Well. Shiiiit.

Hokay !! NixOS devs are badasses.

"Why do you want to have a 1970s music pavilion at the Shakespeare festival?" "It features wine made by the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party!" "But how does that make it anything to do with Shakespeare?" "Mao is the vintner of our disco tent!" [Exit, pursued by a bear]

She talks about citizenship/migration and the foundations of these things, and points out how the Left largely doesn't question its basis. Again, very good watch.

This lecture on feminism contextualizes things for India. Including the idea that "Freedom/Azaadi" is not about individuals, rather about community. She also talks about it from a labour and class struggle perspective. It is in English (with a little Malayalam). www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alzh...

Montag!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... So, we all know who Mudijis real boss is.

Ah. So I cancelled my trip to Kerala. Qatar airways emailed and said either cancel or move travel dates. Well.

Indeed. So if you came to the UK as a 25-year old, you would presumably (if you stuck around) get ILR when you were 30, and then get citizenship when you were 45. In all this while you’re a total foreigner in the land you work in, your kids pay 3X the cost that others do for college, you…

EU calling a country "exporter of chaos" I'll let people guess who they are referring to. How do these people get up in the morning and decide to be shitheads? The news is making me nervous. It feels like early 2000s again.

Happy birthday to Rosa 🌹 Freedom without equality is exploitation. Equality without freedom is oppression. Solidarity is the source of freedom and equality. Rosa Luxemburg born March 5, 1871

How does one get to fish from a post about random porn accounts on bsky? This is how.

Chat with bookshop guy at Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf. Me wearing a "Great Wave.." T-shirt: "I'm going to buy this Great wave postcard and send it to myself because I'm an idiot like that" Them: "Hokkusai appears to be the Monalisa of our times, go for it, be kitschy."

Düsseldorf is calm and pretty. Nice vibes.

Wolt has added age verification by Peter Thiel’s company so if it wasn’t dead to me before, it is now

The Fuckery continues unabated with German employers. If your boss demands you sign a contract with a lower wage, you take that thing to an attorney and fight it. You also tell your Betriebsrat. You also join a union. They also cannot fire you without a written letter with a wet signature.

You‘re trapped in the last TV show you watched, where are you?

Another day of "Guys, you've got an evil king murdering people" followed by "Yeah we'd rather wait/walk through this river of blood and let all these people die instead of overthrowing the evil king. 'No Kings ! join the protest!" Evil is good people doing nothing and so on.

I can't remember when was the first time I got on a train. I still sit by the window and watch the platform "moving" as the train starts to leave and think "ahh it is just the platform moving, no big deal. Oh wait! Platforms can't move. Yay trains" (An Nederlandse Spoorwegen train in Eindhoven)

Multiverse of Skies ☁️ 13 different skies. 13 different seasons. One tree holding them all. captured over many days, not just one. It took 13 separate edits and countless saves to bring this together. The quality may have dropped a little, but the dedication behind each frame never did. ☺️

“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Quite bold for a yard fence in Lancashire

I wrote a longer version of the two sanctuaries, Rivendell and Śrīksetra Garden of the Sriwijaya kingdom, here: 4/4 putri2wotan.wordpress.com/2024/11/05/r...

Rivendell as a sanctuary reminds me of the bountiful Śrīksetra Garden, described in the 7th-century Talang Tuo inscription of Sriwijaya kingdom in Sumatra. The king, Sri Jayanasa, established the garden as a sanctuary and for the "well-being of all creatures." 1/4 #TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday

While trying to fall asleep, I thought about how crazy it is to just fall asleep. Wide awake now.

To take my mind off things, I decided to bake bread. I've never done any baking before. I found a no-knead recipe and it is alright. I've notes for next time. More importantly, there will be a next time.

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The blogosphere was fundamentally generous. People would write actual essays, combining personal reflection and the fruits of their reading and put them out for free. Now, everyone has an inane reaction piece they want you to pay to read on substack.

“We didn’t vote him in! He cheated!” - the US political system allowed for that man to win power either way. I’m sorry but American power monopoly has been a scourge on the world for a LONG time. A country that has been at war for most of its 250 years of existence is not innocent.

No Kings my ass.

Fascists aren't doing one horrible thing to distract from another. They are just doing lots of different horrible things because that's who they are.

www.asianetnews.com/local-news/p... He actually did not have to make this statement - for as long as I can remember, this was just the norm, and it would have continued. This is not even newsworthy. But the absolute state of affairs is such that stuff like this should be marketed.

I just spoke to family and friends in the middle east. I'm so angry, i want to yell out the window. One of them said "Why did they do this in the month of peace, when people are trying to reflect on their lives". I had not thought about it, despite being a Muslim (by upbringing).

seeing red at the bluesky of it all with the iran news. top reply on a post calling israel and america rogue states being "what about russia?" says it all. cannot imagine having such a worldview. all this death, all this horror, to percieve it purely through liberal pointscoring is utterly inhuman

If I see one more American moaning and whining on here, I'm asking them to go fucking fix the problem yourself. Y'all are killing people outside and inside your borders - and you are sitting on your butts, in self pity. Wake the fuck up already. (That's it that's my last entreaty to the Americans)

Bastards. Perhaps people who elected the pedo should stop whining and complaining and do actual things to stop these fucks. Perhaps. I dunno. www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...

Suck it, asshole life! I went biking, met a friend, bought spices, and... I made even better puli kulambu. Mwahahahahah!

Pope Leo XIV to his priests: stop using AI to write sermons. “‘To give a homily is to share faith,’ he said, and AI ‘will never be able to share faith.’” [futurism.com]

My painting TIDAL WETLANDS

thottingal.in/blog/2026/02... VERY important work in the area, by one of the titans in Malayalam computing.

that article irritates me because it does not point out that when USians move to countries with weaker currencies, stuff gets A LOT more expensive for locals rent food restaurants basic amenities sure, it's 1k to you, but that's 130,000 here—not many can afford that

It’s what we’ve been saying all along - Labour/SPD etc need to stop pandering to the anti-immigrant minority.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romila_... What. A. Badass

Eh. Nintendo Switch is great and all. BUT. Have you tried the 3DS. DAMN. I love the PS Vita, but I'd give it up for the 3DS. It is the eternal console, form factor wise. 20 years ago, I'd pick 3DS above a PSP. Now, I'd pick it above a PSP. In 20 years, I won't be surprised if I do the same.

How my day is going (or, the sad tale of tiny losses that breaks your heart a little bit). A thread - 😤 Stressed and sleepless because had to handover old apartment to landlord. - 🤓 Bid goodbye to old apartment (yay!), but 5 hours of sleep doesn't let you enjoy. - Come home dreaming of sleep

Handy reminder:

This mofo wants to ice skate uphill. All the AI hype comes from people who stand to make money from it. Those of us forced to use it for our ricebowls can do without. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/t...

Did this, can recommend.

So irrational

Shirow Masamune bought a Colour Photocopier back when they were ungodly expensive, and installed it in his home studio. a lot of his weird colour work comes from painting panels and them colour copying the work with weirdo settings + overlays until they reached psychedelic moire patterns.

Lengger Lanang is a gender-bending folk dance from Banyumas, Central Java, that demonstrates fluidity of masculine and feminine energies as they balance and nourish each other. Rooting in harvest tradition, it is a hope for good harvest, which requires balance in all elements. 1/2 #WyrdWednesday