*Venezuela*?!?!‽!

please refrain from bisecting my burrito _along_ _any_ _axis_

The season might be coming to an end, but our farm share is still going VERY strong. #kohlrabi

I got a new bag! It is very nice. (Have to do a bit of traveling this month and next, this'll help out.)

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The Steam Link is not real until you can rescue an imperiled Zelda with it

I have a 2330h-0030h meeting tonight and I very strongly hope that it's one of those ones that will be cancelled as soon as it starts

Wanna watch something horribly boring with me in it? You get another chance tomorrow! The 59th IANA KSK (key signing key) ceremony is tomorrow, and it will hopefully be the least eventful yet. I say that because I will be the ceremony administrator, and the fewer events (we call them […]

Its cold enough here that if you spit on a tesla it'll freeze and the asshole who owns it will have to scrape it off #dlws

@jalefkowit hey, do you mind if I ask what your home theatre setup is like these days? Running the numbers on my equipment longevity tells me I should be expecting a hardware failure sometime in the next year or two so I'm paying a bit more attention to panels, projectors, and […]

Headache, nausea, a bit of shivering. Not feeling great today. (I think the shivering may just be the result of stubbornly wanting the windows open for fresh air, but the rest is definitely suboptimal.)

It is almost midnight, and I am almost caught up on my timeline. Once I reach realtime I will put Pink Pantheress on the hi-fi, scrub all the dishes, then head to bed. VICTORIOUS

A bunch of my very dear friends are in uncomfortable (un)employment situations right now and my inability to make a substantial dent in improving their situations is very frustrating.

Apparently, the CPSC is still working and not yet compromised. Still putting out confusing meme references 🤪

I should make a batch of simple roasted-ingredient salsa verde. Ain't no reason to keep depriving myself of it.

Thalia Archibald has been transcribing old issue of #unix News from @internetarchive and John Gilmore's scans, and has the text up on github: https://github.com/thaliaarchi/unix-news #retrocomputing

[NYCpol / YYZpol, unkind] So Eric Adams was basically the Rob Ford of New York City, eh?

Going to be missing #monsterdon tonight for a friend's birthday party instead. May all your bikini'd vampires be beached! Good luck to you all.

Hey #BikeTO! @cycletoronto.bsky.social will be hosting a Bill 60 protest ride this Thursday. Leave 8 AM at Bloor & Spadina. #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero www.cycleto.ca/bill_60_prot...

Unpopular opinion: while I appreciate the convenience of milk in bags, I think I prefer waxed cartons because of the absence of plastic.

Friendly reminder: * Do not give #picathecat or any cat probably your SS number. * It is not a good idea to "let Pica keep your snacks and tuna safe for you" * Pica is NOT FDIC insured and any returns she promises on investments are for "fictional purposes only" * Pica knows NOTHING about […]

Got some of the first snow of the season in my cappuccino on our morning walk back home from the local patisserie. Nice way to kick off a Sunday morning. Might be time for a second coffee though, just so we're properly prepared for our third cup in just a little bit.

[uspol] This weight presses upon me every day. I am flooded with stories. There are so many I cannot remember them all; cannot keep straight who was gassed, beaten, abducted, or shot. I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado which tears through our city. I write to leave […]

This afternoon I went out with Katie, my sister, my brother, and his young daughter Sophia to Roy Thomson Hall to watch the Toronto Symphony Orchestra perform the score of E.T. (1982) in sync with a projection of the film. Sophia is just the right age for […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I had reason today to use a styptic pencil for the very first time. (Just a minor shaving nick in an inconvenient spot.) Functional!

This cat, I swear.. Every time I use this basket, after I empty out the clothes, Twig will hop in and demand a ride. So I have to carry him around the house until my arms get tired. #CatsOfMastodon

The Friendly fZ80 manual is up now. Yesterday's was pretty close. https://www.bleeve.me/fZ80/Friendly-fZ80-operators.pdf Will be printed in 6 x 9 size, glossy covers.

@jameskoole did you just walk out of theatre 73??

"Did Miss Piggy perform this song at some point? I'm having trouble pulling up a visual, but I have an oddly strong association. It was either a Muppet Show episode or a drag performance. Could have gone either way."

When you initially `git clone` a repo, the sending end must traverse the repo history to determine what to pack up. This is slow. A bitmap feature was added in 2015 to dramatically speed this up (and the design of that feature is now being finished to accommodate backfilling shallow/filtered […]

Let us please take a moment to appreciate the potato, arguably the pinnacle of comestible tubers: 🥔

@wordshaper hey, apropos nothing, I wanted to thank you for all your technical blog posts before and during the Perl 6 days. I learned a great deal, and that knowledge has served me well during my career. I really appreciate the work and care you put into making difficult topics understandable.

Going out tonight to see a friend perform in a musical (and join some other friends in the audience). Catching a screening of E.T. Tomorrow where the Toronto Symphony Orchestra is performing the soundtrack live with my brother, niece, sister, and Katie. Catching Predator: Badlands on Sunday […]

I would like to spend some more time in Hyrule. If work could slow down for a little while that would be just grand, please and thanks.

I just saw https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-i-am-not-a-cyclist-and-most-dutch-people-aren-t-either/ When chatting with English native speakers, e.g. at #bikenite, I always had the feeling that I'm not a cyclist as cyclist often meant doing cycling as a sport. And I don't do it as sport […]

Dropped off my bike for a hub gear oil change. Switching out to a lower viscosity mix for the winter months to diminish the chance of gummy shifting under power.

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973 Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum #retrocomputing

Toronto Cops finally release data on intimate partner violence after years of pressure to do so. 19300 reported cases per year. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-police-release-data-intimate-partner-violence-9.6967785

Aww dangit, I'm going to miss the November 22 Dumpster Raccoon screening of The People's Joker at the Revue, we're going to be out of the country then. ): Anyone want two tickets?

[Great British Bake-Off season 16, no spoilers] That was a really good season of #gbbo ! One of the stronger ones since it moved over to BBC4, I think. I still miss Mel and Sue, but Noel and Alison are both great. The bakers this year were _strong_, and I think the show producers may have […]

One thing I really appreciate about the Fedi is that you don't post pictures of your kids on here, at least not without blurring their face. Good job, parents of the Fedi.

I encourage every Albertan (and Canadian really) to listen to what UCP MLAs have to say about the notwithstanding clause, it boils down to something very simple: We support the Canadian Constitution, and that includes the notwithstanding clause, because we believe those rights were never […]

I don’t know what Knold is trying to say😸 #whiskerswednesday #catsofmastodon #catsoffediverse #cats #siberiancats #knold

Me at the supermarket last weekend: oh hey, these hams are like half the price of my usual brand! I could pick up a couple of them and keep them in the freezer and save a few bucks on sandwich lunches this month. Score! Me at lunch today: oh, now I understand why these hams were priced so low […]

I really hope that RatioZero gear-based CVT eventually makes it to market and succeeds. More specifically, I hope that it ends up with an implementation that works in a bicycle hub context in terms of size, weight, power transfer efficiency, serviceability, price, ergonomics, and noise. I love […]

Does anyone out there happen to know whether the Son/Nabendynamo *e-bike* rear light, which is rated to run on 6V to 12V DC input, will work acceptably well from a 5V DC input? #biketooter #mastobikes

We often make cilantro-lime rice with dinner¹. Last night I borrowed some stepson from how I usually make sushi rice: I added a bit of salt, sugar, and MSG after the primary cooking phase, though I left out the rice vinegar because the lime juice added enough acidity on its own. The result was […]

Question for PL nerds: programming languages with docstrings _and tooling that encourages interactive use of those them¹ ²_ really interest me. Does anyone know of a language or set of tooling that offers anything in the way of multilingualization for docstrings? 🙏🔄 ¹: e.g […]

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