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Day 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen

🤪 More people believe in conspiracy theories than you might think
#survey

from my link log —
Think you can’t interpose static binaries with LD_PRELOAD? What about Qemu?
https://balintreczey.hu/blog/think-you-cant-interpose-static-binaries-with-ld_preload-think-again/
saved 2025-11-21

"I think when you're just counting on your voice, you actually need double the energy. I find myself acting out the scenes and being very physical while I'm recording because I think you can tell when someone is just sitting on a stool."
—Judy Greer
#acting #coaching …

Chargers' Justin Herbert continues 'to think about' playoff flop vs. Texans with rematch on tap Saturday https://www.nfl.com/news/chargers-justin-herbert-continues-to-think-about-playoff-flop-vs-texans-with-r…

I can’t help but think that most of today’s social problems can be solved with UBI and a real corporate/wealth tax.
I can’t think of many big problems that that wouldn’t address, in some way.

The paradox of Nazism being both the most capitalist thing possible, defining itself as explicitly anticommunist, while masquerading as "socialism" is difficult to resolve until you understand one thing: fascism pivots around antisemitism (and its extension, conspiratorial thinking).
I'm, of course, not talking about the redefinition of "antisemitism" into meaning any criticism of Israel but rather an anti-Jewish conspiracy narrative rooted in Roman Christianity.
This is critical to understand as MAGA fascism pivots between capitalist and pseudo-anticapitalist with Trump in the middle. Hitler did the same thing. Strasserism helped the Nazis gain power by pulling in the Left. In the Nazis case they killed the Stasserists pretty quickly. Now, I think we're seeing an attempt to make the opposite pivot happen in MAGA. But it's all the same thing.
Fascism can infinitely fail to address the needs of the people while dismissing it's own responsibility for creating the problem by maintaining a permanent enemy.
This is why it's important to understand antisemitism and how to fight it. It's especially important now because the apparatus of violence in Israel is itself a tool of global fascism, and we finally have an opportunity to dismantle the whole thing. But we have to be aware of how fascists can pivot around to block this.
I've been reading Safety Through Solidarity, and I think it's especially relevant at this time.
https://www.akpress.org/safety-through-solidarity.html

Quinnen Williams on Cowboys defense: 'I think we're hitting our stride' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/quinnen-williams-on-cowboys-defense-i-think-we-re-hitting-our-stride

I do think that this framing isn't fully correct. "Open Source" often has a libertarian (and therefore explicitly non-left) bend. It can be put into left thinking and politics but it works just as well in more right-wing logics. (See Golumbia, Cyberlibertarianism)
https://mastodon.mallegolhanse…

I think the funniest thing about this Hardware Unboxed podcast is that it's an hour and a half long, which immediately made me think "That's it?", lol.
"Everything We Hate About Windows
Episode 86: You all told us what you hated about Windows 11, and we fully agreed. So in this episode we go through all our grievances with the current state of Windows."
#HardwareUnboxed

@… probably 4
and 3 or 4 for the « inner voice » if the scale exist (i can read and think fine in my head, but i don’t think i hear a voice)

Finally read up about the mysterious“WINA20.386” file in MS-DOS and it’s just as boring as you’d think

I think this sign wants to tell us something about mobility.

I think it’s time for new brake discs on the 2010 Tesla Roadster, these used to be slotted. The new ones are a bit bigger and come with spacers and longer bolts for the front calipers. I put the old discs on soon after I got this car in 2013, about 40k miles ago. Same AP calipers as Lotus Elise, and it was good to get some hands on wrenching time again. #WeirdCarMastodon

my definition of "an UI bug" is basically "any design or implementation choice that makes users miserable". i do not think many in open source hardware|software share this definition and i won't be satisfied until it's a new norm

Is there a way to configure an npm package to *require* provenance and fail any publish attempts that don’t have it? I don’t think the Trusted Publisher stuff has that option, if I’m reading it correctly.

OK, I think the STM32MP2 x Kintex-7 test board is ready for design review.
I'll be running through my checklist but would love some other eyes on it, especially by people familiar with such stuff.
https://github.com/azonenberg/stm32mp2-baremetal-t…

I think the elephant really ties the room together.
Follow me for more home design tips.

"I think when you're just counting on your voice, you actually need double the energy. I find myself acting out the scenes and being very physical while I'm recording because I think you can tell when someone is just sitting on a stool."
—Judy Greer
#acting #coaching …

I don't think people fully understand what a disaster some kind of cease-fire and/or peacedeal along current frontlines would be for Putin. The occupied parts of Ukraine will become poor. While the part of Ukraine that is free will, with EU assistance ,be economically succesful and prosperous.
#putin #trump

Was discussing w/ friends how I think Mamdani would perform as mayor. I was curious to see what prediction markets had to say. Surprised that only Kalshi had any on post-election acts; Polymarket and Manifold only on election itself. (I don't really use them; is this typical?)

We think the industry turned away from design, but most people have simply never seen design done before, so they don't believe it's possible.
We need to show them, and we can't sit around waiting for permission.
If we want to prove that design isn't just decoration, we need to stop doing decorative work. Think backwards from valuable goals, and direct your energy down the path that leads you towards that value, rather than "just words" or "just pic…

As explicit right-wing antisemitism continues its rise to dominate mainstream conservative institutions,
the brief period where the Trump administration even pretends to care about "fighting antisemitism" is snapping shut
in favor of stepping up the xenophobic racism even further.
https://

I think my package is trying to hit all 6 boroughs before it arrives to my house.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Teen Daze:
🎵 Don't Think About It
#TeenDaze
https://teendaze.bandcamp.com/track/dont-think-about-it
https://open.spotify.com/track/4jUGbQILdxkGYbckIFWZQJ

@… Thank you! $145 with shipping to Sweden 😬. But also in new condition(!) I’ll have to think on this. It would have to be company expenses.

Hopefully work won't install this. Reason is that those whose job it is to install and monitor on the work machines won't have the security clearance to view some of what we do. Doesn't matter if they even have high security clearance, they don't get access to even know what some of what our work is unless they have been authorized for access to that specific project.

I don't think I'm ever going to enjoy gifts.
I can get why people would give them to children. After all, children don't have their own budget. However, I'm talking about occasional gifts, not a new toy every second week, because "we must outcompete the other grandparents". But to adults?
Once I've heard that you should gift people with what they won't buy themselves. Well, that's won't work for me. I'm a minimalist. If I don't need something, I don't want to have it. Unnecessary junk is only emotional burden to me.
I can get why you'd enjoy something handmade. But something people bought? If I need something, I can buy it myself, when I need it. And I definitely don't need people to prove to me that they never cared to learn who I am, and just buy whatever they like or whatever is "fashionable"; which usually means exactly the opposite of what I'd prefer (i.e. something minimalistic). Or even worse, I don't need people manipulating me through gifts.
Sweets? Besides my diabetes, I don't really enjoy expensive shit that people generally buy because it's what's advertised. For the money they waste on it, I'd buy three times as much sweets I'd actually enjoy.
Gift cards? Oh yes, "you aren't supposed to give money, so let's just give the equivalent of money that's actually worth less than money". Actual money? And here we reach the true nonsense; we exchange the same amount of money, so it's just pointless gesture. Unless one of us gives less money…
What I'd really like, as a gift? Maybe that people would finally bother accepting me as who I am. The absolute minimum of caring that I hate consumerism, and not fueling it "for me".
#AntiCapitalism #minimalism #ActuallyAutistic

Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html

All billionaires right now:
https://www.tumblr.com/checkerdandy/803956086279421952?source=share

I don’t think we should get caught up in hunting for so-called “spiritual successors.” That kind of logic starts to feel like the endless splintering of the Trotskyists, each one founding their own Fourth International to guard some sacred ideological flame.
I look at the ICL CIT the same way, too wrapped up in reproducing hierarchies instead of dismantling them.
⭐ https:…

They should really build the Epstein-Memorial-Ballroom in this pinkish color https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/115440077009509193

Starting to set up the framing of the north wall of the new workshop. Two interesting problems here:
1. Am I going to want a large door in this wall? I think I can't have one, because I want either the east or the west wall to be removable to allow more light and space in summer; but I really need to think about this!
2. The shape of the foundation is very squint. Consequently, although the north and south walls will be parallel, the east and west won't. I have some int…

Just biking home the other day. I think I'm supposed to be more alarmed at this, but given that I handled it with yards to spare, I'm not sure this was really a problem: https://vimeo.com/1140994018?fl=pl&fe=sh
Note that I was only going 12mph, and my fingers were resti…

Just a hut under a tree in the mist ...
I saw this when I was walking back from a location scouting. When I was back at the car, I turned around - already ready to drive away when I noticed this gnarly tree in the field.
The fog was just light enough to create an interesting mood I think.
#photography

Evolution of the trash icon over the years
(just slightly modified from @… 's https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/115

@… Yes, but… I think it would be tricky to get them into a current Cubase release. I don’t know whether this is still true, but at least for some time you’d also get a license for the last version that could read old projects and save them in a new format.

@… Yes, but… I think it would be tricky to get them into a current Cubase release. I don’t know whether this is still true, but at least for some time you’d also get a license for the last version that could read old projects and save them in a new format.

Randall Munroe's #XKCD comic has the power to make you laugh, to make you think ... and sometimes to make you cry. For the right reasons.

• Posted in Nov 2012: #FuckCancer

At #longhornphp, @… is talking about the history of floss.
I didn't think I was at a dental conference, but here we are.
#php

A few thoughts about my localization experience for #mozilla and #Thunderbird
https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2025/…

I think these times feel very Lovecraftian. Great Evil lurks everywhere and just waits for its day to come. And it is not even a secret.

I used to think it was stupid to call it X, but now I think it's a good differentiator for "the swamp I didn't participate in" vs. "the Twitter I helped build” (through participation and ecosystem; LOTS of people helped build it).

I really don't like the fact that my sister always has my nephew's birthday party during trick-or-treating. I think that she does that to keep people from trick-or-treating.

“Yeah bob, I don’t think the question is *whether* the guillotines are coming for the elite. Really it’s: Are you ready to be a guillotine enabled organization?”

Black shiny mollies and bright colored guppies,
Shy little angels as gentle as puppies,
Swimming and diving with scarcely a swish,
They were just some of my tropical fish.
Then I got mantas that sting in the water,
Deadly piranhas that itch for a slaughter,
Savage male betas that bite with a squish,
Now I have many less tropical fish.
If you think that
Fish are peaceful
That's an empty wish.
Just dump them together
And le…

Today's the 2nd day I'm wearing my black-yellow Engelbert-Strauss e.s.motion 2020 to work - in an office.
It's also the 2nd day of people making derogatory comments like "Are you going to a construction site?" and "You can't go to a customer like this, they'll think you've come to fix your bath." and "At least noone will run you over, reflecting like that."
You already banned me from wearing my kilt in summer! They are comfort…

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
The poles are cold and dark half the year, so you might think these areas were low productivity. Nope. These are some of the highest productivity and efficient food webs on the planet, which is why whales will travel half the globe to feed here. When sunlight returns in spring, long days and nutrients drive intense blooms. There was a question of nutrient sources…

I think this is the first time I like a GitLab UI change. The "search or go to" field makes much more sense on the top of the page. And I can create a new issue from anywhere in a project. Still not a fan of issues opening in this weird sidebar thing (my browser has tabs and a back button..).

One night, many years ago, I was sitting in this pub when suddenly there was a bang and a bullethole appeared high in the window (picture right). Wild times.
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irish-diary/20…

@… at least, some proof of your existence.
"In a twist, the findings lend credence to the Australian folk hoax of the “drop bear,” a ferocious, carnivorous variety of koala said to fall upon its victims from the canopy. Paleontologists think Thylacoleo was an adept climber and ambush predator that could dive upon its prey from tree branches or roc…

@… yes, but won't somebody please think of the children?

@… someone (I think Oro?) messaged me telling me they've "dealt" with the situation... I checked the server again and she was still there...
I'm sorry

#LB Que forte, hein?
https://social.chatty.monster/@losttourist/115609521766579946

Youtube have some new "feature" to transcribe speech to text. (or whatever this is)
Watching something about Star Trek and Kardashian, it produced this picture of Kim Kardashian.
I think we shouldn't be afraid of "AI" in any way.😂

WTF Is Going On? - GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy
'In this video, we walk through the anti-consumer AI circlejerk contributing to what we think is an "AI bubble."'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3JfOxx6Hh4

"But think of the children!"

In an experiment, ChatGPT-4o, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp expressed secular, Western liberal values regardless of the language of the questions (Kelsey Piper/The Argument)
https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/do-ais-think-differently-in-different

Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
VILA: I'm quite prepared to go, it's just that I don't want to let anyone down because of my, uh, complaint.
NOVA: I want to help.
VILA: What do you think?
BLAKE: All right, let's get him in there.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/277…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Wraithe/115617586681174816
Hank Hill voice
I’ll tell you whut:
If this dude got 50 years for stealing/defrauding $1.2million in Fajitas, you can only imagine what penalties I think should rightfully be dropped on the…

oh no im doing it again
lemme close YouTube lmao

The Hippocratic License was just brought to my attention: #opensource #ethics

A) good advice 😅
B) LLMs & technology always remind me that they exist to allow me not have to collaborate with another human. This is why technology inherently dehumanises us.
The earliest example I can think of in music is synths/drum machines, which enabled musicians not to have to form a band with others.
1/2
https:…

The thing is #LFC aren’t that far off, but the players that are struggling are REALLY hurting the team.
Salah, I genuinely question if it’s poor form or decline, my head versus my heart. It’s not just this season. Think back to the end of last season at how his numbers plunged. That it was a comfortable run-in helped mask his declining efficiency. It hurts to see.
I don’t know what’s up wit…

I think I'm contractually obligated to visit and write a blog post about this
https://abc7chicago.com/post/metra-testing-new-caf-car-fall-free-snacks-drinks-riders/17882128/

#3goodthings
Digging deep today
1. Reassuring support from well-informed professionals making me feel a bit better about, y'know, stuff
2. My father agreeing to fund better insulation for the house
3. The end of formal education for my son, who has decided A levels aren't for him. I think this is good as it's been a painful term, but we'll see.

Any Austin has become my favourite YouTuber over the last couple of months. He’s at this great intersection of sillyness (video games) and seriousness (science and rigour) and combines them in an erneast attempt. I think that rocks!
https://youtube.com/@any_austin

What life is like for Palestinians from Gaza on centralised, US-based, Big Tech networks like Bluesky (yes, it’s all those things… did something about them make you think otherwise?)
#Bluesky #complicity #genocide

At what point does anyone think it will be economically feasible for a government to speculatively decode bulk intercepts of circa 2025 traffic (using, say, 2048 bit RSA keys) using quantum computers?
As in you've got 100k qubits you're not otherwise using, and no real energy constraints.
Because I've seen that used as reason not to allow Royal Mint Court to be used by China.

Highly recommend not to identify yourself with any technology.
Doesn’t matter if it’s AI, bicycles, cars, video games, old computers, photography or Hi-Fi equipment.
If someone says something bad about it (doesn’t matter if true or not) and you feel personally attacked—take a step back and think long and hard about your feelings.
Can you be “into” something? Yes, of course. But don’t lose yourself.

Huh, think I might've figured out why one (but only one) of my NextCloud instances loses contact with the OnlyOffice instance on the same host... Figured out it *might* be because of frequent polling that's resulted in the Mailcow instance (also on the host, as I'm trying to economise) is seeing it as making too many connections and is temporarily fail2banning it nightly. I've added the host's IP(v4&6) to the Fail2Ban whitelist... 🤞 it's still connected tomorrow!<…

when github dies, we'll have go back to running buildbots ourselves. it's annoying, but not _that_ bad; i've done a decent amount of it and i think it'll be okay
an amusing outcome is that writing projects in python now has a direct financial benefit over writing projects in rust

Hey Europe, are you planning to copy the US once more, allowing Very Modern Autonomous Taxis in our cities? Think again.
(Waymo taxis in San Francisco)
Video via John Berry on Bluesky.

There is no AI "winter" i think, now Anthropic has also released a new model, they have a clear focus on coding.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-o…

"I’m sure she’ll take it under consideration and look at it seriously. …
Trump hasn’t made a secret about the retribution that he is asking some of his U.S. attorneys to take against his perceived enemies.
It is an extraordinary request, but maybe this is an extraordinary situation."
— Professor Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law,
in comments given to Law.com, concerning a request made by ex-CIA Director John Brennan’s lawyers
to Ch…

Toto, I don't think we're in Poland anymore.
#Silesia

Ross on Dak Prescott: 'I think he's the MVP' of NFL entering Week 8 in 2025 season https://www.nfl.com/videos/ross-on-dak-prescott-i-think-he-s-the-mvp-of-nfl-entering-week-8-in-2025-season-the-insiders…

#WritersCoffeeClub 24 Nov
How do you make sure a reader has room to process and absorb ideas?
I think it's perfectly OK to include things in stories that 90% of readers won't pick up on -- because the delight of discovery for the 10% of readers who do is worth it, I think.
In some of my writing I use a lot of subtle intertextual references -- which readers who kn…

I've seen people attach pool noodles to their bikes in order to ensure that car drivers pass them within a safe (and often legally-required) distance.. But I think I prefer this person's prybar attachment. 🫡
#BikeTooter

@… Indeed. And there are many different multilingual settings, and I don’t think research is taking this into account.

@… Indeed. And there are many different multilingual settings, and I don’t think research is taking this into account.

I’m not looking to start any flame wars, but this question has been tossing in my mind for a bit, and I’m curious to hear what people think.
Is phrasing such as K-pop, J-pop, and K-drama inherently discriminatory?
And if yes, why in your opinion?

"I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you're moving. And then you have to trick yourself into an emotional state where you believe this stuff is actually happening."
—Julianne Moore
#acting

The whole thing is optimized for scams, deception and other criminal behavior:
- user interface that deceptively pretends it's a human you're talking to
- claims from companies highly exaggerate capabilities
companies and "experts" constantly hype "AGI" which they (funnily enough) do to both make investors greedier and spread fear and as a distraction because these algorithms can't actually do what they keep promising
- large-scale accounting and financial fraud (e.g. what Nvidia is doing with circular selling)
- biggest case of copyright infringement in history
Note: I think the underlying technology is really cool, and definitely has use cases and can be used for actually good things. But: some technology just has more downsides than upsides, and some should only be used by experts in controlled environments. Leaded gasoline, asbestos and chlorofluorocarbon are also all really cool technology.
In this case perhaps the techology itself doesn't do anything inherently bad, however the people making it are lying about what it can do, the people selling it are motivated purely by greed and the people using it (often forced to do so) are being deceived.

Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
VILA: Which is a pretty big if.
AVON: Perhaps we could reverse the process on the neutron bombarder and use it as a neutralizing filter. Is that feasible, do you think?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/412/476 B7B2

Writing unit tests for my random number generation library continues to be difficult. My tests are failing because the bias in the distribution exceeds my expectations, but I'm wondering whether I should just repeat the test more times and permit it to exceed expectations some of the time (as long as it does it symmetrically/rarely/etc. My gut tells me that second-order expectations aren't any better than first-order expectations, but another part of me disagrees.
Thinking more as I write this (writing is thinking): second-order tests can at least give me better info to work with towards fixing things I think! So maybe I'll invest in them.
#coding

Browns' Dillon Gabriel doesn't care what you think. His focus is on proving himself right https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6741193/2025/10/24/browns-quarterback-dillon-gabriel-career/

X-ray astronomers often look at
X-ray binaries,
which consist of a black hole or a neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a normal star.
Material from that star is accreted onto the black hole or neutron star, producing X-rays.
The companion star is quite often a massive star with very strong stellar winds, and X-ray astronomers looking at these winds tend to think:
“Oh my god, it’s so complicated: there’s all this additional absorption, it’s super annoyi…

"I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you're moving. And then you have to trick yourself into an emotional state where you believe this stuff is actually happening."
—Julianne Moore
#acting

@… Thank you for interesting post! While I struggle with different issues, I can very much relate to the trilingual challenges…
Every time I see a study about the supposed benefits of multilingualism for your brain I think, hopefully I eventually get to reap these benefits, because for now, I’m just struggling to express myself in three languages, a…

@… Thank you for interesting post! While I struggle with different issues, I can very much relate to the trilingual challenges…
Every time I see a study about the supposed benefits of multilingualism for your brain I think, hopefully I eventually get to reap these benefits, because for now, I’m just struggling to express myself in three languages, a…

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
CALLY: Avon, repeat that. Message indistinct. Repeat that.
VILA: Communications blind spot. Or maybe he landed in the volcano.
CALLY: No, I think he's all right.
https://blake.to…

I had a womens studies professor try to coax a class to understand
that it’s not ’wrong’ for an alcoholic homeless person
to take your change you tossed and spend it on alcohol.
People were livid lol.
It really changed my perspective on giving.
it's freeing to give without expectation.
-- @inthemidwest.bsky.social

"Because there are many things the simulacrum (the simulation or reproduction) of things do not have that the _actual_ things do have. People still flock to see the Mona Lisa despite reproductions, even very high quality and faithful reproductions."
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/being-hu

If you think you're making more typos recently, it might be your iPhone, not you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo

Like there's no leak or anything, I think the pump just stopped working?
Wonder why that's failure point, perhaps over time there is some out-diffusion liquid and eventually it starts to cavitate?

"I think when you're just counting on your voice, you actually need double the energy. I find myself acting out the scenes and being very physical while I'm recording because I think you can tell when someone is just sitting on a stool."
—Judy Greer
#acting #coaching …