Tootfinder

In a valiant attempt to keep the world at bay, I have been doing another playthrough of Mass Effect. This time, it was misbehaving in various ways in the Citadel DLC. I restarted after it froze, which unblocked things but now if I invited person A for a hangout, person B would show up. Odd things like that.
It gets better.
During the party, after talking upstairs to the group including Traynor, I walked into the bedroom where Traynor was also standing, stock-still, unresponsive, in her underwear, even though a responsive Traynor was still on the couch nearby.
In the morning, waking up (next to Garrus of course), unresponsive Traynor was still standing in the bedroom. I hope this is a first in ME history, a sort of threesome or at least voyeur party.

"Earth is heading for 2.7°C warming this century. We may avoid the worst climate scenarios – but the outlook is still dire"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Earth is heading for 2.7°C warming this century. We may avoid the worst climate scenarios – but the outlook is still dire
The world seems to have avoided truly catastrophic climate scenarios, and global emissions may be about to peak. But we’re by no means out of danger

Great piece by Evan Boehs on why the 3DS still holds up #3DS #Nintendo

The 3DS Still Holds Up
Nintendo Online costs $20 a year and can't do this

Glasgow City Council is grappling with widespread disruption to its digital services more than a week after a serious cyberattack forced core systems offline.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/security/glasgow-city-council-ser…

Glasgow City Council services still crippled a week after cyberattack
Glasgow City Council is grappling with widespread disruption to its digital services more than a week after a serious cyberattack forced core systems offline.

Hands-on with seven coding agents tasked with building a website: Claude Code performed best, OpenAI's Codex lacked polish, and Replit failed to build the site (Timothy B. Lee/Understanding AI)
https://www.understandingai.org/p/what-i-learned-trying-seven-…

What I learned trying seven coding agents
There's still room for improvement, but don't underestimate this technology.

I bet a lot of folks (especially on the tech side) have just stopped paying attention to crypto, which is perfectly sane because we all know that it’s bad technology. On the other hand, the finance sector, with MAGA cheerleading, is still wildly enthusiastic. See https://newsletterhunt.com/emails/1894

#Wordle 1,470 4/6*
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 <1% of 218,264 (19)
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨 4% of 46 (2)
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 45% of 190 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 92/99
Luck 53/99
Can't fool me, although even with getting it down to 19 on my 1st guess it still took 4.
Bot still says I could have done better on my 2nd guess "XXXXX
was a good guess, but XXXXX
would have been more efficient." Although its guess had 2 words left also, but that was just luck (good for me, bad for it).

Last morning in Qaanaaq, time to go home, but first a massive clean up is due! Lots of notes to write up, still some data to download, need to go and repair a cable too. May have time to update and round off the full #FieldDiary later.
But first a peaceful shot from last night, when the narwhals were in the bay again...

It’s still amazing to see the work folks are doing delivering Uno, Avalonia, Flutter, and even React Native for the Windows Desktop UI story. The best development stories for Windows don’t come from Microsoft (unless you count WinForms).

i should make a build of vscodium that can install all of the proprietary extensions
my next best bet for a usable editor is sublime text, and unfortunately st4 doesn't seem like it's particularly actively developed anymore. yes, it's still maintained, but i expect a much better editor today than in 2010

The ACLU claims we still have rights. I’m skeptical about that. But this might help someone, so I’m going to share it. #KnowYourRights #ICE #AmericanGestapo

Know Your Rights with ICE
If ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents show up at your workplace or home, remember: you have rights. Stay informed, stay calm and stand strong. Share this post to help your community know their rights too. See the below graphics in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole.

Still really fucking upset about this: https://mastodon.social/@jkohlmann/114764272358504365

On June 28—Elon's birthday—let's celebrate everything we've achieved and a recommit to the long fight still ahead.
And our birthday gift to the Broligarch in Chief?
A global party with one powerful message:
Musk Must Fall.
https://fe…

In case you need a reminder that there is still good in this world. (And it's worth fighting for.)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLXrjEpoTYW/

Put the Q In Jazz
- this 3-year-old album still holds up well - thanks for listening! -
#jazz #NowPlaying
https://

Put the Q In Jazz #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

So look, if you talk to me about the job threat from the things we currently call “AI,” well…
…if where you’re going with that is “The concentration of wealth is an existential crisis! Establish UBI! 99% marginal tax rate! Capital gains tax! Wealth tax! Abolish billionaires!” then yes, I’m •all• ears. My pitchfork is already sharpened.
But if where you’re going is “Get in on it now while you still can! Buy the AI vendors’ products! Drink radium for that youthful glow!” then…kthanksbye. I am not going to be a vector for your marketing propaganda, no matter how agitated you are.
/end

Dear old Violet.
She'll be turning 13 in October, so she's kind of on borrowed time for a greyhound. She seems to have lost most of her vision now and is underweight, though her appetite is still huge and she still loves her walks.
She was once a terror for the local cats and squirrels but now if they remain still she doesn't spot them. She still sniffs every place that she remembers them to have been.

There's still time. Get out and vote, Canada.
It's a big one.
#Election #Canada #Vote

This week I booked travel for work that's going to let me see a long-lost friend for the first time in over a decade. It's still months away but holy shit I can't wait.

The trick is to not get attached.
Other OSes to still digest:
- Amoeba
- Oberon
- Haiku
- Theseus

Looked at latest W3C Draft of “Accessibility of machine learning and generative AI,” specifically the overlays section:
https://w3c.github.io/ai-accessibility/#accessibility-overlays
I still think it needs to be stricken:

Trump wins as judge allows DOGE to access 'sensitive' info
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/still-cannot-step-in-trump-admin-scores-victory-as-judge-denies-labor-unions-injunction-and-allows-doge-to-access-stockpile-of-extremely-sensitive-information/

How is a wan little movie like "The Materialists" still playing?

I've just noticed that my railway pass no longer carries an explicit "valid (…) in any class" annotation. It still has an "X" in the "class" field, but that's not that cool.
(Explanation: many years ago, there used to be a few "RegioExpress" trains with first class seats. Of course, barely anybody cared about that, and I doubt people actually bought first class tickets. Alas, these are long gone.)
#rail

New long-period transient #LPT space object detected. It is the first one of which we know it is pulsing in both radio frequencies and X-ray bursts. Why? More research required. Still a fascinating object!
https://www.icrar.org/xray-tr…

Lots of things going wrong now with flight test nine of the #Starship: first the payload doors didn't open and dummy satellites couldn't be deployed, then it sprung a leak, attitude control has been lost and the reentry in about 10 minutes will be at a radom angle and lead to a likely early loss of the vehicle. Which is still sending live video of its crazy ride over the Indian Ocean, though, thanks to Starlink ...

This is at times more of a New York story than a Pizza story but still it is quite fun to listen to. Dan Pashman of The Sporkful talks to Patsy and Carol Grimaldi. Though I have to say my chin dropped somewhat when I understood that this legend of New York Pizza is cooked in a coal oven.
The Sporkful: Pizza Legend Patsy Grimaldi (Reheat)

Pizza Legend Patsy Grimaldi (Reheat)
Dan sits down with Patsy and his wife Carol to discuss slice folding technique, and the scourge of pineapple pizza.

Today I'll introduce you to the last and oldest sibling of our stray cat offspring: this is Nele, born on May 31st, 2024. As her siblings and her mother, she still lives on our property. #caturday #catcontent

I recently relaxed WhatsApp’s permissions on my camera roll so it has “limited” access (it can see the pictures I choose to send).
Just undid that. Thanks for the heads-up, @…!
On iOS, if you remove a messaging app’s permission to access photos, you can still send them through the Share button in the Photos app.

Ah fuck, people are using LLMs for kernel code. They really are going to fuck over everything, aren't they?
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1026558/9f3079fb392c4a9a/

"But with the smell of that Wallet push-notification fart still hanging in the air, not as much fun as it otherwise would have been."
via @…
https://daringfi…

Apple’s Other ‘F1 The Movie’ In-App Promotions
Link to: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/27/f1-the-movie-now-playing-in-theaters/

Where the Raiders Will Still Need to Prove It https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-geno-smith-russell-wilson-pete-carroll-seattle-seahawks

6 AM Thought:
I like getting up early to watch the sun rise. I couldn't see it today because it was cloudy, but I know it's still there.
(Can you tell that I had a decent night's sleep?) 😉

Rachael Maskell, the Labour MP for York Central, who is one of the leading opponents of the bill, said: “They are going to have to go back to the negotiating table … deaf and disabled people’s organisations [DDPOs] are rejecting these changes as it fails to address future need and gives no security for people with fluctuating conditions, for instance where people are in remission.”
Starmer still facing Labour anger over fears of ‘two-tier’ welfare system

It’s 1 AM and still fairly bright outside in Iceland.

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
SELMA: Thank you.
RO: You saved my life. While I live, you'll be welcome on Horizon.
BLAKE: Still Horizon?
RO: You can't return to the past.
BLAKE: [Into bracelet] Liberator, teleport now. [To Ro and Selma] Good-bye.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/633

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Good riddance. It was always meant to end eventually, 2 big egos can’t stay together for a long time. But with all the damage that he did, I’ll be having a hard time forgiving anyone still supporting him. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/elon-musk-…

That Alan Garber is not getting booed at #Harvard commencement shows how good the PR machine has been. He is fighting for funds, not students. He is still punishing students opposed to #genocide.

“Note that #BBEdit is still not a spreadsheet.”
https://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/notes-15.5.html

Building a low-pass filter at the #synth meetup.
Come join us at Svartbäcksgatan 65 in #Uppsala for Open #Hackerspace Day, the fun is still going on!

Typo’ed my own email address in a public bug report over 20 years ago, and I still see auth attempts for it on the mail server.

It's still really easy to hack and reprogram road signs | StateScoop https://statescoop.com/its-still-really-easy-to-hack-and-reprogram-road-signs/

It’s still really easy to hack and reprogram road signs
Easily accessed through default passwords that are never changed, road signs can be altered to state anything from video-game jokes to zombie warnings.

What a glorious morning! Still not sure how I feel being awake this early on a Saturday, but definitely happy to be heading in for #SotB2025 (and then #GoldfishLive later!)
Gonna be a fun day 😁

Lazy bugger. Kept using FF sync for bookmarks et al. Works ok.
But, still ties to Mozzie.
Install LibreWolf. Offers, upon request, to import bookmarks et al from Vivaldi.
All good, including favicons.
I am too old to learn. Let's hope I don't forget 😜

Calamus 44 Here my last words
In which the poet outs himself through talking about his poetry.
It's a short piece of Whitman talking about his own writing. But he's so twisted up!
Here I shade down and hide my thoughts—I do not expose them,
And yet they expose me more than all my other poems.
I read this as him talking about Calamus, the cluster of gay poems. And directly telling us that he's censored and hidden what he really wants to say. And yet still these poems still expose his true self. It makes me feel sad for Whitman, imagine his writing if he felt less fettered.
Still, he published some of the most clear gay poems of the 19th century. And got famous and mainstream doing it.

Maybe Cowboys haven't already handed LT job to struggling 1st-round pick without a fight https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/27/cowboys-player-profile-asim-richards/84394642007/

So look, if you talk to me about the job threat from the things we currently call “AI,” well…
…if where you’re going with that is “The concentration of wealth is an existential crisis! Establish UBI! 99% marginal tax rate! Capital gains tax! Wealth tax! Abolish billionaires!” then yes, I’m •all• ears. My pitchfork is already sharpened.
But if where you’re going is “Get in on it now while you still can! Buy the AI vendors’ products! Drink radium for that youthful glow!” then…kthanksbye. I am not going to be a vector for your marketing propaganda, no matter how agitated you are.
/end

To this day I'm still not sure whether the fact that none of the circumstances in the song Ironic are _actually_ irony, does in fact, make the song ironic or not, but at this point Im too afraid to ask.
#AlanisMorissette #irony

Had a good call with a TelemetryDeck customer about our UI, then a bad call from the vet— the parasites are still there.
I am so tired.

Customs and Border Protection held a veteran political adviser for 45 minutes after returning to the U.S. from a vacation.
Rick Taylor thought it may have been -- because of an Obama-Biden T-shirt in his luggage.
Taylor, 71, was returning home from a weeklong vacation in Turks and Caicos with his wife and daughter on June 20
when he was placed in a holding room along with several Latino families at Miami International Airport.
“I know how the system works and have pr…

Veteran LA political adviser detained at US airport – and thinks having Obama-Biden T-shirt in his luggage may have been why
‘I know how the system works and have pretty good connections and I was still freaking out,’ Rick Taylor says

I'm thinking of making a Dubai Chocolate granola, and all I can think about is the Jurassic Park meme.
Ingredients would include Cocoa, chocolate chips, pistachio butter/tahini, honey, oats, coconut flakes, and nuts (pistachio, cashews, and pumpkin seeds).
I should stop while I still have my health.

Investigation: pages affiliated with RT, Sputnik, and other entities remained part of Facebook's ad revenue program months after being subject to EU sanctions (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/sanctioned-russian-med…

Sanctioned Russian media still partnered with Facebook
Sanctioned pro-Russian media are still part of Facebook’s advertising revenue program, new research out Friday showed. Russian state broadcasters, including Rossiya Segodnya — the organizatio…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Glastonbury
Four Tet:
🎵 Into Dust (Still Falling) (Glastonbury 2025)
#FourTet
https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/track/into-dust-still-falling

Anyone can be so hard hearted
But everyone
Still everybody wants a happy ending
It's not so easy, it's '84 now <-- Wait it's not '84 any more :-) ? #JoeJacksonElaineCaswellHappyEndingForEvah http…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.04524 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

The homology of permutation racks
Despite a blossoming of research activity on racks and their homology for over two decades, with a record of diverse applications to central parts of contemporary mathematics, there are still very few examples of racks whose homology has been fully calculated. In this paper, we compute the entire integral homology of all permutation racks. Our method of choice involves homotopical algebra, which was brought to bear on the homology of racks only recently. For our main result, we establish a spec…

Reminder that my shared ActBlue fundraising form is still live: #NHPolitics

Jams with More Song Structure
I continue to do morning jams, still with drum groove, synth, bass, and then guitar. The latest ones, however, have a bit more structure and a more defined melodic content. This one starts with chords from a John Prine song. The guitar is my Squier Starcaster and the synth is a Rhodes emulation from Dexed. I play lots of variations on the melody:

Took the new #nightjet yesterday from Vienna > Amersfoort. Very new train, but still with a number of teething issues. An on-board technician tried to solve e.g. sliding doors that wouldn’t open. Some problems couldn’t be fixed (one cabin’s keycard didn’t work, person was moved to a free cabin, my neighbour’s cabin wouldn’t properly lock).
Huge delay (170 minutes) - that I partly expect…

There's certain jobs that I've always done when publishing with more senior colleagues (like formatting the references or tables, checking for consistency) and I thought "well obviously". But now that I'm mostly publishing with more junior colleagues I'm *still* doing those jobs, so I've come to think it's probably just a combination of a certain level of skills obsession 🙃 #academicChatter
(ignoring the gender issue for now which may contribute to making "housekeeping" my job?!)

Almost 40 years ago. Was cleaning up a messy desk, found an old photo album. Pretty glad I took and saved these photos. I was still floundering in gradual school, not yet engaged, and in the evening I would ride my bike uphill (Quimby Road, 9% average grade for about 2000 feet of elevation) so as to improve my mood and my knees. Earlier that day I had stepped out the back door of work (IBM SJRL in the old triangle building) and the whole sky was full of smoke.

Still needs signatures. Please share and keep the word going:
#StopKillingGames

Revisiting the Li abundances of Stars with and without Detected Planets from the High Resolution Spectroscopy
Jinxiao Qin, Hong-Liang Yan, Wenyuan Cui, Jian-Rong Shi, Subo Dong, Shuai Liu, Zeming Zhou, Miao Tian, Zhenyan Huo, Xiangsong Fang, Jinghua Zhang, Chunqian Li, Mingyi Ding, Song Wang, Henggeng Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2…

Revisiting the Li abundances of Stars with and without Detected Planets from the High Resolution Spectroscopy
Whether the presence of planets affects the lithium (Li) abundance of their host stars is still an open question. To investigate the difference of the Li abundance between planet-host stars (HS) and isolated stars (IS) with no detected planets, we analyze a large sample of stars with temperatures ranging from 4600 to 6600 K and metallicity ranging from -0.55 to +0.50. The sample consists of 279 HS whose spectra were taken from the California-Kepler Survey (CKS), which followed up planets detect…

The comet-style end of flight test 9 of the #Starship as seen from Namibia: https://www.youtube.com/live/mrsEfkeczT4#t=3h43m16s (from 3:43:16) - and at the very end of this webcast there is also a still photo with much higher resolution, screenshot in https://x.com/NicosPanoptikum/status/1927534707258102063

Missing #TNC25 already?
We definitely had a tough time stepping off the rollercoaster 🎢 But all the connections, the chats, the ideas, the hugs, the insights and the energy of yet another incredible TNC week are still with us ❤️
🎠 Hop back for another ride and relive some of the TNC25 highlights by watching this recap video produced by our friends at PCSS.
And don't forget to ma…

@… as you have gemini diffusion access, does it support structured generation and extraction? I would love to see it resculpt an input text into a extracted list of entities and relationships :) (Still waiting for my access)

They are still trying to milk this story.

Wow. I've been doing WaniKani since 2013, 12 years ago. Didn't realize it's been that long. These days I mostly use my own review program but still based on WK's data. I've been using it since 2018. I practice daily and I still suck.
Languages are hard (and I’m not studying in a very efficient way).

A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion https://www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-cameras-nationwide-for-a-woman-who-got-an-abortion/

Went to Small World Festival. Mostly dry and occasionally sunny.
Small World has such a nice friendly hippy vibe, lots of deadlocks and goths and pirates and beautiful face paints.
Bands all energetic and talented and mostly have been playing here together for 20 years in one form or another. All of 'em doing it for the love of it. Pony doing a great job of organizing the team to put it together.
One dude seemed pretty new, making up synth songs with his repeats and beeps and rapping from audience suggestions. Failed to photograph him well though. There's another 4 bands mentioned in the photo descriptions here.
Medically necessitated more or less total sobriety at the moment, so different whole thing. Those I knew well there mostly working, so lots of time alone dancing soberly and reading. Wish I was better at talking to strangers.
Still good times.
#smallWorldFestival #music #live

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
SELMA: Thank you.
RO: You saved my life. While I live, you'll be welcome on Horizon.
BLAKE: Still Horizon?
RO: You can't return to the past.
BLAKE: [Into bracelet] Liberator, teleport now. [To Ro and Selma] Good-bye.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/633

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I find this map especially amusing in that in 1893, 238 colonists departed Australia (purportedly nonexistent) to found the New Australia colony in Paraguay (ditto).
Of course, Australia didn’t federate till 1901, so it could be argued that Australia didn’t *actually* exist at the time. And given Paraguay’s tremendous (but still hotly contested) losses in the 1864-70 Paraguayan War, the latter country was itself hanging on by a thread.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Bloc Party:
🎵 I Still Remember
#NowPlaying #BlocParty
https://sebastian.bandcamp.com/track/bloc-party-i-still-remember
https://open.spotify.com/track/42CvrQQnVpJaQ9P4aPuBOX

Yes, I am a very political person. And that's why the unbelievable has happened in the last few days: as an old Linux and Unix user since the 1980s, I've switched from Fedora to Linux Mint... (and I'm still using FreeBSD too)
Technically a step backwards, as Fedora is far more up-to-date and modern, but politically and morally a step forward. Why?
Here in Europe, since the fascist, racist, narcissist, uneducated primitive moron and would-be dictator Trump became presi…

NFL 2025 offseason winners, losers: Eagles still soaring; will Aaron Rodgers help Steelers? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6435378/2025/06/25/nfl-offseason-2025-eagles-steelers-aaron-rodgers/

Modeling the Impact of Misinformation Dynamics on Antimicrobial Resistance
Laurance Fakih, Andrei Halanay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21540 https://

Modeling the Impact of Misinformation Dynamics on Antimicrobial Resistance
Antimicrobial Resistance (RAM) poses a significant threat to global public health, making important medicines less useful. While the medical and biological reasons behind RAM are well studied, we still don't know enough about how false health information affects people's actions, which can speed up RAM. This study presents a new mathematical model to investigate the complex interplay between the spread of misinformation and the dynamics of RAM. We adapt a multi-strain fake news model, including…

In Windows 11's Kernel32.dll (well, KernelBase.dll) the check for "twain_32.dll" is still there. I wonder when it was the first time that thing was put there.

Interesting that while Abundant SF's head is taking shots at Zohran, Abundance New York endorsed him.
(Fifth, but they still favored him over Cuomo. They said "Zohran Mamdani is more likely to prioritize the central crises facing New Yorkers.")

I'm looking forward to discussing 'What can heritage do for society in the future?' at the '20 years of Sustainable Heritage at UCL' celebration on June 12
Some tickets still available https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2025

Celebrating 20 years of Sustainable Heritage at UCL
Join us for this celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Sustainable Heritage MSc programme at UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage.

1/ I’m guessing I dropped down from 100mg of #sertraline to 75 around 2 months ago. I lowered the dose because I was getting irritable and aggressive as we emerged from the dark winter months. I dropped it further still to 50mg around 2 weeks ago. My irritability and #anger has subsided, to be replace…

Paris goal of 1.5°C warming is still too hot for polar ice sheets, study warns https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/paris-goal-of-1-5c-warming-is-still-too-hot-for-polar-ice-sheets-study-warns/

Paris goal of 1.5°C warming is still too hot for polar ice sheets, study warns
At the landmark Paris climate agreement, nearly every country in the world pledged to a goal to limit warming to well below 2° Celsius (3.6° Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels by 2100, and work toward a more ambitious goal to limit warming to 1.5°C (2.7°F). The hope is that such a limit will help Earth avoid […]

Still really loving the Insta 360 camera, so easy to make nice things
https://youtu.be/c8YH-oBs-cw

I've been a member of the RSGS for almost 30 years and still never visited the Fair Maid's house. Maybe I should 🤔 It looks lovely...
https://mastodon.social/@Infoseepage/114751023629030656
Infoseepage@mastodon.social - Today I walked into Perth and visited the Scottish Geographic Society's digs in the Fair Maid's House.  It was, in its heyday, a sort of Scottish adventurers club. They've got an interesting reference library and an overstuffed map room. Ernest Shackleton was briefly secretary of the society and they have some of his stuff on display.

On discussing whether a Canadian director might portend a Canadian James Bond.
"I've heard they're ok with anyone from a Commonwealth country. Door's still open for Hrithik Roshan, I guess."

‘It’s Not Why You Play The Game:’ Raiders DE Maxx Crosby On Individual Accolades https://raiderramble.com/2025/06/27/its-not-why-you-play-the-game-raiders-de-maxx-crosby-on-individual-accolades/

I have no idea why I’m sleeping 5 hours a night recently, but for some reason, I actually do still have energy.
I hesitate to put it down to a cocktail of vitamin tablets I’ve been taking before bed, but perhaps they really are that effective?
(And to the people who recommended me Due and TickTick as habit-tracking apps, I really appreciate it; I’m trialling both and they’re very good.)

Making enchies today—they’re in the oven now. YUM.
Also, we found someone to haul away our CA king bed becaaaaause …
we bought 2 full size beds, & we’re gonna smoosh them together so that all 4 dogs can COMFORTABLY sleep with us. Yes, we’re crazy. And?
The 2 of us were able to take the bed (slatted frame, solid wood headboard & footboard, mattress & box springs) apart & drag all of it to the front porch. I still don’t know how. I guess we’re not yet totally d…

Great closing keynote on 'rewilding' the internet by @… at the 2025 PublicSpaces conference. She talks about how a few fucked up right wing men think they own the internet, why they DON'T, and why the web is still ours and just needs (more) rewilding.

1. Go outside to check if it's cold.
2. Yes, it is. Start putting your shoes on.
3. After trying one shoe, realize that your towel is still on the clothes line (inside). Take it off and go for the towel.
4. Start putting your shoes on again. Realize you didn't take the jacket…

Another successful demonstration of #V2G in Sweden 🇸🇪. It works in the pilot, although pre-qualification in primary reserve (FCR-N) is still pending https://

Volkswagens svenska testprojekt visar potentialen i dubbelriktad laddning | Volkswagen Personbilar
Dubbelriktad laddning i verkligheten – det kan Volkswagen nu visa upp efter att tekniken testats framgångsrikt under en längre tid i den hållbara bostadsrättsföreningen Stenberg i Hudiksvall.

A friend of mine last night told me about how his lover died of AIDS in 1994. And before he died, he had a port installed to more easily administer medication directly to his heart. Another friend also had a port installed in 1994 for AIDS treatment. That friend survived another year until the antiretrovirals became available and he is still alive today. My friend's partner died.

5:38 AM this morning 🌄
A deserted street is still possible.
#photography no. 6 of #30daysIRL

Mass-feeding of jet-launching white dwarfs in grazing and common envelope evolution
Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22621 https://…

Mass-feeding of jet-launching white dwarfs in grazing and common envelope evolution
I propose a scenario that allows white dwarfs (WDs) to launch relatively powerful jets when they enter a common envelope evolution (CEE) or experience a grazing envelope evolution (GEE) with a red giant branch star (RGB) or an asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star. In this, still a speculative scenario, the accretion for a time is mainly onto an accretion disk with a radius of ~ 1Ro that increases in mass. The accretion disk launches the powerful two opposite jets by releasing gravitational energy…

So people are still fudding against open source.
(FUD = Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt)
All of this applies to closed source as well (or even worse):
https://www.xda-developers.com/drawbacks-open-source-software/
Let me make that clear:
The sole…

I can't ignore these 8 drawbacks to open-source software
I've found these drawbacks when using certain open-source tools.

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that states may exclude Planned Parenthood clinics from providing medical screenings and other healthcare for women on Medicaid.
The court’s conservative majority cast aside the longstanding rule that said Medicaid patients may obtain medical care from any qualified provider.
In a 6-3 vote, the justices ruled the Medicaid Act does not give patients an “individual right” to the provider of their choice.
The dispute turned on abortion, even …

Supreme Court says states may bar women on Medicaid from using Planned Parenthood clinics
Conservative states that banned abortion are still fighting with Planned Parenthood, which provides medical screening for women.

@… @… I’m still hoping that the Questionable Content universe is our future, so I wouldn’t want to introduce terminology that will become outdated once I’m hanging out with robots in the coffee shop.

I've spent the day in my Slackware bubble; on this computer the latest hyprland with nwg-shell.
Of course all runs well; had some great hints and my dots were still available on my Codeberg.
Only one real challenge: installing all of the Rust stack (and that involves a ton of dependencies).
Not bcs I'm a dev, but because I want eza and have a go at wezterm 😆 !
As you know, you'll have to install those separately and by yourself on Slackware. Keeps our garden nicely walled 😜

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AVON: Obviously.
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Okay. So I've entered the true void and gone over to the dark side. Firefox, with all its faults and failings (at least on the Mozilla part), remains an advocate for FOSS. Testdriving it now. Even experimenting with Mistral, one of their AI offerings. Still have Yokoffing's user.js installed though.
Firefox still deserves our support.