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Regarding Hong complaining about Thanksgiving (or any holiday) I saw a comment that said "No shit! She was a service industry worker. We all hate the holidays!" and like, yeah... I started to hate certain holidays when my job involved mandatory "all hands on deck" events where I got assigned to do shitwork, so I get it.
And yeah, Thanksgiving does have colonialist roots!

Days of fighting near strategic
Bab el-Mandab Red Sea chokepoint
have left more than 300 dead;
UN warns renewed large-scale fighting would have ‘grave consequences’
https://www.timesofisrael.com/houthis-say-

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Teenage Fanclub:
🎵 Don't Look Back
#TeenageFanclub
https://open.spotify.com/track/717pbXeLJgqopBwDOWnJZu

They better announce that PowerBook G5 tomorrow or else

Props to my "Lenovo ThinkVision M14t Gen2 14" Monitor".
My display fried in the middle of a Teams presentation. I grabbed this portable #display (USB-C, touchscreen) out of my backpack, switched it out in seconds & kept right on presenting.

Accepting that I’m thankfully safe, it’s wild how fucking awful the current epoch is, for fuck’s sake

Got TinyUSB on my Pico giving me a test video image over UVC; The RP2040 is a bit low on RAM; it can't fit 640x256 at RGB565, and I can't find a denser deterministic image format that Linux can take as video in, Hmm, I mean an RP2350 has more RAM, but that feels like cheating on an impossible problem.

*sigh* 100m Stau auf ner Straße, auf der es sonst halbwegs vorwärts geht. Stellt sich raus: Porsche-Fahrer hat die Zufahrt zum Bahnhof (incl. Parkplätzen, Taxiständen und Bus-Bahnhof) zugeparkt. Also as in Auto abgestellt und weitergegangen. So drin, dass selbst zu Fuß ohne Drüberklettern kaum drin ist. Bus vorne in der Schlange steht wohl schon seit ~10 Minuten, Busfahrer klappert die Geschäfte drumrum ab um den Falschparker zu finden. Aber hey, kostet ja nix - weniger als die Tankfüllung d…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Teenage Fanclub:
🎵 What You Do to Me (LP version)
#TeenageFanclub
https://bakesalegr.bandcamp.com/track/what-you-do-to-me-teenage-fanclub
https://open.spotify.com/track/7AgMXHVHbwEWfJSwsaTWtP

It’s interesting how much more powerful personal computers are now than in the 2000s, e.g. if FireWire was still a thing it would have to be FireWire 120000 to compete with Thunderbolt 5 speeds
Yet today’s application software is mostly very, very bad