Tootfinder

The closer your original face is, the more you've won.
The closer your original face is, the more you've won.
The closer your original face is, the more you've won.
The closer your original face is, the more you've won.
The closer your original face is, the more you've won.
The closer your original face is, the more you've won.
The closer your original face is, the more you've won.

In the time I've been offline, I've been doing a lot and feeling a lot more mentally healthy. I've been exploring nomadnet a bit, looking at reticulum. I'm definitely going to go back to my break and being online much less regularly.
I actually totally forgot about the anniversary of the shooting, which is the first time that's happened since... uh... the shooting, I think.
I've definitely realized that, on some level, I've definitely used Mastodon (and formerly Twitter) as a coping mechanism, often in order to deal with the stressful things that I've found out about on Mastodon or Twitter.
But, again, none of those things really change our core job: build community. And that's part of what I've been neglecting, and what I can focus on more when I'm not spending as much time talking to people all over the world indirectly. Like, I can just chat directly with folks and talk about this shit.
Yeah, I do think there's value in this community. I don't think it's really screaming into the void (at least, not most of the time). But I know that I need the balance to be way farther on the side of direct engagement with comrades doing and building.
So that's what I'm gonna go back to. I feel as though it's a good sign that with all the writing about getting shot that I've been doing, and all the thinking about that, that the actual anniversary of the shooting I'm actually just thinking about bread.
And that seems like a good note to leave on. I'm gonna go back to some hacker shit.

Prof. Jeffrey sachs: “Britain is a bully. A lot of the Europeans complaining are bullies. They've all been complicit in the Genocide in Gaza.”
“They stand mute when the U.S. and Israel bomb Iran... What has energized the Europeans is that it turned on them...”
https://x.com/partisan_12/status/20140

The Resonance (@Partisan_12) on X
Prof. Jeffrey sachs: “Britain is a bully. A lot of the Europeans complaining are bullies. They've all been complicit in the Genocide in Gaza.” “They stand mute when the U.S. and Israel bomb Iran... What has energized the Europeans is that it turned on them...”

So far I've done the cranberry sauce and the pots are nearly boiling. I've remembered YPs, both GF and standard, and I'm going to run out to the supermarket as I'm not convinced that my bun tin is scrupulously clean, although I probably haven't used it since I bought it new for GF YPs last Christmas 😄 I've remembered red cabbage too so everything else I planned to do today will have to wait!

I've written to my own MP this morning about Qesser Zurah's #HungerStrike, and I've added the text of my letter to him to the end of this post.
Please could I humbly urge everyone in the UK to write, today, to their own MP urging for her immediate release on bail? This is now very urgent indeed.
Please, also, boost this post.

Tidings of comfort and joy

Wanted to make a list of my favorite EPs from 2025- narrowed it down to a top 10, from over 200 I'd liked and documented this year. The list contains multiple genres & I've written a brief blurb about each. Most of these I've talked about here this year. Might be something here for everyone!
Mood Bored - Too Much? (shoegaze/alt rock from the Netherlands with great female vocals - Breeders, Pixies, that dog, Throwing Muses vibes)

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
KOMMISSAR: Really? I've heard of people who resist. I've never seen one before. This could be interesting. Let us begin.
ASSISTANT KOMMISSAR: Sir. [They walk toward rack room. Kommissar stops and turns to Ro]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/265 …

@… Renovate keeps me up to date on the hour. The latest version doesn't solve it, as you've seen on the issue I've (honestly, finally opened). Thanks for responding to that, working with Andreas to get this sorted.

TR-49 (2026) from inkle is a Type-Help-like that's.. ok. the beginning is a little rough, there isn't a clear hook like Type Help. the dialog and surface story is meh. the deeper story is better. in a few places the game is overly helpful: your notebook will summarize facts you've found that you might not have realized you've found. ~4-6 hr to reach an ending, another ~1-2 hr to find all the endings. each ending is caused by some single action you can undo; no other branching…

We've had a Roku player since 2012. Honestly can't remember whether I upgraded along the line. Anyhow it was getting crashy on a couple of streaming apps, enough to be hard to ignore. So I got the latest Ultra. Yay, less crashy. And cheap. But more or less zero difference in the experience. Further evidence that 4K and WiFi and HDMI may be end-state technologies.
The world needs more stable end-state technologies.

My "grow plants everywhere" mod for #Luanti is progressing!
I just built a routine to do blobby weight regions as the intersection of a bunch of parabolas, where weight increases logarithmically from the edge of the parabola with an adjustable edge region, and we use the geometric average of these weight values within the intersection region. Then I spent a few hours hunched over a biomes vornoi diagram approximating different broad regions like "arid_grasses" and "temperate_trees" so you can just name some combination of these regions (with custom per-region multipliers) and have your plant definition apply within those regions. I was using rectangular min/max heat/humidity values before, but they were pretty awkward to work with.
If anyone on here who plays Luanti wants to check it out let me know and I can prioritize publishing what I've got. I've got growth definitions for most but not all VoxeLibre plants and it wouldn't be hard to put them together for another game. No trees yet, but that's pretty much the next thing to work on.

Amidst all the buzz around things like Gas Town and Ralph, etc. there are some bits of actual substance that promise to actually empower coders — and potentially shift the power dynamic away from Big AI, while making it easier to create software just by describing ideas in plain text. I've been thinking of the idea as "codeless" software creation, for lack of a better term (the jargon doesn't matter, I just needed a name to talk about it) and would love your thoughts!

Codeless: From idea to software
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

"Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films."
—Jason Bateman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

I've tested #Moshidon Android Mastodon client for a week, coming from #Tusky.
positive:
- better use of screen estate
- I saw the list of pendig "follow requests" for first time 😲 I didn't notice via Web interface nor Tusky.
negative:
- doesn't reliably remem…

A small change of plan since I wrote this, we're off this afternoon with a good weather window
Settling in..
It's been a busy few days at Wasa station but we've been settling in with various trainings and some tantalising hints of interesting data ...
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/12/20/settling-in/

While under the influence, I made a terrible mistake — I've installed, Windows 11

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
DJ Koze:
🎵 Pick Up
#NowPlaying #DJKoze
https://sacchiofc.bandcamp.com/track/dj-koze-pick-up-sacchi-ve-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/7dFvYtokT2xQH1HvaQgbgY

Last year Congress voted unanimously to force Trump to end his illegal cover up and release the Epstein files in one of the most significant rebukes of American President in our history.
In recent months both Houses of Congress voted to repeal his illegal, destructive tariffs.
Yesterday the Supreme Court ended his ridiculous “Liberation Day” tariffs
and reminded him their were limits to his powers.
The people of Minnesota have been standing up for their neighbors, …

The State Of The Union Is That We've All Had Enough Of Trump's Bullshit
We had a very good week everyone. Congratulations! Let's make next week even better

We've upped our standards, so up yours!

Sorry I'm late, had to argue with car-brained people about the new bike lanes on Lisbon.
"I've never seen anyone ride a bike on Lisbon!"
"Do I have to shovel two sidewalks now!?"
"People only ride bikes 4 months of the year."
And so on...
#bikeTooter

End of the Internet
Congratulations! — You have finally reached the end of the internet! There's nothing more to see, no more links to visit. You've done it all. This is the very last page on the very last server at the very far end of the internet […]
🌐 https://hmpg.net

Hassett: We've Deported So Many Workers That People Are Going Back To Their Old Construction Jobs [VIDEO] - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/hassett-we-deported-so-many-workers-that-people-are-going-back-to-their-old-construction-jobs-video/

I think I've found a bug in Mastodon. There are three of the same aligned on the bottom left but they didn't merged into a more powerful one.

I've been in my career long enough that there are some things that I used to be exceptional at that I literally have no idea about now. It will never not be hilarious to me how long it takes me to debug any LAMP stack problem now - but I once taught some of the people who lead and maintain these things today.
(Cloudflare rules were obscuring a problem that Wordpress hid the error message of and tl;dr Apache uses an older version of PHP which was missing the XML extension. Got there eventually!)

I love when people call goalies calm. I've never seen a pro goalie and though "they are in a panic"

Making progress! 344 unrouted. Definitely getting tight, I may have to delete a few of the test points or shrink things in a bit, but I think I can pull it off. It's been a while since I've done a high density 4 layer board instead of my more recent usual 10L with ViP.

Recently I've traveled next to a person who were apparently studying pseudomedicine while discussing with a friend. She was studying, or rather memorizing, some utter bullshit. She already started practicing too, though she wasn't planning to use homeopathy, because she was afraid to. She complained that her boyfriend (?) didn't take all the supplements she's prescribing him. In her own health problems she stopped taking real medicine already. She also discussed their common friends, making comments related to their Chinese zodiac horoscopes.
No, I'm not going to have an open mind in these matters. And I'm definitely going to speak up when I see that some asshole scammers are making money by creating pseudouniversities and teaching people bullshit.

I've gotten really into "VFX Artists React", lately. It is kind of fascinating.
#CG #VFX #Movies

I had spicy noodles for lunch because I didn't want to consume bread.
Since I finished my noodles, I've had peanut butter on two slices of bread lol
#Fail #Lunch #Vegan

Looks like studies of hominins in East Asia are this week's goodies. Following on from the study of H. sapiens expansion routes into East Asia, we've now got this remarkable dating of H. erectus suggesting rapid expansion out of Africa 1.9 million years ago.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv

'k3b' is a CD/DVD burner with audio ripper - now, I'd have to say I've not actually burnt a disc in many years, but I do still use the CD audio ripping. It's got some nice settings for retrying slightly tired discs.
https://apps.kde.org/en-gb/k3b/

K3b
Disc Burning

So i've been trying to move away from an American domain registrar (name.com)
My first try is with WHC (Web Hosting Canada)... so far i'm really really not impressed. Customer support is just awful.
Glad i just tried to transfer a single domain and not all of them.. will have to keep looking for alternatives
#buycanadian

@… Yes, I've been thinking about what I want to read the next few days!

Origin of the lunar #farside highlands from Earthshine-induced global circulation in lunar magma ocean: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11199 -> There's a side of the Moon we never see from Earth. Scientists think they've worked out why it's so strange: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/moon-far-side-near-side-difference

The great thing about R is that if it can't do what you want out of the box, you can program it.
So I've just put 2-3 hours into programming that should be basic functionality, but is only accessible piecemeal in a dozen different incompatible libraries.
Now n <- n 1 incompatible libraries.

I've just been reminded of this gem. Share and enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyKUVWLeMaA

It looks like the AI research community is finally moving away from X and of all the possible platforms, they've picked LinkedIn. These fucking people...

I've had an overpowering need to buy footwear since Mum died on Friday morning, which she would have approved of wholeheartedly and could actually be her form of haunting me. I've bought very little for myself in the last couple of years so I really needed black cowboy boots (black winter boots), nude flats (springtime shoes) and black heels (for funeral outfit). There's a wee smidge of a bequest coming which has loosened my purse strings. Also they were all in the sale 👍

Someone in our extended family messenger group sent an AI sticker on a birthday message to one of littlies. I got a message saying I should use a different device to see it. Huh, funny about that. I've actively blocked that shit on my phone so, not happening.

Good Morning #Canada
Good news... we've hit the low point of dark winter days and things will be much brighter going forward. I am referring to the Winter Solstice, which officially begins around 10am in these parts. This will be the longest night and shortest day of the winter and daylight will begin increasing tomorrow. So put away the snow shovels and slather on the tanning butter.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CelestialDays
https://www.insidehalton.com/news/ontario-canada-winter-solstice-2025/article_5adc2a0c-9ac6-50fd-9ef4-ca851ee6d6ce.html

Hungary blocks €90bn EU loan to Ukraine days before war anniversary (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9bb03b35-2bf5-44fb-b02e-0dbbc3b87b7f?accessToken=zwAAAZx8eg7NkdObsDs1K_VE-9OwLg27w7h7fw.MEUCIQCZ0CZ5vuLpU8hFx3q-UxToT002usBmiGIniIERJtWN5wIgdC8CKwDV-GtLbiYkeMzr4W2n4uZcjUJgQEHqKZjNDTQ&segmentId=e95a9ae7-622c-6235-5f87-51e412b47e97&shareType=enterprise&shareId=58172ba2-b3b3-48eb-ab79-f54763d522ab
http://www.memeorandum.com/260220/p78#a260220p78

Iceland Air flights ICE43E, ICE615, and ICE623 are flying over southern Quebec (almost to Vermont) right now. They took off from KEF within 4 minutes of each other, and it looks (from the tracker) like they're flying in a formation of sorts.
(They have different destinations.)
I've never noticed this before. Seems weird.
(I first noticed on my radio-powered ADS-B tracker, but they're on FlightRadar24 etc.)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Zoé Basha:
🎵 Love Is Teasin'
#ZoéBasha
https://zoebasha.bandcamp.com/track/love-is-teasin
https://open.spotify.com/track/7uopsVnkQxIQr6c9j9K4EN

I've equppied my desktop with "wake on ZigBee"

Now I've seen BOTH Miracles on Ice!!!!!!!!
USA!!!!!!!!

Over the years I've been asked many times for advice on pedagogy, what to read to learn more, etc. I've finally put together a bunch of materials into one blog post: Key Advice • Readings • Neuromyths • For Computer Scientists • Classroom Tips. Enjoy!
https://parentheticallyspeaking.org/ar

Pedagogy Recommendations
Parenthetically Speaking: Articles by Shriram Krishnamurthi

The winter holidays are set! I've ordered 3 more games for a 68% discount on Good Old Games:
Two #LucasArts games that I have never played back when they came out: Indy and the Last Crusade The Dig (I've bought Indy and the Fate of Atlantis recently and I loved it). The account @…

@… hey, do you still operate #lobbyfacts? i noticed that the old data source we were milking is gone. are you still getting updates? if yes, from where? i've been doing privately daily snapshots over the years, and i noticed last year they stopped, w…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Etérea Letal:
🎵 Nadie ve nada
#EtéreaLetal
https://open.spotify.com/track/3upCvIuJ3yq71OL1EtBPw7

I don't know who needs to see this, but I've had some issues with a pre-26.04 Ubuntu, which were (apparently) fixed with the following:
echo "@{run}/systemd/journal/dev-log wm," > /etc/apparmor.d/local/unix-chkpwd

@… Same.
US Cardle is definitelybetter than the UK one, but I wish there was an option for "Oh, I don't know, some American car I've literally never seen before and was never sold here so your guess is as good as mine. It's a DodgeChevroletCaddilacBuickAcura WTF GTX."
Cardle 1/5
Streak 2🔥
Total Score 42
🟢 🟢 🟢

Universe is another word for Cosmos, hence Universix as the name for the bootc Cosmic image I've cooked today. And it worked out very well. More on that tomorrow. Back home an updated MangoWC on Slackware waited for me! Great diversions from a shiite day at the races.
#cosmic_de #slackware

The Sony catalog from 1989/1990 has HUNDRED AND FIFTY PAGES of the most amazing audio and video equipment you've ever seen.
Today everything is a small black rectangle.
Sad.
https://archive.org/details/sony-gesamtkatalog-1989-90/page/n1/mode/2up

I've been railing about the need to restructure SCOTUS for rather a while now. (I've added a couple of URLs after the Guardian opinion link.)
Here is an opinion piece that says something similar.
It adds something that I missed - that SCOTUS and Congress are filled with people who think that if El Cheato goes away that his mess will also go away.
I don't think so. The maga-klan is too deeply embedded into our judiciary and administrative agencies. It's go…

Home Assistant really puts the ass in assistant
However, I've got my Sekki card and sensor working at last (h/t @…)

The part of the Epstein files we've seen makes it possible to reconstruct Trump's probable orders to his servants at DOJ.
"Just release a few million. Make sure they don't contain anything new about me, but that they cause trouble for a lot of other people. Media will focus on the latter."

As I've been doing journalistic coverage of IT security quite a bit, I'm regularly getting PR pitches that often sound like this:
"Have you heard about this latest security incident at $(large company or institution)? Our CEO has nothing meaningful to add, but thinks that this really shows that IT security is important, and also, our product is very good (though completely unrelated to the latest security incident)."
I'm not sure why any journalist would react…

New Year, Same Job Search.
If you are looking for a Staff/Principal level #PHP developer, with a long history of helping both projects and teams update and modernize to become more robust and reliable, look no further because you've found him! I've worked on multiple major OSS projects, including PHP itself.
US-based, remote-only, plenty experience working for non-US companies as we…

Well, Fediverse Friends, I've done a thing.
I've decided to start blogging again, since I seem to have more time on my hands that I would like as of late.
The most interesting bit - at least in my mind (and certainly worth a larger discussion in a future blog post) is that it is self-hosted on Ghost, and in theory, you should be able to follow it (@…

Captain Justice Productions
Infosec & shitposting since 1995

"Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films."
—Jason Bateman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Hi #retrocomputing #retro peoples, I've got an HP D510C/845G machine, part number 268899-999 that needs a CPU- everything else is in the machine except for the CPU. What should I get (including fans, and paste recommendations)?

Hi @… , I've reworked the filetime_from_git plugin for #pelican #pelicanblog, could you please fork this into github.com/pelican-plugins ? Link is

Dallas Cowboys 2026 NFL Draft: Linebacker Rankings and Fit https://insidethestar.com/dallas-cowboys-2026-nfl-draft-linebacker-rankings-and-fit

Silksong is very well designed. Even though I'm not into metroidvanias, I've found its analysis very interesting.
BTW, metroidvania without platforming and combat would be… the classic point and click adventure?
https://nebula.tv/videos/gmtk-the-world-d…

Game Maker's Toolkit — The World Design of Hollow Knight: Silksong
Team Cherry returns to the world of Hollow Knight with Silksong - a new game, with a new character, in a whole new world. In this episode of Boss Keys let's look at how the developers designed Pharloom and the Citadel.

That's a strange one. I don't think I've ever encountered that small jack before.

It's time, for a new job.
I'm an experienced software developer, who prefers Python, and C . Though I'd also like to learn a new, modern language, like e.g. Rust.
Yes, I've been using AI for code completion. Yes I know current versions of my preferred languages. No I have no hard restriction on the industry.
I'm not cheap, I'm good.
If you're aware of any positions in Europe, preferably in Zürich, or remote, let me know.

I got those new disks loaded into the TrueNAS server and have been moving things around to make more space on the primary pool.
I've got my home computers running backups to the NAS and most of the Macs also have Time Machine drives attached...
At this point I'm still missing off-site backups but I can look into that by placing a small NAS at the office.
#TrueNAS

The good die young -- because they see it's no use living if you've got
to be good.
-- John Barrymore

It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist,
and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest.
Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mcutgtuj442o

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Trump: "They're paid agitators and insurrectionists. Nobody talks about the fact that $19 billion at a minimum is missing in Minnesota, given to a large degree by Somalians. They've taken it. Somalians. A lot of very low IQ people."

Bessent Scoffs At Mere Mention Of Tariff Refunds: "I've Got A Feeling That The American People Won't See It" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/02/bessent-scoffs-at-mere-mention-of-tariff-refunds-ive-got-a-feeling-that-the-american-people-wont-see-it/

#Avatar #FireAndAsh: if you've seen the previous, you might have flashbacks. Basically, it's the same story, same pathos, same war, different action scenes.
#Avatar3

I don't do many preorders of anything, but I love the hell out of shooting games of all kinds- sometimes I gotta jump. Dezatopia came out in 2020 and I've had it on both my Switch and Steam wishlists digitally since then, it's supposed to be great. It's actually the very FIRST thing on my Switch wishlist from all those years ago! So when I heard it was coming out physical with Mecharitz, it was a no brainer. Sure, it took a long time to get here (I preordered in July and just…

I might have a sensitivity to the bathroom cleaning spray we have here ... I had to use it to clean something, and I've now been sneezing since. Also, have itchy eyes and throat.
#Sensitivities

One more thought...
One of the more toxic elements of the whole "manosphere" thing relative to dating is the application of game theory to relationships. They've got people trying to "maximize their dating potential" or whatever, trying to find the "most attractive march" (which is it's own fucked up thing I'm not even going to dig in to). But that whole mindset is basically going to always leave you miserable.
Oh, you're single? You need a partner. Oh you have a partner? Could you get a "better" one?
It turns relationships into the endless pointless grind of capitalism. Fuck that. None of that shit makes sense. No matter how "well" you do in that game, you always feel like a loser. Everyone does. Fuck that game. Quit.
The constant desire makes you miserable and your misery makes you unlikable. When you let go of it, you leave room to experience what is instead of constantly imagining what could be.
You will always be able to imagine a better "could be" than what is now. By comparing your situation now to that "could be" you will always see your situation as bad because it's worse than your yardstick.
Is your situation good for you? Is it serving you? It can be good and it can also be possible to make it better. When was the last time you just experience your life instead of trying to strategize your way into "something better."
Throw away the yardstick. Something something Buddha.
Edit: all this is of course aside from the whole objectification thing, which is it's own whole set of fucked up. But yeah... All that shit is real bad news.

Two more loft finds; the white saucer is part of a partial set of Japanese export ware, we've also got a few other pieces including tiny demitasse cups. The black is part of a fairly full set of Chinese Fuzhou 'bodiless' lacquerware - it's made of layers of cloth built on a clay body, but the clay body is removed, and they smooth and paint the cloth. They're very lightweight. Both seem fairly common from somewhere mid 20th century.

Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
TARRANT: I've never seen currency of that size.
DAYNA: Neither have I.
VILA: I just can't believe my eyes.
SOOLIN: Avon, why didn't you tell us that you knew who it was who was setting us up?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/410/416 B7B6…

A week or two ago, I saw a youtube video where someone was claiming that the adult thing to do was to get your coats dry cleaned at the end of the winter season, so that they are ready for next year. I briefly thought that it would be a nice gift for future you. Fast forward to this past Monday and I ended up dropping my coat off at the dry cleaners in an attempt to get cat pee out of it. I've used laundry services before but not a dry cleaner. I'm curious to see what $40 buys me.

Sad to see what's happening in #Mexico
Being a tourists there was awesome, i felt more safe than many other places i've traveled.
But how much of it was just the narcos deciding to keep the peace because it is good for business?
If they feel threatened by some governement action, all hell break loose, which is bad for the economy/tourism/etc.
And very oft…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Billie Holiday:
🎵 I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
#BillieHoliday
https://open.spotify.com/track/5MMZCaKWXT9yRPBCNgOAhH

I didn’t think she could go this far.
Anna Paulina Luna is
DEFENDING the almost TOTALLY REDACTED Epstein files.
I'm telling you, this is what the government does. Defend the Billionaire class at all costs.
It's Earle Ford, and I've spent my career as an attorney going after them when they try to cheat on their taxes.
I quit that job because I know just how vulnerable Luna is.
FL-13 deserves someone who will do something to level the playing …

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Watching a YouTube video, and distracted by the "20-something British male" AI voice model they've used keeps pronouncing Gigawatt as "jigga-watt".
(It's often a pronunciation style for people who were children when Back to the Future was a contemporary movie.)

Settling in..
It's been a busy few days at Wasa station but we've been settling in with various trainings and some tantalising hints of interesting data ...
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/12/20/settling-in/

NetworkManager is a fucking nightmare
I love having something that silently reverts changes I made with 'ip'
I love waiting a full minute for it to give any indication that I've plugged a wired Ethernet cable in
Ok so I set eth0 to "unmanaged" with a little config snippet - fixed, right? Nope, now eth0 is a brick. Even if I bring the interface UP, `dhclient` just hangs and never gets an address because nm is (apparently(?)) STILL fucking with it. Confi…

Although 'The Beast in Me' looks like a proper piece of TV, it is being held back by Clare Danes. Is it possible to recast her as a relatively happy person, with a curious and inquisitive mindset?
A pity she accepted this role; such an excellent actress.10 minutes into episode 2 and I've parked it on the NAS. Let's see if I get to it again. Have my sincere doubts.

Fats Domino was so amazing. I grew up listening to Elvis and the Beatles (and also some Fats and some other similar stuff on the radio). Fats influenced both the Beatles and Elvis so much- Elvis called him 'the real king of rock n' roll'- and he indeed was. He was before Chuck Berry. He influenced Chuck, Buddy Holly, everything that came after. Just a motherfuckin legend.
"Well, what they call rock n' roll now is rhythm and blues, I've been playing for 15 year…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Skeleten:
🎵 Love Enemy
#NowPlaying #Skeleten
https://skeleten.bandcamp.com/track/love-enemy
https://open.spotify.com/track/3t5FGeD2BnzgOcjxvCjvsm

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
TRAVIS: Why should I. I've got Blake in there; now I've got the other two. You kept your part of the bargain. It'll be dark before long and you can take your daughter down in the morning. All right?
USHTON: All right.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/515

Brian Schottenheimer, Cowboys aiming to close 2025 strong: 'We're building something special' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/brian-schottenheimer-cowboys-aiming-to-close-2025-strong-we-re-building-somethin…

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/115759492842600444
Un juego en un meme clšsico:
Trump, con traje, parece molesto y preocupado, mientras ve la Estatua de la Libertad mirando hacia atršs al gobernador de California, Gavin Newsome, que lleva una camisa roja y sonríe

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Beat:
🎵 Save It for Later
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I'm hearing, particularly with respect to Prince Harry, some unhelpful perspectives on what "privacy" means.
I've long understood privacy as the degree of control someone has over what is known about them. Having a popular Instagram account is not abandoning privacy, indeed they are often highly controlled expression.
It's not then a conflict for high-profile people to complain about paparazzi intrusion on the grounds of privacy.

I know Whatsapp is the root of all evil etc, but the sleep clinic uses it and it's just so enabling. So far, via their WA account, I've had really fast responses to queries which has resulted in a referral for CBT for sleep issues and an appointment next week to have a new #cpap mask fitted. It would be lovely if it didn't have to be via Whatsapp but I'm really impressed with the effe…

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
BLAKE: I've never seen anything like it before.
NOVARA: Our mission has specialized in tissue creation and regenerative processes.
GEELA: Among other things.
[They all sit down.]
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"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
#acting

I was lucky enough to be given an M&S voucher by my employer on Friday. I bought a lovely black top that arrived today and works exactly as I'd hoped with my new trousers. I've gone mad and bought a cream one of a similar shape but slightly different design. What's the betting it fits *completely* differently and I hate it?

The vibe shift in the EU and Canada over the weekend is unlike anything I've ever seen.
US hegemony in military and economic alliances is effectively dead.
History will look back and wonder how the elites in power not only did nothing to stop it but cheered it on willingly!
https://bsky.app/profi…