@smashtie@mas.to2026-01-17 21:04:09
My youngest got me the most amazing Christmas present! A session handling some items from the V&A East storehouse. Yes, actual touching allowed! (Gloves provided) So I touched two ancient mandolins, a watercolour by Beatrix Potter, an original sketch for a Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back costume design, and a four-track tape recorder and mixer desk owned by David Bowie. She knows me so well. ❤️❤️❤️ #art <…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-17 18:53:17
Paul’s Patented 3 out of 2 Post™:
This grab-and-run strategy explains a lot of the incidents you hear about. ICE’s targeting strategy here is mostly chaotic and opportunistic. They can’t actually try to identify an undocumented immigrant, or even an •immigrant• at all, based on any kind of real evidence. They are mostly just running around trying to catch a brown-enough-skinned person in a vulnerable moment. Bully cowards.
This is one reason why you hear about them grabbing random people out of cars, grabbing US citizens, leaving a car sitting in the middle of the street, leaving kids abandoned in the car, chasing down a random person and then suddenly dispersing. They •know• it’s all disorganized, but they’re desperate to get in and out fast — and they have to hit those quotas somehow.
3/2
@castarco@hachyderm.io2025-11-16 12:05:17
I have the distinct impression that we could use most American "sci-fi" TV series (which seem to have a kink for post-apocalyptical scenographies) as a diagnostic tool for the autism spectrum.
For a moment, let's leave aside the tons of right-wing propaganda "hidden" in plain sight, and their excessive reliance on boring & worn out tropes (religious & cultish bullshit, irrational lack of communication & excess of anti-social behaviour, all vs all, ultra-low-iq characters*, psychotic & irrationally treacherous characters*, ultra-inconsistent character development used to justify "unexpected" plot twists, rampant anti-intellectualism...).
What could be used as a diagnosis tool is the incredible amount of strong inconsistencies that we can find in them**. It throws me out of the story every single time; and I suspect that it takes a certain kind of "uncommon personality" to feel that way about it, because otherwise these series wouldn't be so popular without real widespread criticism beyond cliches like "too slow", "it loses steam towards the end of the season", etc.
Many of those plots start in a gold mine of potentially powerful ideas... yet they consistently provide us with dirt & clay instead, while side-lining the "good stuff" as if it was too complicated for the populace.
Do you feel strongly about it? Do you feel like you can't verbalize it without being criticised as "too negative", or "too picky", or an "unbearable snob"? Do you wonder why it seems like nobody around shares your discomfort with these stories?
* : I feel this is a bit like the chicken & egg problem. Has the media conditioned part of American society to behave like dumb psychopaths as if it was something "natural", or is the media reflecting what was already there? Also, could we use other societies as models for these stories... just for a change? Please?
** : Just a tiny example: a "brilliant" engineer who builds a bridge out of fence parts and who doesn't bother to perform the most basic tests before trying it in a real setting and suffer the consequences: the bridge failing and her falling into the void. Bonus points for anyone who knows what I'm talking about.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-11-17 18:00:48
When you beat the later levels, Linux restarts the whole game over but in hard mode. Sure, I've installed MySQL on Debian before, but this time around there's extra challenges - like the GPG signature on <https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/checking-gpg-signature…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-11-16 03:12:24
“We lead by love. This is community. We send no orders, there’s no orders out here, just people defending each other. And we don’t need a f*cking gun to do it. We don’t need body armor to do it. We don’t need to beat up protestors, we don’t need to beat up fake news to do it. We show up, put our f*cking bodies on the line because we don’t f*ck with n*zis. Maybe one day, maybe one day, you can say the same. Community will welcome you back…”
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@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-01-17 04:25:28
The joys of working on an open source project that interfaces to obscure, sometimes obsolete hardware: regression testing is almost impossible.
Sure, we can catch regressions in the GUI easily. But if a big fix to a driver breaks things for a different scope supported by that driver, there's no way to test without having one of those scopes around to validate things against.
And there's way too many models of instrument out there for building any kind of CI cluster to be …
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2025-10-31 00:30:00
Moody Urbanity - Ups & Downs ⬆️⬇️
情绪化城市 - 上上下下 ⬆️⬇️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-13 15:16:55
Philip Rivers' impossible comeback, Joe Burrow's unrest and what sources are saying around the NFL
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/philip-rivers-comeback-joe-…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-13 02:31:39
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft
💥 painted to look like a civilian plane
in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September,
according to officials briefed on the matter.
The aircraft also
💥carried its munitions inside the fuselage,
rather than visibly under its wings, they said.
⭐️The nonmilitary appearance is significant,
according to legal specialists,
👉because the …
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2025-12-15 12:57:09
Got the 750 started, pulled around within reach of an extension cord, and fired up the ozone generator inside it. Looks like I have a dead lighting control module, which is just fucking awesome, given it was working when parked and it's an expensive part. I hope I don't have a sunroof drain issue dumping water in the passenger footwell. I don't see any obvious signs of that, but it's a common reason for LCM mortality.
