HOI4 has grown on me. I still don’t know what I’m doing, but I’ve learned enough where I’m starting to get it and I want to keep playing and get better. Though still only time I play is multiplayer with my son. My priorities right now are such that I don’t game by myself.

I have zero motivation to play video games lately, other than whatever my son wants to play with me, which right now is Hearts of Iron 4, which feels like an office job I should be paid to do lol. It’s cool to be familiar with what he’s into at least.

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

Wow, you like to travel? That’s crazy, in my culture, we hate travel, we prefer to spend our free time configuring Linux images.

It’s crazy that it’s basically just a combination of the single worst most disastrous parts of every administration in history

Hillsborough County Democrat Party fundraiser at Crowbar: www.crowbarybor.com#/events/165633 Tickets: tickets.venuepilot.com/e/engage-202... You should go to this! #Tampa #Hillsborough

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Abolish ICE

Still miss Lina Khan being FTC chair, but glad to see her in this role.

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

What we know, final edition of the night: [Now in 3 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

What we know, 10:20pm —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, *and* AG —BIG Dem gains in VA House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani wins —Dems keep PA supreme court —Larry Krasner & Bragg win — GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices —JD Vance’s half-brother loses Cincy —Dems sweep Orlando council —ME anti-mail vote measure loses

happy halloween to what many people believed was the greatest tweet of all time

No one likes Trump

On #macOS Tahoe, Emacs.app GUI from Mitsuharu Yamamoto's emacs-mac 29.4 build was consistently freezing using 100% CPU, as was emacsformacosx.com build. Recently started using Doom, but w/ no config same issue (ran ok in terminal) Seems to be solved using d12frosted/emacs-plus 30.2 build #emacs

Another day for this prophetic vision

I miss Lina Khan being FTC chair so much

Do NOT upgrade to macOS 26 (Tahoe)

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Got some pool time in before the thunderstorm

I was cleaning out the dust on my SFF PC (that sits next to the TV) and Luna was curious what I was doing and hung out and watched #pc #pcgaming #dogs #gaming

Blue sky effect

[accidentally entering a rap battle] I uh, I got flows like oauth

Jessica Vaughn's ( @jessicavaughn.bsky.social ) closing comment during the 2025-08-26 Hillsborough County School Board meeting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy4e...

Tech discussions are a lot more lively / active on Mastodon and I might post more tech stuff there going forward: hachyderm.io/@nileshk This place is still great as a more general Twitter replacement though. I’ve been trying to use Openvibe to do both at the same time, but doesn’t vibe right to me

Preparing to install #Linux on my gaming PC, need to pick distro. Narrowed down to #Debian 13 or Endeavor / #Arch. I know stable vs rolling release is quite different but hard to predict my usage patterns & which will serve me better.

iOS Bluesky client bug. Shows “1mo” for both but the post I’m reskeeting is 1 month before my post (should be “2mo”). It makes it seem like they were both 1 month ago from now, which detracts from how I was trying to show that Max correctly predict an event that happened about 1 month after his post

Started the #vim built in vimtutor and that is helping. Years ago I got better at #emacs by starting with its built in tutorial and I would recommend that as a starting point.

Trying to get better at #vim has been a struggle so far, and I'm a long ways off from learning the equivalents of things I can do quickly in #emacs / mg. But its only been 2 days with sparse usage. I also have expectations of what vim is capable of, and constantly looking up how to do things.

Not installing #emacs or ng on a #linux server I am working on and forcing myself to use #vim. I might finally give in and learn vim properly after 3 decades of avoiding it. #unix

Happy 813 day to those that celebrate #Tampa #EightOneThree

civilization vi leader two turns before you destroy his lone attacking trebuchet unit with a missile cruiser

If you're in Tampa and live in District 5, I've been collecting campaign site links for the candidates to help folks learn more about the dozen plus running for the seat.

Kind of a haunting precedent that America’s dumbest newspeople are going “yeah sure I believed in a deepfake saying things you never said but the deepfake did sound like you so really it’s your problem”

The option to disable this seems to have disappeared in 2025.2 which I noticed on a coworker's machine it looks like they are stuck with it on (I am stuck with it off which I am ok with). Someone filed this issue but no response: youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-1...

“he stole her” implies he thinks he had ownership of her

We would very much like to play poker with that 13%

My wife doesn’t let me listen to polyrhythms. “One rhythm at a time” she tells me

A problem we have is people not being able to understand that “annoying” things are not as bad as “actual problems”, its annoying when people don’t get jokes on Bluesky, it’s an actual problem when people brainwash themselves into thinking tax cuts for the rich is standing up to the nation’s elites

I guess this works

Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.

Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit. It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.

The Coldplay / CEO thing is a distraction from the real issue we should be focusing on right now — Trump / Epstein

Art

Partially 'lol Intel', but more 'well that's not good'

When I watched Superman the other night we were in a theatre which was supposed to have good quality projection (Dolby Vision), but I was surprised I noticed how poor the motion clarity was in panning shots. Has it always been this way? I am a bit spoiled by our plasma TVs at home.