This Might Be The Most Important Thing We’ve Ever Invented
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCXdRwF_JEk

Compromise

#MissTabbyHasZeroFucksToGive
#Caturday

Feeling compelled, I examined the part of the storage room where I keep the amateur radio transceivers.
Situation looks rather good, a few in an unfortunate position seems to have gotten a few drops on the chassis from when the roof came down, but they don't seem to have been rained on directly.

We'll see if I find bad surprises once I start moving them to temporary storage.

Until repairs are done and shelves rebuilt, I'll be short on space, so I'm thinking of going minimal (and cheap) if I give in to the temptation of picking up radio again: the xiaegu g106 looks interesting.

Cleaned.

Thankfully the RF modulators for SNES consoles are rather easy to remove.

18th Century press-ganging has been brought back by Putin:

"...lawyers and activists have documented increasingly coercive recruitment tactics ... men detained on the street by police, taken from workplaces or summoned to stations..."

“Under various pretexts, through deception, blackmail, violence and threats, they are forcing them to sign contracts.”

"...recruiters were increasingly targeting socially marginalised men..."

"...videos have shown men being driven away in vans as relatives protested outside recruitment offices. ... threatened with prosecution or beaten until they agreed to sign."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/14/russia-ukraine-putin-recruiters-mobilisation

#Putin

My #ShortStory “Bated Breath” is about a game we’ve all hated playing.
https://oneoveralphasramblings.blogspot.com/2025/07/short-story-bated-breath.html

Drumming makes people happy and cures aging.

Get yourself an empty family-sized Milo tin or a large hard back book, start drumming, and you’ll get more oxygen to the brain, so you can laugh at vain Death and whoever’s the patron deity of forgetting things.

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/9/5062

a Software Should Work lecture from Richard Hipp, lead developer for the SQLite project, talking about the history of the project and why your test suite really should aim for 100% code path coverage, among other topics

#ssw2026 #sqlite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_qzqY1bb7I

Hmmm.

A friend is pushing me to pick up again my long neglected hamradio hobby...
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Hmmmmmmm.

Footscray I am in you

Why did I not know that a new Phoebe Bridgers album was coming out today? Oh frabjous day!!!!! What a nice surprise!!!

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Thank you @CountBinface for putting up a real challenge and standing for democracy, I'm sorry that the joke candidate got in.

“Binface received 9 455 votes to Mr Farage’s 22 239.

““I can officially say that I am the winning candidate of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results,” he says.

““We know this for a fact. Over one in four people in this constituency would rather have #CountBinface as their MP than the leader of #ReformUK, and I’m just getting started.””

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/clacton-byelection-result-latest-nigel-farage-count-binface-reform-b1293312.html

#Binface4Clacton #ClactonByelection #UKPol

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I have observed a lot of talk on here today about people buying too many instruments and/or not having the sustained commitment required to learn said instruments. The problem, as I see it, is that people have not yet discovered the perfect instrument. It’s a common problem.

“But doktorb2, what is the perfect instrument?” I hear you ask.

The answer is simple: electric noise kalimba

I got sick of seeing ads for [COMPANY] on YouTube, so I started blocking them. In the past week or so, I think I've blocked at least thirty. Yet every day, there are two or three new [COMPANY] ads I need to block.

Are you telling me that in all the years of optimizing the algorithm for maximum profit, NOBODY has thought to add in a line of code saying if someone blocks a bunch of ads from some company, you should probably stop showing them ads for that company?

I am further down the congotronics rabbit hole now and wish to also recommend that everyone listens to Kasai Allstars second album Beware the Fetish. Traditional call and response vocals and Conolese rumba-style guitars combined with electrified percussion made from salvaged junk and played through jury rigged amplification systems. It’s awesome!!

https://kasaiallstars.bandcamp.com/album/beware-the-fetish

I would like to publicly acknowledge @mrc for introducing me to the concept of congotronics by showing me the world’s premiere noisy electrified kalimba band KONONO No1.

https://konono1.bandcamp.com/album/congotronics

Has it occurred to anyone else that possibly, just possibly, Trump and Hegseth are *punishing* the USS Abraham Lincoln, intentionally, because it was named after The Great Emancipator?

Which would be completely consistent with the way they run the rest of the country.