Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

To people who say the Republicans freed the slaves and a lot of the KKK were Democrats, I just have to ask them if they also believe that the Mafia are a patriotic front dedicated to throwing the French occupiers out of 13th century Sicily.

Just got the latest generation of Bill Gates' #covid microchips injected yesterday, and am feeling a little rough.

It must be all the 5G reception. Hopefully I'll get acclimated to it and tomorrow I'll feel up for going out and wantonly shedding #vaccine all over everybody.

(Actually the Pico can do all of that just fine, but doing dynamic text generation in arbitrary fonts on the device itself is a rather painful chore for memory and storage reasons. As I've got spare capacity on one or two always-on servers thought I'd delegate it to a web application that's running anyway.)

While I'm talking about #RaspberryPi projects, here's my just-completed weather widget, based on a Pi Pico W and a 3.7" e-ink display. It reads the temperature and humidity from another Pico with a sensor attached that's out on the back porch, and the forecast from the National Weather Service, uses a bit of fuzzy logic to select icons, and displays as many as can comfortably fit into the allocated area of the display.

This is rather more than the Pico can do well by itself, so this is all done by a script on another machine; this device just requests it at suitable intervals and displays it.

It all started because I got tired of going and looking at the mercury thermometer out back to find the temperature, toyed with the idea of pointing a camera at it, and ultimately decided to make this instead.

Ha. Ten minutes with a utility knife and I no longer have to remove this #RaspberryPi Zero 2 W from the case to access the SD card.

#PiZero #Casemod #BeAmazed at my #MadSkillz

"My child, where you see only one set of footprints, that was where I said, 'hey, let's both hop on one leg for a while!'"

For every Shakespeare, Galileo, Bach or Newton this species has produced, we've also come up with at least a million actual or would-be Torquemadas.

I used to have Star Trek daydreams of humanity expanding out into the universe. Now I'm kind of hoping we don't. My ideal scenario is that the best we've done is preserved by some alien civiization in their museums and libraries and used to inform -- or caution -- some rather better beings that what we on balance are.

If you can get a lighter sentence for such mitigating circumstances as undue provocation or whatever, couldn't we also have heavier sentences for sheer unmitigated shitheadery?

#sycamoregap #sycamoregaptree

It's bad manners to leave any food on your plate, as it implies that it wasn't to your liking.

It's also bad manners to leave no food on your plate, as it suggests you weren't given enough.

The only option is to do as you see fit, wipe your face, and run.

D'you suppose Orbán wakes up in the morning hoping that today will be the day that the Russian tanks roll into Budapest again? I mean, it must poison every moment of his life that he missed out in 1956, it would have meant everything to him to see his fellow citizens crushed by Russians; the thing he longs for more than anything else in the world.

So how many days are we from Elon #Musk offering to rescue #Russia's military from #Crimea by hypothetical submarine?

#Ukraine

The best thing about an air fryer is it makes it practical to have egg and chips for breakfast.

When did the Babylon Bee acquire The Onion?

https://www.theonion.com/zelensky-grabs-whatever-office-supplies-he-can-get-hand-1850861718?rev=1695322232994&utm_campaign=The+Onion&utm_content=1695329101

#Ukraine