I'm in a #running club where one runner has OCD about everyone ending their runs on .00 miles. If you end up short at .99, he'll make sure to comment on your Strava run asking why you couldn't just run around the parking lot or whatever to push it over.

Well tomorrow is his 40th birthday, so a friend and I decided to have a bit of fun making a self-referential Strava art: drawing "9.99 MILES" that is indeed 9.99 miles.

Happy Birthday friend!

Edit: better image

#Strava #Art #RunnersofMastodon

I remember when steam sales actually were good deals.

Some local nerds strung together an urban hiking trail that circumnavigates boston. As an also local nerd, I’m going to hike it. All 91 miles. Eventually. But today, the goal is to complete one section.
https://www.bostontrails.org/bostonboundlesstrail

Looking forward to it!
Enjoy The Hollis Strawberry Festival, June 28, 2026 https://hollisbrooklinenews.org/enjoy-the-hollis-strawberry-festival-june-p12480-187.htm

Challenging workout this morning. Need to find the MO to do more stuff today. What's on your Sunday agenda?

As Mamdani finds more and more success and good press in New York City, and as more democratic socialists get elected, people around the country are starting to see that he's actually getting a lot of good stuff done. The Republicans are having a much much harder time trying to prove to everyone that this guy and his policies are so scary and bad.

I think I've answered my own question, and it is, the widest tire available is a kenda 161 27 1 3/8 (35mm)

Which is... what I have.

I've got this bike
https://www.kurtkaminer.com/TH_Raleigh_Cat_78_12.html

and a friend wanting to ride non roads trails and gravel.

I need to figure out the largest tires I can put on it. Suggestions?

Do you remember Boaty McBoatface?
So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms. And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell... This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link:

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-our-storms-call-for-names

A bit through week 2 of training plan... This weekends. workout is going to be fun.
I'll be doing more miles at pace than I've done all year I think.

*gently grabs the cheeks of all programmers to stare deeply into their eyes*

All I want is a dry tech manual. A boring, well indexed manual that defines every function. Not a chatbot. Not a training. Not a million "articles" that I have to search through. Not a "community forum".

My rice cooker came with one. I want one for every piece of software I have to interact with.

Go get yourself a technical writer if necessary.

I. Want. An. Instructional. Manual.

Huh! I was today years old when I realised that the mighty @libreoffice has a great tool for generating QR. In a world where online QR code generators tend to re route via themselves this is an awesome tool to find! #opensource

From Penn Jillette's Wikipedia page:

> In a 2024 interview, he said he renounced his libertarianism as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic after a libertarian group asked him to speak at an anti-mask rally. In an interview with Cracked, he said, "The fact they sent me this email is something I need to be very ashamed of, and I need to change" adding ...

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> ... "Many times when I identified as Libertarian, people said to me, 'It's just rich white guys that don't want to be told what to do,' and I had a zillion answers to that — and now that seems 100 percent accurate."[63]

Well that's satisfying.

2/2

#libertarian

Anybody need a good technical writer? I got laid off this morning

Looking for remote (in Canada) preferably, but can also do hybrid or in person in Fredericton. I'd rather not relocate but would certainly consider it for the right role.

#GetFediHired #FediHire

I had a friend, I got too busy to see, life got in the way. We drifted apart due to so many things. He's no longer here, and it hits me at the oddest times. He was the king of 'bad ideas with good people'.

@Gustodon
My favorite data center is the public library.

It's that day again. Be nice to each other.

I have a diabolical plan to stop the rise of the Democratic Socialists! It's foolproof and guaranteed to work! It has no known defense!

Step 1: Be a Democratic politician already in power.

Step 2: Do all of the good things that DSA mayors do once they're elected, that 80% of your own voters want.

RE: https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/116805324543609124

Fund an out-of-state MAGA-opponent somewhere/anywhere, today. Just five bucks from each of us will make an enormous difference. Preferably to a Progressive candidate but in any event.