Tootfinder

I wanted an easy way to figure out how many days I rode my bike to work this month, and since I've Python and a folder full of GPX files I started there.
First run, look for files that were created on weekdays, with a start time of 8:nn am or 17:nn pm. That would be when I leave home or leave work.
It got me some results, but also bad results... I also had to check for start times of 9:nn am and 7:nn am and leave times of 16:nn pm. Argh.
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«When I came on the scene in 2001, I probably seemed pretty unsavory compared to the competitors. But that was when academic research happened in libraries and George W. Bush was considered the stupidest president. […] So, yeah, peer review deez nutz» 🤣
This is brilliant!
Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology

I don't think I'm ever going to enjoy gifts.
I can get why people would give them to children. After all, children don't have their own budget. However, I'm talking about occasional gifts, not a new toy every second week, because "we must outcompete the other grandparents". But to adults?
Once I've heard that you should gift people with what they won't buy themselves. Well, that's won't work for me. I'm a minimalist. If I don't need something, I don't want to have it. Unnecessary junk is only emotional burden to me.
I can get why you'd enjoy something handmade. But something people bought? If I need something, I can buy it myself, when I need it. And I definitely don't need people to prove to me that they never cared to learn who I am, and just buy whatever they like or whatever is "fashionable"; which usually means exactly the opposite of what I'd prefer (i.e. something minimalistic). Or even worse, I don't need people manipulating me through gifts.
Sweets? Besides my diabetes, I don't really enjoy expensive shit that people generally buy because it's what's advertised. For the money they waste on it, I'd buy three times as much sweets I'd actually enjoy.
Gift cards? Oh yes, "you aren't supposed to give money, so let's just give the equivalent of money that's actually worth less than money". Actual money? And here we reach the true nonsense; we exchange the same amount of money, so it's just pointless gesture. Unless one of us gives less money…
What I'd really like, as a gift? Maybe that people would finally bother accepting me as who I am. The absolute minimum of caring that I hate consumerism, and not fueling it "for me".
#AntiCapitalism #minimalism #ActuallyAutistic

#linux #openwrt
Q: I am starting with open wrt. My problem is that I want to reach it over my LAN. The default ip is 192.168.1 but I have 192.168.0 as a default and I can not change it (ISP restriction). I have googled and youtubed it but I still can't get it to work. I can log in to t…

Am I the only person that can never log into his Apple accounts every time one of those dialogs pops up, and I have to enter my password like 10 times?
I swear it only happens with Apple accounts.

Hi, It's Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology (Tom Ellison/McSweeney's)
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p145#a251028p145

My personal sense is that voter ID is not a hill to die on.
Even I can feel the draw of requiring voters to produce something that helps to demonstrate the fact that "I am qualified to cast a ballot in this election."
I recognize that voter ID requirements can (and will be) used to exclude valid voters.
But my answer is not to fight the voter id requirement itself.
Rather I'd invest in making sure that all people get proper voter IDs. (Perhaps I might b…

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.

I am no longer dying on any hills but I will be killing on them
if you come to my hill with a Wrong opinion i am honor bound to defeat you in combat

The more I use it the more I like NetNewsWire.
The only feature I am missing is the ability to define a Smart Feed. I wish I’d know where to report this (and beg for it).

I am trying to transfer a 30G Database from one server to another using mariabackup, mbstream and #socat. The transfer rate is pretty bad when I start the whole thing with #ansible, but it seems like I'm getting okayisch transfer rates if I copy the commands from the ansible files and run them by hand. Is t…

A Building Full of Cats: up on the roof
I like cats. I like Little Kitty Big City, I like Pix the Cat, I even liked Blinx. If I like games with a few cats in, then I am almost certain to love games with hundreds of cats in, right? In this case, yes. A Building Full of Cats is a hidden object game where the objects are cats. Lots of cats.
…

Idea: #Linux installation tutorial for #Windows users who want to try it as a dual-boot?

Say, I would live-post the steps as I am doing it on an old laptop, with #ZorinOS (I installed it onc…

Zorin OS - Make your computer better.
Discover the alternative to Windows and macOS designed to make your computer faster, more powerful, secure, and privacy-respecting.

Right now, stood where I am on the worn stone steps looking down into the darkness of the crypt
at St. Mary, Lastingham in Yorkshire,
you could say that this is the loneliest place on earth
-- Andy Marshall
https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-ma…

Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 28 Nov 2025
When I walk back up into the nave, the visitor is there at the top of the steps, sat in a chair - as if he knew of the tenderness that was taking place beneath and was unable to enter in upon it.

I wish I could be this enthusiastic about abandoning my unhealthy vices…
I really miss elements of drinking and smoking. I was never a really heavy drinker just a frequent one. Pisses me off that I can no longer have a glass of wine in the evening and feel chipper in the AM. So I just stopped.
Smoking was also annoying but easy. My wife’s health insurance provider has a surcharge for smokers. So I quit.
These are parts of my evidence for my non-humanity.

Is it 10 years old? Yes. Is it unusual? Yes.
Is it Thanksgiving themed and am I in it? Yes and yes.
I sing, I dance. I shoot a bow and arrow.
Hear 95% of the turkey noises I have ever made on camera/microphone, so far.
https://youtu.be/SbaUaQ6Uzc4

i am being gang stalked by the CIA

I am observing a regular spam phenomena I cannot explain: It appears spammers are redirecting the replies they get to me. Usually a spam mail they also send directly to me.
I have no idea why they do that or how that would suite them. I mean... why would I care more about their advertisement if I get a bunch of "I am on holiday can't read your mail" replies to their spam after reading their spam?

I'm really not a happy camper today. I'm perfectly happy, but am not on a camping trip.

The hyperscalers' plans for powering their AI datacentres are mostly nuclear, including investing in small modular reactors.
I'm all for that, as long as they don't externalise all the negatives to governments and leave them (us) holding the bag of deadly waste when the bubble bursts.
That sounds too negative. I am genuinely pro-nuclear energy and look forward to the research, just, I don't trust billionaires.
"LINX125: AI Mega Data Centers – Power From…

I ran a poll asking programmers in the Fediverse what age bracket do they belong to.
https://mastodon.social/@rperezrosario/115234900863397017
The poll had 4,839 self-professed computer programmer voters, and received 936 boosts.
Summary:
10-20 years o…

I am trying to print a spool winder at the moment. To be honest I do this for the last days already.
(Hope I did the simple present and present progressive right on this one, so my english teacher can be proud. ;-))
Various printing failures are driving me crazy. I just want a tool to transfer the wood filament from the large spool to a small one. It can't be that difficult.
So todays hashtag is

I am not a "tech critic". I am an antifascist, a feminist, an anticapitalist, an engineer. My criticism of tech flows from my politics and values. Not from a desire to save or destroy tech. Tech is an expression of power and that's what the whole conversation is about.

:blobcatcool:

The more I delve into my research on #ArtsPedagogy and creativity, the more I am convinced of the accuracy of the quote in the screenshot here: in order to understand creativity, we have to realize it’s first and foremost a process. The so-called standard definition of creativity relies on judging it by whether or not the output / result is novel, valuable, and (according to Margaret Boden)…

Angela Miller (@Alternatecelt@mastodon.scot)
Attached: 1 image Spotted on Facebook, originally from Bluesky. #ai #genai #neuroscience #creativity

I am looking for ways to automatically cut songs which are played back to back or faded into individual song - e.g. from radio streaming.
I imagine this is quite easily solvable with machine learning or even simpler. Do you know such a piece of software?
#AskFedi @…

"a single braking event of a small car can dissipate over 0.12 kWh worth of energy"
i am begging people to use joules
[excerpt from a video about engineering of brakes]

HBO is the perfect match for It: Welcome to Derry. The good news is I am not dead inside - two or three jump scares got me good 😀 I love the sixties setting.
#ItWelcometoDerry #TV

I think that I am going to let my EAA membership lapse next year. I'm not going to be able to afford to go to AirVenture, and I definitely can't afford a license, yet.

I am surprised Steam doesn’t exist on iPad..
But maybe I am ignorant about how Steam works?
#steam

One of those weeks where i am pulling my hair out. Doing a migration, 2 sites into one, 3 languages in each and I'm sorting out the redirects. Not all the content appears to have been migrated to the development site and quite a lot has been migrated into the wrong language silo! Oh and I just discovered someone is still making content changes so the redirects I have already worked out might now be wrong in some cases. Launches tomorrow…

A cafe at Heather and Broadway in #Vancouver refused to serve me because I only wanted a cappuccino not a meal. I cannot recommend them

Amazing elections in the Netherlands (I am a member of the D66 party).
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/29/exit-poll-suggests-progressive-d66-party-will-become-largest-in-dutch-parliament
…

When I see “accessible by default” I am broadly wary:
https://cdpn.io/jh3y/debug/JoGpOGV
I found a WCAG violation in about four seconds (2.4.7). Never mind aria-hiding those up/down arrows (who doesn’t like to mess with sighted SR users?).
Anyway “accessible by default” from CSS influencers…

My semi-regular rant...
I have auto-play video turned off. Stop with the F*****G games with HTML5 and scripts to get around that. I have nuked sites that don't respect my wishes there. If I am interested in watching I will click play.
Stop doing those popups saying I have an ad blocker and you won't show your site unless I turn it off.
1. How do you know I am running a blocker unless you are running intrusive scripts?
2. F OFF I will ignore you and go e…

New Gist: No Contest
"There are, perhaps, alternative worlds where lots of things are different. Fianna Fšil maybe decide to run an MEP instead of a MIA. Or one where a fleet of no-hopers got nominated and we spent the whole campaign having to listen to the media asking candidates their opinions on the Latin mass and if cocaine bloat is a positive feature in a President. "
Also, I explain exactly what kind of idiot I have recently been.

Good Morning at this #silentsunday .
Don't have a lot to say right now. I just fixed some configuration and am now back to my coffee ;)
Enjoy your day friends.
#photography #fog

I am being a bit cheeky, but I really do think this is a powerful psychological force that shapes orgs far more than we realize: it can be emotionally damaging to have people tell you “no” or question your ideas, and leadership means getting that •all the time•. People in management / executive positions — who are in fact very much people, all too human — will go to great lengths to protect their own psyches from the injury of pushback.
This is a •powerful• force in orgs.
7/

I am not sure what day it is. But I haven't had any cheese. Maybe if I were full of cheese I wouldn't care so much about not knowing what day it is.

English illogicalities. I'm sure there's a good reason for this.
She is, isn't she?
You are, aren't you?
They are, aren't they?
We are, aren't we?
But NOT
I am, amn't I?

An update to my work-from-a-coffee-shop experiment.
I finally got out to a coffee shop with my iPad and Magic Keyboard, and am using this time to respond to emails.
The coffee shop seemed very happy with me buying a coffee and sitting here without restriction. So, that’s what I am doing.
Although they have free Wi-fi here, I am tethering to my phone… feels safer, although I guess I could VPN 🤔
I’m also meeting @… here for lunch, so that will be nice.
Best of all, I can access my NAS remotely, so I have everything I need 😅
#WFH #NotWFH #CoffeeShop

other day my lil brother pissed on the floor and while cleaning it i went "iii seeee PEE pee pee pee, pee pee pee" to myself to the cadence of death grips i see footage. i am normal and trustworthy

🤢
https://mastodon.social/@robertrichard/115620412222490436

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@hewer_of_code/115793069684691845
The damage done to the US, and the world, by Trump and his fascist friends is already permanent. I am not surprised by this, though I am saddened.
This level of betrayal borders on treason.

So Intel have added a so-called On-Die Certifying Authority (ODCA) with ME gen 3 version 15 based platforms.
That is also explained in the recent CSME whitepaper.
I figured that the FTPR CPD manifest contains a new extension now for certificate revocation, including a URL to CRL data.
That extension's data itself is encoded as ASN.1 DER, so I need yet another parser. Uh-oh... which one should I choose, does anyone have recent experiences to share? 🙃
I am checking t…

This morning, the #MetaphorsOfReligion conference starts with the panel on “Digital and Computational Approaches to Metaphor Analysis,” including our own presentation “Religious Metaphors at Scale.” I am looking forward to the discussion!

yo! listen up!
I am HERE for:
🧀 cheese
🏛️ democracy
🎨 art, animations, #pixelart, #b3d
📷 photography
🎸 tasty solos
🤓 nerdery

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Mary J. Blige:
🎵 Here I Am
#MaryJBlige
https://open.spotify.com/track/58nqNYaLO43UQ6BIZPWVpE

I've finally had the mental space over the holidays to make the switch to #niri off of #sway and I am already very happy with it. For one thing it seems Xwayland with scaling isn't broken anymore (of course the sway authors say it isn't broken, I'm just holding it wrong).

Am I supposed to feel sympathy when someone keeps all their data on a single platform's "free" services & then loses access arbitrarily and has no access to "their" data?
I can certainly join them in anger again the #platform but, there really needs to be more awareness of the risks of becoming so dependent on companies and the need to keep control of your

Any #FreeBSD sysadmins out there running #Bastille jails with multiple interfaces?
Or any sort of jail with multiple interfaces?
I was going to try out Bastille rather than old-fashioned manual "Thick" jail like the ones I’ve set up before because I've never done multiple interfac…

Documentation and/or implementation of 'network' subcommand unclear. · Issue #1440 · BastilleBSD/bastille
I am attempting to create a jail acting as a specialized proxy with access to multiple host vlan interfaces. The existing host config is: cloned_interfaces="lagg0 vlan0 vlan1 vlan2 lo1" ifconfig_la...

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115617435887937039
Given the current direction of the EU, I am planning to delete more of my social media accounts and significantly increase my non-account activity over Tor.
I am shifting a large porti…

#Shitposting #Shitpost

While I love Man on the Inside I am sad a show about Private Investigators doesn't spend any time shitting on corrupt police work.
#tv

#CFP: I AM HERE TO FIGHT! An Anthology on the Struggle for Public Education
https://ift.tt/AgMtRGN
I Am Here to Fight!
via Input 4 RELCFP

#CFP: I AM HERE TO FIGHT! An Anthology on the Struggle for Public Education
I Am Here to Fight!

Partly bright and sunny, but fully cold and with generous amounts of wind. “Brisk” doesn’t even begin to do it justice. Still, I am a freak and love this weather. It felt good to be out moving. #TeamShorts of course.
Walked briefly twice to bring my HR down a bit and then stopped to mug at this beautiful Great Blue Heron looking for their lunch. 🐟

Why am I smelling #DNS again :mortysmile:

:oleander_hawkmoth:
i am very unreliable. it is my curse. i say fuck the reliable. i am so unreliable i can't even be relied on to be unreliable 🌊
#randomcrap

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalMixtape
Arthur Sullivan, Sylvia McNair, Neville Marriner & Academy of St Martin in the Fields:
🎵 Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard / Act 1 - "'Tis done! I am a bride!"
https://open.spotify.com/track/3YtBDcX20HmYZu6QMWcbyd

Decided to wear my Skmei watch today as my main Casio I have the band off at the moment. Story of that is I got a new band that is a two part nato strap only for it to not fit on my Casio. Its a bummer but I am thinking to get a one part nato instead that would fit.
If anyone has any recommendations on nato straps that are good that would be helpful.
#WristCheck

When I updated my GMail app on my phone, I was informed that I am now the proud owner of Google Gemini. How can I rid myself of this? ( I need the Gmail account - TL/DR)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Boss Martians:
🎵 I Am Your Radio
#TheBossMartians
https://thebossmartians.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-your-radio
https://open.spotify.com/track/2brjppn4Qwor8ki5rr8b6E

I started reading Manga.
At the moment I'm reading two.
1.Atom: The beginning
2. Hirayasumi
Atom is fine but i think its to futuristic for me or maybe to realistic with all the AI and robotics. But Hirayasumi is so nice and cozy to read, maybe i am more a fan of slice of life kind of Manga. So i might pass on Atom and read goodnight PUNPUN after i finished the Hirayasumi.
#manga

Starting to set up the framing of the north wall of the new workshop. Two interesting problems here:
1. Am I going to want a large door in this wall? I think I can't have one, because I want either the east or the west wall to be removable to allow more light and space in summer; but I really need to think about this!
2. The shape of the foundation is very squint. Consequently, although the north and south walls will be parallel, the east and west won't. I have some int…

Am having a lot of ath11k stability issues under kernel 6.18.x. Failure to power up, failure to resume, randomly falling away in use. Thankfully, I have my golden 6.14.11 kernel still installed to fall back on!

In a dream last night I was trying to write a post. I kept being interrupted and when I returned I'd find what I wrote had changed. The keyboard kept changing as I was typing to be "helpful." I put down my phone and picked it up again to find the app had "helpfully" filled my screen with Nazi shit. Then I realized the app was an AI post assistant, so I uninstalled it and used the website.
The post I was trying to write was, "I want to be able to have the confidentiality of cheap hot dog meat in the 90's: no one should know who or what I actually am."
It feels like a relevant manifestation of the anxiety of existing on the internet today.

The strangest Xmas present I ever got was a full on drum kit when I was 5. Can’t imagine what my parents were thinking on that one. As I recall it didn’t last long. I am not blessed with any sense of rhythm.

A few thoughts about my localization experience for #mozilla and #Thunderbird
https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2025/…

Worth a follow and support. One of the handful of folks I followed over here from the old place. Fresh insight is in exceedingly short supply these days. @… https://mastodon.so…

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.
@…

Heute vor 70 Jahren: Am 29. November 1955 kam es im #Versuchsreaktor EBR-I in Arco, Idaho zu einer teilweisen #Kernschmelze während eines Tests zur Kühlmittelflussänderung. Ursache war die thermische Ausdehnung der Brennstäbe.

On The Green Light Signal and Beyond (2021) - Learn how I am trying a smart lighting nudge @home to use 'leccy at grid-friendly times. #IoT #CO2Intensity -

On The Green Light Signal and Beyond (2021)
Learn how I am trying a smart lighting nudge @home to use leccy at grid-friendly times. #IoT #CO2Intensity

Sonnet 088 - LXXXVIII
When thou shalt be dispos'd to set me light,
And place my merit in the eye of scorn,
Upon thy side, against myself I'll fight,
And prove thee virtuous, though thou art forsworn.
With mine own weakness being best acquainted,
Upon thy part I can set down a story
Of faults concealed, wherein I am attainted;
That thou in losing me shalt win much glory:
And I by this will be a gainer too;
For bending all my …

For the last few weeks we have been (repeatedly) checking out a newly found pizza near our house.
Bookie’s Pizza in Santa Cruz.
It's really good!!! (But next time I get the BBQ chicken pizza I'll have 'em elide the cilantro - I am not a fan of cilantro.) Tonight I had the sausage pizza - that the the BBQ chicken (sans cilantro) are my favorites so far.

"I’m Naomi Alderman, I co-created Zombies, Run! with Six to Start and I’ve been lead writer since the first episode. I am incredibly delighted to be taking ownership of the game. This isn’t a big corporate takeover, it’s me buying back the game I made and love so I can look after it. Every Runner Five means so much to me, and I want to make sure the game continues to be a welcoming home for all of you for… well, I hope, forever. Forever is the plan."

@… @… I am in the cave, too. I use Evolution, but only because I like the interface more than Tbird, not because it's great.

Another great panel (I am often down on panels). Catherine Tait from @newpublic.org very much saying traditional media & public broadcasters “are over”.
I think bringing a static website to a network battle doesn’t work. People don’t “live” on public broadcaster websites. https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post

Tangent: I am negatively impressed by the acrimonious entitlement displayed in that thread. I don’t know if it is X or that game in particular that has such a wealth of assholes. @… https://

my Lyft to the pub is booked for 5:40am
why am I doing this to myself
it's partly morbid curiosity about who else is hardcore enough to be there for the 6am kickoff lol

From The Georgia Straight
"The Park Theatre is closing and maybe I shouldn’t be taking it as hard as I am
"It’s unknown what will happen to the physical space the Park is set to depart. Figuratively, it will undoubtedly leave a massive hole in the city’s cultural fabric. It’s also a huge loss for Cambie Village.
"The Park’s final day of operation will be October 26. I plan to stop by there before then to smell the popcorn."

The Park Theatre is closing and maybe I shouldn’t be taking it as hard as I am
The Cambie movie theatre is being shuttered by its corporate overlord, Cineplex.

Oh, I am crushed.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/acclaimed-british-playwright-tom-stoppard-dies-at-88

Acclaimed British playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88
British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love” has died. He was 88.

Am I right to call out these weirdos who are collecting lists of women? I dunno. It just creeps me out.

Designed a new t-shirt. You should get one and go running wearing it*.
https://davidaugust.threadless.com/designs/i-am-a-bomb-technician-if-you-see-me-running-try-to-catch-…

I am wondering if El Cheato is sending a tesla cybertruck filled with paper towels to Jamaica?

I posted this video about how nice Books Upstairs is and I am sorry to say that I have received *Domestic Mockery* for my voiceover.
My children opine that I sound like I am doing an ASMR video. They are asking when I will start tapping on the books’ spines.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNR2mc2kG/

I'm so bad at remembering what TV I am currently watching I built my own site with a perfect view in to what I am currently watching.
#tv

Nextdoor:
"I'm having an operation in January which will take 2-3 months to recover from & I have just found out that my German Shepherd girl is pregnant (due late December).
I'm looking for someone who can look after her & also the puppies when they are born until the end of February when I have recovered.
I am happy to offer either a puppy or £1000 to cover food and lodging."
That's how you get your dog, her puppies & your money all…

Heute vor 25 Jahren: Am 28. Dezember 2000 wurde in einer Schrottrecyclinganlage in Griechenland eine Quelle mit dem radioaktiven Isotop Cäsium-137 entdeckt. Die Aktivität betrug ca. 40mCi. Die griechische Atomenergiekommission (GAEC) wurde daraufhin hinzugezogen.

2/2 Reflection on #citizenship:
I do not treat the concept of “#democracy" lightly. I was born into the aftermath of centuries of totalitarian oppression that ended suddenly, leaving the nascent Ukrainian state of the late 90s and early 2000s floundering in the turbulent whirlpool of hopes and fears felt by millions of people who were finally allowed to ponder: how to build a free democratic state in the place of Soviet and imperial ruins?
I was taught the words "democracy", "citizen", "freedom", "voting", “liberty" (and more) by people who, less than two decades prior, weren't allowed to leave the borders of their country. I was told about self-determination by people whose political choices were ridiculed, punished, and eviscerated form most of their lives. The duty of governing ourselves felt to us ephemeral - a nice fantasy, akin to a fairytale or a utopia from fictional works.
And then I saw those same people fight with their bodies and souls once the previously unfathomable democracy was threatened. Protests in 2004, then again in 2014, then the unthinkable war against foreign invasion in 2022. Democracy no longer felt abstract or silly. It became as tangible as saying "I love you".
I write of Ukraine as I reflect on becoming a citizen of another country because the history and values of my adopted United States feel as real as the skin on my legs, the significance of its legacy lays as heavy as the weight of my waist-long hair, and the desire to uphold the freedoms of its Constitution burns my throat as harshly as dehydration after a long day in the sun.
People have asked me why I even want to join this country, when the present moment is shrouded in impenetrable darkness. And I answer: because I've felt the warmth of a newly lit fire of freedom breaking through shadows that for centuries looked like solid walls. I have seen kindness, and solidarity heal the fear and hate of oppression. I've seen liberty emerge from nothing but the human soul.
I am not a religious person, but I have faith. Faith in the ideals at the foundation of the American project. Faint but powerful recognition that "we the people" now includes me.
I love #America. And I hope to keep loving my home for the rest of my life.

yeah so the power company took the money they said they were gonna and I don't get paid til Friday so id super duper appreciate some help not getting hit with infinite overdraft fees!!! tank u!!!
venmo: @ianthe
paypal/zelle: ephydriad@gmail.com
#mutualaid

For the past week or so I’ve been following @… posts about the events at this years “Ashes” cricket series.
I am enjoying being quite mystified by the terminology. I know very little about the game beyond it being a distant relative of baseball with a much harder ball and wickets with little baubles on top instead of a strike zone judged by an umpire. I have concluded that …

"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."
—Morgan Freeman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Heute vor 67 Jahren: Am 29. Oktober 1958 führte die USA mit "Mazama" den 32. Atomtest der Operation Hardtack II, eine Serie von 37 #Atomtests auf der #Nevada Test Site, NTS, durch. Von Ballontests bis zu unterirdischen Explosionen wurden verschiedene Methoden erprobt.

I’ve worked over the past year to reduce the amount of noise in my consciousness on a daily basis.
By that I mean - information noise, not literal sounds “noise”. (That problem was solved long ago by some good earplugs and noise canceling earphones.)
I’ve gotten used to spending less time on social media, regularly blocking most apps on my devices (anything with a feed news, most work communication apps, etc.), putting my phone and other devices aside for extended periods of time. Often go to work places with my iPad explicitly having its WiFi turned off and selecting cafes that don’t offer WiFi at all.
Negotiated better boundaries at work and in personal life where I exchange messages with people less often but try to make those interactions more meaningful, and people rarely expect me to respond to requests in less than 24 hours. Spent a lot of time setting up custom notification settings on all apps that would allow it, so I get fewer pings. With software, choosing fewer cloud-based options and using tools that are simple and require as few interruptions as possible.
Accustomed myself to lower-tech versions of doing things I like to do: reading on paper, writing by hand, drawing in physical sketchbooks, got a typewriter for typing without a screen. Choosing to call people on audio more, trying to make more of an effort to see people in person. Going to museums to look at art instead of browsing Pinterest. Defaulting to the library when looking for information.
I’m commenting on this now for two reasons:
1. I am pretty proud of myself for how much I’ve actually managed to reduce the constant stream of modern life esp. as a remote worker in tech!
2. Now that I’ve reached a breaking point of reducing enough noise that it’s NOTICEABLE - I am struck by the silence. I don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know how to navigate it and fill it. I made this space to be able to read and write and think more deeply - for now I feel stuck in limbo where I’m just reacquainting myself with the concept of having any space in my mind at all.

Apple makes it unnecessarily hard to set up a new Mac with a case-sensitive filesystem. They COULD just make it a setup option. The boot partition is always CI, but to get the data partition switched they force a full reset, reactivate, and reinstall FROM THE NETWORK. 15.5GB of download just because I am finicky. Then the install. Hours, when it could have been a checkbox and a few seconds
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