About
Dalliance.net is Pre’s homepage, index of his projects, updates on his blog. That sort of thing. You can subscribe in various ways.
Projects
Blog
My blog, mostly monthly summaries of the Fediverse Account.
Visit at dalliance.net/blog
Or check out the categories index
Starship Schrödinger’s Destiny
Ongoing: An Interactive Sci-Fi story for Virtual Reality about the adventures of the crew of a flying saucer.
Visit at starshipsd.com
Wordcloud Tarot
Ongoing: My tarot decks have the meanings of the cards written on the card in a world-cloud. There’s also a video show with a reading about politics most weeks.
Visit at wordcloudtarot.com
Tentacles, After The End
A 30 minute animated movie about the last woman alive on a planet ravaged by tentacle monsters from outer space.
Tentacles is complete, visit the archive at tentacles.org.uk
Book: Do Dream Sheep Bleat?
A short story book about magic and memes and reality.
Dreamsheep is complete, you can buy a copy or read it online at dalliance.net/dreamsheep
Book: Yes, The Conspiracy Really Exists, And Furthermore It’s All Your Fault.
A long rant about how stupid humans screw up humanity.
The book is complete, you can buy a copy or read it online at dalliance.net/yes
Loopy
After the band broke up, I took to playing with myself via a loop pedal. Sometimes, very rarely, even in public.
Bookshelf
An album of songs inspired by some of the best books on my bookshelf.
The album is complete, you can listen to the songs at dalliance.net/bookshelf
Handsome Jack’s Showband
My punk cover’s band.
Despite some online-only gigs, the band didn’t make it though the pandemic, you can watch some old gig videos online at handsomejacks.co.uk
Joust Adventure
A little web-game I made back in 2011 with the hope people might pay me to make level 2.
I don’t think anyone ever finished level 1. Too hard.
Can you do it?
The project is abandoned, you can still play level one at dalliance.net/joustadventure. So far as I know, I’m the only person to ever complete the level. Let me know if you do!
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Diary
My diary from the Fediverse.Status at - Mon, 07 Jul 2025 10:11:50 +0000
oBrien spending at least two hours doing a retrospective about 20 year old bomb and has spent zero hours talking about the banning of a peaceful campaign group under terrorism legislation.
I turned it off. 🥱
Status at - Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:55:14 +0000
Twenty years since London Bomb attacks they reckon. Seems both a short time and a long time. I wasn't in town and the first I heard of it was being woken up by messages asking if I was okay. Thought they were concerned I'd been taken away on the saucers on X-Day. 😆
Some say it was the biggest act of terrorism seen on these shores since the war!
But then 20 terrorists were arrested for terrorism this week! They were flagrantly and terrifyingly holding up signs saying "I support Palestine action", the terrorizing monsters. An action that's just as much terrorism under the law these days as blowing up trains and busses.
Status at - Sat, 05 Jul 2025 13:25:28 +0000
I have deconstructed the temporary half arsed shoddy micro-campervan conversion.
Emptied it out, ready for the professionals to do the fully arsed non-shoddy permanent conversion over the next couple of weeks.
The fridge and the chair remain in the back but not tied down at all.
The chair I might leave at my mums as a better sofa-bed for me to sleep on when there, and maybe spend the night with them before dropping the van off. They live much closer than me to the drop off point.
He said he might be able to use the fridge.
My job was so shoddy it was already starting to fall apart so will be good to have it done properly.
Status at - Fri, 04 Jul 2025 18:13:17 +0000
Content warning:Happy Final Forth of July everybody!
It's been a pretty good run, more than two hundred years of freedom for some people (if they aren't slaves) and even sixty years - nearly one lifetime - of actual universal suffrage!
Now that this short experiment in democracy has ended, I wish all of America good luck in the struggle to come, as you each discover your place in the new strict social order.
Try to stay out of the camps!
The title "Land Of The Free" has now moved to.... 📨 👐 ... New Zealand!
So from now on the new Forth of July will be the Sixth of February.
Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
Status at - Fri, 04 Jul 2025 16:53:33 +0000
The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory on Cerro Pachón in Chile has started to repeatedly scan the sky.
Some of it's first images are available at https://skyviewer.app/explorer
Lots of galaxies up there eh?
Status at - Fri, 04 Jul 2025 15:57:04 +0000
This month's newsletter/digest is on it's way to all the amazing lovely peaceful protestors who want it in the email box.
The rest of your terrorist sympathizers who should be arrested can read it here:
https://dalliance.net/blog/jun25/
Featuring rants about gaza and glasto and a broken watch failing to be right even once a day.
Status at - Fri, 04 Jul 2025 00:11:57 +0000
Content warning:USPol Big Bill
Oh thank goodness! For a moment there I thought that America might waste a whole bunch of money on healthcare and keeping the workers fit for work!
Much better for the money to go to increasing the number on the spreadsheets of the rich people.
Can you imagine how terrible the world would be if America didn't kill thousands of people by denying them medicine to keep the spreadsheet numbers high?
Adam Smith would have been so mad, his invisible hand would surely have smite everyone.
Status at - Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:27:06 +0000
Content warning:re: UKPol, Palestine Action Ban
These are the only honourable members in the house. Every other MP thinks that Palestine Action should be banned as terrorists even though they have never done any terrorism and are against killing and genocide.
Status at - Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:33:09 +0000
Content warning:re: UKPol, Palestine Action Ban
Fifteen minutes of debate and less than 30 votes against.
The MPs just wave it through without even trying to object.
The House Of Commons has voted to add a group that doesn't do any terrorism to the list of banned terrorist groups.
They will do climate protest groups next.
Protest is not terrorism, this government is a fascist authoritarian nightmare.
Status at - Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:08:35 +0000
If I chant "Death to the IMF", it doesn't mean I want to kill all bankers!
Maybe I do, maybe I don't, but that statement doesn't resolve it.
😆
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Bookmarks
Things I have bookmarked lately.The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian - Mon, 07 Jul 2025 10:24:49 +0000
The implications of this collapse are profound for
international, regional and even domestic politics. Political dissent is
repressed, political language is policed, and traditionally liberal
societies are increasingly militarized against their own citizens.
Whatever You Do, Don’t Make Them Uncomfortable - Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:16:42 +0000
The Bear: "The real scandal isn't the chant - it's The Mail on Sunday's
deliberate fabrication. Turning "Death to the IDF" into "Death to
Israelis" wasn't sloppy journalism. It was character assassination
designed to transform political protest into genocidal incitement. When
major newspapers can simply invent quotes and attribute them to public
figures without consequence, we've moved beyond press freedom into press
lawlessness."
Is a Glastonbury chant the real problem, or Israel's genocidal violence in Gaza? - Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:53:54 +0000
"By arming Israel, by organising spy flights over Gaza from RAF base
Akrotiri on Cyprus, and by providing diplomatic cover, Starmer has
effectively glorified Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian children in the
enclave. Bob Vylan’s chants of “Death to the IDF” have a far more
dangerous counterpart in Starmer’s recital of Israel’s “right to defend
itself” when that “defence” involves Israel mercilessly starving Gaza’s
population of food, water and power. Bob Vylan are a punk band;
Starmer is the British prime minister, the man who directs Britain’s
foreign policy and directs its army."
You Cannot Negotiate with the Zionist West - Craig Murray - Mon, 23 Jun 2025 10:37:39 +0000
"Israel attacked Iran during negotiations between Iran and the US, with the next scheduled meeting just three days away – including assassinating the lead negotiator.
Trump then gave Iran a two-week ultimatum
to agree a peace deal. Iran held one foreign-minister-level meeting
with the UK, Germany and France and scheduled a second meeting. Trump
then attacked Iran with 11 days of the ultimatum still to run.
Plainly the Zionist West not only has zero interest in peace, it is
engaging in morally abhorrent levels of dishonesty and deception,
attacking under a false flag of truce. The idea that Iran should now
return to “negotiation” with such appallingly deceitful interlocutors is
risible."
She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election. - Wed, 18 Jun 2025 08:24:24 +0000
evidence of election rigging?
Sales Pitch: Give Us Your Ad Business or We’ll Sue - Wed, 11 Jun 2025 08:15:06 +0000
musk sues his customers to get them to spend.
📺 Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media - Tue, 10 Jun 2025 23:37:30 +0000
Four minute fedi explainer
Trump's Relationship With Musk Collapses in Nasty War of Words | TIME - Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:57:44 +0000
Time sums up the word's first global Forum Admin Spat in it's full glory.
CD / Blur - YouTube - Thu, 22 May 2025 18:44:34 +0000
Captain Disillusion looks at unblurring, inverse fast furry transforms and convolutions.
Thank God for immigrants - by Ian Dunt - Striking 13 - Fri, 16 May 2025 17:56:32 +0000
A third of my friends are immigrants of one kind or another and they are all great. Wish I could deport all those who want to stop immigration. It enriches us. We are better because of immigrants. I am better because of immigrants. Here's Ian Dunt: "Imagine how much poorer the world would be without British
Asians in general. I'm not talking about the subcontinent. I'm not
talking about Britain. I'm talking about British Asians themselves, as a
distinct group, quite apart from their other loyalties or their other
identities. Imagine how much more impoverished we would be, in food and
music and literary life, in social habits and intellectual and political
history. Imagine how poor we would be, the vast riches which would have been taken away from us."