describing what I look like.
A ginger cat is sitting on the armrest of an office chair, leaning over it in order to attack her own tail repeatedly
Screenshot of the Noclip documentary with subtitled audio from Rostov: "that it seemed to be that the core audience of this game, who would appreciate it the most,"
A cat in the foreground sits on a bean bag indoors and looks out curiously towards two cats eating outside. Two more cats are sitting in the garden in the background.
A jar of pickled vegetables bathing in a concerning-looking, but delicious, brown liquid
Anthony Kiedis, in front of the other members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, making a point of great philosophical import
A painting of two pieces of nigiri sushi
A ginger cat looking down imperiously from atop a cat tree.
My hand holding a bottle of prednisone
A shelf crammed with about 32 unread books
A vintage South African petrol pump from a Trek service station.
Stock photo of woman with empty wallet
Two text messages: 1. We have too many roast potatoes 2. Nevermind, we ate all the roast potatoes
Sunset over Northcliff, Johannesburg
Brightly coloured painting of a woman posing on her haunches
A ginger cat. She is inexplicably long and mousey and has the personality of a prey animal