George Budd @Gbudd@qoto.org

What was that about the reputation of the illustrious US Supreme Court?

"A secretly made documentary expanding on allegations of sexual assault against supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh has premiered at this year’s Sundance film festival."

“I do hope this triggers outrage,” said producer Amy Herdy in a Q&A after the premiere in Park City, Utah. “I do hope that this triggers action, I do hope that this triggers additional investigation with real subpoena powers.”

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/21/brett-kavanaugh-documentary-sundance-film-festival

It’s 2023 & yes I still use vim ✌️ ~

Our culture constantly pushes the lie that your value as a human being comes from what you do or produce or offer to others.

That's garbage.

You matter no matter what.

You are sacred just for being.

❤️

Shabbat Shalom.

About to go get my 5y/o a Covid shot.

We haven’t told her.

She’s absolutely terrified of needles.

If you hear any screaming and crying, Don’t judge 😂😅😩

#parenting #dadlife #covid #vaccine

i was laid-off twice early in my career in very large reorgs / cost-cutting.

the thing that wld have been helpful for me to hear then was 'this is not abt you. you were a number on someone's spreadsheet. they wanted that number to go down by 1000 or 2000 or 10,000'.

so, to anyone who needs to hear that today:

it's not abt you. you did nothing wrong.

Oh hey there! Can you pick up some better treats while you are out?

#HappyBirthday to #TomBaker!🎂 🦉 ❤️

#DoctorWho #4thDoctor #BarnOwl

Just refinished this plant stand I built a few years ago. It was previously on the back deck, but the wife wanted inside. It's in good shape except for discoloration in a few places from over-watering the plants. Treated it with oxalic acid got most of the stains out.

Originally finished it with Danish oil. This time I used two coats of Tung oil followed by a coat of paste wax. Love the beautiful amber patina.

It's made from cypress, which is a really interesting wood to work.

#woodworking

Cleaning out my photos in my iPad and found this goody. I predict that it will be relevant until we get republican/Russian/Saudis out of our government.

Lunchtime, charity book shop. Found this, Practical Vim (e.g. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13607232-practical-vim).
Inside, this bookmark. Someone printed out Xkcd #378 (https://xkcd.com/378/), stuck it onto card, and used it in a vim textbook. Yes, of course I bought it. And an inch-to-the-mile map of the quantocks. #vim

Cannot reiterate this enough:

PLEASE don’t request refunds from Apple for any unused time on your Twitterrific or Tweetbot subscriptions.

It could literally bankrupt small shops like these.

https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/twitterrific-end-of-an-era/

@futurebird Took the math behind computer science to teach me that there are completely reasonable questions whose answer cannot be computed. Uncomputable problems. Now I run into it all the time and most people won't believe me.

@futurebird
Everything at the intersection of math on pieces of paper, and physics in the real world, where the math makes no damn sense, but you try it in the real world and what happens is the nonsense thing that the math predicted.

E.g. Fast Fourier Transforms, especially for image restoration.

My brain went from "BS! You just made that up!" To "OK, you're a witch! Repent!" To "OK, now I'm a witch too?! How am I doing this? I should not be able to do this!"

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#mastodon #art #digital_art #dogs #dog #dachshund_art #photography #FollowFriday #pinting

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure that you're not, in fact, surrounded by assholes.

I have to reject any fixed notion of the nature of femininity. You don't have to fear spiders to be be a woman!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/01/16/the-feminine-isnt-an-absolute/

White friends: Reflect

"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or KKK, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice. Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will." #MLK

Doctor...A little baby Check her Dog heart ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

#mastodon #dogs #dog #pets #doctor #photography #old