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We are grieving the loss of
#Kristina #Gjerde, who passed away yesterday, 26 December 2025, of cancer.
She was a lawyer — graceful, thoughtful, and elegantly articulate — who championed the Ocean, particularly the deep sea.
Read our full statement here:

We are grieving the loss of Kristina Gjerde, who passed away yesterday, 26 December 2025, of cancer. She was a lawyer — graceful, thoughtful, and elegantly articulate — who championed the Ocean… | Schmidt Ocean Institute
We are grieving the loss of Kristina Gjerde, who passed away yesterday, 26 December 2025, of cancer. She was a lawyer — graceful, thoughtful, and elegantly articulate — who championed the Ocean, particularly the deep sea. Her legacy is tremendous. She was co-founder of the Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative, the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, and the High Seas Alliance. Along with many other colleagues around the world, she fought for the High Seas Treaty, also known as the Biodiversity B…

It was -11°F in Oshkosh, Wisconsin yesterday also Fuck ICE!

Uploaded a little MTB footage yesterday. It's not long but I like this part ofa loop that I'm cycling as it has a nice flow 🙂
#cycling

Future Portrait Of A Billionaire's House...
Ozymandias, only an inscription and the views remain...
(From our snowy and icy morning walk yesterday... Hohenfreyberg, built & expanded between 1418-1608, burnt down (sacrificed) in 1646. Same fate for the other ruin on the neighboring hill (last image), which belonged to the father and also got destroyed previously (in 1525) by farmers of the surrounding villages...)

Blaming "user error" seems not a healthy precedent. Are we moving away from the age of blameless postmortems?
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-service-outage-ai-bot-kiro

AI coding bot didn't take down AWS, Amazon confirms
We want to address the inaccuracies in the Financial Times' reporting yesterday. The brief service interruption they reported on was the result of user error—specifically misconfigured access controls—not AI as the story claims.

i started using the pot yesterday, what are my top 5 favourite toilet paper brand

Somewhat surprisingly (but very welcome): these RAM and CPU upgrades, so far, have not materially increased the power demand of my lab.
I put the new RAM in the VM server yesterday (the 25th) and the upgraded CPU/RAM in the lab bench box a few hours ago.
I'm sure if I were to max them out for hours a day, I'd see a difference. But since my compute demands tend to be very bursty, the average power draw is the bigger concern and that seems to be roughly unchanged.

January 26, 2026 -- Yesterday President Donald J. Trump blamed Democratic officials ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-26-2026-273
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p59#a260127p59

Yay, in spite of #Mercury having dropped to 1.25 mag. and more clouds than yesterday here it is again, together with low #Venus, 1/2 hour ago this evening from #Bochum, Germany: two images 3 minutes apart, with solar depressions of 8°40' and 9°10', resp., Mercury at 5.3 and 4.8 and Venus at 1.3 and 0.9 degrees elevation, both 1/4 second at f/2.8 and ISO 800. Saturn was also detected again, much higher and way out of the frame.

I visited the War Remnants Museum in Saigon yesterday. Noticed that their Kent State shooting photo was the improperly edited one: modified to remove a fencepost behind Mary Ann Vecchio's head.

Yesterday I was in the MUJI store in downtown Toronto (there's no MUJI in Montreal/Quebec).
We really couldn't figure out the music. They were playing a 15-20 minute repeating loop of traditional Scottish music. It was so out of place.
Only later that afternoon—long after leaving with my fresh pens and yuzu candy—upon seeing a poster in a pub, advertising a special meal of haggis, did I realize that it was Robbie Burns Day, and it must've been a staffer that hijacked …

After a long session yesterday evening I finally managed to print custom QR code labels for #paperless onto sticker label A4 sheets. The QR code contains 'TAG:👛 Yann' and paperless can be configured to auto-detect that in scanned documents (such as receipts) and auto-attach a tag '👛 Yann' to know from whose purse that receipt was, which is very handy for

My friend’s band Friday; “The Memory of Water” at Burbage Saturday; shoveling and hot dish for Pats/Broncs with neighbors yesterday. Today, Marie’s Mass cornbread, egg and bacon, tea and coffee, and Arkham Horror tonight! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/uJiaNu5tgDJNWZf66

I hope everyone who celebrates it had a great Christmas yesterday. Today was 2/3 for #automation #diy. I can now see #co2 levels in the living room and toggle the garage door from

I’m trying to upload a 37 MB video (a size mastodon is normally fine with) and it just won’t upload. I went viral yesterday and now I can’t make a post for one week I guess :P

#today I have had my hot bath, with the house to myself. I am running washing and dishes, and have a pizza about to be ready.
Will finish follow-on from yesterday's admin, and do a bit more #buildingModel stuff.
Then beers this evening...

We lost Michael Parenti yesterday — one of the greatest political philosophers and public speakers to ever exist, who has had great influence on me and my development over the years. Rest in Peace! 🕊️

Yesterday’s Wordle (2026-01-25)
Wordle 1,681 3/6
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Apparently I forgot to post my Wordle yesterday. For the sake of completeness I have posted it today.
Thanks for the heads up @…
#Wordle

Yesterday I found a nice package from #Canada in my mail. I framed the drawings right away.
Thanks a lot @… for this nice drawings and comics
#comics

The ‌iPhone‌ 5s came out in September 2013, the ‌iPhone‌ 6 in September 2014.
Released yesterday, iOS 12.5.8 extends the system certificates, so they will continue to work after January 2027.
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/26/iphone-5s-software-update/

Made this yesterday. I yearn for back then, when Trump's total failure in Davos was what I was worried about. The good old days of... yesterday.

Well-regulated #militia time:
"The Minnesota National Guard made it clear which side they were on. Wearing neon vests to distinguish themselves from federal agents, they handed out doughnuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters."
-Historian Heather Cox Richardson

January 25, 2026
As the nation mourned the killing of VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti yesterday at the hands of federal officials in Minneapolis, President Donald J.

Could Malik Davis be the Cowboys RB1 in 2026? https://insidethestar.com/could-malik-davis-be-the-cowboys-rb1-in-2026

Yesterday, a friend told me a fun linguistic experience: He and his partner (both speaking standard German) spent some time in Switzerland, both kids are born there. Kids went to crèche and kindergarten, they moved back to Germany when the oldest was 7. At home, all 4 spoke standard German. The parents only realized by visiting hours to crèche and kindergarten, that both kids were fluent in Züridütsch
1/n

xmas brunch is the always popular smoked salmon on brown bread
not on the bucks fizz yet this year because we had a bit of a sesh yesterday when watching die hard and knives out (the original one to remind ourselves what fun it is before watching the new one)

Working WFD CW today. Didn't yesterday due to doing storm preparations. Not a serious contester here, just pulled up not1mm, and am using it to send code so that I don't slow down more serious folks with my bad keying, just using the key when I need to send something that I didn't have a macro for, or to send slowly. Just now, I was delighted that I copied a 2x3 call on first hearing at 35WPM and then was deflated to hear "TEST" afterwards. I didn't know what contests are currently active, b…

January 25, 2026 -- As the nation mourned the killing of VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti yesterday ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-25-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p53#a260126p53

Students from Assisting People Across Nations at yesterday's Club Fair
#photo

I yearn for C 26 and not having to do repetitive tasks ever again to have a modicum of reflection. I want my static reflections yesterday, and my template for one day before that.

Copland: "Billy The Kid Statements For Orchestra" (1958) (LSO, Copland cond.)
I got this at a thrift store yesterday, just because the lp cover is so crispy and new looking. Hard to believe it's 68 years old.
#NowPlaying #AaronCopland

Wrote some code yesterday that worked but was a bit inflexible and unsatisfying. Decided to sleep on it and maybe refactor.
Triumphant this morning like "oh I can do this and this and this yes yes this is brilliant I'm a genius this is so elegant" 😂😭

[OT, LinkedIn] The Napsterization of AI — and why it hits different https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/napsterization-ai-why-hits-different-brian-malone-yebqe On how Chinese AI labs aim to undercut U.S. tech giants by flooding the market with cheaper, …

The Napsterization of AI — and Why It Hits Different
Or: Why is this Nigerian prince asking me to help him combine statistical rigor with deep domain knowledge to design explainable foundation models for tabular data? Yesterday, Anthropic published something worth reading carefully: they caught three Chinese AI labs — DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax —

#fedihelp with #mastodon:
i am using mastodon now since 3 years more intensively on browser, app (currently mona) BUT..........
i did not find out how i can start reading where i left yesterday?
is there a cross app / cross plattform solution?

Yesterday was February 24th and I thought "Maybe I should record an album for the RPM Challenge" so I might be doing that? I mean, I still have a few days left...

It feels a little too on the nose that the new project I started working on yesterday has the acronym ICE (no relation).
Just looking at those three letters is a bit uncomfortable.

Sean Casten, Rep IL-06
The mass protests in MN yesterday,
the collapsing poll numbers,
the decency of the protesters
-- It all scares them.
They are shooting their way out
and don't care who they hit.
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:2

This is 1 of my bumper stickers. Yesterday, I looked in my rear view while sitting at a red light, & in the car behind me, the driver was holding up his hand, displaying metal horns & tracing the shape w/ the index finger of his other hand, while explaining the sticker to his passenger. I flashed my own metal horns hand for her. She laughed. He looked back over & laughed. I laughed. It was a fun little moment. Those are needed in these bleak times. 😉

"Slavery was real"
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/archaeoscape.bsky.social/post/3md3yxmvl…

When we built my new desktop PC last year in early January I kept the old monitor because it was working fine. Son picked up a new cable to connect it to the PC because the old one had the wrong fitting for the new build. It was a bit short but I rearranged my desk and moved the monitor over to the right side of my corner desk. I finally succumbed and bought a longer cable yesterday. And it's so much better having the monitor in the centre of the desk again. It only took me a year! 🤦‍♀️<…

Yesterday, after leaving the IC 5 at Renens, I took off my mask on the platform and accidentally knocked one of my earbuds out of my ear. It fell down on the access ramp (a drop of at least 5 m, I guess) and rolled all the way down to the underpass.
I sprinted off hoping to find a gray earbud on gray concrete… Luckily, two women in the underpass had seen something rolling down the ramp and were looking around for its owner when I arrived. Phew! And: no damage whatsoever, not even a scr…

Yesterday, after leaving the IC 5 at Renens, I took off my mask on the platform and accidentally knocked one of my earbuds out of my ear. It fell down on the access ramp (a drop of at least 5 m, I guess) and rolled all the way down to the underpass.
I sprinted off hoping to find a gray earbud on gray concrete… Luckily, two women in the underpass had seen something rolling down the ramp and were looking around for its owner when I arrived. Phew! And: no damage whatsoever, not even a scr…

Yesterday, after leaving the IC 5 at Renens, I took off my mask on the platform and accidentally knocked one of my earbuds out of my ear. It fell down on the access ramp (a drop of at least 5 m, I guess) and rolled all the way down to the underpass.
I sprinted off hoping to find a gray earbud on gray concrete… Luckily, two women in the underpass had seen something rolling down the ramp and were looking around for its owner when I arrived. Phew! And: no damage whatsoever, not even a scr…

FYI: Trader Joe’s in Clarendon was fully stocked except for snacks (flavored pop corns, chips, etc) and chicken parts. Cashier said they were completely wiped out yesterday and had to limit entry to the store at 9a. I was in and out today in 20 min.

dracula flow quote bot : I don't give a fuck if I go blind, I didn't need to see the price tag anyway
NEET (unspecified gender) : Oh my days, I remember that from yesterday! Hah-hah! *fragporites and rebloops*
Oedipus, two brooch pins in his eyes:

There was a lot of snow and we finished clearing it yesterday, so I forgot to share the crepes I made. Usual egg bacon tea coffee sides. We did make it down the road for mahjong at our local. Everyone else also had cabin fever and was there. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/uvQVmrt9hZSDzW9c7

It was nice to learn about containers and bootc. But after reinstalling Cosmix yesterday (my NixOS spin) I've decided to stick to that. KDE on the laptop will be served on Alpine, FreeBSD or Void for the next month (at least). GitHub repo's will go today, I'm perfectly happy at Codeberg.

Nerd sniped myself this time: after getting sniped yesterday with showing that for primes `p >= 5` that `24 | p^2 - 1`, I decided to look at primes `p, q` where `p, q >= 5` and see if `24 | p^2 - q^2`.
#math #nerdsnipe

Carney's speech at Davos yesterday is an entire graduate class in geopolitics. This should be required study for everyone in leadership in every country right now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uStuQ-TbL9k

Students Promote the Cornell Animal Behavior Club (!!) at yesterday's club fair
#photo #photography #cornell

Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.
EDIT: Diskussions under this are fine, but I do not want this to turn into an ad hominem attack to Cory. Be fucking respectful

Acting ethically in an imperfect world
Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are […]

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Tame Impala:
🎵 Lost in Yesterday
#TameImpala
https://theartsmixof.bandcamp.com/track/tame-impala-lost-in-yesterday-the-art-mix-edit-kzp
https://open.spotify.com/track/5JWPUEov2wlX7c0jhYZpeB

Things were foggy AND mythical yesterday

a kind contributor packaged up #sphinx #passwordmanager for #archlinux - and even reported an incompatibility with py3.14 (hence the latest pyoprf release, from yesterday). so if you wanna give it a try…

Apropos of nothing
Yesterday, January 20 was the anniversary of the execution of Louis XVI in France in 1793.
And January 30 is the anniversary of the execution of Charles I in 1649.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Charles_I

Execution of Charles I - Wikipedia

I took a weekend today after pushing myself pretty hard the last 3 and especially yesterday. I now regret that. I slept well, felt fine when I woke up, didn't go do physical labor, and was bored, frustrated, and hungry all day.
People like me don't need breaks, we just need to work until we physically and mentally collapse, then recuperate. High speed, low drag, tailspin, crash, and phoenix.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@inecas/116125098722422939
PSA: All the thi.ng subdomains should be working again. I upgraded Caddy yesterday and together with the recent DNS handling changes on Hetzner, Let's Encrypt challenges stopped working. All fixed again n…

Another red flag from a Bluesky labeller: engagement farming. The specific account only follows about 400 people, which means it unfollowed over 200 yesterday.

Well, yesterday I did take my recycling in to the coup. It was a good ride, but it was tough — occasional flurries of snow, and stiff wind. Today I'm very tired, and it's 3.7° *inside* the house. So I think I'm going to light the stove, which I normally don't do in daytime because I can't really afford the wood, and have an easy day.

Yesterday was one of those good days doing hard stuff, playing with Chebyshev polynomials, binary coefficients, factorials of half integers, and other fun. All in the interest of a pointless decision to (re)implement the general 𝚪 function using the Lanczos approximation, but totally worth it for the experience alone.
The internet, the good old internet, is a treasure trove for this kind of work, especially but not exclusively wikipedia@wikis.world.

A this photo from yesterday's location scouting could fit for #thickTrunkTuesday , right?
It's been quite a time since I went to a new location with the clear intent of location scouting. - It took me a while until I was able to "see" something as I was so much in walking/hiking-mode.
But it was a good experience to do it again.

RE: https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@glnational_mirror/115933718297509985
> “I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn’t so grateful, but they should be grateful to us. Canada lives because of the United States,” Trump said. “…

Just popped outside to see if I could spot any Aurora that everyone else got to see yesterday, and I can confirm it is absolutely tipping it down here.
#aurora

For you #Minneapolis, #Dinkytown, University of #Minnesota folks: five years ago, we lost the iconic McDonald's

So yesterday I learned that #ping != ping.
https://github.com/u-root/u-root/issues/3361
Apparently, even just looking at the -w/-W option, which is different between

Interesting. I got a much smarter version of ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode yesterday so I asked it what model it was. Normally, it always knows it's 4.0turbo, which is pretty awful. The new one did not know. I barely use ChatGPT anymore as Claude is so much better, but it's still interesting.

Yesterday, I cycled a normal bike to the office. Half the @… team came to have a look because they could not believe it. 🤣 🤷

Regarding the extremely insightful exchange between @… and @… that unfolded yesterday, there is a bit too much of ideology in it for my taste. However, I couldn't help noticing that arguably the strongest point of Tante about the ideology of LLMs is based on an …

@… Did Pam Bondi invest in HP yesterday, to get those ink and toner sales?

Yesterday I finished "Marshmallow and Jordan" by Alina Chau. It's an excellent cozy graphic novel about a friendship between a wheelchair-using athlete and a baby elephant in Indonesia. It's got lovely vibrant art, an interesting plot, and a final twist that fits nicely.
Not sure it's totally realistic about the accessibility of water polo, and it's not #OwnVoices but the author made what to me seems like a good effort to be both respectful and neither too-positive nor too-paternalistic about disability. Would be curious to hear the perspective of someone who use mobility aids about this of course.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

So yesterday I swapped out all the fans in the recently acquired Raidmax PC case this PC lives in.
Also took the 2nd PC out back and blew out most of a year's worth of dust, stuck in the RX6800 from this PC that was replaced by the 9070XT, added a couple more fans to it as well as some "aftermarket" dust filters that screw down over the fans.
Got it all hooked back up and booted it, oh good lights and fans, hey splash screen yay, then updated it, again (had just d…

Linus: I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow. Maybe
we should think only about today.
Charlie Brown:
No, that's giving up. I'm still hoping that yesterday will get
better.

yesterday the downtown library smelled like shit so today i’m studying at the mallett’s creek branch

I ended up having to have my little buddy put to sleep, yesterday. 😥 🐈

I posted this yesterday, and it got a pretty good response, but I know many people (myself included) bankrupt their unread feeds after a busy weekend, so here it is again because I think it's fun—especially for the #Montreal crowd. https://

I'm sending all my gratitude and all my love to everyone who participate to #ThursdayFiveList yesterday!!
You are great!!!
And if you didn't participate, I still love you! But don't forget next time!!!

At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban Gender Affirming Care,
they said trans people are
"at the root of the evils we face"
and are
"a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.”
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
-- Alejendro Caraballo

Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)
At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.” Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.

I was out yesterday with my new 70-200mm lens and took a portrait of a student who flagged me down
#photo #photography #portrait

More solar number crunching.
Yesterday: higher overall output, relatively wide variation in panel-to-panel output within a single array, but one array to another is surprisingly close - other than the east which gets a lot of shade from the house this time of year, the arrays mostly made about the same amount of power.
Consistent with most of their generation being from diffuse illumination off clouds.
By comparison, today the south and flat mounted (on the south side of th…

I was out taking photos yesterday - and the one setting I forgot was limiting the ISO ... 🙈
Practice makes mastery ..

#today I have discussed a possible research collaboration following my supervision yesterday, I am considering demand shaping from my heat pump with 'quiet' modes*, and I am ploughing through #NewScientist articles.
*

16WW Heat-pump Control
Settings and control of the heat pump at 16WW. #heatPump #controls #DHW #spaceHeat

Trump 0, Europe 1 -- Ignorance and contempt lose a round -- As I wrote yesterday ... (Paul Krugman)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-0-europe-1
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p12#a260123p12

The #aurora yesterday (19 January) evening over #Bochum, Germany - the #CoronalMassEjection came hours early and so the timing was just perfect for Europe: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=dan.fischer.393&set=a.10232848303764809 = more pics, https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/ein-langer-x1-95-flare-mit-cme-inklusive-halo/ = 15 of them, with a story and links to much more, and https://forum.meteoros.de/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=63167 = even more ...

🐾 Bronze statue "Song of the vowels" as a 3-d scan I took when I was out yesterday; you can see my tracks as a circle around it
🧊 #cornell

Cornell University
View this scan by @UP8 in 3D on Scaniverse.

On Saturday I did a bike ride and I very carefully tried to ride over some small patches of ice to familiarize myself with how it feels.
Yesterday a friend of mine was out for a gravel ride, did just fine, was all done and rode through a parking lot, hit some ice, went down hard, broke their hip. Argh!
Paying attention to #bikeTooter and

Donald Trump sounded like a fascist dictator
suffering from a brain bleed
during his speech yesterday
at Davos.
It was a national embarrassment
even by the lowly standards of modern American politics.
The president’s showing in Switzerland was so shabby that I feel compelled to share some thoughts about it.
First of all, despite what cable news chyrons would have you believe,
Trump’s screed was chillingly aggressive.
He began the Gree…

American embarrassment. Global pariah.
Trump's Davos debacle marked a new low.

Had the first meeting of the semester yesterday, and I’m already tired of the “let’s make a Google Docs” AS IF NOTHING HAPPENED. By the same person who vehemently objected to putting up a portrait of Grace Hopper in the department on the grounds that she was an American military officer.
And Discord for video conferencing? Really?
The university’s Microsoft infrastructure isn’t ethically better, but at least it’s them who have to assume the legal responsibility.

Had the first meeting of the semester yesterday, and I’m already tired of the “let’s make a Google Docs” AS IF NOTHING HAPPENED. By the same person who vehemently objected to putting up a portrait of Grace Hopper in the department on the grounds that she was an American military officer.
And Discord for video conferencing? Really?
The university’s Microsoft infrastructure isn’t ethically better, but at least it’s them who have to assume the legal responsibility.

Had the first meeting of the semester yesterday, and I’m already tired of the “let’s make a Google Docs” AS IF NOTHING HAPPENED. By the same person who vehemently objected to putting up a portrait of Grace Hopper in the department on the grounds that she was an American military officer.
And Discord for video conferencing? Really?
The university’s Microsoft infrastructure isn’t ethically better, but at least it’s them who have to assume the legal responsibility.

Yesterday I finished "The Other Side of Tomorrow" written by Tina Cho and illustrated by Deb JJ Lee. Lee's "In Limbo" was an excellent graphic memoir, and this similarly has wonderful art, although I didn't make the connection until checking the authors after reading to the end.
This book is a realistic fictional account of two childrens' escape from North Korea via China, Laos, and ultimately Thailand where they could declare themselves refugees at a US embassy and get sponsored to live in America. Along the way they're helped by various members of the Asian Underground Railroad. I'll avoid spoilers but yet definitely encounter difficulties along the way.
The ending definitely hits different now (while also accentuating my disgust with the current US regime). Like "Libertad" that I also finished recently, the "escape to the US at the end" plot line is going to become less prevalent going forward, although Libertad involved a good measure of complexity around that point.
I was a bit disappointed in one of the later plot points where a different and more-real-world-probable turn of events could have served as a better message for society, with the "lucky" outcome as written reinforcing regressive notions of family, and as an ex-Christian the Christian elements of the story made me feel a way. I'm an agnostic, not an atheist though, and can respect the idea that those willing to risk torture and death for their faith have every right to stand by it and take inspiration from it. Most (very valid) critiques of big western Church institutions just don't apply to underground churches in northern China who are helping people escape the horrors of deep fascism.
Overall a really good book.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

21 kWh generation yesterday despite significant clouds, another new record. I think we actually got pretty much the optimal conditions in the afternoon: no clouds around the sun (so direct sunlight hits some of the panels where it's not shaded by trees), but clouds in most of the rest of the sky sending additional scattered light down towards the panels not pointed right at the sun.
We hit a peak of 4.4 kW generation, not quite enough to make up for our 5.6 kW demand at that moment…

In Davos Trump Was Humiliated
He Humiliated Himself.
He Is A Much Weaker Global Figure Today
- I cannot stress how much Trump looked like a clown, buffoon, madman, idiot, bully/coward
- choose your words
- to the world yesterday.
His rambling, incoherent speech confirmed to many that is he addled,
and not fit to lead a great nation.
He also showed the world that he cannot take a punch, and is weak, cowardly, pathetic, desperate.

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

The President’s power to wage war — in Iran or anywhere — is not boundless. Time for him to come to Congress.
Rep. Maggie Goodlander (VT)
https://bsky.app/profile/goodlander.house.gov/post/3mff5r4ap6k27

Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander (@goodlander.house.gov)
SCOTUS finally said it yesterday: the President’s power to tax is not boundless, and the tariff💰he took from you was not his to take. Time for him to refund you. I’ll say it again: the President’s power to wage war — in Iran or anywhere — is not boundless. Time for him to come to Congress.

Let's begin by quoting, in full, a letter that the president of the United States of America sent yesterday to the prime minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr StŸre.
The text was forwarded by the White House National Security Council to ambassadors in Washington, and was clearly intended to be widely shared.
Here it is:
"Dear Jonas:
Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to …

Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw
Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?