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No, the Orioles' problem is not that Camden Yards doesn't have enough electronic cheerleading. https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/sports/orioles-mlb/oriol…

The Orioles can feel like the away team at Camden Yards. A new team exec is trying to change that.
The club’s new chief marketing officer met with members of the team this season and asked what entertainment factors they’d like to see added during the game.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Deradoorian:
🎵 No No Yes Yes
#Deradoorian
https://deradoorian.bandcamp.com/track/no-no-yes-yes
https://open.spotify.com/track/5pMBmyk4j0U1EWU1YsO5wf

Anyway is there a tool (that runs on modern computers) that can convert sit to dsk (400k)?
And yes, I know one is an archive format and the other a disk image format.
And no, I don’t mean running a whole-ass emulator.

FanDuel partners with CME Group to offer event-based contracts, letting users wager "yes" or "no" on financial events and benchmarks, starting later this year (Dean Seal/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Puy Netanyahu, it is hard to convince people that genocide is kosher. https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/115068506887487160

End Israeli Apartheid (@EndIsraeliApartheid@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has admitted that his government faces “work to do” in convincing Generation Z as polls show dwindling support for Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Netanyahu was asked whether Israel risks losing long-term backing from Western governments once Gen Z, becomes the dominant political force. “If you’re telling me that there’s work to be done on Gen Z and across the West, yes,” he said. https://www.firstpost.com/world/israels-wa…

❝I’d mostly discount the idea that this is largely about AI displacing educated workers.❞
YES. THANK YOU.
“AI is here doooom!! doooom!!” is such a common knee-jerk excuse for the miserable college grad job market right now, and…I don’t see it. In terms of real, actual, yes-it-worked, yes-you-can-clearly-replace-whole-highly-skilled-jobs successes inside of real actual businesses…I   just   don’t   see   it.
Whatever’s going on, the AIpocalypse is an •excuse•, not a •cause• here.

YES!!!!! Chloe Kelly! COME ON ENGLAND! #lionesses #ENGITA #Euro2025

Time for authors to get off Audible (and ideally Amazon as well) before you'll find yourself trapped in a death spiral.
And yes, I know how hard that would hit most. But if Amazon is able to destroy competitors, nothing will stop them from exploiting you even more.
https://www.instagram.com/r…

YES! 3:4! #SVWRWE #DritteLiga

Yes, these demonstrations of #MigrationMoralPanic are organised by fascists.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a…

@… Yes, when I build it.

Yes. Next question.
https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/114899264881817977

Yes.
But the one good thing that can be said about the #Iran bombings is that they were very narrowly designed and that according to the Iranian government—with no interest in hiding casualties—no one was killed. https://

@PrivacyMatters (@Privacymatters@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Sahar Delijani, Iranian author I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after.

If I were the operator of this coal plant - one that is costing me and electrical rate payers (you and me) a $million per day I would simply throw the switch and shut it down.
Yes, a $million per day. For power that is not needed, for pollution that is not wanted. And we get to foot the bill.
I'd tell FFOTUS to stuff it up his ample behind and that if he wants it he can hire staff, buy coal, and pay for it.

Von Neumann was the subject of many dotty professor stories. Von Neumann
supposedly had the habit of simply writing answers to homework assignments on
the board (the method of solution being, of course, obvious) when he was asked
how to solve problems. One time one of his students tried to get more helpful
information by asking if there was another way to solve the problem. Von
Neumann looked blank for a moment, thought, and then answered, "Yes.".

I noticed a weird technology gap: Funders like @… or @… have started to require Gantt charts for funding applications, yet there seems to be no established way to produce them. Yes, there’s MS Project and the like, but no s…

And yes, the US Congress, with many #Democrats voting in favor, continues to send weapons to Israel. Why?
“If they recycle the Israeli bombs that didn’t explode there is an endless supply of explosives, and the genocide provides an infinite recruiting pool for new members.”
"American intelligence estimates suggest Hamas has recruited 15,000 operatives during the war, about twice a…

And yes, the US Congress, with many #Democrats voting in favor, continues to send weapons to Israel. Why?
“If they recycle the Israeli bombs that didn’t explode there is an endless supply of explosives, and the genocide provides an infinite recruiting pool for new members.”
"American intelligence estimates suggest Hamas has recruited 15,000 operatives during the war, about twice a…

How did I almost break it?
I decided to try upgrading from Mastodon 4.3.9 to 4.4.1 (Yes, I did dump the DB first, of course I did!), which among other things has you installing libvips-tools. However, the package available on my distro is too old and not supported by Mastodon.
So, I paused mid upgrade to go see if I could upgrade my distro to a newer version, that has a newer package available. (See the mistake yet?).

I've had too many arguments that go like this.
Someone: A says that Y is true.
Me: Actually A doesn't say that.
Someone: Here are all the reasons why Y is true.
Me: Well yes, I agree that Y is true but I don't think A said that.
Someone: Then why are you arguing?
It seems many people have a difficult time grasping that disagreeing with a point, a piece of evidence or assumptions is not the same as disagreeing with the conclusion.
But why argu…

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/foss_chromeos_please/
Yes please

Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS
Comment: The End of Windows 10 is looming. The world needs a simpler, easy, quick, snackable alternative

Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
GOLA: Guards, bring the other fool back up. Be well my love. [To Tara] Will she be well?
TARA: [Keeping a straight face] Oh yes.
GOLA: Good.
JENNA: [Looking at the amulet again] Oh, I'm sorry, it is forbidden.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/417…

Just finished "Get a Life, Chloe Brown" by Talia Hibbert. It's... much less chaste than most of the other romances I've been reading, but also incredibly sweet and positive, so I enjoyed it a lot.
My one reservation is that it does the thing a lot of romance novels do where they equate physical desire with romantic desire, and physical flirtations/advances with actual communication, and yes people equate those things in the real world all the time, by it's often really harmful when they do that.
This novel does better with consent than 99% of the field probably, and legitimately deserves props for that, so this isn't the harsh criticism I'd level if it seriously broke the "would this be okay if we didn't have access to interior monologues" test, but it skirts the edges of that a bit.
#AmReading

Und dann gehst du mit deinem Kater auf den Balkon und hörst leise aus der Nachbarschaft „Bohemian Rhapsody“ erklingen.
*Yes, please!*

«But the cancellation of an entire issue of an academic journal, which has not been previously reported, is a remarkable new development in a mounting list of examples of censorship of pro-Palestinian speech.»
This is just one more example of how the world is turning a blind eye to the genocide the Israeli state is perpetrating against the Palestinian people. It is, in every way, inconceivable (and yes, that word does mean what I think it means) that world leaders are able to defend th…

Trying out a new setup to write with markdown (diving into the murky world of modal editors), and `harper-ls` keeps flagging my sentences when they get longer than 40 words.
Imagining writing a sociology paper with no sentences over 40 words is giving me a good chuckle but also making me think about the relative inaccessibility of academic writing.
(part of the issue is that in-text citations count toward the sentence length. And yes, I've managed to turn off the long-sentenc…

Yes, hi, question...
When is dinner?

@… I assume yes but I think support is in current or whatever but I don't quite know,

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Super Sounds Namba:
🎵 Yes Indeed
#SuperSoundsNamba
https://ebotaylor.bandcamp.com/track/yes-indeed
https://open.spotify.com/track/1weftWgLT4ySXZdgtvCIDO

Time for another "review". This one's hard. While the book was quite interesting, it required me to be quite open-minded. Still, I think it's worth mentioning:
Robert Wright — Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
The book basically focused on a thesis that both biological evolution and cultural evolution are a thing, they are directional and this directionality can be explained together using game theory — as eventually leading to more non-zero sum games.
It consists of three chapters. The first one is is focused on the history of civilization. It features many examples from different parts of the world, which makes it quite interesting. The author argues that the culture inevitably is evolving as information processing techniques improve — from writing to the Internet.
The second chapter is focused on biological evolution. Now, the argument is that it's not quite random, but actually directed towards greater complexity — eventually leading to the development of highly intelligent species, and a civilization.
The third chapter is quite speculative and metaphysical, and I'm just going to skip it.
The book is full of optimism. Capitalism creates freedom — because people are more productive when they're working for their own gain, so the free market eliminates slavery. Globalisation creates networks of interdependence that make wars uneconomic. Increased contacts between different cultures makes people more tolerant. And eventually, the humanity may be able to unite facing a common "external" enemy — the climate change.
What can I say? The examples are quite interesting, the whole theory seems self-consistent. Still, I repeatedly looked at the publication date (it's 1999), and wondered if author would write the same thing today (yes, I know I can search for his current opinions).
#books #bookstodon @…

SIgh, looking for a replacement printer and the specs are less than helpful.
Wi-Fi Enabled - Yes
Well that is helpful (not). Is it just 2.4GHz, 5 GHz, dual-band? What level of 802.11? I want one that supports 802.11a or 802.11ac or 802.11ax.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.…

“It looks like Northern Ireland is the place where we could see the most rainfall and certainly the most impactful rainfall. They could see 50 to 75mm of rain within 12 to 18 hours.”
Currently cats, dogs, sheep, etc. out there.
... and I got slightly sunburned earlier today out on the PCGB drive. (yes yes, put sunscreen in the glove-box timf)

Yes you should
and Yes they will
#flushot
https://bsky.app/profile/altcdc.altgov.info/post/3lwonvi4soh2v

I saw that I have just passed a million total #OpenStreetMap map changes according to HDYC! 🎉🗺️
While this might seem a lot, this is still less than some of my OSM friends that have over 2 or 3 million changes.

I just found out by trying, that on my Linux install
Alt Gr - = – (why would anyone use em dashes? those are way too long anyway. en dashes is where it's at.)
Alt Gr . = … (OMG, yes! Windows with its Alt 0,1,3,3 can go suck it!)
Alt Gr , = · (… tf is a middledot?)
Thanks for the inspiration, Wolfgang!
htt…

Me trying to blend in at a start-up event: “Hello fellow technology brothers!”
Yes, I am wearing a hoodie silk-screened with “DevRel Swag” and carrying an iPhone.

YES!
https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/114716076127528972

Yes, I use #Monero, almost daily!
But today, I decided to spin up a fresh wallet, feel free to support me, or spoil me a bit for my birthday this Friday, August, 22.
84PZaY3aMkVWKr8164cj5mEA7y3JsSwezbc1uSiSiZRkeqCLYWbi6GgSxoY8GyEa6r9kwPk583JR2PpxPHmqZpCgE7g4CyK
Unlike the hype coins, surveillance “crypto,” scams, government-controlled money, Monero is built on real privacy, r…

If you have arrived in Norrköping for #ic2s2 and wonder if you should jump into the Glan then yes you absolutely should. Weather & water are fantastic!

Utilised the time to bake another bread today. I did so yesterday as well but I took it out of the oven too early. 😕
This now looks waaays better. I'm curious about the taste and consistency.
And yes, in this regard I'm a typical German: bread is really a thing for me.
(So, I wasn't 'Breaking Bad' but 'Baking Bread'. 😉)
#baking

Yes! Yes! Yes!
Pillow spinning and bucket stacking in episode 1 of series 11 of #taskmaster is already funnier than all of series 10 🤣

@… Yes, I agree, and I'd also love to get my hands on these drafts…
The author specifically mentions the angle brackets, which IMHO supports the assumption that the inital SGML working draft still used the GML syntax.

@… Yes, I agree, and I'd also love to get my hands on these drafts…
The author specifically mentions the angle brackets, which IMHO supports the assumption that the inital SGML working draft still used the GML syntax.

@… @… Yes!
And of course, `array[y][x]` indexes into a 2D array, `array[x]` indexes into a 1D array, and `array` indexes into a 0D array.

Yes, There's Evidence Trump Hacked the 2024 Election - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kNAbMuSB0c&ab_channel=ScottCarney

@… @… yes, a real pity.

One of the reasons I love FOSS and small commercial developers is that they don’t have teams of quasi-competitive coders and/or “product managers” who have formal incentives to make visible changes to software
E.g. Apple keeps changing their decor with apparently no real goal or concept of there being objectively better or worse visual styles. Someone made Liquid Glass & probably got a bonus for doing so. Quality of UX be damned, the look must always be fresh & new.

Federico Viticci :ticciseal: (@viticci@macstories.net)
Attached: 1 image Pocket Casts for iOS 18 on the left, Apple Podcasts for iOS 26 on the right. Between the illegible glass and the tab bar that disappears on scroll, I honestly have no idea who can take a look at this and say "Yes, that'll do it. That's good." Liquid Glass is a mess so far, *especially* on iOS. Actually pushing me to use apps without Liquid Glass.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ThePeoplesParty with #AFRODEUTSCHE
DJ Minx:
🎵 Forget
#DJMinx
https://yes-yes-yes.bandcamp.com/album/forget-extended-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6DIpOa3lVMEJNVLdx5Mqc6

The program they want to cut helps poor people afford their healthcare...
Yes, They’re Going After Medicare Too - by Jonathan Cohn
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/yes-they-are-going-after-medicare-too-republicans-big-beautiful-bill-health-care-vulnerable

Yes, of course this is absurd on its face as the economy would collapse.
The gist it: it doesn’t work and won’t ever work. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

How much of my children's future is AI going to burn up? That depends on how much we feed the hype beast. *That* is why "don't use AI at all without mentioning the drawbacks & a very good reason" is my stance (and I'm an AI researcher, technically).
Local models that run on your laptop: acceptable if produced by ethical means (including data sourcing & compensation for data filtering) & training costs are mitigated. Are such models way worse than the huge datacenter-scale models? Yes, for now. Deal with it.
ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, even DeepSeek: get out. You're feeding the beast that is consuming my kids' future. Heck, even talking up these models or about how "everyone is using them so it's okay" or about "they're not going away" I'd feeding the beast even if you don't touch them.
I wish it weren't like this, because the capabilities of the big models are cool even once you cut past the hype.
#AI

Seeing usually smart folks getting rope-a-doped into arguing for LLM utility like there's a moral justice zero-sum trolley-problem slider between "useful" and "ethical" and we're just arguing about the best setting
But the real problem is even dumber
-is its mere use a climate disaster? Yes
-is its data provenance founded on theft? Also yes
-will it be used to ruin ordinary workers' lives? Yup
-will it ruin countless organizations wh…

Most of the time I like widescreen and ultra-widescreen, but when I'm just puttering around on a computer, I find 5:4/4:3 oddly cozy. Incidentally, it works really well for browsing the modern web, because images fit pretty well in both square and vertical formats while wider formats still look ok.
Yes, I'm coming at you live in 1280x1024.

Ah yes. According to the lab results, I can't read.

Did I forget in yesterday’s rush to share Marie’s biscuits, egg bacon tea and coffee? Yes! Did we go to Fringe fest last night? Also yes! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/XZKzuBT6doHWY3Wc9

Getting the Windows dev box set up for scopehal testing.
The most important step...

Why are so many people still afraid of losing their power even though they have no (relevant) power? In other words, decentralized Internet and its advantage, if implemented accordingly, is as positive for privacy as business secrets. Yes, there are always some crazy people who exploit this for their perversity and politics, but you can catch them even if they are properly investigated ~ #MindNode…

Did I attempt (unsuccessfully) to run the test suite in Safari on both Windows and Ubuntu via GitHub Actions? Yes, yes I did.

"It’s also a smart reply to the recent 'abundance' arguments made by many in the party’s establishment. Yes, we need to build out transit and increase housing development, but the public sector should do those things. A strong defense of the public sector against privatization, and a willingness to push for its expansion instead of opting for 'market-based solutions,' is an essential part of what it means to be a democratic socialist"

The Democratic Socialist Core to Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign
At a time when much of the left is in retreat or ducking for cover, Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign is championing democratic socialist politics and raising expectations.

#NowPlaying Look, I don't dig prog really. But Yes, and this song, are undeniable. Just fucking ridiculous shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPCLFtxpadE

Baltimore city council to consider eliminating minimum parking rquirements. https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/transportation/baltimore-parking-mandate-housin…

Baltimore eyes eliminating requirement for developers to build parking
A new bill before the Baltimore City Council would eliminate the requirement to provide a minimum amount of off-street parking for new development.

Got Ori and the will of the wisps as part of a humble bundle a couple of weeks back. Such a good game. Runs great on the steamdeck as well. Apparently I'm 31% through it. Should be done with it by the time silksong is out. Just hope this rumor is right. 😇 https://fandomwire.com/did-we-just-get-a-hollow-knight-silksong-release-window-major-leak-says-yes/

Is there a way for a web page to query whether increased contrast is turned on at the OS level?
I think the answer is no, but if there’s a way in the W3C works, I figure Fedi knows.
EDIT: The answer is yes! See replies. Thank you Fedi.

It feels like Trump is running into the inherent problems of international diplomacy among a world order of autocrats.
He tells Putin to stop bombing Ukraine, Putin says yes and does no. He tells Netanyahu to stop attacking Syria, Netanyahu says yes and does no.
Their nature as autocrats is that they do not respect a leader above them. They cannot be seen to respect a leader above them. Realists like Rutte are happy to play obsequious, but the "strong men" never will.

Someone educate the admins at mastodon.social that holocaust and Holocaust are different things. Note the capitalisation.
What israel is perpetrating in Palestine is *a* holocaust, not *the* Holocaust. And yes, it is genocide. And yes, they’re also guilty of close to eight decades of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler colonialism. All these things can be (and are) true at the same time.
Basically, if you’re defending israel in any way, shape, or form right now, you’re the w…

Sable Shade🇦🇺 ☮️4️⃣🇺🇦🇵🇸 (@Sable_Shade@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image @aral@mastodon.ar.al And holocaust free, according to mastodon.social #Palestine #GENOCIDE #HOLOCAUST #childMurders #siegheilisrael #abomination #disgrace #evilAsItGets #theHumanVirus #whatsWrongWithUs

We just put up billboards demanding an explanation on why our MAGA opponent voted to hide the list. -- Yes, that list.
It's Esther Kim Varet:
I promised you a Democrat who's a fighter, and who demands accountability,
because that is the only way we win California's most flippable congressional district.
We are not letting Young Kim get away with 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 between now and election day,
because we know the voters WILL remove her.
I'm not let…

I'm with Esther Kim Varet
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TIL that #Python's strptime can't handle unix timestamps, wtf... 😑
time.strptime("1750420325","%s")
ValueError: 's' is a bad directive
(Yes, I know there's datetime.fromtimestamp, but here I'd much prefer to keep everything with %Y %m %d et al. due to reasons)

Yes, yes, yes, yes, @…! 👏
“For now, I’m planning on continuing to roll up my sleeves. I want to make things because I’m human and alive. I want to go on journeys and grow. I’m not always looking for an easy path, I want the friction. Because if I give up the journey, what am I really making? What do I actually learn?”

When someone asks you to do something that's _part of your effin' job_, answer ASAP. Say 'yes' or say 'no' (if you can), but don't let the request sit for days or weeks. The time you spend ignoring the request might cause problems for the human(s) involved.

Hey, do you stream your music? Yes!
#streaming #music
https://muz4now.com/2022/hey-do-you-st

Hey, do you stream your music? Yes!
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

This is certainly what I find most infuriating.
First, yes, protect trans kids. But along with that...
https://mastodon.social/@wdlindsy@toad.social/114711302463627402

An important piece of reporting from L.A. today. Kudos to MSNBC (and yes, I'm surprised to be saying that) for calling out ICE, the lies from the federal carceral forces denying the events that took place, and for deftly bringing in the terrible racist history behind the creation of Dodgers Stadium:

Been volunteering with @… and @… since January.
We are in the Toronto Star today!
Thanks @…

Yes, I’m being a corporate shill tonight (I know, corporations will never love me) so I came out to the first In-N-Out opening in my home state of Washington.
Drive through line is 5 hours, dine-in 2.
It’s crazy. Even I don’t really think it’s worth *that* long of a wait. But the sunken cost fallacy is real.

Can you Primal/Asian/Deep squat?
#fitness
Yes
No
Wait, what’s that?

So, about sending money to folk in the #Gaza #Famine
Yes, there are probably scammers pretending to be in Gaza to profit off public sympathy, but if you're too afraid of being scammed to offer generosity to people in desperate need, how does that feel?
And yes, feeding folk in an artificiall…

Queeny Rajkowski op X:
"Netanyahu hint op migratiestromen uit Gaza. Nederland kan een nieuwe ongecontroleerde migratiestroom niet aan en het is ook geen oplossing voor dit conflict. Daarom vragen Eric en ik de ministers Asiel en migratie om dit te voorkomen. "
Queeny be like:

btw https://github.com/jedisct1/yes-rs is vile and i think less of you if you send it to me because 'funny'

Bus Flipper Simulator (PC)
It's House Flipper, but on the open road!
As an RV tiny home "enjoyer" (yes the quotes mean I'm being sarcastic as f), Bus Flipper caught my attention during the most recent Steam Nextfest. I checked out the demo, impressed enough to wishlist it. I bought it on launch (as a bundle with another car based sim I'm reviewing next) and while it's the same game as the demo, I'm a bit disappointed with the full game, but I'm n…

“Well, we are all going to die.”
It's eye-opening to hear such a blatant example of the thoughtless & self-centered nature of today's #Republican party... thanks Joni Ernst.
☑️ Yes. People Will Die. - by Jonathan Cohn - The Bulwark

Yes. People Will Die.
Joni Ernst’s cringey videos were wrong. They also reveal a lot about the GOP’s desperately dishonest sales job.

Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
RAI: Yes, Supreme Commander.
SERVALAN: Let them know, too, that any lack of cooperation, any hesitation in responding to an order, will be treated as mutiny. Let them know I have said this. Dismissed. [Rai clicks his heels and exits. There is a bleep from the comm. Servalan ignores it, looking pensive. The comm bleeps again and Servalan reacts this time.]

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@… @… @… Yes, Mint resembles Windows out of the box. Go with the Cinnamon desktop. Xfce is fine, too.
Z…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Deradoorian:
🎵 No No Yes Yes
#Deradoorian
https://deradoorian.bandcamp.com/track/no-no-yes-yes
https://open.spotify.com/track/5pMBmyk4j0U1EWU1YsO5wf

Netanyahu: “Palestine is ours, regardless of what the people there want.”
Yes, these enemies of democracy must all be defeated.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing

Did I just un-follow inactive users on #Pixelfed, instead of going to bed? Yes, yes I did!
@…

Sam Lynn Ballpark in Bakersfield, where batters face into the setting sun,
is an anomaly in a sport of anomalies.
Or perhaps it is simply
a reminder of what once was.
There’s not one thing about Sam Lynn that makes sense to the modern fan, Wheeler admitted. 
“Is it glitzy? No,” he asked rhetorically.
“Is it entertaining for the people that are there?
Yes. Yes, it is.
Are you going to go blind if you look into the sun?
Yes. But it is wh…

YES! 5km #WeltenkreuzerLäuft ohne Schmerzen im Knie! Aber: warm...

Yes, even in Manchester.
Blackberrying from July, early grapes and huge crop in what was a marginal location, apples ripe at least a month early.
Early ripening of berries in UK shows nature is under stress, say experts | UK weather | The Guardian
https://archive.ph/xiNn5

Wow, apparently there really is no grep for glob patterns, wtf 🤨
(Yes, it's easy to implement in any Python, bash, whatever, that's not the point)

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
TRAVIS: Oh, yes. I'm a hero, too.
CHENIE: So. You've saved his life twice. Why?
TRAVIS: It's my noble nature.
CHENIE: Oh, yes, Travis. I can see. It shines from your one yellow eye. Nobility?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/140

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Maryland works to replace parking lots at train stations with dense housing & mixed use development.

Maryland announces $1.25 million in grants for development around rail stations
The announcement comes as Maryland is trying to double down on a bet that transit hubs can help turn the tide on climate and housing affordability issues.

My knee-jerk reaction to this article from @… was a cynical [citation needed] re “artists from all mediums emphatically support the use of AI.”
On further reflection…well, that’s still my response to the eyeball-grabbing lede, yes, but the actual article is what I wish we’d had instead of this inane hype avalanche:
Artists poking at the new thing, playing with it, finding its possibilities, critiquing it, problematizing it, asking us to ask what it is, helping us see it with fresh eyes from many angles. https://infosec.exchange/@adamshostack/114704865574139727

I would be a bigger fan of #OptumRX if they didn’t:
1. Stall every order of 1 of Kyle's seizure meds because it is so expensive & refuse to accept that yes, we’ll ALWAYS want it at ANY PRICE.
2. Pack all 9 bottles of said order into a small box that will not admit the inclusion of packing materials & so make it very likely that less than 3 actually arrive intact, and those h…

@… Yes, I think it’s actually the main reason that VS Code is so successful. (I believe the Stack Overflow survey discovered that at least among respondents, it has most of the marketshare, but I could be wrong.)
I can’t even be mad, because I actually really appreciate the move from IDEs to Composable Development Environments.

Baltimore city council to consider eliminating minimum parking rquirements. https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/transportation/baltimore-parking-mandate-housin…

Sometimes I’m posting about Syndicalism. Suddenly, I’m deep into LGBTQIA rights, because yes, my brain’s got tabs open everywhere.
Mid-rant, autism brain hits and it’s like, nope, time to fire up YouTube on the Debian box, because special interests top all discourse. The playlist is always oddly specific.
Then, work panic: my boss exists, bills exist. Pretend to be productive, start the loop again.

Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
SARKOFF: Yes, I think he does.
TYCE: And he's a social climber. Probably works your name into every conversation. "My friend, ex-President Sarkoff."
SARKOFF: Tyce, that is a most ill-mannered remark.
TYCE: It's the truth.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/26

OK, so is he saying that it is an accurate depiction of Rob Ford?
Because YES, Rob Ford was definitely disgusting. Almost as bad as his brother, who got his start as a drug dealer… https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/toronto-qajtcaoiz/-/a…

Rob Ford Netflix doc 'disgusting,' says brother
Ontario Premier Doug Ford had some strong words for the makers of Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem, which looks at the tumultuous time his brother, Rob …

Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
TARRANT: Yes, it is a bit sudden!
SLAVE: Estimated time to impact, twenty four seconds.
TARRANT: Course for evasion.
SLAVE: Vector zero three five.
TARRANT: Zero three five, all drives on, all maximum. Hit it!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/19

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Maryland DOT launches new policy of quick-fix road diets with paint & plastic "bollards" after initial test projects work well. Approach is try it for 6-9 months and see if it works in place of long studies.
https://www.

Maryland plans more ‘quick build’ road safety changes, citing success across state
Planners have a menu of traffic calming measures to consider for each site.