Dog-sittting today, for friends.

They have a huge 17th century house with a large garden, in the centre of town. I sit in the garden, enjoying the sun and the friendly breeze and the whole space. Everything here is generous and graceful. I grew up thinking of myself as part of the educated upper middle class, destined to be safe and comfortable. Now I can barely pay my bills, and we can't afford summer holidays. #DownwardlyMobile, your name is Roamer. Part of being an academic in the UK, I accept it.

Today I sit in this beautiful vast garden, harvesting memories of past self-images. I have books with me; van der Waerden's Algebra I, the German edition, since you ask. Mathematics is best expressed in German, and best by writers to whom it is a second language. His German is up there with Thomas Mann or Goethe.

A day off. Quiet reflection. A supremely elegant Saluki by my side. A supremely elegant book in my hands.

#summer #class #mathematics #VanDerWaerden #Salukis #grace

This box contains a tiny grain that was never destined to be on Earth.

Until we intervened.

Homegrown veg is best 👀

#Wip #MastoArt #TraditionalArt #Lewd? #Jenitales

Nuovo conio: scoglieggiando

Prossimamente su questi schermi (appena torno a casa e posso aggiornare il Wok)

Look Out! She's Armed! o.o

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It's okay. They're not real. Their wonkiness can't hurt you. o.O

#MastoArt #Digital #Sketch #WiP #FurryArt #MouseGirl

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Rogatons Rediffusion - 10/03/2020 - "Microtroubles"
Source: https://www.bouletcorp.com/notes/2020/03/10

Une rediffusion un peu particulière: la note est effectivement passée dans les Rogatons, mais à l'origine elle était sur le blog, en couleurs.

Je vous la mets en 3 parties !
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The Debian publicity team will provide live coverage of the #ReleasingDebianTrixie process; follow us via Debian Micronews or your favorite social network! #debian #debian13 #trixie

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Trump supporters are now bending over backwards to excuse child abuse and victim shame children.

I'm disconnecting.

If your moral compass is so broken you are normalising child abuse, what could I possibly share with you. I guess let's just agree to disagree and never speak again.

Lots of webserver libraries make a big deal out of highly configurable and changeable url routing, often using macros or language extensions, but I feel most of the time it's simply not worth the effort because.

1) your url scheme shouldn't change very often because it's your urls. stop breaking urls.
2) doing the code the 'hard', direct way isn't actually very hard.

It feels like a feature that snuck in from the enterprise world and sticks around because it makes blog posts look good.

Folks, I decided to go drop by the scrap store in Farsley. The bus I took passed through Pudsey. I miss both areas so much. My heart is happy to be able to spend time here again, but it'll ache that neither are a reasonable walk away anymore.

Das Qualitätsmedium #FAZ wehrt sich gegen angeblichen Vorwurf verzerrter Berichterstattung im Statement von Brosig-Gehrsdorf, wurde dort aber nie namentlich erwähnt.

Interessant, dass sie sich den Schuh überhaupt anziehen. Ich höre einen getroffenen Hund Bellen.

Definiere Eigentor.

Don’t normally post multiple cat pictures in the same week, but Dora’s just being too cute this morning. Not sure what I did to deserve this - I don’t even have any leftover breakfast! #CatsOfMastodon

I really wish I had time for #ziglang

AI business must be doing really great if they have to fire that many people and burn all their street creds in the Linux community like that 🙃

On a hacké les règles du scrabble :
On ne peut poser que des mots qui n'existent pas dans le dictionnaire, et on doit en donner la définition pour valider la pose.

C'est très rigolo !

Note : c'est beaucoup plus facile de faire des scrabble ;-)

#SelfPromoSaturday

Hi, I'm Paul and I paint miniatures and make custom scenery for wargaming and tabletop roleplay games, taking commissions from private clients and gaming companies.

If you have a project in mind, do get in touch either via dm or email via my website www.pandaemoniumminiatures.com

#Nerdlings #MiniaturePainting #WePaintMinis #Wargaming

It's weekend! #Books you can read right here, right now thanks to @gutenberg_org and @internetarchive

#BooksAboutBooks

https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/its-friday-lets-read-catalogs-books/

The hand will be drawn when I can be arsed :blobfoxuwu: