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I just installed Windows 3.11 for Workgroups (in an emulator), how's your day going
Fun Y2K bug btw

Who's ready to clean some floppy drive heads? Not really the way I planned to spend my day off but things are reaching dire straights for available floppy drives. Starting to hold up other projects.
#retrocomputing

Don’t get me wrong - while using the fountain pen I am still trying to maintain good writing posture and I’m continuing to do my regular hand stretches.
But for a sense of the difference: before, I was happy with the fact that I managed to develop a good pain management routine to allow me to write like 2-3 pages at a time without convulsing in pain.
And now I can write 6 pages nonstop without even thinking or feeling anything. A short 5–10 minute rest and I can come back for more.
This is such a big deal to me. I was able to draw yesterday with a relaxed hand after spending hours writing notes. Before I’d only be able to do one or the other in a day!
And then I finished the evening by writing out a chapter of my novel by hand.
And today my hand is totally fine!!

For those tracking my rehab: today was a great day!
Over the course of the day I drove to Costco and picked up a few things✱, assembled a really nice sofa table we bought on Etsy, and did 3 laps around the family room without aid.
Rn, 11 days post op my pain is a 1-2. (Probably 3–4 at bedtime which is the most painful part of my day.
✱ got there before regular member access (we upgraded to executive membership to reward their DEI position) I also used an electric scooter/c…

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For the last month or so my laptop has given me a lot of troubles since i swapped the mb (the old one died partially because of me, partialy because it wasnt working for the past 3 yrs or so)
Can't understand what this troublemaker wants because sometimes it works sometimes it just doesn't and burns the battery pins and ignores it, then after a day turns from the battery like nothing happened.

what just happened

You can't “overbuild” internet infrastructure. Just like highways, demand always catches up. Except fiber doesn't kill forests.
#fiber #unifi #network

recent-ish reading/rereading. #books

If you're in Austin and want to attend #LonghornPHP next week but can't swing the ticket price, we still have some donated in-person tickets available. Pay $20 now, then get that $20 refunded when you show up. https:/…

Dolphins-Commanders takeaways: Miami wins overtime defensive slugfest in Madrid https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6812084/2025/11/16/dolphins-commanders-score-result-takeaways-madrid/

Apropos of a gas station exploding in my neighborhood: Fossil fuel infrastructure is an ecological disaster every day, especially when there isn't an accident, when everything is "working" "safely."
https://theonion.com/millions-of-barre

Millions Of Barrels Of Oil Safely Reach Port In Major Environmental Catastrophe
PORT FOURCHON, LA—In what may be the greatest environmental disaster in the nation’s history, the supertanker TI Oceania docked without incident at the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port Monday and successfully unloaded 3.1 million barrels of dangerous crude oil into the United States.

Appfigures: Sora saw 56K iOS installs on its first day, on par with Grok but ahead of Claude and Copilot; ChatGPT and Gemini each had ~80K installs on day one (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/02/openais-sora-soars-to-no-3-on-the-u-s-a…

OpenAI's Sora soars to No. 3 on the US App Store | TechCrunch
Sora becomes the No. 3 US app after 164K downloads in 2 days, making the AI video app an early hit.

Misread this as stages of life first time round...
#CarpeDiem
https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/115542629623463860
cmconseils@mastodon.social - The four stages of a day off:
1. I will do so much stuff
2. Later I'll do lots of stuff
3. Eventually, I'll do some stuff
4. Oh no

In other news, today was my first day learning to use a microINR device, intended to monitor my blood anticoagulation levels. The INR, or International Normalized Ratio, is a measure of how long it takes your blood to clot.

So basically this is what I do:

1. Wash my hands, make sure they’re warm and dry.
2. Take a chip (or test strip) and insert it into the device.
3. The device powers on and I wait until it is ready (it has to heat up to a certain temperature)
4.…

I just completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/3

Last month, FASPE and the Center for Public Theology/Public Policy at YDS hosted a day-long clergy symposium on Public Theology in a Time of Authoritarianism. Videos of the main sessions now available, including this recording of Session 3 https://youtu.be/WgmfW4caDbM?si=g9gVe9G-ihSU6ryt

DHS ICE plans to serve breakfast for lunch and dinner sometimes? Like they failed a word problem in grammar school.
Ordered: 16K breakfasts, 26k lunches/dinners.
Intending to feed people 3 meals/day, contract covers 16K breakfasts, 13K lunches & 13K dinners.
So... 3K person days of only 1 meal that day or breakfast for lunch or dinner?
42K meals, but odd way to order them.
Contract already awarded:

At least 3 killed, 35 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/13/at-least-killed-injured-in.html

Senate Majority Leader John Thune quickly swatted down a Democratic offer to reopen the government and extend expiring health care subsidies for a year, calling it a “nonstarter” as the partisan impasse over the shutdown continued into its 38th day.
https://www.

WATCH: Senate meets as Republicans reject Democratic offer to end shutdown
Senate Majority Leader John Thune quickly swatted down a Democratic offer to reopen the government and extend expiring health care subsidies for a year, calling it a “nonstarter” as the partisan impasse over the shutdown continued into its 38th day.

Our conference is preceeded by a «research school» for junior researchers (typically: PhD students). The RS starts in the afternoon of day 1, then two full days (day 2 and day 3), and ends around noon of day 4 (with transportation to the main conference).
What is a typical program for such a #ResearchSchool? I can also include tourist activities or some hiking (it‘s in Switzerland,…

Godzilla Day is coming up on November 3, and knowing this in advance gives me time to maybe tidy up the collection to get a good shot by then. We'll see 😂
https://godzilla.com/blogs/news/how-to-celebrate-godzilla-day-2025

How to Celebrate Godzilla Day 2025
More than seven decades after producer Tomoyuki Tanaka, director Ishirō Honda, and special effects master Eiji Tsuburaya first unleashed Godzilla in Japanese theaters on November 3, 1954, the King of the Monsters remains a beloved symbol of imagination and cinematic innovation. Now, after a landmark 70th anniversary ye

I always love it when I make part 1 general enough that all I have to do for part 2 is change a parameter. #gleam
I just completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode

The good thing to know is even when I go senile one day, my love of cats will stay :3
That shit is programmed in my lowest brain functions.

So... I can pay $4 more to get my package a day slower? Why would I ever want that?

Child harm/death mention; Columbus
On Indigenous People's Day here in America, it's a great time to:
1. Remember that Columbus was a monster. Anyone who feeds toddlers to dogs actually deserves to burn in hell for eternity. Nothing else about this man should be remembered before this fact.
2. If you're in a colonized country, check out the website(s) for your local indigenous tribe (s) to remind yourself that they're still here. For me, that includes #LandBack, etc.
Me, I'm hopeful for a future in which the US is a distant memory and the hundreds of surviving nations on this territory flourish like budding plants after the winter snow.

🇦🇹 Austria: In Vienna, the police is trialing an automated software to predict crime. Every day, the system outputs hotspots to patrol [Kurier, 3 Dec 🔒, in German]. via Algorithm Watch
#ai #privacy

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My sister just got her streak to 365 yesterday (for the 2nd time). I'm not at half that right now, got a long ways to go.

NBC says the 2025 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade drew a record 34.3M viewers across NBC and Peacock, up 8% YoY; NBC's live broadcast averaged 25.4M viewers (Kimberly Nordyke/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Gobbles Up Record 34.3 Million Viewers Across NBC and Peacock
NBC's live airing alone topped 25 million viewers.

NFL betting trends — Week 13: 3 Thanksgiving Day games https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/nfl-betting-trends-week-13-3-thanksgiving-day-games-3587440/

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#Breakfast
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Relisten now 👇
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> M-PESA created a payment rail with near-zero transaction costs. Which means you can economically collect tiny payments. $0.21 per day payments.
> You’re replacing $3-5/week kerosene spending with a $0.21/day solar subscription (so with $1.5 per week half the price of kerosene) that’s cheaper AND gives you better light, phone charging, radio, and no respiratory disease.
climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happening

Cowboys activate 21-day window on 3 key players https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-activate-21-day-window-on-3-key-players

@… Wow, these Covid stats for Orkney are not looking good 😬
Is it the cruise ships?

Hi @…,
enjoyed your talk at #fediday25 https://berlinfedi.day very much.

I just completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/2
progress continues - goal today: complete Day 3 both parts and Day 4 part 1 🤞

The optical photometric variability of Herbig Ae/Be stars from TESS
Ann Marie Cody, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Shreya Chandragiri, Marvin Morgan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08633 http…

The optical photometric variability of Herbig Ae/Be stars from TESS
We have carried out a photometric time domain study of 188 intermediate-mass young stars observed in Full Frame Image mode with the TESS satellite over the first 3.3 years of its mission. The majority of these targets are classified as Herbig Ae/Be stars (HAeBes). All were monitored at optical wavelengths for at least one 27-day TESS sector, with many having multiple sectors of data. From a custom aperture photometry pipeline, we produced light curves and analyzed the variability therein, as a …

So I grew up next to #Chernobyl and this is, well, TERRIFYING.
A story for y’all: I’m from a city called Zhytomyr, 2 hours west of Kyiv in the North of #Ukraine. We were downwind of the Chernobyl #nuclear power plant when the 1986 disaster happened.
I wasn’t born for another 12 years, but my childhood was filled with stories and the aftermath of it all. Things like:
- My grandmother worked as a head doctor in a hospital and rehabilitation facility exclusively for children of Chernobyl victims to treat the extremely high prevalence of Tuberculosis and other severe health complications. (To specify: these were SECOND GENERATION of exposure).
- A lot of the kids in that facility were orphans, because their parents died young from health problems.
- My uncle’s wife was born in Pripyat. She was 1 year old when the disaster happened. Her parents were told to evacuate while given no information about what happened. They had to pack up their things and rush out to an unfamiliar city with their baby, never to see the rest of their belongings, apartment, or hometown again.
- When I was a kid, it became so common to see weirdly mutated animals and insects that even 2-3 year olds would make jokes about “Chernobyl mosquitos” and I wouldn’t even flinch seeing occasional giant bugs, dark frogs, weird-looking dogs.
- We’d frequently hear of nearby farms having issues with their animals being born too mutated to survive or random outbreaks from contaminated water / food. Crops would randomly fail. People would get poisoned on a regular basis. This all got less common as I grew up.
- My mother still remembers being a little girl, 10 years old, and looking outside from their balcony at the clouds blowing over from Chernobyl that day. People were told to not go outside and to shut all the windows, but not given an explanation as to why. My mother swears that the rain looked different. They weren’t able to go and buy more food for the kitchen for multiple days.
Anyway - nuclear safety isn’t a joke. I don’t understand how this level of carelessness can happen after Chernobyl and Fukushima.

https://www.404media.co/power-companies-are-using-ai-to-build-nuclear-power-plants/

Falcons-Colts takeaways: Jonathan Taylor's 3 TD day bolsters MVP campaign in Germany https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6791776/2025/11/09/falcons-colts-score-result-takeaways-nfl-berlin-germany/

❝There was no warning whatsoever. Besides the student programming, there were a number of nationality-based shows, some with 40 years history, displaced and with no chance to transition.❞ https://clevelandstater.com/news/news/csu-shuts-dow…

Just finished and submitted my “preliminary statement” for the foreign funding agency. #Orgmode tells me that I’ve worked for 3:52 on this task, which means that my estimate (half a day) was pretty accurate…
#AcademicChatter

#AdventOfCode Day 6: Part 1 was easy, for part 2 it was obvious what to do (after I read the instructions a few times to figure out what is considered a cephalopod number), but it took me a while to properly rotate my arrays. At least I got to finally use `for my ($i, $val) (indexed @array) { .. }` (which I failed to use (properly) on day 3).

In case you missed my post from day 3 of #blogtober: It’s about a legendary piece of gear that shaped the sound of Abbey Road studios – and what it all has to do with building for the #Web. 🤓

Tweaking the Circuits · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

PlayStation is putting all my wish-listed games on sale on the same day. I'll never get to play them, but maybe I should buy them. 🤔

"In 1990, 943 million people [in China] lived on less than $3 a day measured in 2021 dollars – 83% of the population, according to the World Bank. By 2019, the number was brought down to zero. Unfortunately, the United States was not as successful. More than 4 million Americans – 1.25% of the population – must make ends meet with less than $3 a day, more than three times as many as 35 years ago."

Survival of the accretion disk in LMC Recurrent Nova 1968-12a: UV--X-ray case study of the 2024 eruption
Judhajeet Basu, G. C. Anupama, Jan-Uwe Ness, Kulinder Pal Singh, Sudhanshu Barway, Shatakshi Chamoli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11231

Survival of the accretion disk in LMC Recurrent Nova 1968-12a: UV--X-ray case study of the 2024 eruption
We report on UV and X-ray observations of the 2024 eruption of the recurrent nova LMCN 1968-12a, a rapidly recurring extragalactic system with a $\sim$4.3 year recurrence period and a massive white dwarf (WD). The eruption was discovered on 2024 August 1.8 by \textit{Swift}, and subsequently monitored using \textit{AstroSat}'s UVIT and SXT, along with Swift/UVOT and XRT. The multi-wavelength light curves reveal a rapid UV-optical decline, followed by a plateau phase exhibiting 1.26-day modulati…

Husband is still wielding a bandaged hand but is basically managing everything himself now (day 4) 'cos he's a stubborn old bugger.
Off to the GP on Wednesday to change the dressings and hopefully he'll be permitted less obtrusive wrappings.
Hospital checkup booked for 3 months time.
He's not allowed to do anything physically strenuous for the 6 weeks after the carpal tunnel op. He fudged the medical directives but I always check the paperwork for myself beca…

3 big things happening in the coffee world : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/30/nx-s1-5553625/coffee-day-farmers-industry-climate-change-labor-stenophylla

It would have been some great weather for a day in the mountains. But I decided that I wanted a very relaxed day with reading on the couch.
After lunch I thought that I should really utilise this wonderful weather, even though It took me quite some mental effort to get out.
But it was worth riding a little loop in the neighbourhood.
#BikeTooter

Reanalysis of the eclipses of LHS 1140 c: No evidence of an atmosphere and implications for the internal structure of the planet
Alexandra Rochon, \'Etienne Artigau, Drew Weisserman, Lisa Dang, Ren\'e Doyon, Charles Cadieux, Ryan Cloutier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11397

Reanalysis of the eclipses of LHS 1140 c: No evidence of an atmosphere and implications for the internal structure of the planet
We present the reanalysis of three 15 micron JWST/MIRI secondary eclipses of LHS 1140 c, a warm super-Earth (R$_{\rm{p}}$ = 1.272 R$_{\oplus}$) in a 3.78-day orbit around an M4.5 dwarf. We present a novel method for data reduction that leverages spatial derivatives of the point-spread function and compare it to widely used aperture photometry. Both methods yield eclipse depth consistent within 1 sigma of the values reported in the literature. We measure an eclipse depth of 271$^{+31}_{-30}$ ppm…

Good Morning #Canada
I finished my breakfast this morning only to discover that it's National Maple Syrup Day. A missed opportunity but at least I can share some important facts about Canada's sweet and sticky sauce.
- Indigenous People taught early Canadians how to harvest maple sap and boil it down into a sugary liquid.
- A maple tree can yield sap for up to 100 years, but the trees must be roughly 45 years old before it’s first tapped for syrup making.
- It takes roughly 40 gallons (150 litres) of tree sap to produce 1 gallon (3.8 litres) of syrup.
- Quebec produces 72% of the world’s maple syrup. In 2021, that equaled 133M lbs from Quebec.
- The big bottle of Costco Maple Syrup is from Quebec.
- Maple Syrup only has 1 ingredient. Sap.
- Maple Syrup has an indefinite shelf life but should be frozen if storing for more than 2 years.
And regarding the great Maple Syrup heist, this is still the best report on that famous crime.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MmmmSyrup #MapleSyrup
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/12/maple-syrup-heist?srsltid=AfmBOoq7fMx3GguT20T9cNrpZgrtVue4leiYZpZibZT_7S9WHWDfI0Ln

Got my seven day streak badge 🤩
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Russian attacks kill 3 and injure 18 in Donetsk and Kherson oblasts over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/09/russian-attacks-kill-and-injure.html

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Breakfast
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This was my second day in a row at the gym. The plan is to go again tomorrow and then 3 days per week moving forward (until the spring, at least).

Beautiful night in the woods. It didn't rain at all and we woke up to an awesome sunrise instead of the pouring rain we usually get. I'm not used to packing up my shelter and having it be dry.
Should be a good day of training.
#SearchAndRescue #SoOthersMayLive

[Day 3] #BBUK
Elsa and Marcus?!

Sources: Netflix will stream MLB's Opening Day game between the Yankees and the Giants in 2026, as part of a new three-year agreement with the streamer (Andrew Marchand/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6662421/2025/09/…

Netflix to stream Yankees-Giants on MLB Opening Day 2026 as part of new 3-year agreement: Sources
The game will be Netflix’s first exclusive stream, part of the new three-year agreement that MLB and the giant streamer have agreed to,

Replaced article(s) found for quant-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/quant-ph/new
[3/4]:
- Error stabilized logical qubits in qudit generalizations of the monitored Kitaev model
Aayush Vijayvargia, Ezra Day-Roberts, Onur Erten

For one day only - Morning Star subscriptions for 3 months at half price.
The MS is Britain's socialist daily.
Morning Star Subscriptions #MorningStar

In a decade on the Fowl Site, I don't think I ever saw anyone post pictures from or mention Empire, which is a very special place for me. In 3 years here, I've had the boon of new ones every day (from @…) and a trickle of fabulous shots like this one. Sleeping Bear and South Manitou in the distance anchor it for me as being a very parti…

Dr. Everything’ll be Alright (@tayfonay@beige.party)
Attached: 1 image Took my ass down to the beach to get a better view. Bright moon and clouds making it not great but can see with the naked eye. Even caught some movement. Empire Beach, MI October 1, 2025 #aurora

Commanders QB Jayden Daniels, recovering from knee sprain, remains day to day https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6652823/2025/09/22/jayden-daniels-commanders-day-to-day/

just pitched the " 1" idea that each publicly funded media outlet should have at least one open channel like the #fediverse at he #fediverse demo table at #SFSCON.
I…

Imagine ChatGPT but instead of predicting text it just linked you to the to 3 documents most-influential on the probabilities that would have been used to predict that text.
Could even generate some info about which parts of each would have been combined how.
There would still be issues with how training data is sourced and filtered, but these could be solved by crawling normally respecting robots.txt and by paying filterers a fair wage with a more relaxed work schedule and mental health support.
The energy issues are mainly about wild future investment and wasteful query spam, not optimized present-day per-query usage.
Is this "just search?"
Yes, but it would have some advantages for a lot of use cases, mainly in synthesizing results across multiple documents and in leveraging a language model more fully to find relevant stuff.
When we talk about the harms of current corporate LLMs, the opportunity cost of NOT building things like this is part of that.
The equivalent for art would have been so amazing too! "Here are some artists that can do what you want, with examples pulled from their portfolios."
It would be a really cool coding assistant that I'd actually encourage my students to use (with some guidelines).
#AI #GenAI #LLMs

I'm getting about 3 emails a day right now from my university all "reminding" me to do the exact same thing. This is not uncommon. And they wonder why folks don't keep up with their email.

ICE’s Hiring Surge Is Attracting A Bunch Of People Who Are Too Unfit (Or Too Criminal) To Work At ICE | Techdirt https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/31/ices-hiring-surge-is-attracting-a-bunch-of-people-who-are-too…

ICE’s Hiring Surge Is Attracting A Bunch Of People Who Are Too Unfit (Or Too Criminal) To Work At ICE
ICE can generate multiple horrible stories a day but it still can’t seem to find enough brown people to deport daily to satisfy White House advisor Stephen Miller’s demands for 3,000 ar…

1. "It's just two pipelines with awk, and a comm, I'll write it in POSIX #shell."
2. "Hmm, need some error handling too."
3. "Oh wait, there is no PIPESTATUS in POSIX shell? How are you supposed to check the pipeline for errors?!"
4. "Eff it, I'll just use #Python."
Just a regular day in #Gentoo.

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good day, eliminate 5 letters up front, get some good placement info and eliminate 3 more, bam!
Looking at the results of my last guess, it could have been tight if the word was in the group of 4.

And at least here in #NYC, I see evidence of people #reading all the time.
1 - Bookstores all over the city have customers at any time of day - they are often full, I struggle to get through to certain shelves at times.
2 - Every time I ride the subway i see someone reading a paper book on the train. Same thing with most times I go to any park or most cafes (at least ones where people sit alone).
3 - I have a friend who works at a major book #publisher and she’s been telling me all year that their sales are some of the best they’ve ever been. They’ve had multiple instances of needing to urgently order more books printed because of certain titles getting way more demand than expected. Those aren’t all celebrity memoirs or newest trendy fantasy either - it often happens with older titles, across genres.
4 - Nearly every acquaintance I have in the city (not just my friends) reads on a regular basis. I hear about books people have read and see them pulling books out all the time - most of the people I know read at least a book a month.

New experiences every day. Today: PHPStorm 2025.2.3 freezes after a few seconds and can only be closed via the Task Manager. Restarting the system doesn't help either. Downgrading via the JetBrains Toolbox brings relief. #work #productivity

For day 3 of #AdventOfCode I outsmarted myself by using `each` on an array to get the index and the value, but forgot that #Perl does not reset the counter when you exit the loop early. (It worked for part 1, though..). After switching to a stupid c-style for loop it was easy (because I agai…

3 Chargers Stats to Know Ahead of Week 14 https://www.chargers.com/news/kimani-vidal-fantasy-omarion-hampton-week-14

Pony AI's Hong Kong-listed shares rose 6.7% after it said its Guangzhou operations had broken even per car, as it targets a 3,000 global robotaxi fleet in 2026 (Linda Lew/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Pony AI Rises After Guangzhou Robotaxi Operations Break Even
Pony AI Inc. shares rose for a third day in Hong Kong trading, arresting a steep decline since listing three weeks ago, after the robotaxi firm said its Guangzhou operations had broken even on a per-car basis in an early indication its business model is sustainable.

Born on this date, 1757
William Blake
The copy of The Tyger going to auction in Christie’s
Old Masters To Modern Day Sale
on December 3 is the only one in private ownership
and was once owned by
The Wind In The Willows author Kenneth Grahame
https://www.

Rare print of William Blake’s The Tyger poem expected to sell for up to £120,000
The print comes from the rare first issue of Blake’s Songs Of Experience.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Breakfast
- Start the day with classical music
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Relisten now 👇
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Cowboys open 21-day IR-return window for 3 key players, including third-round rookie https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/20/cowboys-update-ir-status-of-beebe-overshown-rookie-re…

Titans-Browns Takeaways: Cam Ward, Tennessee spoil Shedeur Sanders career day for Cleveland https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6869846/2025/12/07/titans-browns-scores-results-takeaways-nfl/

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Breakfast
- Ease into the day with classical music
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Relisten now 👇
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Russian attacks kill 3, injure 76 in Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/29/russian-attacks-kill-injure-in.html

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Breakfast
- Start the day on the right note with classical music
Mark Forrest presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kdg9

Day 3, practicing a bunch of stuff including musculoskeletal injuries.
I had a "broken arm" for this one.

Day 9: Eniko Fox
Edit: added a store link for Kitsune Tails.
We're back to videogames, and with another author who's on the fediverse: @…
Fox has developed a few games, but the one that I've played and love is Kitsune Tails. It's a sapphic romance take on Super Mario Bros. 3, and (critically for a platformer) it's got very crisp controls and runs smoothly. I think one thing a lot of indie platforms devs struggle with is getting those fundamentals right, because on the technical side they require very challenging things like optimization of your code and extremely careful input handling that go beyond the basic skills necessary to put together a game. From following her on Twitter and now the Fediverse, it's clear that Fox is a deeply competent programmer, and her games reflect that. Beyond the fundamentals, Kitsune Tails has a very sweet plot with a very cool twist in the middle, and without spoilers, that twist made both the levels and gameplay very difficult to design, but Fox rose to that challenge and put together a wonderful game. Particularly past the plot twist (but in subtle ways before it) Fox is able to build beyond SMB3 mechanics in ways that gracefully complement the original, and the movement in the game ends up being difficult but extremely satisfying, with an excellent skill/speed response allowing for both slower, easier approaches that work for a range of players and high-skill extremely-fast options for those who want to push themselves.
There have been plenty of people I follow with indie game projects that are kinda meh in the end, and I'll still boost them without much comment if they're decent. Fox' work is actually amazing, which is why if you've followed me for a while you'll know I tend to mention it periodically, and which is why she makes this list of authors I respect.
You can buy Kitsune Tails here: #20AuthorsNoMen

I’ve been sick in some way for nearly a month now just due to a bunch of unrelated things (got a cold, then got COVID, then got bad side effects from medication for COVID…) and I am just thinking how in the world do people with chronic illnesses survive.
I am going a little insane from my body not working properly the last 3.5 weeks - I don’t know how one has the mental resilience to live on day after day for years with a broken body.

November 3, 2026:
Donald Trump calls the press into the Oval Office and announces that the GOP has held the House
—but he warns that Democrats will try to steal the election,
and announces plans to send a legal team to Arizona to root out fraud.
He spends the rest of the night posting threats and allegations on Truth Social.
In the morning, Republican lawyers file to stop vote counting,
arguing that any votes counted after Election Day are illegal under f…

Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way
Our election system is reaching a breaking point.

How did the Packers lose? How did the Eagles win? Our NFL experts have Week 3 takeaways https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6649188/2025/09/21/nfl-takeaways-week-3-scores-results/

#Wordle 1,565 3/6*
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Skill 99/99
Luck 80/99
Well some family members got this in 2, which made me curious, but overall another good day.
It didn't feel like there was only 1 word left, and it seems there were a bunch of people who also thought that because they tried other words for more clues.

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Day 3: Octavia Butler.
Incredibly dark, graphic, and disturbing near-future science fiction, which has proved absolutely prophetic. In the 1990's she was writing about a charismatic Conservative Christian and white nationalist president elected in 2024, and the horrors his paramilitary followers would unleash, including forced labor & indoctrination camps. Did I mention those books include ebikes & pseudo-cellphones too? Characters fleeing north from a disastrous social collapse in Loss Angeles? This is "The Parable of the Sower" and "The Parable of the Talents" and the later was tragically rushed to an end because of Butler's declining health.
Her work deals unflinchingly with racism and the darker parts of society, and to those who might say "her depiction of social collapse is overblown," I'd say that while it's not literally the world we live in, it's *effectively* the world that the poorest of us live in. If you're a homeless undocumented latinx person in LA right now, I'm not sure how meaningfully different your world is from the one she depicts.
Her work comes with a strong content warning for lots of things, including racial violence, sexual abuse and slavery, including of children, animal harm, etc., so it's not for everyone. Reading it in 2023 was certainly an incredible trip. Her politics are really cool though; with explicit pro-LGBTQ themes and tinges of what might today be considered #SolarPunk.
#20WomenAuthors

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0-3 Giants 'evaluating everything' for QB1 spot https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46348414/brian-daboll-new-york-giants-evaluating-everything-qb

2025-26 Fantasy Football Week 4 Rankings https://profootballmania.com/2025/09/23/2025-26-fantasy-football-week-4-rankings/

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