The contagion of fear
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/the-contagion-of-fear/
Highly recommend blocking registrations from this email domain. Context: https://tedium.co/2026/09/11/ilands-agents-email-spam-kaixin-tang/
Oh yeah, reminding me, wasn’t Trump going to end the Ukraine war immediately upon taking office?
"He Was Giddy" - Even Lord British Has Succumbed To The Allure Of GenAI | Time Extension
“I’m not going to say the Russian secret service is involved, because I pretend not to know […] I don’t know — theoretically. In reality, I do know.”
German reporter Angelique Geray has gone undercover to reveal how a prominent member of the German party BSW is recruiting Putin supporters on telegram. The recruits are used to carry out operations inside Germany.
BSW won 5.3 of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt recently and could help AfD form a government.
German article:
@randahl For making up the "prominent member" part, e.g. lying, I will now perma-mute you.
Thank you for playing.
@decryption @jon @simon I am feeling this too with my work. I would take so many more design risks and be so confident on site as projects were being built but now I just overthink and stress about everyhitng!
@ericg the Spanish one or the Polish one?
Raw brainpower is overrated.
Your only real edge is the willingness to sit with an unresolved problem.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/your-edge-is-patience-not-genius
Something like that, attributed to Henry Ford, was on our refrigerator facing me at the dinner table through most of my childhood. Because there's some sense in it, I'm relieved to see that Ford was not the author. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/01/12/persist/
@decryption , earlier: modern cars are so shit
This guy, this morning: hold my lime green Tesla with clip-on carbon-fibre rear spoiler
@jpm @decryption Hey, it's hideous, but you've just done the 25 stunt jumps challenge and want everyone to know about it
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🥳 Just discovered omg.lol yesterday, and got my address today.
@player Welcome to social.lol 😊
'80s Australian nerd shit
https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-dick-smith-vz200-without-dick-smith.html
@davidgerard Microbee is the king
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U.S. President Donald Trump has defended his remarks calling for the unification of Ireland as "fairly routine," standing by comments that have sparked a controversy in Northern Ireland. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/14/world/trump-irish-unity-uk-uproar/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #uk #ireland #us #donaldtrump #republicans
half meter vernier caliper. Want.
putting a cap on my car research by writing a blog post about all the things that piss me off about new cars in 2026 - probably going to put up with my EX30 for a while longer, maybe some better cars will go on sale next year
@decryption pauses research so as to afford a Duo to use for a few months 😂
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