Looks like https://bookshop.org/ sells some books drm-free and you can choose to purchase via a physical bookshop so they get credit for the purchase. Definitely keeping this one in my pocket.
https://hachyderm.io/@jackbrewster/114226588347956613
Looks like https://bookshop.org/ sells some books drm-free and you can choose to purchase via a physical bookshop so they get credit for the purchase. Definitely keeping this one in my pocket.
https://hachyderm.io/@jackbrewster/114226588347956613
I think it's funny that Elon is getting his undies and such a bind over vandalism of teslas because they self vandalize on their own
Tom Nichols:
"There is no planet where target packages and strike details are unclassified two hours before the mission launch."
Is "cheers mate" the new "that's very noice"/"that's not very noice"?
If so, excellent.
I am thinking of making some #skzFriendshipBracelets for a US friend to give to other fans when they go to the skz concert in their city, and I want to make some with whatever ridiculous catchphrase has caught skz's attention at the moment.
There will definitely be at least one SKRRR. (not the most recent shiny catchphrase, but it is an enduring classic)
Spain’s pseudo-left Sumar feigns opposition to its own government’s rearmament programme https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/26/fxbg-m26.html
The movie Parasite, but instead of a person living in my house, it's a refrigerator for me to stash food so my wife and kids can't commandeer it before I can eat it.
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz takes responsibility for 'embarrassing' Signal chat leak (Madeline Coggins/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/national-security-advisor-mike-waltz-takes-responsibility-embarrassing-signal-chat-leak?intcmp=tw_fnc
http://www.memeorandum.com/250325/p163#a250325p163
I still felt impacts all over my back and shoulders, little thumps that I knew meant something had cut through my clothes and pierced my skin. (Does that sound terrifying? Because it was terrifying.)
Trump Considering Reparations for Jan. 6 Rioters He Pardoned: ‘They Were Treated Very Unfairly’ https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-floats-reparations-for-jan-6-rioters-he-pardoned-they-were-treated-very-unfairly/
There's a tug-of-war in the Republican party over Waltz's Signal chat
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/25/two-very-different-types-of-republicans-are-fighting-over-mike-waltz-00004486?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-politico
Aaron Rupar:
"It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein"
There's a thing my pal Dennis used to say that I still say aloud every time I watch this:
"Give that horse some LINE!"
Engage in random acts of kindness and altruism. This has been linked to mood boosting.
Track and field to be first Olympic event to require DNA tests to prove sex https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/26/track-and-field-to-be-first-olympic-event-to-require-dna-tests-to-prove-sex?traffic_source=rss
You know what the Bangla/Bengali equivalent? Firangi!! Yes, that Ferengi #TheMoreYouKnow #Languages
Reflecting when I started University in 1992 and the (Australian) Newcastle University Computer Science department had got all their mouse mats refreshed to start the new year -- they all had the University logo on them and were emblazoned with the text, "Stolen from the Department of Computer Science."
If I recall correctly, they had to be replaced at a phenomenal rate.
just kind of hoping that the docs i need to do my taxes are somewhere under the layers of things on my desk
I'm too tired to work on this so I'm posting it here instead.
Create a GitHub repo. Create a workflow that runs every 15 minutes. The workflow scrapes my last.fm account and then updates a field in my mastodon bio with the song name.