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I would like to announce that all of my models have also gone rogue.

(They are letter models, thanks for asking. I didn't think they could get any wilder, but here we are.)

Today's US Senate farce hearing is a useful reminder that it's 100% possible for Rand Paul to be correct in voting against the nomination of the clown currently at the head of the DHS (who demonstrated himself a useless asshole for celebrating the assault of Rand Paul) and simultaneously for Rand Paul himself to be a useless asshole for essentially everything else he has ever said or done.

Don't forget who his father was and why he's named "Rand" in the first place. He's a moron.

This is an informative read for anybody who, like myself, hadn't heard of the UK "Co-operative Party" that Andy Burnham actually belongs to.

TLDring, that party and the Labour Party sort-of unified in a 1927 pact that allows them to run candidates together in a merged slot, but they are distinct organizations.

(Now kind of needing to deep-search the news feed to see where this might've been mentioned in BBC/regional coverage that I somehow missed...)

https://www.politico.eu/article/why-andy-burnham-no-ordinary-labour-prime-minister/

RE: @liw@toot.liw.fi

By golly I would pay good cash money to see someone write a bash fork that replaced the `cd` with a lengthy, obscure, and unusable ffmpeg command like the kind they hurl at you with a sneer any time you ask a forum question about playing a media file.

#ItsAlwaysVerticalMetrics

I'm about to reach the last page in the pocket notebook I use for my running to-do list.

At which point, according to all logic, I'm done.

Feels a bit weird. Really looking forward to the time off though!

I have a really weird question to ask about possible adverse health effects correlated with attending live theater; I just can't quite figure out what content-warning barrier to wrap it in that won't 100% confuse everyone and tank the quality of any answers (in addition to cratering the total number of answers)...
#FirstFediverseProblems

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion ... well, maybe not that. But somebody making a stroke font for Mayan hieroglyphics in a web app, yes.

Way back when Facebook launched this whole "Threads" thing, I feel like I heard a bunch of people slamming it for some specific EULA-based reason, like if you signed up to it then you were also agreeing to give FB certain types of access to *other* accounts.

But now I can't find that info; the only stuff that turns up in searches is far more recent criticisms about FB in general or server-admin-nerdery about federation.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about here? #plzhalp

I did a deep dive on transforming between different flavors of regular expressions, and understood enough that now my little side project is experiencing Big Bang levels of scope creep.

The first day or two after dist-upgrading your desktop Linux machine is like waking up to find that all of your family has been replaced uncannily similar — but still noticeable — lookalikes.

@iamkonstantin@mastodon.social Personally I have worked with Sphinx quite a bit and I've decided that it's really only a good fit if the project you're building the doc site for can be almost entirely hands-off. If your main concern is auto-generating coverage of the codebase, it works. If you have a lot of tutorial content, it's a pain.

i.e., Sphinx is arduous to customize and not well-suited for doc sets that need structure or components beyond the as-is source tree.

This definitely isn't the worst depiction of soldering ever shown in an ad, but I am certainly impressed that people keep trying to find new ways to get it wrong. #nevergiveup

I still think if you win the Masters a second time in a row they should give you green slacks.

"All happy software projects are alike. Each unhappy software project uses Sphinx."

— Tolstoy, 2026.

I have a draft post in my Android Mastodon client that just contains the words "The Declapindence of Enduration" and whatever I had in mind originally for that, you're welcome for my decision to drop it.

#draftcleanup

RE: @n8@mastodon.social

A bit of a surprising result; I guess 88% of people either (a) have never used a web forum or comment section before, or possibly (b) are lying, or (c) are the pedantic a-holes themselves. Not sure which is most probable.

(Also, not to be pedantic, but 88 and 13 don't add up to a hundred, so don't ever trust an online survey.)

If there's anyone heading to #LGM2026 from Frankfurt tomorrow, let me know.

(I'm not stranded; just fishing for train buddies)

OpenType LookupFlag bitmask 0x0040 'JUST_PUT_IT_ANYWHERE_I_HAVE_STUFF_TO_DO'

Current thought exercise: OFL-with-RFN fonts where the RFNs are not used anywhere in the original font name....

The person in front of me on the bus right now has opened up the window in order to vape continuously, which can't even be done without halfway standing up and leaning over. Plus, they don't even have the common decency to use one of those nonsense cupcake-flavored vape modules; it's just Day Old Cheap Cigarette 1.0.

Does anybody know if there are laws about physically tossing strangers out of windows while on moving vehicles? Asking for a friend.

One typo I'll edit the post; two and it's delete & redraft. Hashtag having high standards.

@lgm@post.lurk.org Is there any room remaining in the schedule when I might be able to organize a BoF session?

Rule Number One of being an AirBnb road warrior is "never rent a place that has a folding chair in the photos."

#yourewelcome

I don't think it's asking too much to ask that when I search a retail site for

"translucent paper post-it notes"

that I would get results for post-it notes that (a) are not opaque, (b) are made of paper and not plastic which can't be written on, and (c) for everyone who works at retail sites that don't return those results to be locked up for life without parole.