George Budd @Gbudd@qoto.org

This should be on TV every day, possibly multiple times per day…. #AI

Just overheard 2 workers building the house next door:

Worker 1: Know any trans women?
Worker 2: Yeah, my kid’s GF

Worker 1: Your kid’s a homo?
Worker 2: She calls it queer

Worker1: What do you call it?
Worker2: Her god damn business. Fuck off.

#Props

Dumb #vim trick:

Have a bunch of files open in multiple windows and want to jump to the first (or last) line in all of them?

:windo 1

or

:windo $

and done.

If you use tabs instead of windows, you could use :tabdo instead.

or you can jump to the next instance of /pattern/ in all open windows/tabs with

:windo /pattern
:tabdo /pattern

or the first/last (assuming you have 'wrapscan' set) with

:windo $/firstpattern
:windo 1?lastpattern

Dr. Alaa al-Najjar left her 10 children at home when she went to work in the emergency room. Hours later, the bodies of 7 of her children arrived, most of them badly burned. In total, the Israeli military killed 9 of her 10 children by burning them to death. Horrific. This is genocide. This is a holocaust. Enough.

https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/holocaust/?ref=lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid-newsletter

Said it privately to someone else, but I’m starting to think Spock has a goatee in this timeline.

"DRIVE! DRIVE THE DAMNED BOAT! Oh hell no, I ain't goin' back in the water. That whale wants to EAT ME." - The Seal
#humor #voiceover

I went to the zoo yesterday and saw a baguette in a cage. It was bread in captivity.

If you’re still complaining about DEI at this point, we know what you really are.

This is for Americans who don’t agree with how Trump is threatening Canada.

Thank you.

Any ire that you see me (or, I believe, any Canadian) post here is not directed at you. I know there are millions of you. I know you are trying. I know some of you feel hopeless and maybe even despondent, but know this.

Canada loves YOU. We always will.

Yes we are very angry at your leader and the people around him, and even at your country, because the President, is the Country, in a sense, but we know there are good Americans who never wanted any of this.

We know you will stand up for us. And if you need us, we will stand with you too. Because that’s what friends do.

Google is so powerful that it "hides" other search systems from us. We just don't know the existence of most of them.
Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information.

Keep a list of these sites for reference:

https://refseek.com

https://worldcat.org

https://link.springer.com

https://bioline.org.br

https://repec.org

https://science.gov

https://base-search.net

By Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz, via https://bsky.app/profile/mweinstock.bsky.social

Ann Telnaes is brilliant.

"A purge at the Kennedy Center

Trump is "elected" chairman after firing existing board members"

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0930810-bcae-4910-bc4b-951e78ceca0e_1650x1650.jpeg?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

It is once again time to give thanks to Brian Fox, the Black American programmer that has given us BASH and echo! Thank you for your INCREDIBLE contributions to open source software, Unix, and Linux. It literally would not be the same without you. BASH is still absolutely foundational to all computing today. Happy Black History Month to an absolute icon!

#bash #bashscript #echo #foss #linux #unix #BlackHistoryMonth #gnu

Left-handed people have always existed and will always exist. We are happier, healthier, more capable when we just use our dominant hand (or hands) to write, and do complex tasks.

It's possible to try to force everyone to use the same hand this leads to frustration, can hinder education. It is pointless.

You don't need to worry about what hand other people use. It's none of your business.

If you have never thought about this be glad your dominant hand was the one everyone expected.

@vikxin @futurebird

I think for both the meal worms and the super worms, they rely on some gut microbes to digest the polystyrene, and it's not necessarily easy to ensure your meal worms or super worms have the appropriate microbes. (In both cases I think it was isotope-labeled polystyrene feed experiments that showed atoms from the polystyrene were incorporated into the flesh of the meal worms and super worms.)

The three Southwest Air ladies who helped me just now are freaking angels.

I reserved the wrong date for my ticket home. When she said my reservation was for March I broke into tears and whispered, My father just died i have to get home.

Immediately two other women came over helping the first lady navigate their system to rebook me. I didn't even ask. One of the women was watching me and also crying and she had to walk away. She whispered to her coworker, This is too much.

There was now a small crowd of southwest folks grabbing my bag, making sure I was on preboard while I was just hunched over, crying quietly. All I could think was how if I fucked this up my sister would never forgive me.

One of the women grabbed my hand and said, We did it. You're rebooked for LA at 1 and you're coming back on Saturday. Don't worry. You're going home.

I could barely thank them. I started to walk away then came back and got their names.

Polaine
Lanice
Tami

Thank you SO much.