Tootfinder

RE: https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2025/5848/
I wrote about the photo walk I did last sunday. I guess I'll post the photos in the next couple of days separately as well.
On location I didn't expect too much, but I came back with a couple of beautiful

Screen-addicted couples
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/screen_addicted?no_popup=1
#fun #Oatmeal

This should be fun. I just got a FedEx ship notice for a package arriving in the next couple of days.
The shipper is listed as Digi-Key.
But my last DK order was back in November. The invoice number on the order doesn't show up in my order history. And I searched my order history back to April and found no backorders.
So this is either a backorder from the Stone Age or somebody bought me a Christmas present.
Either way it'll be a surprise lol.

It's actually a slight lie, it's not totally invisible as every couple of hours the bot DMs me to say "here's what you could have won".

found the website of a dog-obsessed german couple, then the page where they memorialize their dead dogs
http://www.cmf-dogs.at/index.php/in-memoriam

I can't believe incels and everyone else are so pissed off all the time when there are visual novels with catgirls on Steam for just a couple bucks

a couple brief power interruptions downtown, which is unusual
and now a third

I has a bed.
No mattress until Monday, but a bed fully stained and varnished and constructed.
Had to wait a couple of days for varnish which never came. Went out to an actual DIY shop in the end. Gonna have a lot of spare varnish soon.
Varnished the whole room with two more coats as well as the bed twice.
A few more things to buy after Xmas and the full media setup can't happen until the new Steam Machine at its heart is released. Maybe cobble together something to plug a laptop into in the meantime? All for next year though once the mattress arrives and I can actually sleep in the bedroom.

There's a couple of places they could have clipped a mic onto Nikita. #strictly

I think the thing that bothers me the most about phone #spam is how often there is no one on the line right when I answer, and often not even after a couple seconds of grace.
I think this is actually most common with charity and political callers, who know that they are exempt from TCPA and simply have no capacity to demonstrate the most trivial level of respect for people who they are about to a…

@… haven't seen you on here in a couple of weeks and hoping everything is good. 🍀

Any sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.

Well I hate to say it but it seems #Safari
is broken,
For the past couple of weeks I have had to use #Firefox with many, many sites after Safari fails to load images, shows no bar to scroll down a page, and load of other issues.
I man going to permanently move to Firefox by the …

Happy #PHP 8.5 release day! Keep in mind that the first 8.5.0 #Docker/#OCI images will show up in 8 hours till a couple of days after the release.
P.S. Mine are updated till the latest RC and will swap in the final with no tag changes:

#MathsMonday #Mathematics
This has been in my feed a couple of times, but with only 1 hashtag, total(!), so I'm mostly just boosting visibility (by adding more hashtags), but I will take the chance to say, yet again, no,

49ers' pass rush takes hit with DE Huff sidelined https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46664405/49ers-huff-brendel-miss-hamstring-injuries

A look at the Crylock ransomware scheme, orchestrated by a Russian couple who targeted as many as 400,000 victims and earned over €64M in BTC over eight years (Financial Times)

1/ A bit of a pickle… C has had a rough life with mental health. She was diagnosed with #autism around 6 months ago while in her late 30s. She’s terrible at emotional regulation and is unable to cope with things like our baby crying. Half the week we have the four older kids with us too and she struggles greatly with the noise and chaos of it all. I’ve been working from home for the last couple …

So yesterday I swapped out all the fans in the recently acquired Raidmax PC case this PC lives in.
Also took the 2nd PC out back and blew out most of a year's worth of dust, stuck in the RX6800 from this PC that was replaced by the 9070XT, added a couple more fans to it as well as some "aftermarket" dust filters that screw down over the fans.
Got it all hooked back up and booted it, oh good lights and fans, hey splash screen yay, then updated it, again (had just d…

The Woman in the Coldplay Concert Kiss Cam Video Is Ready to Talk (Lisa Miller/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/style/coldplay-concert-couple-kiss-cam-woman.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9k8.4WUA.p_pxWtYdrWmG&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251218/p122#a251218p122

In positive news, after the cold snap we've had since November, the last couple of days' warmer weather coupled with the heavy rain we had over night thawed the ground enough for us to plant the garlic. We also discovered a few forgotten radishes in the process.
#gardening

Was there really no video available for Under Pressure? Surely Queen & Bowie had a couple of quid between them to make one. #TOTP

Mainstream media is owned by Billionaires.
They control even small-town newspapers and TV.
Expect this belittling of your beliefs and actions:
https://bsky.app/profile/briarish.bsky.social/post/3m3koppqktc2r

Briar (@briarish.bsky.social)
Coverage of No Kings in the print MN Star Tribune is terrible. Story is in Section B (State & Region). Number of protesters is "throngs" (not the actual 10s of thousands). Main picture is the start of the Minneapolis protest that shows about 50 people, and a couple dozen more in St. Cloud.

One thing I learned from our female IT-specialists is how offensive the term "man days" is.
Recently there was a discussion (all men) about efforts and "man days". I just said "It's Person Days - there are quite a couple of women in the team as well."
Short silence, bit surprised looks.
"Sure"
Continued in "Person Days"
Sometimes it doesn't take a lot to change language to the better. Just do it.

I've been railing about the need to restructure SCOTUS for rather a while now. (I've added a couple of URLs after the Guardian opinion link.)
Here is an opinion piece that says something similar.
It adds something that I missed - that SCOTUS and Congress are filled with people who think that if El Cheato goes away that his mess will also go away.
I don't think so. The maga-klan is too deeply embedded into our judiciary and administrative agencies. It's go…

The criminals running the White House aren't releasing the Epstein files but in a couple of weeks they'll have a concept of a plan.

couple hours ago my roommate called me to come out of my room to confirm whether or not he was hallucinating that the apartment strongly smelled like maple syrup
it did!!! we don't even have syrup!!! best we can guess is the restaurant downstairs?? but it's like a regular Mexican restaurant so idk why they woulda been blasting maple syrup????

When I attempt to login to elk.mstdn.ca, I get a 502 error. (see screenshot attached). So for the past couple of months, I have been unable to access Elk on my Win 11 Desktop.
However I WAS able to continue to access Elk on my Macbook Pro laptop until a couple of weeks ago, but now I get the same error there.
When I investigate this at cloudflare, I am advised:
There are two possible causes:
 502/504 errors from your origin web server (most common).
I also have noticed that my security program, BitDefender has notified me of this several times:
firefox.exe attempted to establish a connection relying on an unmatching security certificate to cdn.signalayer.com. We blocked the connection to keep your data safe since the used certificate was issued for a different web address than the targeted one
Is this possibly related to my difficulties?
I have attached a screenshot of the CloudFlare error
I would very much appreciate any assistance or advice anyone can provide.

With the advent of Blacksky and Northsky, I was seriously considering creating a bsky account and checking things out over there. Turns out I don't need to after all!
https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/115402352112431443

Unlike all electrode-based brain implants for restoring vision that can at best only convey a couple of rough edges at a time, The vOICe sensory substitution can also convey smooth shading and textures, completely noninvasively https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm

thank you cloudflare for bringing us down for a couple hours!

Got couple of nice QOL improvements merged into the #DankMaterialShell Pomodoro Plugin yesterday - IPC bindings so you can bind Pomodoros to shortcuts in your window manager and automatic muting of notifications while you work. (optional setting)

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
BLAKE: Has anyone been down to see our guests lately?
JENNA: Vila went down a little while ago.
BLAKE: And?
VILA: Thawing nicely. Couple of hours, we should be able to talk to them.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/250 B7B3

here's another phota, cuz i got nothing better to do. well i have, probably, but a can't be bothered.
#fungiFriday

We just transitioned CoSocial from an ad-hoc combo of AWS, OVH, and DO to @…, see https://fedihost.co, a Managed Fediverse Hosting outfit based in Canada and with no US dependencies. Already fe…

FediHost - Managed Fediverse Hosting
FediHost is a managed fediverse hosting service. With a couple of clicks you can be up and running with your own Mastodon or Peertube instance.

Does #TelecomItalia Sparkle have an ongoing incident with elevated latency in the past couple days? I'm hearing of several TI (business) customers with issues connecting towards the North.
https://radar.cloudflare.…

Attack of the Peets!

Strawberry season (in Australia). Yay!

Oh, wow, worth reading the details of this one. It’s wild! And…it’s heartening!
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/17/couple-pleads-not-guilty-as-attorneys-clash-with-feds-over-hsi-agent-encounter

More pumpkin pancakes today, again with egg bacon tea and coffee. Huckleberry from Washington state on my pancakes. Last night I learned I’ll get to lead a couple of our monthly bike party rides this summer! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/yhXfNZ7YfvFSGUXd8

Remember when the Internet could go for weeks or even months without a major outage? That was cool.
It's almost like we've unlearned how to do this right. In the past couple weeks: AWS, Azure, Cloudflare… git at GitHub is currently down.

Cowboys trade rumor from Ian Rapoport reveals deadline uncertainty https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-trade-rumor-ian-rapoport-reveals-deadline-uncertainty/1048fcbbe5ce1933bb…

(Dramatized)
Neurotypical folk: "You seem like an interesting person. Let's hang out and see where this takes us."
Neuroatypical me: "You seem like an interesting person. Here's a list of things I can't stand. If you somehow happen to think likewise (or at least you can adjust without me having remorse about you having to give stuff up because of me), let's be a couple for the rest of our lives."
#ActuallyAutistic

After a couple years with its website comments turned off , transitory #MLB team reopened that feature up...and vexed venting went full blast.
Longtime former fans found out and let feels show on owner's move from #Oakland after 50 years to minor league park in

After 655 days, the A's turn social media comments back on
Few American professional sports franchises had engendered less goodwill in recent years than the Athletics, and it shows in the comments.

I was experiencing unusually high VRAM usage on the RX 7800 XT (GPU choking and cr@pping itself) in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (and in a couple of other games). So I decided to use the AMD Cleanup Utility and reinstall the current 25.12.1 drivers. When I started the game again, the ray tracing settings in it were grayed out, and there's NO fixing it, no matter what I tried 😆 And the VRAM issue wasn't fixed 😄
(Grayed out RT settings aslo seem to be a problem on the 9000 s…

Find below the Java Geek Weekly again from Sidney, a couple of hours late 🙈
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/115/

My favorite 20 LPs of 2025: https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/my-top-20-favorite-lps-of-2025
Tagging a bunch of you that have helped me out finding things this year or who have expressed interest - sorry if I missed you, there's a lot…

My top 20 favorite LPs of 2025
** Since some of these are metal records, there’s a small amount of R-rated horror type stuff and grossness on a couple of the images below. ** Here are my 20 favorite albums released in 2025…

A couple days ago I was doing a work call in my car (I’m in I.T.) and after I hung up my daughter, who was in the car with me said:
“I could NEVER do your job…I don’t mean the technical part.”
😂

What all the cool kids are doing now: #tripping on mega doses (12-14 pills) of Benadryl.
It’s an #antihistamine that’s been around for a long while. I’ve taken it for 60 years for seasonal allergies. A couple times while in hospital I’ve been given it as a sleep aid. Never occurred to me to t…

Wow, loving our greenhouse - already have the first tomatoes turning red! Only a couple weeks into summer (not even proper summer, 22 Dec in Aotearoa, yet) Crazy! This is months before we've ever had ripening fruit pre-greenhouse.

HELP!
I bought a couple of really nice warm woollen sweaters at the 2nd hand shop, washed them, hung them outside, but there's this damn over-perfumed fabric softener smell which did not wash out.
Anyone one have a secret sauce for removing that stuff? (I knew it could cling forever to synthetics, but wool?) I wash wool in cold water.

So my car has been complaining I should put some exhaust emissions neutralizing fluid in it. A thing they call AdBlue I believe.
Bought a big 10l drum of the stuff ready to fill up.
But when I look at where I expect to find the hole for filling it, I just find a capped off tube and a warning sticker "See the GM Citreon Berlingo Blaze manual" for the adblue refilling hole.
Only user manual I have is the one telling me to expect it there.
The car was converted for wheelchair access at some point in its life. I think they are referring to the wheelchair-adaption manual, which the seller did not give me.
🤔
Have been looking around the car as much as I can for a couple of hours this morning to no avail. Where have they hidden this hole to fill up adblue?
Maybe it's under the engine or something now and you have to put the thing on stilts to find it?
🤷
Asked my mechanic about it and he says to bring it in on Monday. Gonna be a pain if I have to rip up the floorboards or something every year to refill that.
#mechanic #car #diesel

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers<…

There exists the concept of "Twin Films".
Movies that were released around the same time with similar theme ("Armageddon"/"Deep Impact" - "Bugs Life"/"Antz")
Sometimes this happens on Youtube as well.
With just a couple days apart, Strange Aeons and Nick Robinson released a video on "Rawr XD" and "XD".
Love it when that happens.

I got my first ever bass guitar a couple of weeks ago. I'm loving it, and starting to figure out how to make it do what I want it to do.
The bass is a Sterling Stingray 5HH.
Guitar is a Jay Turser strat.
Soundcloud tells me this recording is "Ambient", but I wouldn't know...
Recorded with Reason 12 DAW
https://

Does somebody know this overlay thingy which annoys me since a couple of months and I don't know where to disable it.
It's not app-specific, it sometimes appears when I want to interact with something at the top of any app. It vanishes after touching somewhere else and is reduced to a white bar at the top.
I could not find out about its purpose or functionality. The middle part icons do nothing.
My environment is

I occasionally stop by Reddit for a couple of chuckles. As per usual - the magic is always in the comments
#ShamelesslyStolenFromReddit #shitpost #shitposting

After a couple of months of work, I have finally landed the micro-SwiftGodot to our main branch-for people to build small extensions
https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftGodot/releases
We still have that nasty Apple bug that bloats binaries by bolting SwiftSyntax in yo…

i wrote a couple of rather long comments about dnssec on lobsters https://lobste.rs/c/bjnikb
sadly the discussion is about a total trashfire of a blog post 🚮

For a couple of days now, #Zigbee2mqtt in my #HomeAssistant has been randomly crashing, and the „watchdog“ function of HA is not automatically restarting it. I didn’t change anything about the hardware, I just updated the software (but not sure if it is connected to that). It’s been gett…

On the subject of joys and problems of fieldwork, flight to Antarctica delayed by 24 hours.
At least I'll be able to clear my inbox I suppose ..
#iQ2300 expedition has actually been in the field a couple of weeks already - you can follow our progress and all the complex logistics around working #Antarctica as well as the joys and problems of #Fieldwork on the expedition blog:  
https://www.polar.se/en/expeditions/iq2300-202526/

Why the Next Few Weeks Will be Pivotal for the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-john-spytek-pete-carroll-kansas-city-chiefs

Six hours of weird #ChristmasMusic I put together for a friend of my kids
There’s some 🪗 in there over the decades, but mostly a wacky range of rock, pop, western swing, a couple of pretty tunes, RUN DMC make an appearance, along with the Berlin Philharmonic and Charlie Parker, both in modern remixes of holiday classics 🫣
If you’re tired of the same

Christmas 2025 for Lena.mp3
Shared with Dropbox

Un couple de nonagénaire victime d’un home jacking Š Marseille, plus de 500 000 euros de bijoux volés - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/un-co…

Un couple de nonagénaire victime d’un home jacking à Marseille, plus de 500 000 euros de bijoux volés
L’homme de 95 ans, un ancien bijoutier à la retraite, a été légèrement blessé à la tête. Son épouse, elle, n’a pas assisté aux faits, elle était alitée dans sa chambre au moment du home jacking.

Our mortgage renewal was quite simple this time. I have been working with the mortgage broker for a couple of years and is quite good and friendly.
Online call, go over the documents and terms. Electronic signature and download of the paperwork. From start to finish maybe 30 minutes.
Being paranoid I made a physical print of the pages.

Published another couple of new versions of https://thi.ng/genart-api, mainly involving updates to the Layer (layer.com) platform adapter, adding config options and minor quality of life improvements (e.g. handling of private [aka artist-only] params)
I also updated the readme, clarifying the current versionin…

thi.ng/genart-api

Dovetailing, a couple of corrections, and the #score is ready for printing and sending.

The other day my wife and I were talking about Charli XCX, how she's so popular. My wife hadn't heard her stuff. I had, last year, when everyone was raving about it. It's very popular. No shade to her fans.
So for fun, a little later, I put on just the first couple minutes of Charli's 'Brat' (that I found to be unlistenable) and I was like, hey listen to this.
My wife was like, what the FUCK is THAT?!? 😂😂

«The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich. If democracy is the problem capital is always trying to solve, propaganda is part of the solution.»
On the epistemic crisis we're all in, thanks to most ways of knowing and disseminating knowledge being in the hands of a couple of billionaires.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/14/climate-crisis-communication-super-rich

And another couple of etch cycles on the PIC12F683 done.
On the home stretch, I've almost got the last of the dielectric off. But I don't want to be too aggressive because ideally I'd get a beauty shot of intact poly across the whole die first, *then* undercut the poly and get a substrate image.
So I'm still doing my usual 2 minutes etch, then image routine. It'll take as long as it takes.

I WOULD BUY A CASE OF EGGNOG
I have to get the nondairy ones tho but STILL I will chug a whole bottle of Califia Farms nog in basically one go
https://timeloop.cafe/@ItsTheManOnTheMoon/115395956177347397

Wow. RIP Ace. One of the first to inspire me to play.
Still remember flipping through the TV channels randomly and stumbling on a KISS concert, being blown away by the guitar bursting into flames during a solo and rising out of his hands into the rafters.
#kiss #AceFrehley

ACE FREHLEY Dead At 74
Original KISS guitarist Ace Frehley has died at the age of 74. The news of his passing comes just hours after TMZ.com reported that the musician was hospitalized on life support after he suffered a brain bleed when he took a fall in his studio a couple weeks ago. Frehley's family issued the followin...

This couple will have a real tough time with retirement, I think.

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
BLAKE: How long has it been registering?
JENNA: Couple of minutes. Signal's getting stronger.
BLAKE: Zen, visual detector scan and computer analysis on grid one one five, please.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/48 B7B2

🍼 Baker and wife Emily expecting baby No. 2 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47013637/baker-mayfield-wife-emily-expecting-second-child-tampa-bay-buccaneers

Stumbled across this gem the other day, perfect for #MusicWomenWednesday. Condor44 was formed in 1999 by guitarist/vocalist Hiroshi Sasaki and drummer Nobuyuki Ajima who met while attending college. They put out a couple records in the early 2000s and are supposedly still together.. this is the excellent title track "db" from their 2002 record of same name.

Added a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog

uh oh I found a really cheap round trip flight to Madrid for February and Rayo has two home games in a row during the time and I've been so impulsive the last couple nights UH OH LMAO
I'm prolly gonna do it
I'm gonna just go Spain for a couple weeks watch football come home

CPU core of the PIC12F683 seen at poly.
This image is slightly out of focus in spots, I have a better 100x scan in the works, but we can see a couple of interesting things.
* At the south edge, we see a structure with what looks like 13-way symmetry then something weird looking at the far east. The instruction word is 14 bits so I'm guessing these are instruction latches with something special in the LSB or MSB position (I'll need to brush up on the PIC binary instruction…

Finished "Dissolution" by Nicholas Binge.
An elderly couple, Stanley & Maggie, are coping with his deteriorating memory, for which he's living in a care facility. A strange visitor credibly claims the home is responsible for removing his memories, and that Stanley's mind holds a secret that will save the world from imminent destruction.
A cat & mouse game ensues across time, memory, and featuring a deliciously evil character. Complex!
5/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐…

Dissolution
A woman dives into her husband's memories to uncover a …

Now we have official government accounts posting
"womp womp, cry all you want,"
and calling US citizens
"imbecilic morons."
https://bsky.app/profile/tylermcbrien.com/post/3m5mlmwxosk2x

Tyler McBrien (@tylermcbrien.com)
A couple years back, I wrote about how the novelty of interacting with government agencies on social media gave way to an era of skepticism on both sides. Now we have official government accounts posting "womp womp, cry all you want," and calling US citizens "imbecilic morons."

Hm. Looks like I missed a couple. Things got a little hectic, and then a lot hectic here. Wednesday was Marie’s biscuits, mine with cheese and jalapano relish. Egg, bacon, tea, coffee. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/5GQMrtY7Q4H6vSid7

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest (Gosia Wozniacka/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/10/federal-agents-knock-down-elderly-couple-during-portland-protest.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p77#a251004p77

The #iQ2300 expedition has actually been in the field a couple of weeks already - you can follow our progress and all the complex logistics around working #Antarctica as well as the joys and problems of #Fieldwork on the expedition blog:
https://www.polar.se/en/expeditions/iq2300-202526/

Another day of mostly painting and double-varnishing. Though the chests also have lids now, and all the window doors are painted ready for the windows.
We now pause for a while because I can't be here all day every day due to my surprisingly hectic calendar over the next couple of weeks.

Just disposing of a couple Indian pickles in my substantial collection. These two had a pretty good run. Need to make room in the cupboard for more recent acquisitions.

Raiders Sign Rookie DE to Active Roster, Bring Back Young OL https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jahfari-harvey-mcclendon-curtis-roster-news/

my therapist let me push therapy up by a couple hours so it wouldn't overlap with the Celtic match and she's extremely real for that thank u taliesha

Now we have official government accounts posting
"womp womp, cry all you want,"
and calling US citizens
"imbecilic morons."
https://bsky.app/profile/tylermcbrien.com/post/3m5mlmwxosk2x

Tyler McBrien (@tylermcbrien.com)
A couple years back, I wrote about how the novelty of interacting with government agencies on social media gave way to an era of skepticism on both sides. Now we have official government accounts posting "womp womp, cry all you want," and calling US citizens "imbecilic morons."

'If y'all stop the run, he's gonna throw it to me': How Jack Jones called game in Madrid https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46988961/dolphins-cb-jack-jones-predicted-interception-vs-commanders-madrid

OK fedi hivemind... I'm looking for a flat square of material about 1cm on a side and maybe 1mm thick that is going to survive being boiled in hot nitric/sulfuric acid for a couple of minutes, then rinsed in acetone and water.
I'm thinking a glass or ceramic, but don't have a source for ready made chunks of the right size (microscope coverglasses are too fragile).
You can get pre-diced silicon wafers with chunks the right size (e.g. Ted Pella 16006) but that's ann…

Donald Trump on Monday blamed Rob Reiner’s outspoken opposition to the president for the actor-director’s killing,
delivering the unsubstantiated claim in a shocking post that seemed intent on decrying his opponents even in the face of a tragedy.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-…

Trump levels political attack on Rob Reiner after his killing
President Donald Trump is blaming Rob Reiner’s outspoken opposition to the president for the actor-director’s killing, delivering the unsubstantiated claim in a shocking post that seemed intent on decrying his opponents even in the face of a tragedy. The statement on Monday, even for Trump, was a shocking comment that came as police were still investigating the deaths of the beloved director and his wife as an apparent homicide. The couple were found dead at their home Sunday in Los Angeles…

This week's #ThursDeath is GOUTED CORPSE from Cleveland, Ohio. They have a couple EPs under their belt, one last year, and this one from this year- 'Blighted'. Great dynamics, riffs, growly but understandable vocals. Maybe some thrash and grind in there too. Excellent, grody rippers of songs on this one.

settlement check isn't a tonnnn of money but it's enough to pay off some debts that have been plaguing me and also do a couple fun things like maybe finally get a third tattoo. maybe even a third AND a fourth. waow

Second time in the past couple of days that I've joined a Teams call for work, hear the person leading the meeting go "We're still missing a few people let's give them a couple minutes", then silence.
And silence.
And 5 minutes later I get a text from someone asking where I am, and I'm like "still in the meeting waiting for people to join?"
But apparently the connection got borked after I joined and I got silently disconnected server side…

turning dermot desmond into a nasty lil comic book man
fuck u dermot i hit the arrow keys a couple times and now you have print registration errors
#celticfc #fedifc

ok as I predicted it took like ten minutes to pack bc for once im not leaving the country im just going to Philly for like a week lol so now I just hang out for a couple hours til its time to go bus