In the mist of shite political news from around the world, here's a good news story, the Danish Foreign Minister give the Egyptian Foreign Minister a Lego set of the Pyramids as a gift, just look at his face ;)

#Politics #Denmark #Egypt #Lego #Joy #GoodNews

https://egyptianstreets.com/2025/11/03/danish-foreign-minister-gifts-lego-pyramid-to-celebrate-grand-egyptian-museum-opening/

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Danish minister give the Egyptian minister a Lego set of the Pyramids in a formal looking room, flags, gold, big lamp shades, the expression on the face of the Egyptian minister is just pure joy and the biggest smile ever.

So I met this Australian guy who works in IT...

I said: "Do you come from a LAN down under?"

He just smiled and gave me a mega byte sandwich ...

Surely one of the finest pieces of journalism of all time? The headline alone is award winning.

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DUCK EATS YEAST, QUACKS, EXPLODES; MAN LOSES EYE Rhadamanthus’'s Unusually Fermented Sunday Breakfast Causes It to Rise Piecemeal, Blinding Owner, DES MOINES, Jan, 2 - The strangest accident recorded in local history occurred this morning when Rhadamanthus, a duck, which took a prize at the recent Iowa poultry show, exploded into several hundred pleces, one of which struck Silas Perking in the eye, destroyIng the sight The cause of the explosion was the eating of yeast which was placed In a pan upon the back porch, and tempted his duckship, which was taking a Sanday morning stroll. Upon returning from church Mr Perking discovered his prize duck in an some what logy condition Telltale marks around the pan of yeast gave him his clue. He was about to pick up the bird when the latter quacked and exploded with a loud report and Mr Perkins ran into to house holding both hands over one eye. A surgeon was called, who found that the eyeball had been penetrated by a fragment of flying duck and gave no hope of having the optic.

Wild how many people don't believe the Internet was created by Al Gore when it's all run by al-gor-ithms

Never forget...

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The weekend was a crazy leftist idea. In 1886 7 union members in Wisconsin died fighting for the 5-day and the 8-hour work day

An owl gliding through a cloud of helium-filled soap bubbles reveals wingtip and tail vortices.

Video credit: Usherwood et al.
Source: https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/223/3/jeb214809/223686/High-aerodynamic-lift-from-the-tail-reduces-drag

What is a programming language you learned and mastered, but that is now completely obsolete in your work?

We started watching the His Dark Materials tv show.

And suddenly, one internal scene from the Oxford University reminded me of... Microsoft Plus! Themes. Precisely, this particular one https://youtu.be/1g0SelN77nw

And now, I want to install it in a VM to grab the colors and turn it into a WindowMaker theme...

This is a valuable lesson for any manufacturer: never awaken the nerd sleeping inside your customer, because his wrath shall be terrible.

In this case the warning was quite literal.

The company annoyed a buyer enough to push him into full blown nerd mode. He tore the product apart, reverse engineered every part, and then published a step by step guide showing exactly how to disable "kill switch" that prevented the use of the product without the vendor spying on the user.

What started as a minor grievance became a public, technical exposé that left the maker exposed and embarrassed.

Moral of the story: underestimate your users at your own peril.

The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me

Goodreads volunteer moderator went rogue and changed a cover to Eric Trump's book Under Siege, and added the subtitle “Goodreads Censorship in Favor of Trump,”

🔗 https://www.404media.co/rogue-goodreads-librarian-edits-site-to-expose-censorship-in-favor-of-trump-fascism/

I know I’m gonna get dragged for this, but I have never been able to bake chocolate chip cookies from scratch that are as good as the Pillsbury dough I get at the store. I’ve tried different recipes and nothing compares. I’m sure I’m just doing something wrong, but can’t figure out what.

HELP 😭

#3160 - Document Forgery

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The image shows a comic depicting a fake university diploma. The diploma reads “East State University” at the top, with unreadable scribbles above and below. In the center, it says “Doctor of Philosophy in Document Forgery.” There are several illegible signatures and a circular seal at the bottom center with abstract symbols. Below the diploma, a caption reads: “If you put one of these up in your office, and no one notices, you’ve earned it.” Hidden text: "It comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a certificate of authenticity, which comes with a..."

Chef José Andrés' World Central Kitchen nonprofit is usually giving meals to people in war zones, but now, it's distributing food in Washington, D.C., in order to help federal employees during the U.S. government shutdown. Here's more from NBC Washington.

https://flip.it/qK6UAt

#USGovernment #TrumpAdministration #GovernmentShutdown #USNews #USPolitics #JoseAndres

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A tweet from BrooklynDad_Defiant! says: “THIS.” followed by several clapping emojis. The image text reads: “Let’s give teachers $50k signing bonuses, $100k salaries, and $60k student loan forgiveness. You know, the same as ICE gets.”

Uh oh. This is dangerous. They have two T-Age suits that fit me perfectly and I don't know if I want blue or white

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for some reason the neurons finally clicked that "nails on a chalkboard" means fingernails not hammer nails

"Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most. And that is the indifference of good men."

Ah, Boondock Saints. Fun movie.

#MovieNight

Outside of Speaker Mike Johnson,
there is no bigger poster boy for the rubber-stamp Republican House majority than Jim Jordan.

Jordan’s purpose for running the House Judiciary Committee is to abuse its power to investigate those who tried to hold Donald Trump accountable for alleged crimes.

While Republicans in the House filled their committees with leaders who would be loyal to Trump,
Democrats filled their positions with experienced investigators and legislators who know how to use oversight power and navigate congressional hearings effectively.

Rep. Jamie Raskin is one of those Democrats. -- He is an attorney and constitutional scholar, and a person who understands how to properly and effectively use House oversight.

When Jordan gave Raskin a big opening by trying to investigate former Special Counsel Jack Smith, the Maryland Democrat seized on it.

Jim Jordan wants Jack Smith to testify behind closed doors.
Smith wants to testify in public.

Raskin wrote a letter to Jordan urging him to allow Smith to testify before the nation.

Rep. Raskin wrote:
Last week, I applauded your call for transparency about Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into how President Trump knowingly retained hundreds of highly classified records at his Mar-a-Lago club and then defied subpoenas, obstructed law enforcement, actively hid evidence, and lied about his continuing retention of those records.

I commended you for apparently joining us in demanding the full release of Mr. Smith’s report
—paid for by American taxpayers
—as well as all accompanying records which the Department of Justice (DOJ) has been desperately concealing.

https://www.politicususa.com/p/jamie-raskin-outsmarts-jim-jordan

US people: If you are white, not racist, not a supporter of ethnic cleansing, but are struggling to pay bills, or don't know how you will afford food next month...

First of all, I am genuinely sorry for the stress you are dealing with. Truly.

Second, this stress was placed on you intentionally. By racists.

Their idea is that you will stop caring about other people and become more racist as you become more desperate.

These racists don't care about *helping* other white people. They don't care about you.

They care about *hurting* Black and brown people, and creating their white ethnostate.

They happily shared stats showing that in pre-war Germany, the nazi party got the most support where hunger and hardship were highest.

They also celebrated the eugenic cruelty that followed the Influenza pandemic, back when "long Covid" or "long flu" were not terms that people understood.

No, I do not think that they invented Covid in a nazi lab.🤦🏿‍♂️

But the worst of them definitely celebrated its arrival, and said "Let 'er rip, this helps us," at first because of the high Black death toll, and later because of the impact on the elderly, and the desperation and healthcare callousness.

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Twitter screenshot: @mekkaokerekebye An official DOD webpage posted an article celebrating a Nazi war criminal yesterday. It barely made the news. The Alt-Right wrote years ago that a widespread US economic crash and food insecurity, was necessary to foment the callousness required to proceed to the "next phase." 9:09 AM Dec 18, 2019

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Twitter screenshot: Mekkaokerekebye Dec 18, 2019 The theory is: Many white people will care less about adequate nutrition or flu vaccines for brown people in concentration camps, if they themselves are starving and without medicine. This will allow the camp death toll to rise without actually needing to execute people.

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Twitter screenshot: Mekkaokerekebye What're black folk saying today? * If you don't stop the GOP from deregistering /disenfranchising us, Dems will lose in 2020. And y'all will act surprised. Again. * 2020 Trump is gloves off, Phase 2. * Buttigieg is trash * Biden is trash, but we know what's in the can.

The last thing tying me to the Google ecosystem is my phone. Can anyone out there recommend an open source phone that they have had good success with?

Roo reaction

[description: kangaroo checking out a Halloween display is scared by the cackling skeleton -- you can see the roo running away far down the street]

#kangaroo #roo #animal #halloween #humor #humour

An LA leather store is having a warehouse sale today, but it's a 2 hour (more like 3 with traffic) drive each way to Duarte and that's a lot...

Resurecting the ghost of Reagan turns out to be unexpected political dynamite. Since Republicans no longer believe in facts, but they do worship deities, this puts them in the irreconcileable position of having two of their gods issuing unequivocal and diametrically opposite decrees. Feel like we may be hearing more from the Almighty Ronny in the days ahead.

France : un dimanche matin en cuisine

India Rose Crawford
#embroidery #food #animation #cooking #art

Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein was not the monster.

Wisdom is understanding that Frankenstein WAS the monster.

Enlightenment is understanding that I, the person who brings this up at every chance in every conversation, am the monster.

Browsing photos in IMDb is torture. IMDb overall is such a PITA lately that I actively avoid it when trying to dig up movie or TV show info

Don't forget.....

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If you need the threat of hell to be a good person, then you're just a bad person on a leash.

Why does the government tackle benefit fraud and ignore tax cheats? Could it be prejudice?
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10/23/why-does-the-government-tackle-benefit-fraud-and-ignore-tax-cheats-could-it-be-prejudice/
The National Audit Office issued a report yesterday on efforts being made by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to tackle benefit fraud, and the rate of errors being made in payments of what I call social security.

Ever since I decided I should "learn more about the stock market" I've been having a rolling, ongoing multi-week crisis.

I'm just... shook.

"Girl? You live like this?"

The most interesting thing I've learned is how there are fewer public companies on the market. This is also responsible for market inflation. Everyone seems to nod and agree that ideally a market shouldn't be a speculative thing, but based on the value the companies generate, but everyone vested benefits from dislocation.

Because of expenses and depreciation and corporate income taxes, I finally replaced my laptop. I wasn´t going to yet because ThinkPad and T480s still works properly. But there was that 40% promotion on a more recent ThinkPad so I jumped in.

It is #ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 AMD. I have installed both FreeBSD 14.3 and OpenBSD 7.8 on it and used it for a couple of hours. So far, sleep/resume, audio, accelerated video, X11, keyboard and touchpad, ethernet work as expected. The Qualcomm wireless card does not seem to be recognized by #FreeBSD. But it works on #OpenBSD! This is a great surprised because it wasn't supposed to, according to the online docs I found and I was ready to use a USB dongle.

I don´t really like the keyboard because Fn and Ctrl are not in the ThinkPad normal order. Also, the keys are a bit too thin for my linking - same as X1 Carbon - I like X280/T480s/X230i keyboards better. But all in all, the outside is quite nice, for a plastic thing.

And now, you can get the #dmesg here:https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/dmesgd?do=view&id=8618https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/dmesgd?do=view&id=8619

EDIT: OpenBSD/X11 has freezed 2 times this past days. Black screen, keyboard and mouse freezed, weird drm yelling in dmesg. Still SSH is available and reboot can be done properly. Not sure if it’s Xfce+Firefox+Chromium or the DRM stuff that is not 100% working. Gotta switch to WindowMaker to identify is it is Xfce’s (compositor?) fault.

EDIT2: Slackware 15.0-STABLE doesn’t have the right DRM drivers. One needs 15-CURRENT to use a desktop environment.

The Māori people descend from Polynesians whose ancestors emigrated from Taiwan to Melanesia between 3000-1000 BC, and then travelled east, reaching the Society Islands 1000 CE.

After a pause of 200 to 300 years, a new wave of exploration led to the discovery and settlement of New Zealand.

#archaeohistories

Often computer history focuses on the US (or UK), but rarely Australia.

This article reveals how Ozisoft, the Aussie distributor for Sega, went into print publishing and shut out Mattel (which distributed Nintendo):

"The news section of Megazone issue 11, dated December 1990, starts with a glorified press release. It states that over 100,000 Sega Master Systems have been sold in Australia and that things are going gangbusters.

"What it fails to mention is that the magazine’s publisher is OziSoft. Which also happens to be the local distributor of Sega products.

"The cover of that same issue featured the new King’s Quest 5 game for PC alongside a glowing preview across several pages. Coincidentally, King’s Quest is another one of OziSoft’s local releases.

"Growing up, I didn’t know any of that. Because a 12-year-old kid doesn’t really know or care about licensing, distribution, or ‘corporate synergy’.
...
"While Megazone went out with a whimper, its final issue barely noticed, the magazine’s legacy, and its influence on Australian gaming can’t be underestimated. It made Sega a household name, sold a generation of kids on the Master System, and helped OziSoft outgun and outsell Nintendo when the 16-bit generation arrived on our shores.

"For better or worse, the conflicted nature of Megazone shaped a generation of kids. Even if we didn’t know it at the time.
...
"Looking back at Megazone with the benefit of hindsight it’s clear that the lines between journalism and marketing were often blurred.

"That’s a view that Stuart Clarke agrees with. And he should know, given he was the editor from 1992 to 1993."

https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/megazone-history/

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #retrocomputers #retrogames #Amiga #Atari #Sega #Nintendo #Commodore #ausmedia #computers #computing #computerhistory

Bonjour ami.es de Mastodon.
Je suis à la recherche de quelques personnes qui pourraient envoyer une carte postale à mes petits élèves qui font un tour du monde virtuel cette année.
Actuellement nous traversons l'océan atlantique et débarquerons en Amérique du Sud le 3 novembre.

#postcard #voyage #school #teamPE #teamprof #teamEduc

I'm currently rebuilding the "about" website for nogoo.me into a multilingual one and identified two funny things:

• French sentences are wayyyyyy longer than English ones.
• When I write in French, I tend to assume people reading the text will be normal (hear non-tech) users. Whereas I tend to write in English as if only geeks will read the text.

That's all. Time for sleep now. G'night!

El problema de hacer el primer café de la mañana es que hay que hacerlo antes de tomar el primer café de la mañana

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Un molinillo de cafe. el recipiente donde cae el cafe no está y en su lugar hay un montón de cafe recién molido tirado

How 2025 is going.

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An LED highway sign near San Diego reading "LIVE WEAPONS OVER FREEWAY"

I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into Fscist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.

Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.

Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.

-Sara Whitmer

Because we need good news: Gary Larson is drawing again (he bought a tablet, taught himself how to use it, and suddenly drawing was fun again): https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

So yeah sometimes I go awhile without checking my mail because there is hardly ever something I care about in it. At least not usually anything time sensitive you know?

Well yeah I got summoned to jury duty and the date was today and I only just now read the letter. Ugh I guess I'll go in tomorrow and profusely apologize and see what I can do to avoid getting a fine or something. Read the max fine is like 50$ or something but still I just don't like being in trouble.

why have an AI bubble when you can have a

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subsequent gay boy boom

I lolled hard