Tootfinder

My Oxford Year Quand l’amour, la perte, la poésie et le pardon se rencontrent: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/08/17/my-oxford-year-quand-lamour.html

Details on Greta’s torture at the hands of the Israelis:
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25LgKq/greta-thunberg-they-kicked-me-every-time-the-flag-touched-my-face

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

from my link log —
A tiny (1000 lines), fastish, embeddable scripting language that can be AOT compiled.
https://wareya.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/my-tiny-1000-lines-fastish-embeddable-scripting-language-can…

My tiny (1000 lines), fastish, embeddable scripting language can be AOT compiled
TLDR: I made Filli (this is a link), a Lua/python-like embeddable language written in C23 (or C99 with GNUisms; compiles as C++ too!). The license is permissive. It’s sandboxable, like Lua. I…

Apple AirPods Pro 3 review: significantly better fit, sound quality, noise cancellation, and battery life, but heart-rate monitoring is buried in fitness apps (David Carnoy/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/my-apple-airpods-pro-…

My Apple AirPods Pro 3 Review: Big Improvements, Same Price, No Compromises
They cost the same at a hefty $249, but Apple's third-generation noise-canceling earbuds have improved in all the key areas, including fit, noise cancellation, sound quality and battery life.

My windows are too round.
My WINDOWS are too ROUND.
MY WINDOWS are TOO ROUND.
For the love of god and all that is holy MY WINDOWS ARE TOO ROUND.

Notición musical: El regreso de Aerosmith en colaboración con Yungblud
Lanzaršn un single en conjunto que aún no tiene fecha de publicación.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/yungblud-aerosmith-preview-single-my-only…

1/2 Thanks to @… for this interesting article. It speaks to me. :)
I’ve been weather blogging @… since 2005. It is interesting how it has changed, and how I have changed.
My website used to be just data from the (expensive) station I bought when I moved back to Port Alberni. It was a hobby and a side project to practice web/coding skills I use at work. My focus was on creating useful data for people that was more local/relevant than the official EC station outside of the city.
Then I put up a webcam and learned how to make timelapses. This got the attention of local media… because pictures. :)
Then I added a blog and started to write about the weather almost daily. This was before Facebook. There was a popular local online forum where I would post things. The media would also follow my website and they started to call me when there was extreme weather (usually very hot or very wet/stormy).
Then Facebook started to get big and I made a page that eventually had a few thousand followers. I would blog often. Lots of traffic from Facebook… this was 2010 and on. I blogged about climate and weather pretty equally.
Like anyone in Port Alberni, I was/am obsessed with the Martin Mars and got wrapped up in that issue along with others which combined with the weather following probably gave me just enough exposure to have me elected as a councillor in 2014.
I continued through that 4 years, blogging often in addition to councillor duties and work, heavily on facebook, then it all went sideways on my own poor judgement (go ahead and google it, it’s ok :)) and I was not reelected, but Facebook by 2018 had also changed. Cambridge Analytica, etc.
….Continued…
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-weather-apps-data-wildfires-storms-preparation-obsession-social-media/

No sugarcoating The vOICe learning curve: "It's a mountain, not a molehill" https://nimerblogs.blogspot.com/2025/09/seeing-with-sound-my-adventures-in.html says another congenitally blind user of The vOICe. But compatibility with AI scene de…

@…
I'm sending poetry posts. Trying to bug-test my login server: mas.to and my client, Mona. They've worked well for years.
For at least a week, I haven't been able to see most of my own posts. Usually, if I get a reply, I can see my original post.
Northern Lights
Oh, roar a roar for Nora,
Nora Alice in the night,
For she has s…

Sonnet 133 - CXXXIII
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
For that deep wound it gives my friend and me!
Is't not enough to torture me alone,
But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?
Me from myself thy cruel eye hath taken,
And my next self thou harder hast engrossed:
Of him, myself, and thee I am forsaken;
A torment thrice three-fold thus to be crossed.
Prison my heart in thy steel bosom's ward,
But t…

Nothing exciting on the ride in this morning. I'm getting better at keeping my mouth shut. (Because of bugs, not my opinions!)
It is quite warm today, so I got to work sweaty but changed my shirt and threw on some more deodorant.
I've been putting way too much time in on a project I originally rejected and later reluctantly accepted.

Flip side of this: ~3 years ago, I got automated calls from “RBC Visa”. I ignored them.
Then my card stopped working.
So I called the number on the back of my card and said as much.
The agent gave me a hard time: “So you JUST IGNORED our calls about this?”
“No; I didn’t know they were you calling.”
“How did you not know they were us?! It says ‘this is RBC Visa’ when you answer!”
“That’s indistinguishable from fraud.”
He did not like that. He thought …

It is an honor to be invited as a keynote speaker to the ISWC - International Semantic Web Conference this year in Nara, Japan.
This is particularly exciting for me, because during my PhD research, ISWC has been my "home conference" - the prime conference in my research area, where the research community that I felt affiliated with was meeting.
#semanticweb

My profession (software design, programming) makes me so sad currently.
A speedrun to rock bottom chasing non-existing sand sentience with ever more abstruse magical thinking while whole swaths of my peers are masturbating to fascism in hopes of striking it rich.
I hope after the bubble pops and the boomers are gone there will be a reckoning and a reset to making software that actually strives to make human lives better.

'China Very Patient, Xi Won't Invade Taiwan During My Presidency': Trump
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/china-very-patient-xi-jinping-wont-invade-taiwan-during-my-presidency-donald-trump-9098653/amp/1

My wife, my friend Harry, and barn cat Queen Jane in front of my barn
#photo #photography #bloomscrolling

I could not be trusted with this technology
https://says.com/my/tech/this-washroom-makes-you-watch-a-30-second-ad-before-giving-you-toilet-paper

This Washroom Makes You Watch A 30-Second Ad Before Giving You Toilet Paper

Let’s hope this doesn’t become a norm.

OH MY GOD DOES PHILLY HAVE PHYSICAL TRANSIT CARDS??
bc I collect them
I don't have my transit card wallet on me but I also have the new Lisbon one
still mad my Istanbulkart disappeared 💔🥀
#lore

It's absolutely fucked up how quickly Google Search went from my go-to search to a "yuck, why is this shit on, get me out of here".
Like when I search on Android by accident and get AI summaries I have literally yelled at my phone. Absolutely batshit how quickly Google could destroy the reputation if their core product.

I will never let my employer have access to my phone.
(Bonus: I can't check email on my phone. That's a big win, especially since I can check my calendar on my phone thanks to Webex integration.)
https://oldbytes.space/@feoh/115215401541166467

I am so glad that other people are doing the hard work of proving that calling LLM's "AI" is bullshit and having them write code is just plain dumb. https://infosec.exchange/@teriradichel/115033555848878022

Dein Lieblingsstrand - plötzlich weg?
https://de.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/10/15/meeresspiegel-klimawandel-strande-europa

Welche beliebten Strände könnten in wenigen Jahrzehnten untergehen?
Der steigende Meeresspiegel könnte in Europa bis zum Jahr 2100 einige der beliebtesten Strände des Kontinents überfluten. Hier die Liste der zehn besonders gefährdeten.

In my experience, speaking to my computer does not improve privacy, and certainly not when the machine listens to everything and phones it all home.
https://infosec.exchange/@defendopsdiaries/115384105662411639
Sure, accessibility is a benefit, but Windows alrea…

Perfect 8°C for my morning shorts walk. Even a bit of wind. If I closed my eyes, I could almost imagine being in Reykjavík. (If I closed my eyes, I’d definitely have gotten run over)

Day 10 and a Half – Crossing the Finish Line
My trip could have ended better, but only because we’re all pretty much digital addicts. My last bike ride was nothing but rain — 38 km of pure wetness, and not the kind I would like. The result? My phone decided to end its life. RIP iPhone (2022–2025).
As I rolled into Copenhagen, I passed a laundromat. No hesitation: I went straight in, stripped off my wet clothes, and stuffed everything in a dryer. Flip-flops with socks — maybe a si…

I have so much work to do, but it's hysterical that my book is out today in audiobook form, and I couldn't resist starting to listen to it. Read by a real narrator, Ulf Bjorklund, not AI.
https://rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/9781663757128/

Finally found a really good solution for placing a display directly below my camera (with the Elgato Prompter attached to it) so that I can still move my desk up and down without covering the cam: I mounted a cheap monitor arm to a light stand. 🤓

bought my first OMNY card today & immediately it didn't work & i missed my train. #nyc

It's really hard for me to floss: some of my interdental gaps shred floss. A decade ago I discovered GUM sticks and they've been fantastic for my dental health. Can't recommend them enough. Hope their inventor got rich.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/well/in

Dentists Know You Hate Flossing. Try This Instead.
You still have to clean between your teeth, but other tools might work even better.

Summary of today's dreams:
1. I changed my shorts but forgot to replace the paper towels in my pockets. I wouldn't have thought my brain would treat this as such a #nightmare. I mean, lack of paper towels, not fresh shorts. The terror when you put your hand in the pocket, and it's empty.
2. I forgot to put my garbage out last night. It was around 7 AM (having precise dreams is important), it was raining and I was hurrying to put them out, worrying it's too late already. Then, I've discovered there's a huge dumpster in front of my gate, filled to the brim with loose cat litter. And I was thinking, the garbage company won't take such a tonnage of loose litter like that.
#dream

Just got my first Sleep Score after updating to watchOS 26. It says I got a “High” quality sleep last night. In reality my sleep was awful; kept waking up and couldn’t fall back asleep. Not a good first impression.

"Every morning, a spider rebuilt its web on my car mirror, only for the wind to destroy it again. Watching that tiny creature taught me something about toxic cycles, misplaced resilience, and the quiet courage it takes to stop rebuilding in the wrong place."
"True resilience isn't about stubbornly withstanding the storm; it's about having the wisdom to find a new foundation."
This piece of writing hits like a gut punch.

What a Spider Taught Me About Resilience and Letting Go
Every morning, a spider rebuilt its web on my car mirror, only for the wind to destroy it again. Watching that tiny creature taught me something about toxic cycles, misplaced resilience, and the quiet courage it takes to stop rebuilding in the wrong place.

I think my biggest #adhd problem is task initiation. Not because tasks aren't urgent or uninteresting to me, but because of ✌🏻too many barriers✌🏻 in the way.
If I have to deal with an unclear work environment my momentum dies immediately.
Setting things up is a whole separate daily activity I have to account for in my life. If that's done and I have time I can bang out al…

In a marketing experiment I'm looking around at different social networks. (The fediverse is great but organic advertising benefits more with more eyeballs.)
In my experiment I dusted off my ancient birdsite account to create a branded account, and FUCK, I didn't completely understand just the level of vitriol and hatred that frequently gets promoted over there!
With my branded account I'm following tech folks and game publishers, and even in those chats extremist ri…

My wife and I were watching something & deja vu came up, I said I have it all the time, my whole life, always have. Hundreds, thousands of times. Or at least I feel like I have. It's weird. She said she doesn't think she ever has. So, poll. Have you experienced deja vu? And how often?

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
https://open.substack.com/pub/karenattiah/p/the-washington-post-fired-me-but?utm_camp…

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

I've just bought test materials to evaluate the relative strengths of a flax/balsa sandwich composite versus a carbon/Nomex (aramid) sandwich composite.
Yes, I know the carbon/Nomex will be stronger, but would the flax/balsa be strong enough for my #Tricycle project?
#BikeTooter

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Queen:
🎵 You’re My Best Friend
#Queen
https://djaf.bandcamp.com/track/queen-youre-my-best-friend-redrum
https://open.spotify.com/track/4vhVDkSx9RSb2k6mWFMYNI

In a marketing experiment I'm looking around at different social networks. (The fediverse is great but organic advertising benefits more with more eyeballs.)
In my experiment I dusted off my ancient birdsite account to create a branded account, and FUCK, I didn't completely understand just the level of vitriol and hatred that frequently gets promoted over there!
With my branded account I'm following tech folks and game publishers, and even in those chats extremist right-wing cha…

I can't find words to express what seeing a giant star suspended inside a classical building is doing to my feelings and my mind 🫨
https://youtu.be/BcWP3SyKr58?feature=shared

If you have a lot of time (and I do mean a LOT!), Federico Viticci’s deep dive into #iOS26 / #iPadOS26 is well worth the read! I spent much of last night and some time early this morning working my way through it, trying different things out, and generally *learning* so much about this new o/s from

My raid group is getting wiped by a mob, but my Linux system is running this game flawlessly. The only thing I have to worry about is a disconnect from my ISP. Streaming WoW Classic tonight! #WorldOfWarcraft #Linux

Of course Mamdani is a Wu Tang fan
One has no choice but to stan
https://mastodon.social/@ErickaSimone/114866702093830197

On of my favorite intriguing lyrics is the following line from the Jefferson Airplane tune "Rejoyce":
"I'd rather have my country die for me"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8ODlt8leo

Funny the people who have their airdrop open to anyone - I just almost dropped my annotated version of my student's PhD thesis into a random stranger's device 😅 #academicChatter

The kids just had me go through all my old CatsOfMastodon posts. Pretty decent documentation of our past foster cats.
Also the reason for a few of my self-boosts 😉

me n my dad r once again making the trip to his parents in maryland, to entertain myself i hopped on archive.org and picked a buncha random zines with titles and covers that caught my eye. for now:
this one seems to be the stories of some "queer femme" bruce springsteen stans
https://arc…

I grabbed my iPad and headed to a coffee shop so that I could work on fixing my home server from a different physical location. I apparently forgot to turn on RDP on the server first.

WaPo columnist Karen Attiah says she was fired last week over her social media posts "against hatred and violence" in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination (Karen Attiah/The Golden Hour)
https://karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washington-post-fired-me-but

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

I just ripped my only CD I have in Germany (Deichkind), copied all MP3 from my teenage years, and some more, gathered 11GB of music and now have it all on my android phone.
I start the Autumn of owning stuff.
Next move. Just ordered USB Blu-ray so that I can rip all my movies I bought recently and have them backed up.
Feels good.
Intermediate move. Will visit my local Müller to buy actual music CDs they still have there.

my body is a machine that turns project ideas in my head into project ideas in my head

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Eminem:
🎵 My Name Is
#NowPlaying #Eminem
https://pitzostreetbeatz.bandcamp.com/track/eminem-my-name-is-pitzo-rmx
https://open.spotify.com/track/75IN3CtuZwTHTnZvYM4qnJ

Voted today. There was a cooler full of free water, but no line, so I just walked right in and did my thing. The major issue on the ballot is electing two commissioners for the regulatory agency that oversees Georgia Power rates.
Local votes are important.

Diligently done all the physio exercises prescribed for my recovering fractured wrist for two weeks only to find it's just 4% complete.
And what's the reward for me doing that? They double the work and time it takes!
What bullshit is this? A year of wall pressups and wrist stretches taking ten minutes a day doubling every two weeks? My god.

Halfway through my vacation that also marks the move from my old job to the new. Sort of like crossing a #bridge.

I’m so proud of my little brother.
I just spoke to him in his dorm room at a top 30 college here in the US, he just arrived for freshman orientation.
He got in on a full ride - tuition, housing, food, books, travel, stipend for daily expenses. Won a competitive scholarship to do so.
More than that, he’s had a tougher road than most to get there:
- he had to suddenly move away from Manila, Philippines (where he grew up) in middle school because of COVID restrictions that didn’t let kids go outside (2020)
- then, just as he adjusted to school and a different language in our home country, Ukraine, Russia invaded (2022)
- he stayed in Greece for a month while I was calling our congressional representative here in NY and negotiating with the US embassy to get them a visa ASAP to enter the US and be with me and my husband. There were no paths for Ukrainian refugees yet, we just wanted them with us temporarily for a few months to figure out what options they even had next.
- he had to wait, not going to school, with no clue where they’d move next, until TPS became available to Ukrainians and they got to stay here in the US
- then he had to continue high school in yet another system, yet another country, amidst news of bombings and destruction back home
- my mother wasn’t allowed to work for months while their documents were pending, so we had to raise money with a public GoFundMe campaign and my husband and I maxed out our credit cards to help them get by
- they shared a one-room cottage for the first year, graciously hosted for free by an elderly local couple
- he saw a therapist who also graciously took him in for free while they didn’t have insurance
- he had to graduate high school amidst news of other immigrant students getting arrested, detained, and deported at their own graduations around the country
- he wasn’t sure if he would even make it to college as this administration publicly considered canceling TPS for Ukrainians and cutting off their pathway to maintaining legal status.
We don’t know what tomorrow holds. But he’s there. He’s on campus. He got to go to college.
I love him so much.

A Case for Urgency


“Gradually, then suddenly.” – Ernest Hemingway

We live in a rapidly developing dictatorship here in the US. We do not know exactly the details on how this will evolve, but we know that surveillance is always core to creating and sustaining a dictatorship. Surveillance provides the dictator with the foundation for suppressing and intimidating any opposition.


Privacy in our communications reduces the effectiveness of surveillance. Not everything we say…

Professor of Rock tells a great story about what "Under the Milky Way" by The Church is all about at around 9:00...

▶️ UPDATE-Now the POWERS That Be are ERASING My VIEWS-Plus MY MOST PLAYED SONGS
https://youtube.com/live/l8ZBRAmRUXI?si=_SnjmDrYUa8NwbXw…

Just to make sure my followers here are aware as well: I am not planning on filing any bills this term, due to a combination of chamber composition, increased complexity in the LSR submission forms, the move of committees to Granite Place while the LOB is being renovated, and general depression/despair/futility. Colleagues are encouraged to steal my ideas from me for their own bills. The filing period closes this Friday, September 19th, at the close of business hours.
#NHPolitics

#ttrpg I'm sorry I am subjecting the hashtag to this

I don’t generally think of my life as boring, but I had a nightmare the other night wherein I couldn’t find an email in my Gmail account. I wasn’t terrified, but man, did I wake up anxious. #FirstWorldProblems

Whence that Wince?
I was stirrin' up a stirrup cup
In a stolen sterling stein,
When I chanced upon a ladle
Who was once my Valentine.
"Oh whence that wince, my wench?" quoth I.
She blushed and said, "Oh sir,
Old daddy isn't stirrin'
Since my momma's been in stir."
--Walt Kelly
Almost Lost Poetry
from
My Brain Dissolves
or
Time: The Final Solvent

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2022) - Learn how my shiny new AudioMoth will help monitor these night-flying insect chompers! - https://www.earth.org.uk/bats-at-16WW-3.html

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2022)
Learn how my shiny new AudioMoth will help monitor these night-flying insect chompers!

Has anyone here published with @…?
My manuscript is slowly approaching submission state. It is a very technical paper about the essence of my #PhD: quantifying natural #CO2

I have to agree with Hofmann, LSD really lets you connect with nature in a way that’s unlike anything else. It’s not just seeing trees or animals differently, it’s like the walls between you and the world around you come down, and you feel everything’s alive and connected.
That experience makes it impossible to ignore how fragile and important all of this is, the plants, animals, the earth itself, and us too. It’s a reminder that we’re part of something bigger, and that caring for natu…

@… Congratulations! I’m proud to call you my fellow American as well.
My Polish family taught me many of the same lessons and values.

@… For Magit https://magit.vc/donate/, I switched to bank transfers: from my perspective, it cuts out the middlemen and I already have an account with my bank ;-)
Maybe

Updates to #mastodon complete on my #selfhost.
I think the biggest load on my #footiMac is nginx and my streaming demands. I need to offload that stuff somewhere else.

My low carb diet just ran into a brick wall.
These might be my best black beans I have ever made:

... as it turns out the folks from R5 were knocking on my door just as I was setting up this shot: here's my new photo backpack and my new water bottle.
They had a bunch of abandoned water bottles at the Catherwood Library so I asked the clerk: "I work for an organization founded by Elmo Roper, can I have the bottle with Elmo?" and they gave it to me.
#sliceoflife…

I kinda want one of these so that I can do my morning conference calls while walking around the neighborhood with this cord going into my hoodie or bag. Shame my work phone is still on a lightning connector!
https://www.nativeunion.com/products/pop-phone

POP Phone

I’m getting requests to fill out dev surveys weekly, with results of older surveys coming monthly or so. I fill them out, but I’m wary of their biases, barriers, and objectives.
Some disjointed thoughts…
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/08/my-thoughts-on-the-sta…

My Thoughts on the State of Surveys
Every few months there’s another State of Something survey. As of this week, the State of CSS 2025 survey results have just become available and the State of HTML 2025 survey is wrapping up. This post is skewed to those, touches on more, and is rather disjointed. “2012 Oregon City…

from my link log —
You know more Finnish than you think.
https://dannybate.com/2025/08/03/you-know-more-finnish-than-you-think/
saved 2025-08-07

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Cowrie:
🎵 Define My Freedom
#Cowrie
https://touching-bass.bandcamp.com/track/define-my-freedom
https://open.spotify.com/track/5SeG6cPbguLnmLT6rf3Vlo

Sonnet 112 - CXII
Your love and pity doth the impression fill,
Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow;
For what care I who calls me well or ill,
So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow?
You are my all-the-world, and I must strive
To know my shames and praises from your tongue;
None else to me, nor I to none alive,
That my steeled sense or changes right or wrong.
In so profound abysm I throw all care
Of others' voices, tha…

2/2 I continued blogging Alberniweather and on FB and Twitter but I gradually removed my personal self from Facebook and eventually during the Pandemic, I decided the Facebook environment was just too toxic even for weather stuff and I shut down my page and left Facebook completely.
The impact on traffic to Alberniweather.ca and its prominence in the community was, and still is, significant.
I have diehard followers, many who have become friends over the years, I still get the odd call from media, or even the public about random weather things.
I have good connections with a few folks at Environment Canada (though their staff have become thinner and more transient :(
and major events still get spikes of local traffic but I since about 2022, and after I removed myself from Twitter that year, I don’t blog nearly as much. I would do a few posts in a week, and then go months without posting. I just got out of the habit I guess.
But I am still interested in the weather. I still feel like Alberniweather is a useful service for people in my community. I still feel a willing obligation to inform people about the weather and I believe I am trusted to do so by the public and local leaders. I’ve never made any money at it, I sold ad space on the website for a few years but it wasn’t worth the hassle and I didn’t feel comfortable taking the money when I was councillor. I have had some generous spontaneous donations at times.
But mainly I do it because it’s interesting, and I hope it is useful for people especially when people are looking for information during a major event.
The highest traffic I have ever had on Alberniweather pre-FB exit was the local Dog Mountain forest fire in 2015.
post-FB exit: the #underwoodfire
People want easy access to reliable local, trusted, information.
Large media orgs have mostly given up on this.
I am grateful we still have an active local newspaper and radio and that both trust me and I trust them.
@… @…

I like when my train leaves Szczecin via Dziewoklicz. The route via Port Centralny is cool too, but nature is my thing.
#rail

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

my favorite thing about my vocab app is that sometimes the incorrect answers construct an incredible parallel reality
please I want to live in the football dimension where there's a goal in the church and it's normal for wedding photos to have people in cleats and football kits

London Home Solar Power PV Pilot Project (2007) - Learn how I switched my office lighting to 100% "off-grid" solar PV, batteries definitely included! #solar #microgen -

London Home Solar Power PV Pilot Project (2007)
Learn how I switched my office lighting to 100% off-grid solar PV, batteries definitely included! #solar #microgen

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Kali Uchis:
🎵 In My Dreams
#KaliUchis
https://djyungsavage.bandcamp.com/track/in-my-dreams-yung-avage-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2dDzrUEDCKXaLViMPa1jo5

Sonnet 074 - LXXIV
But be contented when that fell arrest
Without all bail shall carry me away,
My life hath in this line some interest,
Which for memorial still with thee shall stay.
When thou reviewest this, thou dost review
The very part was consecrate to thee:
The earth can have but earth, which is his due;
My spirit is thine, the better part of me:
So then thou hast but lost the dregs of life,
The prey of worms, my body being d…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
IAMX Imogen Heap:
🎵 My Secret Friend
#NowPlaying #IAMX ImogenHeap
https://iamx.bandcamp.com/album/my-secret-friend
https://open.spotify.com/track/0EK6X4pvcpRAhmeHd59r6b

Birdy with a yaller bill
Hop up on my windy sill
Cock his shiny eye and said
Ain't you shamed you sleepy head?
-- Robert Louis Stevenson translated by Walt Kelly, re-translated by my worn memory bits
#Poetry

Time to continue my #rail travel stories. It's a few years since I was at the seaside last, since the travel's too long for me now. Before, I used to visit Świnoujście and Kołobrzeg a few times. The route to Kołobrzeg is quite straight, whereas Świnoujście gets interesting because of Szczecin on the way there.
So over all these years, using regional Poznań – Świnoujście trains, I've made all these variations:
• a direct train that reversed on Szczecin Główny station (i.e. the main station in Szczecin)
• a direct train, except that I got off at Szczecin Dąbie to stretch my legs, and then entered the same train 40 minutes later as it stopped at the same station again
• a direct train that passed through Główny and used a roundabout track to reverse
• a direct train, except that I got off at the first stop at Szczecin Dąbie, and changed trains to "Błękitny" that went faster from Szczecin to Świnoujście
• the "Orkan" train that used the rail bypass to go straight from Szczecin Zdunowo to Szczecin Załom, and skip all the other Szczecins (except I only went as far as Goleniów back then)

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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Erykah Badu:
🎵 Love of My Life Worldwide
#ErykahBadu
https://atasteforflava.bandcamp.com/track/love-of-my-life-worldwide
https://open.spotify.com/track/7sfv48GFGTACbipv2osobB

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
White Lies:
🎵 To Lose My Life
#NowPlaying #WhiteLies
https://pumuki.bandcamp.com/track/white-lies-to-lose-my-life-pumuki-rmx

To reach Strączno, I change trains in Poznań — in the direction of Kołobrzeg, and in Piła — bound for Szczecin.
My last trips:
1. Szczecin train canceled.
2. Piła train delayed 15 minutes. Szczecin waited for us, but not enough time remained to run my planned route.
3. Szczecin train canceled.
4. Piła train delayed 30 minutes. Szczecin waited for somebody…
5. Finally on time — and it's raining. Not that rain's going to stop me.

WHY DID THIS RANDOMLY POP INTO MY HEAD
I don't fucking know where the songs that get stuck in my head come from. they just suddenly Start
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LysZJBo2HI4&si=jbB5A1toYHbVLEuR

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Anita Ward:
🎵 Ring My Bell
#AnitaWard
https://djsies.bandcamp.com/track/anita-ward-ring-my-bell-dj-sies-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7GK2KVYH8FrTC9zehmjVMd

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Depeche Mode:
🎵 World In My Eyes
#NowPlaying #DepecheMode
https://heerd.bandcamp.com/track/depeche-mode-world-in-my-eyes-heerd-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0TBn49AjkNufCRJ2O5VJ6s

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Monsterwatch:
🎵 My Life is Dumb
#Monsterwatch
https://monsterwatch.bandcamp.com/track/my-life-is-dumb
https://open.spotify.com/track/1XXlz5hKwZ1LilmTZ7Ro2H

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Hollies:
🎵 He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother (2003 Remastered Version)
#NowPlaying #TheHollies
https://djsequel.bandcamp.com/track/the-hollies-he-aint-heavy-hes-my-brother-dj-sequel-drum-refix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7L54epNg9wGDSpw09sAmbv

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
D’Angelo:
🎵 Jonz in My Bonz
#DAngelo
https://djbranthegamerprince.bandcamp.com/track/dangelo-jonz-in-my-bonz-c-s
https://open.spotify.com/track/7114JMdpaHhNEOlIY0Ljze

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Bright Eyes:
🎵 First Day of My Life
#BrightEyes
https://brian-rothstein.bandcamp.com/track/bright-eyes-first-day-of-my-life-brian-rothstein-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/0eBryM7ePQH3Klt3jz8xZd