@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-06-09 16:48:12
"""
"[…] Wanting a man got me into awful troubles more than once. But wanting to get married, never! No, no. None of that for me."
"Why not?" Tenar demanded.
Taken aback, Moss said simply, "Why, what man'd marry a witch?" And then, with a sidelong chewing motion of her jaw, like a sheep shifting its cud, “And what witch’d marry a man?"
They split rushes.
"What's wrong with men?" Tenar inquired cautiously.
As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, "I don't know, my dearie. I’ve thought on it. Often I’ve thought on it. The best I can say it is like this. A man’s in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell." She held up her long, bent, wet fingers as if holding a walnut. “It’s hard and strong, that shell, and it’s all full of him. Full of grand man-meat, man-self. And that’s all. That’s all there is. It’s all him and nothing else, inside."
Tenar pondered awhile and finally asked, "But if he's a wizard—"
"Then it's all his power, inside. His power’s himself, see. That’s how it is with him. And that’s all. When his power goes, he’s gone. Empty." She cracked the unseen walnut and tossed the shells away. “Nothing."
"And a woman, then?"
"Oh, well, dearie, a woman's a different thing entirely. Who knows where a woman begins and ends? Listen, mistress, I have roots, I have roots deeper than this island. Deeper than the sea, older than the raising of the lands. I go back into the dark." Moss’s eyes shone with a weird brightness in their red rims and her voice sang like an instrument. “I go back into the dark! Before the moon I was. No one knows, no one knows, no one can say what I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon. Who dares ask questions of the dark? Who’ll ask the dark its name?"
"""
(Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu)
@pre@boing.world2025-05-10 22:29:22
Nice gimmick with the shop window animating the stories as they're told, and it liking the simple story of Belinda saving a single life.
Not really clear if the Barber here is a story writer or a story collector. He seems to want credit as though he wrote them but also to not have a name to credit them to, and to have weaved some kinda story collecting machine. He surely can't take credit for all human stories? It was a beautiful machine: a story tree that's also a brain with a heart in it.
I find myself sympathetic with the aims of this barber anyway. Yes, do kill all the gods. Great plan! Lets do it.
I play this song from Julian Cope, Psychedelic Odin, in which he swears to undertake a holy task set by a group of River Nixes: Kill all the gods for us, oh do it well.
So I like a story teller killing gods, I don't really want his plans thwarted! Join him Doctor! Kill al
l the gods!
Beautiful big space spider, weaving all the stories into it's web. Not sure why it's there though. Seems like just outer-space with no spider would have done,
Always like the callbacks with all the prior doctor's faces too. His story is truely one of the most epic. Only Coronation Street has him beat for length 😆
This whole season is great.
#tv #watching #doctorWho
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-06-10 06:28:31
Not a whisper about this on DR's news site so thanks 🙏 @… for sharing the original briefing.
Looking forward to better IT support on our Linux machines now...
https://mastodon.social/@randahl/114655674138180496
randahl@mastodon.social - In Denmark, The Ministry of Digitalization now removes all Microsoft software from ministry computers and switches to open source in a strategy that has been agreed with all five regions of Denmark.
The more Trump threatens Europe, the more US companies will get the Tesla treatment.
I will not be surprised if the Parliament member iPhones are next.
https://nordjyske.dk/nyheder/politik/digitaliseringsminister-vil-udfase-microsoft-i-sit-eget-ministerium/5616096
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-10 05:38:56
During the election campaign, Trump and his cronies declared they would deport the allegedly massive numbers of “criminal aliens.”
When Trump came into office, however, he faced a problem:
The vast majority of undocumented immigrants are law abiding.
But Trumpists came up with an answer:
Create fake crimes and thereby turn the law abiding into criminals.
Trump announced the US is
“under invasion” by a foreign power
in order to invoke the rarely us…
@Peti_is@no-pony.farm2025-06-10 10:32:45
Die ePetition 180389 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Ärzte mit dem Titel
Erhalt des freien Zugangs zur Psychotherapie
kann bis zum Dienstag 22. Juli 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird der Erhalt des freien Zugangs zur Psychotherapie gefordert.
und wird begründet
Bisher dürfen Versicherte eine oder einen Psychotherapeuten selbstständig aufsuchen. Eine Überweisung oder ein vorheriger Facharztbesuch sind nicht erforderlich.
…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-06-09 16:24:16
And here’s the kicker (emphasis added):
“Coding agents require the scaffolding, learning, and often demand more attention than tools, but are built to look like teammates.
••This makes them both unwieldy tools and lousy teammates.••
We should either have agents designed to look like a teammate properly act like a teammate [or] have a tool that behaves like a tool.”
8/
@mgorny@pol.social2025-06-09 16:46:06
"""
– […] Pragnienie mężczyzny wpędziło mnie w straszliwe kłopoty, więcej niż raz. Ale pragnienie zamążpójścia – nigdy! Nie, nie. Nic z tego.
– Dlaczego nie? – zapytała Tenar. Moss, zaskoczona, odrzekła po prostu:
– Jak to? Który mężczyzna poślubiłby wiedźmę? – Po czym dodała: – A jaka czarownica poślubiłaby mężczyznę? Rozdzielały sitowie.
– Co jest nie w porządku z mężczyznami? – zapytała ostrożnie Tenar.
Równie ostrożnie, obniżając głos, Moss odp…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-10 02:40:00
9 JUNE 2025
America STOP THIS PLEASE
This young girl, her mom
Dragged off by ICE
Not a criminal
Thousands & thousands are going through this all over our Country
Think if this was your family
https://bsky.app/profile/patti3333.bsk
@pre@boing.world2025-05-10 19:15:09
Been playing Pistol Whip again. Such a great game. The Black Magic "hard" level, with Reckless and Hell options is ridiculously hard. Finishing at all is a feat.
Was wondering how the hell the top players managed to score so highly. I was in like 4th place thinking I was playing a practically perfect game.
But it turns out only with 188 hits. The top three, I noticed, has 189 hits! There's a secret dude!?
Found him, flying around in the sky mid level on the right.
Nice. That's me 3rd in the global leaderboard for Black Magic Hard Reckless Hell now then.
Maybe I shouldn't be giving the game away. If someone learns of the secret dude from this post and then beats me into 4th place I'll be miffed.
#vr #games #pistolWhip
@Peti_is@no-pony.farm2025-06-10 11:02:29
Die ePetition 180664 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Krankheitsbekämpfung mit dem Titel
Entwicklung alternativer Rheuma-Therapien gegenüber Immunsuppressiva
kann bis zum Mittwoch 16. Juli 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird die Entwicklung alternativer Rheuma-Therapien gegenüber Immunsuppressiva gefordert.
und wird begründet
Aktuelle Rheuma-Therapie funktionieren zur Zeit nur mit starken Immunsuppressiva Medikamenten.
Aut…
