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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

Men in Love by Irvine Welsh is published by Jonathan Cape on 24 July.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/13/irvine-welsh-my-trainspotting-characters-reactions-to-events-help-to-inform-my-own

Did my first #AmateurRadio bike race support today as a family activity. My oldest and I ran separate ham SAG vehicles, and my wife ran net control some of the time.
I had borrowed a mobile U/VHF rig from my club so that we could have one rig in each vehicle, but then my coax was apparently damaged for the antenna in the other car which disabled its mobile rig, so "bring your …

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”
‭‭John€ ‭15€:‭12€ ‭NRSV€€
https://bible.com/bible/2016/jhn.15.12.NRSV
Abide in My Love - Pray As You Go

John 15:12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. | New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) | Download The Bible App Now
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Any suggestions?
https://comicskingdom.com/pardon-my-planet/2025-07-14

Pardon My Planet Comic Strip 2025-07-14 | Comics Kingdom
Read the Pardon My Planet comic strip from July 14, 2025, and check out other Pardon My Planet comics by Vic Lee.

Let's just say this answer surprised me. Happy reading! #writing #writers
I Refuse to Support My Friend’s Crappy Self-Published Novel: Am I the Asshole? ‹ Literary Hub

I Refuse to Support My Friend’s Crappy Self-Published Novel: Am I the Asshole?
That’s right, you know what time it is! We’re back for another wild installment of everyone’s favorite drunken advice column, Am I the Literary Asshole?, the place where your questions and my answe…

Father's day was a good reminder that the most important people in my life are my partner and my kids. My partner and I are doing a sugar fast next week, so I'm gonna throw on a dopamine fast as well.
See y'all next week. (Keep me honest ;)
Happy #FathersDay to all who celebrate.

Rod Ruth art from Tom McGowen’s ‘Album of Dinosaurs,’ 1972 Via https://70sscifiart.tumblr.com/post/780920334492827648/my-favorite-1972-rod-ruth-art-from-tom-mcgowens

70s Sci-Fi Art
My favorite 1972 Rod Ruth art from Tom McGowen's 'Album of Dinosaurs.' Love the earthy 70s-era colors.

INTERESTINGLY, if I keep my eyes open while I am drying my face, even though I cannot see anything at all, somehow my body is able to be satisfied with that amount of input, and keep me stable and steady. The moment I close my eyes, I get wobbly. Open them even if I cannot see, and I am fine. Cool, huh? (END)

03:35—Good night #Fediverse! 😴💤
- https://pixelfed.social/p/midtsveen/839638250579307406
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On my way to The Hague, to draw the red line for Dutch government with respect to Israel's continuing genocide in Gaza.
After last time's 100,000 participants, NS put in a lot of extra trains. My very early one already has a lot of passengers in red.
#rodelijn

The latest example of AI-hallucinated citations in court cases comes from... an Anthropic employee:
https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/05/13/anthropics-own-data-scientist-submits-de…

I'm really torn. I love me my @…, great people, great model, love to support and use.
Buuuuut, I'd also love to use my own domain so I can truly own my own social. However I’m concerned about a single user instance not seeing all my current interactions.
Any advice from you self-hosters? I'm trying out

Fedihost - Managed Fediverse Hosting
Fedihost is a managed fediverse hosting service. With a couple of clicks you can be up and running with your own Mastodon or Peertube instance.

Since moving ALL* my cacti and succulents from my office to my bedroom, they are doing SO much better! Clearly south facing window was too much for them.
Anyway, I am left with a whole empty window ledge that I am wondering what to fill it with.
Suggestions please?
#WFH
*aside from a plastic one with a cute face on the pot

About morbid thriftiness (Autism Spectrum Condition)
As you may have noticed, I am morbidly thrifty. Usually I don't buy stuff that I don't need — and if I decide that I actually need something, I am going to ponder about it for a while, look for value products, and for the best price. And with some luck, I'm going to decide I don't need it that bad after all.
One reason for that is probably how I was raised. My parents taught me to be thrifty, so I have to be. It doesn't matter that, from retrospective, I see that their thriftiness was applied rather arbitrarily to some spendings and not others, or that perhaps they were greedy — spending less on individual things so that they could buy more. Well, I can't delude myself like that, so I have to be thrifty for real. And when I fail, when I pay too much, when I get cheated — I feel quite bad about it.
The other reason is that I keep worrying about my future. It doesn't matter how rich I may end up — I'll keep worrying that I'll run out of money in the future. Perhaps I'll lose a job and won't be able to find anything for a long time, Perhaps something terrible will happen and I'm going to need to pay a lot suddenly.
Another thing is that I easily get attached to objects. Well, it's easier to be thrifty when you really don't want to replace stuff. Over time you also learn to avoid getting new stuff at all, since the more stuff you have, the more stuff may break and need to be thrown away.
Finally, there's my environmental responsibility. I admit that I don't do enough — but at least the things I can do, I do.
[EDIT: and yes, I feel bad about how expensive my new phone was, even though it's of much higher quality than the last one. Also, I got a worse deal because I waited too long.]
#ActuallyAutistic

Eagles OT Lane Johnson believes he's still improving at 35: 'I'm getting close to maybe my peak' https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-ot-lane-johnson-believes-he-s-still-improving-at-35-i-m-getting-close-t…

Sonnet 029 - XXIX
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,
Haply …

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

Please help @… if you can. Her and her family are living through hell at the hands of israel.
#israel #genocide

After moving my homelab cluster from microk8s to Talos, I've written a new blog post outlining the cluster build:
Setting up a Talos kubernetes cluster with talhelper
https://www.beyondwatts.com/posts/setting-up-a-talos-kubernetes…

Thanking my own self for backups... I accidentally deleted my Jellyfin media library yesterday!
Luckily the machine it lives on backs up to an external disk and there's also a backup that runs to a NAS in the house so it was an easy restore.

Voted in the Hottest 100 of Australian songs. Suspect my finished list was totally different to my first ten selections. #hottest100

#EroticMusings 7: Do you have a distinct style? Did you develop it intentionally? Do you want to change it?
I think that my choice of vocabulary, especially in the erotic passages, is quite unique. Also my tendency to start German sentences with "but" and my very own brand of gender neutral language, because German is everything but (unless you costumise it).
Some of …

I don’t have a father. My adoptive father was an abuser (physical, emotional, & sexual) who croaked more than a decade ago, & my bio father passed away at age 59 (before I identified him, sadly). But Mr. Boots is a father AND a dad, so let’s all wish him a very happy #FathersDay —I’m gonna cook him a delicious steak & baked potato dinner! 🥰

Articles like this remind me that #ferrari is a long way away from winning a championship. It's all about the BS around the #F1, not F1 racing itself.

‘I’m from the land of slow food and fast cars’ – Chef Massimo Bottura on taking over Ferrari’s famous Ristorante Cavallino | Formula 1®
“In my veins there’s balsamic vinegar, my muscles are parmigiano-reggiano, but in my DNA there’s a 12 cylinder engine,” he says.

Mood Swings Suite
- my spouse says this is my best album - believe me when I say that's high praise...
#OrchestralMusic #OriginalMusic #NowPlaying

Mood Swings Suite #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
TOPS:
🎵 Falling on my Sword
#TOPS
https://tops.bandcamp.com/track/falling-on-my-sword
https://open.spotify.com/track/3t6xrRUy8FmhH7XH86RO1O

Loving my new compression socks - they help with my #longCovid induced #POTS - so wanted to give a shout out to Hannah from Not Your Grandma's for creating such wonderful garments
(she's also struggling to keep the shop afloat so hoping to support a small UK business)

Not Your Grandma's - Compression Socks You Want to Wear
Compression is game-changing for chronic illness but only if you wear it! Yet all the socks out there are plain and beige, well ours are anything but!

Comcast IPv6 decided to bork itself again. Nothing I've tried (restarting DHCPv6 client, power cycling the modem) works.
My router gets a v6 address, can hit the internet without issues.
Router makes a DHCPv6 request, gets a delegated /59 out of my static /56.
But when I try to use an address out of the /59 on the local network (via radvd handing out /64's) it gets nowhere, traceroutes stop at the CPE/CMTS.

Had a great week at WWDC of seeing people I rarely see more than once per year, putting faces to names for people I've previously met online, and meeting people for the first time! Thanks to everyone who said hello!
(And now, after that great workout for my extrovert side, I'm glad to be home nurturing my inner introvert! And probably using fewer exclamation points.)

fuck my shitty friar life bro, my family's mad i joined the dominican order and sent my brothers to seize me when i stop for water during my journey to rome. this is why yall lost the crusades

This is a sad evening. By the time this posts, my WoW sub will have expired. I will not be renewing it.
I have played WoW since 2006. I have played it almost as long as all my relationships combined. (There's been a couple sizable gaps between 'ships, yo.) I have dozens of alts. 2 years played time (yeah, not THAT much considering, but I also play other games and have taken a couple year long breaks.)
WoW had always been there as an excellent escape from reality when I …

I am so hard on headphones. I am semi-picky and prefer over the ears for my Chromebook and laptops. For the cell phone I have and use ear buds.
Well, I have broken my third bluetooth headset and these are not cheap models! For some reason the spot where you adjust the fit broke. I try my best being gentle when putting them on or take them off, but that is a weak point. The wired sets are still going strong after years of use, but I prefer going wireless.

I’m a recovering frequent flier, and today I’m at the airport to take my first travel-for-work flight in TWO YEARS … after 3 days in my new role. Travel is a craft and I feel like I’ve lost a lot of skills!

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Tikhet:
🎵 I Buried My Brain In El Segundo
#NowPlaying #Tikhet
https://eskapadenmusik.bandcamp.com/track/i-buried-my-brain-in-el-segundo
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Cq60npcpfq6YAlh0Nndkt

Eventually fixed my bikes headlight as it fell off after 10 years. Of course I macgyvered the wiring with my #Leatherman and heatshrink pipes

It turns out "my" shirt design was stolen and used by some US assholes who now sell a Rob Anybody t-shirt.
I can't do anything about that, except giving everybody the design for free - if it has to be out there, nobody should profit from it.
If you end up using it, please PLEASE donate to one of Pratchett's favorite charities or at least to somebody in need.
And add a #GNUTerryPratchett

🎵 got my hair done
got my nails done too 🎵
https://www.schwulst.de/termin/heidelberg/csd/2025-06-14-pride-march-heidelberg

What #Spring Didn’t Teach You: Becoming a Modern Java Developer with #Quarkus by @…
I'll abstain from commenting here. You'll find my opinion in my next newsletter …

Complications from surgery landed my dad back in the hospital late Wednesday. Successful exploratory surgery found and hopefully stopped the internal bleeding.
If a few key numbers remain stabile, he might get released today. But in the interim, it’ll have to be a Father’s Day video call to his hospital room.
There are myriad ways in which to view this, but I’m choosing gratefulness. #HappyFathersDay

Would you like to make our local Carnival greener, electrifying the sound systems during the procession?
I've already put my hand in my pocket! B^>
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/kingston-carnival-going-green#

The more I listen to The Prodigy's The Day Is My Enemy, the more I like this album. It makes me feel sad and despondent with a pinch of angry.
https://album.link/i/1170133863

Duplicati is in the process of saving my ass again, but their backup restores are extremely slow.
Their web interface is neat and the handling is more or less intuitive, but I think I'm going back to the rsync & cron script formula.
It's what I've done on my server all my life until I installed Docker, but in this case I'm going back to my simple origins.
#docker

Again, we have arrived to a point in time where I traditionally delete all my social media apps because I don't want any of it to ruin my upcoming vacation. Fuck the news, fuck the internet, lets enjoy the sun. 🌞
See you all soon!

I am looking for a solution to monitor my levels of stress. I wear an Apple Watch almost all time.
Is anyone here using the Apple Watch to monitor their stress? What application are you using?
My research brought about a handful of apps that monitor stress using a combination of HRV and RHR. Their ratings and subscriptions cover a very wide range to be useful (e.g. one has over 100k reviews and the 2nd one under 10k)

I've received more SMS spam than ever since the "Likely Spammer" label was introduced by Comreg.
Including a new one this morning about rescheduling a DPD delivery, which weirdly doesn't appear on my phone, but only on my Watch as a notification...
I swear they are attempting to solve this in the most bare minimum way possible and yet... they are still failing.
#Smishing

We all keep our balance, our awareness of position in space, by analysing feedback we get from receivers in our skin and joints (proprioceptors) and from our visual assessment of our position in space. I am a below knee #amputee, so I have lost the position sensors in my foot, ankle, and leg. I gauge the location of my leg in space through my knee and secondarily, through my hip. 🧵

Bhatt Conjectures: On Necessary-But-Not-Sufficient Benchmark Tautology for Human Like Reasoning
Manish Bhatt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11423 https://

Bhatt Conjectures: On Necessary-But-Not-Sufficient Benchmark Tautology for Human Like Reasoning
Debates about whether Large Language or Reasoning Models (LLMs/LRMs) truly reason or merely pattern-match suffer from shifting goal posts. In my personal opinion, two analytic--hence "tautological"--benchmarks cut through that fog in my mental model. In this paper, I attempt to write down my mental model in concrete terms.

The reasons I’m not at a #NoKings event today are the same reasons I’m not anywhere ever. Basically: I’ve got caregiving duties and a body that's not fit for hours on my feet.
Someone pick up a brick for the pigs but then think better of it in my place.

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.

Me to my mom: “I’m out for a walk and a tiny rabbit just ran across my feet!”
Her: “You should catch it and cook it!”
In case you were wondering where I get it from…

I missed one of everything while I was deployed to Afghanistan:
Birthdays. Holidays. Recitals. Soccer games.
I missed my husband. I missed our 5 kids even more.
After I returned to Colorado, we were driving home one day when my husband suggested we get two $5 pizzas from Little Caesar’s.
Sitting at the table, I felt an immense sense of gratitude to finally be together again,
just enjoying a simple meal.
"Wow," I told my husband. "This was …

Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher | Democrat for Congress
Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher, a candidate for Congress in Colorado’s 4th District, is on a new mission after a lifetime of service: Defeat Lauren Boebert.

Gotta drive 50km with my own car (and fuel) in my (would have been) free time because one of my colleagues used an insurance form in the truck but never replaced it.
So when I needed one (hit a wall at a customer while backing truck into the tight ass space without mirrors - sun kept blinding me), there was none so I now have to go back there to get the paperwork sorted...
Lovely...

Modest lie-in achieved, shower had, laundry variously put out, put on and put away, Father's Day card written. Now I'm off in search of coffee and hoping to find my father not busy with my mother for 5 mins so I can give him his things.

"I designed my logo in ChatGPT"
No, you didn't

What my 8yo posted to the family chat today:

My favorite thing to do when I get home ➟⁠➠⁠🛏️

I’m going to spend the evening re-watching this documentary again!
- - - - -
The Spanish Civil War (1983)
Ay, I found the Full documentary "The Spanish Civil War (1983)" put them all into this playlist!
https://peertube.wtf/my-library/video-

I am not an elevator pitch.
I don't have clear, clean boundaries.
My #art has always been more MacGyver than artisan.
Full thought: https://fromemily.com/feedbackless-fee

My city was one of hundreds expecting federal funds to help manage rising heat wave risk – then EPA terminated the grants - Cobb Courier
https://cobbcountycourier.com/2025/07/my-city-was-one-of-hundreds-expecting-federal-funds-to-help-manage-rising-heat-wave-risk-then-epa-terminated-the-grants/

"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’ve long been a fan of the Check My Ads people. Now they’re launching a really ambitious-looking “Policy Platform” aimed at cleaning up the online-advertising business. My belief is that anyone who’s had much exposure to that business or to “AdTech” probably agrees that cleanup is called for. Check it out: https://checkmyads.org/policy/

To go back to my previous post, for a plant-based diet to be attractive, we need to help people choose plant based alternatives to meat for more or less all occasions. So meat is no longer the default
That's what we need good chefs for: to help turn traditional foods into vegetarian/vegan alternatives that are tasty and easy to prepare.
Most traditional dishes are surprisingly modern. Our tastes can easily be changed...
As an example, in France, the markets are laden with charcuterie and cheese, BUT ALSO, beautiful fresh fruits and vegetables - a nudge towards the latter would improve human health, animal welfare and reduce emissions...
#PlantBased food.
This site however is outstanding making french cuisine vegan
https://menu-vegetarien.com/

Texans' Nick Chubb pens emotional farewell to Browns, says Cleveland will 'always have a piece of my heart'

https://www.cbssports.com/…

So the basic idea is that we first compute a "level" for whatever interaction, by adding beneficial modifiers and subtracting harmful ones. Imagine most modifiers are smallish integers like 2 or -3 (though they can be non-integers too). Each level can be thought of as making things twice as good/bad, although this only applies directly when they're balanced. The actual formula starts with a 50/50 chance of "success" at level 0, and then each positive level halves the chance of failure, or if the levels are negative, each negative level halves the chance of success (note that halving the chance of failure is not the same as doubling the chance of success).
The intuitive explanation is that you start with a coin flip. Then if the level is positive, you flip that many additional coins and succeed if any single coin succeeds, but it the level is negative, you have to flip that many additional coins and succeed only if *all* flips succeed.
For example, if I have a dagger with 5 crit chance, and I attack an opponent with no armor modifiers, I'd have to win any 1 of 6 coin flips to score a crit (p = 1 - (1/(2^6)) = 63/64. Increasing my crit modifier by 1 ups my chances only slightly, to 127/128. This is obviously pretty poor return, indicating that the 5 I already have is very strong. If the opponent had armor with -3 to crits, the interaction is now level 2, so the crit chance is 7/8, which is still pretty good. We can see from these examples that the basic system
rewards a small level advantage a lot, but the rewards diminish rapidly. The system has a few avenues for tweaking how it works though, that can let us modify this. There's also a potential benefit (though sometimes drawback) that no matter what the level gap, there's an effective limit to how much the interaction swings.

These arguments by @… resonate with my own reasons for not using LLMs in my work, and I appreciate these being written up in a clear manner: https://benui.ca/why-i-refuse-ai/

I’ve been having a conversation in my head with my friend Jac Mullen. One of his provocative ideas is that we’re better off dropping the term “artificial intelligence,” and instead calling these new technologies “artificial attention.”
#ai
#attention

Artificial Attention?
A letter to my friend Jac Mullen on AI and attention, looking at the 12th century history of reading with Ivan Illich's book In the Vineyard of the Text.

I just copped on that the ring placement was all wrong in my ASCII goatse archive. My apologies. I have corrected all of the files now. https://github.com/theodric/asciigoatse/

If anything, my OP was insufficiently derogatory.
#TeslaTakedown
https://electrek.co/2025/07/14/tesla-penis-shaped-robotaxi-expansion-illustrates-unserious-business/

I have so many drafts on my blog (https://blogs.linux.pizza/), that I dont know what to do with anymore.
It felt like a good think to do when I started writing the posts, but then I always gets stuck in some details and start taking breaks lol

@… oh my this project is ambitious

her: (adorable cat drawing)
me: cute
her, 5 seconds later: i want someone to have my skull

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.

#Wordle 1,457 5/6*
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 216,778 (92)
⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ 1% of 124 (5)
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ 1 of 1 (2)
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟨 0 of 232 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 87/99
Luck 42/99
I don't know why I avoided going there for so long, particularly when it was my initial thought after my 1st guess.
Guess 4 wasn't a wordle word

from my link log —
What is my fuzzer doing? How to get coverage of Rust code.
https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/154/what-is-my-fuzzer-doing
saved 2025-05-06

What is my fuzzer doing? - Blog - Tweede golf
Fuzz testing is incredibly useful: it has caught many a bug during the development of NTP packet parsing and gzip/bzip2 (de)compression. But I've always been unsatisfied with the fuzzer being a b ...

Two of my partner’s favorite signs from yesterday…
#noKings #protest #fascism

Sonnet 148 - CXLVIII
O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight;
Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled,
That censures falsely what they see aright?
If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,
What means the world to say it is not so?
If it be not, then love doth well denote
Love's eye is not so true as all men's: no,
How can it? O! how can Love's eye be true,
That is so v…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Rolling Stones:
🎵 Time Is on My Side
#TheRollingStones
https://harveygarbage.bandcamp.com/track/time-is-on-my-side-the-rolling-stones
https://open.spotify.com/track/2jaN6NgXflZTj2z9CWcqaP

haha real funny how the vast majority of interactions with my art and film related posts come from people like twice my age haha, surely all the other zoomers on this network aren't too irony poisoned and or dead inside to care about these things haha

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Rolling Stones:
🎵 Anybody Seen My Baby
#NowPlaying #TheRollingStones
https://glasidum.bandcamp.com/track/the-rolling-stones-anybody-seen-my-baby-glasidum-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/4tXr9v3K7nWW1aebWqR1B7

Our body always wants to have three reference points since we live in 3D space. This can be a combination of two position sensors, and vision. Here is an interesting situation. When I shower, and am standing up, I place my normal leg and foot on the floor of the shower, and kneel on a shower stool. Combine that with my visual reference of my position in space, and I am golden. (2)

AI is just a tool, like a pencil. A pencil that can only write and draw what some faceless corporation somewhere allows you to write and draw.
#AI #theMastersTools

This is a story of how Bad Religion made me start listening to punk rock, and became one of my favorite bands:
https://arnel.bearblog.dev/how-i-started-believing-in-bad-religion/

How I Started Believing in Bad Religion
For almost a decade, after their song You, made me fall in love with punk rock, I hated the band called Bad Religion. And then they turned out to be one of my favorites ever.

A small aside, during my vacation I finally started on writing a Metal backend for SwiftTerm.
It has a few missing features, so not worth comparing performance yet, but it is feeling great:
https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm/tree/metal-backend

GitHub - migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm at metal-backend
Xterm/VT100 Terminal emulator in Swift. Contribute to migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm development by creating an account on GitHub.

Stats Sunday!
Today marks 100 days that I’ve met my step goals in a row.
Yesterday, I broke 2 million steps for 2025. That’s about 1500km (~930 miles). At this rate, I’ll easily pass 4 million steps for the year (last year: 3.2 million).
I’ve also made my step count 153/165 days so far.

I have nothing against my boss, but when they make critical decisions that affect my day-to-day life at work and I don't have any real influence over what shapes my workday, I like them less.
I'm not saying life is perfect, but syndicalism has taught me that we don't need rigid hierarchies to run a workplace democratically, by the workers, for the workers, and for their own benefit.
If run democratically, I can shape my own workday and workweek together with my cowork…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Brigitte Calls Me Baby:
🎵 Eddie My Love
#BrigitteCallsMeBaby
https://brigittecallsmebaby.bandcamp.com/track/eddie-my-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/24uyg0ojVaFRbbSz4dTVTd

this makes me so happy, if only lebron kept posting these

Sonnet 027 - XXVII
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless…

🇺🇦 #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
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

Cowboys QB Dak Prescott cares not for legacy, says he has to win a Super Bowl 'for my sanity'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys

However if I towel dry in the shower before getting out, and I am drying my face and hair, I instantly lose visual reference since the towel covers my eyes. So now I only have two points in space unless I use one hand on the towel, and one hand on a grab bar. (3)

International Non-Binary People’s Day! 💛🤍💜🖤 This day deserves to be celebrated every single day. I love my fellow non-binary people, you always bring a smile to my face!
#NonBinary #LGBTQIA

My partner asked for a last minute sign today. 3D printing to the rescue!
Made a sign for today… 3D printed letters, foam core, spray paint… then added a 3D printed handle.
#noKings #resist #resistFascism

Free agent RB/KR Nyheim Hines ready to put knee injury behind him after two years away: 'The story is in my hand' https://www.nfl.com/news/free-agent-rb-kr-nyheim-hines-ready-to-put-knee-injury-behind-h…

I’ve realized I actually enjoy working. What really frustrates me is that the big decisions about my day are made by people who have never even been on my shop floor. On top of that, the things I help make don’t even go to my own community, which just makes it feel even more disconnected.
Honestly, I’d get a lot more satisfaction from my job if we could run things democratically and see our work benefit the people around us. There’s a real sense of pride in building something for your …

I rode my bike to the library to return a book, which isn't terribly exciting, but I'm pleased that I can now take care of local errands by bike instead of car.
#bikeTooter

Ah yes, I really dislike it when, as someone who is autistic, I don’t look before I accidentally block the entire Mastodon.social domain instead of just blocking a specific bot user.
Great, now over 100 lost me in their feeds. My day is ruined.
Domain unblocked, please boost for my visibility again!
#ActuallyAutistic

I’m honestly spending way more time on PeerTube than YouTube these days, and it feels pretty great.
Sometimes I post interesting clips I find on other platforms over to PeerTube because I genuinely enjoy sharing them, especially from my perspective as someone on the autism spectrum.
Here are my channels if you want to take a look:
Main: @…

Sometimes, all I need to brighten my day is a little love from my timeless, ancient waifu, my forever heart’s treasure. 💖✨
#Debian #Trixie #Linux