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DC man who played Darth Vader theme at national guard troops sues over arrest | Washington DC | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/23/vaders-theme-washington-dc-protest-national-guard-l…

Day 28: Samira Ahmed
As foreshadowed, we're back to YA land, which represents a lot of what I've been enjoying from the library lately.
I've read "Hollow Fires", "This Book Won't Burn", and "Love, Hate, and other Filters" by Ahmed, along with "Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know" which is quite different. All four are teen ~romances with interesting things to say about racism & growing up as a South Asian Muslim, but whereas the first three are set in small-town Indiana, the third is set in France and includes a historical fiction angle involving Dumas and a hypothetical Muslim woman who was (in this telling) the inspiration for several Lord Byron poems.
Ahmed's novels all include a strong and overt theme of social justice, and it's refreshing to see an author not try to wade around the topic or ignore it. Her romances are complex, with imperfect protagonists and endings that aren't always "happily ever after" although they're satisfying and believable.
My library has a plethora of similar authors I've been enjoying, including Adiba Jaigirdar (who appeared earlier in this list), Sabaa Tahir ("All my Rage" is fantastic but I'm less of a fan of her fantasy stuff), Sabina Khan ("The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali"), and Randa Abdel-Fattah ("Does My Head Look Big In This?"; from an earlier era). Ahmed gets the spot here because I really like her politics and the way she works them into her writing. Her characters are unapologetic advocates against things like book bans, and Ahmed doesn't second-guess them or try to make things more palatable for those who want to ban books (or whatever). Her historical fiction in "Mad..." is also really cool in terms of "huh that could actually totally be true" and grappling with literary sexism from ages past.
#30AuthorsNoMen

Registration is now open for the San Jose State University Biennial Open Access Conference (free and online), which has as its theme "Defend Research, Defend Open Access." Catherine Mitchell and I will be providing the keynote to launch a day of sessions exploring "the growing threats to academic freedom, research infrastructure, and equitable access to knowledge in politically volatile times."

Went to quilt club today. Its amazing how a little bit of time being creative, with genuinely kind and nice people can really make you feel good. This quilt is being donated to a soup kitchen. Next month we are making lap quilts for hospice.

A Boards of Canada theme played by a PDP-1 operated by the author of the program (Harmony Compiler, 1962).
This video is beautiful
https://t.co/aBR0PhzPVM

There exists the concept of "Twin Films".
Movies that were released around the same time with similar theme ("Armageddon"/"Deep Impact" - "Bugs Life"/"Antz")
Sometimes this happens on Youtube as well.
With just a couple days apart, Strange Aeons and Nick Robinson released a video on "Rawr XD" and "XD".
Love it when that happens.

Okay, I'm done with the SMB2 theme for the time being. Got the chords annotated, tweaked a bit of the tab to make it easier.
#smb #bass #music

The Rise and Fall of the Sitcom Theme Song
by Below the Fray
#tv

Baby Bumps was absolute shite.
Rocky version of 60s TV programme theme cover klaxon for Apollo 440, though.
#TOTP

I like Flatpaks, really, but then…
I had a bunch of Qt apps where the dark theme wasn't working. The solution was to install `org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze-Dark`, which is the default dark theme, but as Flatpak.
Please, allow me to question this:
Why did I have to do this? I shouldn't have to do this. I shouldn't have to even worry about this. Why did I need to install the dark theme a second time? Why isn't that handled automatically?
(Distro: Tuxedo OS / …

When you get that opacity and Gruvbox theme working in Wezterm (wezterm.lua).
Pushing my luck here, but it looks to turn out as a great day.
#freebsd #wezterm #geekspeak

Kan Mikami - "Merchant of the Pass" (1997)
Continuing a Mikami Kan theme this morning.
#NowPlaying #KanMikami #CDRevival

@… draw for me a picture of the theme official document and make it futuristic and with a tone of neon blue light

Almost ready with this Hugo template that shows upload activity like Github contributions overview.
Made the template because https://github.com/MeiK2333/github-style is a full theme and makes use of JS.
Things remaining:
- Color legend
- Tooltip date
- remove overla…

the good news is yesterday i got half of our giant hedge trimmed before the battery died on the trimmer (seems to be a theme)
the bad news is, just before the battery died, my back tweaked.
I took some relaxants and it was ok last night, but this morning the muscles are very guarded. Full up on Tylenol back pain and Advil.
#yardwork #life #silentsunday

Looking how to setup an #atom feed on my #hugo blog (using the bearblog theme). I've looked online and modify the config.toml file to add the ATOM output format and applies it to home, then created a feed.html file in the theme layouts folder, and two style files in the static folder (.xsl and .…

I wrote off Linkin Park in high school as cynically packaged, manufactured angst with cringey lyrics, on top of musically uninteresting riffs and progressions, even for popular music (lots of boring consonance and repetitive drones on perfect intervals, the Halloween theme called and wants its gimmick back, etc.).
With 25 years of hindsight I think I was a little too harsh. It's still mostly not my bag but I see now what other people see in Chester Bennington's vocals, and &quo…

Mick Shots: This Is About Us https://www.dallascowboys.com/podcast/mick-shots-12-11-25

Things that are really fun to play and are deceptively difficult: the Super Mario Brothers 2 theme bassline at 185 bpm. Things that have killed my fingers today: also the SMB2 theme bassline...
#music #bass

just spent an hour troubleshooting why my grub2 theme wasn't showing
it ended up being that the path to the theme config was wrong
I was an IT Professional

spannender einblick in das thema #linolschnitt von leoni pfeiffer: https://blog.leonipfeiffer.de/2025/09/29/seminar-besuch-akademiefaber-castell-linol/

Thinking about dark/light mode pickers that have three options: Auto/Dark/Light.
If the default is “Auto” — in what scenario might someone want to move away from Auto (which would visually be a noop to the same theme?)
I’m using Light mode as my system preference, but it seems unlikely that I would swap from Auto (Light mode) to Light mode (not Auto) on a specific site

I hadn't built a website with WordPress for several years, and the truth is that it has advanced a lot.
In my day (cough! cough! cough!), sooner or later I had to touch some PHP, tweak the styles directly in the child theme's styles.css, and even fight with JS.
Nowadays, there's a plugin for everything, all kinds of templates, builders, add-ons for plugins... It's crazy.
What I really don't like is that many paid plugins, which used to be “buy & use…

I never use a software store; the cli rules for me. The Cosmic Store though adds community made applets for the desktop environment. A couple of days ago I easily added a theme to the repo. This community-contributing aspect is a bit overlooked, but it makes Cosmic stand out.
#cosmic #nixos

so apparently in Firefox your theme choice affects whether dark mode on the OS actually influences dark mode on websites.
The right theme is "System theme - auto”.

Cowboys' Jerry Jones should cancel potential trade because Dallas can't contend with this defense

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

@… It's opensource: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Documentation/. Eleventy as generator and Halfmoon v2 as theme.

📋 Roadmap includes expanded theme design options for styling different applications
🛠️ Config management planned for #Waybar, #Omarchy, and other applications
💻 Full development setup available with #npm

For some reason I had the Golden girls theme spinning around in my head. Only the 'friend and a confidant' part - in tune, and had to search the web to figure out what I was singing, so maybe I heard it somewhere?

Simulating Student Success in the Age of GenAI: A Kantian-Axiomatic Perspective
Seyma Yaman Kayadibi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00091 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Simulating Student Success in the Age of GenAI: A Kantian-Axiomatic Perspective
This study reinterprets a Monte Carlo simulation of students' perceived success with generative AI (GenAI) through a Kantian-axiomatic lens. Building on prior work, theme-level survey statistics Ease of Use and Learnability, System Efficiency and Learning Burden, and Perceived Complexity and Integration from a representative dataset are used to generate 10,000 synthetic scores per theme on the [1,5] Likert scale. The simulated outputs are evaluated against the axioms of dense linear order witho…

If your are on Firefox and your are tired of the narrow ass scrollbar go to settings and enable "Always show scrollbars" then in about:config set widget.non-native-theme.enabled to true then set widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override to 15-40.
You can thank https://www.dedoimedo.com/computer…

Day 11: Bee Johnson
As promised, back to printed books, and since I hadn't yet done any authors of picture or board books, here's one. It looks like Johnson is primarily an illustrator and has only written a single kids' book, but it's a magnificent one: "What Can A Mess Make?"
Naturally, the illustrations are rich and evocative, but it's also got one of my favorite formats (just a few lines per page, with consistent meter and rhymes throughout) and has the incredibly charming theme of two sisters who are constantly making messes, except it highlights the fun (and other emotions) they get out of their messy play, reminding parents cleaning up messes that there's a benefit to letting your kids make the mess in the first place, which is an idea that's stuck with me as I clean up my own kids' messes. This book checks *all* of my boxes for a good picture book (which is kinda hard).
#20AuthorsNoMen
P.S. at this point, I think I've exhausted the range of "author" definitions I wanted to include in my list, and I've now got the unenviable task of balancing between genres and trying to hit some of my favorite authors before we get to 20. We'll see how that goes...

I'm not a proponent of software stores, but whilst updating FreeBSD KDE (in the cli) tonight a notification from Discover popped up about updates.
And, to my surprise, it showed all available updates: FreeBSD base, FreeBSD packages, like micro, obviously KDE applications, as well as an update for the theme I'm using.
Never seen that before on Linux, wonder if that's a FreeBSD specific thing 🤔
Either way it looks like the software store is finally reaching full pote…

Magnetic phase transitions protected by topological quantum geometry transitions: effects of electron-electron interactions in the Creutz ladder system
Abdiel de Jes\'us Espinosa-Champo, Gerardo G. Naumis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26320

Magnetic phase transitions protected by topological quantum geometry transitions: effects of electron-electron interactions in the Creutz ladder system
The interplay between electronic correlations and band topology is a central theme in modern condensed matter physics. In this work, we investigate the effects of on-site Hubbard interactions on the topological, magnetic, and quantum geometric properties of the Creutz ladder, a paradigmatic model of a one-dimensional topological insulator. Using a self-consistent mean-field approach, we uncover a first-order, interaction-driven phase transition that is simultaneously magnetic and topological. W…

Now I exist.
#cosmic

🎨 #Omarchist: Visual #GUI app for #Omarchy theme creation powered by #Tauri