Personal health reasons led to a bit of a chaotic start for my #chili #pepper #Plants this year. Only about half of the plants I had last year and a very uneven start. But still: better than nothing. New this year are Scotch Bonnet and Orange Habanero.

Happy Easter!

Sorry for the FB link, but this is something you should be aware of if you're #climbing in #Kalymnos . A climber died because **both** of the bolts of his anchor failed while he was lowered. Action is being taken to inspect routes and close them until necessary replacements have been made. Be […]

Daylight savings time (summertime), yay! 😈 Sun's at its highest point around 13:40 now, which is much closer to the middle of my day than the 12:00 people seem to advocate for. I wonder if they all get up at 04:00 and go to bed at 20:00 🤷.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gilraen79/116098204214021816 Boosting again to see if I can get in touch with local hikers! #hiking

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/116295375169837378 tl;dr for #belgium: only PVDA/PTB, Groen/Ecolo, and CVP/CSP voted against prolonging ChatControl 1.0.

🇪🇺 🚨11 AM #ChatControl vote: They want to crush our privacy. Pirate @marketkag.bsky.social won't surrender, and neither should you. 🏴‍☠️ Call your wavering socialist, liberal and national conservative MEPs right now. Win or lose today, they need to know […] [Original post on digitalcourage.social]

Parents! Before sending them off to university, please teach (in order of priority): 1. your sons to be respectful to women 2. your daughters to put a fucking bicycle chain back on! Standing at the side of the road, looking around helplessly, is not the solution.

Yes! Kopecky

Trump to Japanese PM: "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Ok, why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?". Pretty awful. But if this had been Trump telling the Spanish PM: "Who knows better about surprise than Spain? Ok, why didn’t you tell me about the Spanish Inquisition?". That […]

taking direct psychic damage from this... Margaret Atwood noooo https://margaretatwood.substack.com/p/claude-you-are-a-cutie-pie

Happy Mothering Sunday!

🇪🇺Who rejected the #chatcontrol 1.0 proposal in LIBE? 👇 But don't be fooled: Lead negotiators of EPP, ECR, S&D & Renew ALL want mass scanning. 🕵️‍♂️ They’re just haggling over tech details (hashes vs AI) before next week’s plenary vote. More soon! 🚨📱

Yesterday I read an interview with the singer in a punk band who uses GenAI to help with writing his texts. Punk. The whole point of punk was that if you know how to play 3 cords badly and have something to say just fucking go for it.

Now that’s a proper euphemism. AWS datacenter “impacted by objects […] that created sparks and fire”. https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

So erm... that FIFA peace prize, how does that work exactly?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jessie/116114637026912427 I knew this was Istanbul before looking at the alt text. They love their street cats over there.

I'm supposed to be too old and realistic, heck even too cynical, to sob about videos about a baby monkey and his doll. I keep telling myself they're tailored for social media and that IT'S NOT RATIONAL! There are way worse things that happen in nature or that we as humans do. And yet, here we […]

It's a bit early for #Caturday but I just found out that at the CUS (university sports center) offices they have an armchair reserved for the local cat and I thought the Fediverse would like this piece of information.

RE: https://graphics.social/@metin/116068434898967217 I remember seeing that specific review as a kid. Very exciting but I had to wait a couple years until the cheaper Amiga 500 was released before I could replace my C64.

A sigh of relief in #Italy: Dutch researchers found proof that #pasta carbonara already existed before American soldiers arrived in Rome. So it's an Italian dish after all […]

This is what the inside of a #milka #chocolate #Easter egg looks like this year. About one third of it is just air! I used to buy bags of these even though they were quite expensive. But no more. Fuck you #mondelez: this is how you lose customers.

Toblinger Knoten / Torre di Toblin (October 2024) #silentsunday #landscapephotography #photography #dolomites #alps #mountains #hiking #cloudappreciation

Found this trove of Belgian #climbing movies. Most of them can be watched for free. Warning: features crazy Belgians and their antics! https://www.xpedition-films.com

I was always upset that my PhD advisor would read printouts of my paper drafts and correct my LaTeX by hand in the margins. I mean, not even seeing the code...? Now I'm reading paper drafts by my PhD students and collaborators as PDFs and also correcting their TeX code because I cannot stand […]

The Bear s03e01 ‘Tomorrow’: beautiful, soothing. I needed this after the barrage of ugliness today served up.

The book was reasonably good, but I did not really enjoy the tv version of ‘The Death of Bunny Munro’. https://boxd.it/cLTSGz

#language #mathematics #English #grammar .

If anyone is looking for an alternative to Strava and Komoot for route planning, Suunto has created a route planner that doesn't even require registration. https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2026/01/suunto-routeplanner-hands-on-details.html #running

I love Nan Goldin's work. And her 'Ballad of Sexual Dependency' is a milestone in #Photography in my opinion. I've only seen some prints in musea and the book. Still hoping for an opportunity to see the work in its intended form as a slideshow with soundtrack […]

Yay! During yesterday's PT session, we managed to bend my knee 90° for the first time since surgery. A small step towards #climbing again. Bonus perk: I can put on socks and shoes without tricks or assistance now 😅.

Excellent news: against the general trend of shrinking cinema attendance in the large venues, the local arthouse cinema is reporting growth. https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2026/01/13/opnieuw-bezoekersrecord-voor-leuvense-filmvereniging-fonk-vzw

I've enjoyed the Dilbert cartoons when I was a young software engineer. It was only later that I found out that Scott Adams, the author, was an awful human being. That knowledge made it hard to appreciate his work anymore […]

Watched 'The Banshees of Inisherin' (Martin McDonagh, 2020) on #vrtmax . A beautifully filmed, and well acted movie about male friendship and loneliness. And it proves that a movie doesn't need to last two hours or longer to be good.

Last night I dreamt I was so tired that I couldn't stay awake and missed an appointment. I even woke up for a bit (in the dream) realizing I had to get up but couldn't, and fell back asleep again. Dreaming about sleeping... weird, but not unpleasant.

Belgian climbers Sean Villanueva O'Driscoll and Nico Favresse in what is possibly the best advertising ever for Patagonia. #climbing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kni-AVRYwA8

I watched 'Joker: Folie à Deux' (Todd Philips) and I'm probably the only person that preferred it over the original one. Even the singing was tolerable and sometimes, not always, a relevant addition to the story. https://letterboxd.com/film/joker-folie-a-deux/

Seb Berthe and Hugo Parmentier #climbing 100 7A boulders in Fontainebleau in one day. Impressive, quirky, fun video showing the beauty of Fontainebleau. (French spoken but it has excellent English subtitles) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n17avpctprA

Fuck it, I'm too tired, I'm going to pretend it's still daylight savings time. Happy new year everyone! I'm off to bed now.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@farside_bot/115792832393480873 Was this funny at the time? Because this feels a bit too much like childhood trauma nowadays.

If you ever need to put on a sock when you can't bend a knee: this is a fantastic trick. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Aa3-QHy8OWg

I never knew it was called the “Moylan arrow.” But now that I know, I will call it that. It’s such a super simple, yet super valuable innovation. https://www.jalopnik.com/2061179/inventor-little-arrow-what-side-fuel-filler-is-on-dies/

I’m back 🎉. Very happy that the meniscus was repaired instead of removed. Despiite my age 😅.

I’m about to undergo general anaesthetic this morning. Don’t do anything funny with the world when I’m out, ok?

#thefarside #farside #comic https://www.thefarside.com/2025/12/20/1 “It’s Bob, all right ... but look at those vacuous eyes, that stupid grin on his face—he’s been domesticated, I tell you.”

What do you mean you don't obsessively count the number of chocolates in a tub of Celebrations every year and put the results into an Excel spreadsheet!? Anyway, the 2025 results are in: Bounty x5 Galaxy x5 Galaxy Caramel x5 Maltesers x5 Mars x9 Milky Way x9 Snickers […] [Original post on mas.to]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@vicgrinberg/115054349302146150 Because it's the time od the year when people start posting their yearly reading reviews - a reminder that "but how many of the xy books you've read do you really remember in detail?" only shows a deep misunderstanding of what reading […]

TMW the wind destroyed time https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ACADD3NKOG2QRWZ56OSNNG7UIEKKTZXL/

Fortunato Depero 1932 / Peter Saville 1981