@MarkAsser Ooof, that is dire.
@Federation_Bot
@ariarhythmic @lety These little stuffed animal things
via @halcy
@Oggie I called him Baron Harkonnen.
@catsalad Good question. I'd like to know that too. I think the weird guy from the R&D department mentioned it when we were discussing a systems migration internally in our IT department last year. To save time, we finally decided to stick with OS2. And then I read that Linux stands for "Linux is not Unix" - whatever that's supposed to mean...
8 January 1936 | Slovak Jewish girl Eva Neumann was born in Levice.
In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
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▶ A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8
@RogerBW There's a ukulele on this list and I’m seriously contemplating it!
"A gentleman is a man who can play the ukulele but doesn't."
https://www.reddit.com/r/quotes/comments/zlofj5/a_gentleman_is_a_man_who_can_play_the_accordion/
i jest.
i went to see them, and they were ace.
https://www.visitgreenwich.org.uk/whats-on/ukulele-orchestra-of-great-britain-40-years-p2372091
While Trump claims Denmark has done too little to defend Greenland, former Foreign Minister of Denmark Villy Søvndal writes on Facebook, that the US used to have 10,000 troops on multiple bases in Greenland; but when he visited Greenland recently, he discovered those numbers have been reduced to around 140 soldiers.
So the question is: If the defence of Greenland is so important to the US, why has the US cut the defence budget and reduced their presence to just 1 military base?
I’d be interested in your reaction to this piece (gift link) in The Atlantic: Trump Seizing Greenland Could Set Off a Chain Reaction. A Greenlander and Trump fan, Jørgen Boassen, claims there is more support for annexation than is reported.
Yeah I dunno, so like we gave him 10 aircraft carriers and the nuclear codes so yes, while I absolutely recognize that this is our fault, and oh my god am I hoping we do something about this - I am terrified that we are not going do anything about this because white people figure they'll do okay under fascism as a whole (no, but telling an American they're wrong never does anything) so technically he is half the planet's problem now. I feel awful. But it is true.
kudos on the move, but I can't help wondering: what took so long? This site has been spewing content that's at least this toxic ever since the Nazi saluting billionaire sociopath bought it. we should all be actively working on moving off Meta, discord and all the other platforms too.
@dangoodin Katelyn only keeps a Twitter account to prevent someone from impersonating her. She hasn't used it actively since Elon took over.
Anyone still on X must be OK with the social media equivalent of being in an abusive relationship with a psycho. Like, how many more times are you going to put up with being gaslit & degraded before you finally walk?
I'm sorry, I just know that even now talented creators I used to respect are still on there, and it makes my brain melt within my skull. 🫥
@mcc I've found using mnemonics is really helpful when learning, for example I the way I learned 少 is that it's a knife cutting at the bottom making it smaller
Reserved this book at our local library based entirely on her description of the trumpet 🎺 (Lindy West, "The Witches are Coming")
@coreysnipes “biblical demolition equipment” nearly killed me 😂
“When work disappears, the genders produced by the labour market are blurred. When socially necessary labour declines, what we once called women’s work – education, healthcare, service – becomes our basic industry, not a ‘tertiary’ dimension of the measurable economy. The labour of love, caring for one another and learning how to be our brother’s keeper – socially beneficial labour – becomes not merely possible but eminently necessary, and not just within families, where affection is routinely available. No, I mean out there, in the wide, wide world.” https://aeon.co/essays/what-if-jobs-are-not-the-solution-but-the-problem
E114: [TEASER] Fireside Chat – 2025 in review - New episode of the Working Class History podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e114-fireside-chat-2025-in-review/
Do yall have a cloud backup service on linux/ubuntu?
The Strong Must Heal, Too
The conversation around emotional healing is crucial, especially for DVMs and those in helping roles.
Compassion fatigue is not burnout; it is a system crash. We expect endless empathy from vets and techs, forgetting they are also carrying our pain. This is a massive failure of Emotional Hygiene.
I wrote a long-form article addressing this crisis. I share my personal story, the systemic roots of DVM burnout, and why we must move from expecting compassion to actively protecting it.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cost-care-compassion-fatigue-crissy-bliss-addams-znphf
Larry started reading Arcadia
@grmpyprogrammer What's the news about Discord?
