FYI #jstor offers a free account as an "Independant Researcher" with access to 100 documents per month. https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/articles/115004760028-How-to-Register-Get-Free-Access-to-Content#myjstoraccount #research

Gonna give myself a bit of a break today and spend some of the afternoon making a big pot of vegetable soup from scratch. Seems like a proper lifestyle choice. #idontlikemondays #soupisgoodfood

[politics, USPol, US Politics] If folks are interested in what is going on at the #portland #ice facilities, I would recommend following independant journalist Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social They are providing live, up to date reports from the scene along with some photos #pnw #uspol […]

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Beginning to really appreciate the #rumdl project in helping me lint my Markdown and get some consistency in the formatting of the gazillion notes I've created for myself. Like #ruff and sphinx-lint, it's becoming a common part of my toolbox to keep my sloppiness in check and, perhaps, teach me […]

Finally! The Orange Site turns up an article relevant to my interests! 🤣 In praise of binturongs: https://satyrs.eu/garden/2025/binturongs #nature #binturong #freakincuteanimals

libxml2's sole maintainer Nick Wellnhofer steps down, meaning libxml2 is now no longer maintained. https://discourse.gnome.org/t/stepping-down-as-libxml2-maintainer/31398 It's hard to estimate just how many companies depend on this software and critical security updates to the library, so I'm […]

Part of my work in community radio is training young people on both studio tech skills and programming philosophy. Teaching the tech part is easy, even for people who've never used an audio console before. In my experience, 45 minutes of hands-on guidance in an off-air […] [Original post on c.im]

#rip Danny Thompson 1939-23rd September 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/24/from-kate-bush-to-pentangle-to-t-rex-the-late-danny-thompsons-musical-brilliance-knew-no-bounds #music #jazz #folkmusic

[politics, USPol, US Politics] I'm not inclined to watch TV talking heads or late night talk shows. Made a point to watch the opening monologue of Jimmy Kimmel's return to the airwaves after the last couple days of shrill insanity. Fairly concise, eloquent, and pointed critique(as far a […]

After nine years, my cat Anu is _finally_ willing to eat treats out of my hand. I am a patient man. I wait. I wait. I wait. #tinyvictories

My evening bread and circuses escape from reality has arrived.🎉 I follow baseball pretty closely; but, don't really embrace the whole fandom thing. I'll gladly take a few extra weeks of playoffs from the #seattlemariners to distract me this year. #baseball #goms

That thing where you don’t hear much about DHH in ages and then he’s mentioned and you take a look at what he’s up to and OMFG! O_o https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

IIRC, first time getting crypto spam in my #GitHub notifications this morning. Went to look at it just now and it appears to be hidden & can't see or delete it. Even though the GUI indicates I have one unread message in my inbox. Turns out I need to get the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

"Seattle's PBS station will cease production of its local long-form journalism, leadership announced on Monday. The move, attributed to the loss of federal funding for public media, marks the layoffs of 17 staffers and the creation of three new positions, station President and CEO Rob Dunlop […]

[politics, USPol, US Politics] IMNSHO, it would be very considerate and conscientious of folks to place #contentwarnings on posts related to #uspolitics Not everyone posting and reading here lives in the so-called #unitedstates and not everyone can or wants to read about it whether out of […]

Gonna sooth my anger and frustration with some easy listening. 🤣 Chat Pile - Why https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sER0FzJO-c0 Some Hüsker Dü is queued up next. #music #posthardcore

gack! That was kind of exhausting to muddle thourgh reading that judicial document. Some things are just no fun.😆

[politics, USPol, US Politics] On the separation of Church and State(and, specifically, public funding for religious schools). I'm not a lawyering sort of fellow by any stretch of the imagination. My eyes, admittedly, frequently glaze over when I attempt to […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Amazon *gooble gooble* https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01K5F9SK9NS7XDEC1RX9S5Q0MH

[politics, USPol, US Politics] So who here _doesn't_ fall under the classification of a "domestic terrorist" by the U.S. government today? #antifa #uspol #fascism #authoritarian #antifascism

My partner not wanting to be hassled for autographs at a local food establishment: #priceoffame

Following the #seattlemariners is, an admittedly poor lifestyle choice on my part for a bread and circus escape from reality. It's around this time of year where, every year, it really comes around to bite me in the ass as far as minimizing stress. Especially when they are soooo close to […]

Wife and I just watched this incredible 1950s cold war scare flick, the whole time making jokes about the teenage son looking like Frankie Avalon. Spoiler: It WAS Frankie Avalon! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_in_Year_Zero!

My daughter and I a little over sixteen years ago on the Edmonds waterfront as the Sun sets over the Olympic mountain range. #pnw #photography #edmondswa

"DHCPv6 PD support is expected to roll out to most devices running Android 11 and above before the end of the year [...]" https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/simplifying-advanced-networking-with.html For background, a lot of p'd off people at this developer have been begging for […]

The Fedora Docs team has done a great write up of the status of our documentation today, what it has been in the past, and the challenges and solutions to work through. We're super grateful for the docs we have! At the same time, consider whether you can contribute to Fedora documentation. Get […]

Just had our first Xfinity/Comcast outage since my partner started working from home. 5 alarm fire. Cut off in the middle of her online meeting. Still hard for her to believe that all my years of networking experience couldn't restore service. 🤣 On the plus side, I showed her how to continuous […]

#til how to share a YouTube video at a specific time marker...🤣 It's all about some Post Bop #Klezmer tonight! Probably the first of my favorite songs from #johnzorn and his #masada ensemble. Also, pretty much one of the first albums of his that I bought along with his Painkiller "Execution […]

today's software preservation task one of the great crimes of the 21st century was that Mark Jones' (Core Design) Darkmere - an isometric adventure-RPG for the amiga - was poorly visually documented by the usual places like lemonamiga/mobygames/etc. perhaps for […] [Original post on dialup.cafe]

Hey @tones Thought you might find this interesting https://www.wta.org/go-outside/seasonal-hikes/summer-destinations/roadless-rule-hikes #hiking #trails #pnw

the security industry is a machine that turns `THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND` into `YOU ARE PART OF A SUPPLY CHAIN ATTACK, SHAME ON YOU`

Saw the strangest thing this morning. Water falling from the sky. I know. I may be branded a lunatic; but, I feel I must speak the truth of what I saw. As improbable as it sounds, I tell you the sky was leaking. What other madness lays before us? I can only shudder to think.

Got a bunch of prep work out of the way, this evening, for a whole bunch of cooking tomorrow. 1. Slow roasting some ribs with a smoked Hawaiian rub mix my partner brought back from her last trip with onions, potatoes, and carrots. 2. A pseudo Greek type salad with feta, lemon, beets, cucumbers […]

Found myself updating vim powerline & cleaning up some crufty, ancient configs. This managed to break powerline working inside of Python venvs. Adding the following line to my `/etc/vim/vimrc` configuration got powerline working properly again: #vim #vimplugins #python

Good Friday therapy. Several hours of aimless & meandering conversation down at the local pub with an old friend of 30 years. Backstories already well-established, we just flit about, riff, and improvise around music, literature, language, Byzantium, Catullus (He's currently on a Roman/Greek […]

Marc Ribot (featuring Tom Waits) - Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful) from his 2018 album "Songs Of Resistance 1942 - 2018" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U7lVXoN3cg #music #protestsong

I've just release v1.2.0 of Hike, my little #markdown browser for the #terminal. This release adds a simple front matter viewer (until now it's always hidden the front matter). #python #programming

Spending some time, tonight, listening to The Keith Tippett Group, Julie Driscoll, and Centipede and decided it was time to revisit The Music Aficionado's article on Keith and his musical activities around '69-'71. I've always enjoyed their music writing. Gentle introductions & overviews, well […]

Pretty cool photos of the first Link Light Rail crossing of the I-90 bridge. Just a reminder that Seattle is a pretty beautiful metro area. I love the mountains and water. TIL that not only is the I-90 bridge the world's longest floating bridge, but that […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

This!

In their late 70s, my parents are keeping busy these days. Mom just returned from a 2 week trip to Africa. Dad just got his aortic valve replaced this morning(and is doing fine). They should be tearing up the pickleball courts together again in about 2 weeks. All in time for their 58th wedding […]

I had been in #seattle just under 10 months when this occurred. Coming from the east coast, I was amused at how the local news got themselves in a tizzy about this action. I had almost forgotten that the same artist, Subculture Joe, mounted an even more scandalous event a few years later over […]

seems you have to install a terminal emulator like 'kitty' to get a terminal to display graphics, why wouldn't most terminal emulators implement this? is it purely an ideological thing?

Can't say that I'm really down with #movie, #tv, #film fans who pretend to be Talmudic scholars for their franchise-du-jour. I was there when Asimov first wrote about Daneel. I was there when Tolkein laid down the first paragraphs about Tom Bombadil and the Children of Hurin. I was there […]

Occasionally, I'll follow the whimsy of partial searches of my local #music library to guide my listening habits for the next few days. It may be just a partial word or phrase that will send me down a rabbit hole for a couple of hours or days. Going forward, the search phrase is "horse". For […]

Coming up to the penultimate season 3 episode of #foundation tonight. Shame we only get 10 episodes per season. I've been really pleasantly surprised by the quality of this adaptation. The cinematography and music has been a real joy. The characterization has been mostly great. The Genetic […]

Fediverse profiles need a bloviation-meter. Perhaps a little gauge indicating(should I choose to follow someone) what level of posts & boosts I might expect from them. What are their max posts/boots per hour and day? How often has that been sustained, etc? Am I sticking my face in a drinking […]

I’ve released v0.10.0 of Braindrop; my #raindrop client for the #terminal. This release has small bug fix, a tweak to compact mode, and is also tested against #python 3.14. #bookmarks #bookmarking https://github.com/davep/braindrop