Abigail Brady
@morwen.net
software engineer • musician (guitar and vocals in @bcosrsns.com) • writer • post-punk and cider enthusiast
see morwen.net
see morwen.net
They've Jeremy Benthamed him and you won't be able to persuade me otherwise.
September 18, 2026 at 6:00 PM
They've Jeremy Benthamed him and you won't be able to persuade me otherwise.
Reposted by Abigail Brady
anyway i hope the goat knows that it still should vote for me in the midterms. it's lack of enthusiasm for our village's political apparatus is one of the many sins we've piled high upon its shoulders
September 13, 2026 at 2:16 PM
anyway i hope the goat knows that it still should vote for me in the midterms. it's lack of enthusiasm for our village's political apparatus is one of the many sins we've piled high upon its shoulders
Make a band edible
Wet Egg
Wet Egg
Make a band edible
Throwing Muesli
Throwing Muesli
Make a band edible
They Might Be Gyros
They Might Be Gyros
September 11, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Make a band edible
Wet Egg
Wet Egg
Things I was frightened of as a child
-mushrooms
-nuclear war
-Mrs Hughes*
-dogs (a lot)
-that episode of Round the Twist where they end up with eyes on their fingers
-failure
-mushrooms (continued)
*technically a person
-mushrooms
-nuclear war
-Mrs Hughes*
-dogs (a lot)
-that episode of Round the Twist where they end up with eyes on their fingers
-failure
-mushrooms (continued)
*technically a person
Things I was frightened of as a child:
- The murderer my cousins claimed lived on their street
- The picture of phantasmal Tash walking through Narnia in The Last Battle
- A half remembered story about a coffin from a Pan book of ghost stories someone told on a school camp
- Dogs, a bit
- The murderer my cousins claimed lived on their street
- The picture of phantasmal Tash walking through Narnia in The Last Battle
- A half remembered story about a coffin from a Pan book of ghost stories someone told on a school camp
- Dogs, a bit
Things I was frightened of a child
- Watership Down
- Sometimes, things under the bed?
- Dogs (solved by getting a dog)
- The Dentist
- My great grandmothers house (it was just old and had 3 levels)
- School toilets (haunted)
- Painting in school library
- Watership Down
- Sometimes, things under the bed?
- Dogs (solved by getting a dog)
- The Dentist
- My great grandmothers house (it was just old and had 3 levels)
- School toilets (haunted)
- Painting in school library
September 11, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Things I was frightened of as a child
-mushrooms
-nuclear war
-Mrs Hughes*
-dogs (a lot)
-that episode of Round the Twist where they end up with eyes on their fingers
-failure
-mushrooms (continued)
*technically a person
-mushrooms
-nuclear war
-Mrs Hughes*
-dogs (a lot)
-that episode of Round the Twist where they end up with eyes on their fingers
-failure
-mushrooms (continued)
*technically a person
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The fact that Chris Morris and Patrick Marber were able to do a genuinely great sketch about 9/11, hidden as an Easter Egg on the The Day Today DVD is a remarkable thing. If you've never heard it, it's astonishing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SPW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SPW...
The Day Today - September 11th
YouTube video by BigDaz
www.youtube.com
September 11, 2026 at 2:20 PM
The fact that Chris Morris and Patrick Marber were able to do a genuinely great sketch about 9/11, hidden as an Easter Egg on the The Day Today DVD is a remarkable thing. If you've never heard it, it's astonishing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SPW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SPW...
also Wikipedia didn't just happen and people adapted. it was sloppy in the 2001-2002 period and then a group of editors (including people who had been there right from day one also including myself) worked out principles for making the project work with a lot of hard graft over the next few years.
This is so funny. When I was at uni, lecturers never said Wikipedia was "slop", they simply cautioned students to check its citations. Which you can't do with LLMs because they just make things up and are *designed* to stop you thinking critically about what you're reading
You know things are going well when you’ve entered Day Three of Posting Through It.
September 9, 2026 at 9:17 PM
also Wikipedia didn't just happen and people adapted. it was sloppy in the 2001-2002 period and then a group of editors (including people who had been there right from day one also including myself) worked out principles for making the project work with a lot of hard graft over the next few years.
Excellent I needed a poem
September 9, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Excellent I needed a poem
galen erso > these clowns
September 9, 2026 at 9:41 AM
galen erso > these clowns
happy birthday to star trek! 60 more years!
September 8, 2026 at 11:20 AM
happy birthday to star trek! 60 more years!
Reposted by Abigail Brady
Reposted by Abigail Brady
so excited for the new Taskmaster season! whoops how did this link get here
Richard Ayoade defends Graham Linehan as a 'man of great principle'
Linehan, the award-winning comic writer behind Father Ted claims his career and marriage has been destroyed over his gender-critical views.
www.dailymail.com
September 3, 2026 at 11:28 PM
so excited for the new Taskmaster season! whoops how did this link get here
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The BBC calls them 'protesters' but doesn't say what they are protesting about.
Because protestors have banners, placards, t-shirts with slogans. These people are not protestors. They are militia.
Because protestors have banners, placards, t-shirts with slogans. These people are not protestors. They are militia.
September 5, 2026 at 8:53 AM
The BBC calls them 'protesters' but doesn't say what they are protesting about.
Because protestors have banners, placards, t-shirts with slogans. These people are not protestors. They are militia.
Because protestors have banners, placards, t-shirts with slogans. These people are not protestors. They are militia.
the other one thought I was from Rhode Island this one thinks I'm from Noo Yawk, which I have at least been to.
September 4, 2026 at 9:06 PM
the other one thought I was from Rhode Island this one thinks I'm from Noo Yawk, which I have at least been to.
Short story I read as a schoolchild in the 80s or 90s. someone who can rewind time for a second go at things, but at the cost of cannibalising future time - ie they get to do an exam again knowing the questions but then they skip the equivalent amount of time at their birthday party. What is it?
September 4, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Short story I read as a schoolchild in the 80s or 90s. someone who can rewind time for a second go at things, but at the cost of cannibalising future time - ie they get to do an exam again knowing the questions but then they skip the equivalent amount of time at their birthday party. What is it?
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Jura Cnaqben bcrarq gur zlfgrel obk, gur bayl guvat yrsg ng gur raq jnf gur cybgubyrf
September 4, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Jura Cnaqben bcrarq gur zlfgrel obk, gur bayl guvat yrsg ng gur raq jnf gur cybgubyrf
silo s3e10 spoilery observation [rot13]: V qb srry yvxr znlor vg jbhyq or rnfvre gb pbaprny gur fvybf sebz rnpu bgure vs lbh qvqa'g ohvyq gurz nyy va gur fnzr svryq - i wonder if we'll ever get an explanation for that.
September 4, 2026 at 2:05 PM
silo s3e10 spoilery observation [rot13]: V qb srry yvxr znlor vg jbhyq or rnfvre gb pbaprny gur fvybf sebz rnpu bgure vs lbh qvqa'g ohvyq gurz nyy va gur fnzr svryq - i wonder if we'll ever get an explanation for that.
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even now, she's still teaching us
September 3, 2026 at 12:38 PM
even now, she's still teaching us
just spotted that Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is on at the Prince Charles on Tuesday at 9pm. booked! not sure I've seen a TOS film in the cinema (apart from VI which I saw when it came out). come along!
September 2, 2026 at 10:34 PM
just spotted that Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is on at the Prince Charles on Tuesday at 9pm. booked! not sure I've seen a TOS film in the cinema (apart from VI which I saw when it came out). come along!
shout out to the user who keeps logging in as a guest several times a day to the cryosphere and never responds to our messages and i've just put a message in the motd. surprisingly stressful having this happen!
September 2, 2026 at 2:11 PM
shout out to the user who keeps logging in as a guest several times a day to the cryosphere and never responds to our messages and i've just put a message in the motd. surprisingly stressful having this happen!
this is so funny. it's Newcastle under Lyme Borough Council's proposals for unitaries for Staffordshire - four of them, with the only district being unchanged being Newcastle under Lyme. they might as well have proposed they be given birthday cake every day and patted on the head.
September 2, 2026 at 10:14 AM
this is so funny. it's Newcastle under Lyme Borough Council's proposals for unitaries for Staffordshire - four of them, with the only district being unchanged being Newcastle under Lyme. they might as well have proposed they be given birthday cake every day and patted on the head.
one last outing for this old classic...
September 1, 2026 at 11:24 AM
one last outing for this old classic...
10 acts you've seen as support acts (also not counting festivals)
-Skindred
-Psychedelic Furs
-Self Esteem
-Iggy Pop
-Goldfrapp
-Marc Almond
-Bob Vylan
-Utah Saints
-Placebo
-Skunk Anansie
-Skindred
-Psychedelic Furs
-Self Esteem
-Iggy Pop
-Goldfrapp
-Marc Almond
-Bob Vylan
-Utah Saints
-Placebo
-Skunk Anansie
Not counting festivals
The Beach Boys (Status Quo)
Nick Harper (his dad and Squeeze)
Squeeze (Blondie and Madness)
Badly Drawn Boy (Squeeze)
Stew (Love)
Black Country New Road (Nick Cave)
Eels (Pulp)
Richard Hawley (Pulp and Duane Eddy)
Eliza Carthy (Billy Bragg)
The Minus Five (Luke Haines)
The Beach Boys (Status Quo)
Nick Harper (his dad and Squeeze)
Squeeze (Blondie and Madness)
Badly Drawn Boy (Squeeze)
Stew (Love)
Black Country New Road (Nick Cave)
Eels (Pulp)
Richard Hawley (Pulp and Duane Eddy)
Eliza Carthy (Billy Bragg)
The Minus Five (Luke Haines)
Ooh, I like this one!
10 acts you’ve seen as support acts:
Franz Ferdinand (x2)
Damian Dempsey
Disgrace
Sorry
The Shirehorses
STOP…
CARRY ON
Chris Difford
Ian Prowse (x2 and twenty years apart!)
Kristeen Young
10 acts you’ve seen as support acts:
Franz Ferdinand (x2)
Damian Dempsey
Disgrace
Sorry
The Shirehorses
STOP…
CARRY ON
Chris Difford
Ian Prowse (x2 and twenty years apart!)
Kristeen Young
August 30, 2026 at 6:50 PM
10 acts you've seen as support acts (also not counting festivals)
-Skindred
-Psychedelic Furs
-Self Esteem
-Iggy Pop
-Goldfrapp
-Marc Almond
-Bob Vylan
-Utah Saints
-Placebo
-Skunk Anansie
-Skindred
-Psychedelic Furs
-Self Esteem
-Iggy Pop
-Goldfrapp
-Marc Almond
-Bob Vylan
-Utah Saints
-Placebo
-Skunk Anansie
enjoyed coyote vs acme, ending was a bit of a cop out though.
August 29, 2026 at 7:13 PM
enjoyed coyote vs acme, ending was a bit of a cop out though.
A freelance professional has a difficult day at work.
A riverboat trip leads to an inconclusive philosophical discussion.
Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title:
A chief technology officer is worried about keeping his spreadsheets private.
A chief technology officer is worried about keeping his spreadsheets private.
August 29, 2026 at 1:09 AM
A freelance professional has a difficult day at work.