@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineMemorial Day sale features $13 Tees and up to 40% off everything else in my Threadless shop.
Starts today and runs through May 26 at 5 PM CT.
(A bonus round is also included with extended deals through June 2 at 5 PM CT.)
Get stuff here: https://
@cdarwin@c.imAn employee of a company that runs an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Colorado is under arrest
after shooting and injuring a woman on Thursday evening.
The incident happened after the woman participated in a protest in front of the facility earlier that day,
according to the Aurora police department.
When officers arrived on the scene, they said they found the woman with a gunshot wound in her lower body.
She had a friend with her, who was …
@seeingwithsound@mas.toGoogle knows AI glasses won't take off without trust — so it's building anti-tampering protections into Android XR from day one https://www.androidcentral.com/wearables/google-integrating-ai-glasses-anti-tampering-pr…
@trochee@dair-community.socialLayoffs tomorrow at 7am
My boss signed off for the day (he's on Eastern time), and included his contact information "in case I lose my laptop password"
Feels like a riff on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Oates
"I am going outside and may [be som…
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social
@jake4480@c.imJust beat Deathsmiles (with a few continues). Been meaning to play it for a WHILE. Killer shooter, I mean, what Cave shooter isn't. On sale right now for 50% off, just $9.99USD - lowest I've ever seen. Highly recommend. Kill a fire god and a Tyrannosatan, just another day in the life
https://store.steampowere…
@wraithe@mastodon.socialSo, on Day 3 of
Turn Off AutoCorrect On iOS:
So far, so good.
Biggest thing I’ve had to get used to is having actually do my own capitalization.
On the whole, however, I’ve been having to go back and correct a LOT less and obviously not been getting weird, stupid words inserted.
@sofia@chaos.sociali gotta say i'm pretty put off by the whole messaging of the new #commodore company. "present bad, past good, go back to the 80s, blah blah blah". yeah, fuck your palingenetic bullshit.
how aren't we all sick of promises to restore some golden age, when the consequences of this shit stare us in the face every day?
if your project seems like its slogan could have the …
@cheryanne@aus.socialThe wee one went back to preschool today after a week off.
I love him to bits, but my goodness, just having a few uninterrupted hours in which to work is amazing!
He was all clear to go back yesterday but husband was not yet up to driving him then. (The round trip takes about an hour - husband has to do it twice a day!)
#Grandparenting
@cdarwin@c.imIran is saying it will “not return to prewar conditions”
and that Tehran will charge ships to transit the waterway after a 60-day toll-free period stipulated in the memorandum of understanding.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei reportedly said the issue of the strait would be the responsibility of Iran and Oman.
Chief Iranian negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on state television that the “strait of Hormuz will not return to prewar conditions”, addin…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026 NFL schedule release: Lions to host Bears to kick off Thanksgiving Day slate https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-schedule-release-lions-to-host-bears-to-kick-off-thanksgiving-day-slate
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioStackOverflow is truly one of the worst things ever made. First they sold off all content of StackOverflow (without giving their community members the option to even opt-out) to train gen AI on, but of course they're not allowing Gen AI it to be used on StackOverflow (because it's bullshit and used only for spamming).
Truly spectacular assholery.
I hope the owners have cold wet socks every day and continously step on Lego bricks.
@eyebee@mstdn.socialIt’s another chilly start to the day. Grey, dismal, dreary, depressing weather. It has been raining too, but it seems to have stopped now. It is supposed to be a warm weekend, though, and I’m looking forward to that, if it happens! It’s my long weekend off this weekend, even the Bank Holiday!
@david@boles.xyzThe Voice Goes Off: Writing My Half of Back to Willowbrook
On the first day of my classes at New York University, the voice goes off. I stand at the front of the room and I do not speak, and no one else will speak for the rest of the semester, because the language my students have come to learn does not live in the throat....
@bourgwick@heads.social50 years ago tonight, the grateful dead in san francisco, returning after a day off for one of my favorite shows of the year, with a madcap 2nd set,
now “dave’s picks 18”
soundboard (set 2 only): https://archive.org/details/gd1976-07-16.set-2.sbd.berth…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgthe non-news of the solstice is that, surprising no-one, there will not be a leap second at the new year
the difference between UT1 and UTC remains very close to zero and the earth is rotating at very close to 24h per day
BUT LOOK
since i previously posted these charts in march, the length-of-day line (green) has popped upwards
https…
@joe@toot.worksis spending a day off helping a buddy move.
@wraithe@mastodon.socialSeriously, this.
So what, you show up the first day and they’re like “welcome to Yale, here’s your AI ‘yAIe’ assistant who will be doing all your work for you” and I go fuck off drinking and perusing sex clubs for 4 years while hoping “yAIe” manages to get me a degree‽
Is College AI…
https://
@cdamian@rls.socialRE: https://social.damian.net/@calpenedes/116577972016336764
It's my day off. Of course it's gloomy.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeFasten your seat belts because the cyber developments are off the charts this week. Stay ahead of the curve and check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial developments, including
--Anthropic releases Mythos-derived model with cyber guardrails,
--Admin halts AI safety reports amid fight over oversight,
--Microsoft patches record 200 flaws as AI fuels bug discovery,
--Nightmare Eclipse drops fresh Windows zero-day,
--China's hackers target tech firms…
@laimis@mstdn.socialwoah, completely missed this rule change, no more pattern day trader designation and restrictions????
https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/sec-approves-scrapping-25000-day-trader-minimum
I personally know quite a few people that were cut off …
@pgcd@mastodon.onlineEvery day I read an AI booster breathlessly claiming that Claude or ChatGPT or whatever is "basically conscious".
And then they're *still using* it.
They believe it's conscious, it's a "real being", and they FUCKING USE IT.
That's why "ethics aside": because they would be perfectly fine with having a slave they can turn on and torture and turn off at will.
JFC I hate humanity.
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocksWhy don't hummingbirds just stay at a feeder all day once they find it? I have the sense they flit off to drink identical sugar water elsewhere in the neighborhood. Is it an innate behavior to avoid predation? #birds #hummingbirds
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 028 - XXVIII
How can I then return in happy plight,
That am debarred the benefit of rest?
When day's oppression is not eas'd by night,
But day by night and night by day oppress'd,
And each, though enemies to either's reign,
Do in consent shake hands to torture me,
The one by toil, the other to complain
How far I toil, still farther off from thee.
I tell the day, to please him thou art bright,
And dost him grac…
@gatewayy@mastodon.gatewayy.netOn the the Golden Gate betas the new MenuBarAgent seems to hang all the time and it makes day to day user very difficult as most apps these days seem to default to the menu bar over the dock without enabling a specific option per application. I submitted FB23707510 on the off chance this has not already been reported.
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterAt work I have line management responsibility which among other things means I have to approve leave requests.
And one of my team has just submitted a request for a week off with the reason: "Going to Ibiza" and yes of course now I'm earwormed for the rest of the day.
#TOTP
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotToday we have mostly been butchering the bull we killed a fortnight ago.
A long, hard day, but it's done. That's all my meat for a year.
#TheJoyOfCrofting (unironically)
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAre Latter-day Saints Christian? The U.S. Defense Department doesn't appear to think so. (Tamarra Kemsley/Salt Lake Tribune)
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2026/06/06/lds-church-left-off-defense/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260606/p32#a260606p32
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialThe German story of beached whale ‘Timmy’ is a modern-day fable. Continuing to cling to its survival against scientific evidence, as if it were a combustion engine. A rescue operation distracting from the overall decline of marine life, and it turns out to be pointless. And it all ends with diesel.
@eyebee@mstdn.socialI do like waking up on the first morning of a four day long weekend off. No salt mine until Monday!
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaTook a day off the reno today and ripped the annoying parksafe annunciator and LTE telematics/GPS tracker out of the new van. I bet that gained me a few extra 0.0x horsepower!
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026 NFL schedule release: Packers-Rams, Chiefs-Bills and Broncos-Steelers highlight Thanksgiving Week https://www.nfl.com/news/thanksgiving-2026-nfl-schedule-release
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzWatch Dallas Cowboys 2026 NFL Draft Live Stream For Day 3 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/watch-dallas-cowboys-2026-nfl-draft-live-stream-day-3
@cdarwin@c.imThe U.S. stock market had its worst day since October Friday
as a sell-off in big technology companies weighed down the broader market and a strong jobs report boosted expectations that the Federal Reserve will be forced to hike interest rates at some point this year.
The S&P 500 sank 2.6%,
its biggest one-day drop since October 10, when the Trump administration threatened to impose a 100% tariff on imported goods from China.
The losses helped push the benchmark in…
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.socialOne of the things our community keeps coming back for is the Sunday Barcamp, an open, unconference-style day where attendees set the agenda.
Just a room full of people from across the open source data world, figuring out what they want to talk about together. It kicked off #bbuzz25 in the best possible way, and it's back for #bbuzz26 on June 7th. Entry to our barcamp is included in every onsite conference pass.
Will you be there? Get your ticket now: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/tickets/
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaNew bike day. I'll be bringing this new 2024 Royal Enfield Super Meteor home this afternoon. I wanted the Classic 650, but we couldn't come to terms on financing. This saves on my monthly payment and cuts a year off the loan, and I've ridden these bikes and loved them.
#motorcycles #royalenfield
@cheryanne@aus.socialThe Mothering Project
For women, carers, and empathetic leaders navigating work, care, and identity — and wondering when exactly the mental load gets its own day off...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-mothering-project/…
@samerfarha@mastodon.socialTo start off our ten day heatwave, I’m having a very Iceland day:
• Siggi Gunnars was in my neighborhood last night
• Listening to GusGus (so good)
• Neighbor left me a note addressed to Reykjavík-guru. Putting that on my business cards.
Not very Icelandic: sweating through my clothes.
@KazuShuSora@social.tchncs.deReally hope my day off on Friday gets approved so I don't need to go to the office, thrice, this week 🤞🏻
@ruari@velocipederider.comI was just looking at the watch again and noticed SR621 is listed on the face next to the model number. That is obviously the battery type. Why would they list this, unless you could do something with the information but there is no way to open the back.
Now I wonder if it is possible to carefully prise off the crystal to get to the module and from there the battery. 🤔
I'm not gonna try now but I might attempt it one day when the battery does run out.
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukSome more BBC B screen shots - I put my beeb on a TV via UHF and os now I've got screenshots here from Acornsoft {Snooker, Monsters and Snapper}, and as a Bonus, PMS Multifont - which I think was part of a 64k external 1MHz bus RAM box; which I must look at some day.
(Was UHF always this bad but our TVs were small enough not to notice?)
(My Beeb only started some stuff after I took it's lid off - is it's got some heat problems!)
@scott@carfree.citySo not a single Israeli war criminal is standing trial, but thanks to Brooke Jenkins, people who protested the genocide are. Disgraceful.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/05/trial-golden-gate-protesters/
@billbert@mastodon.social…The Met Gala was just this past Monday wasn’t it? The same day I saw my cousin and her husband in Plymouth, MA. My head is so clouded.
@gwire@mastodon.socialA BBC presenter talking to a representative of striking doctors, making the suggestion that since doctors already earn more than the average salary people have little sympathy. When saying "that's a lot of money", it comes off as condescending given their own salaries - paid via regressive taxation - dwarf them.
https://www.
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialHappy Independence Day, everyone
#ID4
@bammerlaan@mastodon.nl@… @… Finished the sewing station the other day, I replaced the bow with another thread catcher, with the idea I could use that for general pieces of trash.
We'll have to see how well I can work with it. Perhaps I'll turn it so it hangs off to the side, in case it gets in the way of sewing. I still need to erase the orange chalk lines, too.
#sewing #quilting
@cheryanne@aus.socialWe have been on the go with the wee one all day.
We took him to hungry jacks for lunch and playground (son is working through to the wee hours).
Then we took him to a park with lots of play equipment.
Then we organised a video call with his mother for mother's day.
Husband (Granda) is now chasing him around the house roaring like a dinosaur while I have a bath before dinner.
Tomorrow morning at 9 am we will drop him off at pre-school ('cos he's 3 now)…
@jswright61@ruby.socialCollette got into roses about 2 1/2 years ago. She started with just a couple “Real Roses" (her term) and several Knockout Roses. She probably averages close to 2 hours a day tending her garden, April through September. Her efforts have paid off. This is a couple of angles of one of about 4 different beds. The Knockouts are long gone. She's added roses from friends, bought some, and propagated others.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThere's many things bad about Amazon, but at the end of the day it's either me spending two hours of my life plus gas to grab something and then maybe it's out of stock or I can't even get it at all locally or Amazon using an electric delivery van to drop it off at my door often on the same day.
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.socialAn AI Pendant that records everything you do throughout the day. From Meta. Is there any company that is more despised for its user tracking? I'm sure it will fly off the shelves... /s
https://www.engadget.com/2184224/meta-developing-ai-pendant-more-s…
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza@pkotrcka_1@vivaldi.net Obviously. You have a day off.
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social"A day after Colbert signed off from The Late Show ... abruptly euthanized to grease the skids for a plutocrat-coded media merger ... Allen inherited the slot with Comics Unleashed, which feels less like a late-night show than an infomercial for one."
https://www.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://syzito.xyz/@OccuWorld/116429883958535292
“Your AI technology from Palantir kills Palestinians.”
Alex Karp, Palantir CEO: “Mostly terrorists, that’s true.”
Fuck you, Alex. I hope someone wipes that smug smile off your face one day, you …
@cdarwin@c.imSpaceX lifted off on its first day as a public company,
immediately jumping to $150 a share after it began trading on the Nasdaq
-- around 11% higher than the $135 figure at which it officially priced its IPO on Thursday.
The stock price reached as high as $176 in midday trading,
pushing the company’s market capitalization to nearly $2.3 trillion,
-- making SpaceX the sixth most valuable public company in the U.S.
The stock pop isn’t a surprise.
The…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzDallas Cowboys Day 2 Mock Draft Features Jerry Cooking Again With Trade Up https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-day-2-nfl-mock-draft-jerry-cooking-again-with-trade-up
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialA leap forward in the Dutch energy market: as of this month, all connections with a smart meter (>90%) are allocated based on actual use over the day, not just yearly volume. This means that suppliers will feel the need for e.g. new off-peak periods and help consumers with smarter energy use
https://www.
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.socialHello Berlin and welcome to the final day of Berlin Buzzwords 2026!
Morning sessions should kick off soon.
#bbuzz
@fgraver@hcommons.socialIts been a roller coaster of a day, with a rather big political fight about resouce allocation at work. And it ain’t over yet; I lost today’s skrimish but have to facts on my side and am determined to win in the end. Especially since it turns out many of the descision makers have been misled…
But it’s bloody exhausting, and I wish people would just play with open cards and on a fair playing field off the bat.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzPatriots' Mike Vrabel addresses stepping away for Day 3 of NFL Draft amid off-field matter
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/mike-vrabel-counseling-off-field-patriots-nfl-dr…
@john@fediverse-rocks.de#WhichYear 5/2/26
4233 pts (top 49%)
5.2 avg. years off
1️⃣ 1️⃣ ⚪ 7️⃣ 🎯
https://whichyr.com
@drbruced@aus.socialMy wife went swimming in Footscray this morning so I had her drop me off by the pool and then I ran home along the Maribyrnong river and up the Stockyard trail, back through Royal Park to the inner North. Brilliant day for a run and a nice change of scenery. #melbourne #running
@davej@dice.campRE: #AltText.
@eyebee@mstdn.socialDay off today. I didn’t wake up until almost six. Been to the kitchen to brew the first mugs of the day. Back to bed for a short while to read and decide what to do today.
@cdarwin@c.imIn the U.S. military, commanders do not typically speak publicly about future operations
to avoid tipping off an adversary or jeopardizing the mission’s success and, possibly, American lives.
But that has not dissuaded America’s commander in chief from proclaiming when and how the United States will next attack Iran.
For the second day in a row,
Trump on Thursday threatened in a social media post that the United States would hit Iran
“VERY HARD TONIGHT,”
a…
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizzaWnt to work in hoodie and sunglasses yesterday, on my way home it was raining. Today is better, sun, blue sky and warm (I was freezing my ass off yesterday). Today is a good day - so good morning fellow tooters
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026 NFL Day 2 mock draft: When do Carson Beck, Garrett Nussmeier come off the board?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2026-nfl-mock-draft-day-2-rounds-2-3/
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialI know many folks who do embedded or systems programming where efficiency is very important.
I'm at the other end of the extreme, data analytics, where I implore my peers to put their energy into ensuring correctness in data & methodology, and add controls to detect problems. Once generally efficient techniques are learned, mostly ignore runtimes.
Oh, you shaved 30 minutes off a 60 min monthly job that runs at 3 am on the 10th day, with no downstream dependencies. Uh cong…
@rosenclosed@social.linux.pizzaI have feared this moment: having to call a bunch of strangers to ask them if they want to take a day off because we've got too many drivers.... 😟
@cheryanne@aus.socialWe had a pretty good day at home today.
I managed to write a commissioned article and send it off before lunchtime while the wee one and Granda (husband) watched Bluey.
Played outside with the wee one in the glorious Canberra winter sun with the tonka truck and then had running races against said truck down the sloping driveway (set up log barricades against going on the road).
Husband made up a giant batch of pasta sauce, some to eat now and the rest to freeze for later.…
@chrislowles@mastodon.socialIt's all deference at the end of the day but inferring verification in the process of adding something you need ID in a known secure environment that isn't beholden to as shareholder expectations in of itself for seems like it'd come with the least friction, might actually make for a more substantive outcome, you can report back to govts that it's been fulfilled and that they can fuck off now.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzFive teams that topped their Round 1: Steelers shake off draft-day gut punch, Bills cash in after trading back
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2026-nfl-draft…
@theodric@social.linux.pizza"Get an electric car" they said
"You'll save so much money" they said
Every fucking bit of solar generation we have presently ends up in the car, and this is peak season, so we're just paying the electric company for all the house load rather than being practically off grid. House battery (22kWh) now at 5% SoC after a day of bright sunshine, even throttling the van to a 6A230V charge.
Better get those extra 10 panels installed.
@eyebee@mstdn.socialMy second day off. Back to the salt mine tomorrow. Indoors today, as I’m waiting for a DPD delivery - a new Apple Watch - and I have a telephone appointment with my IBD team this afternoon. At least I don’t need to trek to the hospital.
@scott@carfree.cityIt would be cool if the Coast Starlight's running time were half as long and if there were 6 departures per day and you could, on one ticket, freely get off at stops along the way and visit for a bit before getting back on the next train toward your destination.
@wraithe@mastodon.socialSo yesterday was a weird day; had an onsite and while wrangling my access to the building, realized one of my boot heels had come off, so I spent like 20m trying to backtrace where it fell off. Never did find it. 😂
Was working in an office space client is moving into, so basically abandoned
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz3 prospects Cowboys should consider trading up for on Day 2 at LB, CB https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/24/cowboys-draft-dealing-3-prospects-worth-trading-2026-nfl-draft…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIt's kind of crazy that back in the day to make these cover photos they had to actually cut off someone's hand
@john@fediverse-rocks.de#WhichYear 4/22/26
4138 pts (top 29%)
6.2 avg. years off
3️⃣ 4️⃣ 🔟 ⚪ 🎯
https://whichyr.com
@luana@wetdry.worldI mean the things like "when's my next [event] again?" [Response] "oh, please set up a reminder for two days before that telling me to buy [stuff]"
I use ("dumb") Siri on Home Pod (and on my iPhone before I migrated away from iOS, like to set reminders for the next day without getting distracted or getting light im my face while on bed trying to sleep) to set timers and stuff when I don't have a device at hand, as well as for turning off my living room lights via the Home Assistant integration when going to bed (since the switch is far from the hallway), so these extra features would be really cool specially if it was something local, open source and with integration with stuff in my NAS.
#wwdc
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca4/4 Spent the day today with @… turning the water on and off, and the pump on and off.. watching how the water comes out of the bog filter and down into the poolpond. Pump is only at 25%, which is more like 15% as there will be a second pump as well in time.
Shifted some of the flat stones around and got them in a nice place. I had to do some hand digging under the lining near the tree. I am pretty sure the berm is too low there for when the pumps are at full force, but I am ok with where things are now. There is lots of opportunity to build the edges up if need be.
For now, I am going to work on sealing the rocks along the edge in to help direct the water.
I also need to splice in an extension cord into the pump wiring so that I can run a long enough distance to have the power supply and controller in the small shed and not hiding under the liner at the top of the pond. 🤣
#pandemicpond #PoolPond #gardening #portalberni #home #yard #bloomscrolling #BackyardProject
@eyebee@mstdn.socialMy wife has a day off today. I was working, and up at 4 am. She messaged to say that she had been in the garden and mowed the lawn. I had said I would get her to help me with it when I got home. I usually mow, and she rakes up. I’m not complaining, though!
@UP8@mastodon.socialGroup in Alley Near Commons During Earth Day Celebration
#photo #photography #groupportrait #ithacacommons
@cdarwin@c.imHealth Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, on Tuesday added to his lengthening catalog of bizarre wild animal encounters by
posting to social media a video of himself in Florida wrestling with two snakes.
Kennedy, who has previously admitted dumping the carcass of a bear cub in New York’s Central Park,
and is also alleged to have cut the penis off a road-kill raccoon,
is seen grabbing the pair of serpents with his bare hands.
@eyebee@mstdn.socialIt’s Monday morning, 6.30 am. Day off today. About to make a mug of coffee.
@cdarwin@c.imThe gulf between US stocks and Americans’ spirits keeps widening.
The Dow on Friday hit a record high
— the same day consumer sentiment hit an all-time low.
Beyond pressures from the Iran war, which stock markets have largely shrugged off, AI is a factor in the divergence.
Traders are all-in on AI, but Americans are fretting over its impact on jobs.
Donald Trump has heralded the stock gains, but the bond market could put pressure on the White House.
Yields…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI've finished reading Simon Winder's "#Germania" a while ago, but I've been slacking with the review. This is a book about the history of #Germany, in the wide meaning of word. However, it's not your boring detailed history book. The author takes us on a deeply personal journey across German landscape, across tiny towns and great forests, Schlosses, churches and monuments, and uses that as a context to bring the country's surprisingly interesting history to light. And honestly, it works — it is deeply enjoyable, to the point of making me wonder if one day I should actually move to Germany, get a Bahncard 100 and start exploring myself.
I didn't quote the book here, but if I were to choose one quote that really resonated with me, it would be:
"""
Solitary tourism is something that everybody should indulge in. Of course it is a fraudulent solitude because its enjoyment comes from its limited duration and having a cheerful, only very temporarily abandoned main base area. […] And then, suddenly, I am in Vienna, standing in the shadow of a monstrous, derelict flak tower, and completely alone. The virtue of solitary tourism is its infinite ability to absorb boredom. I often find myself almost crippled with anxiety that the companion or companions on a journey might be finding everything wholly without interest, would rather be eating somewhere else, are secretly angry that we have wound up walking down this street rather than that, are contemptuous of my own interests. Solitary tourism cauterizes all this: if a museum is boring beyond all measure there is no pressure to feign interest, you just leave. I am perfectly happy, in a zoned-out way, to crisscross a town, walking for hours, just for the off-chance something curious might be round the next corner – indeed in the confidence that there will always be something curious (there always is). But for each street, each bar, each folklore museum to be converted into an inter-human negotiation creates an entirely different dynamic.
[…]
Quite possibly the pleasure of this way of life would be much reduced in some other countries, particularly more insistently gregarious places such as Italy. German culture puts a high value on temporary solitude of a stagey kind. Perhaps this is its great gift. In some moods I think there is no need to do anything other than read German writers from the first half of the nineteenth century – a sort of inexhaustible storehouse of attitudes flattering to those who just like sometimes to be left alone. Everyone must have at least a part of them that wants to live in a stairless, doorless tower as a sort of intellectual Rapunzel, setting aside, at least in part, the complicated sexual frisson laid out by such an idea. Germany really is thick with ivy-covered turrets and the promise of solitude (Kepler staring at the planets above Prague, Faust conjuring demons) – the great majority presumably built in the nineteenth century in response to the whole literature devoted to the subject. There is one turret in Lübeck, built onto a city guard tower of just outrageous fakeness, which would do me for life.
"""
(Simon Winder, Germania)
And if you follow me, you have evidence that the part about crisscrossing towns is so true: the best things I've posted here I found by complete accident, especially the murals.
#books #bookstodon
@matths@toot.communitySometimes you can pick up on a former project and move on as if you left off a day ago.
Made a rounded rectangular version of the vienna weave pattern basket with #OpenSCAD for #3dprinting
Perhaps I should dust the printer tomorrow.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz @eyebee@mstdn.socialMy wife likes to sleep in on days off. I tend to wake up the same time every day. Earlier sometimes if I’m at work by five, but otherwise, naturally, around 5.30 - 6.00 am. If I sleep later, it’s never beyond 7 am unless I’m unwell. Anyway, I leave her sleeping unless we’re going out somewhere.
@pre@boing.worldWorking on deleting Telegram.
Set up new Signal groups for the old Telegram ones. Robots to mirror the ActivityPubs.
Me: https://dalliance.net/chat
Starhip Project: https://starshipsd.com/chat
Tarot Project: https://wordcloudtarot.com/chat
The old Telegram groups will be closed and deleted in due course. Haven't had it installed on my phone since I switched to Graphene and these groups and robots were the last blocker to deleting it off my desktop soon too.
Changed all the website links etc.
Been meaning to do all that for ages. Yes it did take all day. But I do feel like my powers are increased now I have CLI (and so scriptable) access to a Signal account.
@eyebee@mstdn.socialI KNEW this would happen. Hot sunny weather all week while I’m at the salt mine. Get a day off, get in the garden, for a few jobs and some fresh air and it starts poxy raining! Grrrrr.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.cafinally! the pond is *just* overtop the intake bay inlet and flow has reversed to its proper skimming mode. have pump 1 on low and slow. There is just enough water coming in now for the level ti only drop very slowly.
am I sitting on the edge of the pond at dark at midnight watching the water rise ever so slowly so that I can go ?
yes 😂
edit: it's 1AM. Just turned off the water. Both pumps are at 90% power and the water level appears stable. I'm going to go out on a limb and call it a night and hope there is water in the right places in the morning.
who am I kidding. of course there will be. It's even awesome at night.
This was a good day!! 😁 👍
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy #plumbing
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocksBacklit corn silk to show off the feathery surface that helps snag falling pollen grains. The stigmatic lobes can grow over an inch per day. #corn #maize #pollen #botany #gardening #allotment #pollination #pollen #stigma
@eyebee@mstdn.socialFive thirty am, Thursday. Day off. Wide awake. The foremost task is brewing coffee.
@eyebee@mstdn.socialDay off today. I’ve done some journaling, and now I’m working on post-processing photos from yesterday’s Spring Gathering at Brooklands. The urge to indulge in my mistress keeps interrupting me, though. She’s very demanding. I’m already on my third. I’ve added a photo of her.
