It's getting a bit dark at midnight nowadays. Summer is so over. 🍂

How it feels posting on Bluesky instead of enjoying America on July 4th

I went to a birthday gathering, ate rye bread and cheese, and then mogged the room in doing pull-ups. 🧀

the person reading this scored 100% on this benchmark though 🥹

calling it now opus 5 is gonna be a chinese model

I bought this keyboard in 1998 and it has been my daily driver for the last 28 years. After nearly three decades of service the right shift key has failed. No amount of cleaning will seemingly revive it. I guess it's time to pick up one of those circuit pens and get to drawing some new traces.

Mad Quax: The Ponsonby Road Warrior

I'm asking my parents to rent a Hetzner server for me to host a blog, and nobody can stop my friends from subscribing via RSS without gutting the entire internet. 🚲

folks, don't use claude for slides. the style's immediately recognizable, it looks good, but it slides right over people's brains. in an era where sounding professional doesn't cost nothing to nobody, just some tokens, we're entirely free to be non-professional . embrace dreamcore wordart or smth

在香港，家居監控鏡頭越來越普遍，尤其是在有老人或小孩的家庭中。數據公司Statista的估算，2026年全港有超過46萬戶家庭在使用智能家居監控鏡頭。在家工作的外傭，難免一同成為監控鏡頭的拍攝對象，更有僱主用鏡頭來管理外傭的工作。 多數外傭並不反對家中裝設鏡頭，但真正令她們感到壓力的，是被監視帶來的不信任感。菲傭Eliza說，她不介意有鏡頭，卻不喜歡這種「被懷疑」的感受。有一次，她獨自在家打掃時，鏡頭突然轉向她並傳出僱主聲音，讓她意識到，鏡頭不只是看孩子，也在看自己。

If you see Nat, ACT & NZF MPs at Matariki events you might want to ask them why they are there given their ongoing work to undermine Te Tiriti and remove public use of te Reo Māori, Māori representation, etc. There’s a word for people who turn up to photo ops for something they oppose: Hypocrite.

Wonderful news: I have acquired *another* computer. 👍 It would be a little boost to get all my other computers fixed.

Getting my reps in -- "expressing desire" is not the same thing as "asking for something", and it [expressing desire] is so, so difficult. As with training anything, the only thing I need to do is "get my reps in" 🏋️, but I'm so, so weak in this...

Celebrated Jāņi (midsummer) in Latvia this year! Bonfires and dancing till dawn, flower and oak wreaths, songs about Saule, the sun goddess, that are older than the churches. The Baltics hold a surviving piece of old Europe in living tradition.

Yeah... Well why is it hard, huh? Why is it hard? Because, faced with the task of closing 60 tabs, by the time I made it to even just tab #4, already I triggered my browser into a half-minute freeze, because of software issues on my computer. My IT is *that* behind in terms of maintenance. 🤦

She said she hasn't been touched like that in a long time, maybe months. I said that merely knowing that she's out there somewhere, despite her lack of physical presence with me, already makes me feel noticeably better in my life. 🎭🎐

Ideas grow in the spaces you leave for them

The move is part of a raft of measures aimed at improving gender equality within the armed forces.

With the "your cells in your body lasts 7 years on average", even with extended timelines of ~15 years for muscle cells -- the last atom from China back in the day has probably left my body by now. 🎭🎐

It also helps to explain why a modern Finnish infantry platoon has about three times as many officers as most militaries. Partly because the default command expected of a Finnish military leader is "Follow me!". And that tends to lead to a lot of officer casualties.

Not sure why I haven't tweeted this before: the anxiety about LLMs "being life" or whatever, is immediately and significantly addressed, upon thinking about things from an entropy angle. 🌱

As a writer I can only aspire to create a single sentence this dense with implied horror

This only happens on the summer solstice. ☀️ At the Getty Library, this specially designed architectural feature is activated on the summer solstice. Watch as the light moves across the floor and perfectly aligns with the glass.

Decent Sunday productivity, despite juhannus/midsummer and the heat: closed 80 browser tabs.

There is a room you can pass slips of paper with Chinese symbols written on it, and it returns slips of paper with perfectly legible replies Inside the room there is an operator *who does not understand Chinese* receiving the slips and writing the replies Sitting next to him is a Chinese guy

"Teens might not plan ahead for their lives and have indiscriminate sex." "Teens might plan ahead knowing they won't get cervical cancer and have indiscriminate sex." Somehow two ideas that exist at the same time in people's heads about HPV vaccination.

I quoted a line of lyrics from 信乐团， and she said that it was really poetic. (We were talking about incels.)

I got bored and for *just one evening* spent a bit of time making some marginally-more-than-the-bare-minimum food, just to have something a bit interesting, but due to slightly compromising nutrition (and not having enough veges), I just felt shit after eating it. 🤦

Grilling/BBQ/Barbeque is right-wing coded, and none of my recent favourite foods (well, those with nutrition anyway) works well on a grill, but I realise that grilling might be the most easily-accessible high-wattage cooking method. 🤔📈

People don't give a shit about the nutrition of the food they eat, and also come to attack posts like this one:

菩提本无树，明镜亦非台。 本来无一物，何处惹尘埃！ ☸️ m.gushiwen.cn/shiwenv_d027...

The EU is making it easier than ever to ditch the car keys and hop on your bike. The upcoming World Bicycle Day on Wednesday is the perfect occasion to do so. With our European Declaration on Cycling, we are committed to boosting this experience for you:

It’s no big surprise that Trump’s DOJ is deleting all of the January 6th press releases from its website. Here’s the thing: I downloaded all of them in Feb. 2025 (that’s right, more than a year ago) suspecting that they’d do just that. And we’re working to post them all online, as are others.

"My hobby is to do economic production. My job is to stop the heat death of the universe."

She said that she's emotionally withdrawing a bit, because the seriousness made her feel scared, and that she's having doubts about me. I said that it's my honour that I'm now judged by different standards. 🌇

Finnish optimism:

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The Havis Amanda statue in Helsinki market square was shielded pre-emptively, fortunately:

i definitely feel like there arent enough hours in the day for me to do all the hobby coding i want to do

It's a cruel world… I've suddenly found myself at an age, when discussing parenting issues (e.g. "child throws tantrum"), that my friends my age empathized with the parent more than with the child. ⚫💔

I was talking to her boyfriend about computer hardware, screen-sizes in inches, when she popped over and quipped, "What are you guys talking about? Measuring dick sizes?" After a brief pause, he and I nonchalantly replied in unison: "yeah", and then continued our conversation. 😎

Insane that I'm reading this thread and it doesn't even narrow down which government I'm reading about. Our world is *that* bad. 🤦

Memetic fitness in action. 🟦🟥

然而沉寂下来后，又想通了。我向来不是要跟各种privilege加持的人做比较，我的人生态度，向来是以一个underdog的姿态，不断超载自我。 接下来一年，除了继续在生活和工作上努力，我还要开始制定计划，将弹跳提高10cm以上，在控球方向继续提升。争取明年给自己一个交待 - 不是为了别人，而是为了告诉自己：你能行。

I told her that if me ten years ago saw her ten years ago, then-me would feel uncomfortably incel and anxious and frustrated and ashamed and incredibly horny for her. 🎭

I spent ~5 hours with her, on a little outing by bike, as a date. I suddenly realised at one point -- that I may have never made out in the sun or on the beach. 🌱🍂

Github is totally broken. I click "load more" comments, and nothing happens.