Grand-dog has gone home after an 8 day sojourn and I have a 24 hour window until the wee one arrives tomorrow.
Side note: The house is deliciously quiet, no one followed me to the toilet, and I ate chocolate without feeling guilty.
Don Lemon pleads not guilty to two federal charges stemming from his reporting at an anti-ICE protest in a Minnesota church (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/media/don-lemon-arraignment-minnesota
Gerade noch schnell einen Beitrag zum heutigen #FotoVorschlag 'ziemlich schräg' hochgeladen.
https://photo.dresden.network/p/der_raddler/949334084161225414…
Throughout most of my life I've lost something maybe once. In the last two weeks, I've lost two things already. And to the point of not even being able to tell when they "disappeared" — I was convinced I have them on me until I've noticed they're gone. I feel like I was losing my mind.
It doesn't help that I was raised to feel guilty about my mistakes. It doesn't help that people around me take this lightly (it's nothing "important"), so I also feel guilty about feeling guilty. And completely estranged.
#ActuallyAutistic
TIL: Bud "Harold" Cort hatte auch eine kleine Rolle in einem meiner absoluten Lieblingsfilme. Er spielte in Michael Manns "Heat" von 1995 den schmierigen Pommesjongleur ('Solenko'), der den späteren Fluchtfahrer ('Donald') brutal runtermacht und dessen Lage als Häftling auf Bewährung eiskalt ausnutzen will...
#funfact
Writing: the art of staring at a sentence until it behaves.
People think authors glide into inspiration. I trip over it, apologise, and pretend it was intentional.
#writersofmastodon #authors
Following the links you get to something called Perlisisms which are tiny poems from Alan Perlis. Here are 120 of them:
https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
8. A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
95. Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
(I'm guilty as charged)
110. Editing is a rewording activity.
Daughter dropped the grand-dog off for his 8 day stay while she's away. But now I'm feeling a touch guilty because we're getting ready to go out to lunch - without him!
#Dogs