
2025-06-22 10:20:14
Katie Porter for California Governor
Deadline June 30
https://katieporter.com
https://www.instagra…
Wow, some of you *really* came prepared! This visitor had their kids mark everything in the program booklet they were interested in and wanted to see. We hope you get to catch it all!
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#ndwgoe
"First elephant sighting in 6 years sparks hope for species’ return to a Senegal park"
#Senegal #Elephants #Animals
Don't mess with me.
I KNOW SEMICOLONS!
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/18/marked-decline-semicolon-use-english-books-study-suggests
@… @… bummer! hope you feel better soon!
Have you ever looked at clouds or water and tried to understand the complex system of swirls and ribbons?
To take it a step further: Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, and its moons still pose puzzles of this kind, which we hope to unravel with the instruments aboard the JUICE spacecraft on its journey there.
Here's a hands-on experiment that explains how the gas giant's cloud swirls are formed.
@…
Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
JENNA: What about Blake?
AVON: Let's hope he's on high ground.
[On the planet]
ZIL: [Indicating the beacon and the container] There. The Host has not absorbed them.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/206/331 B7B4
Raiders hope they found another leading linebacker gem in Elandon Roberts https://lasvegassun.com/news/2025/jun/10/raiders-hope-they-found-another-leading-linebacker/
Remember Alphaville's song Forever Young?
If you have 8 more minutes here's what I recently found. I hope it gives you as much joy listening to it as it does for me.
https://youtu.be/tejB6cG7bBg?feature=shared
I learned¹ about the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature² that has more than 10000 books scanned and available online. Just great.
It is hosted by the University of Florida. So let's hope that it stays available, i.e. that the Republicans don't find the old children's books from 1750 to woke.³
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Benét:
🎵 Hope You Do
#Benét
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://benantics.bandcamp.com/track/hope-you-do
https://open.spotify.com/track/5wdelTxOga4rjEaqC8eSMr
The iOS 26 Camera icon looks so much more skeumorphic than the rest of the icons and it looks so good I really hope they don’t change it. If anything, I hope they make the other icons more skeumorphic too
#wwdc
The Orlando Sentinel got a cease-and-desist from Florida's DCF that claims its reporter coerced families for a story on a foundation tied to Gov. DeSantis' wife (Mike Schneider/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/orlando-sen
"[…] Let's take a look at 6 improvements to look forward to in the upcoming #GCC 15.
1. Prettier execution paths
2. A new look for C template errors
3. Machine-readable diagnostics
4. An easier transition to C23
5. A revamped color scheme
6. libgdiagnostics
We're still fixing bugs, but we hope that GCC 15 will be ready to officially release (as …
“Apocalypse forces us to radically change. But by facing the future with optimism instead of doom, we can transform ourselves into the kinds of people-the kinds of communities—who can survive.”
https://slate.com/technology/2025/05/h
Some more water / stream with a lot of green in the #blackforest /#schwarzwald last year.
I hope we'll go there again later this year.
(powered by my own Peertube instance 🥰)
https://video.franzgraf.d…
@… @… Sure, it was your first sentence that made me feel the need to reply. I hope you are less divided now. 😄
“I’m usually fine with surveillance capitalism but this is too much, even for me.”
#surveillance #capitalism #BigTech
Rather pessimistic table of countries on these new Nightjet carriages. Only space for one more country. One would hope that approval for France, Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, and perhaps Denmark would be nice to have for future needs.
Or are these tables actually obsolete and will be changed to some “goes everywhere” marking in the future, like what I think is the case for freight wagons?
I uploaded my original announcement #tvamrks video to youtube in hope to get more people to find it.
If you could give it a thumbs up or a comment that would be super cool of you!
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
High-speed and high-connectivity two-qubit gates in long chains of trapped ions
Isabelle Savill-Brown, Joseph J. Hope, Alexander K. Ratcliffe, Varun D. Vaidya, Haonan Liu, Simon A. Haine, C. Ricardo Viteri, Zain Mehdi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11385
I don’t have any heroes because people are always flawed and will disappoint you if you invest them with your faith and hope , except for Greta Thunberg, who is a hero and must be protected at all costs.
“I know faithful people, including faithful preachers, who persist in hope for the future, against all odds, grounded in their hope in God’s steadfastness. That hope emboldens them both to hear and preach the truth of God’s compassion and of God’s justice, and to act accordingly. Their hope emboldens me.”
—Roger Ferlo ’79 Ph.D. writing in the latest issue of our journal, Reflections
Fundamental Parameters for Central Stars of 103 Infrared Bowshock Nebulae
Nikhil Patten, Henry A. Kobulnicky, Matthew S. Povich, Angelica S. Whisnant, Sydney Andrews, Alexandra Boone, Srujan Dandu, Naomi Jones, S. Nick Justice, Dylan Hope, Alexander Larsen, Ryan McCrory, Julia Meredith, Maria Renee Meza, Alexandra C. Rosenthal, William Salazar, Alexander R. Sterling, Noshin Yesmin, Daniel A. Dale
"Paris goal of 1.5°C warming is still too hot for polar ice sheets, study warns"
#ParisAgreement #Climate #ClimateChange
❤️ Hope you have a wonderful #MothersDay ❤️
🙏 #nasa #landsat 🙏
I'm not an atomic scientist but I thought I knew all the element names well enough to recognize them [0], so today's news about #Samarium (h/t/ @…) is extra weirdly ominous because I *don't* recognize the name
it's oddly made-up-soundin…
“The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number became believers and turned to the Lord.”
Acts€ 11€:21€ NRSV€€
https://bible.com/bible/2016/act.11.21.NRSV
Sonnet 029 - XXIX
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,
Haply …
I sure hope this ends with Musk buying Taco Bell.
The use of the US military on US residents & citizens is the thing I've dreaded (on behalf of my homeland) since the return of Trump. I hope my dread is misplaced, but I fear it won't be.
Pete Carroll Offers More Faith vs. Hope to Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/pete-carroll-las-vegas-josh-mcdaniels-antonio-pierce
Was just reading about Matilda Emmerich having her artwork declined by the Hawkesbury Agricultural Show because of its content. Am I the only one concerned about the censorship of artists in Australia these days?
https://www.…
Mac OS Tahoe trying to catch up to @… with Spotlight, I see. Hope they expose the APIs so Raycast can do it better, as usual. #WWDC25
Ended up with a little over 10 lbs of Asian plums from our plum tree which I hope will make some lovely jelly this fall.
#gardening #gardening #oklahoma
A good news story about the great gender preference divide.
After years of declining sex ratios that saw increases in female infanticide and missing girls, it seems there's a change.
'Globally, among babies born in 2000, a staggering 1.6m girls were missing from the number you would expect, given the natural sex ratio at birth. This year that number is likely to be 200,000—and it is still falling.'
Beautiful hope.
So farewell then Pinetime Watch 🪦.
It isn't showing any signs of charging. even after a completely-flat battery reset. Last hope gone.
Now nobody at all is running my custom software I think, and I have no way to fix the bugs.
Could replace it, but I'm not really paying any attention to the things it measures anyway. Heartrate is too unreliable to be useful and steps seems likely to be counting my leg-jiggles since I tend to hit 10,000 most days without trying or leaving the flat.
The software which tracks my time and mood is probably better running on the phone really. Easier to add notes and detail. Can't really input text from a watch. Location data can be added in ways the watch couldn't.
So back to not wearing a watch at all I think. Who needs it now we all carry pocket watches with internet and telephony.
#pineTime #smartWatch
It is a week until the grand Kim Jong Un, oops I mean FFOTUS imperial parade.
(How could I conflate Kim Jong Un's parade with the FFOTUS one? - North Korea does a much better job of putting on mass tributes.)
Anyway, I do hope that DC Metro workers and Uber/Lyft drivers take a sick day off as many of the parade goers will be anti-vaxers with active, infectious Covid or Measles.
Don't forget that on the 14th you should arrive mid-day to your local Metro stop, park in…
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvg7vxx888kt
It took him a few months but Trump's getting what he wanted: military on US streets.
I hope LA residents and protesters remember that a single demo can be attacked and dispersed easily; 20 different demos can't.
Microsoft, Google, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto plan a public glossary of state-sponsored hacking groups to ease confusion over the spread of unofficial aliases (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…
Hope the folks in Steubenville had a great time yesterday celebrating Dean Martin day!
Everybody Loves Somebody
#DeanMartinDay…
Currently taking a break from the neverending volleyballoon game in the lounge room. Wee grandson has his da and grandda conscripted while I am secreted in the laundry waiting for the washing machine to complete its cycle in... 2 minutes now. Hope everyone is having a lovely Sunday. I stayed in bed until 9am! Had 2 cups of tea. Then I resignedly got up, got dressed, and officially started the day.
I'm so encouraged with the spat between Musk and Trump. I hope that there is a agent of chaos whispering in Musks ear, "oh my god, Trump is such an idiot. You are so much smarter. If you yell loud enough, he'll listen. Wait, did he just roll his eyes again. That little fucker doesn't respect you. You need to teach him some respect."
I hope Joyce Carol Oates got her foot fixed.
YDS Dean Greg Sterling on the election of the new Pope.
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The election of Pope Leo XIV is a significant moment. Candidly, I did not think that I would see an American pope in my lifetime. I hope that the surprise of his election bodes well for the ways he will lead. Many of the cardinals (ca. 80%) who voted for the pope were appointed by Pope Francis. I hope that Leo will continue the work of Francis.
@… Ooof. Hope there’s no more surprises.
@… Thanks for running such an awesome server! Hope you have a great weekend!
If se can make the icons pink now I hope they also let us make the whole UI pink.
#WWDC
I've spent little to no time on Mastodon in the last few weeks, let alone posting...
The reason has been the illness and then death of my beloved dog “Sam”, aka “Unixdog”, which has left me pretty broken up.
The grief is still not out of my heart, and it doesn't look like things are getting better at the moment, but I will try to bring normality back into my life and thus post Linux and Open Source related topics here again.
And I hope that Sam is doing well in dog…
I hope Andor season 2 does not have any Jedi or light sabers in it. I love how season 1 and Rogue One are more like war movies without magical space wizards.
I hope Thunder win the #NBA championship! One of the few teams in the league that has built a team the way it should be built. None of this pandering to whining stars BS.
"cyberem command" autocorrecting to "Siberia command", which I hope doesn't cause confusion at some point.
Archibald MacLeish wrote a touching poem on the war dead after "The Great War" (WWI).
Excerpt:
The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak
They say, Whether our lives and our deaths were for peace and a new hope or for nothing we cannot say: it is you who must say this.
They say, We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.
We were young, they say. We have died. Remember us.
Full poem:
#MemorialDay #PeaceNotWar
Mark your calendars for our upcoming events this Fall from the Love of Children program. You can read and register for these events at https://yaleyouthministryinstitute.org/upcoming-events/
We can say this at least:
Musk is one of the most malignant people ever to hold a position of influence in American politics.
His actions, without exaggeration, have devastated the health and security of American society
and directly caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people all over the world, with millions more to follow given the course that he has set.
Musk’s DOGE, which is more or less a conspiracy to destroy constitutional government in this country, has …
I’m really glad Mastodon 4.4.0 will allow server admins to opt into sending the Referer header, and I hope admins of large instances will turn it on.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.4.0-beta.1
I also hope that third-party mobil…
Multi-mode cooling of a Bose-Einstein condensate with linear quantum feedback
Zain Mehdi, Matthew L. Goh, Matthew J. Blacker, Joseph J. Hope, Stuart S. Szigeti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02377
Max Payne 1 is currently unavailable on Steam in some regions, I hope Remedy... uh fixes that.
With Mozilla launching Thundermail as a mail provider and knowing the intend to use Stalwart as server implementation, I really hope we start seeing more wide adoption of JMAP. SMTP, IMAP, CalDAV and CardDAV ara really showing its age and limitations.
Sources:
Mozilla: https://thunderbir…
"My experiences of connection with God and others in the church have kept me coming back. I am hoping against hope that the 21st century church can be an experiential community for the future, a place that more and more people can turn to for a mysterious experience of eternal resonance."
—S. Slade Hogan ’22 S.T.M. writing in the new issue of Reflections, which asks whether Christianity is losing its religion.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Roots Manuva:
🎵 Witness (1 Hope)
#RootsManuva
https://surri.bandcamp.com/track/roots-manuva-witness-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5KLcIahbdBJeZ8tHAyYMpN
What is Past is Prologue:
#Paleoclimate constraints on #ECS Equilibrium #ClimateSensitivity #GreenhouseGas sensitivity of Earth's #Climate
First of 3 papers this summer.
My career trajectory has been building towards using past climate archives to narrow the possibilities of future climate. But it is HARD. And computationally expensive.
The next two papers of this project will rule out some high and low sensitivity simulations using Past Climate (Proxy) archives and Data Assimilation. Those should be out in preprint in the next couple of months.
We hope this project (first to constrain earth climate sensitivity using coupled atmosphere-ocean earth system models) will be streamlined in the future and applied widely.
https://essopenarchive.org/users/921675/articles/1297441-on-the-sensitivity-of-climate-sensitivity-in-a-coupled-climate-model
"David Attenborough’s ‘Ocean’ is a brutal, beautiful wake-up call from the sea"
#Oceans #Environment #Film #Media