Ros Jackson @rosjackson@wandering.shop

Zombieland is a great album. #Megaherz

I almost didn't bother with The Witcher after the first episode, because it seemed lacking in humour and too similar to standard fantasy fare. I'm really glad I persisted. It picks up a lot after the beginning, gaining complexity and personality.

Sarah Hagger Holt and Usborne have come under a lot of flack (you can probably guess where) for publishing a children's book that deals with a girl trying to understand her father's transition. This is the book:
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/nothing-ever-happens-here

Testing my websites on https://www.websitecarbon.com/ - they come out pretty well, better than 93% of other websites. Some of that is down to having a green host that uses mostly renewable energy, and some down to using really light code.

Amazon UK is pretty high carbon, as is Youtube. Mastodon is somewhere in the middle.

Jason Sanford on the lax security on Goodreads:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/lax-security-and-32921860

It is concerning that authors can be impersonated and trolled in this way. As an author, I tend to avoid the site anyhow, and as a reader the reviews can be pretty random, so I don't set much store by them unless I know the blogger's tastes. This sort of thing devalues it further.

Trying to navigate the British Gas robots to book an annual gas check. They interpret "put me through to a human!" in many creative ways. Not sure whether I've opened accounts for the whole street, ordered a new boiler, or the robots have achieved sentience and now they're just pranking me.

Is anyone else looking at the crisis in Australia, thinking about reducing their carbon footprint, and coming up short because it seems like they've already thought of everything that can practically be done on a personal level? #ClimateCrisis

My friend Keri is really talented. This is Black and Blue singing their song Being Me Again, and IMO it deserves a wider audience. https://youtu.be/5aF6Nbh7b2s

Only 2 years until Soylent Green.

My reading resolutions for the new year are pretty relaxed. It's more about taking things easy on myself and the planet, and savouring experiences, than pushing to read X amount:
http://www.warpcoresf.co.uk/29-12-19-reading-resolutions-for-the-new-decade.php

What are yours?

For some reason I didn't get round to reviewing KJ Charles' Spectred Isle, but I have it shelved under "Fantasy" and "Hell Yes".

Home sweet surveillance capitalism free zone? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/23/be-careful-you-are-not-giving-away-your-privacy-with-christmas-gifts-this-year

@TuvixJaneway Sympathies. I found getting rid of adverts stopped almost all of my desire for new shiny gadgets. But your son would probably also need to get rid of friends, which is harder. Although, there is an argument for persuading all their parents to install adblock on their new shiny gadgets, for security - it would be interesting if that had an effect on the peer pressure they're all exposed to.