@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Blackbraid:
🎵 Wardrums at Dawn on the Day of My Death
#Blackbraid
https://blackbraid.bandcamp.com/track/wardrums-at-dawn-on-the-day-of-my-death
https://open.spotify.com/track/7lb3ZE8binfzBwagFMgrTW
@raiders@darktundra.xyz5 takeaways from Day one of Raiders mandatory minicamp https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/06/10/raiders-mandatory-minicamp-day-one-observa…
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialToday is the day before I write my weekly newsletter, so of course Brave chooses today to roll out an update that obliterates all of my open tabs by combining "redundant" "inactive" ones. And then automatically opts every user into this feature.
I had a few Mastodon tabs open, now they are just one tab that points to mastodon.social.
So, uhh...anyone write anything good on #Product
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaThere will come a day when my dad passes away, and eventually, a day when we all do. That thought makes me sad, but I realize there’s no use worrying about the future. Instead, I want to focus on living fully in the present moment.
Life is truly worth livin, and If you want to learn more about the challenges I have faced, including struggles with mental health and identity, you can read my personal story here:
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Please, glorious Hermes, be my guide today! 💙
"Finerod Hermes departed, fanning his light wings, and the flat of his extended shoes oared him as quick as the winds of heaven in their course."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 3.373
🏛️ Hermes fresco, House of the Ancient Hunt,
@wraithe@mastodon.socialSo last week or so, gassing up, my car got the best “compliment” I’ve ever gotten, & TBH probably the best it is EVER going to get in my life.
A 7-8 yo kid basically lost their mind seeing it
It was just adorable & if it made their day like their mom said, so much the better - it sure made mine 😂
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
-Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialHow the US democracy is designed to avoid representation
Right now in the US, a system which proclaims to give each citizen representation, my interests are not represented very well by most of my so-called representatives at any level of government. This is true for a majority of Americans across the political spectrum, and it happens by design. The "founding fathers" were explicit about wanting a system of government that would appear Democratic but which would keep power in the hands of rich white landowners, and they successfully designed exactly that. But how does disenfranchisement work in this system?
First, a two-party system locked in by first-post-the-post winner-takes-all elections immediately destroys representation for everyone who didn't vote for the winner, including those who didn't vote or weren't eligible to vote. Single-day non-holiday elections and prisoner disenfranchisement go a long way towards ensuring working-class people get no say, but much larger is the winner-takes all system. In fact, even people who vote for the winning candidate don't get effective representation if they're really just voting against the opponent as the greater of two evils. In a 51/49 election with 50% turnout, you've immediately ensured that ~75% of eligible voters don't get represented, and with lesser-of-two-evils voting, you create an even wider gap to wedge corporate interests into. Politicians need money to saturate their lesser-of-two-evils message far more than they need to convince any individual voter to support their policies. It's even okay if they get caught lying, cheating, or worse (cough Epstein cough) as long as the other side is also doing those things and you can freeze out new parties.
Second, by design the Senate ensures uneven representation, allowing control of the least-populous half of states to control or at least shut down the legislative process. A rough count suggests 284.6 million live in the 25 most-populous states, while only 54.8 million live in the rest. Currently, counting states with divided representation as two half-states with half as much population, 157.8 million people are represented by 53 Republican sensors, while 180.5 million people get only 45 seats of Democratic representation. This isn't an anti-Democrat bias, it's a bias towards less-populous states, whose residents get more than their share it political power.
I haven't even talked about gerrymandering yet, or family/faith-based "party loyalty," etc. Overall, the effect is that the number of people whose elected representatives meaningfully represent their interests on any given issue is vanishingly small (like, 10% of people tops), unless you happen to be rich enough to purchase lobbying power or direct access.
If we look at polls, we can see how lack of representation lets congress & the president enact many policies that go against what a majority of the population wants. Things like abortion restrictions, the current ICE raids, and Medicare cuts are deeply unpopular, but they benefit the political class and those who can buy access. These are possible because the system ensures at every step of the way that ordinary people do NOT get the one thing the system promises them: representation in the halls of power.
Okay, but is this a feature of all democracies, inherent in the nature of a majority-decides system? Not exactly...
1/2
#uspol #democracy
@NFL@darktundra.xyzrecapping my great trip to LA with @Arena Club and of course selling my rodgers card 😂 #acpartner #arenaclub #slabpacks
@spamless@mastodon.socialMy fine "new" (2023) bike is in the shop, so I unmothballed my trusty classic steed for today's ride. After a go with the tire pump, I was off like the wind. There's something exquisite about a strong and simple piece of engineering. That old bike is 39 years old! I bought it new back in California in the day. It's still a sweet ride.
#roadbike
@jake4480@c.imThe dude that just came in to switch out my air filters got to hear some Béton Armé, so he has that going for his day
@steve@s.yelvington.comCaillebotte exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago.
@outer@mas.toGreat quotes of the day:
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness -Eleanor Roosevelt
To light a candle is to cast a shadow -Ursula K. Le Guin
Listen to them squabble. Where's my food? -TskTsk, Ursula's Kitty
#Quotes #QuoteOfTheDay
@randy_@social.linux.pizzaDay 6 - Shakespeare had taste.
I have a feeling that my butt is stronger and more forgiving than I thought. I really expected to be crawling like those naked snails, but I guess I learned something new about my body.
HelsingŸr is home to Kronborg Slot, the castle that Shakespeare used in Hamlet. Not only that, it was also very important for payments to enter the Baltic Sea. Today, you can walk around the castle, drink coffee, or even visit some local art studios, such as those fe…
@w6kme@mastodon.radioSInce Ben's got us talking about old sewing machines again, one day I'd like to get my hands on one of these bad boys
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"The disconnection between designers and users has let user interfaces to drift off to a space where only designers are satisfied by them. It is time to remember the users trying to find those buttons, trying to bend those spoons, and to take their satisfaction into account, too."
https://deprogrammat…
@CondeChocula@social.linux.pizza @midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaTomorrow is #FollowFriday, which is my second favorite day of the week. My absolute favorite day is #Caturday!
I really like these days because I'm #ActuallyAutistic, a…
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org...I didn't realize until I was an adult having parents who loved you and made it obvious they did day to day is so valuable...
A parent that loves their work also provides huge benefits, in my experience...
https://curiouscatlinks.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-was-lucky-…
@samerfarha@mastodon.socialWhat an incredible day. Beautiful weather, fun pride parade, got to see so many lovely people. My heart is so full!
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
AVON: Our hero lives.
TARRANT: At least he didn't try to get into a spacesuit.
AVON: I look upon self-interest as my great strength. Vila.
TARRANT: One day, Avon, I may have to kill you.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/304/107
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialFinally I wrote the story about the bike and hike #video I posted recently! I am so glad that I did this tour - and I know that I'll go back a couple of times because I discovered some more variations that I want to do 🙂
And as usual, I don't know whether I should add a photo to this post or if the preview card will be rendered properly.
Read the blog including some
@JSkier@social.linux.pizzaSunday run day ~ great weather. I keep going with it, stable neck, no pain anywhere when I'm running. It's a drug I can't quit.
I don't know how much time I have left running, but I get the impression it will need to be pried from my cold, dead hands.
#arthritis #LongCovid
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeWTF, was there a market demand for this thing?
"It also listens to whatever you’re doing as you move through the world, no tap required, and offers a running commentary on the interactions you have throughout your day. To perform that trick, the device has microphones that are always activated."
https://www.
@cheryanne@aus.socialThis is husband's and my first fathers day without any of our father figures still living.
Husband's father died last September. My grandfather, who with my grandmother raised me, died years ago. As did my father.
So, my father in law became my "Dad" too and for many decades he was only one we could call on fathers day.
It will be sad and strange not making the video call to him today. He was a darling man, and although his last few years were somewhat blu…
@servelan@newsie.socialGOP Bill Would Create "National Day Of The Bible" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/09/gop-bill-would-create-national-day-of-the-bible/
@Laur12@social.linux.pizzaAlso had to sit all day at pc, trying to understand what happened to the immich database, in short they changed the storage method and all my photos were gone.
In short praise the 3-2-1 backup rule
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioI really really really hate how much people in my field and industry have normalized generative #AI use.
I see posts / hear comments literally EVERY DAY to the tune of “can people stop complaining about AI, nobody cares. You’re not morally better” followed up by something about “you’re making work harder than it needs to be” and often “nobody values human-made work more they only care about the final output no matter how it was created”
I usually ignore these conversations but sometimes it really gets to me. It’s so hard to feel sane surrounded by that consensus every day, everywhere I go with people in my profession.
I’ve rarely felt so judged by the majority point of view on anything in my work before.
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaAfter all that bling of the last years I gladly spent my day today in Mate on Gentoo, dark theme, music et al and all just worked. The bulk of my applications are flatpaks, pipewire works like a charm and we're on kernel 6.15.5. If I could get this Waylandized we're done. Soothing. I'll throw in dwm over the weekend and retreat in my cave.
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineJust did a once over on my Vimeo as a portfolio for a lead producer job application.
Mainly, just updated some descriptions. Nice to be reminded of some past work I like: #film
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsNow, one thing i truly hate about #GrapheneOS updates is the Microsoft-like approach where you can't "just" disable automatic updates.
Yeah, I get it. The updates are important. The updates have been rock solid so far. And anyway, I need to reboot manually for them to actually start applying.
Still, it's so damn disrespectful for developers to make this decision for me, and have the phone start automatically updating just as I'm about to leave for the whole day, and turn my phone into a potential time bomb where a reboot could leave me without a working phone until I can get home and reflash it.
Yes, there's a bunch of options to disable updates based on Internet connection type, battery state and whether the phone is charging. Still, why should I need to explain myself to my phone?! Really, this isn't what we dumped Microsoft for.
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ieThis year is the 20th year since my first Tuppenceworth.ie blog post recording when it was Flying Ant Day.
In 2005 it was on the 9th August.
This year, it is on the 8th July.
https://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzKyren Williams on his contact extension: 'This is the day that I kind of worked for my whole life' https://www.therams.com/news/kyren-williams-on-his-contact-extension-this-is-the-day-that-i-kind-of-worked-for-my-…
@bmariusz@techhub.socialDay 7
✅ 24 test suites, 153 tests passing.
Solid coverage across service and controller layers in my modular monorepo. Strict typing (TypeScript), full DTO validation, and realistic mocks across complex relations (TypeORM).
Next: fine-tuning error handling & exploring e2e strategies.
https://write.tyolabs.com/?p=25
@krispijn@social.sargasso.nlOh my God, they riled Donny! The 15 biggest South Park scandals … ranked https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/sep/05/oh-my-god-they-riled-donny-the-15-biggest-south-park-scandal…
@andycarolan@social.lolMorning!
Back at my desk for a day working on logos, illustrations and profile pics.
I'm about half way done with my YETI of coffee... already planning the next one 😄
#Coffee
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it"if donald trump is still president a year from now, LA will still be dealing with troops periodically entering public spaces and generally just shitting on everything for a day, and by then it will basically just be a habit for people to screen their social media and groupchats for advance warning of a need to shelter in place until the moment passes. it’s going to get even less effective for them to be here the longer they keep doing it. "
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterI work not far from where Salford University have their graduation ceremony and honestly I think it might be my favourite day of the year.
Whether it's proud parents looking awkward in posh suits & fancy frocks, or embarrassed students looking awkward in posh suits, fancy frocks and graduation gowns, it's a perfect people watching extravaganza.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaThis post made my day, and I kinda wanna save it forever because I might actually print it and hang it on my wall.
#Solidarity
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialLast year I spent some time in the part of Texas where the floods hit on the Guadalupe River last week.
Even to my California-kid eyes, eyes that rarely see a real river, the Guadalupe, as it passed through Comfort, Texas, was more of a creek than a river.
Over the last day I've wondered "what if I had been there when the flood hit?" I am used to having fairly serious topology, so I would have had trouble there in Texas figuring out which way to go to find "hi…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialSo I've found my answer after maybe ~30 minutes of effort. First stop was the first search result on Startpage (https://millennialhawk.com/does-poop-have-calories/), which has some evidence of maybe-AI authorship but which is better than a lot of slop. It actually has real links & cites research, so I'll start by looking at the sources.
It claims near the top that poop contains 4.91 kcal per gram (note: 1 kcal = 1 Calorie = 1000 calories, which fact I could find/do trust despite the slop in that search). Now obviously, without a range or mention of an average, this isn't the whole picture, but maybe it's an average to start from? However, the citation link is to a study (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32235930/) which only included 27 people with impaired glucose tolerance and obesity. Might have the cited stat, but it's definitely not a broadly representative one if this is the source. The public abstract does not include the stat cited, and I don't want to pay for the article. I happen to be affiliated with a university library, so I could see if I have access that way, but it's a pain to do and not worth it for this study that I know is too specific. Also most people wouldn't have access that way.
Side note: this doing-the-research protect has the nice benefit of letting you see lots of cool stuff you wouldn't have otherwise. The abstract of this study is pretty cool and I learned a bit about gut microbiome changes from just reading the abstract.
My next move was to look among citations in this article to see if I could find something about calorie content of poop specifically. Luckily the article page had indicators for which citations were free to access. I ended up reading/skimming 2 more articles (a few more interesting facts about gut microbiomes were learned) before finding this article whose introduction has what I'm looking for: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3127503/
Here's the relevant paragraph:
"""
The alteration of the energy-balance equation, which is defined by the equilibrium of energy intake and energy expenditure (1–5), leads to weight gain. One less-extensively-studied component of the energy-balance equation is energy loss in stools and urine. Previous studies of healthy adults showed that ≈5% of ingested calories were lost in stools and urine (6). Individuals who consume high-fiber diets exhibit a higher fecal energy loss than individuals who consume low-fiber diets with an equivalent energy content (7, 8). Webb and Annis (9) studied stool energy loss in 4 lean and 4 obese individuals and showed a tendency to lower the fecal energy excretion in obese compared with lean study participants.
"""
And there's a good-enough answer if we do some math, along with links to more in-depth reading if we want them. A Mayo clinic calorie calculator suggests about 2250 Calories per day for me to maintain my weight, I think there's probably a lot of variation in that number, but 5% of that would be very roughly 100 Calories lost in poop per day, so maybe an extremely rough estimate for a range of humans might be 50-200 Calories per day. Interestingly, one of the AI slop pages I found asserted (without citation) 100-200 Calories per day, which kinda checks out. I had no way to trust that number though, and as we saw with the provenance of the 4.91 kcal/gram, it might not be good provenance.
To double-check, I visited this link from the paragraph above: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022316622169853?via=ihub
It's only a 6-person study, but just the abstract has numbers: ~250 kcal/day pooped on a low-fiber diet vs. ~400 kcal/day pooped on a high-fiber diet. That's with intakes of ~2100 and ~2350 kcal respectively, which is close to the number from which I estimated 100 kcal above, so maybe the first estimate from just the 5% number was a bit low.
Glad those numbers were in the abstract, since the full text is paywalled... It's possible this study was also done on some atypical patient group...
Just to come full circle, let's look at that 4.91 kcal/gram number again. A search suggests 14-16 ounces of poop per day is typical, with at least two sources around 14 ounces, or ~400 grams. (AI slop was strong here too, with one including a completely made up table of "studies" that was summarized as 100-200 grams/day). If we believe 400 grams/day of poop, then 4.91 kcal/gram would be almost 2000 kcal/day, which is very clearly ludicrous! So that number was likely some unrelated statistic regurgitated by the AI. I found that number in at least 3 of the slop pages I waded through in my initial search.
@rae@bne.socialDay eight of my road trip and a driving day from Nullabor Roadhouse, SA to Cocklebiddy Roadhouse, WA. Had to go through the quarantine search at the border. Great sunrise over the Nullabor weather station. #RoadTrip
@UP8@mastodon.social😼 Not posting photos today because (1) I'm still busy developing photos from a basketball double-header and (2) posted a stick of old cat photos for International Cat Day from here to my 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 socials which you might want to check out: https://bsky.app/profile/up-8.bsky.social
@DamonHD@mastodon.social
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgAnd another thing for those of you that get discouraged trying to learn music:
my brain is a weird old thing… The first day I try something new it's just a massive struggle but give it 24 hours to percolate, and the next day it's like 100% easier
@brian_gettler@mas.toOne of my jobs is vetting syllabi to ensure they meet institutional standards. Often, this leads to rethinking my own approach ("colleague A is doing x, y, and z - that's so cool!"). But sometimes... This year, a half-ass syllabus submitted 11 days late includes: "Due dates for course assignments must be adhered to. The penalty... is 10% per day, including weekends and holidays. Late assignments will not be accepted more than 7 days past the due date." Profs can be ab…
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot#3goodthings
1. Trip out to Deli Tinto in Presteigne for Shepherd's ice cream, with a bonus of bumping into some recent acquaintances.
2. Picked 1.5kg of elderberries which doesn't sound much but takes forever to strip with a fork. I turned my ankle in a rabbit hole in the churchyard where we picked them, which feels like a very Victorian malady.
3. Nice day out tomor…
@shaun@mastodon.xyzGot slammed by an unidentified but certainly "#AI"-related #distributed #crawler this week, it drove one site's traffic to 10× average. Today I tired of playing Whac-a-Mole and blocked the two bigge…
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toThis morning I fashioned a belt from an INOP dashcam cigarette lighter adapter cord and a swiss army knife, so thats how my day is going.
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euI had completely forgotten the state The Last of Us Part 1 for PC was in at launch. Which explains my surprise when I finally got to it and tried to run my Epic copy on Linux. At least for me and at the moment, the game works only with Proton 9.0-4 (Steam's mark of excellence) and, weirdly, with Wine-10.10. FSR 4 with an RDNA 3 card (again, for me) is impossible - the game crashes hard in every FSR 4 scenario. It's saving grace is it runs great on a native 1440p resolution 🤷♂️
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@jaygooby@mastodon.socialMy day today has mostly been...
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizzaFound a practical use for AI. When I write research papers I want all my references in Zotero and not just in the text. But if I upload my manuscript to CoPilot (usually sucks at most things) it can return the doi for most articles i cite and ISBN for most books. Then I only have to copy the doi into Zotero and add the reference. Practical if you only have articles as print outs (there is a browser plug in when showing an article in the browser, but not for print outs). Tip of the day and th…
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ieThis year is the 20th year since my first Tuppenceworth.ie blog post recording when it was Flying Ant Day.
In 2005 it was on the 9th August.
This year, it is on the 8th July.
https://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/
@stefan@gardenstate.socialmy current idea is to just retake the word conspiracy and devalue it and just use it for every day facts.
Here's a conspiracy they don't want you to know and they aren't talking about in the media: Sales tax in NJ is 6.625%. USE THIS INFORMATION WISELY!
@NFL@darktundra.xyzEagles' A.J. Brown feels a 'little sad' for Treylon Burks after Titans' 2022 draft-day trade https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-aj-brown-feels-a-little-sad-treylon-burks-titans-2022-draft-day-trade
@mlawton@mstdn.socialWell, the good news is that it’s over. Run/walk staying in HR zone 2 and I think I was walking more than running. My fitness is 💩 right now. The humidity about killed me, even at 0730. I should have gone out earlier.
I’m at my in-laws place in Tennessee for the holiday weekend, of which this beautiful neighborhood has so few mature trees. As such, the sun gleefully poured out its angry menace upon me the entire time and I suffered. I am meant for cold weather.
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeHow I start my day :3
🎨by ayu
@kcase@mastodon.socialWe’re closing in on this month’s release of OmniFocus 4.7, with planned dates, mutually-exclusive tags, and improved repeats!
Updated test builds are now available, adding new settings for Forecast counts and summary dots, adding support for keyboard modifiers when using drag-and-drop in Forecast on iPad and visionOS (bringing parity with the support already on Mac), and making other improvements and bug fixes.
@mlippert@vmst.io#Wordle 1,541 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 211,374 (859)
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 5% of 19 (47)
⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 0 of 1 (5)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 84/99
Luck 41/99
Rainy day today, and wordle was average effort. I'm curious how may words were left for my 4th guess...Huh 5, and my guess wasn't the most skillful but it was lucky.
@colgrave@social.linux.pizzaI'm sad..
I been follow them basically since day one. And they been the most exciting stories in my rss feed
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/with-need-for-speed-devs-working-on-battlefi…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI’ll celebrate a Nazi’s death any day of the week, though you won’t catch me putting it in Google Calendar. Knowing them, they’d probably reschedule it to ‘Nazis Appreciation Day’ and then sell my joy as an ad preference.
#CharlieKirk #Nazism
@sharan@metalhead.club
@3sframe@social.linux.pizzaYo, why am I not allowed to enjoy something without it getting spoiled? Bought #silksong day 1, love it, been playing about an hour or two a day, taking my time, really absorbing it all in. Because I learned from hollow knight. Once you play it, you can't unplay it.
Already have seen several spoilers online that were not tagged as spoilers (not on mastodon.) I wish binge culture d…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangehttps://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT65mr2wD/
My name is Dan and I’m the guy at your company who sends out internal phishing tests.
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesMuni celebrating Hulkenberg
I truly never thought I’d see that day. Especially when he was starting 19th
#f1 #britishgp #hulkenberg
@dpl@muenchen.socialFuck your fucking new #DarkPatterns, #ZoomMeetings
Really, fuck you so fucking much.
No, I won’t take this back in any way. You just made my day worse in a way I didn’t deem possible. Just because you want to make the rich class fucking richer than anyone deserves to be.
…
@pre@boing.worldHad a great time at Good Vibrations Society this weekend.
First act I saw was the most entrancing. Rozsa stroking a harp and singing angelically with a backing track. She was great.
The North London Gospel Choir doing Graceland was pretty cool. They got some mad energy, all those gospel synced dance moves. Lovely to hear that album in a new way.
Enjoyed the Gentlemen Dub Club and Riot Jazz and So Solid Crew. Watched a nice sunset at camp.
Lovely small site, great crowd. Hung with some friends and met old ones I hadn't seen for years.
Also tripped over a guy rope in the dark on the first night and hurt my wrist pretty bad.
Walked away after a moment on the floor assessing damage but visited the medical tent. My wrist swelled up so much the next day I had to have my wristband replaced. Drive home somewhat more perilous as a result. Thank goodness for automatic gear boxes.
#goodVibrationsSociety #festival #uk
@UP8@mastodon.social
@cdarwin@c.imUp close, the aging visages of the moai are riddled with signs of erosion and staining.
They are gradually wearing away to dust.
Tuki, who works in Rapa Nui's tourism industry, is essentially watching these stunning figures slowly disappear.
"My father told me that the moai would go back into the ocean one day," she says.
Tuki's father, who died in 2020, was a famed contemporary moai sculptor.
The original statues, mostly carved between 110…
@samir@functional.computerAmazon: “Spawn a process and handle a request in 0.1s.”
Google: “Spin up a 7-node cluster capable of handling workloads in 1 minute.”
A tiny PC on my desk: “100,000 hits per day? Sure, whatever m8. No probs.”
Microsoft: “You want a Kubernetes cluster? Hmmm… is Tuesday OK?”
My 1-node cluster has been “creating” for the last 3 hours with no updates.
I think it’s time for the weekend.
@shriramk@mastodon.socialForgot my laptop the other day and had to take notes on my phone. Amongst various other differences, I feel so much more comfortable w/ a laptop because I can touch-type and look the speaker in the eye; can't on the phone, so it looks like I'm distracted and ignoring them.
@jake4480@c.imAround 20 years ago, I made my first and only change to something on Wikipedia. It was for an underground rap artist- I just made a correction or two to something that was obviously incorrect, and my information was correct, thinking nothing of it. I looked at it the next day, and a Wikipedia editor or mod or whatever changed it back. That was the last time I ever edited anything there. I still look up things on Wikipedia (with a grain of salt) but that experience really bugged me. The Wikip…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaWhen you decide to add more CDs to my Discogs page!
Yes, I prefer physical media over streaming, any day of the year.
#Bandcamp
https://bandcamp.com/pmarg
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialToday has been...not a good day. Two members of my family are in different ERs for unrelated reasons. If you have any good vibes, I could use a few.
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialWhy do people link to comicsands.com? It is a website that is has more trackers than a golden stag on opening day of the hunting season.
My "privacy badger" and Ublock Origin plug-ins turn bright red should I visit that web site.
@randy_@social.linux.pizzaDay 5 - sore butt, but the fish was fresh
It was a horrible night in a capsule hotel, if you can actually call it that. The whole night felt like I was in some kind of theme park attraction. Two boxes stacked on top of each other, and every time the person below me exhales, my box starts to emulate a light earthquake.
Luckily, I found this very nice little café with lots of pastries and bread. I asked the barista what kind of breakfast she had, and she kindly took the time to ex…
@spamless@mastodon.socialToday's 50th anniversary of Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance made it into my German page-a-day wisenheimer calendar.
Quote from Hoffa as the quote of the day: "I do to others as they do to me, not worse." (My translation.)
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterIt has come to my attention that there is a DJ on BBC 1Xtra called Snoochie Shy and I was about to do one of those old person rants about kids these days.
Until I remembered that back in my day DJs had sensible names like Kid Jensen, Fluff Freeman, Whispering Bob so yeah, if they want to be Snoochie let them be Snoochie.
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toI'm fortunate to have an office at work with a door that closes.
I'm also fortunate to be mostly left alone for much of the day. Few people come and knock on my door, which I keep closed because the two across the hall are _constantly_ on the phone or zoom meeting.
But I guarantee within 20 seconds of me farting, especially if its really bad, THAT's when someone knocks.
@randy_@social.linux.pizzaDay 4 - The Tiny Crossover.
While the statue cats keep staring into the eternal circle of the Rörsjökanalen, my bag is packed, the second fika is history, and the daily struggles of the Malmödians
continue. I’ve crossed the bridge to the land of the Danes.
I must say that I have never felt more welcome in a place like Malmö. From my friend and her kids to the local supermarket cashier, the guy in the sports shop, the tennis teacher, and the museum staff, you name it! In som…
@CondeChocula@social.linux.pizzaFinished Castlevania: The New Generation for Sega Mega Drive.
It was my first time. 🤘
A good game as always in the #castlevania saga. The #ost is awesome and his gameplay delicious.
Very short but intense.
A very nice Game to play and complete it in same day.
@pre@boing.worldSo fun things with this camper conversion. The day after I dropped it off he tells me a medical crisis is gonna stop him being able to do the work.
Later find out that now he's over 50 he decided to go on a health kick, and only drink distilled water.
🤦♂️
So he ended up flushing all the electrolytes out of his system and having a nervous system crisis the week he was supposed to be working on my van.
😆
Consult your doctors about your health-kicks people!
He managed to fit a kit thing, rather than do the custom job. Seems possible that will be enough and it won't be rescheduled, but live in it a bit first to find out.
Managed to sleep in it okay, even poorly parked on a slope and with a fractured wrist.
@JSkier@social.linux.pizzaPretty rough humidity yesterday, par for this summer, apparently 🫠 Glad I worked one in after the rain, though. Rest day today, although, I played #golf 9 holes with my kids and family.
I will say, the generic Liquid IVs I got from Walgreens aren't that good. I got the Passion Fruit. That said, running when it's hot out and drinking them cold, it is still quenching. Will probably t…
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialI was hesitant whether I want to post a photo for #WorldPhotographyDay here on this account - But then I remembered That I could also just simply post it on my Blog!
An insane decision if I would just target for reach - but I do this for my fun, not for the reach. So I just posted it on my #blog
@spamless@mastodon.social5 handstand push-ups, set 2. (Ties my record.) Wednesdays are usually my handstand and pike day.
#seniorfitness #nogym #calisthenics
@brian_gettler@mas.toThe first day of school means the first day in a while of having to deal with the parents who think their convenience is more important than everyone else's life. If you have to drive the little ones to school, please consider parking a block or two away and walking to the door instead of clogging the street in front of the school. And please, please just let that kid ride/walk by first. You can wait. I'm tired of having to defend my children from other parents in death machines.
@mlippert@vmst.io#Wordle 1,510 3/6*
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WordleBot
Skill 84/99
Luck 58/99
Nice easy day today.
My starting word today was not one I'd expect to be a wordle answer, I just felt like using it.
Interesting, the bot would have chosen a different word w/ the same letters I did for the 3rd guess, and it would have distributed the remaining words more evenly.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza @randy_@social.linux.pizzaDay 3: Last evening meal.
I never thought I would be in a museum for over five hours! That's how much there is to see in Malmöhus. So, that basically took up the majority of my day.
We planned a dinner with all of us and an extra guest—a Polish girl who is super sweet and smart. She’s been traveling alone in Copenhagen and Malmö for the last week or so. She was very popular because she brought us cinnamon rolls! Fuck! Those delicious treats are so good that I’d sell my left …
@NFL@darktundra.xyzDaniels: 'Night and day' difference in my game https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45868769/jayden-daniels-notices-night-day-difference-entering-2nd-season
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineYa gut the National Weather Service and then the fourth largest city in the country gets stomped by weather we didn’t see coming.
trump tornados in Oklahoma, trump floods in Houston, and your and my town will get the same too.
Help flood folks now: text REDCROSS to 90999.
https://www.…
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialI did it! My wife convinced me to join a pre work cycling loop. A great start into the day.
#cycling #BikeTooter #training
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza @midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaThe Sound of Gunshot
https://www.revoluciana.net/the-sound-of-gunshot/
@randy_@social.linux.pizzaDay 2 - Don’t believe what they say.
On social media, there was a hype about people trying disgusting foods, more specifically surströmming, the Swedish fermented fish. People were nearly dying, a new nuclear weapon was declared, and there were many likes on YouTube.
The same goes for how Malmö would be today: a Muslim city, more explosive than Baghdad, with extreem crimes and only falafel bars.
I don’t know where I am right now or where I spent my second day, but I am expe…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaOh, wanted to share I'm getting a free bike!
Literally for free, a #Bicycle, my grandmother's hiking friend has never used it for the past 10 years, and he can't see very well.
Its also in very good condition, and so I'm excited, will probably pick it up tomorrow or the day after, I love bicycles.
I'm against
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaSpilling the autistic tea!
One of my biggest autistic traits is that I talk to myself for up to six hours a day, and have done so my entire life, all 24 years.
I just love talking to myself, it’s my way of stimming and fully owning my queer, neurodivergent self with pride, I suppose.
The more you know!
#ActuallyAutistic
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaMy day just took a nosedive because some fascist jerk is celebrating a bill landing on his desk!
Honestly, it’s wild how people still put their faith in the same old power games when real change comes from people coming together, running things themselves, and kicking the fascists out of the picture.
Being autistic, I usually struggle to get what people mean, but Rudolf Rocker said some real shit that even my autistic brain understands.
