Mini of the month - Rebirth Entry 8 by @lupusamicus.bsky.social Everything that ends is also the beginning of something else. #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

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JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate. Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards. With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43. Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.

This is a great recipe, and really adaptable to whatever you have around. I’ve made it a few times, and the fruit/veg mix is always different and delicious.

Listen, the world kind of sucks. So, some of us paint on it. And that's the main thing.

Kid2 is eating tinned sardines with a fork for breakfast. Not what I expected, but he loves it. Also, according to him, he is an actual bird, an owl. So, there’s that.

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

Oh yeah. I was just showing clips of "The Great White North" to some students to try to explain why one of my programming jokes was funny. Q: Why is 6 afraid of 7 in Canadian hexadecimal? A: Because 789A.

4/7 of the way done with this really annoying project for work. Made a lot of progress today. Need to finish before Feb 9th.

Breaking out a new tool for the Wraithlord's base, a leaf punch! Autumn leaves scattered across the ruins of Aeldari civilization. It's metaphorical, innit! #Nerdlings #WarhammerCommunity

Journalist Georgia Fort has been released from custody (video @fox9mn.bsky.social)

I really hope they start selling this in the US.

Is today the day the bubble pops?

DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:

Nothing says "nothing to see here" like scrubbing the page to a Page Not Found

Lock them up and throw away the key. And most of the worst pages are now "file not found" like they tried to hide them after release.

AHHHH UNCANNY VALLEY BEN FRANKLIN - KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!

A whole new gen-AI issue: I have many students who basically only speak Spanish, & we heavily use Google Translate to communicate. It mostly works ok. The problem is that everything they hand in gets flagged as 100% AI generated, & I can't tell if they generated the whole thing, or just translated.

Actual line in an email I just got from my school principal: "The space currently used for the staff wellness room will be repurposed for In-School Suspension (ISS)." Welp, that sure communicates an awful lot more than I think was intended.

Dare I hope that the Democrats don't find some way to fuck this up?

There a lots of stls out there for 3D printing these. Definitely a bigger time commitment than the whistles I’ve been printing so far, but wow, that’s a sound. makerworld.com/en/models/67...

AHHHHHHH go support this beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Uh. So ICE just technically tried to invade Ecuador. Cool new international incident dropping.

I'm teaching a web-based VR unit, using A-Frame and Javascript to create interactive 3D worlds that students can share and run directly in browsers on computers, phones, or tablets. I graded a few things during our programming time, came up for air, and precisely 0 students are doing the assignment.

Kids also love Herbie Hancock www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKoi...

Reporter from the Washington Examiner, so grains of salt, but huge if true:

A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on.

As an American, I encourage everyone outside this country to boycott the World Cup and boycott the Olympics. We deserve it.

Hey, New Mexico friends, I have three tickets to tonight's Welcome to Night Vale show in Albuquerque that I'm not going to be able to use. If anyone wants them, DM me or let me know in the replies.

The kind of guys who couldn’t organize snacks for a youth soccer team or a kid’s birthday party. Absolutely loathsome and pathetic.

Another quick nid: Hive fleet behemoth-ish, again using just the speed paint markers.

I WANT MORE ELECTED DEMS TO SAY "future prosecution of ICE agents."

Had to do some hobby to clear my mind. Tried out the ArmyPainter speed paint markers on a quick Hive Fleet Jormungandr nid while the kids watched a movie. Also had to go out to the protest/vigil at the capital. #nerdlings #FuckICE

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

So I watched the shooting video frame by frame and it looks like: 1) They were beating a struggling man with batons 2) His jacket opened revealing a gun in his waistband or lower back 3) The agent in gray grabbed the gun and was walking away 4) THEN the other agents shot the man in the back

The officer in the grey jacket enters the altercation unarmed, reaches over the man as others hold him down and then walks away with a pistol in his hand. It appears that this officer managed to disarm the suspect prior to the first shots.

Minneapolis police confirmed that the man ICE killed with a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry. bsky.app/profile/atru...

There’s a word for standing above someone lying wounded in the street and firing multiple shots into their prone body.

"I do think parents should absolutely have the right to let their toddlers stand on the front seat of a moving car, right in front of the airbag." "I do think parents should absolutely have the right to let their children play with rusty knives & cocaine." Not vaccinating your kids is child abuse.

I can think of a few - avoiding a car accident (almost sandwiched by tractor trailers), surviving a roll-over, ending up on the hood of a car when a drunk friend tried to drive away in HS and I tried to stop him. All car related. But it is chilling to think I might have been closer and not know.

I mean, yeah. Look no further than Schumer and Jeffries complete inability to stand up to, or even seriously talk about, ICE abuses. BUt afForDAbILitY...

As clergy pray, arrests begin

Ghost town here at school this morning - less than half in second period, and the storm's not supposed to hit until later this afternoon.

nine years old

BREAKING: An investor group led by former Penguins biz president Kevin Acklin has formed and is looking to convert the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette into a nonprofit, he tells me. Development comes after PG announced earlier this month is would fold in May www.axios.com/local/pittsb...

You're watching BBC Scotland.

Thread well worth reading. And as an archaeologist, I love and respect the care taken here.