Move purposefully and fix things. Move gently and nurture life. Move implacably and break chains.

This weekend and next in #cambridgema: **North Cambridge Family Opera presents "Weedpatch"!** http://www.familyopera.org/ > 🎵 We're Weedpatch! We blew in on a dust storm > Weedpatch! And we're here to stay > We may be broke, but we're not broken > No sir, no way! 🎵 An uplifting story from a […]

I love my city so much. Two nights ago a racist old lady was caught texting shitty ugly things at a Spurs game. Tonight at the Spurs game, there were CRAZY HISPANIC FANS t shirts, Mexican flags, a mariachi band, Mexican music, salsa dancing and an absolute love letter to the wonderful […]

@chetwisniewski Coming soon you will need two independent doctors to both agree that side loading is right for you.

This weekend and next in #cambridgema: **North Cambridge Family Opera presents "Weedpatch"!** http://www.familyopera.org/ > 🎵 We're Weedpatch! We blew in on a dust storm > Weedpatch! And we're here to stay > We may be broke, but we're not broken > No sir, no way! 🎵 An uplifting story from a […]

I wish I knew as much about my field as someone who watched a 15 minute Youtube video on the subject. They have a level of clarity that eludes me more and more the more I study.

Iocaine's source tree sure does have some filenames in it https://git.madhouse-project.org/iocaine/iocaine/src/tag/iocaine-3.2.1/src

If someone were to make a Godzilla film today, you'd have to have 40% of the population cheering everything Godzilla does, media pundits explaining why there were too many tall buildings in Tokyo in the first place, and the police arresting protesters for being anti-kaiju.

This actually happened?! The Great Male Renunciation. At the end of the 18th century, Western men decided they’d no longer wear bright colors and fancy shapes. That would be women’s clothes. Men would wear bland dark boring fabrics. THIS IS WHY I CANT DRESS LIKE THE PROUD PEACOCK I AM?? […]

I saw southern auroras last night!!!! Rakiura! Holy cow that was AMAZING (View from a bit south of Arthur's Pass, New Zealand)

Strikes by both sides on so-called upstream gas production facilities in recent days are a significant escalation in the war in the Middle East, with potentially long-term consequences. The strikes were the first time facilities associated with the production of fossil fuel energy had been hit […]

Happy "swap the winter cycling kit for the summer cycling kit" day to all who celebrate #cycling #biketooter

@gedankenstuecke The patterns describe here reminds me of a thing I desperately want: a standardized browser "Rage Quit" button. If you click that, it notifies the site ( sends a post to /.well-known/rage-quit perhaps ) before deleting all local cookies, cache, saved data, etc. Make the web […]

Kid found #potus in the dip. #carrotmussolini #coupdite #hummushair #orangejuliuscaesar

Kid found #potus in the dip. #carrotmussolini #coupdite #hummushair #orangejuliuscaesar

Wake up internet, another color debate drops. #whatcoloristheagave #ambervsblue #thedress

Live from the @repebble.com Time 2 production line! Things are ramping up slowly but surely. First 150 units will ship out this week to our fulfillment center. Lots more to come :) 🎥 Soldering battery terminals

> There's a saying in politics: "As New Hampshire goes, so goes the nation." That an effort to consider new ways to fund local services could devolve into death threats — and then silence by some leaders — shows how political discourse in America has become dangerously polarized, Arnesen said […]

https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2026-03-12/the-south-burlington-ice-raid-explained #vermont #ice #gestapo

So sick of scanning the changelog and commit history of every damn apt and flatpak update, scrying for possible supply-chain attacks. #itsecurity #kleptography

Interesting view from Peter Atkins at the RSC Historial Group - don't tell students that there's a lot of hard maths in chemistry. He argues that there's not a lot of real mathematics. There are a lot of physical ideas that are underpinned quantitatively. Tell students instead to focus on the […]

Untitled photo, possibly related to: On U.S. 99 as it continues through Oregon. Lane County, Williamette Valley, Oregon #Oregon #LaneCounty #WilliametteValley #Soda&Snacks #Sandwiches #DorotheaLange #USRoute99 #LaneCountys #undefined #photography […] [Original post on mastodon.ozioso.online]

China Wants Its Ethnic Minorities to Blend In. Now It’s the Law. Under a new “ethnic unity” law, Mandarin Chinese must now be the language of teaching. Parents must guide their children to love the Communist Party. Neighborhoods should be mixed. (gift link)

[bleak] happy(?) anniversary of the declaration of the SARS-nCoV-2 pandemic a thing that is definitely over and NOT happening anymore. infectious disease is so 2021, don't you know.

Despicable. https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-03-11/judge-orders-release-of-marlborough-14-year-old-detained-by-homeland-security h/t @universalhub #mapoli #uspol #dhs #icebait #crueltyisthepoint

Spent some time tonight documenting plow damage to #cycling infrastructure in #boston (Tremont St. and Arlington St.) #BikeTooter

On my way out I bought tickets for a different show and the guy running the register had a copy of "Caliban's War" out. Asked him if it was his read-through and he said he'd watched all of the show but it was indeed his first read. Spent some time gushing to each other about The Expanse, and I […]

Great video. Watch it!

If only we had listened to … Donald Trump

Jan. 6 plaque honoring police officers is now displayed at the Capitol after a 3-year delay www.npr.org/2026/03/07/n... Sadly, they didn't do this willingly, which is a shame.

Figures we get a women’s day and it’s only 23 hours

"זה כמו לפגוע בטאג' מאהל. אין עוד ארמון כזה בעולם" https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/architecture/2026-03-08/ty-article-magazine/.premium/0000019c-c8ce-db5a-a99f-d9cf61740000 אם אין לכם מנוי, הנה נסיון לחלץ משם את כל התמונות המרהיבות של ארמון גולסתאן (שהוכר ב–2013 […] [Original post on tooot.im]

I needed a new toilet supply hose. I wanted one with metal fittings on both ends (https://federate.social/@jik/110984580621613035). I couldn't find it locally so I needed to order online. I found it on HomeDepot.com, but I don't shop there when I can avoid it because Fuck ICE, so I searched for […]

RE: https://vox.ominous.net/@occult/116103841606429399 This is right out of the manual “How to run your own #mastodon server”

As long as the Western press continues to treat the KMT as a regular political party, it will never get the story of Taiwan straight. [See what I did there? 😜] China doesn't need to invade if it has one of the two ruling political parties in its pocket.

All that effort busting unions, and a single strike still took out their data centre.

The answer to problems in sociotechnical systems is not always "more software", "better software" or "open source software". A lot of the time the best solution is _less software_ and sometimes even _no software_.

I give you the comments of John Fetterman, the only Democratic Senator who voted not to limit Trump’s war of whim in Iran. I presume his views reflect the Trump regime’s and the Republican Senators’. 🧵1/

Magnificent photos of “big tusker” elephants, by Johan Siggesson. Big tuskers are elephants with tusks so large they scrape the ground. There are only 25 big tuskers left in the world.

I'm looking for a good overview of yesterday's elections. I'd like something that doesn't take a side ("We won!") or promote inside baseball views, but rather focuses on what voters voted for, and how that relates to historical patterns.

> The law locks up the man or woman > who steals the goose from off the common > but lets the greater villain loose > who steals the common from the goose. * English proverb, late 18th century #enclosure #privatization #openaccess

Starting in 2026, the National Endowment for the Humanities will only fund research on "Western civilization" Journalist: What do you think of Western civilization? Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.

2'41" firehose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR15xWFtu-s > 🎶️ the loogie of factions that the nation has hacked > is boiling and festering and stabbing itself in the back > who here is surprised by that > who here is blown aghast > if you wanna know the future > simply look into the past > […]

I keep seeing these ads for the upcoming Marathon game, "from the creators of Halo and Destiny." And I'm just over here, being old, remembering when Halo was a game "from the creators of Marathon."

TIL that long before Beatlemania there was Lisztomania! Lisztomania or Liszt fever was the intense fan frenzy directed toward Hungarian composer Franz Liszt during his performances.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@davidrovics/116154684445287695 Recommendations for streaming music services other than YT Music, Spotify, and Apple? I've put off cancelling YTM/Premium for too long. Everyone in my household loves streaming music, and I ain't got time to build a new home media server.

To my surprise, the State Police response to my public records request included more than an hour of video taken from the helicopter over the protest at the federal building on January 10. Potentially of interest, there were -four- people on the roof of city hall. They operated the drone. 1/?

Since it is Shabbat I'm going to keep my remarks brief.. 1. Preemptive US military attacks without Congression approval violate the US constituion. 2. Preemptive attacks by the USA and the state of Israel violate the UN charter, a treaty that both countries have signed. 3. The Iranian regime […]

A rare moment where you root for regime change in all three countries involved

For people who still care about this sort of thing, here's James Madison writing from 1793 (6 years after the delegates in Philadelphia signed the Constitution) about why the power to make war was vested in the legislature. press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/doc...