2026-01-04 19:27:24
Totally normal problems.
So one day I had trouble zipping my winter jacket; around the final teeth, the zipper would stop catching. And when I tried again, I couldn't zip anything at all. Finally, at nth careful attempt it finally worked, and I had no more trouble that day. When I've turned, we looked at it, and decided that a loose thread must have gotten into it while zipping. Cut the thread off.
Next day, the zipper worked just fine in the morning. However, when I was about to leave the train, it suddenly stopped working. It seemed that I'm up for a cold day in unzipped jacket, but it finally caught a few minutes later, on the road. This time, I suspected the zipper. Tightened it, it started working again.
Today, I've tried zipping it three times to make sure it really works. And of course, as soon as I arrived at the destination, it refused to zip. I've tried again while walking, and it fell apart completely. Fortunately, the wind stopped blowing, and walking on snow was hard enough to jumpstart my metabolism fast. Finally, I've replaced the zipper and now everything works.
I wonder what tomorrow holds…
A thread about my use of AI in coding through 2025. Expecting similar results in 2026.
I appreciate the boosts on the thread above, which I take as support.
The defeatist replies make me despair a bit. Just to address some greatest hits en masse:
1. “Kick them out yourselves” − JFC, what the hell do you think we are trying to do, constantly, day after day, the amount of action and engagement against the federal invasion where I live is like nothing I’ve seen in my lifetime. WE ARE ASKING FOR HELP. Please do not be an ass about it.
There's one big fan of moss and lichen on Bsky, and he just did a thread with great photos, but he has the setting turned on that means you have to be logged in to see it. So here's the link, for those who can log in: https://bsky.app/profile/dj-acid-reflux.bsky.soci…
#Jackfruit,
Artocarpus heterophyllus
Easy care, grows like a beast.
It can zone push to at least 8 in the US and still get worthwhile harvest… of leaves!
This thread is how to cook with jackfruit leaves.
They are dense in nutrition and protein. And they’re not just for goats!
-- @…
This thread on devious US Army recruitment practices is likely similar elsewhere and already cause for parental/peer concern, but what struck me most is how that first post on policy reads EXACTLY like the complaints of LLMs seditiously feeding 'engagement'.
https://www.tumblr.com/trickbop/804838598726877184?source=share
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115835690251372850
Fascinating chart of the decrease in Stack Overflow questions … and fascinating thread of replies. The answer seems a bit more complex for Stack Overflow… their change in moderation policy in 2023 a…
Last evening of Christmas vacation before getting back to work for the new year.
Aiming to make it a good one. Working on GPU acceleration of the TIE filter and maybe the histogram block so I can do jitter analysis faster.
The peak at T=0 in the jitter histogram is related to use of the GPU CDR block and doesn't show up in the CPU implementation. It's likely caused by transients of some sort at thread block boundaries and I need to spend more time chasing it, I wouldn'…
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🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Shannon Lay:
🎵 A Thread to Find
#NowPlaying #ShannonLay
https://shannonlay.bandcamp.com/track/a-thread-to-find
https://open.spotify.com/track/1zHpGGZ5Q6Plp9eWVAQMu6
RE: https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/115836071797296255
This whole thread? Read it. 'Cause it's spot on. All of it.
Burning platform news:
A Bluesky thread suggesting the non-Russian parts of (former US site) LiveJournal may be going away - since they can't accept payments due to sanctions.
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mbebi2xfxc25
The wild thing about this farcical thread from @… is that it gets at the truth of things better than a lot of what calls itself journalism right now
https://sfba.social/@bitterkarella/115838455575046248
I wish I had seen this thread before Turkey Day so I could send it to EVERYONE.
https://bsky.app/profile/jenmsft.bsky.social/post/3m6hwnxq5lk2f
So yeah, use it for the next holiday / long weekend.
(How to schedule teams and outlook messages so that they …
Every once in a while in a random thread on here, someone unnecessarily pops into the replies and says "block me, I'm pro-slavery!", or "block me, I'm a nazi!", or expresses something similar. I always appreciate how forthcoming they are before I block them.
Obviously they dress up their sentiment in some kind of vague language of respectability or something, but it's usually pretty clear what they're saying.
Weekly Climate Solutions Digest #12!! 💖🌊✨
https://www.forpeopleandpla.net/weekly-climate-solutions-digest-12/?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social
Venezuela, a thread 🧵:
It is simultaneously true that the US has never cared about international law *and* that the current action is egregiously bad, even for us. The first point is self-obviously true - not only from the general POV (Iraq and Afghanistan are perhaps my generation's most obvious examples) but from LatAm's POV as well (look up the list of coups and covert operations in North and South America over the last 70 years).
1/?
This whole thread is just… 🧑🍳🤌💋
#ttrpg #shadowrun https://xeno.glyphpress.com/@jack/115657286026101126…
Thread of videos from @betaworks.com Demo Day last month, focused on new interfaces for computing enabled by or used for LLMs.
[contains quote post or other embedded content] https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m7h2osvsy22u
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The two core parties for a new Dutch government coalition - CDA and @… - have agreed on an agenda; they will now invite other parties to join in.
Some of their points on energy and climate in this thread!
1/n
That seam is complete
Time to replenish the thread
Start stitching the next.
#dailyhaikuprompt - thread
#haiku
#poem
I agree with the storyteller: the experience of having a slave is abhorrent, simulated or not, and this story is a window into something •deep• about the present moment. Even without having slaves, we are all in danger of having a •slaver mindset•. It’s a disease that’s running rampant now in billionaire-shaped techno-utopian circles.
I wrote this thread on the topic earlier:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113295613785073188
…and even having written that, it’s still shocking — not surprising, exactly, but shocking — to hear those thoughts expressed so baldly by the colleague in the story above.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@diemkay/115824604159718814
Thread worth reading.
@… did you post on your main thread? I want to boost a not-reply
How to use generative AI ethically and tastefully
Thread 👇
Thread from Portland, Oregon where the feds deployed chemical weapons on people protesting ICE.
https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/115993874061265608
for those who can't be bothered with the bogus age limit thing, check it out at: https://skyview.social/?url=https:%2F/bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ragtjsm2j2vknwkz3zp4oxrd/post/3mbcvjmqdtk…
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This thread is brilliant, and a call to action.
#visionzero #annarbor https://b…
Triggered by yesterday's discussion about old fluid sims, a short thread with some more examples from that period 2007-2009 to explore fluid dynamics for marbling...
1/3
(cc/ @…)
#FluidSim
Why is it always the wrong people who have imposter syndrome? Never these guys. @… https://mastodon.cloud/@OpenForumEurope/115983249451853950…
Starting a thread on people I've met in relation with #fosdem2026 .
On the plane :
- @…
- @…
My thread on the topic, if anyone wants to hear it: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115375443649657017
@…
2/2
Ireland has been every bit as important in exporting US Big Tech around the world as the US has been.
But Ireland has another key export, one that is confined to the European Union.
Because every tax haven must be a crime haven,
and because Big Tech's favorite crime is illegal surveillance,
Ireland has exported American tech spying to the whole European Union.
-- @…
Reminder to myself: you do not have time to write a long historiographical thread in response to a random post. Not only that, but no one wants to read that thread anyway.
Astronaut Jeanette Epps captured this video of a #GiganticJet TLE on July 20th, 2024 as part of the DTU/ESA Thor-Davis experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN2J7_rOBJY - see also the thread https://bsky.app/profile/stim3on.bsky.social/post/3mdo7l4572k2u
smth smth aaah I am only one person, so many cool things happening in parallel at @… 🥴
FOSDEM::attend(DevRoom::Rust, me.clone()); // compile error
Unfortunately, I am not Clone just yet.
I assume I cannot implement that in a thread-safe manner.
What instant communication, thread-based platform do you use at least once a month?
Just trying to get an idea of the popularity of different options - multiple choices possible, please boost around!
If you think we should add some choices, please cite them in comment and I'll do a 2nd poll. They would have to be similarly thread / themes / channel - based, with a phone app but also available in the browser (e.g. maybe Matrix? But website-only platforms like Discourse would not work…
Imagine being the most despicable, immoral child rapist & telling someone that Trump is the worst, most indecent person you know.
Here's a link to Epstein's email: https://jmail.world/thread/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031659?email=5662
Die Jahreszeit der Blogrückblicke, I know, aber: so ein Blog eignet sich ganz prima, um nochmals das Jahr Revue passieren zu lassen. Hier und im Thread. 1/11
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2025/12/2025-im-blog/
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Banks:
🎵 Beggin For Thread
#NowPlaying #Banks
https://lucidspectrum.bandcamp.com/track/banks-beggin-for-thread-lucidspectrum-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5EE8q94vVYKzpCyk6KjocX
Tangent: I am negatively impressed by the acrimonious entitlement displayed in that thread. I don’t know if it is X or that game in particular that has such a wealth of assholes. @… https://
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Useless prick could care less about saving people from ICE or ensuring americans keep their health coverage, but:
https://skyview.social/?url=https:%2F/bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vlpy6zuqqu…
[Thread] Staff of WaPo's local section sent a letter to owner Jeff Bezos, pleading, "Don't eliminate our jobs", and listing accomplishments in breaking news (@erikwemple)
https://x.com/erikwemple/status/2016221043409498222
This thread on Bluesky about college students in 2025 is terrifying
https://bsky.app/profile/jesbattis.bsky.social/post/3m6q26hzqoc2l
By post, it's mostly web rather than Phanpy.
Suspect it's mostly replies over stand-alone only because of threads here really. Most of a thread counts as a reply because it's a reply-to-self.
I mostly use the web interface for new posts rather than the phanpy one because I can't type an emoji in Phanpy. Only instance custom-emojis can be typed starting with a colon and I usually want 😄 or 😉 or 🙄 not the custom emojii. Can't type them on Phanpy. So I mostly compose on web.
Maybe the Phanpy dev has some kind of emoji plugin or something? Dunno why he makes it only do the custom ones.
But this is why I mostly post from web even though I almost entirely read from Phanphy. Which means replies mostly come from Phanpy but standalone mostly from Web.
(Very peeved that @… ‘s app just lost me my first version of this thread but I guess it’s my own fault)
So, I’ve finished watching #HeatedRivalry for first viewing and now, as I have a tendency to do, I’m getting all introspective.
1/8
So I was going to write a short piece about this, but I'm so plumb out of time, and it would be so weird to put this in Metacurity as a special report that I'm writing a social media thread instead.
Last summer, I wrote a piece about the Coinbase breach based on an extensive conversation I had with the exchange's CSO, Philip Martin, who has serious chops as a cybersecurity guy.
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Man this is such a good thread over at Twitter:
https://x.com/moorehn/status/2014050043527876847?s=46
TRV fight for a cold office today; take off, wiggle plunger; radiator is getting warm (good). Put back, random choice of Er1 or Er3 (which is the firmware complaining it can't calibrate the range); randomly retighten it and the thread adapter. Nope. Squirt WD40 in the valve. Nope. Change batteries - ahha! Sometimes it'll show low battery, but sometimes, it just freezes or boils me.
spent a peaceful sunday snow-in finishing @…'s epic forthcoming alice coltrane bio, following her illuminated thread from '60s #jazz into the wide & wider universe. the chronicle of an earthly life spent looking beyond and/or even d…
Wow, regulators shouldn't have stock in the companies they regulate, and they certainly shouldn't be subject to binding legal contracts that might curtail their actions.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115645290008746632
How do you do, fellow kids? @… https://mastodon.cloud/@OpenForumEurope/115983249451853950
this is the singularly most infuriatingly frustrating conversation I have ever had with someone regarding what decentralized social media means and I want to fucking scream
https://skyview.social/?url=https:%2
The Capitol “riot”
'does not happen' without #Trump,
#JackSmith told #Congress
Thread by @…@…
RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115990588127528391
Yeah. The whole thread.
HOA types are a blight around here.
RE: https://mastodon.energy/@Sustainable2050/115974544063467487
Thread on a new climate verdict that could have a big impact on Dutch emission reduction targets.
Simulated Cyanotype Chemigrams...
Lately I've been revisiting my old fluid sim toolset which started out as part of my toxiclibs Java libraries (2007/8, based on Jos Stam's research, also previously mentioned in this thread[1]), then ported & expanded it for #Houdini in 2016, then ported again to TypeScript/GLSL (via
Anybody familiar with the details of how thread local storage on aarch64 is implemented abi wise?
Like if I'm working on a bare metal embedded platform with two cores and i want some data to be private per core using gcc thread local attributes how do i actually make that work so accesses to that data get a pointer to a per core context object and look it up as an offset into it etc?
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Banks:
🎵 Beggin For Thread
#NowPlaying #Banks
https://lucidspectrum.bandcamp.com/track/banks-beggin-for-thread-lucidspectrum-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5EE8q94vVYKzpCyk6KjocX
High resolution observations of 'dark' neutral hydrogen clouds in the #VirgoCluster with the Very Large Array: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19011 -> thread https://bsky.app/profile/robminchin.bsky.social/post/3mdiobxvd5c23
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[Thread] Politico is ending its print newspaper, which had been publishing three times a week while Congress is in session, at the end of the year (Scott Nover/@scottnover)
https://x.com/scottnover/status/1993035321932759144
“You can’t sell us $200 ‘Rebel’ jackets at Galaxy’s Edge and then delete the words that define what being a Rebel actually means."
Testify.
✅ The Mouse Recants: Why #Disney Deleted a Viral Thread of Anti-Fascist Movie Quotes
Republicans are hanging on to their majority in the House by a thread.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s abrupt resignation means that a reliable red House seat will remain unfilled for months.
However, it is what is happening in a special House election in Tennessee that should be terrifying Republicans.
Tennessee’s Seventh US House district is not a race that, in a normal year, anyone would consider to be ripe for flipping.
Republicans have heavily gerrymandered the distri…
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Thread viewer as a @leaflet.pub embed. Excellent.
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This •is• precedented:
DHS murdered Pretti and Good the exact same way police have been murdering Black people for generations. The ICE CBP abduction patrols sure look a heck of a lot like the bounty hunters who operated in the wake of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. The terror tactics of CBP and ICE bear an uncanny resemblance to the tactics of the KKK.
None of that is a coincidence. It’s the same historical thread. It’s basically the same people.
Precedented.
11/
ASASSN-24fw - Candidate Gas-rich Circumsecondary #Disk Occultation of a Mainsequence Star: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae1fd9/pdf -> thread https://bsky.app/profile/aussiastronomer.bsky.social/post/3mdgvbmnlfc2k
'if you've seen one cloud you've seen them all', but are you prepared for this one?
Phil Stooke's massive thread on planetary missions to Venus
@…
htt…
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This is attributed to H.G. Wells:
'The work of woman in prehistoric communities, when carefully analyzed from the fossils with which archaeology, folklore, and philology provide us, assumes somewhat large proportions as compared with the work of men. '
https://skywriter.blue…
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U.S. policy in Latin America has long been shaped by business interests
— but rarely with today’s level of openness (thread) ⬇️
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:s24o3i2gmddihekekk6tu6ac/post/3mcqadry7az2c
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(Vector graphics are in the original thread if anybody wants them. Please print and spread the word!)
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115500214272846920
ICE has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted
https://bsky.app/profile/404media.co/post/3mdb7ue5f722x
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I just wanted to let you all know that the observer who was kidnapped yesterday (start of this thread) was released safely last night. (I say “kidnapped” not as an exaggeration, but as a fact: no part of that resembled a lawful arrest.) Minor scrapes, more determined than ever. Huge relief.
ICE apparently continues to believe that indefinite detention of observers is not something they can get away with yet. They are still generally releasing observers after many long hours but not days, generally with no proper booking and no charges.
Sadly, this is not the case for people they deem sufficiently brown-skinned to deport.
It has been a bracing moment for American federalism,
with both unprecedented efforts to extend executive control over state and local govts, and
novel forms of subnational resistance.
Where is federalism going?
Paul Nolette and I have edited a new issue of Publius on that question.
Short thread:
Jim Gardner leads off the batting order with an article that raises important questions about whether,
and under what conditions,
federalism can prot…
Today's ICE assassination:
Read the thread
Watch the video
https://bsky.app/profile/dwsoc.bsky.social/post/3md6q7jk4pc2e