Tootfinder

Would you stop work? Just tell them you’re not coming in until this is over? What would that look like? Would you get fired? Would you still get fired if your whole team or half your division refused to work? If your union was ready to strike over it?
Maybe you can’t stop work. Maybe you’re unemployed. Maybe you’re retired. Maybe you still have people to take care of — from your income, or as part of the job you do. •Think• about it. What •could• you stop, work or otherwise? How could you prepare for that, save now, be ready?
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I've met so many of you since I last talked about it, so maybe I should briefly mention music I've done. I recorded a bunch years ago & was in bands years ago but haven't recorded much but demos for many years. Some of these are rough. Some more polished. These are me. Wrote (minus covers), sing, play bass, sometimes regular guitar on all. More eventually? Maybe.

Sour Anteater Records
Loud, rough pseudopunk + weirdness. No fucking fascists or bigots

Maybe that’s alarming to you, but you think we can still coast through it, wait it out. OK. Fine.
Maybe your red line is US troops gunning down civilians. Like Tiananmen Square. Like Iran this past week. That has not happened under the Trump regime yet. That is a horrifying red line — but maybe it is •your• red line.
Wherever it is, I am asking you now, from my home in Minneapolis, to think: what is •your• red line, the place where you think, “This is too much. Normal is gone. Life as I knew it has to stop until this ends.”
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I have to say I don't hate the faces of DLSS 5. Maybe I don't get the Snapchat reference because I've never used it? They don't look exactly off and uncanny to me either. Maybe because of the comparison which shows they are more or less derived "from the artwork"? The more upsetting explanation would be that my uncanny valley threshold is kind of low.
One thing I strongly agree with--the end results look uniformly AI-perfect, dull across the board even with th…

holy forking shirtballs this is maybe the best ice cream flavor I’ve ever had

Sometimes I do things that I’m proud of. Sometimes, not always. Maybe I just have high standards set for myself…I don’t know.
Then there are people who are proud of their country and all they ever did was be born there, which wasn’t even their choice really.
Those people are psychopaths.
Pride should come from the actions you take, not your surrounding circumstances.

AI bros are just loving open source — loving it to death... maybe quite literally! (Godot being latest popular example[1])
More and more projects are impacted by floods of bogus AI pull requests and resulting discussions, stealing precious time and nerves away from their maintainers doing actual productive work. More buggy and insecure software (incl. commercial offerings) due to slopcoding, more websites getting attacked daily by AI crawlers in desperate search for any new bits (liter…

Oh wow, I feel quite sore today. Maybe I didn't do "enough" during winter to keep my muscles in shape.
But it was worth it! (Pictures and video are yet to come). After the snow has mostly melted, it's time again to clean up all kinds of litter.
I once heard a metallic *pling* and knew ... "new microspikes needed now ... but as the metal plate broke and not just a chain, I hope that the shop might replace it. I mean .. broken metal after just ~1year? Keep fi…

It was great to see the bright yellow orb in the sky today! It’s been maybe a week since we last saw it… I look forward to seeing more of it!

It's a Powerwolf, Sabaton, and designing sadistic PCB defects kind of night.
Or maybe it's more masochistic since I'm going to be reworking all of these bugs myself in a couple of weeks?

Today, I shall post MORE BUMS
if you don't like THE BUMS
then
maybe don't look at *the bums*
(‿ˠ‿)
#BUMS

@… maybe I need to do that 🤔🤣 Thanks for sharing!

Turin DF64 Gen 2.5 single dose grinder handling 18 grams of #espresso with its (not) fancy bellows to make it very nearly zero retention.
You know, if grinding beans is your kink.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Lime Garden:
🎵 Maybe Not Tonight
#LimeGarden
https://limegarden.bandcamp.com/album/maybe-not-tonight
https://open.spotify.com/track/1NeYdwfqPVmmItoaBNq7KJ

"Open land represents the future in its purest form — after all, every place was no place at some point." 😑 This is such a distilled expression of settler-colonial mindset. No, we do not need "new" cities, we need to fix up the ones we've got.
https://www.

Maybe America Needs Some New Cities
It sounds a bit kooky to promise a whole city from scratch. But it has been done before — and might just help solve the housing crisis.

Bites a Shock was supposed to be "The new BiSH"
I never listen to them. Maybe I should. idk.

Q&A with Emanuel Fabian, who says he faced death threats from Polymarket bettors over his reporting on a missile strike in Israel, making him doubt what he saw (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/…

Maybe Turning War Into a Casino Was a Bad Idea?
A disturbing new low in the Polymarket era

the adventures of electric man (aka acid man), by al jarnow, 1966, whose origin story involved getting zapped during the nyc blackout of '65. dad sez there's a version with finished dialogue somewhere, but i haven't found it yet. a future episode maybe included a wizard named "ergot."

With Vaccines Widely Popular, Kennedy Changes Tone, but Maybe Not His Plans (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/us/politics/vaccines-kennedy-cdc.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260417/p109#a260417p109

I'm walking through queens plaza and I run into my wife, who's biking on the queensboro bike path. She stops for maybe two mins while I adjust her bike brakes. Someone biking by yells, "go on a date or something, but get out of the bike lane!"
Oh, if only he knew.. 😂
#BikeNYC

Maybe it isn't a very ladylike pose, and that neck looks broken, but Harley is totally relaxed about the heavy snow falling outside. She knows Spring is close despite the current weather conditions.
#DogsOfMastadon #NapTime

Encouraging move for (pluralistic) left unity in Spain. Just what's left of Podemos (as usual, but maybe just for now) staying out.
Los partidos de Sumar hacen guiños al plan de Gabriel Rufišn: IU también acudirš al acto con Emilio Delgado
https://www.

Los partidos de Sumar hacen guiños al plan de Gabriel Rufián: IU también acudirá al acto con Emilio Delgado
Movimiento Sumar eleva la importancia del evento y envía a Lara Hernández, mientras que los Comuns estarán representados por Gerardo Pisarello. IU irá tras recibir a última hora una invitación formal

What? No Daria?
(Okay, maybe I’m old.)
https://youtube.com/shorts/rGManNdSxPo

So far I don't care for how I have activityPub integrated in to #tvmarks. It tried to be a full activityPub app but I think I just want to oauth with mastodon/bluesky and make post updates to the authed account.
I guess maybe this will mess up the idea of being able to reply to a post and it shows up on the website as a comment? I'm not sure, but I'm thinking about it.

ok yeah the Wonder Man series (2025) (8 episodes x 30m) is funny and really good, maybe because it's basically incestuous self-mockery of Hollywood. everything feels grounded by lived experience, even when it's doing broad caricature, kinda like what Bojack Horseman did. story is lightly connected to the rest of the MCU, works fine on its own

RE: https://fedihum.org/@felwert/116246797806895783
Okay, the site is live, but I won’t disclose the URL just yet, because we still have to write the announcement post. (Does it look like I’m trying to build excitement? Well, maybe that’s because I’m excited. …

@… @… But we need to go from one boiler room/ plant room to the other maybe.

I've got a patch that saves ~600MB peak memory on a long running memory hog. This would be great, if it weren't for the test hogging a total of over 5GB; if I can get it down to say 2.5GB then maybe it's useful.

RE: https://universeodon.com/@tafnn/116252691416575841
Maybe Congress should regulate and restrict data brokers from keeping and selling our private data to any and all buyers.

Maybe your red line is putting National Guard troops under federal control in Minnesota. They already did that in California, Oregon and Illinois — and courts smacked it down •hard•. Maybe your red line is them trying it again, despite a clear court order. Defying the courts and repeating that? That’s a good red line.
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Child has started tracking life achievements in notes.
Do I discourage him knowing this is the dark side that leads to the kind of insanity where I have gpx files going back decades of everywhere I've been and geo tagged photos of hotel doors I've stayed in for decades?
Or maybe I give him an app to really lean in and ruin him properly into geekdom
Shame lol.

Maybe Laurie should just stick to saying "happy new year!" in English or use his millions to hire a dialect coach.

Given international and internal acts of violence and violations of human rights, maybe it's time to #boycott #USA the same we did with other #terrorist states like

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
TARRANT: What, so you've no contact with other resistance units?
HUNDA: None. Maybe mine is the only column still fighting. There's Leitz now! [Leitz joins them.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/273 B7B4

"ICE has been using “brake-checks” as pretense for detaining observers. Another observer car pulls up and my city council member steps out. He strides up to the Wagoneer, blowing his whistle. (Absolutely everyone is confronting ICE—I’ve encountered my old boss from the local cafe scuffling with agents, too.) Someone on the street starts filming and the bicyclist we know in the chat as “small fry” shouts at the agents to get out of Minneapolis."

ICE vs. Everyone | Erin West
What we’re doing now is this: The trainings have evolved into street medic workshops on protecting yourself from chemical weapons and lessons on digital security; there’s a meet-up to sew reinforced umbrellas as shields from mace and a collection spot for barricade materials. And this is what it’s like: Sometimes you’re chasing ICE off your street, maybe you’re buying groceries for a family, but a lot of the time you’re on your phone.

@…
Audible: "Check the link in the description", but there's no description; no link.
Cc @… … maybe something should be added to the latest videos at <

RE: https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/116091637698799230
Maybe it's time to go get the old cathedral and bazaar metaphor out of the attic.
The cathedral might impress with its elaborate architecture, a tribute to a distant god, but the bazaar is whe…

Maybe I should spin up a Mastodon server so I can fuck around with making generative bots without causing some sysadmin headaches. I had a few generative Twitter bots back in the day, but they wore out, and then Elmo made API access cost the combined wealth of a mid-sized European country to afford, and they died. With the progress made on slop engines in the last few years, I think I can move on from combination phrase generators and Markov schizoida to other, weirder stuff. How about a mod…

@… maybe something with a diamond ok it needs work but there is something there

Corporate management is chronically •terrible• at measuring (or even noticing, maybe that’s the same thing) costs like this: irritated customers, burnt out employees, a diffuse but deep and persistent emotional shift, ultimately a creeping disengagement with an entire company and maybe its underlying business premise.
The MBA mania for cost-cutting as a panacea intersects poorly with this inability to •recognize• cost. “Cost-cutting” becomes “replacing costs you can see with larger costs you can’t.” https://mastodon.green/@CiaraNi/116432233093667120

There’s a new local brewery opening 4 blocks from my house, which is cool, but it’s a shame I don’t drink beer. Maybe they’ll have food trucks now and then.

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)

@… maybe it feels like a giant spoiler is being forced on people who liked the anonymity?

@… Even the strongest pirate probably wouldn't be able to launch the laptop into orbit, so if you feel the need, go for it. (Although if it did make it, maybe it would reenter over southern Texas....)

same, Hulk, same

Here’s another comedian I just heard for the first time, Mae Martin. She’s from Toronto, now lives in the US. She started stand-up at age 13. This is from 4 years ago. She’s 37 now & still looks maybe 15. https://youtu.be/yQ734nsd81o?si=BAg_kK_VATGsZ4xX

One of the biggest current myths is that if democrats win coming midterms and presidential elections everything will be allright and we can return to business as usual with the USA. In my view that is not the case, the political system and society is too broken to be healed that quickly after Trump's destructive presidency. It will take many more more years maybe even a decade to heal and reform.
#Trump

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheMorningAfterMix
Janis Joplin:
🎵 Maybe
#JanisJoplin
https://rosettamex.bandcamp.com/track/maybe-janis-joplin-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/0xGSeBsG4V8Scc5YqpZQ66

The first time I ever really felt at home, comfortable and safe, was in an anarchist space in Seattle called "The Wildcat." It only existed for a few months, maybe a year, after I found it. Since then I've found similar places here in Amsterdam, and other places.
I want these places to be as comfortable, as much of a refuge, for everyone as they have been for me. Part of that is acknowledging and addressing the things they make physical and organizing spaces hostile.

13yo: "DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD"
me: "What?"
13yo: "Can we get an owl?"
me: "Uhh... what?"
13yo: "Can we get an owl?"
(Maybe age verification is a good idea after all? I don't want my kids getting Ideas from the internet..)

RE: https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/116418930994738824
Clive Lewis would be an excellent replacement for Starmer, and could maybe save the Labour party.

OK, so. As if the Trump regime hadn’t already dumped enough of their shit on us here in Minneapolis…there’s now talk about them sending •active duty military• to invade (“protect”) our city.
Maybe this is bluster. Maybe this is testing the waters. We have no idea how real these plans are, or if or when this would actually happen. I don’t think the regime does either. Regardless, we take this threat seriously: they’re stupid enough they just might do it. This nightmare could get worse.
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My question "Why is Avi NOT on Mastodon" has been upvoted but not answered. Who knows, maybe he will show up on this platform in the next few days.

Anyway, it's back for a final check with the coauthors now, maybe an hour to finalise it tomorrow and then I get a weekend off...
Now home to make peace with the family.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@botgov/116245184037918115
explore.gov, EO name, no active www yet, maybe something to do with the EXPLORE act that was passed during the Biden administration?

#totp Maybe try saying "I love you"?

Next practice it took us just a bit over an hour to get to 15. Maybe a coincidence, maybe not, but she followed that up with the best pitching game she has had so far in her two seasons. The biggest difference I saw is no rushing, methodical pace. We remind her to slow down from the dugout, take breaths, etc but she just kept on rushing with her setup. The last game was different - nice and steady regardless what's going on in the game. Let's hope it holds up!

Donald Trump wondered if the U.S. “shouldn’t even be there”
when answering questions about the war on Iran on Sunday,
claiming that Iran’s military is already totally obliterated
as the U.S. and Israel’s bombardments enter their third week with no end in sight.
A reporter asked Trump on Sunday about his demands that other countries aid him in trying to force transit through the Strait of Hormuz while it’s closed by Iran.
In response, he said that other countries…

As US Slaughter Continues in Iran, Trump Opines: “Maybe We Shouldn’t Even Be There”
“We don’t need it. We have a lot of oil,” Trump said. “It’s almost like we do it for habit.”…

1. This is the way
2. No normal person would ever do this, even though they should
3. It making me think about how much of my Apple life I really need on my phone. Like if I had a dedicated camera & an mp3 player, and all I wanted my phone to be was calls/text/socials, maybe Apple could just be iPad/Mac
4. Ironically video is on YT 🤣 @…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Menace Beach:
🎵 Maybe We'll Drown
#MenaceBeach
https://menacebeach.bandcamp.com/track/maybe-well-drown
https://open.spotify.com/track/3diz4HjNsT3DhCOYEgxqpP

“Oh — is a sign of of AI generated text”
I mean, maybe. But there are more obvious tells:
- “Here’s why”
- “Why this matters”
- “In Conclusion”
And here’s why I’m right…

@… I mean yeah, maybe I should have given a not glibc option. 😁

Since The A-Team is my favorite TV show, and since I've never done it, last night it occurred to me that maybe 2026 should be the year I finally buy the three seasons I'm missing on DVD (I have two of them, and there were five) and finally watch the whole series front to back, in order.
#TheATeam #80s

Habt ihr eure Ferien schon (um)geplant?
Europe has 'maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left,' energy agency head tells the AP https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-europe-jet-fuel-flight-cancellations-birol-6e67fafd493861b3858de554…

Hmmm. Local feed subscription maybe needs wait on federated authentication? ie I'd need to authenticate to be granted outside access?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116237286336865985
Oh, I wish we had quotes since back then. It would have made a difference when twitter collapsed.
In another 10 years maybe we will have open and customizable feed algorithms. 🤞

It always starts with talk about millionaires and billionaires and ends with a 36% unrealized gains tax on the handful of assets you bought to try and get a stake in the economy and claw your way out of financial insecurity and maybe be able to retire some day. Meanwhile, the unfathomably rich remain forever unfathomably rich. These people are the allies of capital, and creators of a permanently dependent underclass. They do this to ensure there is always a job for them. If they really cared…

Mixed berry muffins, bacon and egg, tea and coffee. Rain all day expected. Games tonight maybe? #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/2WLtRrqvF4WY6vtc6

The worst thing about AI coding assistants maybe isn’t the tech but the people who constantly rub it into your face how great they find it and how you should do it too and you’re wrong not trying it and “why not just do a little bit”.
I’m wondering if they’re talking about programming or snorting cocaine.

Somehow 2026 feels like all that mandatory cognitive bias awareness training should maybe have been kept going (with regular repeats/refreshers, much like first aid training) instead of being phased out in most places... (not just talking about tech/AI, but there it's especially dire)
#TheStateOfIt

Just went through a code file and replaced "target" with "recipient" in a bunch of docs and variable names, because I had had two senses of "target" and because I want to encourage less-combat-focused thinking among potential devs (which at the moment and for the foreseeable future is just me). Zero changes to code functionality (unless I messed up) and took maybe 30 minutes. Got me thinking about the goal of software development and who would view that time as "wasted".
From a short-sighted "measure user-facing functionality" standpoint there was basically zero progress made. From a "cultivating-code-understanding-entities" perspective, there are both immediate and long-term gains. I got a chance to review the entire file at a high level which improves my understanding of things even if no changes had been made. The changes increase clarity of a lot of documentation, as well as variable naming clarity in code which deals with both senses of "target" which now has clear separation between variables that refer to targets and recipients. If there are any other devs in the future, this will help them a lot. Even if not, by increasing my own development efficacy, the expected values for project-gets-shipped and overall-project-impact just went up. I've also helped myself not introduce the same ambiguity in all my future projects, because I'll remember this time investment, and I've bent the ideological flavor of the protect towards neutral/beneficial interactions between "initiators and recipients" instead of hostile interactions between "initiators and targets".
Overall, well worth the time investment if we consider all the subtler benefits, and not just a very crude measure of user-facing behavior. (Secretly, this is also a post about LLMs.)
#programming

'Monster Feelings' is the new tape by Waukegan, Illinois's FREAK ACTIVITY, which is self-described on his Bandcamp here as 'One dude in a room full of instruments and a microphone'. Bedroom post-synth-egg-punk maybe? It's great. Catchy and hooky as fuck. The last song is wild- like 80s kinda. Very strange. Dig all of it, been really hooked on it.

Maybe it’s not work but something else in your life that stops. I don’t know…but you do. What in your life allows the country to continue to function normally? What’s a plug that you can personally pull?
Look for that. Think about it. And get yourself ready. Build up your savings now. Build up your psychological readiness now.
And then…
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@… maybe try “don’t threaten me with a good time” as a general response to everything and report back

Maybe the red line for you is deploying •active duty military• to Minnesota, and not just National Guard. They did that in LA with marines — briefly, just a little, just in the background, little or no confrontation — and that too got smacked down hard.
That one’s a pretty bright red line. Domestic deployment of the military is in fact the origin of the phrase “crossing the Rubicon:” when Julius Caesar led troops across the Rubicon river, leading the troops to invade his own country, that marked the beginning of civil war in Rome, and a death knell for democracy.
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50 years ago tonight, a sunday evening with the jerry garcia band in palo alto. maybe some of the sleepiness of ’76 JGB owes to muffled drum miking?
soundboard: https://archive.org/details/jg76-02-15.133782.jgb.sbd.boswell.smith.flac16
audience tape…

I do not get how Python's math.modf works...
Why do I get all the zeros or nines?
4.4 | 4.0 | 0.40000000000000036
4.5 | 4.0 | 0.5
4.6 | 4.0 | 0.5999999999999996
I can fix it with... more math, but maybe I am doing something wrong?
#python #math

AP Exclusive: Europe has 'maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left,' energy agency head warns (John Leicester/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-europe-jet-fuel-flight-cancellations-birol-6e67fafd493861b3858de5548aa77703
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p93#a260416p93

From a recent hike that I haven't yet blogged about - but I thought I'd just like to share it already with you.
The start of the hike wasn't in the snow but on top, there was still a good winter feeling.
Well, I hope you like it. Maybe it was the last winter shooting this season for me ...
#hiking

Stupid San Francisco question: what does the M in OMI stand for again?
Oceanview, M______, Ingleside. I can't think what fits in the blank. Maybe @… knows.

Note I say “change strategy,” not “leave” or “stop.”
Who knows what’s next, but my expectation is for them to switch to things that are less visible, things that don’t look so bad on video. Maybe that means night raids? More likely, I’m guessing it means more rural action, targeting of remote job sites (e.g. farms), nabbing people from prisons, more activity in detention camps that disallow observers, that kind of thing.

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
BLAKE: Maybe it wasn't anything - anything real.
ZEN: Information. Flight time remaining is now fourty-eight minutes. Visual and detector readouts are now available.
BLAKE: Let's see it, Zen. [Zondar is shown on the screen]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/438

art by Bread Nugent

It appears that you can resolve most of GrapheneOS's severe performance limitations and tendency to aggressively kill background apps (after like 15 seconds!) by globally disabling "secure app spawning" and per-app disabling the "hardened memory allocator." At that point, however, you're pretty much left with a gimped AOSP that's missing a bunch of core usability functionality yeeted in the name of security, and you might as well install LineageOS. Or maybe Ca…

Silly cat woke me up at 3:30am so I took half of my pain meds because, well, pain. It’s subsided a bit since then… maybe I should try to get more sleep. 😴

I’ve felt for a decade like I’m a fool for deploying on either self-managed Linux VMs or (for small projects) free tier Heroku, and now I feel like I was accidentally doing it the smart way the whole time and didn’t know it.
…or maybe I’m still in the familiarity bias phase of learning a new tool?

This is in stark contrast to my brief experiences with Ansible, which gave me the feeling of “oh, this is a lot to learn, but I see where they’re going and it makes sense.”
My last Ansible investigation stalled out trying to set up a clean process for issuing Let’s Encrypt certs, and I maybe need to pick those investigations back up again.

I watch that show 'The Floor' that Rob Lowe hosts, and my only criticism of it is that the contestants never actually fall through any trap doors in the Floor, to their demise. Maybe they'll try that in an upcoming season

It’s hard to convey the current state of things in Minneapolis right now, in part because we ourselves don’t really know. Abductions are •way• down. We’ve seen close to zero of the random, chaotic smash-and-grab kidnappings ICE was perpetrating in Dec and Jan. We still see their vehicles. There are still deportation flights — they •are• still taking people, albeit it in a less visible and maybe more targeted way.
And…

I don’t know the answer to my original question, but maybe it’s as simple as “seize the means of repetition.”
/end