Just on the way to the airport we get the news from our kid's school that he got hurt and is bleeding. Gaaaah

Good morning

Burgfenster mit Sitz

going to London today for a weekend trip, but right now I feel like I want to crawl back into bed for a weekend nap

I... honestly had forgotten I already had listened to this 10+ years ago. Only at the very end some of the plot developments managed to trigger a bit of a deja vu, and I realized that I had completely struck this one from memory. And I even understood why, because at the end of the second part I […]

Big Finish Monthly series #32 "The Time of the Daleks" from 2002. 8th realizes history is forgetting Shakespeare. He traces it back to a volatile situation in New Britain in the 2050s, where rebels and "benevolent" dictator are accusing each other of having […] [Original post on dice.camp]

still looking to #getfedihired I have 15 years or experience in windows and linux support, change management, SACM, in ITIL and Agile environments. I also speak English and German. Located in Poland, German/EU national.

Job ad: "Are you passionate about Akamai Compute technologies and services?" Honestly, until 5 seconds ago I hadn't heard about your company and I generally don't get passionate about companies even if I know them for slightly longer.

Anyone else noticing how bad the job situation has become? I have gotten like 2 call backs over the last 3 months.

bowling, łódź, feb 2026 #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography#blackandwhite#monochrome#bowling

Kids were supposed to bring their "collection" to kindergarten today and we managed to convince hours to NOT bring all his plushies and limit himself to his subcollection of panda plushies.

Found a company looking for a "Qualisty Specialist" and I see why

Found an ad where a company called Littlepay was searching for a position. Oh the fun you could have with that name...

Spent my morning setting up a dokuwiki wiki for my private network containing information on how my homelab is setup. On the one hand: damn that's nerdy On the other: I straight up forgot my mobile somewhere in my flat three times yesterday and only found it by calling it from my wife's

restaurant, łódź, feb 2026 #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

The driver in front of me forgets to indicate properly. I have to hit the brakes. Me: Fuck. Wife: Not when impressionable ears are listening. Son: oh. Shit! Shit! Shit! Me: that's not even the word I was using. Son: yeah, sorry, I wasn't paying attention.

down piłsudskiego, łódź, feb 2026 #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

doing my civic duty and filling the vote-by-mail documents for the local elections in my part of Bavaria. Good lord it's surreal seeing people on the lists that according to my gut should be busy with kindergarten and not in local politics, even though academically I know that someone born in […]

For many of us who started gaming in the tail end of the 1970s, The Handbook for Space Pioneers: Exoplanet Colonies (1978) by Wolfe and Wysack was basically the first space game supplement that wasn't intended for RPGs at all... and yet... It provided fully […] [Original post on dice.camp]

fabryczna station, łódź, feb 2026 #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite

Yes, the #eu has a lot of regulations. But remember that thanks to those regulations you can use a single USB-C cable that can charge anything, rather than 10 different connectors and adapters as it was common until 10-15 years ago. Remember that it’s thanks to those regulations if you no […]

So checking out Absolute Superman and... they are reframing the Superman S as the mark of the Kryptonian labor class. Kal-El's parents are Kryptonian dissidents, questioning the upper classes (who are trying to flee a dying Krypton to leave the lower classes to perish). Kal is someone who […]

reading Absolute Batman now, and I'm only four issues in, but the interesting thing is how this version of Batman comes from a working class background (father a teacher, mum a social worker) and fights against billionaires manipulating the world from behind the scenes. interesting choice […]

I'm not really into carnival (Fasching in my home area) and I just realized that it lost all it's luster once it became unfashionable for me to dress up as a cowboy and spend the whole time pretending to have gunfights.

[AI screaming, void screaming, allcaps, long,] EVERY FUCKING WEBSITE IS FUCKING BROKEN, AND THE MORE A COMPANY IS PROUD OF HOW MUCH AI IT USES THE MORE BROKEN ITS FUCKING WEBSITE IS. I AM FORCED TO USE MICROSOFT OUTLOOK FOR MY WORK EMAIL AND IT CAN'T FUCKING HANDLE ATTACHMENTS NOW. I HAVE BEEN […]

Doctor Who Monthly Range #11: The Apocalypse Element (2000). The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn get literally dragged into an important conference of time-travelling cultures concerning the disappearance of the oldest planetoid in the universe, together with 500 innocent […] [Original post on dice.camp]

I complain about companies responding too slow or not at all to my job applications, but one thing that also smarts a bit is them responding too quickly. I know that technically that's better, but with the others I at least have the feeling someone put consideration in.

lights, łódź, feb 2026 #photography #blackandwhite #monochrome

What the hell? Did you realize Pam Bondi is 60? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Bondi

My wife came home all ready to get to file our taxes to figure out how much we might get back. The result was... underwhelming. 2 Złoty. (About 50-60ct.) To pay. "Wait," she said. "How do I even do that? We never had to pay more!"

So modern machine learning models can easily distinguish between human faces and sort them according to their owners. Google does that, and I have immich running so I can even do it at home. But you know whose faces they can't distinguish? Cat faces. I feel like that would be a feature people […]

LBloodtide from the Big Finish monthly range, #22 from 2001. The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn meet Charles Darwin and Silurians on the Galapagos islands in 1835. It took me a while to finish this, the first 2 parts are tedious. I mean, there's a Silurian on the cover […] [Original post on dice.camp]

evening lights, łódź, feb 2026 #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

It's the middle of the night and I was talking to my wife about politics, when all of a sudden I asked myself "I wonder if he's dead yet", so I opened my phone and went to the next news site on the off chance he might be. (turns out no) Only afterwards I realized how strange it is to just […]

Listened to AC/DCs Back in Black on the drive today, and realized the message of the album is "our friend died and we like sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll (in that order) so let's make some puerile ditties about how much we like to fuck so EPIC they will sear themselves into the western canon" #music

New Comic Found: Dark Side of the Horse - 2026-02-11 https://www.gocomics.com/darksideofthehorse/2026/02/11 #comicstrip #comic #darksideofthehorse

New Comic Strip Found: Baby Blues - 2026-02-11 https://www.gocomics.com/babyblues/2026/02/11 #comicstrip #babyblues #parenting

Remember what we got as a gimmick with those comic magazines when we were kids? (Well, in Germany at least, although I think it was the same in the rest of Europe) Anyway, nowadays kids get an electronic game console. I assume it plays Tetris or something along […] [Original post on dice.camp]

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

Two days of meeting my brother and his kids with my kids and I feel dead. I seriously don't do in-person meetings that well anymore. They exhaust me tremendously.

Big Finish Doctor Who Monthly release 'The Chimes of Midnight' from 2002: The 8th Doctor and Charley end up in an Edwardian manor in 1906 instead of Singapore in 1930. It's Christmas Eve and at the top of the hour someone in the house dies, only for everything to […] [Original post on dice.camp]

So Epstein might have had his hand in the creation of #bitcoin as well, meaning the whole #crypto shit was used to fund a child sex ring for the scum of the world. I would be lying if I'd say I was surprised. https://futurism.com/future-society/cryptocurrency-jeffrey-epstein-bitcoin

Big Finish's Doctor Who Monthly release #9 from 2000: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor. I tried this one before and wasn't that impressed. This time I felt it was much more enjoyable, if a bit messy in details. The Doctor and Evelyn arrive in Cornwall, where an […] [Original post on dice.camp]

Trying to check out some movies to go to with my kids, as we are at my parents' place. Unfortunately the cinema in Bayreuth has the messiest program I've ever seen. Either they switched around some of the dates or they put in dates half a year in the future. There's a showing of Spaceballs […]

A classic RPG party formation. You know the drill. #ttrpg #dnd #rpg #meme #ttrpgsky #ttrpgcommunity

I honestly was surprised he is still alive. The whole mess made me forget he still exists. #uspolitics

It occurs to me that people who have worked in IT support seem to have a rather more apprehensive approach to AI than developers and management. For one, we were the ones that had to deal with stuff going wrong. For another: all the pushes towards AI use always sound like all these management […]

AUTOLYCUS: I see this is the time that the unjust man doth thrive. — The Winter's Tale, IV, iv #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

Great expression that should be used more.

Oh wow, they actually pulled out the fire baskets for some of the tram/bus stops again. Haven't seen those since 2011 or so.