I had to drag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Disappointment out in 1999, and in 2011. Don't make me drag it out again. The rapture was in 1844, people. Get over it.

So I haven't really watched television much this millennium. Are we really excited for The Man Show guy??

does that mean Jimmy Kimmel is a Disney princess

Bought pyjamas which look like proper clothes so I can do Teams meetings in them and no one will know, shhhhhhh

Wow, I just dug up my old #ZigZag (https://www.nongnu.org/gzz/gi/gi.html) diskette. I was at one of Roger Gregory's house parties in the Presidio, and #TedNelson demonstrated this software on a 486 resting on the floor. He then handed out these diskettes to […] [Original post on teh.entar.net]

I strongly recommend everyone use cookie autodelete. I laugh now at the dark pattern of "ACCEPT COOKIES" buttons next to "REJECT FOR A MONTHLY FEE". Sure, give me cookies. They'll last exactly as long as this tab is open, chumps, and I know it works because you show me this nonsense EVERY SINGLE […]

https://xpressreal.io/ ← Well dang, this is basically what I've always said I wanted out of an SBC: something about the size of an M.2 drive that could take an M.2 drive, and with enough RAM to just hang from a PoE wire and be a low-power server that could run circles around anything you had at […]

mastodon: "Fun Prank: Find someone nice and love them forever" [see also: people helping each other and talking about fixing their bikes, etc] https://mastodon.social/@donni/115245887793447990

Bumped into @willnorman.co.uk on Oxford Street today and told him pedestrianisation isn't going to go 'far enough'. What a stunning day. Huge crowds showing what is clearly overdue - the traffic needs to go and even then the street is massively crowded. Some of the cross streets had quite a few...

Today I learned: in 1919, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I, establishing the A note above middle C as a frequency of 435 Hz. In 1939, an international conference recommended that the note's frequency be changed to 440Hz, and World War II broke out […]

Since English is an Anglo-Saxon language, we refer to its speakers as "Anglophones". We missed a trick not being called "Saxophones".

In March this year I gave a talk at #monkigras about how Free Software didn't understand it had invented a labour organising movement, and the the predictable consequences of that realisation. It wasn't recorded. Here's a repeat I gave at #pyconau this week. ENJOY! […]

The pathbreaking series #captainpower and the Soldiers of the Future first aired 38 years ago today. I remember it so well! I covered the unique history and political debates surrounding the show in Episode 42 of the #starshipsofa #Podcast. #sciencefiction #dystopia #television […]

A bottle of beer, a drop of honey, and enough self-raising flour that it stirs into dough rather than batter. An hour in an oven at 180°. I used to do this as pizza dough, but it works great as actual loaves of bread too.

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.schliweb.makeacopy <-- oh hey, this looks like it could be a good replacement for open note scanner!

Hey liberals, I'll make you a deal. I'll vote, if you do something actually useful. Fun fact, I've already voted in every election I've been eligible to vote in. So you're gonna organize to feed houseless folks in your area, protect trans folks, run ICE out of your neighborhood, film the police […]

My head canon is that you all are cancelling your Disney+ subscriptions because it's on the BDS boycott list. https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott

This here is how you use the results of a consultation: it's not a plebiscite, but a channel for feedback. https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/115232661204978249

Since English is an Anglo-Saxon language, we refer to its speakers as "Anglophones". We missed a trick not being called "Saxophones".

So, my take away from this is that media is controlled by the few people still watching local nightly news? #uspol #newsmedia

computers were a mistake [remembers that I met my husband online] all computers not directly serving the purpose of socially interconnecting the world's weirdest 1% of people were a mistake

Bianca Dos Santos was crushed by a lorry crossing the notorious Battersea Bridge in August 2023. Two years later, in sentencing the driver, the presiding judge has said she "contributed to her own death": www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/2544526... LCC's Women's Network responds... 1/4

that way!

There's a trick for liberals who are still coming to terms with everything: from here on out, ask yourself "If this was a case in Putin's Russia, would I believe the evidence?"

At a time when there is precious little reporting at all, this long read provides a deep dive into what our unexpectedly repressive Labour government is about to inflict on trans people. If accurate, the EHRC’s wet dream will create a state in which people who operate toilets for use by staff […]

[groypers, US pol, kirk] If you think caring about a particular trans person means someone can't be a groyper you haven't interacted with any.

Gonna' tell the grandkids this was Dinosaur Sr. https://youtu.be/6yy2_NKJlkQ

WELCOME TO WINDSOR CASTLE, DONALD TRUMP 🏰🇬🇧 The British public greeted him with a gigantic banner right outside the castle where he’s staying with the King this week—funded by 1,770 people. This trip is all about polishing Trump’s image 🪞✨ so please […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Who could have figured out that automatically downloading half the internet and ten thousand always-changing dependencies every time you build could actually be a weakness?

npm was a mistake. the concept of pulling live dependencies that are not collectively managed by a QA team but each individually managed by many thousands of people with wildly varying skill and availability is inherently doomed to constant incidents.

Gonna' tell the grandkids this was Dinosaur Sr. https://youtu.be/6yy2_NKJlkQ

Queen

As a consoling thought, when you look outside of the so-called "Western World", it becomes clear that #fossifuels have already lost. The surge in #fascism around here is in part a last-ditch effort to prop up a failing business model. This might "work" for a while, but it can only delay the end […]

"A #terraform `map` is unordered. However `for_each` enforces lexical ordering over the map's keys. This is something that is going to really fuck up your day years from now"

Riveting public art together is actually pretty fun, as I happen to know: https://youtu.be/QakByu73sL4

Call me overly literal, but I'm disappointed that the Rosie the Riveter Memorial is, in fact, bolted and welded together.

I have a question about #ereaders, specifically those with #eink/#epaper displays. Why is it that they all seem to have "cover" images that replace the screen contents when they aren't fully powered up? I thought one of the great advantages of the e-ink displays was that they can keep […]

https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/#fn:2 The free web will never die so long as we never give up

y'all, my husband (not a tech guy) just managed to stumble innocently into Windows' biggest, deepest, darkest black hole of legacy hacks: "I was making textfiles with explanations of different D&D stats, str, dex, etc, but it wouldn't let me name a file con..."

Might have to take in a late commute tomorrow to get me some of that mahoosive tailwind... #biketooter

It's wild to think we used to watch TV on particle accelerators.

Finally, a public official taking the right position about honoring Charlie Kirk. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/14/charlie-kirk-iowa-governor-order-flags-half-staff

Hateful man. "In 1976, Bill Gates claimed in his Open Letter to Hobbyists that Microsoft Corporation was implementing APL for the Intel 8080 and Motorola 6800 but had "very little incentive to make [it] available to hobbyists" because of software piracy.[35] It was never released." From […]

The MMR vaccine is perfectly safe. Measles is not. MMR vaccine- studied for more than 50 years. Less than 1 in 1,000,000 chance of allergic reaction. No chance of death or permanent injury. NO evidence of increased risk of autism. Measles- 1 in 5 will die without hospitalization. 1 in 500 will […]

During discourse, do not insist on civility, but good faith. It should be acceptable for a person who has suffered a grave injustice to shout in rage, and it should not be acceptable for a charlatan to mislead with eloquence.

I don’t know how to better articulate this but I don’t think most cities in the Bay Area are cities

I think I'm finally able to continue my project to make a #VT102 compatible e-ink terminal, as I was able to find a copy of the original #Digital VT102 manual, documenting all those escape sequences. Does anyone else miss the days when there were […] [Original post on bitwoods.duckdns.org]

Also roughly 1,000,000 turned out to stop Brexit BBC News - Brexit march: Million joined Brexit protest, organisers say - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47678763 And somewhere between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 turned up to protest the second gulf war, sooooooooo

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia