If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design

There is no reason for a shower head with Teflon tape to be so tight it takes a wrench and almost loosens the stem from the wall in the process. As this showerhead was scuffed up, I'm begging you fellow bottoms, stop. Just hand tighten it and give it the tiniest nudge with the wrench if it leaks.

Aside from the war crime of attacking survivors of a shipwreck, we must now add the war crime of perfidy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/us/politics/us-boat-attacks-law.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EFA.7xgP.qIPINOLUNg8W [gift link]

Perfidy is considered a serious crime in war because, among other things, using civilian cover for offensive missions casts suspicion on all civilians in the theatre, putting non-combatants at risk.

"You know what I was thinking about? If Mary Tyler Moore married and then divorced Steven Tyler, then married and divorced Michael Moore, then got into a three-way lesbian marriage with Demi Moore and Mandy Moore, would she go by the name Mary Tyler Moore Tyler Moore Moore Moore? Hm."

This always works.

KTLA: Bear takes up residence under another Los Angeles County home

"...their home is about half a mile from a similar situation that only was resolved a few days ago.... It’s unclear if this is the same bear or not. "

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/bear-takes-up-under-another-los-angeles-county-home/

#bear #bearredux #wildlife

Storing net worth as a 32-bit signed integer would solve a lot of our problems tbh.

Do you use middle-click paste?

When I read this article about Canadians boycotting American https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-us-bourbon-popularity-9.7028355 bourbon what surprised me was how little other countries are also boycotting it. Come on EU, you can do better at boycotting American stuff.

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A bar chart showing decreases in distilled spirits exports from the US in millions $US. EU from 330 to 290 but Canada from 63 to 9.6. Other countries: UK 37 to 26, Japan 27 to 21

What team are you? No spoilers in the comments ! I don't like this movie so far

Good luck to anyone starting the year with a new health regime. Here’s how mine always goes.

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My Year in Diets    Veganuary  Fibreuary   Starch  Cakepril  MaycaroniCheese  June&tonic  Julicecream  Augustickytoffeepudding  Septembeer  Octoblerone  Doughvember  Decemburger  Brian Bilston

I once listened to a podcast about a corpse found frozen in Finland and the investigation to try and find out who she was

Anyone got anything like that to share for me to listen to?! I'm bad at podcasts. I have YouTube music if that matters. #podcast

Wanted: Advice from CS teachers

When teaching a group of students new to coding I've noticed that my students who are normally very good about not calling out during class will shout "it's not working!" the moment their code hits an error and fails to run. They want me to fix it right away. This makes for too many interruptions since I'm easy to nerd snipe in this way.

I think I need to let them know that fixing errors that keep the code from running is literally what I'm trying to teach.

#Satire #Trump #KingCharles #Colonies #alt
Borowitz Report 1/9/25

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King Restores British Rule over U.S. Hugo Burnand [Photo of King Charles in full regalia] LONDON (The Borowitz Report)—In a move that was widely hailed across the free world, on Friday King Charles Ill of the United Kingdom reasserted British rule over the colonies formerly known as the United States of America. “In recent days, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller have been advocating a muscular return to colonialism,” the monarch said. “I couldn't agree more with those chaps.” “We lost the colonies because our King went insane,” Charles added. “But now the shoe's on the other bloody foot, isn't it?” As for what this change in status would mean for Trump, the King said, “Perhaps he could room with his old chum, my idiot brother.”

I'm already dreading watching the US Traitors because they annoy me with the ad breaks and the little recap after every break. Coming from the UK seasons is jarring

I have instagramed my under-sink cabinet. Because not only cable management matters.

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An opened white under-sink cabinet with black metal furnitures installed so that cleaning products and stuff are not lying to messy.

For the bus enthusiasts 🚌

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A diagram of a motherboard in the style of railway network maps

Hmm, I guess the battery on my main UPS is finally dead. I thought I bought it recently, but it's 5 years old now and I guess that's about the life span of these batteries

manpageblog is written in Python and available for many systems, including #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD or #Solaris based ones like #Illumos but also on #Linux like #Debian or #Ubuntu.

Changelog v1.6:

• Pagination support added
• Sitemap support added
• SEO optimized
• LD+JSON support added

The project source is available on GitHub at:
https://github.com/gyptazy/manpageblog
You can find a real-life demo on my website at https://gyptazy.com

#opensource #devops #minimalism #purism #web #blog #blogengine #blogging #coding #python #website #manpageblog

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manpageblog - a UNIX man page themed static blog engine

I need a 9v 1a DC power adapter for my label printer.

Have I achieved Nerdvana? Do I already have such a power supply?

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A large box overflowing with saved DC power supplies.

I wish I could get into GNOME. I feel like everyone is so cool and awesome bucking the trend and writing cute little things but OH MY GOD can I just have decent scaling, multi monitor support, and a proper fucking dock without extensions that break every year for an unspecified time?

It's alive! ALIVE! #diycoffeeroaster #coffee #projects #rubegoldbergmachine

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Flour sifter, drill, heat gun, variable power supply on an outdoor table

@erikosterholm @tsrats I got it, thanks to you and a bit of Kagi'ing. My /etc/dhcpd.conf showed /16 previously:

interface eth0
static ip_address=192.168.17.152/24
static routers=192.168.17.1
# static domain_name_servers=127.0.0.1 192.168.0.1
static ip6_address=fd8a:8d3d:c9a3:1:66c5:f132:10d1:295a
interface eth0

After modifying it to /24, I'm now able to SSH!!!!! 🎉

#OTD in 1797, the Top Hat 🎩 was invented by John Hetherington. It took him over a week to pluck up the courage to wear it and when he did he was arrested 👇

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THE TOP-HAT IN 1797. The Hatter's Gazette reprints from an old journal, dated January 16th, 1797, the following amusing account of the wearing of the first silk hat in London:- " John Hetherington, haberdasher, of the Strand, was arraigned before the Lord Mayor yesterday on a charge of breach of the peace, and inciting to riot, and was required to give bonds in the sum of £500. It was in evidence that Mr. Hetherington, who is well connected, appeared on the public highway wearing upon his head what he called a silk hat (which was offered in evidence), tall structure having a shiny lustre, and calculated to frighten timid people. As a matter of fact, the officers of the Crown stated several women fainted at the unusual sight, while children screamed, dogs yelped, and a younger son of Cordwainer Thomas, who was returning from a chandler's shop, was thrown down by the crowd which had collected, and had his right arm broken. For these reasons the defendant was seized by the guards, and taken before the Lord Mayor. In extenuation of his crime the defendant claimed that he had not violated any law of the kingdom, but was merely exercising a right to appear in a head-dress of his own design-a right not denied to any Englishman."

My niece comes to the U.S. most years from Europe to visit her grandfather.

This year she was stopped at the airport, taken into an interrogation room, accused of being a prostitute, had her phone taken and scanned, and released.

You know, in case you were wondering why tourism to the U.S. is down.

On this day, 101 years ago

#BenitoMussolini made a pivotal speech in the I#talian Chamber of Deputies. He took personal responsibility for the actions of his #Blackshirts, challenged his political opponents to remove him from office and then promised to take charge of restoring order to I#taly within forty-eight hours. #Historians now trace this speech to the beginning of #Mussolini's #dictatorship.

#OTD #History #fascism

The legal justification the WH gave us for attacking Venezuelan boats in int’l waters without Congressional approval was weak, and exposes the WH and military staff to domestic and international criminal prosecution. They have not even sought to justify strikes within Venezuela.

I had not heard of the Minipizza Batfish until it was referenced in today's Independent cryptic crossword. So cute! https://www.tonywublog.com/journal/mini-pizza-batfish-halieutaea-stellata

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Photo by Tony Yu of a circular red flat fish sitting on a seabed. It's top is rough, suggesting lumps of cheese and tomato

Listen, nerds - if you're going to pick This Year to help people switch to Linux, I am begging you to do one thing: _Make sure your friend or parent or grandparent or whoever has backups_. Before you do _anything else_.

Make sure they have all their passwords and accounts somewhere. If you have the means to do so, take a drive image.

Be as sure as you can that they don't lose anything. Even if that's "where the icons are" and "my desktop background pic".

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/im-brave-enough-to-say-it-linux-is-good-now-and-if-you-want-to-feel-like-you-actually-own-your-pc-make-2026-the-year-of-linux-on-your-desktop/

Agrivoltaics boost crop yields even when the solar panels aren’t generating power. New research from Canada shows that shading crops with elevated solar panels creates a cooler, wetter microclimate that can lift yields and improve performance across dozens of crops, from peppers to pasture grass. These benefits persist even when panels are offline, strengthening the case for agrivoltaics as dual-use infrastructure. The Conversation https://theconversation.com/the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving-how-solar-panels-on-farms-can-help-increase-crop-yields-269264?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
#ShareGoodNewsToo

This is quite mesmerizing ...

#NewYear

I will scroll through 100+ items in an Internet search looking for written instructions before I'll ever even consider watching a 1-minute instructional video.

US small arms per 100 persons: 120
Portugal small arms per 100 persons: 20

US murder rate: 5.9 per 100,000
Portugal murder rate: 0.8 per 100,000

US mental health care system: for-profit, limited by insurance carriers
Portugal mental health care system: Single-payer public

Smart kid in Portugal gets scholarship to come to US, lives here 20 years, has mental breakdown, kills a professor and shoots up a university.

I don’t think the problem is immigration from Portugal. The problem is here.

no-one's quite sure what this Western Zhou art piece *is,* but so many people said "are you sure it's not a wifi router?" that the Anhui Museum installed a working wifi access point named "Western Zhou Router" in its display case.

source https://www.chinanews.com.cn/cul/2025/12-01/10524970.shtml h/t @dramforever

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a small, ancient bronze object consisting of a rectangular base with five candle-like pillars, with a striking resemblance to a multi-antenna wifi router.

Check out these unbelievably beautiful macro photographs of Slime Moulds by Barry Webb at https://www.barrywebbimages.co.uk/Images/Macro/Slime-Moulds-Myxomycetes

The photograph below of glistening, Comatricha nigra slime moulds won the People's Choice award in the macro category of the British Photography Awards 2025.

Also check out the macro images of fungi at https://www.barrywebbimages.co.uk/Images/Macro/Fungi

Barry's Instagram site: https://www.instagram.com/barrywebbimages/

More about slime moulds at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mold
#Photography
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Barry Webb's photograph of glistening Comatricha nigra slime moulds titled "Glistening Slime Mould". It won the people's choice in the macro category of the British Photography Awards 2025 Photographed on an old, rotting fence post in my back garden. I used a spray bottle to create a wet foreground to add a reflection and give the image an extra dimension. These fruiting bodies are around 2.5mm tall. 56 images were focus stacked to create the final image. Camera settings: 2.0 sec, f3.2, ISO 400

Witchcraft.😮

Did you know?

As of December 24, 2025, the US Postal Service will no longer postmark items dropped off at the local post office.

Instead, items will be postmarked when they reach a regional processing facility, which could be days later.

Not good for items you depend on having postmarked on a certain date.

Three options:

1. Wait in line at a post office to get your item manually stamped

2. Pay for postage at the counter

3. Send your item certified/registered

https://nstp.org/article/usps-announces-changes-postmark-date-system