https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-schumer-move-towards-deal-avert-us-government-shutdown-nyt-says-2026-01-29/ What's not mentioned? ACA Subsidies. They say to keep health funded but not specifically the ACA subsidies. That's going to hurt the Dems again.

My current front yard. It is currently 21F outside. We are supposed to get more of a storm but so far the sleet has started and stopped and made everything pretty and white.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/23/james-cameron-left-the-us-permanently-covid-new-zealand This kind of shows the difference between rich and poor. The rich people who can make a difference given their money, status, and celebrity ca resist and help other citizens resist and yet they […]

Being the Linux nut that I am I've decided to use Kate as my lightweight IDE and just set Kate to be able to look and activate virtual environments. I'm using Kate since I'm use the KDE Plasma desktop. Time to code with Kate for a while and see how it is.

Trump told the Swiss that without America, they'd all be speaking German. The Swiss speak... German.

Half the street corners around Minneapolis have people — from every walk of life, including republicans — standing guard to watch for suspicious vehicles, which are reported to a robust and entirely decentralized network that tracks ICE vehicles and mobilizes responders. I have been actively […]

Watching what is happening in Iran and all I can think of one thing. Are US citizens prepared to lose the Internet/Cell/Phone service when the protests are too big and the US gov shuts down access? It's time to start building mesh networks. Not the ones sold by some corp but personal networks […]

they are idiots... you can copy and paste the text from some of the epstein files to unredact it... absolute idiots...

I was told to expect a cyberpunk dystopia, so no surprises there. But it's much brighter and hotter and people don't dress as well as I had been led to expect.

Stole this from FOSS weekly newsletter. And this is why I accidentally bonked my dual boot surface pro 7 set up and bricked it. And why for my Surface Pro 7+ I just removed windows altogether before I even logged into the machine. I just disabled secure boot and installed Fedora with kDE […]

Apparently my lovely government is in a state of histrionics over... fonts. Marco Rubio, a republican legislator has issued a stern memo to reverse changes to fonts described as more readable and accessible by some disability advocates. Conservatives regard "inclusion" and "accessible" as dirty […]

"Rainbow alert!" – my partner, letting my kid and me know there's an active rainbow. #sanfrancisco #sfba #sfbayview #bayviewsf #rainbow

No, but you see, Mastodon is too confusing because it has *two* at signs! Celebrities will never be able to work it 🫠 Seriously, BSky has shown you the perils of centralised social media. No need to fall for it again.

Is it weird that I haven't looked at Mastodon in three days during an election? I find it really cool that it's just here when I need it and I don't feel like it's taking up my time. Now, books, they are taking up most of my time. I'm just reading books. Life is good...

Donald Trump cut funding for pediatric cancer research.

I refuse to call anyone an influencer anymore. You either have a job or not; telling me about some "product" when you have no education, no experience, and no connection to me. Yeah, hard pass your just another ad shill on the Internet. I don't watch live television either so I can skip the […]

Happy 100th, Seymour Cray! I never met Mr. Cray, though I did visit Cray Research in Chippewa Falls once.

So, @scalzi posed with me for the Sword and Laser Podcast @swordandlaser. Thank you sir!! #swordandlaser #scalzi #john_scalzi

Meanwhile in America....

I bought two ebooks today. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and Walkaway by Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic ). And I got an email from Mr. Doctorow and it was an actual communication. It was nice to actually hear from an author it's only happened three other times in my life. #grateful

We see this over and over. A community embodying a particular piece of software (#python, Linux, The Gimp, whatever) becomes successful. Then, you get people waving torches and pitchforks and rioting in the streets because THEY'VE TAKEN ALL THEY CAN AND THEY CAN'T TAKE ANYMORE. But here's my […]

'...filed statements by Scott Bessent, the treasury secretary, Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, and Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, warning that such a decision would be a “dangerous diplomatic embarrassment” for the US' […]

Yes, there’s another phishing campaign contacting fediverse users to fill out a form to avoid being suspended or whatever. Stay calm and just report them and be sure to check the option to inform their home instance so the account gets suspended for everyone. Also, please consider enabling […]

https://youtube.com/shorts/V4B5PLgYz38?si=QhQ0-SqaePSog0HS If one immigrant crime against a United States citizen is too many, then why is more than a dozen mass shootings okay with the GOP? Mass shootings kill more United States citizens than immigrants have. Period.

1. Lay off the National Parks Service staff responsible for trash pickup landscaping in DC parks. 2. Wait a couple months. 3. Call in National Guard to pick up trash and do landscaping in DC parks.

This year: Annunciation Catholic School, Minneapolis, MN Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology, Inglewood, CA Florida State University, Tallahassee FL Pasadena Memorial High School, TX Antioch High School, Nashville, TN

The #EU just leapfrogged #China by #GDP. We also have: 🗳️ Democracy & Fundamental Rights 💼 Strong #SocialRights and reasonable working hours 🧑‍⚕️ #UniversalHealthCare 🌿 Strongest environmental protection in the world. 🇪🇺 gets a lot of stick, but we compete […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]

I love reading advertising trade papers. They are so earnestly engaged in finding ways to manipulate our emotions to sell product and I think once to see that the glamor is broken. It doesn't feel good to be manipulated. I was definitely manipulated by this kind of advertising as a teen, and […]

Good thing the felon in chief is tackling prices for that quaint old fashioned thing, "groceries."

Happiness is...loading up Mastodon and reading a few posts from people I follow, and then about 3 minutes later, closing Mastodon because I've read all the updates that I find relevant. An algorithm didn't reorder anything and I didn't see a post I needed to engage with more than reading it […]

We are in the age of 'YES-PEOPLE'. Our current President has nothing but YES-PEOPLE in office. The C-Suite is also now totally engaged with YES-PEOPLE. And not Big Tech has given their greatest creation to mankind, LLMs that will do everything to say YES to you. LLMs do not think but they will […]

New #wetleg concert on Tiny Desk! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzUHNjKMeV4