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Fri 5 Jul 2024, 06:16UTC:

Still haven't figured out who '乙' is (like, if they have a capsule or whatever) but I get the sense there's a bit of a WordTunneler rivalry emerging between us, and it's fun :)

Ok maybe 'rivalry' is a bit optimistic, since they're *really good* at it and they keep spanking me ... but still. Nice to have a bit of friendly competition. Just wish I knew a bit more about the person behind the Unicode character!

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Thu 4 Jul 2024, 06:03UTC:

My fediverse feed is now full of US politics, most of which is people arguing over what is real - for instance, I've seen:

People asking, why the calls for Biden to step down? Is it a GOP plot to trick the Dems into yanking him, while having prepared secret court challenges to keep the new nominee off the ballot in certain states? (This was accompanied by a Fox News article of all things)

Questions regarding a genuine-looking document, at a genuine-looking FEC web address, showing Mike Flynn as Trump's running mate ... fake though, according to one person that I generally trust to be in-the-loop?

And loads more. We're through the looking glass now. *That's* scary.

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Sat 29 Jun 2024, 21:00UTC:

Was just reminded of a podcast episode I listened to while doing research for recent posts --

in 2021, Kim Stanley Robinson went on a "green cryptocurrency" podcast to talk about his book The Ministry for the Future, and it was hard to listen to, but bless Stan for trying to change people's minds!

https://m.soundcloud.com/planetaryregeneration/ep-42-kim-stanley-robinson-the-ministry-for-the-future

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Fri 28 Jun 2024, 07:38UTC:

Wow, the debate was incredibly painful to watch!

Despite calling each other names, they did seem to agree on a bunch of stuff, e.g. they like golf, don't respect sex workers, and support Israel's horrific genocide against Palestinians.

Joe Biden was a complete disaster, and despite it all, there were still mainstream Democrats in my Fediverse feed talking about how CNN should have been doing fact-checking, and how Biden has a cold.

Just in complete denial of what happened up there on the stage. Oh, Trump tells lies? Yeah no shit. Your guy could barely put a sentence together, and no, it was not his stutter. The "vote harder" folks are beyond help at this point.

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Thu 27 Jun 2024, 06:26UTC:

just testing from my phone as well...

pretty sure markup is possible too
which is kinda cool!

😎

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Thu 27 Jun 2024, 05:57UTC:

Suh-weet: here's my first official tinylog entry.

This page is built dynamically by a python script which reads a csv file - which in turn is generated by a separate script that prompts for user input, then prepends the time & date to each log.

Not super complicated really - but one thing I'll have to get used to is remembering to use 'shift-enter' for a linebreak, when writing these logs in Lagrange.

Anyway... kind of in between blog post projects right now, so some coding practice seemed like a good idea. Fun!

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