Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

But did you see what Hungary was wearing in 1956? And those scandalous outfits on Poland in 1939! Honestly they were asking for it

Oh yeah? Well I'll see your hard data and raise you this vague impression that I'm under!

#Ukraine isn't just defending itself. It's defending everyone else.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-intelligence-shows-russias-targeting-of-a-cargo-ship

I wonder if telemarketers ever call in sick. I mean, you know the management response has got to be be, "look, if you can make this call you can make any call. Get to work."

This morning we noticed the cat's water bowl on the back deck was full of dirt. This usually means that a raccoon has been by.

We have cams on the front and back door. Checked the footage. At 11.40 pm Stanley the neighborhood cat was asleep on our front porch. Suddenly he woke, sat up on high alert and began peering at something. Then he got up and left.

He walked up onto the back deck a few moments later and took up a position by the back door. Within a minute a big raccoon, easily three times Stanley's size, came up the steps. Found Stanley's water bowl, washed his li'l raccoon hands in it as they always do. Then he started accross the deck toward the back door. Stanley rose up and hissed. Raccoon backed away, went back down the steps.

Stanley waited a minute, then walked back up the driveway and round to the front porch and went back to sleep on the chair we leave out for him.

Stanley's a remarkable cat in many ways. He's not even ours, we just accommodate him because, like everyone on our block, we think the world of him.

In the middle of a download, it's going at a leisurely 40MB/s, and I just flashed on the fact that the first hard drive I ever owned, a 5.25" Seagate 20MB in a 4.77MHz IBM PC clone, would have completely filled up in 1/2 sec*. It's right up there with the fact that you can get a cheap storage device smaller than your little fingernail that holds 50,000 times as much.

(*If of course, it had been capable of writing that quickly, which of course it wouldn't.)

When you land on the MIT Technology Review page, you get not less than 3 simultaneous popups overlaid on the page, each implemented in a different way by a different subsystem for a different purpose. For some reason I find this very amusing.

How do we know these aren't all cover stories and Prigozhin's not setting up operations on the moon?

Hey, anyone else hear this news that a random 60-year-old with Prigozin's spare passport just died in a plane crash?

I have all media obscured by default, so to those posting images and videos without any accompanying text, I'm not bothering to click to view them unless I know you pretty well.

I doubt I'm alone in this: after Twitter's endless "my face when" gifs, the feature is just too attractive to be ignored.

"Hi there, in my incredibly principled way I'm leaving Twitter and moving to Bluesky or Post or Threads on account of I don't want to depend on a VC-funded platform ultimately responsible only to whoever owns the most shares...

um...

..."

I find it's pretty reliable to judge people inversely by the calibre of their detractors. For example, take a close look at anyone who makes a point of tearing down Megan Rapinoe: they invariably turn out to be Jan 6 and/or police abuse apologists, that sort of thing. I don't know a thing about women's soccer but by that measure, Ms. Rapinoe's surely a damn goddess.

It'd be nice if I could persuade google to automatically add

"-pinterest"

to all my searches. The ratio of it coming up in results to anyone wanting it to must be about a trillion to one.