The age verification thing feels so much like the kind of law that regulates women's clothing rather than holding abusers accountable.

Regulate the tech companies. Leave kids alone.

“I don’t think that Justice Samuel Alito, for one, is capable of shame.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/opinion/supreme-court-trump-immigration.html

"ClaudeCode LinuxMint Community Guide" https://tools.ruggi.site/ClaudeCode_LinuxMint_Community_Guide.pdf via https://mguhlin.org

Of course the forest floor is dirty, nature abhors a vacuum

After a saga of broken promises, a European rover finally has a ride to Mars
Europe's first Mars rover mission is now on its fourth rocket: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/after-a-saga-of-broken-promises-a-european-rover-finally-has-a-ride-to-mars/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#FortnightFridayMusic
April 17 2026
The word is #green

The song is Little Green, by Joni Mitchell, from her 1971 album Blue. She wrote it for her daughter, whom she named Kelly, the reference is Kelly Green.

https://youtu.be/epmz46Fgu4w?si=dc1Zt9IOsolPBlg_

I did talk to him about his bike though. He said it goes 50 mph, but can get up to 80 mph

We adopted Luna when she was almost 5, after she was rescued from being a breeder in a puppy mill. Almost 5 years later, she is still developing a personality and coming out of her shell after having been mistreated for so long. This is the first time she has ever lain her head in my lap like this, which is why I look so happy right now.

Second, I'm thinking I might make an earnest attempt to get back to poetry. But I definitely need to read and explore and figure out who's doing good literary citizenship ATM. So suggestions on that front are welcome, too!

(I'll do some browsing ChillSubs, but that can get overwhelming)

#poetry

Feel like there's a lot going on for me right now.

First of all, based on some chatter, I may need to move off https://zirk.us. Anybody have any suggestions for good, reliable, well-maintained Fedi instances?

#Mastodon #Fediverse

Come to Fesshole Live in 2026! Tickets on sale for Manchester, Hull & Cambridge. Sweden Tour visits Malmö, Göteborg and Stockholm. Best of Fesshole, audience confessions, secret history & more: https://sites.google.com/view/fesshole

LA Times: More than 200,000 lost their homes in the L.A. County fires. For people already on the streets, the damage ran deeper

"...National data found each home lost to climate disasters per 10,000 people correlates with a 1 percentage point increase in homelessness....Four recently published UCLA-led studies draw a direct line between climate disasters, housing instability and homelessness, with researchers pointing to the 2025 Los Angeles County wildfires as one of the starkest recent examples...."

(paywall)
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-04-16/how-la-unhoused-population-was-devastated-by-2025-wildfires

#wildfires #disasters #homelessness

Today I read Legends & Librarians (Pandora Pierce) and enjoyed it so much I raced through it and then I read the sequel, Myths & Manuscripts. Perfect cozy fantasy with magic in book and libraries plus romance. Yes I read *both* today. Now listening to make that joy last a little longer. #Bookstodon

Gaming your Heating for Cash and Giggles! - Learn just these three simple money-saving tricks that can make you slimmer and richer! :) #OperationTuneup #cash #climate - https://www.earth.org.uk/Gaming-Heating-For-Profit-and-Laughs.html

People are always locking their bikes up on the rack at the grocery store so that they take up the entire rack, instead of putting their bike so it just takes up a single slot. I never see them do it, so I'm always just annoyed.

Tonight, though, i got there as a guy was locking up his electric motorcycle so it blocked the whole rack. I asked him if he could move his bike. He asked why. I said so I could use the rack, too.

"Oh, sure. I didn't realize I was taking up the entire rack." (it was obvious he was taking up the entire rack).

He moved it. People!

We are each other’s strength.

Bec Shaw on solidarity.

#ethics #kindness #resistance

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/16/i-thought-hell-would-freeze-over-before-i-agreed-with-the-pope-but-in-a-world-riven-by-cruelty-that-day-has-finally-come?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

In the Disquiet Junto music community this week: make music for takeoff. Full instructions at https://disquiet.com/0746. Tracks due Monday, April 20, at 11:59pm (your local time). And ... four weeks until 750th consecutive weekly #DisquietJunto project

"Google Launches Native Gemini AI App for Mac" https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/15/google-gemini-mac-app/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/artificialintelligence via https://mguhlin.org