@meetar But his frriiieeeends just call him Oed.
Rot in hell, you smug monster, and may the people you killed in Chile, Cambodia, Palestine, Bangladesh, East Timor, Argentina … I’m sorry, I’m reading the wrong eulogy. I’m so sorry. https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/01/17/peter-schickele-p-d-q-bach-dead/
@brennen Everyone to one side of me is a permanently aggrieved bundle of ideological purity tests and grudges who runs Alpine Linux on a hand-loom and refuses to touch any artificial polymer, listen to recordings, or use acronyms; everyone to the other side is a superficial media Twitter schmoozer with a personal brand so big they have to walk through doors sideways, the political discernment of a Pekingese on MDMA, and a habit of telling stories hook-first. This is a documented fact.
@hannah craquelure, nicotine stains, Italian anime woman, aftermath of tragic firework accident, five-fingered hands, strange horizon, OMNI magazine, veil, upholstery colors, incredible genius, highest quality
@nelson Thank you! I got bogged down in a long post but it should start up again soon.
@beebalm Imagining a pirate who won’t let anyone touch the china in The Good Stateroom.
@sgillies Haven’t tried it, but the Lagunitas IPNA is solid.
@migurski @urschrei @fgregg Not as a primary cause, but contributing, I think, is that by 2007 python has a reputation for having a library for everything: https://xkcd.com/353/
@berd https://psb1558.github.io/Junicode-font/ may be of interest to you: notice the old-style punctuation spacing mode.
This piece is good. The refusal to rebut SA’s filing on the merits seems like an unforced error. A lot of us have had to learn to spot what it looks like when a powerful person is asked a question they know would hurt too much to answer, and this is the instance whose stipple portrait will be kept in the history books. South Africa is playing by the rules and doing the work in very thoughtful way here. https://foreverwars.ghost.io/south-africas-genocide-case-against-israel-is-serious/
@meetar Putting in this in my “to read more fully and consider at length” bookmarks folder.
I finally got around to creating some lists here on Mastodon:
- Internet royalty
- Embalmed persons
- Those who are highly trained
- Those who use the word "octothorpe"
- Strays
- Members of the Antimemetics Division
- Those included in the present classification
- Those who shiver as if they are cold
- Those who are not countable
- Components of group minds
- Others
- Those who have just broken a cherished coffee mug
- Those who from a long way off look like punctuation
You know him on the internet. Eucalypt-adjacent; very occasional writer. Consulting and passively looking for work in geospatial, image processing, and related fields.