Tootfinder

Well, a little success, a little failure.
The box with a NeoPixel matrix on the back and a USB battery inside (and a microcontroller) works great!
But I did not bungee it to the bike rack so it flew off, hit the road, the lid broke off, and the MIK adapter also broke.
I bungee corded it into place and it's good now... but the box is busted so I'll have to come up with another solution.

I’ve worked over the past year to reduce the amount of noise in my consciousness on a daily basis.
By that I mean - information noise, not literal sounds “noise”. (That problem was solved long ago by some good earplugs and noise canceling earphones.)
I’ve gotten used to spending less time on social media, regularly blocking most apps on my devices (anything with a feed news, most work communication apps, etc.), putting my phone and other devices aside for extended periods of time. Often go to work places with my iPad explicitly having its WiFi turned off and selecting cafes that don’t offer WiFi at all.
Negotiated better boundaries at work and in personal life where I exchange messages with people less often but try to make those interactions more meaningful, and people rarely expect me to respond to requests in less than 24 hours. Spent a lot of time setting up custom notification settings on all apps that would allow it, so I get fewer pings. With software, choosing fewer cloud-based options and using tools that are simple and require as few interruptions as possible.
Accustomed myself to lower-tech versions of doing things I like to do: reading on paper, writing by hand, drawing in physical sketchbooks, got a typewriter for typing without a screen. Choosing to call people on audio more, trying to make more of an effort to see people in person. Going to museums to look at art instead of browsing Pinterest. Defaulting to the library when looking for information.
I’m commenting on this now for two reasons:
1. I am pretty proud of myself for how much I’ve actually managed to reduce the constant stream of modern life esp. as a remote worker in tech!
2. Now that I’ve reached a breaking point of reducing enough noise that it’s NOTICEABLE - I am struck by the silence. I don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know how to navigate it and fill it. I made this space to be able to read and write and think more deeply - for now I feel stuck in limbo where I’m just reacquainting myself with the concept of having any space in my mind at all.

My contribution to #footpathFriday !
This was a really nice walk. Just as I like it: small paths along a nice mountain.
But I also remember that it was the time I was suffering from something called "frozen shoulder". It was a bit of a challenge to take off /on the backpack. As a wrong movement cause some REAL pain.
But this is over as well and I just try to rec…

Ukraine could buy up to 150 Gripen fighter jets from Sweden,
paid for using frozen Russian assets,
under a deal agreed on Wednesday.
Ukraine already has US-made F-16 and French-made Mirage 2000 fighter jets.
The Gripen has long been vaunted as more practical for Ukrainian battlefield conditions
– being built, for example, to take off and land on civilian roads as well as runways
so that it can fight from dispersed locations rather than just airfie…

Not good at all
This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services
#aibubble

This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services
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Black Coffee from lnbits likes internet of things, but doesn't like the way it tends to work with centralised servers and spying companies running them.
But what if your coffee pot and lights and smart plugs were nostr instead?
Nobody can cut your machine off, it has it's own keys and encryption, you could even ruin your own relay to talk to it instead of using public relays.
Remote control without having to expose the home network.
You could even make it require zaps and so make a vending machine.
Demonstration by sending lightning requests to the coffee pot on stage works better than the mikes that have been feeding back this afternoon 😆
#nostr #nostrshire #internetOfThings

Several people sit at the desk. In a sane world, I would say "I'm here for my appointment." They would look at my card and at their list and say "Great. We will call you shortly." In our world, the people at the desk refuse to make eye contact and point like mindless automatons at a bank of tablets. I shuffle off, spend minutes flailing at a screen that's wholly uninterested in accurately reproducing my information, and reflect on what in God's great plan is t…

Oh whoopie-z with a rotten radish on top!!
Now El Cheeto is going to tear down the entire east wing of the white house. Gee and he said that it would not be touched - liar!! But what are to we expect from the guy who lied to build trump tower and wants to bulldoze Gaza to build hotels and golf courses.
The White House belongs to US, not to El Cheato. Were I a DC official I would revoke the business licenses of every company that is working on, or contributing to, this rip-off o…

Trump Will Demolish Entire White House East Wing for Ballroom: Live Updates

👀 Defensive regression. If you review most of the goals this season, it usually isn’t that LFC don’t have enough people behind the ball. It’s that depth & injuries have been more undermining than expected. Little choice but to play those out of form or out of position.
Missing out on Guehi was massive, as was the injury to Leoni, and the decision to sell Quansah now looks bad. I think Trent, when he wanted to, was a better defender than his reputation, but defensively, he’s not mis…

Tubi joins Roku in striking partnerships with top creators like MrBeast and Jomboy Media to repackage their content on FAST channels (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/tubi-roku-youtube-1236405292/

Top Creators’ Shows Find Second Life Off YouTube
Tubi and Roku are increasingly picking up creators' already shot videos to repackage them on FAST channels.

Javonte Williams downplays return to Denver, focused on helping Cowboys win https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/javonte-williams-downplays-return-to-denver-focused-on-helping-cowboys-win

this is the funniest fucking image to me for some reason

this is the funniest fucking image to me for some reason

"So, if you read this and discover that your project’s name and logo is being proudly displayed on the front page of a fascist-adjacent, washed-up millionaire’s scummy vanity company, and you don’t like that, maybe you should sk them to knock it off? Eron, Louis – you know that a lot of these logos are trademarked, right?"
…

Started migrating services off of the RPis and onto the new #Proxmox server. The initial install went fairly smoothly, got the VLANs configured, and then setup the new primary DNS server. That took longer than it should have, but I will say this: the VM is so much more snappy than the Pi. Next up is the secondary DNS server.

tell me why I got home and the brand new mailbox apparently got fucking ripped off the wall entirely
I literally had asked Sheryl to postpone sending my settlement check til I got back from Philly and could put house numbers on the mailbox and now There Is No Mailbox
we got a building inspection tomorrow morning apparently tho so ima tell them to inspect my fucking lack of a mailbox

Based on my experience while trekking in Peru, I've written some notes on how to map & survey with @… and @… when off the internet & electricity for a few days!
#OpenStreetMap

Yesterday I had a day off and made some mango soap. I meant to document the whole process but my batter thickened up so quickly, I couldn't. It was hardly surprising with 20% mango butter in the recipe. 😅
#SoapMaking

Migrating to #Hetzner
#Cloud

Game Recap: Raiders show improvement and grit in narrow loss to Texans https://www.raiders.com/news/game-recap-raiders-show-improvement-and-grit-in-narrow-loss-to-texans

EU blacklist prompts Armenia and Serbia to cut off Russian banking clients: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/20/eu-blacklist-prompts-armenia-and.html

Another film, another unattributed use of #OpenStreetMap. This is the fourth movie I’ve seen this year commit this sin and the latest culprit is this Netflix Christmas romcom titled Champagne Problems.
Their travesty is now immortalized on the OSM Wiki: https…

Oh wow; @… on Tested with Adam Savage, showing off her pop-up book Alphabet in Motion.
This is the first I've really seen of the book other than the Kickstarter updates, and it looks amazing.
Pretty sure my copy is on the way.
What an accomplishment!

Many lawyers and career officials at the White House National Security Council, Pentagon and Justice Department ...
who had raised concerns about using lethal force against "narcotraffickers" ...
either left government or were reassigned or removed.
https://skywriter.b…

Guys, "Suits" is amazing. Just a perfectly delightful blend of repartee, intrigue, cleverness and low stakes.
Perfect for switching the brain off amid... all of this.
Yes, I know I'm late af to this party.
#TVseries #BingeWatch

Suits
While running from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant young college-dropout, slips into a job interview with one of New York City's best legal closers, Harvey Specter. Tired of cookie-cutter law school grads, Harvey takes a gamble by hiring Mike on the spot after he recognizes his raw talent and photographic memory.

Nice new accessible trail in #McLarenPark from Mansell Promenade to John F. Shelley Promenade. No more need to loop around up a steep hill on Shelley to get to the part with the great views west.

from my link log —
Always-on processor magic: how “Find My” works while iPhone is powered off.
https://naehrdine.blogspot.com/2021/09/always-on-processor-magic-how-find-my.html
saved 2021-09-30

Always-on Processor magic: How Find My works while iPhone is powered off
Wireless and firmware hacking, PhD life, Technology

Dear USians,
How about you don’t call a Middle Eastern guy “white” and go on to tell him he’s “no better than any other oppressor we encounter” simply for trying to warn his Palestinian friends to not take any unnecessary risks and to be careful on Mastodon?
Also, apparently Divya has blocked me for this, which sucks because it has made it impossible for me to keep boosting her fundraiser, which you should, of course, still follow and support (link below).
I’m not going to …

Having slept on it, I think Lance Henriksen's character was absolutely right.
He left his young child perfectly safe: alone in the middle of nowhere, in charge of a convenience store full of goods and money, with six strange teenagers who'd asked me for beer before two of them couldn't wait to start showing off on dirt bikes and starting doing stunts next to the store.
And, when he returned to find his child badly injured, he did the right thing: picking him up witho…

Hah it spiked due to Renovate kicking off some PRs and thus GitHub Action runners starting on it 🎉

🗳️🇺🇸 Hey, Maine! 2 weeks from tomorrow (Nov 4) you’ve got a referendum that could shape elections for years. It may be an off-year but the outcome will sway every election from now on.
Bipartisan info at https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Sample_Ballot…

Titan submarine: Also in the same ntsb set of documents are a) The interview with the Softee who worked on some of the software, (describing Jira and Git to marine investigators..), and replugging the Logitech joystick dongle, and who had also got into screwing the end cap of the sub on and torquing the bolts up (!).
and b) The details of the recovery of the images off the camera - which turn out to be useless - but involved some fun with Luks, and a Qualcomm SoM.

For people who like to follow along with tech conferences I’m posting a thread on LinkedIn while I’m at #QConSF https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adriancoc…

I’m spending the next few days at QCon Software Development Conferences San Francisco and I will post reactions and comments as threads on this post. My own talk is at 5pm today. Starting off with an… | Adrian Cockcroft
I’m spending the next few days at QCon Software Development Conferences San Francisco and I will post reactions and comments as threads on this post. My own talk is at 5pm today. Starting off with an opening keynote by Nicole Forsgren who I just said hi to and found out recently moved back from Microsoft to Google. The event is well attended and has many first time attendees going by the audience at the keynote. It’s their 19th year and it’s very well run at at an iconic location. The Hy…

while you are at Dublin mayors, maybe you could ask car drivers to turn on their lights as required by law in Ireland :-) ?!?! During my super brief time in Dublin in 2024 I saw a lot of cars with their lights off during a dark rainy afternoon.
https://mastodon.ie/@irishcycle/115583918846…

Javonte Williams downplays return to Denver, focused on helping Cowboys win https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/javonte-williams-downplays-return-to-denver-focused-on-helping-cowboys-win

I got those new disks loaded into the TrueNAS server and have been moving things around to make more space on the primary pool.
I've got my home computers running backups to the NAS and most of the Macs also have Time Machine drives attached...
At this point I'm still missing off-site backups but I can look into that by placing a small NAS at the office.
#TrueNAS

NFL Week 16 picks: Our experts face off on Steelers against Lions, Patriots at Ravens and more

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-16-expert-picks-head-t…

Off to the races! Tested and all, another great slacker0ni production.
Thanks Jay!
cc @…
#slackware #kde

On Tuesday, multiple congressional Democrats made a video reminding members of the military and intelligence community of their duty to the Constitution,
not to President Trump.
The comments—made by military and intelligence veterans Senators Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin, and Representatives Jason Crow, Chris Deluzio, Maggie Goodlander, and Chrissy Houlahan—set the MAGAverse off.
By Thursday, President Trump suggested they be charged with sedition and executed.
And y…

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (@SenatorSlotkin) on X
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.

OnePlus 15R review: the new $700 device is fast with a big battery and a vibrant 165Hz OLED, but one less camera than 2024's 13R and only four years of support (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphone

OnePlus 15R review: A 165Hz display and big battery for $700
The OnePlus 15R has many of the same strengths as the more expensive OP15, but shaves off $200 off by compromising on cameras.

Quoted in New York Times on Harvard Protest
The Harvard ‘Die-in’ That Set Off a Debate Over Protest and Punishment
“This became a good case study because it involved an Arab man and Black man in a way that they could use racist language to pull into these stereotypes,” said Hussein Rashid, a former Harvard Divinity School l

Extreme heat is becoming deadlier, but we already have solutions that work.
The Heat Is On campaign showcased proven approaches—early warning systems and nature-based solutions—that have saved lives and protected communities worldwide. At COP30, this momentum paid off: adaptation finance is set to triple under the Belém Package, finally putting climate adaptation on equal footing with mitigation.

When The Heat Is On: Stories of Action and Impact - Global Center on Adaptation

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
P.A.: The President will be answering questions about new population control *?measures
RAVELLA: All our food and drink is treated with suppressants. Going without for a day and a half, they should be wearing off.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/9 B7…

Usually digital signs on campus are broken half the time, but the signs in the new Computing and Information Science building knock my socks off -- that's a statue of Ezra Cornell
#photo #photography #cornell

Interesting 👀 https://social.zarchbox.fr/notes/agclhhyre66bnqz3
Extension from @… :

Kicking off EuroSky Live #EuroSkyLive

I can't believe incels and everyone else are so pissed off all the time when there are visual novels with catgirls on Steam for just a couple bucks

On Tuesday, multiple congressional Democrats made a video reminding members of the military and intelligence community of their duty to the Constitution,
not to President Trump.
The comments—made by military and intelligence veterans Senators Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin, and Representatives Jason Crow, Chris Deluzio, Maggie Goodlander, and Chrissy Houlahan—set the MAGAverse off.
By Thursday, President Trump suggested they be charged with sedition and executed.
And y…

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (@SenatorSlotkin) on X
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.

For #TextureTuesday some more WIP snapshots of STRATA, a generative system I've been on/off working on since 2014 (in Clojure/TypeScript/Zig, originally for the cover design of HOLO magazine), loosely based on 1950s research/experiments by Barricelli, somewhat related to cellular automata and extended to use a different and much larger set of "reproduction/collision rules" f…

I’m pretty sure this guy in a car shit himself when the cop car that was behind him turned on the sirens and lights. They did go around him and sped off into the distance, but he’s gonna need new underwear.

Day 18: Mark Oshiro
Having just learned that Oshiro is nonbinary, they're an instant include on this list. In veering extremely heavily towards YA, and losing a spot that would have gone to an absolutely legendary mangaka, anime writer, or feminist philosopher, but "Anger is A Gift" and "Each of us a Desert" are just that good, and I'm trying to steer a bit towards towards lesser-known authors I respect.
I already mentioned "Anger is a Gift" above, but to recap, it's a painful, vivid, and beautifully honest story of queer love, loss, and protest against an oppressive system. CW for racist police murder, intergenerational trauma, and police brutality against highschool students. It's a book a lot of Americans could benefit from reading right now, and while it's fiction, it's not fantasy or sci-fi. Besides the themes and politics, the writing is just really solid, with delicate characterization and tight-plotted developments that are beautifully paced.
To me "Each of us a Desert" is maybe even more beautiful, and Oshiro leaps into a magnificent fantasy world that's richly original in its desolation, dark history, lonely characters, and mythical magic. Particularly the clearly-not-just-superscription but ambiguously-important/powerful magical elements of Oshiro's worldbuilding are a rare contrast to the usual magic-is-real-here's-how-it-works fare, and pulling that off a all as they do is a testament to their craft. The prose is wonderful, probably especially so if you speak Spanish, but I enjoyed it immensely despite only knowing a few words here and there. The rich interiority of the characters, their conflicts both with each other and within themselves, and the juxtaposition of all that against origins in cult-like ignorance allows for the delivery of a lot of wisdom and complex truths.
Between these two books, so different and yet each so powerful, Oshiro has demonstrated incredible craft and also a wide range of styles, so I'm definitely excited to read more of their work and to recommend them to others.
I'm also glad to have finally put a nonbinary author on this list; the others I had in mind won't make it at this point because there's too much genre overlap, although I'll include them in my didn't-make-it list at the end. I've now got just 2 slots left and have counted up 14 more authors that absolutely need to be mentioned, so we'll see what happens.
#20AuthorsNoMen

So now I have HDR working on my desktop computer and it's just a sort of random joy when some image suddenly pops off super bright.

#California Democrat politician and Governor hopeful Eric Swalwell listed as Exec Producer on West Virginia film where crew is striking and demanding #IATSE #union contract

Crew Strikes on Movie Produced by Sean Penn, Eric Swalwell
Workers walked off ‘The Gun on Second Street' in a bid to establish an IATSE union contract; Swalwell says he will ask to remove his name from the credits if "a fair outcome" is not achieved.

Ukraine has a coastline of ~1,729 miles (~2,782km), and a very small navy. Russia blockaded them and end up with a bunch of their ships becoming coral reefs, and largely withdrawing from the Black Sea.
Venezuela has a coastline of 1,700 miles (~2,800km), and a very small navy. The US is gonna blockade them and…

Trump orders blockade of oil tankers into Venezuela
President Donald Trump says he is ordering a blockade of all “sanctioned oil tankers” into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro. The moves comes after U.S. forces last week seized an oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast, an unusual move that followed a buildup of military forces in the region. In a post on social media Tuesday night announcing the blockade, Trump alleged Venezuela was using oil to fund drug trafficking and other crimes. The bu…

PIC12F683 poly/substrate with some residual contacts (some floated away, some sitting at random positions, some still firmly attached) but almost all oxide etched.
Doing the whole die at this state, then will probably do a clean to get all the loose contacts and debris off, another imaging pass.
Then I'm not sure if it's worth the effort to try for a clean substrate image given the poor contrast I'm seeing, vs just calling this the final form. We'll see what happe…

I wonder if Amazon have tried turning it off and on again?

I should probably take a break as the holidays approach. As they say "All work and no play make jack a dull boy"
Okay Hallmark channel - I'm listening.
#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

TIL 2 things about Slack that surprised me:
PSA 1: Slack doesn’t have a “Block” function. It does however have a “Hide” function.
PSA 2: By default, Slack includes everyone’s email address in the info you get when you right-click on them and view their profile. Thankfully, this can be turned off.

I'm not usually one to get excited over #motorcycle gear, but I just picked up a Nelson Rigg Stormrider rain suit on closeout for about 65% off and I'm totally impressed with it so far. I rode 24 miles to work today in a driving rain with high winds and arrived completely dry and comfortable. First impressions are that this was a fantastic buy, and something I'm going to use un…

Ty Burns, Republican Oklahoma state rep. of the 35th District, just convicted of domestic abuse against his wife & daughter & resigned his seat.
#Republicans #crime
From: @…

The Intellectualist (@the_intellectualist_official) on Threads
🚨 Republican Rep. Ty Burns pleaded guilty to domestic abuse after court records said he tried to gouge his wife’s eye and later ran his wife and daughter off the road. He still holds his Oklahoma House seat. https://open.substack.com/pub/theintellectualistofficial/p/republican-lawmaker-pleads-guilty

Who's ready to clean some floppy drive heads? Not really the way I planned to spend my day off but things are reaching dire straights for available floppy drives. Starting to hold up other projects.
#retrocomputing

Added a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog

#TIL: The Spanish Conquest was an economic disaster for Spain and to a lesser degree all of Europe due to massive inflation , huge cost of imposing Spanish administration on the colonies, and fighting off pirates like the English.
(From the BBC’s Unexpected Elements )

Global goal of zero deforestation by 2030 is severely off track https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/global-goal-of-zero-deforestation-by-2030-is-severely-off-track/

Global goal of zero deforestation by 2030 is severely off track
Global deforestation hasn’t slowed in any significant way in the four years since 127 countries pledged to halt and reverse forest loss and degradation by 2030. The newly published 2025 Forest Declaration Assessment shows that nations are 63% off track from meeting their zero-deforestation target. To be on track for that goal, deforestation was supposed […]

Are there any admins on social.tchncs.de.? Is anonymously spreading lies about over 30 families in Gaza allowed on this instance?
This anonymous coward has been chased off of every server he’s been on and yet he’s still here, still attacking people suffering from genocide and famine.
(And yes, some folks copy posts from others. We’ve asked them not to. But they’re trying to survive genocide, not win social media awards.)
Also (see his second post) we’re not attempting to r…

Linux Is Best (@Linux@social.tchncs.de)
Attached: 2 images 1 of 2 First, let me say: what’s happening in Gaza is absolutely awful. But what’s also awful is that there are dishonest people taking advantage of others during a crisis. In one photo, from Facebook (my job, where I work), we had a woman claiming to be a 36-year-old mother of two children, ages 4 and 7. She spaced out the URL in her post, hoping it wouldn’t get flagged by spam filters (it did). The very next day, someone on the Fediverse posted the exact same messa…

User interface pretending to be human: fraud.
Statistical sentence generation described as “intelligence”: fraud.
Telling people, often children, to commit dangerous or criminal acts: all sorts of crimes.
Scientific papers generated, non-existing cases quoted at court, homework faked, artists ripped-off: fraud and copyright infringement.
Training based on unlicensed works: copyright infringement.
Data centers with tax incentives and special energy pricing: theft.
Promises to investors of AGI: fraud.
Government bailouts with taxpayer money: theft and fraud.
—
Media and politicians: This is innovation, don’t get left behind.

They Get Wheeled on Flights and Miraculously Walk Off. Praise 'Jetway Jesus.' (Natasha Dangoor/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/jetway-jesus-wheelchair-passengers-miracle-flights-0eaccfb3
http://www.memeorandum.com/251218/p141#a251218p141

Mailbag: Thoughts on Lamb, Pickens benching? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-thoughts-on-lamb-pickens-benching

It’s strange thinking about how much pain I’ve grown to accept and have just learned to live with.
I love writing by hand too much to give it up - with my ADHD it helps me focus, remember thins better, think through complex ideas. Journaling has been a great way to manage my mental illnesses. I love paper, I love collecting notebooks.
Not to mention that I am a hobbyist artist and draw on a regular basis. (Somehow that has been less painful for me than writing… but if writing cramped my hand then drawing would be agonizing too and I’d have to take weeks off on a nearly constant basis).
So suddenly purchasing a new kind of pen and realizing it MADE THE PAIN DISAPPEAR feels like magic. I literally feel less disabled.
I just wish I bought a fountain pen years ago 😅

im finally watching the office (US) after swearing it completely off twenty years ago bc my bestie who has literally a 100% success rate at recommending me things said I should. started at s2 on his rec and im 3 episodes in and I Get It lol
brief intermission now to go pick up my back brace

On Tuesday, the SFMTA board casually discussed another fare increase, ignoring the harms that could cause, including to votes for next year's funding measures. All while the possibility of simply keeping parking meters turned on on evenings and Sundays was left off the table.
https://scott.mn/2025/12/19/sf…

SFMTA board poised to approve another fare increase
Plus a shot across the bow of discount programs

Quoted in New York Times on Harvard Protest
The Harvard ‘Die-in’ That Set Off a Debate Over Protest and Punishment “This became a good case study because it involved an Arab man and Black man in a way that they could use racist language to pull into these stereotypes,” said Hussein Rashid, a former Harvard Divinity School lecturer who knows Mr. Tettey-Tamaklo.

Follow live: Packers and Bears face off in late-season NFC North showdown https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401772613/packers-bears

Mailbag: Thoughts on Lamb, Pickens benching? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-thoughts-on-lamb-pickens-benching

After a couple years with its website comments turned off , transitory #MLB team reopened that feature up...and vexed venting went full blast.
Longtime former fans found out and let feels show on owner's move from #Oakland after 50 years to minor league park in

After 655 days, the A's turn social media comments back on
Few American professional sports franchises had engendered less goodwill in recent years than the Athletics, and it shows in the comments.

Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 62% YoY to $57.01B, vs. $54.92B est., Data Center revenue up 66% to $51.2B, and net income up 65% to $31.9B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/nvidia-nvda-earnings-report-q3-2026.html

Nvidia shares rise on stronger-than-expected revenue, forecast
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said sales for the company's current-generation GPU, called Blackwell, are "off the charts."

Sonnenberg ridge entirely living up to its name...
(Made the most of the last warm weather yesterday afternoon to hike/climb along this beautiful long ridge with many cliffs, roped sections, some cute chamois and hardly any people — temporarily felt like late August, yet in two days supposedly snow starting...)
#SilentSunday

U.S. pushing Ukraine to sign Trump's "peace deal" by Thanksgiving or lose support

U.S. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll presented Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday with a version of the 28-point plan Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff recently drafted with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev.

That plan, leaked to the news media and confirmed by several officials, includes several red lines for Ukraine,
including a significant reduction of its army…

U.S. pushing Ukraine to sign peace deal by Thanksgiving or lose support
The U.S. is sending “signals” that everything could be off the table if Kyiv does not quickly sign a proposal, which was drawn up by special envoy Steve Witkoff.

Just read this long post on "the current state of Cara" https://cara.app/post/2e0d29d3-a57a-4b70-b0d0-9cefc15176ca
🤔 "Not having an algorithmically recommended feed is the biggest reason why people dropped off from Cara after we went viral. In a chronolog…

Jingna Zhang (@zemotion) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform
About the current state of Cara— Hi all, I’d like to address some users' concerns about Cara’s stability, algorithms and reach, and why we don’t actively promote Cara and recruit new users. I have touched on most of these before through other posts, but I’ll like to go over the main points and put them in one place since they often come up as recurring questions: — Cara’s longevity/stability > "A few weeks ago, after learning how much Jingna was struggling with her personal l…

And another couple of etch cycles on the PIC12F683 done.
On the home stretch, I've almost got the last of the dielectric off. But I don't want to be too aggressive because ideally I'd get a beauty shot of intact poly across the whole die first, *then* undercut the poly and get a substrate image.
So I'm still doing my usual 2 minutes etch, then image routine. It'll take as long as it takes.

So my car has been complaining I should put some exhaust emissions neutralizing fluid in it. A thing they call AdBlue I believe.
Bought a big 10l drum of the stuff ready to fill up.
But when I look at where I expect to find the hole for filling it, I just find a capped off tube and a warning sticker "See the GM Citreon Berlingo Blaze manual" for the adblue refilling hole.
Only user manual I have is the one telling me to expect it there.
The car was converted for wheelchair access at some point in its life. I think they are referring to the wheelchair-adaption manual, which the seller did not give me.
🤔
Have been looking around the car as much as I can for a couple of hours this morning to no avail. Where have they hidden this hole to fill up adblue?
Maybe it's under the engine or something now and you have to put the thing on stilts to find it?
🤷
Asked my mechanic about it and he says to bring it in on Monday. Gonna be a pain if I have to rip up the floorboards or something every year to refill that.
#mechanic #car #diesel

Yesterday I felt like an intruder at the engineering school, this morning I was the second kemonomimi to get off the bus
#photo #photography #selfie

"But as you can see, the programs do come at a cost... we estimate about $27.4m a year goes to the administrative costs and also the projected fare revenue reduction."
I'm waiting for the slide where they estimate the much higher cost of all the unmetered parking spaces across the city, and of turning off meters at 6pm and on Sundays. I'm sure that'll definitely be later in this presentation, right?

By this spring, the World Food Program still had not received funding,
ran low on supplies
and was forced to stop feeding many of Kenya’s refugees.
In Kakuma, the third-largest camp in the world,
WFP cut rations to their lowest in history,
trapping most of the 308,000 people in the camp with almost nothing to eat. 
They began to starve,
and many — mostly children
— died because their malnourished bodies couldn’t fight off infections
Moth…

Inside the Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

Cowboys in pursuit of Raiders' Maxx Crosby? Explaining the Trey Wingo tweet that kicked off speculation about a trade https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/cowboys-raiders-maxx-crosby-trey-wingo-speculation-trade/51b…

Folks creating free and open software for the common good: here’s a checklist of everything else you should be doing so corporations can make the best use of your free labour.
I mean, sure, some good security tips here and worth reading anyway but do fuck off with holding free software developers to account for supply chain attacks. It’s your fucking supply chain, not ours, you fucking corporation.

sometimes I get annoyed when I forget to turn off match updates on FotMob for a match I'm watching bc it'll tell me someone scored before it actually happens on my stream
but rn it was good bc I was not fucking paying attention and that gave me a few seconds to focus and actually watch the goal lol
#fedifc #psv

Can Eagles clinch NFC East over Cowboys on Saturday? Postseason scenarios for Philly https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/philadelphia-eagles/news/can-eagles-clinch-nfc-east-cowboys-saturday-posts…

The chance that Trump's ballroom will actually be built is rapidly disappearing.
Perhaps it could have if Trump had delegated the management of the project to someone competent,
but that’s not what he does.
Instead, the famously lazy and disorganized president decided to blow off his actual governance duties in favor of micromanaging a construction project he is incapable of handling.
Finishing the ballroom in the next three years would be difficult for anyone,…

The White House ballroom will never be built
Trump can't focus long enough, even on his $400 million passion project

A proposal to ship radioactive waste from Canada to Utah has received an initial green light.
EnergySolutions is pursing a plan calling for importation of 1.31 million cubic yards of the waste from Canada for disposal in Tooele County.
Canadian officials and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission still need to sign off on the proposal.

EnergySolutions proposal to deposit Canadian radioactive waste in Tooele County gets initial OK
EnergySolutions' plans to dispose of low-level radioactive waste from Canada in Tooele County have gotten an initial OK, though the approval process isn't over.

A Charlotte pastor said
Border Patrol came into his church and arrested a father in front of his wife and kid.
The folks were outside on the property cleaning up the yard when ICE started chasing after them.
Some ran in the church thinking it's off limits to ICE. Apparently not.
This is wrong!
https:…

MadGreek 🧿 (@madgreek2024.bsky.social)
A Charlotte pastor said Border Patrol came into his church and arrested a father in front of his wife and kid. The folks were outside on the property cleaning up the yard when ICE started chasing after them. Some ran in the church thinking it's off limits to ICE. Apparently not. This is wrong!

Chargers Weekly: Chargers vs. Cowboys Week 16 Preview https://www.chargers.com/video/chargers-weekly-chargers-vs-cowboys-week-16-preview

Jerry Jones, Dallas Cowboys get trolled on day off by Packers fan https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/jerry-jones-dallas-cowboys-get-trolled-on-day-off-by-packers-fan

Ukraine sees its EU membership bid advancing before the end of this year
thanks to “creative solutions” to overcome Hungary’s opposition,
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Taras Kachka told POLITICO.
EU leaders could sign off on opening as many as six negotiating “clusters”
— legal steps on the path to membership in the bloc
— in December as “political momentum” builds
and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbšn faces growing pressure to remove his veto, he sa…

Ukraine’s EU membership bid set for breakthrough in December, says deputy PM
Taras Kachka believes “creative solutions” will overcome Hungary’s opposition to Kyiv’s joining the EU.

Taco Trump reverses course and cuts tariffs on US food imports
Order exempting coffee, beef, bananas and other items comes as White House fights off concerns about rising costs
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/14/trump-tariffs-food?C…

On an island in the Arctic Ocean, in a region that is warming as much as seven times as fast as the rest of the planet, the food chain is being turned upside down.
Underwater kelp forests are surging into once-frozen waters, replacing other native species.
Reindeer, cut off from traditional foraging routes over vanishing sea ice, now graze on seaweed when they cannot reach inland grasses and lichen.
And polar bears, deprived of the ice platforms they once used to hunt seals, …

Curious Reindeer and Charging Polar Bears: The Changing Wildlife at the Top of the Earth
Climate change is transforming ecosystems in the far north. An international team of scientists has made some surprising discoveries.

Towson University students moved their “No Kings” rally off campus
after a school official told them speakers’ names would be run through federal government databases and vetted for security reasons.
The demonstration, one of dozens planned in Maryland on Saturday,
will protest authoritarian policies of President Donald Trump.
Students moved the event, fearing that speakers would be targeted by the Trump administration,
which has threatened to pursue and punish …

Towson U. ‘No Kings’ rally relocates over speaker background checks
Towson University students moved their “No Kings” rally off campus after school officials told them speakers’ names would be run through federal government databases and vetted for security reasons.

Journalists of color on being laid off amid Trump’s anti-DEI push:
It's not just a coincidence
Black and brown former employees from CBS, NBC and Teen Vogue talk about the effects of being let go
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d