
2025-06-15 08:42:41
I don't know how many times I've read, in mainstream media, the words "The Internet exploded with talk of Y" or "Everyone on the Internet is talking about Z", without me ever having heard of Y or Z.
And I spend a great deal of time "on the Internet".
The Internet should be talking about how a certain social media platform ruined the use of X as a placeholder variable.
Alley Stories 🔣
巷弄故事 🔣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
Le Mot (@WordleFR) #1252 4/6
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https://wordle.louan.me
I nearly missed the fact it's been a year since I translated @… Meta in Myanmar series to Polish.
A year later, I can confidently say that series radicalized me quite a bit.
I've hated Meta products for a while, so not much has changed in that department.
However, re-reading the story of Rohingya ethnic cleansing over and over again made me grow plenty of sheer anger within me.
Anger over general injustice in the world and stuff.
My third 'era' of photography, involving documenting local activism, with particular attention to oppressed or marginalized groups (tenants, Palestinians, Belarusians - to name just a few) wouldn't have happened if I hadn't had my moment of disillusionment about the whole system we live in.
All of that because I started noticing familiar patterns I haven't been aware before. All stories that involve oppression, genocide, ethnic cleansing or any other kind of systemic cruelty started rhyming to me. Only the context and the environment kept changing.
Literally everything about my current life has changed around April 2024 and only now I'm ready to take a look at that.
Anyway. To all of you who want to read that once again:
Full series in Polish:
https://blog.lukaszwojcik.net/pl/meta-w-mjanmie/
Web Archive copy of the above:
https://archive.org/details/meta-w-mjanmie-pl
Original in English:
https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series
Everybody say yay
#photography
Test Drive Unlimited: a quieter Horizon Festival
I found TDU in a box in the loft a couple of weeks ago, and since I now have a new Xbox 360 set up (replacing my old one which didn't have HDMI output) so can play games which are not compatible with the Xbox One, I thought I'd revisit the game. Unfortunately my save wasn't in the cloud, and wasn't transferred while I had both consoles set up, so I needed to start from the beginning.
Okay chat, this video has baffled me for far too long. What in deconstructed cottage pie heck is going on here? :neocat_confused:
#AskFedi
Let me think about what really radicalized me. I’m autistic, so I forget things fast. I need to dig into my brain and find that quirky, weird thing or topic that made me feel radical years ago.
It might be something I hyperfocused on or a strange idea that stuck with me for a long time. I’ll try to find it and figure out what pushed me to where I am now.
I’ll post it when I find it. Sometimes it takes me a bit to dig through all the thoughts and memories in my brain, especially w…
I believe I have managed to prove my ID in order to comply with the new laws that say I have to prove my ID to own the business I own that I'm sure already asked me to prove my ID when I registered it.
First we tried the on-web version, but that apparently relies upon the corporates having managed to profile and track me, because it told me they had no questions upon which to base identification. Good I guess? My avoid-tracking systems must be working at least a bit?
Next we tried the android app, but apparently the phone I tried that with is too old and the app won't install.
So next option is turning up at a post office with a printed letter. I don't own a printer though, so had to have them post that to me.
Took the letter and a driving licence up to the post office today and "It's not going through" they said, pointing to a stalled progress bar on an android app on a tablet.
Um. Okay. So?
Just wait longer apparently. About ten minutes and it finally proceeded and the post office man took a photograph of me after asking me to disrobe of my robe, strip down to a teeshirt and jeans.
Not sure in what sense this has proven my ID any more than it was already proven to get the driving licence or company registration in the first place?
Apparently I now have government logins for "One Login" and for "government gateway" and they are not the same thing? But sort of are the same thing?
Can't say I really understand it. Expect they'll introduce a third government login when they do these Digital ID cards they're talking about.
God knows how I'm supposed to know which to use when the company tax records need updating in a few months.
#id #government #oneLogin
I just ordered Gullo's hosting nat vps. It was $3.50/year. https://hosting.gullo.me
128MB RAM and 2GB Storage
What I did was run this script to convert it into alpine linux
While there is no graduation ceremony, today is the official date of my college graduation. :)
Laut Schätzungen gibt es 1,5 Millionen Menschen in D, die an ME/CFS leiden.
https://www.reporterdesk.de/baden-wuerttemberg/post-covid-und-me-cfs-zahl-der-betroffenen-steigt-auf-15-millionen
Und es werden mehr……
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
The Eat:
🎵 Get Me High
#TheEat
https://ksweetg.bandcamp.com/track/get-me-high-switch-the-beat
https://open.spotify.com/track/078Jp3zCPfVmlEnuhPneVa
If you're fortunate enough to have discretionary income, the LA Tenants Union is helping those in LA targeted by LAPD, DHS, and ICE.
I can't give more details, but know that union members have spent their own money to provide food, water, and medical care to those who need it.
https://gofund.me/4f0c850f…
Randomly reminded of the pet mice my family had when I was a kid.
We'd always get them in pairs and they had the weirdest names.
I've probably forgot a few but...
Breyah and Ghibou (named by me as a toddler, they asked me to name them and used the next two bits of babbling i made)
Rosie and Sarah (nothing super weird there)
Davina (feminized form of David) and Bextra (banned COX-2 inhibitor, a close cousin of Vioxx)
Ammonium Nitrate or Annie for sh…
Chargers LB Daiyan Henley determined to build on breakout year: ‘There’s so much more for me’ https://www.nfl.com/news/chargers-lb-daiyan-henley-determined-to-build-on-breakout-year-there-s-so-much-more-for-me
"My mother didn't particularly like the look of me and my dad didn't like the sound of me": Pete Townshend and the lifelong search for answers
https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/interviews/pete-townshend-interview-2025
I'm rewatching Game of Thrones, and with all the kings trashing the world it's a more and more believable account of current events. Last night I watched season 3 episode 9… if you know you know.
Alley Stories 🔣
巷弄故事 🔣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
Burnout leave, day negative 13:
‣ Half of me wants to rip myself to shreds with self-criticism for things I could have done better
‣ Half of me resents that, through my life so far (independent of recent events), the world hasn't been the best place for me to grow and be the best person I can be
‣ Half of me wants to accept both of the above and find the most realistic (and inevitably imperfect) path forward (ACT therapy style)
‣ Half of me is grumbling that these are…
Ein Schelm, wer Böses dabei denkt. Eine notwendige eigenhändige Unterschrift kann im Eifer des Gefechts schon mal vergessen werden.
https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline/114686857077571549
Reddit Daily Digest is, probably not surprising for many other than me, NOT a digest of the subreddits I’m subscribed to.
It’s shit selected automatically based on unknown rules that Reddit hopes to pull me on the site.
On my side, the result is instant unsubscribe. And sharing so others can avoid this crap.
Looking at the teams that are doing their thing, these playoffs might pull me back to watching #nba. No more "it's about me!" overpaid overwhining stars left. I like it
„My country was burning and the same people who lit the fire now call me illegal.”
É legal quando você começa a assistir uma série ou anime achando que ele serš ruim e é surpreendido positivamente. Se tivessem me dito que esse anime era legal, talvez eu não estivesse me divertindo tanto. Expectativa é tudo.
Le Mot (@WordleFR) #1253 4/6
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https://wordle.louan.me
Hero GP: 6000 mph
Hero GP is a brand new Game Boy Colo(u)r game, released via itch.io for download to play in any emulators but also able to be used on a GBC itself via a flashcart or on an Analogue Pocket. It is obviously inspired by Hang On, but the constraints of the GBC make the game more streamlined, with more immediate controls and with a simpler game structure.
It’s time for something new. So: what do you think I should do next? I want to be of service. https://anildash.com/2025/06/11/time-for-something-new/
her: (adorable cat drawing)
me: cute
her, 5 seconds later: i want someone to have my skull
SWTOR stream is LIVE! Come explore the Old Republic with me on Twitch! (Running on Linux!) #SWTOR
Robert Reich here, with breaking news:
The House of Representatives has voted to take back a whopping $1.1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting.
These are huge, crippling cuts,
and if passed by the Senate, they'll be a fatal blow to public radio and television stations around the country.
It's all part of Donald Trump's ongoing war on the free press.
He knows that independent journalism is one of the biggest obstacles to his authorita…
"Lots and lots of things scare me but you just get on with it. Fright can transform into petrol, you just have to use it to your advantage."
-Judi Dench
#acting #coaching #inspiration
Urban Composition IV
都市构图 IV
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
I want Specsavers and Apple to have a partnership for VisionOS frames.
This is me (playing bass) with my first band ever called Rapa Nui. This was officially our first gig, although the first one happened a few months before this one, in Sarajevo, in front of the then-demolished Youth House.
Back then, I hated melodic punk, feeling the buzz from bands like Motorhead and different extreme metal and grindcore artists.
However, in 2016, I rediscovered an old favorite.
This is a story of how Bad Religion made me start listening to punk rock, an…
I don't know if I have lost my voice or if it changed and I don't like that.
Do I need to be vulnerable in public or is it enough (for me) to be in conversations with friends.
A gaudy stage with the US Army logo and Coinbase listed as its sponsor underneath.
I am pretty damned far from being one of those people who puts the armed services some kind of quasi-religious pedestal, and even to me this is deeply offensive, just incredibly gross.
EDIT to add: This is so hideous I’m having trouble believing it. Can anyone verify the photo?
EDIT 2: Yes, almost certainly real; see thread
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/post/3lrm2rrrhms2y
I hit 80 miles on my bike this month (yay!) but this morning was weird! I'm typically very careful, but three cars came way too close to me, or made bad turns near me.
I got home and realized I forgot to turn on my lights before I rode! Maybe lights really do make a huge difference.
#bikeTooter #bike
Had a weird dream-filled night. Dreamt I was in a series of pubs, but I could never order a beer because none of them had lists of beers available, nor did the barkeepers ever get to me... also, it occurs to me that they might not have been pubs. 😬 🤔
Are you kidding me? 3.40 Euros for a single Espresso?? This was the last time ever at Costa Coffee (Karlsruhe main Station). … Feels like a tourist trap as e.g. Venice, Piazza San Marco…but without Venice ;-)
#coffeechallenge #boycottCosta
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
The Boys:
🎵 Tumble With Me
#TheBoys
https://theboyscov.bandcamp.com/track/tumble-with-me-early-demo
https://open.spotify.com/track/0UFhBqwedXUDsJ8pze0fhQ
put me in your backpack, i wanna see the world
On the latest episode of "Between the Brackets", Yaron Koren hosts me for a chat about Wikifunctions, Abstract Wikipedia, Wikidata, AI, and much more. I hope you enjoy the episode. Thank you, Yaron, for hosting!
https://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episo…
"Conspiracy thinking is also a trap because it contains feedback loops of positive reinforcement. If you reject authoritative sources of information as part of a conspiracy, then you will likely reject any information that can disprove the conspiracy. Any information that contradicts the conspiracy, or lack of information that would prove the conspiracy, are part of the conspiracy."
"Call me fat? Call me undisciplined? Next season you're all dead, y'hear me? DEAD."
▶️ Luka Doncic is SCARY Skinny NOW - AM Hoops
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ImE6I-51OBg&si=nh5SBf6vYsIgYDfF
Me versus my body. That's what the gym is.
Wifey (@…) makes cool resin things. She made these for me - they fade to purple on the undersides. This photo doesn't even do justice to how cool they are. And they glow in the dark, too. Rad as shit
#resin #tentacles
https://bsky.app/profile/scottohara.me/post/3lrbkvowass2q
Mine are also linked:
https://
De VVD is een crisis in slow motion - @…
https://chrisaalberts.nl/2025/06/14/de-vvd-is-een-crisis-in-slow-motion/
I get the desire for live coding interviews, you can't just take people's word that they know how to do it.
But what's the point in throwing Advent of Code style problems at me and interrupting a naive or incorrect approach before I even start implementing it? Let me write unoptimized code for you and then make it better! I'm not going to write the perfect implementation first try for every problem, but I can show you my process and prove I can write _some_ code.
…
And an AI just taught me the ImageMagick 'montage' command and the options I needed.
(Have I never used that in the ~30 years I've been using it?)
@… @… You are nicer than me. Apologies for the swearing.
I know this makes me one of those chlichéd people that listens to someone’s music after they pass, but…
Pet Sounds is a masterpiece album that I always undervalued.
My parents played the Beach Boys, quite a lot, when I was young. I should have explored this—more—as an adult.
Jag är en så'n enorm språkpolis att ibland "roar" jag mig med att rätta artiklarna jag läser på telefonen bara för att få ur mig frustrationen. Så att jag kan lugna mig i andra sammanhang.
Orden "sitt" och "sin" verkar man inte lära sig i skolan längre. Ironin är förstås att jag inte har gått i svensk skola, vilket gör att jag också låter superdryg. Jag vet.
Att vissa bloggare missar detta kan jag leva med, men när DN och andra stora tidningar…
Have realised the fonts i have installed on my Mac are out of control - gets more difficult to wade through them looking for inspiration. To be fiar this has been an issue with me forever, since the heady days of the Letraset catalogue.
What is everyone using to manage their fonts these days?
I have a bad habit of taking people at their word when they say they want constructive criticism.
Yeah, that usually doesn't work out well for me. 😂
It's taken 41 years but I think I'm finally starting to get it...this is something we say but don't really mean.
Wish I'd learned that one a long time ago. 😭
My bike&hike yesterday 🙂
This is when I talk about mountainbiking: not fierce downhills - but uphills 😄 Including an evil ramp of 23% incline (regarding my cycling computer - and my legs) on gravel that I didn't expect.
(especially as I was carrying a backpack including camera and tele-lens)
Still working on the photos from the day before. Today is a rest-day for me.
My legs still feel a bit sore. My back is fine already
I have a habbit of making (too) many (small) packages for functionality that might be reused in different context. {box} might be an alternative by making scripts into modlues that can be loaded: #RStats
Urban Discoveries III 🏙️
都市发现 III 🏙️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
I wish my family could see how much I care about anarchism, syndicalism, and especially anarcho-syndicalism, and how serious I am about building a different kind of world.
They still hold on to the image of me as someone who just spends all day gaming, like that’s all I ever was. But people change, grow, and find new paths.
If they can’t accept that, then they don’t really know who I am now, and it’s painful to realize that the people closest to me can’t see the person I’ve beco…
Urban Discoveries III 🏙️
都市发现 III 🏙️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
Okay, I wrote a little bit about Sly, and about Janet and Prince, and the very first thing I ever blogged about, and how Sly maybe invented some not-small part of the world we live in. And also about the scariest live show I've ever been to. https://www.anildash.com/2025/06/09/sly-st
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Simpletones:
🎵 Don't Bother Me
#Simpletones
https://thecheapthrillsfl.bandcamp.com/track/dont-bother-me-the-simpletones
https://open.spotify.com/track/21CLDfNMTgevyC2JiBrN2u
OH: no amount of lab safety cop will stop me from stabbing my balls with a needle full of NaK
Urban Composition III
都市构图 III
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
In the wake of the official MN Capitol rally being cancelled, lots of neighborhood protests springing up in its place. Judging by local reaction, that MAGA serial killer is going to cause •more• protest, not less. This makes me feel better about the decision to cancel the big one (which, per the previous post, I am truly torn about).
#photography #birds Little Egret. Taken at Farlington Marshes, UK.
Work is playing ABBA on loop and I’m remembering being at ABBA Voyage with @…. Fun times!
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Harry Nilsson:
🎵 Me and My Arrow
#HarryNilsson
https://wetbridgerecords.bandcamp.com/album/ty-segall-loch-lomond-gotta-get-up-me-my-arrow-harry-nilsson-cover-7inch
https://open.spotify.com/track/5KjRITicSHJM88w3U9LwLM
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Yo creo que esa es una muy buena razón para migrar a plataformas que sean verdaderamente democršticas, transparentes y libres que no censuren o promuevan contenidos según los criterios de conveniencia de sus dueños.
¡Saludos desde el #Fediverso!
Re:
Glamping, shlamping. Just get me a suite at the Ahwahnee.
@… @… Sure, it was your first sentence that made me feel the need to reply. I hope you are less divided now. 😄
NYC: 3pm, in front of City Hall on Broadway https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/freedavidendraids
Who is realistically going to carry around a second digital camera with them? Of course cameras are better than smartphones, but the best camera is the one you have with you at the moment.
I've taken thousands of photos that I never would have thanks to my iphone.
https://
I’ve seen estimates of 5 million and 4-6 million by direct event-by-event accounting, and of 10-11 million by looser estimation. Wherever it lands, yesterday is shaping up to be one of the largest protests in US history, maybe •the• largest.
And I think — believe it with me, envision it — I think we’re going to break that record soon.
Densetsu no Stafy: spin spin spin
When renewing my subscription to Nintendo Online it was only marginally more to upgrade to the expansion pass, which has given my sons access to the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC, will provide me with upgrades for Tears of the Kingdom on the Switch 2, and also gives me access to the N64, GBA and MD libraries. Tempted as I was to immediately start playing through Streets of Rage 2 again, I instead had a look for anything new and interesting.
he photographed me,
my soul was stolen,
imprisoned in the result.
then he crumpled it,
put it in the rasins,
and left us for the crows.
then one accidentally ate me and i got to live out my crow possession dreams!!! WOOHOO 🥳🥰
03:35—Good night #Fediverse! 😴💤
- https://pixelfed.social/p/midtsveen/839638250579307406
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I lulled a baby to sleep today singing about iPhone, Android and SD Cards.
Urban Discoveries II 🌆
都市发现 II 🌆
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
It absolutely baffles me that Google refuses to provide Android16 AOSP support for Pixel devices.
#Android16 #Android #AOSP
When topics of discourse prove difficult to approach, stories can help us on our way. This famed short story about a graceful city with an unexpected abberation helps me reflect on where I want to apply my capacity for writing, sketching and teaching.
https://axbom.com/omelas/
#DigitalEthics
Urban Discoveries II 🌆
都市发现 II 🌆
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
Urban Composition II
都市构图 II
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
Being #trans is cool, pass it on.
Urban Discoveries 🏙️
都市发现 🏙️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
Hoping my iPad can run iPadOS 26. #WWDC
Urban Discoveries 🏙️
都市发现 🏙️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography