
2025-06-09 05:35:19
NYC: 3pm, in front of City Hall on Broadway https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/freedavidendraids
NYC: 3pm, in front of City Hall on Broadway https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/freedavidendraids
Incredibly chaotic scene Los Angeles as LAPD is pushing forward a skirmish line and violently arresting anti-ICE protesters.
You can also hear me grunt when police shoot me in the abdomen with some kind of projectile.
https://bsky.app/profile/jeremotograph
Patriots DT Christian Barmore out to 'prove I'm still me' after blood clots cut 2024 season short https://www.nfl.com/news/patriots-dt-christian-barmore-out-to-prove-i-m-still-me-after-blood-clots-cut-2…
Acceptera, lämna eller förändra det ohållbara.
Jag reflekterar över varför jag gör det jag gör och hur jag vill nyttja min tid. Mitt skrivande är mitt kall, och tillsammans med mina modeller och visualiseringar är det så just jag kan bidra. Nu kan du som vill och har förmåga också backa det arbetet.
"År 1973 skrev Ursula K. Le Guin sin prisbelönta berättelse De som går bort från Omelas. Denna korta science fiction-berättelse beskriver en idyllisk stad, Omelas, där alla mä…
#photography #birds Little Egret. Taken at Farlington Marshes, UK.
Self Portrait Study 🖼️
自我小像研究 🖼️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
Pet peeve of the day: "24/7/365"
Being #trans is cool, pass it on.
Changing tastes
I found a list on my Google Drive account, seemingly from 2008, which identifies itself as the "Best Games". Obviously there have been a number of amazing games released since, but it's interesting to see whether I still consider these to be near the peak of gaming. I'll start with the list, and then below I'll enter some thoughts. Phantasy Star Online…
I’m unreasonably fucking pissed.
An r/me_irlgbt moderator banned me, and is now accusing me of being an A.I. … … … because I use fucking emdashes and ellipses.
#typography #AI #nightmaretimeline
Sonnet 036 - XXXVI
Let me confess that we two must be twain,
Although our undivided loves are one:
So shall those blots that do with me remain,
Without thy help, by me be borne alone.
In our two loves there is but one respect,
Though in our lives a separable spite,
Which though it alter not love's sole effect,
Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight.
I may not evermore acknowledge thee,
Lest my bewailed guilt shoul…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Glazyhaze:
🎵 Forgive Me
#Glazyhaze
https://glazyhazemusic.bandcamp.com/track/forgive-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/2JwLQDtqm8F7hHqFWF0FS1
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"[…] Wanting a man got me into awful troubles more than once. But wanting to get married, never! No, no. None of that for me."
"Why not?" Tenar demanded.
Taken aback, Moss said simply, "Why, what man'd marry a witch?" And then, with a sidelong chewing motion of her jaw, like a sheep shifting its cud, “And what witch’d marry a man?"
They split rushes.
"What's wrong with men?" Tenar inquired cautiously.
As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, "I don't know, my dearie. I’ve thought on it. Often I’ve thought on it. The best I can say it is like this. A man’s in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell." She held up her long, bent, wet fingers as if holding a walnut. “It’s hard and strong, that shell, and it’s all full of him. Full of grand man-meat, man-self. And that’s all. That’s all there is. It’s all him and nothing else, inside."
Tenar pondered awhile and finally asked, "But if he's a wizard—"
"Then it's all his power, inside. His power’s himself, see. That’s how it is with him. And that’s all. When his power goes, he’s gone. Empty." She cracked the unseen walnut and tossed the shells away. “Nothing."
"And a woman, then?"
"Oh, well, dearie, a woman's a different thing entirely. Who knows where a woman begins and ends? Listen, mistress, I have roots, I have roots deeper than this island. Deeper than the sea, older than the raising of the lands. I go back into the dark." Moss’s eyes shone with a weird brightness in their red rims and her voice sang like an instrument. “I go back into the dark! Before the moon I was. No one knows, no one knows, no one can say what I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon. Who dares ask questions of the dark? Who’ll ask the dark its name?"
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(Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu)
Hoping my iPad can run iPadOS 26. #WWDC
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Paul Simon:
🎵 Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard
#NowPlaying #PaulSimon
https://johnaward.bandcamp.com/track/paul-simon-cover-me-and-julio-down-by-the-schoolyard
https://open.spotify.com/track/6vxHp3CDNo0afgKGp2yi1E
2010s: "Haha, autocomplete is so bad. It can create some serious miscommunication."
2020s: "Damn I have an important life decision to make. My best option is probably to ask autocomplete."
- You don't understand. When you feed the pigeons, they shit on ME and people like me.
- Yeah. That's the general idea.
Things that don’t Develop II🧪
不显影的那些东西 II🧪
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
Been playing Pistol Whip again. Such a great game. The Black Magic "hard" level, with Reckless and Hell options is ridiculously hard. Finishing at all is a feat.
Was wondering how the hell the top players managed to score so highly. I was in like 4th place thinking I was playing a practically perfect game.
But it turns out only with 188 hits. The top three, I noticed, has 189 hits! There's a secret dude!?
Found him, flying around in the sky mid level on the right.
Nice. That's me 3rd in the global leaderboard for Black Magic Hard Reckless Hell now then.
Maybe I shouldn't be giving the game away. If someone learns of the secret dude from this post and then beats me into 4th place I'll be miffed.
#vr #games #pistolWhip
#SlyStone was a good lifelong pal of one of my late friends, and the stories I could tell... but we'll skip those for now :)
I was gifted a rare DVD archive of all the footage Sly had collected a couple decades ago... and I posted some excerpts online, like this performance at The Metromedia West broadcast facility in #Hollywood
@…
You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
New racoon
You knew just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for
⚠️ Dear amazing people,
After a company reorganization, I will be available to empower new teams. Please help me reach out them by boosting or directly introducing me. I truly appreciate your help!
https://talkweb.eu/you-need-me/
Roles : {Technical} Program Management, Tactical Prod…
#WordWeavers 9 June: MC POV: Whose advice do you value the most?
MC: There are some people I listen to, whose advice I consider. But one of the few that can make me go along with a course of action despite my misgivings, is my brother. But don't you dare tell him that, he'll never let me hear the end of it. I trust him with my life, but sometimes he's insufferable.
Le Mot (@WordleFR) #1246 4/6
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https://wordle.louan.me
“I’m usually fine with surveillance capitalism but this is too much, even for me.”
#surveillance #capitalism #BigTech
Yaw, Google if you block me then I just ignore you, your videos and guess what? You get nothing from me!
https://www.ghacks.net/2025/06/09/googles-fight-against-ad-blockers-on-youtube-enters-another-round/
¿No os da la sensación que la gente conduce peor?
Ayer, en un trayecto de 30 km por carreteras secundarias primero me adelantó un tipo con su coche en la carretera de doble sentido con línea contínua que hay sobre la presa de Valmayor, sin arcenes y con muros de hormigón a ambos lados.
Pero por si eso fuera poco un cretino me adelantó con la moto en un tramo con línea contínua con curvas, sin arcenes y con muy poca visibilidad por la vegetación. Llega a tardar 10 segundos mšs en …
All this brings me back to some text I was writing yesterday for my students, on which I’d appreciate any thoughtful feedback:
❝You can let the computer do the typing for you, but never let it do the thinking for you.
This is doubly true in the current era of AI hype. If the AI optimists are correct (the credible ones, anyway), software development will consist of humans critically evaluating, shaping, and correcting the output of LLMs. If the AI skeptics are correct, then the future will bring mountains of AI slop to decode, disentangle, fix, and/or rewrite. Either way, it is •understanding• and •critically evaluating• code — not merely •generating• it — that will be the truly essential ability. Always has been; will be even more so. •That• is what you are learning here.❞
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Setting course for adventure! Streaming Star Trek Online tonight on my Linux rig. Come explore the galaxy with me! #STO
Things that don’t Develop II🧪
不显影的那些东西 II🧪
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
„I wasn’t allowed to speak or offer legal advice to M in the courtroom, so without looking down for too long, I wrote in my notebook:
Ils vont essayer de terminer ton case—tu vas dire NON. Tu as besoin de temps pour trouver un avocat.“
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/on
Not a fan of customers who drive me mad. I’m doing my part of the relationship and I really need them to do their part.
WHEW! @… and I both are safe with our iPads for another year.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/ipa
rant on software dev practices
What is it with P5js and virtually all its ecosystem (like Q5js) that, still today, didn't manage to _properly_ package their libraries to be distributed and used via package managers?
Same with their insistence to push global resources and state everywhere... and of course virtually not documenting any of the truly delicate details, just the trivial stuff that could be auto-discovered by relying on auto-complete tools.
I kind of understand wanting to keep the vanilla experience alive, making it "easy" for novices... but that shouldn't be at odds with more "professionalized" production pipelines, at least *not that much*.
For example, with Q5js:
- The NPM packages could be mentioned in their documentation (they are not, even though they are official)
- The NPM packages could define proper exports (same for the JS modules themselves), not forcing us to rely on relative paths to files in node_modules... 🤦
- Globals could be at least namespaced... of course, it would be much, much better if they didn't exist at all.
I'm writing this in 2025, not 1993... and I'm... "triggered".
At this point I'll have to check if I have any other neuro-condition beyond ADHD that makes me "obsessed" with technical flaws, because it seems to be a "me problem" when either virtually nobody sees that as a huge collection of fatal design flaws... or they see it and don't care at all.
Oh give me your pity!
I'm on a committee, We attend and amend
Which means that from morning And contend and defend
to night, Without a conclusion in sight.
We confer and concur,
We defer and demur, We revise the agenda
And reiterate all of our thoughts. With frequent addenda
And consider a load of reports.
We compose and propose,
We suppose and oppose, But though various notions
And the points of procedure are fun; Are br…
Defence lawyer in Hockey Player Sex Assault Trial:
"She may not have initially planned a night like this, but her “inhibitions were lowered and her sexual interest was heightened.””
Tell Me I'm Wrong: the lawyer basically just argued that if you get a woman (or any unwilling partner) drunk or high enough that it ‘lowers” their inhibitions and “heightens" their sexual interest, then you can do whatever the hell you want. No regrets.
Disgusting violent-misogynist-excusing bullshit.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/livestory/defence-targets-e-m-s-credibility-judge-questions-consent-videos-shown-at-world-juniors-sex-assault-trial-9.6790561
As a human, I love the WWDC advertisement voice encouraging me to run faster when I workout with the Apple. That’s just the boost I need to reach the finish line! #wwdc
Been doing some game testing that's required me to use Discord more again. And I mean, I knew Discord was bad, but admittedly, I'd forgotten how TRULY awful is
Me, at the start of the semester: In order to pass this course, you need to complete the majority of the weekly exercises.
Student at the end of the semester: I had no idea that 4 exercises would not be enough!!
The semester has 14 weeks of courses.
#AcademicChatter
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Caifanes:
🎵 Mštenme porque me muero
#Caifanes
https://juancarloscano.bandcamp.com/track/matenme-porque-me-muero-caifanes-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/6cqwDeMvlCKI9CoeVahGrM
Why have people suddenly started using the word 'simplistic' when they actually mean 'simple?'
It's like a social media rash at the minute.
It irritates me nearly as much as 'I could care less' meaning they couldn't.
'Arrest me': California's governor unfazed by threats of arrest from Trump administration official (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/californias-governor-unfazed-threats-arrest-trump-administratio-rcna211752
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p55#a250609p55
A family member sent me their android tablet because it's not connecting to the internet and they can't find the button for airplane mode. I told them that it needs to wait until I'm not burnt out. I'm trying to not feel bad about that.
"There's one way to end this war. You say to Vladimir Putin:
If you don't stop this war, and we agree to the ceasefire terms I dictate, we are bringing Ukraine into NATO within 30 days. Which part of that sentence don't you understand? Do you want to mess with me? Test me.
That's how you end this war."
https://
@… I remember my old boss, who’s a white Brazilian, telling me:
“I didn’t know I wasn’t white until I moved to the UK.”
With an accent like that, you can’t really be “white” in the UK. I imagine a lot of US Americans think the same way.
It’s hard for me to explain just how disruptive it’s been to be without a reliable and trustworthy browser or password manager, recently.
I can’t believe it’s 2025 and I can’t find either of those, and I spend so much time trying to make this experience as good as I know it can be, from the before-everything-got-hostile times.
I’m so tired.
Made us so happy to see Apple used @… on-screen during WWDC!
No dark mode for SSMS?
SQL Shades to the rescue!
Free version adds plain dark mode to the IDE (fine by me.) Paid version supports additional themes.
This solution is cleaner than the rather hacky approach of modifying ssms.pkgundef to restore a half-finished dark theme commented out by SSMS developers apparently at the last moment.
"Finally, a real dark mode for SQL Server Management Studio!"
Luttons ensemble pour les droits des enfants et contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles !
Un appel du cœur pour que les violences Š l'encontre des enfants mineurs soient prises au sérieux et deviennent une réelle priorité de nos sociétés.
https://chardonsbleus.…
Bookmark this for when you ask yourself why skepticism turns to hatred on the use of unconstrained LLMs.
https://infosec.exchange/@dvandal/114638324336575392
21 años del debut discogršfico de Velvet Revolver. Fue todo un éxito haber juntado a los ex Guns n' Roses con la voz de Stone Temple Pilots, Scott Weiland. Un disco que me voló la cabeza por esa época.
#VelvetRevolver #Contraband
My criticism of #China #humanrights and #climate seems to rarely cause issues among the actual Chinese people I meet, both online and virtually.
Somehow, the only ones who get pissed out at me are
GED language arts test today. failed to prepare well. fortunately, judging by the practice test, it seems like anyone who can comprehend a book for 12 year olds could ace this. wish me luck ig
update: 🥳
Snaps Urbana 🌇
城市掠影 🌇
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
This was foreseeable. Want to go on vacation on the state's dime? Pull your kids out of school and get vouchers.
Reminds me of the time I saw my sister-in-law tell her first grader to read a book for a treat. That was her idea of teaching her kid how to read. Both she and my brother benefited from special education throughout their schooling. The state was fine with them homeschooling. I believe they were eventually convinced by her parents to send the kids back to school. My pare…
DNS has a bad reputation but, let me tell you, the real baddies in networking are TLS certificates.
Latest victim: #Chromecast, which used a 10 years certificate and forgot to update it before expiration https://www.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/comments/1j7lhrs/the_chromecast_2s_device_authentication/
Tell me why this is anything other than purely destructive.
@… Do you have mandatory attendance? Here we have “liberté académique,” i.e., students are not required to attend classes… So, I could in fact take this approach—but it still seems somewhat unfair to me if you can get the credits without putting in the work…
Small achievement: Managed to configure the Steam controller for #BattleForWesnoth, so now I can play it on the big screen. 🎮 (The tricky part was getting the controller's mouse emulation work under Wayland, but then it's great for mouse keyboard games!) BfW is still one of the greatest games of all time, if you ask me, and it simply never gets old. 🧝♂️
That took me way longer than it should. Real facepalm type moment. #Wordle
Wordle 1,451 4/6
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Calamus 28 When I peruse the conquered fame of heroes
My surface reading is this is a celebration of the common man, perhaps soldiers, over the more famous generals and presidents. But this commentary encourages me to dig deeper.
First, to highlight the gay text...
the brotherhood of lovers ... Through youth, and through middle and old age, how unfaltering, how affectionate and faithful they were
Very homoromantic language! Male lovers who stay together through their whole lives, affectionate.
The last fillip here is Whitman's own stance: "pensive... filled with the bitterest envy". Whitman admires these lovers and envies them. That's a striking feeling to disclose!
Aiming to do a 30-minute walk daily (weather permitting).
Mario Kart Wii: chasing ghosts
As mentioned in my post on the closing of Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, I spent a fair amount of time online playing Mario Kart Wii. I had intended to spend time playing multiplayer games, tying to improve my fairly rubbish ranking of 5100, but in fact I found that the online time trials were a bigger draw. The way the ghost races were set up was very clever.
Imagine how different the Disney parks Star Wars lands would have been if Andor had come out before they built those.
Got a new phone, had an upgrade available. Best thing about it is USB-C. Finally moving away from lightning cables. The last one left in my arsenal is for my MagSafe Duo Charger.
Me: [picks up dropped metal water bottle]
Me: "it's wild how much abuse these things can take, and they just keep going! "
13yo: "are you talking about me?"
Me: "yes."
13yo: "good, I finally get some recognition for my suffering."
#parenting 🙄
I posted this poll on 9th Feb. Now it has happened. But not quite as predicted.
https://mastodon.me.uk/@tokensane/113975171996154970
I’ve been around a while too, and I can vouch for this.
I remember somebody telling me with deadly earnestness circa 1999 that Java Beans were going to make it so that business analysts could write integration code themselves, no developers. Java Beans.
Two certainties in software:
1. The work always changes.
2. The work never goes away. https://front-end.social/@alvaromontoro/114494970685095188
I just can’t seem to get the clap timing right to the Friends theme song.
More seriously, of the devices I brought with me to Cupertino this week, the chances of installing a new operating system on each today are:
- MacBook: 95%. (I can install to a separate partition and test with a separate account without risking my main setup.)
- Apple Vision Pro: 99%. (I use this nearly every day, but don't rely on it.)
- iPhone: 0% (If there's one device I need to work reliably this week, this is that device.)
- Apple Watch: 50%? (I brought t…
A decent pic from the Antwerp printing museum
#photography
'Tom, arrest me. Let's go.': Gov. Gavin Newsom responds to Trump border czar's threat (MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/gov-newsom-tells-president-trump-to-stand-down-amid-l-a-protests-241152581707
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p1#a250609p1
Who can help me set up Bing on Josm? #osm .There are some discussions, but I can't seem to find the info I need explained.
It's one of those days where I have the energy and motivation to get into a flow of work but inexplicably my coworkers CONTINUE FUCKING MESSAGING ME for NO GOOD FUCKING REASON. Like, for hours now. Teams was a mistake
Some flying insect just flew down my polo and stung me three times. If these are my last words, please tell my family there's a reason I did not tag them in my posts.
@… Do you have mandatory attendance? Here we have “liberté académique,” i.e., students are not required to attend classes… So, I could in fact take this approach—but it still seems somewhat unfair to me if you can get the credits without putting in the work…
Before this #LetterboxdFriday ends, I share my #LastFourWatched
The Greatest Hits (3½★)
Despicable Me 2 (3★)
Despicable Me (3½★)
Sing (1½★)
🔗 https://…
Natura Urbana XIII 🏡
城市自然 XIII 🏡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
GIFT:
🎵 Wish Me Away
#GIFT
https://giftbandnyc.bandcamp.com/track/wish-me-away
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Kyrgijl4H54vU652vzGqu
It really bothers me that the media is still referring to prisoners as "undocumented" migrants/immigrants, despite it being well-known at this point that we're canceling green cards and visas specifically to imprison people. Not to mention also throwing people into gulags when they attempt to renew their documentation. https://…
Vi är en grupp människor som vill att fler röster ska höras när ny teknik påverkar samhället. Vi vill uppmärksamma att det finns fler vägval och riktningar än som normalt får utrymme i visionerna. Vi vill att fler perspektiv ska få synlighet. Och vi börjar med att säga hej, med ett remissvar. 👋
https://folketsai.se/remissvar/
#Folk…
Prince of Persia: completed!
Having completed level 10, I was expecting the difficulty to ramp up towards the end of the game. In fact, level 11 wasn't that difficult, provided you didn't take it too slowly. The first part of the level required a run along a long collapsing pathway in order to reach the end platform before it was too late; you had to run along this to avoid stepping on traps which closed the door to progress.
Farlington Marshes, near #Portsmsouth UK. #silentsunday #photography #weather
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
G.B.H.:
🎵 Give Me Fire
#GBH
https://ciderdogs.bandcamp.com/track/give-me-fire-g-b-h-cover
This is very cool! Someone made a Wallace and Gromit contraption!
https://youtu.be/Wv7WVaoJJ0Y?si=6h30bWgWDeDkTSYY
One of the constant recurring topics on social media are stories of someone saying they don’t wash their legs, or they don’t use a washcloth, or they don’t take showers for a week. I wrote about why those stories always blow up. https://www.anildash.com/2025/05/29/who-is-clean/…
Natura Urbana XII 🏡
城市自然 XII 🏡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
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Natura Urbana XI 🏡
城市自然 XI 🏡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography