@faradundamarti@social.linux.pizzaEskişehir'de eğitimi getirdikleri nokta. Müdür olmak için hükümetin sendikasından olmak yetince böyle oluyor. Daha önce de bir milli eğitim müdürü tacizci bir müdürü iki okula birden müdür yapmıştı. Görevden alındı ama bakanlığa gitti.
(Burada bir noktayı belirtmekte yarar var. Sonuçta erişkin insan ne izlediği kendisini ilgilendirir. Bu müdür görüntüleri paylaşmış ve bunları birlikte yapabileceği kişilere ulaşmak istiyor.)
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzSteve Spagnuolo on Cowboys: 'They've Got a Lot of Weapons' https://www.chiefs.com/video/steve-spagnuolo-on-cowboys-they-ve-got-a-lot-of-weapons-press-conference-11-25
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsSo I was pretty enthusiastic about #DNS4EU at first.
Then I've discovered it blocklisted some random pastebin. Well, it happens. I mean, pastebins frequently get into trouble because of people pasting random shit. So I've filed an unblock request. I've suddenly got a mail to confirm registration in some random company's system — I suspect it was related to DNS4EU, but no clear indication. I've ignored it.
Then they've blocklisted my mail provider, for no apparent reason. It's still blocked. I've switched to the "unfiltered" version to be able to access my mail again.
Today I've gotten a mail via my backup MX. My main MX is up. My educated guess is that sysadmins using DNS4EU now get my mail redirected to their "site blocked" server. Isn't that great?
PS. Maybe if more people filed unblock requests for "poczta.ftdl.pl", it would help. It's a non-profit e-mail provider.
#DNS #ItsAlwaysDNS
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialDay 29: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
I've been sitting on Simpson for a while because there's some overlap in her writing with Robin Wall Kimmerer, and I've had a lot of different genres/styles/subjects/media I've wanted to post at least one author from. But I've now hit repeats on at least YA romance and manga, and Simpson's writing is actually quite different from Kimmerer's in a lot of ways. While Kimmerer is a biologist by training and literally braids that knowledge together with her knowledge of Potawatomi cosmology and ethics, Simpson is an Anishinaabe philosopher and anarchist, and her position as a scholar of Indigenous philosophy adds a different depth to her work: she talks in more depth about knowledge relationships and her connections with specific elders, and she has more citations to other Indigenous theorists, which is the one criticism I've ever seen of Kimmerer's work. Rather than being Indigenous and a scientist, she's Indigenous and a scholar of indigenous studies.
I've only read "Theory of Water" by Simpson, but it was excellent, and especially inspiring to read as an anarchist. Simpson's explicit politics are another difference from Kimmerer's work, which is more implicitly than explicitly political. This allows Simpson to draw extremely interesting connections to other anarchist theorists and movements. "Theory of Water" is probably a bit less accessible than "Braiding Sweetgrass," but it's richer from a theory perspective as a result.
In any case, Simpson is a magnificent writer, sharing personal insights and stories along with (and inseparable from) her theoretical ideas.
#30AuthorsNoMen
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzHuh, 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!<…
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterTell me you've never watched The Thick Of It without telling me you've never watched The Thick Of It.
@jake4480@c.imNew Social D record next year (May 2026, no day announced yet)-- their first in 15 years. I've always kinda had a soft spot for the D. Hearing some of the new songs they've been playing live and I dig em. Supposedly the first single will come out next month (January).
I assume these will be on the record.
"Tonight" live in 2022: https://
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialI just got a fundraising "text message" from Rick Caruso.
I've probably seen things in my 50 yrs that'd make Caligula blush but I don't know if I've ever felt dirtier in my life, reading a message from this guy.
Dude rivals Trump.
@ErikUden@mastodon.deyou've met me at a very bohemian time in my life
@brian_gettler@mas.toI've been thinking a bit about historians' use of theory. I've decided it's often similar to a comment a cafeteria worker made to me decades ago. They were serving chili dogs and I asked if I could just have a bowl of chili instead. "Oh no, dear," she said, "this is chili dog chili, it's not for eating." I've long suspected that a good chunk of my field thinks of theory along these lines. We put it on the menu and let our students consume it, even …
@marcus@hachyderm.ioI've recently reimplemented hei - my #nix / #nixos command helper in go, which massively improved the auto-complete support. In 0.2.1 I've also added a nice --confirm feature to rebuild, which does a nvd diff against your current system before confirming to switch
https://code.bas.es/marcus/hei
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgI've been playing a few of those Lego games (Lego Star Wars etc.) with my little one. It's fun though navigating 3D space while handling the camera is a lot for him (it _is_ not easy).
Sometimes I try to tell him where to go when he gets lost but it's really challenging to stay patient at times (because it's hard for him to translate the words into the complex actions necessary and because I don't want to do things for him while he's trying things). But it's…
@whitequark@mastodon.socialwhen 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
@gwire@mastodon.socialAt 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.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzSteelers QB Aaron Rodgers will 'retire a Packer': 'I've got nothing but love for the organization' https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-qb-aaron-rodgers-will-retire-a-packer-i-ve-got-nothing-but-love-for-the-or…
@scott@carfree.cityNow you've done it, @…. This piece is about to make the Sunset Dunes/Great Highway debate look tame in comparison
https://missionlocal.org/2025/10/sf-be
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTidalwave, whose AI agents automate mortgage docs checks and give real-time multilingual feedback to borrowers, raised a $22M Series A led by Permanent Capital (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/21/tidalwave-raises-22-million-se…
@csessh@social.linux.pizza"Writing your idea down is not starting the damn game. Writing a design document is not starting the damn game. Assembling a team is not starting the damn game. Even doing graphics or music is not starting the damn game. It’s easy to confuse “preparing to start the damn game” with “starting the damn game”. Just remember: a damn game can be played, and if you have not created something that can be played, it’s not a damn game!"
@brichapman@mastodon.socialIn my journey as a climate activist, I've grappled with the contradictions of my lifestyle. I consume meat, I fly on planes, yet I advocate for sustainable practices.
For a while, I felt like a hypocrite. But, I've realized that the climate movement doesn't need to be a space of perfection, but a space for ordinary humans with their contradictions.
Can we be climate activists while still having contradictions in our lives?
@andycarolan@social.lolI've experienced a LOT of synchronicities this evening 🤔
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI'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
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeIs anyone are of good tools for "the attacker knows the key but not the system" cryptanalysis?
I'm thinking scenarios like "I've dumped external flash and efuses off a target with encrypted firmware, but I don't know the algorithm or image format".
So ciphertext and key are believed to be known, but bit ordering, endianness, algorithm, headers, etc are unknown.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI spent much of today cleaning my office. It's amazing how messy it gets due to ongoing projects (my own and client projects) and so much paper. I was saving a lot of it for paper making but I've still got plenty of pulp in the fridge to use.
On Friday, the plan is no shopping, just cleaning the basement getting rid of cruft, maybe finding some things to donate or give away if possible.
@cdarwin@c.im#Oumuamua was first spotted on October 19, 2017, by a telescope in Hawaii called Pan-STARRS 1.
At first, scientists thought it was just a regular comet or asteroid -- But as they watched it more closely, they realized it was very different.
Here are some key things about Oumuamua:
#Shape: Unlike most as…
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialI've sent a message to sta.rs.
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialThe weather is cold and wet.
I'm not sure if there's a lot of outdoor activity today. But I've finished a book and wrote a quick review on #bookwyrm .
Funny - I NEVER wrote reviews on any platform. No Idea why but nowadays I'd only put it on bookwyrm because then I do not give my writing to any company for free.
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI've been thinking about that stupid "Unified Executive" rubbish that the maga-klan likes to spout.
They argue that Art II Sect 1 sez "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America." meaning that the entire executive, all of it, every bit, is carried within the human frame of the President.
OK.
That language does not admit of any possibility of delegation of any part of that executive authority to another. So if …
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngOne of our fave local places to go to for a walk in autumn. This year the colors were especially exquisite...
(Beech forests like these covered two thirds of Germany, but by now they've been dramatically reduced, not just due to logging. Also rising temperatures have been increasing their mortality and general vulnerability...)
#SilentSunday
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotNo babes in my manger this Christmas day. But the cattle are eating happily
@joe@toot.worksI've been regularly traveling internationally since 2018 and I just booked business class for the first time. I bought two tickets to spend 22hs on an Air Serbia A330-200.
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social«The tech industry is being taken over by merchants of services, and the Open Source community is starting to depend on them. We've seen this coming, with GitHub being a startup, bought by Microsoft which is now pushing AI. They are the means of production.»
And FLOSS would be doing well to divest from the industrial-owened means of production sooner rather than later.
What AI is doing to developers - (not) my ideas
https://notmyidea.org/what-ai-is-doing-to-developers.html
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialDay 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
@underdarkGIS@fosstodon.org
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchangeWow! That's way more posts than I've ever been notified of before from unbridged accounts...
And... it's AG. How not surprised. I note she didn't say anything about pay, just a general "untrue" claim.
I judge people by what they do, and that whole thing was very poorly handled.
@markhburton@mstdn.social200 years of the railway.
Rather shockingly I've lived through more than a third of that!
Breeching, demise of steam, reduction of night trains, HSR, privatisation, and no more British Rail yellow fruit cake.
#Rail200
@joxean@mastodon.socialBelieve it or not, #Bloodborne looks much better in an emulator, #Shadps4, than in a real hardware PS4 device. I've tried it in a #SteamDeck, with some mods and patches, and it runs at ~60 FPS …
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzRE: #Mauve is but one of 140 (!) small satellites on that Falcon 9, collectively known as Transporter 15. What's interesting about the satellite is its commercial approach - you *buy* astronomical UV data: https://bssl.space/mauve/ and https://space.blog.gov.uk/2025/11/06/blue-skies-space-to-launch-mauve-satellite-demonstrating-a-new-model-for-delivering-space-science-data/ and https://www.science.org/content/article/startup-pioneers-subscription-service-space-based-astronomy
@yaya@jorts.horseOK I've chipped away at things that need doing in my room a lil more so that's good
@nohillside@smnn.chAlso so was wie der Monolith aus 2001? Nur halt in klein und dumm?
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/11/25/006212/jony-ive-and-sam-altman-say-they-finally-have-an-ai-hardware-prototype
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com"Hey Andy, I've been offered an incredibly cheap flight in 2 hours time but would need boarding or sitting for my dog to take it. Incredibly unlikely, I know, but reaching out just in case you're available!"
I have never met this person or their dog before. Who does that!?
(It was a "no", and based on this, a "not ever".)
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz‘It was everything we’ve been working for’: Broncos’ offense shows potential in sensational outing vs. Cowboys https://www.denverbroncos.com/news/it-was-everything-we-ve-been-working-for-broncos-offense-sh…
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… Not a problem I've had with Linux Mint.
@FandaSin@social.linux.pizzaYesterday they've released SOLO Leveling: Arise Overdrive.
I kinda liked anime and game looked good, so I've tried it.
I was surprised, when in the middle of the fight everything stoped and I couldn't move / use any skills / attacks.
My surprise was even bigger when outisde of the battle I stopped moving for about 10(maybe 20) seconds.
Fights are perfect🤌, if it wasn't "always online" "feature" it would be really good game with great c…
@cheryanne@aus.socialDaughter and her partner have fallen in love with Tasmania.
I have been showered with a treasure trove of shared photos from their tassie travels so far. They've also included screenshots of map routes (which is handy).
They rang last night with tales of their adventures so now we're planning an old school slide night when they get back (cocktails included).
They're also planning their next trip.
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toRE: https://mstdn.ca/@thetyee/115616714571997253
Or.. here's a thought. Paper the interior - you know, where we've clearcut all the trees - with solar farms?
Srsly, that drive through the interior is so drepressing.
@hex@kolektiva.socialReagan's "Welfare Queen" rhetoric was a dog whistle. The whole "southern strategy" was full of dog whistles. Every time Republicans talked about gay marriage as a "states rights" issue, those were dog whistles. Naming a government agency "the Department of Homeland Security" was a dog whistle. Trump's speeches leading up to his first term were full of dog whistles.
Nazis have total control of all branches of government. They've cut off funding to all but the most oppressive elements of the government. There are concentration camps, both in client states (CECOT, among others) and in the US (Alligator Auschwitz, among others). They're actively carrying out ethnic cleansing.
When DHS puts out some Nazi shit, it's not a dog whistle. It's a vuvuzela. They're not trying to signal their intent without any of the "normies" noticing. They actively doing what they wanted to do. It's not a signal because there's nothing to signal. It's a celebration.
#USPol
@paulbusch@mstdn.caMy wife and I are looking to upgrade our vehicle, a 10 year old Mazda CX-3. Not sure if it will be another new vehicle or used but I've been looking at car reviews on YouTube and reading up on what I can expect. So I was interested when the YouTube algorithm served up an exciting review of the newly announced CX-30 Hybrid. But it was complete AI bullcrap. No such vehicle exists. Gotta love the times we live in.
@jom@social.kontrollapparat.deOn my way from Ansbach to #39c3. See you soon!
After 15 years of Chaos events, I've forgotten my DECT phone for the first time 🙈
So this year I'm trying out @… SIP and can be reached at 2120.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 11 - Orbit
SERVALAN: I hope so, Egrorian. I've waited a long time for this.
EGRORIAN: His death is a mathematical certainty. The product of a simple equation.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/202 B7B6
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… thanks, I've been watching <https://www.freshports.org/ports-mgmt/pkg-devel/#history>.
Didn't expect -devel to be skipped, but direct t…
@hakona@im.alstadheim.noI've been getting a heap of dead jobs in sidekick related to e-komik.org. Tried blocking the domain, tried killing the jobs. They kept coming back. Finally noticed this was "stuff" being pushed to me. Found traces of a relay I was using in the log-message. Disabled mastodon-relay.moew.science . That seems to have put a stop to it.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaRE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115609639832466072
Finding the name of something you've long imagined inside your mind is a deeply emotional experience. It’s like discovering the missing piece of a puzzle you've carried with you fore…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialThis log entry always appears at the top of my cable modem's web view of the log. Every 36 hours, the timestamp changes. It's not new,. just the same line with a new timestamp.
It has been this way for years, I believe for the whole decade that I've had it, although its rock-solid regularity may have started with the last update (2019) or with some upstream behavior change. It is harmless (DHCP clients must tolerate unrecognized options).
And people wonder why I e…
@fgraver@hcommons.socialIt's been a while since I last posted to my "Thinking out loud" series on #FineArtsPedagogy. Right now, I've been delving into the nature of creativity, which brings together both my work at The Norwegian Film School and the emerging work at MishMash - Centre for AI & Creativity.
I have been troubled by understandings of creativity that emphasize product and …
@mlawton@mstdn.socialIn the shadow of defensive pratfalls, lurks a real elephant in the room.
LFC spent massively on offense and they can't score. They've an aging superstar in Salah, who looks finished. He can't be benched without blowing huge amounts of political capital, but at this point Slot almost has no choice. This decision is overdue, and yes, it hurts!
The wing-heavy attacking ideas that carried #LFC
@smashtie@mas.toThis is the level of prep my wife brings to Christmas lunch. Can you tell she's a scientist? As you can see, it's going well. I've been assigned a few tasks, but she mostly wants to do this herself, it seems.
#Christmas
@kevin@social.losno.co@… 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
@roelgrif@mstdn.socialDe ceasefire in Gaza zal helaas slechts een kort intermezzo beteken. De Israelische minister Ben-Gvir roept al op tot hervatting van de oorlog en totale vernietiging van Gaza, "nu de gijzelaars terug zijn".
https://en.ultimasnoticias.com.ve/worl
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldWe've been singing that line wrong this whole time!
@thek3nger@mastodon.socialI've always been a critic of "Stoicism for the military" events and talks. I think the military often abuses a philosophy whose core aspects include cosmopolitanism and that pushes people to do the right thing, especially against power.
But I am ready to be proved wrong by all the guys filling Ryan Holiday's rooms, standing up for "justice" against bombing fishermen in the Caribbean.
Any minute now.
@jdrm@social.linux.pizza#footPathfriday
Ayer en el puerto de Navacerrada, el camino de subida al alto de Guarramillas
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaUnusual Suspects,
I've blabbed before about how much I like runit, yes clean and very simple.
Also wanted to have a look at beta 7 and roll into the final release of Cosmic DE. Enter Artix Linux.
Now, that was fun, played with it this afternoon and it'll be promoted to a more prominent NUC soon. Ticks all the boxes!
#artixlinux
@denmanrooke@mastodon.ieFrom late July helping run the lights & camera for the launch of her campaign to the eve of the election at Galway Arts Centre with creative sector workers & unions, I'm immensely grateful to have been a small part of this historic moment for Ireland with Catherine's election.
Time to take this momentum we've all built together into a movement for change and a new Ireland for carers, workers, and ordinary people.
@xiffy@mastodon.nlBesides publishing the PDF of this guide, I've also added the source documents to github.
You can view the Markdown files here: #xbrlQuickguide #opensource
@AthanSpod@social.linux.pizzaAt least we're not on the hateful DST right now.
I've long thought it's idiocy to have it at all, but really it's the switching twice a year that's a pain. It's now far too light in the mornings, but only *because of the sudden jump*.
When does the UK grow up and decide to just do away with this? Anywhere in the UK (excluding any overseas territories, smart arses) that could possibly benefit from a shift has too little daylight hours to play with for it …
@outer@mas.toGreat app. I've used it for many years. https://indieapps.space/@mp3tag/115756809912174858
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaYou can really see the results from all the training I've been doing
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Hulder:
🎵 Veil of Penitence
#Hulder
https://listen.20buckspin.com/track/veil-of-penitence
https://open.spotify.com/track/6S5FaTn3ByJ4y8W3K6oZpb
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI'm building webkit-gtk right now. It's one of these messy packages where a few source files need a lot of memory to compile, and ninja can randomly order jobs so that all of them suddenly start compiling simultaneously. So to keep things going smoothly without OOM-ing, I've been dynamically adjusting the available job count via steve the #jobserver.
While doing that, I've noticed that ninja isn't taking new jobs immediately after I increased the job count. So I've started debugging steve, and couldn't find out anything wrong with it. Finally, I've looked into ninja and realized how lazy their code is.
So, there are two main approaches to acquiring job tokens. Either you do blocking reads, and therefore wait for a token to become available, or you use polling to get noticed when it becomes available. Ninja instead does non-blocking reads, and if there are no more tokens available… it waits till one of its own jobs finish.
This roughly means that as other processes release tokens, ninja won't take them until one of its own jobs finish. And if ninja didn't manage to acquire any job tokens to begin with, it is just running a single process via implicit slot, and that process finishing provides it with the only chance to acquire additional tokens. So realistically speaking, as long as there are other build jobs running in parallel, ninja is going to need to be incredibly lucky to ever get a job token, since all other processes will grab the available tokens immediately.
This isn't something that steve can fix.
#Gentoo #NinjaBuild
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Twice as Perfect" by Louise Onomé. This is now the third novel I've read by her about a teenage Nigerian-Canadian second-generation immigrant, two of whom deal with some form of family estrangement ("Like Home" and "The Melancholy of Summer" are the other two). I checked it out because I liked her other novels and was not disappointed; in fact I feel like this is her best novel of the three. Dealing with cultural appropriation, both implicitly and explicitly, along with deep family trauma and a bit of romance, "Twice as Perfect" is suspenseful, wise, and heartfelt. It's got a thread of Nigerian Pidgin in it, which I thoroughly enjoyed although I didn't 100% understand, similar in some ways to the sprinkling of Spanish in "Each of Us a Desert", but with even less of an attempt to subtly explain each instance in English, which I don't mind at all.
The 2nd generation immigrant authors writing YA ~romances I've read recently have all been great, including Adiba Jaigirdar, Samira Ahmed, Sabina Khan, and Randa Abdel-Fattah (a slightly different era), and to a lesser extent Romina Garber (I didn't like "Lobizona" quite as much as stuff by these others). It's been super interesting to contrast their stories with those of people like Mark Oshiro, Angie Thomas, Randi Pink, and Angela Velez who talk about American racism from a non-immigrant perspective (perhaps Ahmed is in between the two groups).
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@andycarolan@social.lolI've been off and on watching The Fifth Element over the past few days... that movie still looks and feels awesome.
@brian_gettler@mas.toFor the next 18 hours or so, we've got a half-dozen 10-year-olds at the house. Little sleep will be had tonight. Feel free to pray, send vibes, laugh out loud, whatever.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itAhhh. I've 'downgraded' to a (dell) laptop with physical touchpad buttons and dedicated pgup/pgdn keys, and it's sooooo much nicer.
When I finally need to upgrade from this laptop (a latitude 5410 which was originally released in 2020), hopefully lenovo will have continued their trend of going back to non-soldered ram in their t14 laptops.
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialWell, we've mailed out our first tranche of charitable donations for this year.
Times are tough especially with the Federal government drying up funding for so many things.
My message here is that we - you and me; all of us - need to pull together, and that one way to do that is to make donations, either in cash or in kind, to organizations and people in need.
The Old and New Testaments and the Koran all ask us to care for one another, to help the stranger.
We'…
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzJeepers, Piwigo has come out with an impressive new version! https://piwigo.org/release-16.0.0 (I've been running one for a decade or so). Hot damn, preparing to upgrade.
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialAfter a fun weekend and way too little sleep for whatever reason (lolsiez), I've already pushed out a bunch more PRs for https://github.com/platform-system-interface/intel_fw including docs.
I will probably get initial ME cleaning done and tag a new prerelease today. All…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzHC Sean Payton on the Week 8 point of emphasis: 'We've got to work on our first half' https://www.denverbroncos.com/video/hc-sean-payton-on-the-week-8-point-of-emphasis-we-ve-got-to-work-on-our-first-half…
@jake4480@c.imIf you'd have told me years ago the same dude made movies I hated as much as Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love and then just a few years later would make a flick I loved as much as There Will Be Blood, I would've told you that you were nuts
@yaya@jorts.horsethe only time I've ever been on a podcast was while undercover as my Qsona (I have been posing as a qanon person on multiple platforms for like 8 years now) talking about how I "infiltrated" antifa lmao
#lore
@markhburton@mstdn.socialA gift to the West Bank city of Nablus from Scottish firefighters has sat impounded in dock by the fascist Israeli authorities. They've sent a £16,000 bill to Nablus.
Another way in which Israel harms Palestinians and blocks solidarity.
Scottish fire engine destined for West Bank may return after 15-month Israeli seizure | Dundee | The Guardian
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialSomewhat confused how the Detroit Lions with Jared Goff at QB can be losing in the 4Q to the Minnesota Vikings with some guy under center I've literally NEVER HEARD OF. 🤪
But hey, sound the Gjallarhorn... skol, baby!
#vikings #minnesota
@faradundamarti@social.linux.pizzaMüzikle ilgim dinleyici düzeyinde. Teknik bilgim yok. Genelde etnik müzik ve burada arkadaşların paylaştığı şarkıları dinliyorum. Neşet Ertaş'ı da severek dinlerim. Ama 'yar imiş meğer' türküsünde sözlerle müzik uyumlu değil. Ayrılık acısını anlatan sözleri var ama müzik oyun havası gibi. Birçok sanatçıdan dinledim, hep aynı.
Bu kız çocuğu yerli yerine oturtmuş gibi:
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe 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
@NFL@darktundra.xyzEagles stars say 'we've got to find a way to finish the game' after stunning collapse against Cowboys
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/eagles-jalen-hurts-saquon-barkley-…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
SERVALAN: Was there any sand in the ship?
CHASGO: Yes. I didn't like the look of it. After the rain had cleared us I threw it outside. Then I felt ... I must've fallen asleep. [Looks at the controls] This is almost normal. What the hell has been -
@marcus@hachyderm.ioI carry both an iphone and a pixel these days. I think one of the best things about Android is the ability to set your own launcher. I've falled in love with Kvaesitso https://github.com/MM2-0/Kvaesitso - an open source launcher with good configurability and an awesome search. However in general it still feels like android is lagging behind iOS on the app side. I'm specially missing Shellfish (https://secureshellfish.app/) when i'm on the pixel. I even have juicessh pro and it's not nearly as good. I'm actually surprised the ssh client situation is so bad given the higher perceived nerd ratio for Android.
@jdrm@social.linux.pizzaPues había nieve, sí
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsToday I've figured out how to reply when another couch philosopher tells you that obviously "there are job offers, it's just people who are too lazy to work". You just ask them "then why aren't you changing jobs?"
Free market is clear on this: if the supply of job positions exceeds demand, wages rise. And if employers lack employees, then they're ready to pay more, so you benefit from changing jobs! Isn't capitalism just great?
#AntiCapitalism
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Warpaint:
🎵 Love Is to Die
#Warpaint
https://warpaint.bandcamp.com/track/love-is-to-die
https://open.spotify.com/track/2RAXAF7qjvn0FsRuMMTlBx
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialDay 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
@jake4480@c.imDonkey Kong Bananza has some hilarious stuff in it, you can smash everything. There's a guy with a boat who's like 'fishing is my life' and my wife instantly smashed his boat. And then he's like 'well, it HAS been a long time since I've been swimming' or something. 😂 Like, GREAT attitude. Gotta roll with those punches. 😂🤣😂
#DonkeyKong
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialHarry Hamlin explains what acting trick Sir Laurence Olivier taught him.
▶️ Sir Laurence Olivier's Apology For "Clash Of The Titans", "I've Got Mouths to feed"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=b3FexH66p10&si=O6gSvn-SMOaMkeVW
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys-Broncos Key Matchup: No. 1 pressure defense ve No. 1 pass pro unit https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/25/dallas-cowboys-biggest-challenge-2025-season-…
@yaya@jorts.horsealso where the fuck did the actual shelves for my bookcase go. things falling apart but it's the main place where I've put stickers so I can't just scrap it I gotta endlessly repair it
I shouldn't have made that payment on my credit card if the power company is gonna take $750 from me on the 28th cuz I don't have that much aaaaaaaa
I should go put the numbers on my door so I can end the Hold Mail thing and hopefully get settlement check soon. but also I shoul…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itShe's worked at a hospital for more than half a decade at this point. This has given her valuable insights.. 😂
![chat log
me: "actually, i'm wondering if my other dermatologist would respond over the weekend? probably not..."
Anna: "I guess now that [censored] you could also try to get in with an ID doc"
Anna: "they actually work hard"
Anna: "dermatology is what you specialize in if you want a comfy life"
Anna: "ID docs are germ nerds who dream of getting all the worms"
Anna: "pathologists are recluses, and family docs are masochists"
Anna: "and that's what I've learned about medicine!"](https://mastodon-usw-cache.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/115/273/766/029/601/443/original/115921679727f009.png)
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI 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
@yaya@jorts.horseso just me opening DoorDash then
@yaya@jorts.horseoh no im doing it again
lemme close YouTube lmao
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems1. Plan going to Opole, via Kościan.
2. When you enter the train to Kościan, you discover that the change to Opole is delayed 15 minutes already. Consider changing in Leszno instead; if the delay increases, you'd have more options there.
3. Discover that there aren't any more options in Leszno today. Your change is delayed 30 minutes already. Return the reservations, and take one the other way, to Poznań instead.
4. Train station in Kościan. The displays aren't showing any delays, trains are announced normally. Tell people about the delays, so they won't stand in the -10°C waiting for the train to arrive.
5. Take the train to Poznań, and try to figure out what to do next.
6. Discover that the only reasonable choice going forward is Inowrocław: no delays and good return connection. It's the same train, so take another reservation. Your current seat is already taken there, so move elsewhere.
7. Your train should be followed by another one in the same direction, that departs from Poznań 6 minutes later. However, your train ends up waiting for another delayed train, so the other train goes first. The delay further increases as your train needs to slow down after the other train.
8. Reach Inowrocław 10 minutes later. That's not a problem, since you didn't have enough to see for all the time there anyway.
9. Discover that the town is more interesting than you thought, and you'd use more time.
10. When you almost get to the station, discover that your train is 10 minutes late. Not that you have any use for that time at this point.
11. When you're at the station, the train keeps increasing delay while waiting at the previous station, in Bydgoszcz. The station displays are completely useless, as they show only a random subset of regional trains, for no apparent reason. The announcements include all trains, but are rarely given.
12. The delay keeps increasing. Start thinking about getting a reservation for the next train to Poznań, in case it arrived first. You can't return the reservation after the planned departure time, and you can't have two reservations simultaneously, so reserve the seat from Mogilno, the next station.
13. The next train arrives first. While on board, you discover that you're not going to have any train home for 1.5 hr. Take another seat reservation to Leszno, where you can change into a suburban train and get home 15 minutes earlier than from Poznań. This time, your seat is still free.
14. The train departs 15 minutes delayed from Poznań. After all, you're changing trains in Kościan.
So I was going to go south, to Opole, via Kościan. Instead, I've ended up slingshotting north to Inowrocław, and getting back home via the same train as if I were in Opole.
#rail
