Searching for "arm cloud images" on DDG. All the image results are photos of tattoos and all the document results are cloud hosting 🤣

I see macOS 26.2 is out now, so it might be stable enough to upgrade. I'll have make sure I set aside enough time, though: it's a marathon, not a sprint.

Until I picked it up yesterday, it had been ages since I last read _A Christmas Carol_. Dickens' original story holds up well. The emphasis on kindness and charity and human connection makes it timeless, beyond the specifics of poverty in England during the early Industrial Revolution or […]

Today has been a drive through the rain to the nearest coffee place that has power kind of morning

[Klingon food] "We're not even making jello gagh." "Isn't that just gummy worms?"

Now that "cancel culture" warrior Bari Weiss holds real power at CBS, she is wielding it by trying to cancel a short 60 Minutes segment about one of the Trump administration's worst human rights abuses of this year -- the #cecot deportations. The footage did make it onto Canadian TV where […]

[uspol, samizdat] The Canadian broadcast of the bari'd 60 Minutes segment "Inside CECOT" is available on the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/3mam75w3oec2n Practice your samizdat, grab a copy. Seed the torrent if you're willing.

Beginning to wonder if anyone's named a company after a _Lord of the Rings_ reference who actually understood the story.

Denver Post: Boulder artist makes stickers to cover Trump’s face on National Parks passes — and the orders are flying in https://www.denverpost.com/2025/12/19/national-parks-pass-stickers-cover-trumps-face/?share=tefwoicfr1woett112ar #nationalparks

It’s the Senate’s turn: Tell your US Senators to Vote NO on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s dangerous anti-LGBTQI+ bill. #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights https://action.transequality.org/a/vote-no-mtg-senate

This site helps you learn about local government meetings that will discuss Flock and other surveillance tech https://alpr.watch/

Is it silly of me to fix typos in 20-year-old blog posts? Probably. I mean, those typos _stood the test of time_. Well, they did until now, anyway.

Anybody out there happen to know of a good book about German resistance to the Nazi regime? I'm especially interested in any civil resistance to Nazi policies, but obviously I'm not gonna pass up a good read about violent resistance to Nazis either.

This is literally the _opposite_ of making Mozilla more "trustworthy" https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/

Saw this today. Seems like it could be another term for an ambulance.

Last night, @crazy4pi314 and I hit "go" on posting a draft charter for the rereading Project. After Calibre betrayed readers and writers alike, it's clear to me that something as essential as personal archival of book libraries should not be a burden placed on a single individual — my hope is […]

It's an air purifier, but I keep reading the name as the counterpart to Lindows (remember them?) #linux

HEADS UP that the FCC comment period for Reflect Orbital first hideously bright, ecology-disrupting satellite will open probably in mid- to late-January. I'm gonna need EVERYBODY to write in for that one.

"History shows us that all progress comes from the meeting of diverse people, with different ideas, and different backgrounds." The web is no different. #technology https://werd.io/the-web-runs-on-tolerance/

Amazon might not notice that you stopped shopping with them* but if you take that same modest bit of disposable income and spend it on art bought directly from artists, the small electronics projects of your friends, helping people in dire financial situations and the the local theater all of […]

I really need to look at the current state of alternate phone keyboards again. I gave Fossify another shot last month (since their whole thing is making apps that don't send anything to the cloud), but there's no swiping, and apparently my thumbs are too clumsy (even after all this time) to type […]

Really, GBoard?

This is nice! @Codeberg has updated their terms of use to explicitly allow a wider range of free/open/related licenses, including Creative Commons licenses that are more appropriate for writing and art, as well as clarify that the #floss requirement doesn't apply to your private repositories […]

The U.S. Congress opens inquiries after report that the military targeted boat-strike survivors. @WSJ reports: "Lawmakers from both parties say events as described in a Washington Post article, if accurate, might amount to war crimes." Gift link: https://flip.it/lfuuCl #venezuela #warcrimes […]

Finally read _The Old Iron Dream_ , which traces the strand of military authoritarianism and white male supremacy in science-fiction from John Campbell through Heinlein, Pournelle and other major names up through ~2013. I'd known some of the broad strokes, and some of the specifics, but seeing […]

"Unknown word: Elon. Replace with: Elton." Are we talking Elton John? 'Cause I still like his idea of Mars better than Elon's.

New book review on my website! The Tombs of Atuan, Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★★ Still my favorite of the Earthsea books. There's something fascinating about a labyrinth that you _must_ traverse in total darkness, keeping a map and counting turns in your head […]

Look! Cinnabar moth! Last summer I was surprised to find cinnabar moth caterpillars feeding on the native pahokoraka, Senecio quadridentatus, in the middle of Christchurch city, NZ. Cinnabar moths were released to control the European pasture weed ragwort back […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

New book review on my website! The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★☆ A collection of short stories from early in Le Guin's career, spanning her first sale through the time when she'd begun to be recognized as a major force in the genre […]

Yup. Clarity. https://www.reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=november-17-2025

New book review on my website! The Word of Unbinding and The Rule of Names, Ursula K. Le Guin ★★★★☆ The original two stories set in Earthsea, before Le Guin wrote the novels. Each stand-alone, each interesting both in itself and in seeing what the series and its themes grew from […]

Site in Kenya reveals 300,000 years of uninterrupted toolmaking. Archaeologists uncovered nearly 1,300 stone tools spanning 2.44 to 2.75 million years, showing that early hominins taught and replicated the same techniques across roughly 10,000 generations. During this time period, the […]

It's cold, foggy, and there's frost on everything. Gorgeously surreal. I vote that should be Saskatchewan's new tagline. "Gorgeously surreal" is way better than "land of living skies"

[Minecraft, puns] "You got a what? A gas stove? Really, Steve..." (artist: Alenxa on Tumblr) #minecraft #puns #fanart

Ugh... someone managed to register the old Groklaw domain and turn it into a crypto/casino spam blog. (For those who don't remember it, the site chronicled SCO's and Microsoft's legal campaign against Linux back in the 2000s, as well as software patents and other court cases. The […]

**Old Danctnix mirror expired** For Pine64 devices running danctnix that were set up long enough ago: The old domain name for the repo at p64.arikawa-hi.me expired in 2023, was renewed for 2 years, and has expired again. archmobile.mirror.danctnix.org is the current domain name that should be in […]

RIP. The Bard's Tale trilogy (and to a lesser extent Dragon Wars) basically established my taste in video games, and I still have my hand-drawn maps (on graph paper, folded in quarters, stored in boxes cut down from 5.25 floppy boxes and covered with construction paper) and the original packages […]

I really do appreciate that Debian has stuck with a naming scheme inspired by a movie that happened to be current when the project started 30 years ago.

"Git 2.52 speeds up blame" really sounds like something different than it is. https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/11/git-2-52-speeds-up-blame-adds-geometric-repacks-and-experimental-repo-command/ #jargon

"Æthelred the Unready" They didn't mince words with the monikers for the early kings of England. We should really bring this back for powerful leaders.

Iris -> Siri: "And I don't want my laptop to hear me / 'cause I don't think that it understands...."

It occurs to me that people who only recognize harm when it happens to someone they know personally is a special case of people who can't extrapolate from incomplete information.

Self-hosting Nextcloud gotcha: * I offloaded photos to an S3-compatible storage bucket in the same datacenter, so I don't have to worry about them using up all the space on the block storage. * I did not offload the trash folder to S3-compatible storage. This is how I ended up unable to […]

I said my piece about Mozilla's newest adoption and promotion of fashtech in the form of AI. Please consider saying your piece as well. They might not listen, but perhaps the next open source project considering fashtech may see this reaction and think twice. […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

Finally! It's been drizzling off and on since yesterday afternoon, and now there's some proper rain. With any luck the drizzle's been enough to let the ground start absorbing it.

Fishcat vs. spear rat. Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390. Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 143, fol. 161v. #medieval #medievalart

I like this part in particular: > But now that the hype has evaporated and the opportunists have migrated to AI, VR can finally breathe again. It can go back to what it was always meant to be: a creative frontier for gaming, exploration, and presence […]

Hey, remember that Chicago apartment building raid where children were zip-tied together? Guess what: https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-fbi-raids-no-criminal-charges

I haven't yelled that many (overwhelmingly excited) swear words at the sky for a long time. WWOOOOOWWWWW. Reddest auroras I've ever seen!! Usually it takes a long time exposure/CCD camera to see red at all. This is BRIGHT!! You can actually see easily outside […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I assumed we were too far south to see last night's aurora. Apparently I was wrong, since someone uploaded a shot from Ramona (in San Diego County) to Space Weather. So I went outside and looked. But between the hazy weather we've been having, the smog, clouds, and the bright lights of Los […]