By @edent · 1984 Theatre Review · 800 words
Greetings Comrades! Are you ready to begin your assessment? This immersive reworking of Orwell's 1984 holds so much promise, but the production is so sparse that it ends up feeling a little underwhelming. In theory, everything about this should work. It is set in Hackney Town Hall, an impressive venue for a play about the […]
Continue reading →By @edent · BlueSky BSky HowTo tutorial · 9 comments · 500 words · read ~493 times.
The new Twitter-Wannabe BlueSky has an interesting approach to verifying accounts. Rather than you sending in your passport, or paying a 3rd party, or bribing an employee - you can self-verify for free! This opens up verification to small organisations, individuals, and anyone who wants to prove who they are. Brilliant! Verification means that your […]
Continue reading →By @edent · meta · 12 comments · 850 words · read ~214 times.
It's my birthday! Therefore it marks the end of another year of me hurtling around Earth's yellow sun. So, as is customary, here's my year in review. I'm not really sure what happened to the last year. As the philosophers once said, "the years start coming and they don't stop coming". The biggest personal item […]
Continue reading →By @edent · NaNoWriMo RevengeOfTheMutantAlgorithms WritingMonth · 2,100 words
Being the further and various adventures of The Guerrilla Infrastructure Team - a renegade bunch of digital anarchists and freedom fighters who mostly just wish things were slightly better and who would stop at nothing to find convoluted technical solutions to complex social problems. Their manifesto (such as it was) had paragraphs about the correct […]
Continue reading →By @edent · NaNoWriMo RevengeOfTheMutantAlgorithms WritingMonth · 1 comment · 2,300 words
It isn't true that Vampires only live in the dark. Yes, we are obligate nocturnal, but we've always been surrounded by artificial light. In fact, we thrive on the pinpricks of illumination that pierce the night. The long shadows of a fire are our hunting grounds, flickering candles our playthings, a gas lamp was like […]
Continue reading →By @edent · NaNoWriMo RevengeOfTheMutantAlgorithms WritingMonth · 1 comment · 1,400 words
The scream of a hundred days drew to a close and silence covered the land. The choir of villagers were delirious with exhaustion. Some of them had been at the chant for a week without sleep in order to draw God ever closer. The last few months had been spent screaming in a foreign tongue […]
Continue reading →By @edent · BlueSky bot fediverse mastodon · 3 comments · 300 words · read ~208 times.
If you've found this page, it's because you are me in the future and want to remember these instructions! Create an account on the Fediverse using a domain you control For example @user@bots.example.com Follow the Fediverse-ATProto bridge @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy Your account will need to be over 2 weeks old and have a name, profile picture, etc. […]
Continue reading →By @edent · NaNoWriMo RevengeOfTheMutantAlgorithms WritingMonth · 2 comments · 1,750 words
"The electric tongue says the soup needs more salt." "It got more salt!" Mothers and daughters have been bickering about seasoning ever since the stone age. One person's "too salty!" is another person's "you call that flavour?!" It is amazing kitchen knives are only ever rarely used to dispatch a disobedient daughter-in-law or to remind […]
Continue reading →By @edent · NaNoWriMo RevengeOfTheMutantAlgorithms WritingMonth · 4 comments · 1,800 words
I spend every day crying for men I've only just met. Way back when, the selling of emotions was a complex affair. My grandmother was a lust seller - although she wouldn't have described herself like that. Bedecked in feathers and fake jewels, she gyrated on celluloid. She's in the background of that Monroe film, […]
Continue reading →By @edent · NaNoWriMo RevengeOfTheMutantAlgorithms WritingMonth · 4 comments · 1,800 words
Finding the root cause of an incident will always come to a dead-end at some point. We can use various investigatory techniques to ascertain why a part failed or who installed it incorrectly, but that doesn't get to the heart of the systemic failures which led us here today. This has been a time-consuming (and […]
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