Hey, remember when some of us on the old forums were accused of Trump Derangement Syndrome?

Due to my newfound, recent status as grey and bespectacled, I thought I’d take a stab at blowing on the embers and make an effort to get back in shape. My efforts have rewarded me with a sprained back and a trip to a physiotherapist.

I always think about that whenever I hear alt-right-adjacent vaccine-denial thundercunt conspiracy-theorist bollocks about “lockdowns being proved wrong”.

Sorry, no: lockdowns and…Read more

Russia will, very likely, deliberately provoke another refugee crisis and attempt to steer it towards Europe.

Weaponised refugee migrations (from Syria) were used to great effect by Russia once before – they helped break the UK out of the EU and doubtless made NATO coordination with Turkey more difficult. Given its…Read more

Oh, I don’t know, Gareth. Sanctions have their uses. Used as a blunt instrument and as a method of regime change, it’s true – they suck. The elites of your average repressive dictatorship already have systems in place to repress and punish dissent and they aren’t going to go hungry any time soon. The history of sanction regimes in Ian, Iraq,…Read more

I’m of the opinion that Russia needs to be on the naughty step for a very long time.

They need to be contained and their ability to project force, militarily, financially and culturally, corroded until we see some real political and perhaps even social change – right now, Russia is openly fascist and imperialistic – until…Read more

Arjan wrote:
Well I’m not sure about that. If you’re right, and Russia is really determined to get the whole of Ukraine, or more, I agree there really is no alternative to the current course of action.

Their opening move was to try and take the country’s capital city, Arjan. They’re documented as having a “kill list” that was thousands of nam…Read more

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None, but the question for me is which decisions will lead to better outcomes overall

Funny you should mention that. Currently we have a member of the UN Security Council that has invaded a European power, completely unprovoked, making a mockery of international law and its own treaty obligations, and has committed war crimes and blatant acts of…Read more

<span style=”color: #222222; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;”>None, but the question for me is which decisions will lead to better outcomes overall</span>

Funny you should mention that. Currently we have a member of the UN Security Council that has invaded a European power, completely unprovoked, making a mockery of…Read more

One thing I always like to ask though, when people say stuff like this – how much unprovoked invasion and genocide should we tolerate from Russia?

Hope life is treating you all well. I always find it a comfort to know this little corner of the internet still exists.

What’s going on with me? Currently spending my time alternating between looking after two small children and sitting in an office writing computer code. My life could maybe stand to be a little…Read more

Chances are if you’re not already using it, it’s due to it costing money, but it might be worth checking – I think Cloudflare’s is free, as is AWS’s, so there’s a good chance.

These sort of SAAS platforms tend to make this reasonably intuitive, but it varies based on the software. If it was AWS or CloudFlare I could maybe talk you through it, but without…Read more

I seem to remember, back when we made the transition from the old Millarworld forum, that I mulled building some forum software for the community. The actual code to build a basic, functional, internet forum is actually not that complex, believe it or not – the…Read more

Yeah. Sorry, no.

I’ve seen a lot of this over the last couple of months. It’s largely a consequence of a complete misunderstanding of what the Russian Federation actually is, along with, usually, a lack of basic curiosity as to what…Read more

Yeah. Sorry, no.

I’ve seen a lot of this over the last couple of months. It’s largely a consequence of a complete misunderstanding of what the Russian Federation actually is, along with, usually, a lack of basic curiosity as to what has actually happened. Pro tip – Russia an empire, and like most societies…Read more

Not breathtakingly bad. Not even bad but in an entertaining way. Just… kind of bad.

I want to like it – I have a huge soft spot for Parallel World science fiction in general, and there are good things about it -…Read more

I’ll never forget meeting the guy, some ten years ago now. I remember I managed to make his eyes roll – I might have been gushing about his COIE work and mentioned how his rendition of Supergirl is the one I always think of when I picture the character. That earned me a well-deserved “oh brother” look. He was still nice enough to…Read more

I’ve now entered that stage of lockdown where I’m actively combating cabin fever, and it’s bringing out my masochistic side, I think. I’ve starting looking over the last few years of my posts, to social media and forums like this, to get a sense of how my own opinions on events have changed.

Having spent the last couple of days perusing old…Read more

Every week I feel like I age a year.

The FT has a good rundown on the timeline.

Some context:

• We’ve…

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Such a…Read more

Also, and fair disclosure, atheist talking here, where…Read more