today is the day millions of school children in the USA are forced to watch a video of some buildings being destroyed, with grownups saying poorly articulated things they dont understand about it and emotional displays assuming a shared experience that does not exist.

id really rather forget tbh. all this remembering has impoverished us and made us cruel.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@AdvisoryICS/117250408015583484

stop naming your shitty tech after Tolkien artifacts. fucksake

hey i got something to rename: Mukuntuweap!

aw hell. rip zombocom

god damn you cloudflare. god damn you DoH

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@adamshostack/117236366773531776

these devices are a life and safety hazard and should be treated as such. property destruction is self defense.

purchased a gilded copy of Walden so that i might carry it around in public and perhaps be seen with it.

today had a few tolerable moments, but it was mostly just humid and gross. this week gonna suuuuck.
had a short pedal with the kid, worked on an old buddy scooter, and cooked lunch for the week: grilled thighs and red beans. potatoes and rice.

what is funny to me about “New America” is that probably New Mexico looks a lot like a future United States

from now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything

dog poop thoughts:

1> people, especially neoliberals, champion "equality" because it gives them cover for their efforts at subordinating the people they want to exploit.

2> if i spent even a little time writing instead of just brain wandering i might land on a clear thought or two.

current server thumbnail image courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library, https://tessa.lapl.org/
via @OldLAPhotos
https://mastodon.palewi.re/@OldLAPhotos/117218354214850113

every sign for art eventually becomes a sign for fart

the top item on my airsonic "frequently played" list, for a very long time time, has been the Disco Elysium OST by British Sea Power.

i like the DE OST very much and play it several times per week, but have not been able to connect with any of British Sea Power's other music.

for all the fighting and activism around bicycle infrastructure, which i wholly support, i am convinced that the biggest gains in road safety are to be had by simply slowing cars.

at least in water, a huge number of future sysadmins and dept heads started in the golden era of GIS bringing modern technology to utilities.

i mentioned earlier that it took years after my first computer science class to find a love for computer tech.

when i found it, it was through GIS. ESRI was still Environmental Systems Research Institute and hard to use. GRASS and postGIS were punk rock alternatives. digitizing hand drawn section books was a big deal and nobody had a mobile device. features and network analyses were built by hand. projections were a Big Deal.

so, google and apple will be adopting the Equal Earth projection, right?

they say they voted againt is because woke but i think they were just mad about Greenland getting shrinked