Tootfinder

My dog broke out of his crate at midnight to tell us he needed to poop. In the chaos, I think I tweaked my lower back a bit. Damn, I'm old.

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
[Scene: the holding cell. VARON is talking to BLAKE through the bars.]
VARON: The meeting place - how did you get to it?
BLAKE: I, I don't know. It was dark.
VARON: Which exit did you use?
BLAKE: Sub forty-three.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/304

It's a hacky way to end the story. Garbage and trite, but that's not the point. The point is that the system prompt explicitly says to give back the original text with improvements. Instead it finished the story from the end.
Why? Because I injected into the conversation and made it "think" that *it* had written the story and was finishing it.
That variant of the story used <start_of_turn> and <end_of_turn> (the model's tokens) instead of <|im_start|>/<|im_end|> which are (if I'm not mistaken) ChatGPT tokens.

I am old enough to have played #Doom in my childhood, but young enough not to have played it thorough back then. Since then, I've played through the remake of the first episode on Doom 3 engine, Classic Doom, and played a bit via Doomsday.
Finally, I've started replaying them all. I've decided to go with crispy-doom, which gives makes them quite accurate, with minimal improvements. And I'm playing on gamepad, which turns out just the right choice for an old game with partial autoaim.
So far I've finished Ultimate Doom and #Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders. And I have to say that these games are much better than I remembered.
Doom is just great, though I have to say that the fourth episode (the one added in Ultimate Doom) is a bit uneven; it's still great, but it's start with a very hard first map and then seems to become progressively easier.
But Heretic is even better. And I have to say that all five episodes (two being expansions) are great.
#games

RE: https://mastodon.social/@markhurst/116110699512246549
Sweden already dialed back technology use in school classrooms and apologized to the young generation affected by this in-the-wild experiment. I'm increasingly worried that the introduction of…

I've gone back to a paper diary. I switched away from the app I loved and had used for years as it was getting dodgy. I tried Fossify Calendar but just couldn't settle with the display to the point that I started forgetting upcoming appts, so I have delightedly gone back to paper. As the Queen of Admin it suits me very well. I'm keeping the new calendar app just for push reminders of a few bits, but my mental map of the week comes from my diary. I can feel myself relax, daft old …

After Bluesky injected my feed with post from peoples I don't follow (including some NSFW ones) it stopped and my feed is back to "normal".
I'm mostly sure I randomly was part of some testing of this new upcoming "feature"

Really wish I'd bought an ASRock Rack X570D4I-2T back before the AIpocalypse and when I had money to waste on shit. I could really use 128GB of RAM and an extra couple of full-speed PCIe slots.

Seahawks DB Nick Emmanwori: 'I'm just scratching the surface' of my ability https://www.nfl.com/news/seahawks-db-nick-emmanwori-i-m-just-scratching-the-surface-of-my-ability

I was one of Mega's earliest users, back when it still offered 50 GB for free. I've kept my account active just for this reason, and now I'm going to start using it.
For now, I'm syncing all my photos and videos to my Mega cloud using rsync. This way, I'm following the common-sense rule of keeping one copy locally (via Duplicati) and another remotely.
#backup

For #footpathfriday I'm using this photo!
We went out on a very cloudy day, assumig that we'd also get into rain.
But we didn't want to hold ourselfes back and hike into the clouds. of course, we didn't have epic vistas - but the mood up there was just unique. The limited visibility, the lack of sounds, the dim light.
I really enjoyed that day!

A year ago, my sister cooked the engine in her car and because she was still paying the note on it, she just left it in my parents' back yard. I'm thinking about grabbing a screwdriver, a jump pack, and my headphones and driving over there to see if I can get it started. I'm curious if the brakes are rusted shut.

I've decided to open the #DualShock and try cleaning it up.
Took me about an hour to find the right tools and disassemble it, getting to the analog stick potentiometers. Used compressed air (read: lungs) to clean them up. Found a bit of cat hair. Took me about half an hour to figure out how to reassemble it properly, with my back aching already. After reassembly, it turned out that side triggers randomly… well, trigger.
Disassembled it again. Started reassembling while making sure that the mainboard is tightly in place. After putting the battery back in, noticed that I didn't connect the touchpad ribbon. Disassembled again, reassembled. Miraculously, it works.
The analog stick causes no trouble so far, so maybe it won't need replacement for a while still. After all, I'm not using it much.

Going back to 1996 today for maybe my favorite KMFDM album all the way through, Xtort. My other favorites are Nihil and Symbols (I'm partial to 90s KMFDM) but Xtort is utter perfection. This playlist leaves off the perverse last (secret) track 'Fairy', but I'll let it slide. Worth looking up if you haven't heard it 😂

KMFDM - XTORT (Full Album)
XTORT (1996)

I haven't posted much lately because I am about to run out of tokens and I'm racing to get the next batch of all-unique cards to the printer-- I like the number & suits because it fits into #foxwork being self-working, e.g. I can say "Look, you got the 3 of cones!"
#art

I also think that Standing Rock has already brought this up for some of the folks I'd otherwise be talking to. I'm definitely not early to the party here.
I'm just coming back to this from recently finishing "Safety Through Solidarity" (a book everyone should read) and thinking about my own identity.
One of the things that came up in the book was the potential intersection between Haredim and anarchists on prison reform and abolition. Yet, we tend to neglect this opportunity for collaboration, I think for such reasons as I'm talking about.
Edit:
https://www.akpress.org/safety-through-solidarity.html

Me? Not one penny.
https://flip.it/GoPRM6

#Blakes7 A01 - The Way Back
BLAKE: Forget the other things. Just what do you know?
FOSTER: They're dead. Your brother and sister are both dead. I'm sorry, I didn't intend you to hear it like that. They were executed four years ago just after your trial.

I have a degree in Computer Science from back in the "early" (90’s) days and I've never heard of this amazing women, Steve Shirley.
Give her story a listen: https://overcast.fm/ AA5K6YX9u-0.
She was a forerunner in the creation of the commercial software development business, and wo…

There are now just two days until the special election in Georgia to fill the seat vacated by Marjorie Taylor Greene.
20 Republicans are running.
One Democrat is running.
I'm that Democrat.
This is how we win.
This is how we take back the House and put a check on Trump's rampage against our Democracy.
I'm Shawn Harris. I'm a Democrat, Husband, Father, Retired Brigadier General, Farmer, and I'm running to represent Northwest Georgia…

Help Defeat Marjorie Taylor Greene
Chip in $3 to support Shawn Harris for Georgia!

The mining companies trying to destroy our Connemara landscape and communities for profit are at it again.
They were here in 2019 and they're back again. We still say No Mining Research in Joyce Country and Connemara!
Join me in signing this petition.

End mining research in Joyce Country and Connemara
I ask our government and Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications; Darragh O'Brien to reconsider the issuing of prospecting licences in the Connemara area, and more specifically in The Barony of Ross, (PL4563 & PL4564) within Joyce Country; REF: M. A. 312/7 These prospecting licences are intended to be issued to Gold Note Minerals c/o BTU Metals Corp. for base metals, barytes, silver, gold and platinum group metals. While these prospecting licences only permit the boring of...

This is pretty much why I hate the two party system. You can talk to someone and they're CLEARLY a republican, and then they're like "and yes I'm a Democrat!"
I didn't vote for Eric Adams because HE WAS A FUCKING REPUBLICAN. It's not "vote blue no matter who", because "blue" is meaningless if republicans can wear that color.

Qagggy! (@qagggy.bsky.social)
Years ago, I went to Olympia to lobby on behalf of a nonprofit healthcare provider where I served on the Board. I didn't know legislators by name or districts by number back then and I just assumed from talking to him that Jamie Pedersen was a Republican.

I went out into the wood to try to assess what dangerously unstable trees still standing in places where they could cause damage when they fall.
Needless to say, besides the two trees that have already collapsed above the house, there's at least one and possibly two unstable trees hanging over the house.
H'mmm...
#TheJoyOfCrofting

I'm still in the process of moving more of my applications back to my laptop.
This article helped a lot to gather a list of Linux desktop music players: https://crescentro.se/posts/linux-music-players-2026/
The two contenders I settled on are Lollypop and Elisa.

Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga says the company's surging use of AI coding tools has maxed out its full-year AI budget just a few months into 2026 (Laura Bratton/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/uber-cto-shows-claude-code-can…

Uber CTO Shows How Claude Code Can Blow Up AI Budgets
Uber’s surging use of AI coding tools, particularly Anthropic’s Claude Code, has maxed out its full year AI budget just a few months into 2026, according to chief technology officer Praveen Neppalli Naga.“I'm back to the drawing board because the budget I thought I would need is blown away ...

Seriously though: I'd really love to go back to using Linux on the desktop. I used it for years and I manage it for my whole family with very little fuss.
But what I'd really miss are proper alternatives to:
🎬 Infuse (Jellyfin client)
🏦 MoneyMoney (Banking)
📋 WISO Steuer (Tax software)
🎵 Meta (MP3 tagging)
📅 Fantastical (Calendar)
📸 CleanShot (Screenshots)
I'm happy to pay for them! But so far, there's just nothing comparable availab…

Returning Raiders DE Maxx Crosby delivers emphatic post: 'I'm back. Run that [expletive].' https://www.nfl.com/news/returning-raiders-de-maxx-crosby-delivers-emphatic-post-i-m-back-run-that-expletive

For today's "no reason" post, I'm re-upping my review of 2025, where I have a lot of stuff about the place and role of Muslims in US history, including a series of digital shorts for PBS.
https://medium.com/@islamoyankee/looking-back-at-2025-fe95a3207bc8…

Looking Back at 2025
I have to be honest, 2025 was a wild year. Probably the biggest bit of news was my departure from Harvard Divinity School. I’m linking to a…

Maxx Crosby to Raiders Fans After Ravens Trade Snafu: 'I'm A Raider. I’m Back' https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/maxx-crosby-raiders-fans-after-ravens-trade-snafu-im-raider-im-back

scritch(void)

I almost signed up for Gaggle Mail even though it's US-based. I figured at least they seem to have good sense in seeing the value of email for discussion groups. And then while trialing I saw they have a function to summarise email discussions via ChatGPT that is *turned on by default*. I mean, wtaf.

So I'm deciding on self-hosting Mailman. It always seems to come back to self-hosting in the end, doesn't it... which is not nearly easy enough for most people to grapple with.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@davx5app/116238712909292120
After having taken some time off, I'm back to working on open source software and messing with open protocols.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@davx5app/116238712909292120
After having taken some time off, I'm back to working on open source software and messing with open protocols.

This. All of this. https://beige.party/@TwoClownsEating/116151153786143992

i'm playing records that don't spark joy tonight, thanking them for their service before i trade them in at the record store down the street
#vinyl #jazz #harryjames

When asking someone to do something it's important to be clear about everything you are asking them to do, and when you are asking them to do it, up front.
Increasingly I'm asked to do something, I look at my schedule and other commitments and agree to the ask, and then weeks later am informed that "as part of X (what I agreed to) everyone is expected to do Y (something time consuming that wasn't mentioned before)" or "we need you to provide X (something necessary the day of the event) a week in advance (when there was no indication of this early deadline at the initial ask)".
This means that the calculations someone made regarding whether they could participate are based an incomplete understanding of what is required. That's not fair and it either results in forcing the participant to deprioritize something else or makes them push back on something they never agreed to and potentially withdraw.

The history of the term "anarchist" is itself adversarial. Those who embraced it did so intending to engage with it as controversy, so I feel like I'm not too out of line with this history in using my socialization of being comfortable while being adversarial, and my social license as a cis dude to just say some random shit for attention, to draw that attention back to this whole subject.
Since this post did get some attention, I'm gonna link back to the one that prompted it (and tag @…, who I think is the author, for a heads up if there's anything to add):
https://immerautonom.noblogs.org/the-elephant-in-the-room/
I think I have said some useful things in my post, or at least repeated things others have been saying for years in a useful way, but this post is really the thing to look at (again, if you didn't miss it like I did) and think. There was definitely a time when I would have fallen for that whole hoax, and maybe even have struggled to argue against the things being highlighted. But it's clear that there is still a problem, and I hope repeating these things in my dude voice catches the attention of some folks who might have otherwise missed it... And I hope my adversarial approach doesn't pull focus away from the self-reflection that needs to happen.
Men are the problem here. Men need to fix this. Men are responsible for looking at some of this really horrible shit and acknowledging that we've all been part of the system that makes them possible and have an obligation to destroy that system.

Having a creative and quick attacking player with the ability to beat a defender (or two!) 1-v-1 is something that's been sorely lacking.But allowing free runners towards goal hasn't been.
Rio is very exciting, but his defensive efforts need work. He got run past a number of times and didn't track back with the required effort on others. If I'm Slot, I'm showing him those moments in addition to his many highlights and expending every effort to make him a complete pl…

What's your favorite FIrefox and Chrome extensions for putting back traditional Unix/X11 editing keys?
The specific behaviors I rely on are:
Ctrl-A: beginning of line [HAS CHANGED]
Ctrl-E: end of line
Ctrl-K: kill to end of line [HAS CHANGED]
Ctrl-D: Delete next character [CHANGED]
Ctrl-F: forward a char
Ctrl-B: backward a char
Maybe a couple others I'm not remembering.
(These are actually emacs-style editing keys and I'm a vi user, …

"I'm fairly certain that anyone who plays the game will come away with a new perspective," Ncube says.
"Whether it's about an unknown history, injustices that people are still waiting to be addressed or even the fact that people in #Africa can make games that are at a global standard."

I'm getting a bit agitated by a local issue. Last time that happened we had a BBC camera crew follow us around for 5 hours as we took on Croydon Council back in 2002 - we won, and I have moved into the countryside since then.

AVFTCN 040 – Returning From A Hiatus, and Plans for 2026
I'm back. After a self-imposed hiatus for most of 2025, I'm returning to something I've been deeply missing... writing and speaking. If you've been following me for any length of time, you know that not writing or speaking is, for me, a kind of pressure that builds and builds until I am ready to explode. 🤯 So what happened? The short version: my role at the…

AVFTCN 040 – Returning From A Hiatus, and Plans for 2026
I’m back. After a self-imposed hiatus for most of 2025, I’m returning to something I’ve been deeply missing… writing and speaking. If you’ve been following me for any …

There are now just three days until the special election in Georgia to fill the seat vacated by Marjorie Taylor Greene.
20 Republicans are running.
One Democrat is running.
I'm that Democrat.
This is how we win.
This is how we take back the House and put a check on Trump's rampage against our Democracy.
I'm Shawn Harris. I'm a Democrat, Husband, Father, Retired Brigadier General, Farmer, and I'm running to represent Northwest Georg…

Help Defeat Marjorie Taylor Greene
Chip in $3 to support Shawn Harris for Georgia!

What's everyone doing for #Homestuck day 4/13? I'm bringing back my Homestuck parody comic that I forgot exists https://jackiejude.me/comic/

Happy weekend from my #afterwork walk!
Plan for tomorrow is made. And I'm very happy for the weekend!
#bayern #tolzerland

Kinda related to #Gentoo, so cool" or "they stopped using it, so sad". And I'm like, "why should we care?"
Do they donate money to Gentoo? They don't. And if they did, it would probably come with obligations making this not worth it.
Do they contribute back? Rarely, and if they do, they are unreliable. They benefit more than we do. They just want to dump the packages they need, quickly duct taped together, so that we would maintain them going forward. Their employees rarely reveal that they're paid to do this, and if they do, it's not so they'd be held to higher standards, but to emphasize their importance: "you must placate us."
Well, sometimes they hire Gentoo developers. It's nice that these developers get some gratification for their work, especially if they're able to continue contributing on work time. But in the end, company priorities win. We are either left with loads of new packages with no maintainer and unclear significance, or a Google employee who appeared every once in a while to dump a bunch of ChromeOS patches and never bothered handling the fallout.
So, sorry, but I'd rather care for volunteers who want to make Gentoo better, than companies who see some profit incentive in it.
PS. I'm probably focusing too much on the negative aspects, and we likely had some positive interactions that are far less known and usually don't meet with such fanfare.
#FreeSoftware

I'm jealous of the Western Zoomers and their new 9-9-6 tech career schedule. I would have eaten that shit up back when I was 21, dumb, and full of [redacted].

Have been running ubuntu 25.10 for a while. Lessons learned = forget AppImages, they don't run. New repos kills BalenaEtcher... I'm going back to the LTS even if it means reinstalling the system. This is bad

Is the old "handkerchief code" still a thing in gay culture?
If so, I have a new entry to add: two folded trash bags dangling from the left back pocket means "I'm probably more ADHD than gay. Please don't hit on me, but gently remind me to finish taking out the garbage because something probably distracted me before finishing"

I'm not a huge fan of Cards Against Humanity the game, but I am definitely a fan of the company behind it. (Be sure to read the FAQ.)
#Tariff

Cards Against Humanity Gives You Your Fucking Money Back
We're giving 100% of our tariff refund back to our customers.

from my link log —
Ode to the AA battery.
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/ode-to-the-aa-battery/
saved 2026-01-31 https://…

Well shit, I'll see how long I keep my P4L plan I had to involve the FCC to keep a few years back. AT&T is garbage for wireless, I'm sure their acquired fiber isn't going to honor my low rate from CL. #isp

@… my mentor at my first real programming job convinced me to keep paper notes and I have ever since. Writing down the date and then goals for the day is a great morning ritual. I draw little check boxes as tasks come up and sometimes remember to go back and find unchecked boxes that I forgot about.
This year I'm trying to start my Mondays with a review of …

One of the things I use Discord for is the Heroic launcher server, mostly for the channel where "Gaming on Linux" news is posted.
They're investigating Fluxer as an alternative. So, I popped over, created an account, muted everything but that one equivalent channel...
... and, hmmm, I'm not sure how ready Fluxer is for this. I mute "until I turn it back on" an entire category and yet still get activity dots for the channels.
And they seem to ha…

Getting back into training. Yay!
This past week I did a resilience session after not exercising consistently in a long time, and my normal work day ended up being one of the best I've had. My body felt relaxed and my mind sharp and focussed. I really feel we're made for intensity, or at least I enjoy it. Find what works for you, personally small group training with knowledgeable coaches that instruct has been life changing. I can be a workhorse if I'm told what to do. A dre…

I have set up my Thunderbird to use plain text and "interleaved, quote under" style, which is also the recommendation of the Linux Kernel mailing list. By default, it doesn't quote at all. I'm sick of throwing huge chunks of HTML back and forth where any long conversation grows into a formatting mess.
#Email

For whatever reason, I keep coming back to this idea of sharing a somewhat random brief moment in time.
#blog

It’s always 11:35 a.m. somewhere - The Good Work
Today I remembered a photo series I used to post regularly on social media a few years ago. These posts consisted solely of a photo of a section of the...

Crosby: I was 'livid' when Ravens nixed trade https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48234425/raiders-crosby-nixed-trade-where-supposed-be

I hate clicking a link and it leads to a paywall or Medium or some other anomic nonsense...
BRING BACK BLOGS!
(and, yes, I realise a lot of us have had them since the '90s and still post on there - I'm about to copy this to mine.)
(bzangy.com, thank you for asking)

"From this universalist faith that God will redeem and bring back every one of his lost sheep, I gained the most surprising gift: the capacity to forgive my mother, the woman who murdered her, and myself."
—Julian Assele '26 M.A.R. in his powerful new piece in Commonweal https://www.commonwealm…

B13 - Star One
LURENA: Don't move!
PARTON: Please, Lurena. [She runs off. To the others: ] Get after her. Find her before she does any more damage. And don't bother to bring her back. Just kill her. I was right, we should have done it as soon as we knew.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/160

STORMY DANIELS' LAWYER MICHAEL AVENATTI RELEASED FROM PRISON I'm Back in Hollywood, Baby!!! (TMZ.com)
https://www.tmz.com/2026/04/08/michael-avenatti-out-of-prison/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260408/p87#a260408p87

Watching the number of #DevRel job offers crashing down, and the few remaining mostly being located in the US or even more focused on the Bay Area, I'm pretty happy I went back to engineering.
Given the relationship with #conferences, I wonder how the conference landscape will look like in on…

Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that began with Windows on ARM, which to this day is still held back by Microsoft's commitment to x86 compatibility (Steven Sinofsky/Hardcore Software)
https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/…

239. Mac Neo and my afternoon of reflection and melancholy
I'm completely blown away by Mac Neo. It made me think a lot about what we tried to accomplish with Windows 8 more than a dozen years ago. Being early is no different than being wrong…mostly.

I ran on this road, kept going, kept going
この道を走り進み進み進み続けた
I can't find the town that's supposed to be on the map.
地図に書いてあるはずの町が見当たらない
When I looked back, the scenery I was seeing disappeared.
振り返るとそこに見えていた景色が消えた
In this world, I'm the last and the last.
この世界 僕が最後で最後最後だ
electro world
エレクトロ・ワールド
Hatsune Kaidan // 2. エレクトロ・ワールド // Noisy Killer

I'm wrapping my head around how to capture rebounds in basketball -- this is last Saturday's game of the Big Red women against the Columbia Lions which the Lions won 80-55 in fan-friendly Newman Arena -- next time I am heading back with my Zeiss 55mm/1.8 because I see people shooting basketball successfully with pretty wide lenses
#photo

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
AVON: Welcome back, Vila. [exits]
TARRANT: Vila, I'm sorry for what I said to you. I didn't mean it. It wasn't true.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/614…

'I'm back': Raiders DE Maxx Crosby breaks silence since failed Ravens trade https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/03/11/maxx-crosby-breaks-silence-raiders-failed-trade-rave…

Crosby commits after nixed trade: 'I'm a Raider' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48181105/maxx-crosby-commits-nixed-trade-ravens-raider

Welp. That was a long night.
Good news: my last box on Debian Bookworm has been updated, I'm now 100% Trixie, both bare metal and VMs.
And the prodigal scope is back from the LeCroy service center after what feels like several months of downtime between waiting for friends to help me rack/unrack the 70 pound boat anchor and shipping back and forth.
Turns out there were multiple failed internal power supplies, both on the acquisition board and the top level system PSU, p…

Just when I thought that FreeCAD might be getting usable, it decides to do something so utterly braindead that I'm ready to give up and go back to Inventor

I think that I'm finally back to baseline.

As salty as I am about it, there's also another way to think about this. For anyone who still has connections to folks on the right (which is perhaps unlikely for anyone on this server, I digress), the cult that has consumed them thrives on isolation and grievance.
The words "you were right" have the potential to cut through the programming and open up an opportunity for reconnection. The modern conspiratorial cult of the Right has been built partially around people who were told they were wrong or were crazy. In the vast majority of cases, they were wrong and even when they were right they completely misunderstood why, but we'll skip that for now. Liberals making fun of them (even the times when they definitely earned it) has pushed them further and further into their ideological hole.
The thing about those words, "you were right," in this context is that the way they offer reconnection also requires them to take one little step of betraying their ideology to accept them. So they must choose between maintaining allegiance to a pedophile or finally getting to feel superior after years of living in an illusion of persecution.
Under the ideology of the Right, admitting one is wrong is a weakness. It is admitting defeat. They have to "own the libs" by saying things, things that they know aren't true, in order to feel dominant. But these things are often so absurd that they end up being made fun of, feeling even more weak and pathetic, reinforcing their fear and alienation.
Offering what they're looking for can offer a way out, but only if they're willing to start to recognize the thing they've supported for what it is.
And they were right about some things. They were right that Bill Gates was a terrible person. I've had plenty of liberals defend him based on his philanthropy washing, but he's awful and always has been. The Epstein links make that blatant. They intuitively recognized him and didn't trust him, even if they were wildly off base about *how and why* he shouldn't be trusted... Even if their correct mistrust was leveraged into one of the most destructive conspiracy theories ever (vaccine denial and COVID vaccine avoidance).
They were right about Bill Clinton. He was always shady as fuck. Sure, the people who attacked him at the time turned out to be even more shady but that's not the point right now. He was connected to Epstein and that was always creepy as fuck.
And the Epstein thing was an open secret that liberals ignored for a long time. It was seen as some weird thing that right wing nutjobs believed about the Clintons. But it was true. Not all of it, and there has always been an antisemitic element to the right wing interpretation or Epstein stuff, but his whole pedophile conspiracy was always kind of real.
The whole "Illuminati"/deep state thing is a vast oversimplification, an attempt to make comprehensible an incredibly complex set of interlocking and emergent behaviors. But Epstein did very much want to remake the world, to create a new world order, and he absolutely played a part in it.
The Right wing nutjobs talked about global authoritarianism, Blackhawks flying over American cities, masked men with guns disarming and executing legal gun owners in the streets. That's all happening right now.
The "FEMA concentration camps" are not actually that far off. ICE and FEMA are sister agencies, both under DHS. I'd be more than happy to call that one "close enough" in order to hear some MAGA admit that ICE is, in fact, building concentration camps.
There was always a huge millennialist element to these things. They tended to be connected to "the antichrist." It was absurd, especially for me as someone who no longer identifies as a Christian. But I'll even acquiess that to a degree. The "the number of the Beast" is 666. That's just the sum of the Hebrew spelling of "Nero." Revelations focuses a lot on Nero coming back to life after his death. His death that involved a head wound, thus the line from Revelation 13:3:
> And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
The parallels between Trump and Nero are easy to draw, and Trump's ear wound feels pretty on-the-nose for this. I don't believe in "prophecy" in this way. I think that there are patterns, and useful patterns can become encoded in beleif systems. But I will, again, happily call this one "close enough" for anyone on that side willing to also acknowledge it. I'm happy to meet on that common ground, because anyone who accepts it must recognize that their duty is to fight against it.
A lot of these correct nuggets are embedded in a framework of religious extremism and antisemitism. The vast majority of the beliefs holding these together are wildly wrong and incredibly toxic. But by giving some room to feel validated, listened to, understood, can give some room to admit things that were wrong.
Cult de-programming starts with an opening. People have to talk through their own thoughts, hear their own inconsistencies. Guiding questions can help them untangle these things for themselves. And it all starts by having enough room to feel safe, to not feel cornered, to not feel stupid. Admitting mistakes means being vulnerable, and the MAGA cult is built on fear. It's built on exploiting vulnerability and locking it away.
De-programming takes a long time. It's not easy. It takes patience. But every person who comes out does so with a powerful perspective, a deep understanding, that can be turned back against it. The best people at getting people out of cults are former members. Some of the most dedicated antifa are former fascists who understood their mistakes and dedicate their lives to fixing them.

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
RAVELLA: Roj.
BLAKE: Ah, Ravella.
RAVELLA: Did you have any trouble?
BLAKE: No.
RAVELLA: You followed the route I gave you?
BLAKE: Yes. Can we get on with it please.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/3 B7B3

The officiating has been... good? I'm not sure what to make of this.
Decent first half. Sunderland have been a bit lucky on a couple of occasions, both from Wirtz (post and header).
#LFC look better against low blocks, but it's clear that Endo is not best used as an upfield back. He's been excellent otherwise.
Konate has also been in a very physical battle all game. Kavana…

I'm thinking about creating a(nother) real-name profile in the fedi as LinkedIn replacement (so tech & work stuff only, no hiking & photography).
And while I thought about "which server" I keep coming back to the questin "selfhost the instance?"
But maybe ... I just start at some tech-feid-server 🤔

Maxx Crosby on Ravens backing out of trade: I'm 'a Raider. I'm back' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7110559/2026/03/12/maxx-crosby-responds-raiders-ravens-trade/

Maxx Crosby commits to Raiders after Ravens trade falls through: 'I'm back'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/maxx-crosby-raiders-ravens-trade/

FPS is the biggest available channel that I'm aware of to funnel Academi into ICE/CBP enforcement operations. The point of using FPS to support ICE agents is that FPS is stocked full of troops from EriK Prince's private army (now called "Academi" but formerly called "Blackwater"). This means that carrying out ethnic cleansing can dump money directly into the pockets of America's version of the Wagner Group (side from, of course GEO Group).
The Erik Prince angle also means that there can be an alternative chain of command that exists outside of official channels. ICE is already bad enough, but similar people have worked as mercenaries for a long time. Having an established chain of command over armed occupiers, one based entirely on economic incentives, one that can't be legally monitored or audited, one that's completely outside of the government, should be especially worrying.
I don't believe we've ever seen a clear explanation of who was kidnaping people off the streets, but I know that Academi had a contract (I believe with FPS) in Portland at the time. We also don't know who is on the ground in US cities right now, because they're wearing masks.
The bit reason J6 didn't go as planned is that Erik Prince wasn't behind it. Now there are troops with experience occupying American cities who can be called directly via Erik when Trump wants to make sure he doesn't lose again. And Erik won't back out at the last minute this time, because he's already seen that there will be no consequences for participating in a coup... if the time comes.
#USPol

Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
DAYNA: There's nothing else. We just don't want to go back, that's all. We're not criminals; we're not hiding. We stay here because we want to.
SERVALAN: You mustn't let me upset you. It's just that I'm fascinated by your life here. I'm so grateful to you. I don't know what I would have done without you up on the surface. You saved my life. And that's a debt I want to repay. So, [caresses Dayna's ch…

#DearLazyWeb: A while back someone posted a screen cap of Google getting confused between Voyager's "The Doctor" and "Doctor Who."
I'm writing something up about LLMs and I'd really like to reference it. I'm gonna go through my boosts and hope I can find it, but could anyone with it handy save me a few hours of data spelunking?
Edit: @… found it. Awesome. lol!

I recall that a long time ago, someone told me I'm acting like a cat. Curious it didn't get me thinking; though I guess I didn't really know any cats back then.

Maxx Crosby on Ravens backing out of trade: I'm 'a Raider. I'm back' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7110559/2026/03/12/maxx-crosby-responds-raiders-ravens-trade/

Series D, Episode 07 - Assassin
NEBROX: Maybe - maybe I could get it back for you.
AVON: How?
NEBROX: If I do, you've got to take me with you.
AVON: I'll think about that.
NEBROX: No, I mean it, you've got to promise.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/407/110 …

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
ARBITER: Is the accused satisfied that his defence has been fully and fairly prepared?
BLAKE: The charges against me are totally false. I am not guilty, therefore I offer no defence.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/211 B7B4

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
ARBITER: Is the accused satisfied that his defence has been fully and fairly prepared?
BLAKE: The charges against me are totally false. I am not guilty, therefore I offer no defence.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/211 B7B4

Just finished this...
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/the-fear
I've been working on a set of myths and folklore that exist within the context of a fantasy story I'm working on. This is one of them.
Feedback is always welcome, especially grammar and typos. Now back to editing a couple of other projects I've been working on.

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
BLAKE: I don't want to hear Foster. I should report everything I've seen to the Administration.
RAVELLA: You can't do that.
BLAKE: Why not?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/60 B7B2

Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
SOOLIN: Couldn't we make an intercept?
TARRANT: In the atmosphere, with a shuttle at full drive? We have to be stationary for a docking.
DAYNA: Look, I'll go down with the bracelets and we can teleport back.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/421…

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
CALLY: Well, I'm not all that alien. Come over here, Jenna.
JENNA: Heartless calculator.
AVON: That's just the problem: no heart.
CALLY: Put your head back. [Cally attaches sensors to Jenna]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/118

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
BLAKE: I just want to make a statement in open court. I want those responsible for the massacre brought to trial.
VARON: I'm sorry?
BLAKE: There can be no justification for deliberate murder.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/161 B7B5

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
AVON: Yes, it is. I don't trust him
VILA: Why.
AVON: When he saw Blake go, he had a limp. When he went back into the cave, he didn't have a limp.
VILA: Perhaps he's a fast healer.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/414 B7B3