Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

Now we're talking. #Ukraine #UkraineWar

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/17/ukraine-slovakia-to-donate-13-mig-29-warplanes

He was getting up on a shelf in the dining room where I left a bag of birdseed. So I removed the bag, placed a trap there and scattered birdseed inside. He'd just nibble the bits he could reach without going in, and leave the rest.

But since I can get him to climb up there, I may try the "tippy ruler with bait scattered on it that causes him to fall in a bucket" trick. The question is will it be a bucket, or a fine new mouse home where he won't, as I say, get all ate up by owls.

My wife made bread this morning, from dough she'd prepared the night before and left in the fridge. She was telling me about the various mistake she'd made out of sheer sleepiness. I've just had some of the bread.

It's f***ing amazing; some of the best bread I've ever had. I've asked her to write down everything she thinks she did wrong so she can do it again.

So we still have a mouse living in our kitchen. I managed to herd it into a humane trap once -- and then didn't move it far enough from the house -- so he's not falling for that again.

I've even mounted a motion-sensing camera on the kitchen ceiling -- I have cameras lying around (work-related) and already had a power-over-ethernet connection from a former ceiling mount wireless AP there -- so I have any amount of video of the critter darting around. We also occasionally spot it personally. It's ridiculous how cute it is.

By the time I work out how to trap it again we're going to be so fond of it that we're not going to want to consign it to the wilderness to be eaten by an owl. Trying to decide if a wild mouse would be happy as a pet in a comfortable and well-appointed terrarium.

A sleeping computer should discard the keystroke that woke it up:

There needs to be a village called Riddles which has a hall you can book for speaking engagements; so whenever anyone says to me "you speak in riddles", I can reply, yes, next week; free admission!

Any suggestions for solid, thoughtful #Ukraine #UkraineWar news follows that aren't just bots automatically tooting everything in a particular feed?

Okay, call me a troll, but I think a perfectly acceptable reason for pretty much anything on social media was provided by Kathleen Turner's character in the Steve Martin film "The Man With Two Brains":

"I like to watch the veins BULGE in your forehead."

I mean really, what better reason is there?

I read a book

Ecuador. Murder of Eduardo Mendúa, indigenous leader and environmentalist, shakes the country

https://www.radiotemblor.org/ecuador-asesinato-de-eduardo-mendua-lider-indigena-y-ambientalista-sacude-al-pais/

I'm pretty confident that the only reason no woman has come forward with evidence that Trump paid for her abortion is because he merely promises to pay for it, then reneges.

If you're the plaintiff in a libel suit, can you add on a blasphemy charge if you can produce at least one witness who deifies you?

I much prefer Ashbury speech over the other thing

If I were organizing a conference, I'd make the ID badges in the form of shiny medallions and the lanyards broad ribbons of fabric which lay flat; that way everybody feels like a winner.

My wife's just had a great idea for self-defense. She says instead of carrying a sword cane, you should engage a Sword Caddy to follow you around.

"Hmm. I think I'll be wanting the cavalry sabre for this ruffian, Jeeves."

Japan discovers 7,000 islands it didn't know it had. No word yet on how many contain a volcano rocket lair.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2023/03/03/japan-found-seven-thousand-new-islands/11375368002/