“History will not remember him as a king, or a savior. History will remember him as a small, ugly, sick man who happened to seize great power, who wielded it recklessly, and who left behind a trail of destruction, corruption and cowardice unmatched in American history.”
-- Rick Wilson
Child harm/death mention; Columbus
On Indigenous People's Day here in America, it's a great time to:
1. Remember that Columbus was a monster. Anyone who feeds toddlers to dogs actually deserves to burn in hell for eternity. Nothing else about this man should be remembered before this fact.
2. If you're in a colonized country, check out the website(s) for your local indigenous tribe (s) to remind yourself that they're still here. For me, that includes #LandBack, etc.
Me, I'm hopeful for a future in which the US is a distant memory and the hundreds of surviving nations on this territory flourish like budding plants after the winter snow.
Adelaide Festival board resigns and Adelaide Writers’ Week cancelled after 180 authors pull out in protest of Zionist board decision to disinvite Palestinian author.
Remember this, if you’re a Zionist: like the Nazis before you, you are committing genocide, you are on the wrong side of history, and – as long as there are people of good moral character and conscience to oppose you – you will not succeed. Your only allies are the MAGAs of the world and those too spineless to stand up to …
For today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent here's a tiny tool we have used in our pipeline: pyRenamer is a simple app to rename/renumber a bunch of files.
Unfortunately it's pretty much an abandoned fork of a Python 2 app that has been abandoned for even longer ago. It still works and for renumbering there's no easier solution at hand. But for file name search & replace …
Everytime I use the leaf blower/mulcher I remember that I forgot my mask. I remembered my hearing protection. I will be repeating the effort in one or two weeks when the rest of the leaves drop onto the patio.
Two of the annuals are covered for the winter, and next week, the rose is covered.
Like last year, I will be hanging the Christmas lights before it gets too cold. I also will be putting up a small (1 metre) tree with lights. All the lights will be on remotes, and the wi…
I'm old enough to remember that the US and UK supported a coup against Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mossadegh, after he nationalised the country's oil industry. And replaced him with the authoritarian Shah Reza Pahlavi.
(OK, it was 7 years before I was born: 1953)
In elementary school, one of my classmates was hit by a car on his bicycle. He must have been about 9. His head went through the windshield.
He was fine.
The windshield was not fine. His helmet was not fine. The teacher had him bring in his mangled helmet to show the whole class. Nobody had to tell us he’d be dead if it weren’t for the helmet. It was obvious.
I still remember this vividly 40 years later.
I wear a helmet.
Re this from @…:
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115364452251790863
Since I just remembered I have write access and because it was not updated with the CVE yet, I have now updated the Android minor update annoucement as well
https://vivaldi.com/blog/android/minor-update3-android-7-7/
The day to remember all the millions of victims of militarism and war, and to recommit to #peace and against #warmongering.
#RemembranceDay
I remember a video getting recommended to me, after I got shot of course, about what it felt like to get shot. It completely missed the point.
I woke up in the middle of the night and wrote most of this around 4 in the morning.
CW: gun violence, body horror, etc.
https://write.as/hexmhell/echos