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translator, editor & writer living in berlin. goofy american, not wild about being one. erstwhile sysadmin (25yrs). a colleague once called me a "sunny person."
Joined Apr 2017
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DuckDuckGo
I love you so
you show me things I want to know
you help me make my way round town
and every week I burn you down
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from bed's heart I yawn at thee
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spider plant, spider plant
does whatever a spider can't
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starting to realize that when I run out of spoons, it's often because I am inadvertently running a fucking Spoon Library, with 80% of the stock checked out to others at any given moment... and no overdue fees.
first night of the season below zero C. heat in apartment building is out. halp
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German Chocolate Cake is named for a man, not the country. Samuel German developed a formulation of dark baking chocolate that came to be used in the cake recipe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_chocolate_cake?wprov=sfti1
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/tilbots/status/1328191664993734657
sampin' wampin' morjin' son-of-a-bleshclobble
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Ok I just went to look up Hamlet on Wikipedia and I'm losing my entire shit at this painting from 1778?
The focal point is his entire ass? He's wearing a thong bodysuit? What is going on???
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Today is the 50th anniversary of the Oregon exploding whale.
The Oregon Historical Society has realized the importance of this historical event and released a HD REMASTERED version of the video, taken from the original 16mm film!!!!
now that ProtonMail allows for easy import of old mail, i managed to lay my hands on my email backups.
i will now have all my emails since 2003 in one place. (the rest, 1994 through the start of the Gmail era, were very sadly lost a long, long time ago)
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Destroy competition with free service, when there is no more competition, demand money for service. #Google
yikes, spanner was down for a while there due to extremely unexpected and hard-to-detect fallout from an OS upgrade. we apologize for any inconvenience
feeling low today again despite my news fast. this is what's cheering me up.
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Mozilla is making an electron clone in rust
https://download.servo.org/
https://download.servo.org/
i have used digital wellbeing on my phone and Leechblock NG on my desktop to disable the birdsite.
yikeeeees
doomscrolling has been fucking with me. i have survivor's guilt for leaving the States before all this awful shit went down. i'm worried for all my friends and family.
but last night i finalized the scene list for my novel, and today i wrote a lot of words to catch up on my large deficit.
staying positive.
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The EU Council is pushing for encryption backdoors to messenger apps such as WhatsApp and Signal to fight terrorism (German article): https://fm4.orf.at/stories/3008930/
Despite the fact that errors of investigation in Austrian authorities had made the attack possible in the first place and not a lack of digital surveillance powers. Politicians must start to understand that more surveillance will not lead to more security. That's why we fight any attempt for an encryption backdoor: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/why-a-backdoor-is-a-security-risk/
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maybe last night never happened
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Microsoft Word is a roguelite because there's no permadeath but you can lose all your progress up to a certain point and you do encounter random enemies, such as control characters suddenly appearing when you save, or curly quotes.
- pronoun
- he
- website
- https://quite.cricket
- faffling
- hand gesture that signifies waving something away, such as a distraction
- idealism
- wavering
Admin
translator, editor & writer living in berlin. goofy american, not wild about being one. erstwhile sysadmin (25yrs). a colleague once called me a "sunny person."
Joined Apr 2017
