Was zur Zeit passiert, ist verstörend. Ich habe Dinge aufgeschrieben, die wir tun können, um uns als Gesellschaft zu stärken. Um uns als Einzelne zu stabilisieren. Es ist wirkt ein bisschen banal. Aber ich glaube, genau das ist wichtig. Wir haben ganz alltägliche Mittel. steady.page/de/geraeusch...

me: if I put the laundry right in front of the door so it will be totally in the way, I have no other chance than doing it. also me: *learns to backflip over obstacles*

Because we didn't do any of that, the grim reality is that we're stuck being to America what Belarus is to Russia. Basically unable to operate independently, unable to do anything to stop our larger ally doing something stupid.

had a glorious burrito at a restaurant last night, but it made me sleep very very badly

went to the gym. now I'm happy.

Nach 14 Monaten Suche habe ich am Samstag endlich einen Lesesessel gekauft. Lieferdatum noch unklar, weil wegen Wetter, und jetzt bin ich auf einmal sehr ungeduldig und will JETZT meinen Sessel. JETZT SOFORT! Los! Zackzack!

the massacre on Bondi Beach wasn't even a month ago...

I'm having a massive headache because whenever I go outside, my entire body tenses up from cold and I'm trying to not get injured slipping on the icy streets, but yes, tell me again that it's unreasonable to hate winter.

I am suddenly unreasonably excited that my team member has created a Machine Learning model and it works and gives good results and we will be deploying it into prod for integration into the business process! it's the first ML model for this company, so this is very exciting!

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

whoa.

transport nerd heaven

Sympathies to the young girl who just had to be carried out by her parents, crying because she didn’t want to leave the bookshop.

ich weiß, dass der news cycle längst weiter ist, aber aus div. gründen find ich die brandkatastrophe in crans-montana immer noch tief schockierend... und je mehr rauskommt, umso schlimmer wirds.

ICH MÖCHTE DAS NICHT! #hamburg

Rio had to go to the vet and now he's ... a bit out of it.

Google Maps revealing where it’s snowing right now in Western Europe

yes yes, the world is on fire, but could we please stop and consider giving Rio some belly rubs please?

there's TWO Belugas in BOD (and a suspected third, but it's too far away and I can only see the tail, so I can't positively id it without getting into trouble)

Somehow, I forget every year again how much being cold in winter negatively influences *everything* for me. Everything is just worse.

just muted the horrid chatbot on Twitter for my mental health, I do not want to see what people are prompting it to create non-consensual content

WAIT WHAT?! fucking KLM booked me on a flight on MONDAY instead of my original, but cancelled, flight on SUNDAY?! and not even making the effort to HIGHLIGHT that change?!

I wonder if other historic events felt _this_ stupid to witness... or because news was slower, it wasn't so obvious that things happened and no one had a plan and Bismarck and Napoleon and Sultan Süleyman just made it up as they went around invading countries?!

außer, du bist deutscher Bundeskanzler, dann wär vielleicht ganz gut, was zu sagen

yeah, somehow I don't think I'll get back to Hamburg by Monday...

srlsy, KLM's customer service is pretty shit.

like, why the fuck am I waiting for reply from a fucking chatbot?! it's a chatbot with canned questions and response options, this should be instant!

the Caribbean needs to get in line, Europe had flights cancelled by KLM because of snow first! (waiting for response from Chatbot about my cancelled flight tmrw)

damn, I should have done New Year's in the more Caribbean part of France!

one of those days when you can track people's wake-up times by when they first tweet "what the fuck" or some version thereof

Denmark sending troops to Greenland yet? Just in case?

Corina Machado getting quite a good return on calling Trump after winning the Nobel Peace Prize... deal with the devil, anyone?

I'm also mad that I have to go back to real work on Monday, but I'm not bombing a fucking country because I don't want to have to do grown-up stuff at a desk ...

another feature request for Bsky: ability to mute all posts about all TV shows without having to specify each one separately

I hate when I have things that I want to do and write about but I am so exhausted that all I can do is lie down.

waiting for housekeeping to finish my room, and the hotel has a foosball table, so I am now learning that the noise is a serious #autistic sensory trigger for me

It was every horse's birthday yesterday! All horses have their birthday on January 1st no matter which month they are actually born. Happy Birthday to these select four dressage horses, sure, why not. 🎂Glamourdale (15) 🎂Cassidy (23) 🎂Flambeau (16) 🎂Zonik Plus (10)

went to a bookshop here in Bordeaux yesterday and took some pictures because I assumed items would be available in English, but they aren't, so I'll have to return tmrw and buy them in French after all (my French is ... let's say, basic. I keep trying to speak Spanish)

I'll put that into my resolutions for 2026 :)

Likewise, if I messaged you Happy Christmas/New Year, you must be someone I class as a genuine friend or "important" because, sorry, I forgot people exist if I am not directly talking to them or doing something related to them. It's a weird trait.

no idea why I find this so delightful

Frankreich für Silvester, das behalten wir für 2026 bei - allerdings eher Mittelmeer als Atlantik, es ist echt garstig kalt.

kann übrigens empfehlen, einen Silvesterspaziergang zu machen - ohne Angst zu haben, mit Böllern beschossen zu werden. Vive la France!

I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet

that's probably what they mean with "AuDHD is a superpower": because of object impermanence I can actually leave half of a pack of biscuits for the next day, as long as I put them somewhere I won't see them.

Ehrlich gesagt bin ich an dem Punkt, wo mir meine Lebenszeit zum Aufregen zu schade ist, wenn wir doch nichts unternehmen.

some thoughts about some books #booksky finjathisisit.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/r...

feature request for Bsky: ability to mute posts in a certain language for a specified number of days

walked for more than 2hrs on Wimbledon Commons and Putney Heath with the dogs, and I am frozen to the bone now. Hot shower helped a bit, but I am actively eyeing the bath tub in the hotel room.

me, driving along Clapham Commons, on my way to visit the dogs in their new home: "wow, London is quite a big place!"