Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

I've relocated this account to @pieist@ohai.social . Old postings here, new postings there.

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If someone has location sharing on when they're swept up in the #rapture, what does the map show? I mean #Apple maps doesn't cover #Heaven, does it?

Does anyone know what time the Rapture is? Should I eat breakfast or am I just going to spoil my appetite for a heavenly buffet?

I'm old enough to remember when the web was going to wipe out the advertising model by, at long last, empowering customers to find the products they want, not the other way around.

30 years later, nobody's ever found a way to pay for the web except advertising

Hah. Reading about Kimmel's negotiations with Disney and calls for the latter to uphold foundational American principles, which it has often -- though far from consistently -- represented.

And suddenly realized that the music i was hearing was a "Quand on prie la bonne étoile", AKA "When you wish upon a star", Christiane Legrand & Jean Lussac's version of the Disney Pinocchio theme. (I've got one of Radio France's streams playing.)

Russian warplanes in Estonia today:

I just noticed that "positronic" is an anagram for "postironic". I'm sure this signfies something.

Having had three cups of strong coffee in as many hours, try soldering 36 x 0.1" pitch pins on a board that has an unprotected LCD display surface-mounted perhaps 5mm away, using the sort of blunt-tipped soldering iron better suited to, say, repairing a watering can.

Amazingly I got away with it, but it's not the neatest job i've ever done.

We are clear on opsec

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind

Hey, remember Y2K, when COBOL skills were suddenly valuable again? I'm banking that the day is coming when the same is true for having been adept at Palm Pilot Graffiti

Those who want us to forget the past are planning to repeat it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/arts/design/smithsonian-exhibitions-review-white-house-trump.html

Let's make sure I've got this right:

Person who proclaims her own innocence of the crime of which she was convicted also proclaims the innocence of someone willing and able to pardon her.

Well. Glad we cleared that up!

https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-administration-considers-releasing-transcripts-doj-interview-ghislaine/story?id=124383957

I bet a riot van is a lot less fun than it sounds