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1.5 weeks into a 3 week holiday* and I can feel now just how much I needed it.
And how little I want to go back to work in August.
Let's hope the second half of the holiday fixes that.
#AcademicChatter
*yes I know, I am incredibly fortunate to get to take 3 weeks of summer holiday off, but the feeling of utter burnout is also real.

After Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, Fragnesia and now ssh-keysign-pwn in short succession, even I am feeling a little overwhelmed. And I just have a few personal machines.
I cannot for the life of me understand how annoying and draining this must be for sysadmins. You have my sympathies.

Just another place we visited in the Fränkische Schweiz. We just walked along a little stream and suddenly passed through this rock-gate with all the lush green on either side.
Just beautiful.
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/caves-and-meadows-d…

Early firework at Little York when there is little smoke to be illuminated by pyrotechnics
#photo #photography #fireworks

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"""
[…] and I opened the case (politely examined by the guards of the Palace at four stages of my approach to the Red Hall) that held my ansible and some pictures. The pictures—films, photos, paintings, actives, and some cubes—were a little gallery of Man: people of Hain, Chiffewar, and the Cetians, of S and Terra and Alterra, of the Utter-mosts, Kapteyn, Ollul, Four-Taurus, Rokanan, Ensbo, Cime, Gde and Sheashel Haven … The king glanced at a couple without interest. “What’s this?”
“A person from Cime, a female.” I had to use the word that Gethenians would apply only to a person in the culminant phase of kemmer [a cyclical period of heightened sexual activity during which secondary gender characteristics emerge], the alternative being their word for a female animal.
“Permanently?”
“Yes.”
He dropped the cube and stood swinging from foot to foot, staring at me or a little past me, the firelight shifting on his face. “They’re all like that—like you?”
This was the hurdle I could not lower for them. They must, in the end, learn to take it in their stride.
“Yes. Gethenian sexual physiology, so far as we yet know, is unique among human beings.”
“So all of them, out on these other planets, are in permanent kemmer? A society of perverts? So Lord Tibe put it; I thought he was joking. Well, it may be the fact, but it’s a disgusting idea, Mr. Ai, and I don’t see why human beings here on earth should want or tolerate any dealings with creatures so monstrously different. […]”
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(Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness)

04:45 am. Woke up with a sore arm and feeling a little ropey after having had a Covid booster yesterday morning. The ropiness will wear off in a few hours and the sore arm in a few days. Better than having Covid again though.
#covid-19

There's nothing quite like the feeling of using a new bar of soap after going from the last bar of soap that you used until it was just a little nub.

I am a huge fan of #TrainTravel and especially #HighSpeedRail, but for some reason Sweden's snabbtåg very often, but not always, makes me a little travel sick. That was a very long 5 hour trip...
Tips to avoid feeling terrible on the way home welcome.

'Wasserfall' #FotoVorschlag 'Waterfall'
Some locations came to my mind when I read the topic this morning and my wife immediately mentioned that location. This is probably one of my best photos.
The water flooded over the stairs on the right, creating a lot of little waterfalls. Luckily I did bring my tripod and a considerable amount of time so that I could tak…