Tootfinder

If you read Sartre, Nietzsche, or Camus, you might appreciate this self-taught classical composer.
#Sartre

Derek Carr: I'd only unretire to play for a Super Bowl contender https://www.nfl.com/news/derek-carr-i-d-only-unretire-to-play-for-a-super-bowl-contender

Just finished "Far Sector" written by N. K. Jemisin and illustrated by Jamal Campbell. I don't normally go for Marvel/DC comics stuff and this was a good reminder why. Jemisin's authorship was the draw for me here, as well as some curiosity about what I might be missing out on by avoiding the classic comics lineage. I won't go into too much detail about particulars, but suffice to say it ends up feeling to me line a very neoliberal story dressed up in a veneer of radicalism, which is not what I'd expected of Jemisin. Particularly in light of current events, the "good cops" aspects of the storyline ring truly hollow. There's still a lot of neat parts, but I guess I also wound up disappointed by the sci-fi aspects in a lot off ways. I truly think Jemisin is capable of better than this, based on her other (excellent) work.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Many years ago I was working with a friend to find a bug in a Makefile generator. We had a megabyte or so of Makefile we needed to examine. He was an emacs user. It took him minutes just to open the file. I was using sam. It took about a second for sam to load, and I found the problem before he'd even finished loading the file.
The speed of tools matters, and big files are common nowadays. Things should stay fast as their workload grows. That goes double for interactive tools.
By the way, it still takes me 30 seconds to log in to my bank. I wonder how long it will take when it's an LLM-generated landing page.
https://phanpy.social/#/hachyderm.io/s/115891592999188880

Another failure of #ChatGPT. I asked if a diagram had ever appeared in anything I'd published. It confidently gave me three answers, all wrong, before admitting that it couldn't find it. It even gave totally wrong Figure numbers. When I pointed this out, I got the usual dose of mock humility.
#AI…

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
HUNDA: I think I can. There are two places along that cooling system where it's possible to surface, and as long as I keep my face to the current I should be heading in the right direction. All right, Hask, you take over now. Get the column moving. If all goes well, I'll be back tomorrow night. [he moves off]
HASK: Good luck Hunda.

Fashion and leather hardware collide: I've been seeking this tiny Chicago screw for an Italian belt for a while now, and Moschino's repair services in London and Milan have both come up short. If anyone has any ideas, I'd be grateful.
https://www.reddit.com/r…

So—a little reprogramming of the Morningstar MC6:
⁃ A/B/C buttons now switch to cln/low/mid/hi with a single press, no change to fx; same but dry with double press, same but with verb with a long press;
⁃ Max/min expression toggle on button D
⁃ 30/50/70% exp on button E
⁃ Button F toggles Next Page, which has various fx block toggles for Mercury X on the six buttons
Now I don't need a separate expression pedal, & I can get in the ballpark of what I need with…

Sonnet 037 - XXXVII
As a decrepit father takes delight
To see his active child do deeds of youth,
So I, made lame by Fortune's dearest spite,
Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth;
For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,
Or any of these all, or all, or more,
Entitled in thy parts, do crowned sit,
I make my love engrafted to this store:
So then I am not lame, poor, nor despis'd,
Whilst that this shadow doth such su…

I know we have bigger problems, but I'd probably vote for someone with “make it illegal to show search results that don't match your search query” in their platform if the rest seemed fine enough.

Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,
Is those things arms, or is they legs?
I marvel at thee, Octopus;
If I were thou, I'd call me us.
-- Ogden Nash

With news that another railway bridge in Scotland has fallen into the river below, I feel compelled to share @…'s # CautionaryTales episode on that famous Dundonian poet McGonagall..
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford: "Genius Still Unrecognised" - The Worst Poet in the World
Episode webpage: https://omny.fm/shows/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/genius-still-unrecognised-the-worst-poet-in-the-world
Media file: https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdrl.fm/18db03/tracking.swap.fm/track/SxlTEPDY7xDg35RXkASs/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/c0ae8c6e-22f0-4e9b-ac1c-ae390037ac53/fd2acf28-383a-4874-b266-b33900f48f7c/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=7f5a4714-6b10-4ccf-a424-ae390037ac70

Soooo, the AI bubble might burst even this year already? I was thinking of 2026, but maybe we'll have very interesting Christmas ahead
https://piaille.fr/@rts/115713784150633988

Do any of y'all submit your top 10 metal things of the year to the Metal Archives for their poll? I haven't before, but now that I have an account there, I'm gonna do it this year. I guess as long as you have an account there before December 2, and it can be LPs, EPs, or splits even as long as they were released this year and were new material.. the rules are on this forum thread along with discussion, and you'd submit a DM there to the poster of the thread.

Amebae!
https://www.nytimes.com/badges/games/v1/bee.html?d=2026-02-14&l=mabegin&p=293&r=Queen Bee&c=e6584b2c60d150b59c1dda9f9a74269c&smid=url-share…

I got Queen Bee!
How many words can you make with 7 letters?

Just be glad I corrected the typo before I pressed enter, otherwise I'd have been wishing a Merry Christmas to all the poop fans. #TOTP

Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
SERVALAN: Don't concern yourself, Egrorian. I encourage ambition.
EGRORIAN: I never conspired against you, I swear it! Orac, acknowledge my instructions. [Orac buzzes, but says nothing.] I don't understand.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/363 B7B3…

Hey, @AdaPalmer: I am starting Guy Gavriel Kay's *Written on the Dark*, and I remembered his *Tigana*, which takes place in fantasy Renaissance Italy (and involves it being conquered and occupied by other Italian historic eras, or so I interpret it).
As a scholar of the Italian Renaissance and auctorial colleague of Kay, I was wondering if you'd read it, and what you thought? I enjoyed it a lot.

I've played a bunch of roguelites and they are often fun, but I keep dropping off of them after a few hours usually. There's often somewhat interesting storytelling but at some point I'd prefer to just not go through the motions of "another run" and just not keep on playing. Happened with Hades and ond two and a bunch of others.

Should
(= 3/4 0.75)
return true (or 't)? You'd think so.
#SBCL 2.5.2 does think so.
MIT/GNU Scheme also thinks so.
#Interlisp Medley agrees.
I think this is correct behaviour.
#Clojure

That's a new one. Upgraded my router from Debian bookworm to trixie and all of the sysctls (including rather important ones like ipv4 and ipv6 forwarding) that I had set in /etc/sysctl.conf no longer applied, the file was moved to a .bak but not migrated to whatever Debian is trying to force me onto instead.
But overall far from the most painful distro upgrade I've had. I was worried all of my NICs would change names (again) and I'd have to rebuild my whole firewall configu…

I guess I’m going to get to know the peeps at Norfolk Police quite well over the next few months. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/14/public-should-heed-forthcoming-rules-on-single-sex-spaces-says-uk-equ…

@… He's not great. If he was the Dem nominee, I'd have to hold my nose before voting for him, even against a MAGA candidate.

If I saw a painting of
a man
half body turning into a mannequin
I'd ask
what message did the artist want to convey?
but I can't
because there was no artist
and the painting's creator
hates us

Spent the evening playing around with Text-to-speech stuff. Not so much fun on a CPU (instead of a GPU).
Don't ask for a use case - it was a "because I want it"-case
Maybe I should have better written one or two blog posts :-D

I just sent a very angry note to my Congress Critter who voted to block the resolution to impeach trump.
Sure, it won't pass the Senate, but that's not a reason for Congressional cowardice.
(I was quite ticked off that one D congress critter said that he did not vote for it because they had to do research to figure out if trump had done bad things!!!!!! What utter hogwash!!!)

Infuriated Dems help GOP quash another Trump impeachment vote
"This is not a team effort," fumed one House Democrat. "It puts us in a difficult position."

@… sorry, it was a poor joke. I don't truly want to force deletion of the one and only device (on which the system is running).
Jokes aside, there _is_ a tiny bug. The error dialogue in this case is not easily OK'd (dismissed) …

In 2026, I'm gonna go to more #cons and do more #cosplay.
I had some amazing times at #DestinationStarTrek before Paramount nuked Euro cons.
I'd like MORE!

One of the most useless search terms for Mastodon is the `in:library`. Yeah, I get it, everything I've interacted with. But I'd expect to only show stuff I bookmarked. I don't see a way to only search in my bookmarked posts. There are accounts where I favorited a *lot* of the posts but only bookmark one or two. No way to find them anymore :-/
I hope, there'll be more possible values to `in:` in the future, e.g. `favorites`, `bookmarks`, `replies`, `boosts`.

Période : en soirée Dates : du lundi 2 au vendredi 27 février (sauf samedi et dimanche). Le trafic est interrompu entre Avenue Henri Martin et Pontoise :
- Dernier départ d'Avenue Henri Martin Š 21h40
- Dernier départ de Pontoise Š 21h58 Report : ligne H ou bus de remplacement , métro, tramways ou bus de ville. Les horaires du calculateur d'itinéraire tiennent compte des travaux.
Motif : travaux sur le réseau ferroviaire.

The moral of the story is: Never Wash Halloween Costumes!
There was a pair of pants in the dirty laundry that I'd been avoiding because it had black bubbles (boba) attached to the legs. Earlier today I thought, "Hmm.. maybe I'll finally wash it, and someone could use it next year!" I examined the boba closely; it looked like it had been glued on. Obviously I didn't try to pull it off or damage it. So I figured it was okay, as our heat pump dryer doesn't get th…

Une #petition intéressante
Cesser d'utiliser X (anciennement Twitter) pour les communications officielles du gouvernement
https://petitions.assemblee-nationale.

Cesser d'utiliser X (anciennement Twitter) pour les communications officielles du gouvernement - Cesser d'utiliser X (anciennement Twitter) pour les communications officielles du gouvernement - Plateforme des pétitions de l’Assemblée nationale
Cessez d'utiliser cette plateforme comme l'un des principaux porte-parole des communications officielles en France. Il existe des alternatives bien mieux modérées et régulées, et il est même possible de gérer sa propre plateforme. Si vous allez ailleurs, les journalistes et les citoyens qui veulent consommer l'information du gouvernement français iront aussi ailleurs. Le propriétaire de cette plateforme est ouvertement opposé aux valeurs de la Constitution française. Il publie régul…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Miriam Feuersinger, Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Marie Henriette Reinhold, Patrick Grahl, Markus Eiche & Hans-Christoph Rademann:
🎵 Magnificat in D Major, Wq. 215: I. Magnificat
#CarlPhilippEmanuelBach

#til That Gosia is a diminutive of Małgorzata.
I've encountered both names, but I'd never have guessed that they were related.

Sonnet 030 - XXX
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone…

At @… we're running many linter-ish tools in CI that I'd like to have easy to apply (codespell, various indentation/sorting stuff, cargo clippy --fix). Are there existing tools that I can wrap those in, so that at the end of a PR's CI run, I get a neat set of "fixup!" #git

ci: common easy-to-apply workflow for lints · Issue #1800 · ariel-os/ariel-os
Description Recent discussion has shown that the lints we currently have are mostly accepted as important (could still need that documented, though), but we'd like to do better in terms of actionab...

How I block all online ads
— by @…
🚫 https://troubled.engineer/posts/no-ads/
…and use this browser add-ons for more privacy on web
:mastodon:

60 years ago tonight, the velvet underground at summit high school in new jersey, opening for the myddle class, both acts' 1st proper shows. sometimes called the VU's debut, rob norris’s classic scene report, “i was a velveteen” (from kicks #1) mentions they’d just been fired from cafe wha?, so maybe there was one earlier, too? some great local coverage, too!

Good Morning #Canada
The pets have conspired to get me out of bed early, so I'm coffeed up and listening to our #Christmas playlist. I thought I'd share 12 Christmas tunes written and/or sung by Canadians. The ranking is subjective and unserious, so please no arguments as I'm trying to stay off the naughty list. Have I missed anything or anyone awesome? Reply with your favourites and I might add them to my playlist.
12 - Let It Snow - Dianna Krall
11 - Christmas Eve - Spirit of the West
10 - O Holy Night - Céline Dion
9 - Silent Night - Rita MacNeil
8 - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Michael Bublé
7 - Wintersong - Sarah McLachlan
6 - Old Toy Trains - Susan Aglukark
5 - Good King Wenceslas – Loreena McKennitt
4 - Song for a Winter's Night - Gordon Lightfoot
3 - Huron Carol - Sarah McLachlan
2 - River - Blue Rodeo
1 - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings - Barenaked Ladies & Sarah McLachlan
#CanadaIsAwesome #ChristmasMusic

Also, I haven't yet added captioning. I'm planning to do that later today. Apologies for not posting it in a completely accessible way, thanks for your patience.
Edit:
Updated. It should be more accessible now.
I usually don't add images to my posts. I realized half way through that I had a bunch more to do. I kind of had to power through before I ran out of dopamine, or I'd never actually post it. Thank you for your patience. I'm working on setting up a good OCR pipeline to make this faster in the future.
Thanks again for your patience, and please feel free to let me know if there are ways I could improve for future posts.

Arctic Awakening
(Multi, XP'd on PC via Steam)
Marooned in the Alaskan wilds with a court appointed "therapy bot" Kai is confronted with mysterious facilities and his past as he struggles to survive and be rescued.
This 5 part episodic walking sim/adventure game has some serious Firewatch vibes. Not entirely shocking as it's a Unity FPS perspective game which they tend to look similar. I dig this lower poly "cartoon like" art style tho. Bette…

Excellent piece by @… on the ebb and flow of creative work and the inevitability and importance of fallow periods.
“What I failed to notice: that the fallow periods were doing something too. They were composting. I was taking in books and conversations and experiences without the pressure to immediately metabolize them into output. I was wandering without a map, which meant I sometimes stumbled into territory I never would have found if I'd been navigating by GPS.
The harvest seasons, when they returned, drew on seeds I hadn't remembered planting.”
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-harvest-will-come/

Avui compleixo 24 anys!
🥳🎉
De moment se senten força similars que els 23 que ja tenia xD
Com a regal dol naturalesa, avui ha estat un dia amb el temps tapat i amb pluja fina.
Com a fan dol pluja fina, ja m'estŠ bé.

Here's Adafruit's side in the Sparkfun drama: https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/01/12/discontinuing-the-teensy-at-adafruit/
I will continue to not buy products from either of them because their shipping to Europe costs too fucking much! AliExpress, …

2026 NFL Draft: Is the Cowboys 12th Overall Pick Losing Value? https://insidethestar.com/2026-nfl-draft-is-the-cowboys-12th-overall-pick-losing-value

I think, ultimately, providers of "critical" software are going to have to allow government inspection in some form.
I'd suggest that the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre in Banbury would be a good model, but it's been around for over a decade and - beyond one publicised security bug - it's not clear how effective it actually is.

Apple Opposes India's Plan to Access iOS Source Code
Apple and other smartphone manufacturers are resisting an Indian government proposal that would require them to hand over source code for security...

I never thought I'd be so captivated by a guy doing automobile paint jobs but here we are.
▶️ Asking Strangers to Paint THEIR Car… - Marko
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2VpeYoLobwc&si=FAjjWwPB5D9_5K23

I've drafted a critical analysis of MMT. Not for publication yet but if you'd like to see it, DM me an email address, but I expect constructive feedback.
I summarise Keynesian and Marxist criticisms and add my own ecological ones.
#MMT

I mean, spam sucks obviously, but occasionally one leaks through the filters that makes me smile.
There’s a URL in the signature which I whimsically followed, the headline there is: “The place where you can build and buy a whole qubit.”
#xml

I found an odd shell bug & I'm not entirely sure who's at fault. Some interaction between screen, ANSI colors & grep seems to make a char disappear.
Reproducer: run this in screen on a terminal with 80 chars width:
echo -e 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx12345'|grep 234
The "4" disappears mysteriously... Seems to be caused by escape code '[K' from grep. I'd appreciate explanations whethe…

I'd noticed on apps with Client side decoration that if they blocked on something they were much more of a pain - you can't move the window like you could when they had a window manager driven title bar. This is much more of a pain than not redrawing or responding for a few seconds.
I'm seeing it in Thunderbird's matrix client as it's syncing.

Re-doing a #MusicWomenWednesday from 2024, as the video I'd linked to disappeared and I had to grab a new one.
When I was a kid in the 90s, I had a Wax Trax video compilation on VHS that had this great cover of Patsy Cline's "Walking After Midnight" done by Los Angeles' BRAINDEAD SOUND MACHINE. This was the first way I ever heard this song, and I'm crazy about th…

Really good overview of plans to help Joshua trees survive climate change on National Geographic, with some description of a project I'd only heard rumored, which might aaaaalmost count as what we call assisted migration
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environ…

After a morning of hilarious (not!) Sharepoint collaboration fails in meetings, I thought I'd give Copilot attached to Outlook a go.
Surely, I thought, creating a meeting request from an email would be a core competency? But no! The verbose 'reasoning' looked impressive, but the .ics file it created failed to import. Whyyyyyy, MS, whyyyyyyyyyyy?

While I'm wittering on about #books, these are two of my to-read piles. One is in a bookcase as I knew I'd be a while getting round to them. I bought those for 50p a pop at a Christmas bazaar. They often have some mid-century gems but not this time. The other is by the bed, the Active Pile. The top three are proofs sent to a bookshop in town which offers them to

I'm occasionally browsing Facebook Marketplace, and it's 80% scams and prostitution.
Kind of amazing at how badly it's curated, you'd think their systems could filter this stuff out easily.

new ways to say "false":
I blame @… and @…
https://…

How much do EV charging stations consume – apart from the energy supplied to vehicles? Between 8 and 17%, as I learned from this blog post.
https://www.avocats.ey.com/fr_fr/fiscalite/tva-et-e-mobilite

E-mobilité : Régime TVA des ventes d’électricité aux opérateurs de bornes de recharge
L'administration fiscale a publié un rescrit le 14 janvier 2026 sur le régime TVA des ventes d'électricité pour bornes de recharge. Découvrez les explications de nos avocats.

"Mind if I smoke?"
"Yes, I'd like to see that, does it come out of your ears or what?"

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
DOCHOLLI: Servalan. She represents some people I once worked for. Augk. [Drinks] I knew they'd get me in the end.
CHENIE: You've got to get out of Freedom City. Away from this planet. You can't stay here now!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/305…

#today is #NewScientist article splurge day, but I also have to do some admin for #JournalClub and the inventors' club, and I'd like to maintain the slight

I wish I was into anime games, I'd be getting installments in my favorite franchises every few years not decades.

@… i think you'd know the answer to this offhand: can i swap from an XC7A200T-1FBG676C for an XC7K410T in the same package with no PCB changes?

Dear Europe and others,
I've had a busy day.
I had work all day - as a hospice chaplain taking care of dying people.
This morning my mother went to the hospital for testing related to her dementia. Then, in the late afternoon she fell and had to go back for more testing. She's OK now.
And ICE shot a woman who did nothing wrong. And will probably get away free.
I'd love to protest in the streets but I'm just trying to live. I'll do what I can.

I will confess that out of morbid curiosity, I'd find it interesting to watch the entire process of someone generating a novel using AI. I feel like the prompt would end up being as long as a decent synopsis.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026…

Can AI Chatbots Write Emotionally Rich Romance Books?
The romance industry, always at the vanguard of technological change, is rapidly adapting to A.I. Not everyone is on board.

When you ask someone to respect your GPL free/open source license, sometimes they act offended and say you are threatening them with state violence. The thinking seems to be that copyright law comes down to threats to put people in prison. I've only seen this from privileged white men in tech. Where does this come from? It's it a right wing libertarian ideology? (genuine question, I'd like to know!)
Really, the GPL (and AGPL) is all about undermining copyright law, by creat…

Sonnet 066 - LXVI
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,
As to behold desert a beggar born,
And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,
And purest faith unhappily forsworn,
And gilded honour shamefully misplac'd,
And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,
And right perfection wrongfully disgrac'd,
And strength by limping sway disabled
And art made tongue-tied by authority,
And folly, doctor-like, controlling skill,
And…

Had a surprise yesterday.
A month ago the Endo suggested I consider Getting a Glucagon pen. Said there are two groups that are at higher risk of going low , young children and the elderly. And that I was firmly in the elderly group.
When I found out 2 one time use pens of this were $165 I debated getting it. Finally decided I'd get it .
Yesterday received a letter from the company I use for the Medicare part D.
Opps my bad they exclaim.
" Although you p…

From this game I don't think I'd want Guehi.
#MACCRY #FACUP

When "self-driving" cars were first getting some hype back in ~2015 or so, I told people who asked me that I didn't think they'd be safe, and that I wished the same money were being invested in driver-assistance systems instead.
At the time, advocates were claiming that self-driving cars would be safer than human drivers.
We now have both self-driving cars and some nifty new driver assistance things, and it turns out that the self-driving cars are in fact being developed by corporations whose attention to the bottom line results in danger to others on the road pretty regularly. I don't actually have stats here for whether they're "safer than human drivers" or not, but the opportunity for one bad software update to make *all* self-driving cars dangerous at once kinda makes me doubt that.
Here's an example of Waymo cars getting "more aggressive" as they try to balance between being too timid and obstructing traffic (including emergency vehicles) and being too dangerous:
https://archive.ph/JJuGv
Here's another example of passing stopped schoolbusses leading to a software recall:
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/waymo-issue-voluntary-software-recall-after-close-calls/story?id=128207776
In the first article, Waymo claims 91% fewer serious accidents per mile. Obviously an independent audit would be actually trustworthy, but even if we take that claim at face value, it's meaningless if an update tomorrow causes 100,000 accidents.
Note that they could be using better engineering practices, and the fact that they aren't shows that they don't care enough about the risks. They could be deploying new software versions incrementally and slowly, letting new versions rack up lots of miles only on a few vehicles before pushing them to a fleet. The should also have the equivalent of a simulation unit test for "schoolbus is stopped, what do?" and if a software version fails that test, it doesn't make it to the fleet. Clearly they don't have that.
I feel pretty vindicated in my earlier prediction that this tech is a bad idea in the hands of the current advocates.

Wherever she is, whatever she's doing, I'd like to wish Carrie Poppy a happy Dick Van Dyke's 100th Birthday!
#OhNoRossAndCarrie #CarriePoppy

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
DOCHOLLI: Servalan. She represents some people I once worked for. Augk. [Drinks] I knew they'd get me in the end.
CHENIE: You've got to get out of Freedom City. Away from this planet. You can't stay here now!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/305…

Here's a photo that's a bit different from my usual style.
I took it with the tele lens on last weekend's hike. The inversion caused such a great sea of clouds with just some sole islands.
This kind of weather really offers such unique motives. And again: it was worth carrying the zoom lens up there :-D
Enjoy!
#photography

"Pat, I'd like a 'C' pleas--- no, wait... I'd like a 'P' pl--- no, uh, I think I'd like to solve the puzzle."
#trump #racist

If the US doesn't want Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine I hope someone else jumps on it - I'd love one where you don't have to pick a choice of the other allergens which the current range of flu vaccines have; just give me that mRNA.

Rams QB Matthew Stafford's hope for rematch vs. Panthers: 'I'd like to not throw it to their team' https://www.nfl.com/news/rams-qb-matthew-stafford-s-hope-for-rematch-vs-panthers-i-d-like-to-not-throw-it-to-th…

There were also dragon's teeth just by London Road station in Guildford. I was fascinated by their raison d'être at the time and used to appreciate them every time I walked by.
Dragon’s teeth and elf garden among 2025 additions to English heritage list | #Heritage | The Guardian

I have autism, and I tend to forget things quite often. That’s part of why I’m currently reading Rudolf Rocker – Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice for the fifth time.
If you’d like to read it too, you can find it in my “Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading” document, which I’ll keep updating over time with new books, media, and resources.
Docs:

Période : en soirée Dates : du lundi 2 au vendredi 27 février (sauf samedi et dimanche). Le trafic est interrompu entre Avenue Henri Martin et Pontoise :
- Dernier départ d'Avenue Henri Martin Š 21h40
- Dernier départ de Pontoise Š 21h58 Report : ligne H ou bus de remplacement , métro, tramways ou bus de ville. Les horaires du calculateur d'itinéraire tiennent compte des travaux.
Motif : travaux sur le réseau ferroviaire.

I'm no fan of the the U.S. prison industrial complex or its justice system, but I can't help but think how much better the world would be now if they'd just locked Tim Allen away for life all those years ago

ngscopeclient is pretty fast, but it's never fast enough.
NVTX instrumentation has been super handy for helping to understand what's going on and which shaders are bogging things down.
I really need to make the CDR PLL both faster and not have artifacts at block boundaries. That's my single biggest pain point at the moment.
I'd love to find more people to help out with this side of things eventually. But where the heck do I find an AAA game shader developer …

This was really fun! I'd forgotten about many of these songs. But the Duffy story was a major surprise... had no idea.
▶️ Hidden Gems of Rock - Professor of Rock
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aXGzqJV7rLA&si=zuc2u5dsZGz2GLgY

"In this replacement Earth we're building they've given me Africa
to do and of course I'm doing it with all fjords again because I happen to
like them, and I'm old-fashioned enough to think that they give a lovely
baroque feel to a continent. And they tell me it's not equatorial enough.
Equatorial!" He gave a hollow laugh. "What does it matter? Science has
achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happ…

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
DAYNA: [Starts examining the walls] There must be something here.
TARRANT: Look. Come on. Let's get back. If Avon gets to the ship and we're not there I wouldn't put it past him to leave without us.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/417 B7B2

Heyo! It's been a very silent and calming day for me. Full relax mode - a bit of programming. And thinking about a walk to the mountains tomorrow.
I'm still undecided where I'd like to go. I'll let the weather decide I guess.
Anyways. The photo is - to me - similar relaxing as my day was. Just some bit of sunshine and a bit of wind ...
#photography

Dad told me that on Tuesday reindeer were taken to Mum's care home - how cool is that! Mum was stroking the 6mo calf who was there with its ma. I joked to Dad (who we live with, in his house, albeit very collaboratively) that that was a good reason to get a puppy, so we could take it in to Mum and she'd love stroking it and to my amazement he took me seriously! He said it's not an outright no, so I'm quite encouraged. We're looking to adopt a couple of kittens in Jan so w…

We did some cycling again. Very slow, but under clear blue sky! This time I tested recording when the camera was mounted on my new chest strap.
I think I like it! I remember when I once said that I'd feel stupid wearing such a chest strap with the camera mounted, but - to be honest: I don't care any more.
The result seems to be good. If I still like it in summer when I'm sweating? I don't know. But that's a problem for in a couple of months.

Series D, Episode 13 - Blake
TARRANT: That isn't the plan anymore, though, is it Avon?
AVON: I think we can do better.
VILA: Does that mean safer?
AVON: In the end, winning is the only safety.
VILA: It doesn't mean safer. I didn't think it would.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/413/16

Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
TARRANT: Who's with you? I repeat, who's that with you, Lodestar?
[Zukan's space ship]
ZUKAN: This is Zukan, President of Betafarl, come to attend the conference of the non-aligned planets.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/412/27 B7B6

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
SLAVE: I can find no trace of one, sir.
[On planet's surface, Dayna looks around and sees an animal following her]
TARRANT: Dayna.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/13