Luddite Geek @Luddite_Geek@qoto.org
Luddite Geek resides in Northeastern USA with just one cat and a wife. He received his B.S.E.E. from a well-known technical university and has worked in the electrical industry since 1982. He specializes in Automation of CAD and Data Analysis. He does not have a Twitter account. His Myers-Briggs personality type is INTP.
Joined Aug 2020
If you pay taxes to the IRS, you're paying the salaries of ICE agents.
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Springsteen dedicated “The Promised Land” to the “memory of slain Minneapolis woman Renee Good, decrying the ‘Gestapo tactics’ that he said have resulted in a climate where citizens can be ‘murdered for exercising your American right to protest.’” https://variety.com/2026/music/news/bruce-springsteen-dedicates-renee-good-ice-gestapo-tactics-1236634267/
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Legendary rocker
#Bruce #Springsteen delivered an impassioned condemnation of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement
during a surprise 75-minute performance Saturday night
at the "Light of Day" benefit concert in Red Bank, New Jersey.
Springsteen dedicated his 1978 anthem "The Promised Land" to #Renee #Nicole #Good, a mother of three and American citizen who was fatally shot by ICE officer Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis on January 7.
The singer slammed the administration's
"#gestapo #tactics" and echoed Democratic Minneapolis Mayor #Jacob #Frey's call for ICE agents to leave the city, telling the sold-out crowd of approximately 1,500 at the Count Basie Center for the Arts that
💯 "ICE should get the f*** out of Minneapolis," according to video viewed from the concert.
If an ICE agent tries to eat at a restaurant in Minnesota, does the proprietor say, "We don't serve your kind?"
"Whatever" is the mantra of those who prefer to remain ignorant.
Does Pres. Trump realize that the medal awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize features "three naked men embracing" on the tails side. https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/nobel-peace-prize/about-the-nobel-peace-prize/the-medal#:~:text=The%20reverse%20shows%20three%20naked%20men%20embracing
It's not Elf on the Shelf; it's Mensch on the Bench:
https://themenschonabench.com/
Love it!
Two weeks ago, I showed how I created an org file with all the times that Moon is void of course. But after playing with custom Agenda views, I found it better to add them to the diary file instead. Here's how I did it: https://ludditegeek.blogspot.com/2025/10/adding-moon-void-of-course-events-to.html
#Emacs
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So its done! I finally released a fairly easy to install (from scratch) Hugo based Static Site generator with full ActivityPub support.
It has step-by-step instructions on how to set it up for your own blog or static website.
One of the coolest features for me, other than having your static site blog posts show up as posts in the Fediverse is the support for interacting with those posts. Any replies you leave, likes, or boosts will show up in the "comments" section of the website on the page associated with the post. How cool is that!
There is only one Udemy course on org-mode now. It is Rainer König's "Manage your life in plain text." I wish I could get paid for tweaking my instance of Emacs... #orgmode
https://gale.udemy.com/course/getting-yourself-organized-with-org-mode/
Wordle 1,523 3/6
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I really did laugh out loud at this solution
Wordle 1,497 6/6
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩
🟨⬛⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I never heard of the solution word or the one I entered before it
Wordle 1,495 X/6
⬛🟨🟨🟨🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
I hate when this happens. With at least eight words that end with the four correctly-guessed letters, there's a good chance of not getting the first letter without using the third guess to eliminate most of them.
Wordle 1,482 4/6
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Sometimes having a great second-guess word really helps, as in this case
Ironic item of the day: my office is cluttered with books on how to declutter.
It's unfortunate that US citizens have to wait so long in the day before the fireworks begin. And it's all because we have to wait until it gets dark, which happens at 9:00pm or later. So here's a proposal to fix that:
https://ludditegeek.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-change-to-independence-day.html?m=1
Wordle 1,473 4/6
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
A very easy Wordle this morning. This solution along with the one for Connections, which I solved in four guesses, took me less than 2 minutes, although I don't really time myself
Luddite Geek resides in Northeastern USA with just one cat and a wife. He received his B.S.E.E. from a well-known technical university and has worked in the electrical industry since 1982. He specializes in Automation of CAD and Data Analysis. He does not have a Twitter account. His Myers-Briggs personality type is INTP.
Joined Aug 2020
