Tootfinder

stark och gullig halacha yomis (dagligt mail om judisk lag) idag https://oukosher.org/halacha-yomis/my-father-as…

"LLMs are okay at coding, but at scale they build jumbled messes. I’ve scaled back my use of AI when coding and gone back to using my brain and pen and paper."
https://albertofortin.com/writing/coding-with-ai

Evangelical: Satan Got Me Fired From The Kennedy Center Over My "Real Progress In The Spiritual" Realm - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/evangelical-satan-got-me-fired-from-the-kennedy-center-over-my-real-progress-in-the-spiritual-realm/

Just updated the links on my Soundcloud, like to my others sites and profiles.
All I have on there is 3 tracks of a little of my voice-over work.
Maybe at some point I will add to it. Feels like that might be a good idea, but hasn't been a high priority for me.
Meanwhile, I've had #acting

I got an email from my local salon saying the stylist who cuts my hair is no longer there and my appointment is canceled so I guess I just have long hair now...

I published my slides from @… on my site, as well as capturing answers to questions from @… and @… and linking to ap…

Beyond Microblogging: AT Protocol for Building Unique Social Apps
I gave this presentation at [[Fedicon]] 2025 in Vancouver.My goal was not to do a protocol deep dive, but rather showcase all of the beyond microblogging app...

I complain about how often I find my parents in my house unexpectedly (they live fairly close) but I just came downstairs to discover one of them had left home grown strawberries and sweet peas in my house. They are temporarily forgiven!

#Caturday

My Fellow New York Jews and I Know Zohran Mamdani Does Not Threaten Us (Spencer Ackerman/Zeteo)
https://zeteo.com/p/my-fellow-new-york-jews-and-i-know
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p98#a250702p98

How popular media gets love wrong
Now a bit of background about why I have this "engineered" model of love:
First, I'm a white straight cis man. I've got a few traits that might work against my relationship chances (e.g., neurodivergence; I generally fit pretty well into the "weird geek" stereotype), but as I was recently reminded, it's possible my experience derives more from luck than other factors, and since things are tilted more in my favor than most people on the planet, my advice could be worse than useless if it leads people towards strategies that would only have worked for someone like me. I don't *think* that's the case, but it's worth mentioning explicitly.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
I'm lucky in that I had some mixed-gender social circles already like intramural soccer and a graduate-student housing potluck. Graduate school makes a *lot* more of these social spaces accessible, so I recognize that those not in school of some sort have a harder time of things, especially if like me they don't feel like they fit in in typical adult social spaces like bars.
However, at one point I just decided that my desire for a relationship would need action on my part and so I'd try to build a relationship and see what happened. I worked up my courage and asked one of the people in my potluck if she'd like to go for a hike (pretty much clearly a date but not explicitly one; in retrospect not the best first-date modality in a lot of ways, but it made a little more sense in our setting where we could go for a hike from our front door). To emphasize this point: I was not in love with (or even infatuated with) my now-wife at that point. I made a decision to be open to building a relationship, but didn't follow the typical romance story formula beyond that. Now of course, in real life as opposed to popular media, this isn't anything special. People ask each other out all the time just because they're lonely, and some of those relationships turn out fine (although many do not).
I was lucky in that some aspects of who I am and what I do happened to be naturally comforting to my wife (natural advantage in the "appeal" model of love) but of course there are some aspects of me that annoy my wife, and we negotiate that. In the other direction, there's some things I instantly liked about my wife, and other things that still annoy me. We've figured out how to accept a little, change a little, and overall be happy with each other (though we do still have arguments; it's not like the operation/construction/maintenance of the "love mechanism" is always perfectly smooth). In particular though, I approached the relationship with the attitude of "I want to try to build a relationship with this person," at first just because of my own desires for *any* relationship, and then gradually more and more through my desire to build *this specific* relationship as I enjoyed the rewards of companionship.
So for example, while I think my wife is objectively beautiful, she's also *subjectively* very beautiful *to me* because having decided to build a relationship with her, I actively tried to see her as beautiful, rather than trying to judge whether I wanted a relationship with her based on her beauty. In other words, our relationship is more causative of her beauty-to-me than her beauty-to-me is causative of our relationship. This is the biggest way I think the "engineered" model of love differs from the "fire" and "appeal" models: you can just decide to build love independent of factors we typically think of as engendering love (NOT independent of your partner's willingness to participate, of course), and then all of those things like "thinking your partner is beautiful" can be a result of the relationship you're building. For sure those factors might affect who is willing to try building a relationship with you in the first place, but if more people were willing to jump into relationship building (not necessarily with full commitment from the start) without worrying about those other factors, they might find that those factors can come out of the relationship instead of being prerequisites for it. I think this is the biggest failure of the "appeal" model in particular: yes you *do* need to do things that appeal to your partner, but it's not just "make myself lovable" it's also: is your partner putting in the effort to see the ways that you are beautiful/lovable/etc., or are they just expecting you to become exactly some perfect person they've imagined (and/or been told to desire by society)? The former is perfectly possible, and no less satisfying than the latter.
To cut off my rambling a bit here, I'll just add that in our progress from dating through marriage through staying-married, my wife and I have both talked at times explicitly about commitment, and especially when deciding to get married, I told her that I knew I couldn't live up to the perfect model of a husband that I'd want to be, but that if she wanted to deepen our commitment, I was happy to do that, and so we did. I also rearranged my priorities at that point, deciding that I knew I wanted to prioritize this relationship above things like my career or my research interests, and while I've not always been perfect at that in my little decisions, I've been good at holding to that in my big decisions at least. In the end, *once we had built a somewhat-committed relationship*, we had something that we both recognized was worth more than most other things in life, and that let us commit even more, thus getting even more out of it in the long term. Obviously you can't start the first date with an expectation of life-long commitment, and you need to synchronize your increasing commitment to a relationship so that it doesn't become lopsided, which is hard. But if you take the commitment as an active decision and as the *precursor* to things like infatuation, attraction, etc., you can build up to something that's incredibly strong and rewarding.
I'll follow this up with one more post trying to distill some advice from my ramblings.
#relationships #love

Sonnet 103 - CIII
Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth,
That having such a scope to show her pride,
The argument all bare is of more worth
Than when it hath my added praise beside!
O! blame me not, if I no more can write!
Look in your glass, and there appears a face
That over-goes my blunt invention quite,
Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace.
Were it not sinful then, striving to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?…

A software developer explains how LLMs, especially AI agents, help automate tedious coding tasks and addresses concerns like hallucinations, job loss, and more (Thomas Ptacek/Fly)
https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

My Highlights of #NDCOslo 2025
https://improveandrepeat.com/2025/06/my-highlights-of-ndc-oslo-2025/

My Highlights of NDC Oslo 2025 - Improve & Repeat
None

My summer breakfast addiction has been a two egg omelette with a twist: After the eggs start to firm up a little I in my pan, I add a layer of finely shredded mozzarella cheese, then a little Pace Picante sauce, then a few halved cherry tomatoes. Top with either Tony’s Creole seasoning or a Cajun spice seasoning I picked up at Price Chopper in Manhattan, Kansas at the end of May. I also include a little chopped ham.
Oh so good! Makes the start of my day so much better.

I even fixed my Pixel 6a back in December. Unfortunately, I broke the new screen a few weeks ago.
I'm glad I upgraded to my Pixel 9a when I did. I love GrapheneOS and have been using it since early May 2023 with my 6a.
#GrapheneOS #Android

Did you know I studied electrical engineering besides work? On Thursday, I finished my bachelor's thesis with the final presentation and it's time to finally present my project: ZEReader, a microcontroller-based E-Reader.
Inspired by the Open Book Project by Joey Castillo, I designed my own platform from scratch. My focus was on building a reader usable in everyday life that is capable of handling books in the EPUB format. The project is still in a very early phase, but it shows…

As things stand now, the only way to be (almost) certain something is legitimate is if you find it in the site and/or official account of the alledged maker of it. Otherwise, it's safer to assume it's fake.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06

Euronews targeted by anti-Moldova disinformation campaign
Pro-Russian actors have repeatedly used Euronews' likeness and visual identity in recent weeks to spread propaganda against various European countries. #EuroVerify

"My vision of a world with computers is a world in which people have a lot more time to do what they like. Playing tennis, jogging… they’ll have plenty of time to go to the shore. I’d go to the library. I could do my work at home. I could have a computer at home and talk to my office. I could live up on top of a nice mountain in New Hampshire and smell pine trees and it would be the same as if I were here in the sub-sub-subbasement of the Pentagon."
– Grace Hopper

My doctor (who has been in the US for decades and is white, English speaking, and a professional)
got naturalized last month because she felt a green card just wasn’t enough anymore, so that’s fun
https://bsky.app/profile/ethicking.com/post/3lt3bmtyb5r2x…

OK, so my @… (Firefox extension) just keeps saying my vault is empty. Even after restarting the browser. If I couldn't see my vault on other devices, I'd be having a panic attack right now.

Forgot my laptop the other day and had to take notes on my phone. Amongst various other differences, I feel so much more comfortable w/ a laptop because I can touch-type and look the speaker in the eye; can't on the phone, so it looks like I'm distracted and ignoring them.

There's some discourse on generative AI "democratizing" art.
And this is so confusing to me. I create images. And when I do, I'm trying to take something in my head, and make it real. And share that image in my head with others.
It's my image in my head. If I describe that to AI to make the image, then it is just approximate. To get it closer to my image needs a better prompt.
That's writing. Writing it its own art, and you can let the reader imagi…

Went to the DMV to renew my license today and I had a moment of dissonance when I had to put my weight in the little box. Almost a 100 pounds down, probably 80 from what it was last time I renewed.
Guy noticed and commented I look so different from my picture too.

from my link log —
Behind the scenes of Rust string formatting and format_args!().
https://blog.m-ou.se/format-args/
saved 2023-12-05 https://

H'mmm... My @forgejo instance has been hit very hard last night by AI crawlers, including from
* https://openai.com/gptbot (125,467 hits in 24 hours)
*

My aunt's first husband smoked like a chimney. According to my mom, he'd always say that, "by the time I need it, someone will have developed a cure." They didn't - he died of lung cancer years ago. I think about him fairly often.

heise | Fünf Tracker für Googles Find-My-Device-Netzwerk im Test
Bluetooth-Tracker helfen, verschwundene Dinge wiederzufinden. Wir haben fünf Modelle mit und ohne UWB für Androids "Mein Gerät finden" gesucht und gefunden.

Had my talk on Small Web accepted at #why2025 but I hadn’t realised (my bad) that not only do you have to cover your own travel and accommodation but you also have to buy a ticket to speak. I’m sorry, as part of a tiny two-person not-for-profit working for the common good, I can’t afford to pay to speak at events. I’m not Deloitte. So I sadly had to withdraw my talk.
If any conferences do w…

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…

omg. so because my new modem has a router I can't use my existing router? REALLY? I feel like I should be able to have another router with it's own settings.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Will Van Horn:
🎵 Lost My Mind
#WillVanHorn
https://willvanhorn.bandcamp.com/track/lost-my-mind
https://open.spotify.com/track/1TSJvLS7GXyhxhPVk3IQBh

Yes In My Bamako Yard
Over the next 25 years, Africa is expected to add 900 million people to its cities, the largest wave of urban population growth the world has ever seen. How can the continent begin to prepare today?
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/11/yes-in-my-bamako-yard…

Yes In My Bamako Yard—Asterisk
Over the next 25 years, Africa is expected to add 900 million people to its cities, the largest wave of urban population growth the world has ever seen. How can the continent begin to prepare today?

Someone wrote an article talking about how LLMs helped him write code called "My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts". Cool. If a tool works for you, go for it.
And that's my whole opinion.

Awful lot of emails for updating my cloud storage security lately, I mean I always give them my ssn and credit card numbers right away but they just keep coming

#NowPlaying - my proper canterbury education carries on with henry cow's 1973 debut, like "weasels ripped my flesh" era mothers, but british leftist instead of californian libertarian (not that they really sing much here) & a notch less manic.

I've made the PDF version of my "Icons of Coffee" art-book FREE (or pay what you want)
Grab it over on my Ko-fi!
#Free #ArtBook #Coffee

@… Shannon: “Before the Sun” came on in one of my playlists and my spouse said, “She has a beautiful voice.” I agreed. 🤓🎶

So, if you've been using Fly to deploy stuff you might want to reconsider. Given this true believer post on "AI" my trust into the security of their infrastructure has plummeted to zero. (My one deployment I had with them was incidentally already deleted before reading this 😅).
https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/

Open question about OpenGraph to any geek who feels like responding 😄

BlueSky and LinkedIn fail to fetch the featured image for posts on axbom.com (my English site) but does it with no issues for posts on axbom.se (my Swedish site).

From my perspective they are set up in exactly the same way (Ghost sites). My estimate is that this started happening more than a month ago and I have no idea why.

Going to my humor folder because today was as dark as I've seen.
Hopefully those of you who need it will crack a smile at my stupid memes.

Did I just submerge my feet in the lake? Perhaps.
Did I enjoy a short relief? Surely.
And now to toil my way to the train station.

More than 20 years ago I did this lecture recording on Web Caching as part of my Web Technologies lecture at the University of Jena ;-)
https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00002277

Well, shit. Whenever I write up a little #TimeTrivia on my peronal account @… on my self hosted instance slows to a fucking crawl because of the boosts and likes. It is now unusable so if I don't reply to you there for a while, you now know why.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Rosie Lowe:
🎵 In My Head
#NowPlaying #RosieLowe
https://rosielowe.bandcamp.com/track/in-my-head
https://open.spotify.com/track/6bZiehE4RoMgiFt09um4g1

“But it’s less immersive!”
Bitch, I’m watching a video on a phone. Do you think I can’t see the bezel, or the coffee mug it’s resting against as I shovel my lunch into my face?
Just give me the fucking buttons back.

Having an ongoing volcanic eruption less than 50 km from my home doesn't change anything in my daily life except that I need to be aware if there is a chance of smog made up of gases such as sulfur dioxide. So wind is the key factor.
People are rarely killed by the lava from an eruption. If you are close enough the gas can be immediately fatal.
Eruptions beneath glaciers can cause massive life threatening floods.
The most frightening immediate danger is the pyroclastic …

Pro Football Hall of Fame: My Class of 2026 modern-era predictions https://www.nfl.com/news/pro-football-hall-of-fame-my-class-of-2026-modern-era-predictions

- I honestly don't know if Ken is post-op or pre-op or what.
- Maybe it's none of your business.
- MY Ken, MY business!

PSA:
If you don't drink all your beer on Friday and take up so much space in the shared refrigerator (6 large cans, 6 bottles) that I can't put my lunch in there, you might have to search for your alcohol elsewhere. Far away. In a warm place.
But I left a note where to find it.
Hey, you didn't label it, I would have been in my rights to drink it or pour it down the drain.

@…
Just a follow-up.
In trying to get my account (@… working on my Tablet I logged out of my account and although I can see my posts I can't log in again as although I have my email address and password saved I …

This is so cool! I’m listening to an MC doing shoutouts while mixing reggae instrumentals with Michael Jackson right now.
https://toot.community/@pirateradiomap/114778624095401406

In my second instalment of thinking out loud about #ArtsPedagogy for film schools, I touch on drawing, sensory learning, experience, and the audience. I big reach for a short blog post, but a useful way to both train myself to write down what I’m thinking and also to record the connections in my thinking for future reference…

Low-Power Laptop/Server (2007) - Read how I slimmed Web-facing servers in my office from 670W to less than 20W... #frugal - https://www.earth.org.uk/low-power-laptop.html

Low-Power Laptop/Server (2007)
Read how I slimmed Web-facing servers in my office from 670W to less than 20W... #frugal

I am very disturbed to find that the latest beta of @… was randomly inserting ads for itself in my toots and using a "Rich Text" mode that I never asked for as the excuse, while hiding their ad from me in-app, as below. I apologize to my followers for the junk and despite paying for the "Mona Pro Max" license, I do not expect to run the app …

Dredging up recollections of my experience as R6RS editor for my PLSS talk tomorrow.
https://2025.ecoop.org/details/plss-2025-papers/8/Do-Programming-Languages-Fulfill-Requirements-Should-They-

in the #jellyfin for #ubuntu (10.10.7) why would my Television library show only one series under Shows, three under Recently Added in Home and Suggestions, and yet appears to show all of my ./Television collection under Genres? Is there a trick to inform those other views?

"I religiously followed your blog along with the blogs of Jeffrey Zeldman, Dan Cederholm, and Doug Bowman. You were blogging constantly and it was great for people who were getting immersed in web design and code."
https://veerle.duoh.com
@…

Veerle's Blog 4.0 | Graphic & Web Design Articles & Illustrator and…
Hi, I'm Veerle! Explore my design tutorials to gain valuable insights and resources that have shaped my own ( web ) design journey. Discover the…

It's official! I'm speaking again at the International PHP Conference in Munich! 🎉
My talks:
"Content Management in the Age of AI: A Headless Approach" - How Headless CMS and AI are shaping the future of content
"Digital Souvereignity: Where to Put My Kubernetes?" - Practical experience with K8s on European infrastructure
Also looking forward to @…

Program | International PHP Conference 2025 | Munich or Online
Check out the program at International PHP Conference, Oct. 27 ‒ 31, 2025 | ✓ Sessions ✓ Workshops ✓ Keynotes — All you need to know!

Once for my birthday, my husband signed us up for a cheese class and the birthday card quoted this line. https://mastodon.social/@kimlockhartga@beige.party/114611691872070310

Got my first IgE inhibitor shot this afternoon.
It has only been an hour and a half, no side major effects, good nor bad. Just one large non-itchy hive, and a lump on the side of my arm where it got the shot. Needles don't usually bug me, but seeing the spring loader on it after was, interesting, to say the least.
Hoping for some relief or reduction in allergies, asthma, and upper respiratory distress I've been having with

My Fellow New York Jews and I Know Zohran Mamdani Does Not Threaten Us
https://zeteo.com/p/my-fellow-new-york-jews-and-i-know

Sonnet 034 - XXXIV
Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,
And make me travel forth without my cloak,
To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,
Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke?
'Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break,
To dry the rain on my storm-beaten face,
For no man well of such a salve can speak,
That heals the wound, and cures not the disgrace:
Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief;
Though th…

Over the last 6 months, potus has made decisions economists on both sides of the aisle said would lower the number of new jobs created in the U.S. (random inconsistent import taxes, tariffs, are bad).
That’s the only “rigging” going on.
https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/32338

Donald J. Trump: "In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republi...
In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad — Just like when they had three great days around the 2024 Presidential Election, and then, those numbers were “taken away” on November 15, 2024, right after the Election, when the Jobs Numbers were massively revised DOWNWARD, making a correction of over 818,000 Jobs — A TOTAL SCAM. Jerome “Too Late” Powell is no better! But, the good news is, our Country is doing GREAT!

I rode my bike 600 miles in 2024 and it's June 1st, 2025 and I'm over 500 miles for this year!
My goal for 2025 is 1,000 miles which I think is still doable as long as I don't have any injuries (sigh) and nothing else goes wrong.
#bikeTooter

I've orchids flowering in my meadow again this year, which brings me joy.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Dug Dug's:
🎵 Lost in My World
#DugDugs
https://wonderpop.bandcamp.com/track/lost-in-my-world-1971

from my link log —
TinyBits: smaller, faster serialization for Ruby apps and beyond.
https://oldmoe.blog/2025/05/05/smaller-faster-serialization-for-ruby-apps-and-beyond/
saved 2025-05-06

Smaller, faster serialization for Ruby apps and beyond!
Introduction In my last blog, I went over multiple serialization solutions for Ruby including two JSON based flavors (Oj and the standard library JSON gem) alongside CBOR and MessagePack as binary …

A movie I'm really psyched to rewatch soon is one of my favorites, Minority Report (despite my dislike of Tom Cruise), to see both the things I thought when I saw it as 'this is tech that basically already exists' (personally tailored ads) to tech we have now that's probably worse than that in terms of #surveillance and

#ScribesAndMakers for July 3: When (and if) you procrastinate, what do you do? If you don't, what do you do to avoid it?
I'll swap right out of programming to read a book, play a video game, or watch some anime. Often got things open in other windows so it's as simple as alt-tab.
I've noticed recently I tend to do this more often when I have a hard problem to solve that I'm not 100% sure about. I definitely have cycles of better & worse motivation and I've gotten to a place where I'm pretty relaxed about it instead of feeling guilty. I work how I work, and that includes cycles of rest, and that's enough (at least, for me it has been so far, and I'm in a comfortable career, married with 2 kids).
Some projects ultimately lose steam and get abandoned, and I've learned to accept that too. I learn a lot and grow from each project, so nothing is a true waste of time, and there remains plenty of future ahead of me to achieve cool things.
The procrastination does sometimes impact my wife & kids, and that's something I do sometimes feel bad about, but I think I keep that in check well enough, and for things my wife worries about, I usually don't procrastinate those too much (used to be worse about this).
Right now I'm procrastinating a big work project by working on a hobby project instead. The work project probably won't get done by the start of the semester as a result. But as I remind myself, my work doesn't actually pay me to work during the summer, and things will be okay without the work project being finished until later.
When I want to force myself into a more productive cycle, talking to people about project details sometimes helps, as does finding some new tech I can learn about by shoehorning it into a project. Have been thinking about talking to a rubber duck, but haven't motivated myself to try that yet, and I'm not really in doldrums right now.

loved everything about this piece about the tragic decline of live music/arts listings except blaming it on poptimism, which feels like a bystander at the consolidation/immolation of independent media (& i'm no poptimist). https://www.

A Love Letter to Music Listings
Publications like Time Out New York were my bible and my road map.

jokes when they needed my honesty and honesty when they needed my jokes

I need to rethink my Ko-fi shop. Most of what I have on there is free/pay what you want.
Recently, only a few people have paid anything for those items… this just leaves me feeling that my work isn’t valued.
#kofi #work #illustration

What is SSSS?
SSSS stands for
"Secondary Security Screening Selection"
by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
and is displayed on boarding passes as a four-letter code.
The symbol prompts officers to conduct additional security screenings on a passenger.
Travelers can receive an SSSS on their boarding pass for both domestic and international flights to and from the U.S.
Those flagged with the designation have reported their carry-on…

Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social)
Being penalized for political speech is not unique to the Trump administration. When I was a writer for the WhiteHouse.Org website, which mercilessly spoofed the George W. Bush administration, I constantly got "SSSS" written on my boarding passes. My carry-on was placed on the gangway and searched.

Welcome to my funeral. I'm not gone, I just enjoy immersing myself in my funeral song.
#Paradis

I created a new "Cooking" list on BlueSky and updated all my existing lists with simple icons. Click the "Lists" tab in my BlueSky profile to view them... but I think you have to be logged in with your own account.
https://bsky.app/profile/wesfryer.com

Wes Fryer (@wesfryer.com)
Empowering you to bravely & creatively share your voice w/ kindness. #MediaLit #STEM teacher. #ResistAndHeal https://www.ResistAndHeal.com #CookWithWes #EdTechSR #HealOurCulture #dw4jc #NoKings https://www.wesfryer.com & https://www.patreon.com/wesfryer

Raport from using my superpower today:
• KW 70837 Leszno — Poznań train, delayed 7 minutes in Kościan
• PR 78941 Poznań — Kołobrzeg train, delayed 8 minutes in Oborniki Wlkp., increased to 10 minutes
• PR 88311 Piła — Szczecin train, departed 6 minutes later because of waiting for a delayed train
• IC 88101 Piła — Szczecin train, cancelled because of train failure (I didn't have anything to do with this train, but I guess my proximity sufficed to break it)

🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Sudan Archives:
🎵 MY TYPE
#NowPlaying #SudanArchives
https://sudanarchives.bandcamp.com/track/my-type
https://open.spotify.com/track/3G16TkmTpBp8FyDkgev4Dc

I've gone through exactly what Ellen Pompeo did at LAX. I was headed to Italy & the TSA detected something on my shoes. Sirens went off & before I could say anything, I got detained.
A guy with military gear & a rifle appears & I got to play 20 Qs for an hour. I'm showing my plane ticket, itinerary, passport, driver's license, business card, Academy of Magical Arts membership card, Disney D23 card... not kidding.
Almost missed by flight. A tad unsett…

Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders pulls party out of coalition over migration plan (Euronews)
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06/03/dutch-far-right-leader-geert-wilders-pulls-party-out-of-government-over-migration-plan
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p28#a250603p28

London Home Wind Power Pilot Project (2007) - Eking power from urban wind to attempt to bolster my PV system mid-winter. #wind #microgen - http…

London Home Wind Power Pilot Project (2007)
Eking power from urban wind to attempt to bolster my PV system mid-winter. #wind #microgen

Tech bros: “Why does everyone hate us?”
Also tech bros: https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/114782913349454383

Bike Friends, uhhh… my wheel fell off? The fork slid apart. How much of a concern is this? I rode with no issues but I do hang my bike by the front tire all the time.
#biking #bikes #bikeTooter…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Fleetwood Mac:
🎵 Over My Head
#FleetwoodMac
https://ketchyshuby.bandcamp.com/track/over-my-head-fleetwood-mac-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/4rBnrnqnI0tcjcNAFO6RZO

My summer camp for rising 4th and 5th graders this week, “Coding in Minecraft - Mars Outpost Mission” is going great!
https://www.astrokidsclub.org/
More info about my middle school unit “Coding Mars” is on:

AstroKids Summer Camp by Dr. Fryer
In this exciting camp, students will build and code their own Mars Outpost inside Minecraft Education! With the help of their robot agent and step-by-step tutorials, campers will learn beginner coding, explore real-world space science, and work together as young engineers and inventors. No

I keep my 9a in grayscale mode all the time, it makes the screen less overwhelming and visually noisy, which helps me manage sensory input and reduces my phone usage.
#ActuallyAutistic #Pixel9a

Sonnet 111 - CXI
O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,
That did not better for my life provide
Than public means which public manners breeds.
Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,
And almost thence my nature is subdued
To what it works in, like the dyer's hand:
Pity me, then, and wish I were renewed;
Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink
Potions of eisell 'gainst my…

from my link log —
Why is my Chumby’s CPU usage always 100%?
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/04/why-is-my-cpu-usage-always-100-upgrading-my-chumby-8-kernel-part-9/
saved 2025-01-13

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Black Pumas:
🎵 Politicians in My Eyes
#BlackPumas
https://blackpumas.bandcamp.com/track/politicians-in-my-eyes
https://open.spotify.com/track/1SSLyDmwDLXidZmFiuanE7

It's been a while since my autistic special interest mode went all in on https://nsf-iaa.org, but tonight my autistic brain is thinking about them again and has me reflecting on their work.
If you share an interest in revolutionary syndicalism and anarcho-syndicalism like me, you can also find their posts on Mas…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Alborosie:
🎵 Come My Way
#Alborosie
https://vprecordsofficial.bandcamp.com/track/come-my-way
https://open.spotify.com/track/6KONojb0C2bqd8nBsoUuVw

I am pleased to share that I am receiving professional support regarding my diagnosis (SETD5) and gender dysphoria.
It has been extremely challenging for me to come forward about my gender identity(15 years), however, I will now be formally consulting with a therapist.
#Autism #GenderDysphoria

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Tony Bennett:
🎵 I Left My Heart in San Francisco
#TonyBennett
https://northernvirginiasingers.bandcamp.com/track/maryann-barvinski-i-left-my-heart-in-san-francisco
https://open.spotify.com/track/1tBu276JoMhivxhGEYZXhX

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Psychedelic Furs:
🎵 Love My Way
#ThePsychedelicFurs
https://daleguzman.bandcamp.com/track/the-psychedelic-furs-love-my-way-dj-mhark-redrum-clean-127
https://open.spotify.com/track/5rSekme9Kdoj2XZebQVl4C

My day just took a nosedive because some fascist jerk is celebrating a bill landing on his desk!
Honestly, it’s wild how people still put their faith in the same old power games when real change comes from people coming together, running things themselves, and kicking the fascists out of the picture.
Being autistic, I usually struggle to get what people mean, but Rudolf Rocker said some real shit that even my autistic brain understands.

Recently I’ve been thinking about taking a step back from my friendship with my mom, maybe just talking to her less.
Sometimes I honestly wonder if I’m just misinterpreting things, but it really seems like she’s uncomfortable with me being fucking queer, especially with me hanging around other queer people at my local gay bar. She’ll question who I’m with and lately it feels like she’s always picking at my life choices. I can’t tell if it’s just me being sensitive, or if she’s actually…

Some people are wildly off base and completely missing the point of what I’m doing. I downloaded Chrome only to install a mobile OS that protects my security. Once the web installation was done, Chrome was deleted immediately. This was a clear, intentional step.
The fact that some folks are threatening me not to use Chrome for this is beyond absurd. It’s like telling me not to withdraw cash from my own bank because the bank might somehow control what I do with that money. That kind of …

02:31—Good Night #Fediverse! 😴💤
I just made myself a new banner for myself, using (mostly) open source software. The only exception was that I used a random website to add an outline to my Rudolf Rocker image, I was too lazy to get out of bed and use GIMP on my PC for that step. For everything else, I used this tool from GitHub: