@stefan@gardenstate.social2025-12-05 12:47:16
I had not been following the news out of the Bennu asteroid but this is some very interesting stuff!
#space
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2026-01-04 21:00:11
Good for him, and good for all the other artists who are taking a stand.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/wicked-composer-stephen-schwartz-kennedy-center-event-rcna252011
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2026-01-02 21:08:12
On feeling stupid. I read this pretty much every year...
https://web.stanford.edu/~fukamit/schwartz-2008.pdf
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2026-01-03 05:06:37
Dang it all. The dryer at our holiday accommodation appears to have, bizarrely, melted the zip (just a small section, but enough) on my Cactus shorts... and now I'm perpetually flying low. These are my 90% of days-type clothing in summer. Sigh. Luckily, I'll be able to take them in for repairs shortly... assuming I can find something to wear while they're at the shop.
@jake4480@c.im2026-01-02 12:22:06
First #LetterboxdFriday and #LastFourWatched of 2026. These are still all things I watched in 2025- nothing this year yet. The short films here are all on YouTube, are all less than 30 minutes each (most around 20 minutes), and are wild watches.
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-12-01 19:15:30
Found an obscure hint that perhaps instead of authenticating through #Evolution I should instead authenticate through the #Gnome settings for attached accounts, so I tried that approach, this time it asks for far more permissions (8 in all) but, you guessed it, a classic Sam Beckett "No Answer" and the terse response, "timed out".
So the app doesn't matter. The browser doesn't matter. The account or any legacy cruft doesn't matter.
Does this leave as the only explanation that perhaps Google no longer provides OAuth2 tokens? Surely that would be all over the news if true, but I'm running out of local culprits. Also Emacs inability to authenticate Mastodon suggests its neither google nor Debian per se? Maybe I should spend my time more productively slamming a car door on my fingers?
I have a dread feeling wiping the laptop and carefully reinstalling from scratch will not work.
@saraislet@infosec.exchange2025-10-28 09:11:21
I grew up with a lot of male cousins who loved watching sports. I understand that some people enjoy gambling for emotions, but I don't.
That's why I like books. Instead of gambling for feelings, a book takes my emotions on a journey, rips them to shreds in the middle in an unpredictable way, then grinds my feelings into a fine paste that they feed to their goat, which is sacrificed in a bloody feral ceremony whose carnage further defiles said emotional residue
Or you can …
@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-11-30 04:17:24
We’re at a point where these sorts of simple genetic disorders are going to be falling to CRISPR-Cas9 treatments one after another in an accelerating fashion until we run out of targets.
They raise troubling questions about access to care and cost. Ask why we still have people with active Sickle Cell disease, years after the CURE was demonstrated.
The reason is that no one is stepping up with the megabuck per patient. @…
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2025-12-24 02:02:28
Welp, after a day or two of fermentation and a few hours preparing the accompaniments, like the potato filling, the 'gunpowder' to sprinkle over it, and both tomato and coconut chutneys (all made from scratch, even involving cracking a fresh coconut!), I've made my first ever dosas. I'm quite chuffed by the result. It's a lot of work for a one-off...
@jake4480@c.im2025-12-27 03:48:58
Wow, it's the last #LetterboxdFriday of the year. Been doing some weird horror shorts. This year I surpassed 2,000 total films seen in my life, according to Letterboxd stats, and yeah, I probably have a problem. But at least I'm in my house watching weird movies and not out prowling the dark streets.
#Letterboxd
