Different Corpses @diffrentcolours@tech.lgbt

It's the time of year when we change our IRC nicks to Halloween themes at work.

One of my trans coworkers has changed hers back to her pre-transition variant, because "this is a deadname". Very spooky!

I made it to my desk earlier than usual today; I am determined to start working earlier, so I can stop working earlier. I want to shift my day by an hour or two, so I'm more able to help make dinner etc.

The thing about the Banach-Whorf Paradox is that you can't understand how to cut the sphere and double it, if you don't have the correct mathematical language to describe it - set theory, the Axiom of Choice etc. This is evidence for the Sapir-Tarski Hypothesis.

@bright_helpings is watching a terrible low-budget ghost "documentary". This episode has a GHOST MONKEY.

Me: "That'd make macaque myself."

I found this important sign the other day.

Sir David Amess, a Member of Parliament, has been fatally stabbed at a constituency surgery - a drop-in event where the public can talk to their MP about their problems.

This is twice in five years in the UK now, following Jo Cox's murder after a surgery in 2016. I know people who work for MPs and attend these events. I am very shaken.

Bah, I'm waiting for replies from colleagues and I think they've skived off early. And I'm stuck waiting in case they haven't so I *can't* skive off early :/

I have been reminded by this SMBC comic just how much I hate the Monty Hall Problem. It's a bit of maths which is demonstrably, provably correct but which feels horribly wrong.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/monty

I had to write a quick Python script and run a million games to confirm, but it still feels wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem

Been having a #Valheim date with bestie while drying off after a shower. @QueenMollyBones said I looked adorable.

First meeting of the day, and I'm now being blamed for a talented engineer quitting the company because I merely escalated his impending burnout to his project manager and the director in charge of projects *six months* before he quit, rather than "bullying" them both into doing something about it.

Maybe if that's what's needed *I* should be the director in charge with the salary and authority, perhaps? Fuck's sake.

*endless screaming*

Well that's months of work chucked down the bin then.

Quite chuffed with myself last night. I had a new SSH key on a laptop which I wanted to authorise on a remote server, which I could only access from my phone.

Typing in pubkeys on my phone SSH client would be a PITA, so I turned it into a QR code, scanned it, and pasted. Simple but effective!

Made it to Sterling on half a tank and topped up. Petrol station guy says it's been intensely busy all day. I excused myself by describing my long drive and he forgave me.

Scotland's COVID protection is weird. The Bluetooth proximity sensing app is different from the QR code scanning app for contact tracing. And of course neither work with the England & Wales version.

Still, checked into our hotel in Stirling, and now sat a suitable social distance away from others, getting some dinner.

Ahahahaha I need to drive 900 miles through rural Scotland in the next week and people are panic-buying petrol. I'm sure I'm not going to end up stranded...

@QueenMollyBones @bright_helpings Apparently other club nights have genres like "techno" or "pop"...

"What's the current genre?" says @QueenMollyBones, walking into the room where @bright_helpings and I are tuning into the weekly livestream.

"Horny Millennial Trash With Daddy Issues" I reply.

"Of course it is."

Have you voted for Fat Bear Junior? 23rd and 24th September: https://explore.org/fat-bear-week

"Proper" Fat Bear Week starts on the 29th September.

Urgh, listening to a native Spanish speaker failing badly at dealing with they/them pronouns in English. She's trying but it's still kinda cringe to hear.