@trochee@dair-community.socialOof, kid is sick, so I am staff-engineer and chief of nursing staff at the same time today
I am experiencing a dissonance between effectiveness and care on both roles
I care a lot about kid, but I can't do much besides bring him blankets and warm drinks
I am super effective at work right now, but I can't bring myself to give a damn about the job (I do care for — and resent — the précarité that so many of my colleagues are feeling)
@hex@kolektiva.socialAs 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.
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaI've rebuilt kwin_wayland three times now, making more drastic cuts each time, and I still haven't managed to evict the gestures. What am I missing? The patch applies fine manually. Am I misunderstanding how to declare the patch in the spec file? Do I need to declare it as a Patch rather than a Source? Am I not supposed to provide the .patch file extension? Some previously-unconsidered fourth thing?
It's half past midnight. I guess I'll knock off and read this again to…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 071 - LXXI
No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell:
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it, for I love you so,
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
O! if, I say, you look upon this verse,
When I perhaps compounded am with …
@cdarwin@c.imAll worry is laid to waste.
The endorphins rushing wild from the freezing water,
the music pounding through my body,
the caffeine,
the fucking ducks and the God-roiling sky
– no what-ifs,
no yeah-buts,
no what-abouts,
no caveats, at all.
I am made happy,
and that happiness is entire and incontestable.
And all the way home, I go
— to my beautiful waking wife
– on this, the best day ever.
Love, Nick Cave
@stephane_klein@social.coopAfter more than a year on @… I haven't received any reminder to renew my financial contribution. Is this normal? Is renewal simply left to members' own initiative?
My question on #Loomio :
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialsmth smth aaah I am only one person, so many cool things happening in parallel at @… 🥴
FOSDEM::attend(DevRoom::Rust, me.clone()); // compile error
Unfortunately, I am not Clone just yet.
I assume I cannot implement that in a thread-safe manner.
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… I dream, quite regularly, of a friend I lost touch with decades ago. In these dreams, I am often lost at his parents' home.
I awoke from one such dream an hour or so ago. Very lost. Every time this happens, I resolve to make contact. Each time, the resolution becomes a little stronger.
I know what my New Year's Resolution is.
May…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotDear friends
Bara'a (@…) is someone I'm in touch with in Gaza, whom I've corresponded with, who is verified by the @… project, who I'm sure is genuine, who urgently needs support. This week I am not …
@al3x@hachyderm.io@… I am looking at river with mostly news and I don’t see any difference in how items are displayed.
My understanding was that by the time they age, items start to fade away being displayed more and more like those marked as read and then vanish completely.
Have I misunderstood the mechanics? (Sorry for bugging you with this question. I guess I’m still super excited for having a guilt-free behave-like-I-used RSS reader)
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterI am visiting my mum. We are in a posh garden centre. They are playing Christmas songs. I suspect I'll have lost #Whamageddon before lunch time.
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialBtw "my" IT Event yesterday was pretty nice. One talk adressed a question that I also am struggling with and I was able to discuss it a bit. - Luckily a friend also showed up and we discussed a couple of topics.
"Luckily" because it was cool to see him - and also because I didn't feel like starting conversations with strangers. Even thoug hI know that it's the same for a lot of others there, too.
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI am mixed on this one...
On one hand I can see the risk of having Chinese people in China work on (which means "have access to", and often "have privileged access to") US DoD systems.
However, I don't see the other half of the issue - What do do about people who are not in China (perhaps in the US, even US citizens) who are, or have been induced, to use their access to promote the interests of a foreign power?
Given that under Cheato the US is dumbi…
@jswright61@ruby.socialDear companies with customers who travel internationally,
Please do not block me from your site when I am in another country. I shouldn’t need a VPN to visit your site, but I do.
(I realize this is Avery entitled thing to winge about)
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI've been in pain (of various states) for over a month now, and I'm trying different techniques to deal with it.
Since it's not an injury I am now trying to "push through the pain" and by that I mean instead of lying on a heating pad trying to relieve the pain I get up, get moving, and do things.
And... it hurts like hell. But yesterday it only hurt like hell for like 90 minutes, so I could deal with that.
Contrast to 6 hours lying in bed the day befor…
@thek3nger@mastodon.socialOctober was very similar to November, with the same issues but also the same good things. This month, I finished the last two books from the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, watched Del Toro’s Frankenstein. And an important news: I finally started Baldur’s Gate 3.
https://www.davideaversa.it/blog/changelog
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"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
@NFL@darktundra.xyzOL Mauigoa: Facing Bain, Mesidor fueled growth https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48062884/top-ol-prospect-mauigoa-battling-bain-mesidor-built-am
@grumpybozo@toad.socialI know that when I get a text calling me “Billy” that it’s not good… Only my sisters call me that, at least in the last 50 years… We are in no way estranged but they just don’t think of texting me until it’s a Big Thing. And they still see me as their odd brother.
My 90yo stepmom has had “her cancer” (weird phrase…) return. A “Sister Mary Joseph” tumor. Indicator of broad metastasis. Short prognosis.
So I am likely to be 100% out of older-generation family before ’27.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI 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
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaI am so optimistic about beef prices that I've just leased a pot roast
with an option to buy.
@chiraag@mastodon.onlineAnother Adobe tool used often by professionals and amateurs alike is Lightroom, their RAW editor and library manager. As with the previous post in this series, the fact that I am on Linux made finding an alternative imperative (my wife and I both take photos and have a DSLR). A while ago, I found @… and never looked back. Darktable is amazing and satisfies all …
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialI am 172 pages into "Legacy of Ashes - The History of the CIA" by Tim Weiner, and if I read an account of a fictional intelligence agency this corrupt and this incompetent I would dismiss it as impossibly unrealistic.
@crell@phpc.socialI'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
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de
@ruari@velocipederider.comHow many different financial institutions do you have accounts with, currently holding real money (I do not care about crypto "play money")?
Note: I am thinking either real licensed banks here or maybe fintechs (again NOT crypto only), like Wise or PayPal. Accounts you can spend from either online or with some kind of card or virtual card.
@catsalad@infosec.exchangei am a kawaii potato
@joe@toot.worksI have visited Embers, met with Hanako, and tried most of the endings. I am still exploring Night City, though.
@nemorosa@mastodon.nuHow am I supposed to fit all my books into such a tiny, tiny bookshelf? I don’t. In reality, I’ve resorted to buying e‑books— not because I prefer them, but because I’m rapidly running out of storage space, bookshelves, and places to hide the growing stacks. And don’t listen to anyone claiming I ran out of space years ago. Absolute nonsense.
I simply need a house for my books. A house just for books.
I wonder what that would be called…
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgI am not an expert but this is a good sign for "AI". Right?
@roland@devdilettante.comRacists gotta racist even if it destroys their country and economy sad face
https://mastodon.social/@kottke/115804164734120434
@whitequark@mastodon.socialdoes vexriscv document the invariants it expects from the memory subsystem _anywhere at all_, or am i supposed to glean what the CPU expects from Scala code and their AXI/Wishbone/Avalon adapters?
@bibbleco@infosec.exchangeRegime change, you say? I am reminded of Malcolm Tucker's bon mot to the American citizen who objected to him swearing in a public space.
The "best", the least-terrible possible outcome for the US that I can conceive, is that Trump manages to kill some of the senior government / state figures, and a lot of IRGC / Basij thugs and quotidian forces of oppression. But regime change via an air campaign? Never happened before, and I see no reason it could happen now.
Qui…
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoRE: https://fosstodon.org/@paulox/115819064042518517
Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
I see some favorites in here, that I already own in print but am glad to see in electrons, such as.
Dorothy Sayers' Strong Poison
Ar…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caAccording to document EFTA011660679.pdf that I am reading here, #TheAmericanFascist didn't just participate in disgusting sex acts... but also participated in trafficking and was likely a witness or at the very least fully aware, of murder.
But sure... wait until the midterms America, that'll fix your problems.
Also named:
Robin Leach (alleged murderer)
Bill Clinton
The Royal Family
Sammy Sota
Lisa Marie Presley
Patti LaBelle
Bob Shapiro
and of course, the Trump kids.
#Epstein
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaDisable my ad blocker to see your article? Nope. How about generic ads? ALSO HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW I AM RUNNING AN AD BLOCKER? Maybe because you are running a F*****g invasive script?
Guess what, I don't go to your site. There are sites with ads that don't ask me that and guess what? I go to their sites. Sometimes I even click on the ad as I find it interesting.
Also, for a couple of true journalists I also pay a bit so that they can keep on writing.
@hex@kolektiva.socialAfter the whole Adam Something "dating advice for leftist men" thing, I realized I should probably write something about that. I didn't, but I realized I should. Here I am sort of getting around to it.
I had a friend call me an "elder" at one point. I was like 35 at that time, but like... a lot of old leftists are just dead or in prison, so we take what we can get I guess. Being also an elder in the sense that I'm an elder millennial, who is also a parent and married for almost 10 years and all that, I guess I'm technically qualified.
So here it is, dating advice for (straight cis) leftist men:
1. Don't.
That's it, actually. That's the whole thing. Let me explain a bit.
First of all, this is dating advice for neuroatypical folks. We're way overrepresented in both extremes because this system wasn't built for us. And that's who is *the most* confused by all the relationship stuff, and most likely to try to apply all this masculinity/manosphere bullshit. I'm also talking a bit from experience here, as a neruo-spicy trying to "figure out" how to date within a paradigm entirely built around neurotypicals and their relationships. It's garbage. Throw it out. There's nothing worth saving.
His video had some line comparing not having sex to your house being on fire. I'm not gonna bother to quote it because I'm busy with actual life. But like, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I recognize that and it's horribly destructive. Men who buy in to patriarchy actually believe this, because those men value themselves based on (hetro) sex. Yeah, if you think you're worthless because you aren't "getting laid" then yeah, you're gonna feel like that's an emergency.
"Dating" as a paradigm turns humans into roles. It dehumanizes us all, and thus makes human connection much harder. It is a game that, like thermonuclear war, can only be won by not playing.
When you abandon "dating" and just act like a human, everything starts to be easier. There's no such thing as being "friend zoned" because you're just friends. Sometimes friendships become other things, sometimes they don't. It doesn't actually matter, because if you're actually there for friendship then you don't *need* anything else.
My grandma, at 98 I think, gave me some advice. My grandparents always got along well, and were married for enough decades that I listened really closely. She told me I should just do things I loved to do and everything else would work itself out.
And it kind of did.
I understand the fear, the idea that you'll die alone. I get that. I get the loneliness. It all hits a lot harder when you have ADHD emotions and past trauma. I get that. But that fear is self-manifesting. When you build your confidence, when you don't *need* to be "in a relationship," you have more room to actually build relationships. For me, dating was dehumanizing. When I abandoned that, I was able to actually be a good partner, and I was able to find my partner.
I would advise against marriage as well, but we did get married for legal reasons. It can still be hard to maintain that, to see each other as people rather than roles. That becomes extra hard as parents. But the times that we cut through that are the times we're closest. Those are the times when it becomes easier to remember that we're both humans and all human relationships need tending.
Roles don't need to be tended because they are classifications. Classifications are static. But relationships between humans are not. Humans are messy and chaotic. Humans have all kinds of complex needs and desires.
So yeah, don't date. Just be a human and see what happens. Maybe google "relationship anarchy" and see where it takes you.
If you have ADHD, it can be especially useful to understand that relationships with neurotypical folks can be especially difficult. Assume you're incompatible with 90% of the population as your baseline, and you'll start to understand why the standard "dating" thing has made you feel so alienated and miserable.
Neurotypical folks generally have no idea that atypicality exists, much less how it impacts relationships. Having to conform to a neurotypical relationship just adds additional mental strain unless you find someone (really special) who can do at least some of the work.
The ADHD thing was especially important for me. There were so many things I was told to do in specific ways by neurotypicals that never worked for me. Their advice always made me feel like a failure. When I was finally diagnosed, I realized they were just giving advice for the wrong type of brain. It was advice I could never use. Basically all dating advice I ever got fell into this same category.
That's my braindump. Maybe I'll develop it more in the future, but I'm busy so maybe not. I hope it helps someone who is struggling like I was.
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"**GROSZ, GRÖSSER, am GRÖẞTEN: Der Duden und das große Eszett"**
#Typografie
@jake4480@c.imIf you're into the weird egg punk of Gee Tee like I am, Kel from Gee Tee has another project called The Celebrities and it's just as damn good as any Gee Tee album: https://theecelebrities.bandcamp.com/album/redd-karpet-lp
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukI read this, and I thought, she should try the Fediverse. But then I thought again. I present as male here (because I am). So would I see this misogyny here even if it was a problem? So I'd like to ask, would young women actually be better off here?
> I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous | The Guardian
@danyork@mastodon.socialSo… talk to me about #Zotero … How do you use it? WHY do you use it versus other tools? What do you like most?
I realize I am maybe 15 or 20 years late to the Zotero party, but 3 things have me interested now:
- I’m taking on a project at work that involves a good amount of research
- I have some ideas for papers and maybe a book that would benefit from more structured organizatio…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… I carelessly think of MATE as maintained, in the sense that it looks better than GNOME 🙂
I am horribly prejudiced. I cringe at the possibility of people wrongly assuming that I use GNOME when the truth is, Ubuntu was nothing more than my passport to KDE Plasma – Kubuntu.
@teledyn@mstdn.caIt's only an hour. You can do it! But I wonder, given keiko is in her fifties today, and given I am more than thrice 22, is her story still relevant in 2025? Sion Sono has a knack for nailing his target.
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/807053292677021696/i-am-keiko-1997?source=share
@brian_gettler@mas.toLearn something everyday, or, Education as incomplete debugging.
@seav@en.osm.townI’m watching season 2 of Netflix’s Culinary Class Wars and I am envious of the people and judges eating the delicious dishes! 😋
#TV #Netflix #CookingShows
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThings have been a •lot• quieter in Minneapolis the last 5 days. There have been only a handful of kidnappings. (“Only a handful of kidnappings!” Words I can’t believe I’m actually saying….) Some days 1. Some days 0. (0 known, anyway.)
Things are •much• quieter. I am doing things I’ve been neglecting for weeks, months. I am posting about programming again.
And…not “but!”…and—
Nobody here, nobody, thinks we’re done with ICE and CBP.
1/
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euI am afraid AMD, without moving their finger, or giving a single f, is winning and they will peddle a lot more 9000 series cards to a lot of upset owners of 7000 series cards. People are complaining that AA gives you 150 FPS vs MLAA (FP8 emu) giving you "only" 100 FPS. 100 FPS = crap. More FPS vroom means faster, means better. Why it not vroom faster? It's a gacha game.
@jdrm@social.linux.pizzaHe visto esta comparativa de navegadores y me parece sublime https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/30262814
@nitpicking@mstdn.partySent to my Congressional Representative, Nick LaLota (NY District 1).
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Representative LaLota:
You and your colleagues will have the chance over the next two weeks to craft a new budget for DHS and especially ICE and CBP.
I am aware that you cannot, in the current climate, simply disband these agencies.
I urge you strongly to add to the resolution a rider defining their roles.
(1/3)
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI'd love to get involved with this but I'm not sure I'll be healed up enough by March 7th... I'm also not an expert or a noob so I am somewhere in-between.
https://give.wisconsinbikefed.org/event/ready-plan-pe…
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialHey, I am not! That's just mean...
#Wordle
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@Kingu@sakurajima.moeI am a bit surprised by the popularity of my loops account that I just created 2 weeks ago...
I was expecting to talk to myself for a few months like any other social network I join...
@PaulWermer@sfba.social"Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history" - I am sorry, there is no competition here.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/28/trump-iran-analysis-us-foreign-policy-g…
@AdamCoffman@mathstodon.xyzI just got this email regarding the spring 2026 Midwest Several Complex Variables conference:
"Unfortunately we did not get the NSF grant so the conference will not run this year."
I was not planning to attend this time (Florida Polytechnic being, for me, in an inconvenient corner of the "midwest") but I do co-organize a smaller annual workshop with a similar type of NSF conference grant. We got some funding in 2025 (>insert Theoden meme<), but I am not…
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaTorn between feeling disconnected and not really wanting to hear any more negative opinions and bad news. Not a big fan of life these days. I am aware of the irony in writing this.
@simoncox@seocommunity.socialSad to hear that Andy Drinkwater passed away before Christmas.
Top tier SEO who I met several times and was an inspiration to myself and many others.
https://www.seroundtable.com/andy-drinkwater-rip-40675.html
@grumpybozo@toad.socialI am regretting my choice to leave chemistry…
I don’t think anyone had battery chemistry on their list of critical technologies of the future 40 years ago. Now it seems like every week there’s a new idea.
https://hachyderm.io/@BenjaminHCCarr/116143844302669318
@tgpo@social.linux.pizza @theodric@social.linux.pizzaI fucking hate KDE on Wayland. Entire evening wasted thanks to their goddamn fucking unnecessary hardcoded gestures. I am to the point of rebuilding kwin_wayland with the patch from the Arch AUR `kwin-without-gestures` package.
This was supposed to be getting fixed!
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/1…
@benb@osintua.euI am grateful to everyone truly ready to help and support us, – Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/21/i-am-grateful-to-everyone.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.comOhio AG Candidate Elliot Forhan: 'I Am Going to Kill Donald Trump' (Breitbart)
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2026/01/27/ohio-ag-candidate-elliot-forhan-i-am-going-to-kill-donald-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p143#a260127p143
@gwire@mastodon.socialFinally saw The Running Man (2025) and am still thinking about the choice to set it in the 2020s imagined from the 1980s - of videotape and photocopied zines. Does it still work for people with weaker links to that time?
(I guess Cyberpunk 2077 is also an '80s idea of the future, and that has an impact.)
@DamonHD@mastodon.social#today I have had my hot bath, with the house to myself. I am running washing and dishes, and have a pizza about to be ready.
Will finish follow-on from yesterday's admin, and do a bit more #buildingModel stuff.
Then beers this evening...
@billbert@mastodon.socialI’m not a well man. I was not a well man last month. I was an even less well man a few weeks ago. I was a much less well man after this weekend. NOW I am so gaybaited and I need to cry, eat ice cream and start a gym membership again
@dwf@social.linux.pizzaWell now I'm just confused
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… I am very interested to see more slides from this 😅
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsSurprisingly, this night wasn't so bad.
The neighbor's party was without loud music, just some random shouting after midnight.
Of course, people with premature explosion problem started firing in the late afternoon. Near 23 it became quiet enough for me to fall asleep finally. Then, between 23.45 and 1 AM you couldn't, and Ruh 🐱 started panicking. I managed to get her back to bed by half past midnight.
Nothing woke me up then — no "one more box, bro" after 3 AM. Perhaps the frost helped.
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.usIt's funny because this was supposed to be a mainly handsoff sessions while I game with my spouse. (Waiting for midnight.) But here I am approving commands to run that are identical 🤣
@aardrian@toot.cafeI am enjoying the hell out of this London fog (weather, not drink). It’s so warm and pleasant.
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… I think this is the perfect time to exercise my option to not vote, because my answer is “I do not know”.
It comes with some shame, but I must admit my eye has been turned away from those atrocities to others for the time being, and I have no clue if the situation now is any different than it was last I heard.
My gut instinct says no, but who am I to say?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle expands Gemini's hands-free conversational capabilities to walking and cycling modes in Google Maps, available on iOS and rolling out on Android (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/google-maps-now-lets-you-…
@Jyoti@mas.tothis could be us but I am not a beetle and you do not exist
@hellotest@ohai.socialI sometimes use self deprecation to tell you "don't llisten to me, I'm no academic...or am I? I don't think I am one!"
so that you won't listen to me if you have strong feelings about what I talk about.
But who make the real waves from their ripples if nobody gets upset or interested in what you gotta say?
Right?
Neurodiversity so far are only small ripples but when are they going to turn into waves?
💡
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialToday was my first real attempt at using a split keyboard. I have two issues: first is getting used to a different style keyboard than I am used to, and the second is making this PC keyboard function properly on macOS. Karabiner-Elements and Keyboard Maestro got *almost* everything working right. (And some makeshift gaff tape labels.) Those keys on the left keep fucking me up! (1/2)
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzWhat to expect from a Christian Parker defense https://insidethestar.com/what-to-expect-from-a-christian-parker-defense
@ErikUden@mastodon.dei am being gang stalked by the CIA
@nichdu@chaos.social@… Hi! I'm trying out pretalx for an event and want to embed the schedule in another website using the widget. afaics there is no way to filter that view directly by track?
I was trying to maybe add that functionality to the widget JS code but there's only the minified version in the pretalx repo. Am I missing something or is the source really not ther…
@cdarwin@c.imHello—this is Ken Burns, reaching out on behalf of Alex Vindman for Senate.
I have dedicated my life to sharing America’s stories through films. They examine crucial moments in our nation’s history and the threats to our democracy. These stories are not easy.
Today, our country is facing its own reckoning, and the stakes have never been higher. That is why I am reaching out.
Alex Vindman––who I first met in 1983 while filming my documentary, the Statue of Liberty, when he w…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 147 - CXLVII
My love is as a fever longing still,
For that which longer nurseth the disease;
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
The uncertain sickly appetite to please.
My reason, the physician to my love,
Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
Desire is death, which physic did except.
Past cure I am, now reason is past care,
And frantic-mad with evermore unrest;
M…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialMy 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…
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaGentlemen, I want you to know that I am not always right, but I am
never wrong. -Samuel Goldwyn
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialOh heck am I tired now (not even 6pm). But I had a bad night and got up at 5am to ensure to be on time in the office for a rather important business meeting ...
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu$$ of dollars of hardware under my fingertips, and I started writing a short story in longhand. I think it's because, the main character? She's loco 😄
@al3x@hachyderm.ioI learned about this new RSS reader Current by @… from @…’s article https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/02/25/godier-phantom-obligation and wow the app is so close to how I’ve been using RSS readers.
I used it for 30’ on my phone and really enjoyed it.
I am not sure yet how it syncs (if it syncs).
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Sparen am kulturellen Gedächtnis: Gefährdet die Bundesregierung die Zukunft der Deutschen Digitalen Bibliothek?" – Jan Wiarda zur #DDB: http://www.jmwiarda.de//blog/2026/02/23/s
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaMy 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…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caI am surprised Steam doesn’t exist on iPad..
But maybe I am ignorant about how Steam works?
#steam
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaAs many of you know, I am taking a class here at UNC on Personality.
One of the tests to determine personality in our book was so incredibly
useful and interesting, I just had to share it.
Answer each of the following items "true" or "false"
1. I think beavers work too hard.
2. I use shoe polish to excess.
3. God is love.
4. I like mannish children.
5. I have always been diturbed by the sight of Lincoln's ears.
6. I…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialI 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.
@nemorosa@mastodon.nuHow does your work space look?
This is mine, before I have had time to make a mess. I like order and seem to be unable to uphold it for long. It just happens to be one of those things I never seem to be able to master.
I'm the chaos collector! And every now and then I have to throw out my collection and begin a new one. That's my excuse, and I am sticking with it!
What is yours? #writer
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotWoohoo! I just typed
`(mapcar (lambda (n) (:documentation (meta n))) (keys (oblist)))`
into the REPL of my frankenlisp, and printed out the documentation of every function it knows.
I am getting close to the point that other people can play with this...
#Lisp
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI messaged my doctor's office about the extreme pain I am in. From the response:
"You should not be in excruciating pain, that is not reasonable."
I agree! Sadly they have no solution besides refilling my prescriptions, telling me to continue what I am doing, and telling me to wait a week for the next appointment.
(Luckily my daughter was just in Illinois.)
@grumpybozo@toad.social @v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Academic Publishing and Academic Ethos – Looking Back to the Future": Analyse von Stefan Klein am Beispiel von Elsevier: "I use Elsevier as an example to illustrate the impact and risks of digitalization of academic publishing house, or ‘information analytics businesses’ as Elsevier has rebranded itself."
https://doi.org/10.308…
@cdarwin@c.imRight 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…
@al3x@hachyderm.ioI suspect that my VS Code is completely "borken" as I cannot imagine how so many people are productive using it.
1. The selection behavior I have shared earlier continues to manifest sporadically. A restart fixes it. Sometimes.
2. I can't recall any keyboard shortcuts as they don't use any historical paradigms and they are all of the place.
3. Frequently used functionality (e.g. stage changes) has no shortcuts.
I am sure this is will be unpopular opinion.
It's been my experience so far. Very frustrating and I almost gave up a few times already.
@grumpybozo@toad.socialRE: https://mas.to/@zzt/115988197945001424
I am not a "Use MY preferred software to fix your problem" kind of guy, but these sorts of stories (which I’ve heard for a decade) make me wonder if people just live with de facto spyware on their computers & whether it …
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialSome wing ding on the Internet replied to one of my comments and said “are you on drugs” and yes, I am, but I still know how to use a question mark and capitalize the first letter of the first word of a sentence.
(My comment was about how Capitalism harms people.)
