Tootfinder

I know a few people on here as well as myself will FEEL this cartoon.

A Solstice song to celebrate or get you through:
It begins before it begins. It begins before it begins when the light is longest. It begins in triumph and jubilation. It begins in winning. It begins in the fat of the land and the plenty. Such light. Such light as we had not imagined. You felt the joy of it, I know you did. It begins in that joy…

The Endarkening
Words for the longest night and an invitation to join with others for the solstice at Hildegard garden in Berlin.

Having a roomba (not actually a roomba, it's a neato botvac; you know, the *other* robot vacuum company that went bankrupt) sometimes feels a bit like having a dog.
*weird loud noises*
me: "Ugh, what did you eat?"
*roomba beeps as I pause it*
me: "A zip tie? No! Drop it. DROP IT."

Did you know if you leave the pumpkin guts in the fridge until they get a little squishy you can just rinse all the guts off instead of picking out seeds one-by-one? Happy this experiment worked out. (Was actually intentional, btw. 🙂 I read about how farms that produce pumpkin seeds just leave the pumpkins out in the field for a bit and thought I'd try the fridge version.)

Fun fact: did you know that of the about 3.55 million active duty NATO soldiers on earth only about 1.3 of them are US soldiers? That means the non-US NATO soldiers outnumber the all the active duty US soldiers on earth almost 2 to 1?
#USpol #EUpol

Little JavaScript tip:
You know you can comment out code to quickly disable it:
```js
/*
console.log(‘I won’t run’)
*/
```
But did you know you can also use a labelled block with a break statement to do the same thing in a more flexible manner?
```js
disable: {
break disable
console.log(‘I wont’t run’)
}
```
Then, you can quickly the move the `break disable` to different lines to execute different bits of code wit…

Nostrshire panel talking about Adam Curry's podcast2.0 , more tags in your podcast rss for payments, in the hope it can fund producers. Did you know besos takes 75 percent of all Audible money? Actors and writers sharing scraps from Amazon's table.
Hot news is that keysend tags are out of fashion and the bolt11 lnurl invoices are taking over.
Podcast platforms can be bridged through nostr to enable cross platform comments and discovery but making users create key pairs is to complex the fountainfm guy reckons. Wants to hide and shatter l abstract away that complexity.
#nostr #nostrshire #podcasting2.0

3 days ago the RSS feed of planet.ubuntu.com stopped working due to a TLS cert error.
I THINK it's due to them overhauling & moving it to a github-hosted replacement, but as this was done just by redirecting DNS the new host doesn't have a TLS cert with the correct name. If so, this means that people following the old RSS feed can't do so any more and they got no notice that this was going to happen.
I don't know for sure though because my query remains unansw…

Hey #GenX. Did you know the infamous WKRP "Turkeys Away" episode was based on an ACTUAL radio station promotion at KBOX radio in Dallas, TX?
See fact #2 for the story!
▶️ 15 Weird Facts About WKRP in Cincinnati (1978) You Never Knew

At least six high-profile congressional Republicans have voiced their staunch opposition to Trump’s desire to take over Greenland.
“I’ll be candid with you: There’s so many Republicans mad about this,”
Nebraska Representative Don #Bacon told the Omaha-World Herald.
“If he went through with the threats, I think it would be the end of his presidency.
And he needs to know:
The off-r…

Republicans Say Trump’s Greenland Plan Is “Dumbest Thing” Ever
At least a handful of Republicans in Congress are pushing back against President Trump’s quest to take over Greenland.

Did you know there are 13 active former No. 1 picks in the NFL? We examine them all https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47250685/former-nfl-number-1-picks-current-nfl-matthew-stafford-myles-garrett-jadeveon-clowney<…

You know Mozilla, how about just idk making the best browser instead of...
*checks notes*
..."doing for AI what we did for the web".
https://blog.mozilla.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/278/files/2025/11/Mozilla-Summary-Portfolio-Strategy.pdf

#Sehlat #Spock

Reblog by @bzangy · 10 images
💬 0  🔁 277  ❤️ 526 · Spock, I've always suspected that you were a little more human than you let on. Mrs. Sarek, I know about the rigorous training of the Vulcan youth, but tell me, did he ever run…

𝐀𝐭𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲: (1) Did you know I'm a sucker for kitsch? (2) Or that I'm a Yankee who can't get enough of grits?
Not half bad but they could have given me more shrimp and my doc would be shaking his head about the sodium...
#food #sliceoflife

Boy. You think you know someone. I just discovered that my wife did not know about the little icon next to the dashboard fuel gauge that tells you which side of the car the fuel filler port is on. 🤯

Mailbag: Did Blue, Mafah show you enough? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-did-blue-mafah-show-you-enough

The thing that Renee Good now knows, that Tortuguita knows, that Heather Heyer knows, that I only know because I glimpsed for a second, is that when you die fighting oppression you live forever in that memory of resistance. When we carve their names into a monument, along with all the other names of the murdered and disappeared, that will stand, perhaps, across from the statue of Willem in the park where the Northwest Detention Center once stood, they will always be reminders of what it looks like to sacrifice everything in order to be on the right side of history.
The names of those who resist live as ghosts, summoned by name to haunt future oppressors, summoned by name to awaken our own conscience to the call. Martyrs, whispered like the White Rose or yelled as a threat like John Brown, cannot die so long as any of us with a bit of spine carries even an ounce of humanity.
It is possible to die knowing you did the right thing, and I have felt it. There is an acceptance that is impossible to imagine without being there, without feeling it for yourself. You have nothing to fear in resisting, even if it ends you. But you will never forget the shame of doing nothing if you fail to.

did you know that even gold has an E-number? it's number is E175

“Talking about lethality and killing and blowing people up
— you know, it’s usually true that people who talk like that and pound their chest are the ones that did the least. …
You can’t be asked to do things like that,
which are not normal parts of the human experience,
and not have that weigh on you pretty heavily.” https://

Did you know: 75yrs ago, blatant racists in the American govt & military illegally imprisoned US citizens based purely on their race... & Congress did nothing about it.
This has all happened before.
Listen to Maddow's FREE limited podcast, "Burn Order":
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddo…

RACHEL MADDOW PRESENTS: BURN ORDER
Rachel Maddow tells the story of one of the most shocking decisions in American history in her new podcast, “Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order.” This six-part series reveals how an executive order authorizing the roundup of innocent Americans came to be – and a bombshell discovery in the unlikeliest of places that would ultimately expose […]

That feeling when you find out your favorite band of all time is as important to the history of hip hop as you thought they were.
Also, did you know Chuck D invented the triplet flow?
https://youtu.be/eRGH3Y1zc8E?si=bfgbGZWhATan9W06

Now playing some LOUD, raw, feedbacky d-beat punk rock from St. Louis' DRILL. This is their demo from May. Did I mention how insanely fucking raw and feedbacky it is? 😂 The vocalist's screams and screeches, some great riffage and such. You KNOW I love shit like this.
https://drill314.bandcamp.com/album/de

lazygit is perfection and that sadly means i will never learn jj
https://www.bwplotka.dev/2025/lazygit/

The (lazy) Git UI You Didn't Know You Need
When my son was born last April, I had ambitious learning plans for the upcoming 5w paternity leave. As you can imagine, with two kids, life quickly verified this plan 🙃. I did eventually start some projects. One of the goals (sounding rebellious in the current AI hype cycle) was to learn and use neovim for coding. As a Goland aficionado, I (and my wrist) have always been tempted by no-mouse, OSS, gopls based, highly configurable dev setups.

@MashedMen@mastodon.art Oh, you know what you did.

Me, a hammer salesman: “Let's fix that window, you know, for accessibility.”
[ smashes glass ]
you: “Why did you do that?”
me: “For accessibility.
you: “It wasn’t broken.”
me: “I made it better for accessibility.
you: “But how does th—”
me: “FOR ACCESSIBILITY!”
[ waggles hammer overhead ]

Did you know your tears form unique crystal shapes under a microscope?
Quinten Geldhof,
also known as Microhobbyist,
zooms in on the hidden structures inside dried tears
https://youtu.be/UWghVul7Ul8

Did you know that SpaceShip .com, who is a Domain Registrar plus a bunch of other hosting services, has something called "Alf AI"?
Yes, I am going to bug them to sponsor ATmosphereConf - what a perfect match!
https://www.spaceship.com/alf-ai-assistant/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #FridayNightIsMusicNight
Mark Lowry, John G Smith & Angel Morgan:
🎵 Mary did you Know
#MarkLowry #JohnGSmith #AngelMorgan

Mailbag: Did Blue, Mafah show you enough? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-did-blue-mafah-show-you-enough

Did you know Trump repeatedly lied lied LIED & bankrupted an entire sports league all because the NFL hurt his feelings?
▶️ One Man’s Ego vs. the NFL: Donald Trump and the demise of the USFL - Press Box Chronicles
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lCjWo9A_51E&si=LGdbd7…

Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jdraper-selling-your-wife-at-market
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HoOhLNA…

J. Draper — Selling Your Wife At Market
Did you know that in the 18th century, your husband could sell you at market? And that thousands of people in my comments would love to return to the good old days?

Did you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website at chrome://inducebrowsercrashforrealz

"To future historians—not just of computing, but of humanity—the current period will be a dark age.
How was Facebook used by students in the 2010s? We cannot show you, that version of Facebook is not hosted anywhere.
What correspondence did Vint Cerf have as president of the ACM with other luminaries of computing industry and research? We do not know; Google will not publish his emails."

The Digital Dark Ages
There are three interesting things to do with a computing museum. Museum directors and curators should be aware of all three and design galleries, present information, and make archives available to address them all.

Starting your week by getting your DUX in a row ;-)
#retrocomputing #hpux
https://hachyderm.io/@thejpster/115521<…

I kid you not, this is improving my French. Not just with rugby posts, but because I have the frame of reference I can get the gist so I do well with them. If I don't know a word I hit the translate button. Short posts like this and from other accounts are doing more than Duolingo ever did. I could clean up on Duolingo but not really properly learn much at all.
@… …

France | République française (@fr@pubeurope.com)
Attached: 1 image https://www.europesays.com/fr/594596/ Le deuxième-ligne sud-africain, Eben Etzebeth, explique sa version après sa suspension de 12 semaines – L'Équipe #FR #France #Rugby #RugbyFootball #Sports

Did you know it's possible for two lines to appear to diverge in a 2D perspective view, but actually converge in 3D? Kind of the opposite of parallel lines in 3D converging in 2D.
I discovered this while trying to implement a clipping algorithm. At first I didn't believe it was possible, it felt so foreign to everyday experience. It actually happens whenever two lines converge behind the center of projection, but we rarely see that IRL.
(Image rendered from pov of came…

"Did you know that for every US$1,000 a person has in savings is roughly equivalent to the direct #Emissions generated by flying from New York to Seattle every year”
#Banks are a core part of how we store and spend money. This

Why I Changed Banks For The Planet
Banks are integral to our daily lives. We rely on them to receive our salaries, make transactions, pay bills, and secure loans or mortgages. However, behind each of these transactions lies a financial system that subtly influences not just our economy but also, albeit less obviously, our planet. The practices

The hidden gem. Another one.
Did you know Alpine Linux has a vibrant community, delivering the latest desktop environments?
KDE Plasma 6.5.4, of course. But also Gnome 49.2.2? And, since y'day afternoon already, Cosmic 1.0?
That's the one I'm gonna go for.
Unexpected, but really amazing. Don't tell too many people 😂
#alpine

Pro tip: did you know you can tell what language a puppygirl speaks by the sounds they make?
"Awawawa" is a dead giveaway they're a native German speaker.
If they speak English, it's going to be "rerererere" instead.

There's a word for seizing tankers in high seas. Piralty? Pirany? Pira something... It's what those guys off the coast of Somalia did for many years, you know, the pirates?
Oh, yes, piracy. That's it. Piracy.

☎️ Did You Know That There Are Camera-Less iPhones?
#electronics

Did You Know That There Are Camera-Less iPhones?
If you work in a nuclear power plant, you might have a weird iPhone like this.

In the fall of 2021, after a remote year, I was teaching in person wearing a mask close to 100% of the time. A few weeks into one intro course, where the students didn’t already know me, I lowered my mask for a moment and there were audible gasps from the class. They’d never seen the lower half of my face!
“What did you •think• was going to be down there?!” I quipped. (Maybe they were picturing tentacles, like an Ood?)
But the gasp was genuine: after hours of looking at my masked face, they still had no idea what my •unmasked• face looks like.
1/

Did you know that there’s a streaming movie and TV show app that costs nothing and has no ads, just need to log in with your library card (if you don’t have one you can probably get one instantly online from your local library).
Available in tons of countries as well.
https://www.kanopy.com/

I know some of you don’t like Pixelfed as a whole, or maybe just the pixelfed.social instance.
I’ve been lazy and haven’t switched instances yet, but I did post a story: @…

"An LLM helped me with some task" is not a good argument for these things increasing productivity. Did you also factor in all the cases where it made you slower? Where the output created extra work? And how much of your work/activity is that task?
All bigger studies we know (even those done by Google for example) show a total lack of meaningful productivity gains, especially when looking at a whole organization.
(There are few exceptions: Spam generation might see prod…

Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
VILA: Obsidian. Even the name sounds nasty. Do you know why it escaped the galactic war?
CALLY: If it did.
VILA: Well, Zen says there's no sign of any battle fleet wreckage on the surface.
CALLY: Not as far as we can see.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/48

@…
I know! Why would they do that? Did they imagine that abusing an online space would never have consequences? Did they also imagine that―in addition to taking pleasure by causing offence―they might dictate where, or when, the consequences arise? Every action has a reaction.
I'm so glad that you see my point.

it's all happening on https://otterchan.net

chat did you know that you actually have to eat food multiple times a day to not feel like shit? pretty fucked up if you ask me.

This is good advice received from a local retrofit organisation. I'm always amazed by how many people don't appear to understand this simple fact.
MONTHLY TOP TIP
Did you know how much of a difference closing curtains and blinds can make ?
In summer leaving window coverings closed can reduce the heat input to prevent overheating and in the winter closing them before dark can keep heat from escaping and keep your home feeling cosy.

Maybe she should do a collab with Skrillex
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a69167004/jameela-jamil-accidentally-orgasm-farmers-dj-set/

Did you know?: In the #terminal program less, you can use "&" to perform search-based filtering on all lines. This can be done multiple times (i.e. recursively), or alternatively you can search "&" without an argument to clear the search filtering. It's not the most performant on very large buffers, but can come in handy from time to time, especially when sear…

#Gmail can read your emails and attachments to #train its #AI, unless you opt out

Did you know?
Russia was originally called Muscovy, and it was a colony of Kyev!
Kyev was was one of the largest cities in Europe around 900-1000 AD, and they sent their worst nobility to Muscovy.
Then Russia was the bitch of the Mongols for several centuries.
They are nothing but second-hand toxic waste in human form - personal opinion.
Dylan shares all sorts of history and perspective of the modern situation, as a retired military analyst and Russian linguist.…

Ukraine Update November 6
2025 — Electrical Grids, Not Knowing Where Father Is

30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript" — Netscape Press Release (4. Dec. 1995)
🟨 https://web.archive.org/web/20070916144913/http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease67.html
Did you know the every…

I mean, there's a reason the switch for "I have guests over, let's turn off the most surprising automations" is called "haunted house" in my HomeAssistant.
https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/115424228795514864

Did you know? This computer was released closer to the end of World War II than today.

#EroticMusings 32: Do you make use of symbolism? For erotic and/or romantic purposes, or other reasons?
I use it rarely and with care, mostly in my fairy tale books - and I explain what I did afterwards in the words of a fictive scholar. It's not because I don't know how, it's more a deliberate choice.
Symbolism fits a fairytale. But layering too much of that into a…

Convention organizer to Linus Torvalds: "You might like to come with us
to some licensed[1] place, and have some pizza."
Linus: "Oh, I did not know that you needed a license to eat pizza".
[1] Licenced - refers in Australia to a restaurant which has government
licence to sell liquor.
-- Linus at a talk at the Melbourne University

Y'know, I don't really need daily emails from the place I buy water filters from.
I hate how every fucking company out there is like, "oh you ordered something from us, that means we'll add you to our spam list. DID YOU KNOW WE'RE HAVING A 20% SALE ON THIS THING THAT ISN'T EVEN COMPATIBLE WITH THE THING YOU BOUGHT?? HURRY AND SAVE NOW!"

Did you know veterinary medicine students experience burn-out? Art can help with that!
This September, we partnered with the #UniversityOfGeorgia College of Veterinary Medicine on a program to enhance their students' clinical skills AND their well-being.

Did you know if you make a Shopify dev store you can't currently delete it? Great, someone should tell Shopify's chatbot that confidently made up some instructions for me.

I did not know about ggplot_build() before. It can come in handy in situations where you want to access computed metrics of a #ggplot. https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/ggplot_build.html…

Build ggplot for rendering. — ggplot_build
build_ggplot() takes the plot object, and performs all steps necessary to produce an object that can be rendered. This function outputs two pieces: a list of data frames (one for each layer), and a panel object, which contain all information about axis limits, breaks etc. The ggplot_build() function is vestigial and build_ggplot() should be used instead.

did you know bash has builtin gettext support? i sure didn't https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Locale-Translation.html

Did you know that pathological and cathological come from the same root word as evangelogical?
Repeat those 3 words 3 times and they're yours.
#Joke #ButNotReally

“Canada did not sign the letter, Environment and Climate Change Canada confirmed to CBC News Friday.”
Canada is a problem.
A huge problem.
Our Prime Minister is in the Middle East instead of COP. That's all you need to know.
We're all so screwed right now... the world... all of us.
Our leaders in ‘developed' countries cannot extricate their minds from the Fossil Fuel industry and it's going to kill us all, or at least a very large proportion of us.
#COP30 #CanPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/cop30-showdown-9.6987443

I appreciate all the posts warning that the Supreme Court has not granted unlimited privilege to Trump's henchmen.
But you have to know he'll just grant blanket pardons, as he did to the January 6 traitors.

Since I'm shutting down lanecloud, there's a few tiny things I need to re-home.
Did you know that the ultimate homelab challenge is to not deploy clustered and HA services, when you know how to do it?
#selfhosted #homelab

Did you know there is a scientific conference called Artificial Life? ALife in short.
It's actually quite a cool one. They are nerds that nerd about the game of life and the like.

I did ultimately figure out the correct URL to the email verification page, thanks to @… finding me the correct page of Venmo's FAQ which spells out how to do this process.
You know, the same pages that Venmo presumably trained their LLM on.
So in the end I have my money, but not thanks to anyone at Venmo.
What an absolute garbage timeline to …

The most interesting type of replyguy is the meta-replyguy (as in the greek prefix, not the tech company).
Here's a typical interaction:
Me: [Question] Please only reply if you know the answer.
Someone: I googled it for 5 seconds, here's the answer. [It's not the answer.]
Me: Did you not read my post? I only wanted replies if you know the answer.

Meta-replyguy: You're an asshole.
???

Did you know of Explain XKCD ?
These ones are moving.
Two years: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1141:_Two_Years
Seven years:

Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
AVON: My name is...
TARRANT: Your name is Avon.
AVON: How did you know?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/339 B7B2

Did I go a little extra with leftovers breakfast? Yeah, why not?
Pork, fluffy egg, waffled stuffing, homemade gravy (didn’t get any in my leftovers)

November 1st arrived, and so did Fedora 43. You got to take the bad with the good, you know :-)

I believe, my 5 year old daughter as a future in science:
Mom: "Your desk is completely stained, I can't remove those pencil marks! which pen did you use ?"
"I don't know mum, but I've an idea. I will get all my pens and draw over the desk again, so we can test which ones we can't remove! "

Did you know that iTunes does CD Text?

Did you know? There are people on the internet.

@… but you did know?

Fat Putin the dumbass calls everyone he hates a communist.
... you know, communism? Where the government owns all the businesses?
JFC.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2rrp7amblhg3xoly5n5huiqv/post/3m4yhmrdpok2n

Police just standing there helping while border patrol kidnaps people. Do you know why? Because ACAB. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f7utvjkqbgwfjonqtpfcf5fu/post/3m3yivefgvs2u

Denise Wheeler (@denisedwheeler.bsky.social)
In Chicago. Another US citizen violently snatched by Trump's masked thugs.

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
ORAC: With the help of the automatics, of course you can.
AVON: I know that.
ORAC: Then why did you ask the question?
AVON: [Smiles] I didn't. How long can I maintain myself?
ORAC: Is that a question?
AVON: Yes.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/484

Did you know? Using physical media makes you at least 25% more attractive.

With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society.
And as you know: It’s all going to get much, much worse.

Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.

This doesn't really fit, but yesterday I heard Piers Morgan on BBC Radio 4 whilst driving. Blah blah blah about his new "book" 'Woke is Dead'.
I am fairly tolerant, and I do like Radio 4, and I rarely talk to myself when alone whilst driving, but I did say "Oh, shut up." ― and switched off. If you don't know who he is: be glad.
@…

Did you know?
You can help struggling billionaire owners of big tech companies that can’t build AI data centers fast enough by closing accounts and canceling subscriptions

Did you know Michael Irvin STABBED a lineman in the neck & should have been charged with attempted murder but got away with it "because football"?
Listen to the audiobook, Jeff Pearlman's "Boys Will Be Boys".
https://www.audible.com/pd/B002V9ZBVG?sour

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Did you know that there’s machines now that can do 5,000 additions per second??!
Automated language translation is just around the corner!
AI bros overestimating computers and underestimating humans, since 1949.