A call from my sister just after midnight that she’d taken mum to the hospital.
Been holding bedside vigil while sister goes home and gets some sleep. Doctors running tests and whatnot. Morphine for the pain. Machines that go “bing”.
It’s about 4:30am and mum’s snoring with a plethora of tubes and wires.
Eyes are heavy. Chair is uncomfortable. The nurses showed me where I could make a cup of coffee for myself.
My Dad, the last of his generation in my family, passed away the end of February. We are dealing with the grief and details.
Best advice I got, from a friend I've had since 3rd grade, is you should accept all offers of help. It both gave friends a way to honor Dad, and to ease our load as we struggle with the loss.
@RickiTarr There's comic relief throughout so it's a very easy watch in my opinion. THRONE OF BLOOD -- his version of Macbeth -- is more consistently intense. I'd save that one for when you've got the emotional energy haha.
I'm just not into food before lunch. However, if we are taking breakfast for dinner I need thin sliced scrapple cooked completely crunchy, 2 over easy eggs, and rye toast.
@RickiTarr favorite: Chicken fried steak, with hash browns/home fries and small “curd” scrambled eggs with cheese with a side of white gravy.
Alt: biscuits and gravy.
Usually?
Slice of Sausage/bacon with over easy fried egg and frozen hash brown patty.
Daily reminder 0683, dass uns SPD, Grüne und FDP das #Selbstbestimmungsgesetz im Koalitionsvertrag versprochen haben.
Daily reminder 0667, dass die #Ampelkoalition jetzt die Regierung stellt.
Daily reminder 0046, dass das vorgeschlagene #SBGG beschissen ist. #TSGabschaffen.
@RickiTarr
My best friend once told me that when you're trying to figure out whether or not to say something, you should ask if it's any TWO of True, Helpful, and Kind.
Der var en kort overgang, hvor jeg fik skrevet korte anmeldelser af alt det bras, jeg lader fylde mine øjenhuller — men så snart jeg havde dumpet min backlog på superkultur.dk, gik rutinen i stå.
Er det noget, I kan holde ud at læse her, hvis jeg giver den vane et nyt forsøg, eller skal jeg holde det til Superkultur-sitet?
Billys nye kæledyr tåler ikke skarpt lys, og må hverken blive våd eller fodres efter midnat. Alligevel bliver småbyen Kingston Falls denne jul rendt over ende af små, grønne øglemonstre…
I en verden hvor folk argumenterer for "Die hard"s status som juleklassiker, burde "Gremlins" rangere langt højere på repertoiret. Den spænder fra hjemlig hygge, køkkenulykker og sære gadgets til frydefuldt kaos og dybe familietraumer.
What he's done is prep his followers to believe, at such time as Fox gets arnd to reporting he lost (they haven't, yet), he lost for reasons he "predicted" he wd lose: bc judge & the Black Woman Prosecutor ganged up on him
If last wk's judgmt & this trial were (or is--they still cd be) reported w 1/2 the attention reporters pay to Hunter dick pix then it MIGHT lead some ppl to realize Trump is a fraud, always has been
But thus far Trump has utterly dictated storyline.
As the day drew to a close, Trump seemed to take great issue with testimony from David Bender, an accountant at Mazars who spent years preparing Trump's personal tax returns.
At times, he appears to be very upset, with his face turning beet red. At one point, Trump turned to Cliff Robert, the attorney for his adult sons, and whisper-yelled at him, while pointing and waving his finger.
@dancinyogi
I actually had a manual typewriter. You really had to push each key down hard (and as an 11-year old, that took strength). My Mom saw I was serious at writing and got me a Smith-Corona that had switchable cartridges, one for ink, one for white-out. I really needed that! The keys had a nice feel. My recollection is that I wrote my first novella and my first novel on the machine. After the novella, I was a touch typist. Never took a class.
Soon it was on to a terminal with a typewriter keyboard and a 56K Cat modem to use a time-share computer at university. That seems like so long ago that my memories should be in B&W and sepia-toned.
Like, cool. Free stuff.
Im actually hesitant to accept. Idk if I really like the idea of assimilating a computer even closer to my person than my phone already is.
It will probably just be a distraction. But idk. It might be useful.
Wondering what other #smartWatch owners might have to say.
I know @benjaminhollon has a smart watch. Made by frameworks maybe??? :thaenkin:
> green phosphor has the longest afterglow (remains on the screen for the longest time)
> green phosphor was the first available
> The human eye responds to the green color the best, so it looks brightest
I don't think people are realising the danger the Fediverse is in.
The only thing stopping corporations and VCs taking over this place is that the Fediverse is spread out on many different servers, which makes it very difficult to purchase.
If most of the Fediverse ends up on mastodon.social, which is now a strong possibility, there will be nothing to stop most of it being sold to Musk or Zuckerberg or whoever.
The bigger mastodon.social becomes, the more likely a buyout is to happen.
Here's what Eugen Rochko's Mastodon gGmbH organisation now controls:
-The Mastodon server software & API (though the current version is FOSS)
-The mastodon.social server, which has 1 in 7 of all Fediverse users
-The official Mastodon apps, now telling people to just sign up on mastodon.social
-The official website at joinmastodon.org
-The trademark for the word "mastodon", which lets them dictate terms to any server which uses it
This is a tempting package for any potential buyers.
➡️ IF mastodon.social becomes more than 50% of the Fediverse, either by total users or monthly active users, the rest of us should defederate it.
Sticking with mastodon.social because "that's where the people are" is pointless. Centralised growth will simply cause the governance problems we've seen on Twitter and Facebook to be replicated on here.
Growth has to be decentralised in order to protect the independence of all Fedi servers.
@lightweight
It's really past time those of us who are educated, and independent of the "professional-managerial class" (as Graeber politely describes it), launched a serious campaign to re-democratise our universities, and put them back in service of independent research and academic freedom.
"Universities are—or, better said, until recently have been— among the only institutions that survived more or less intact from the High Middle Ages. As a result, universities still reflected an essentially medieval conception of self-organization and self-governance; this was an institution managed by scholars for the pursuit of scholarship, of forms of knowledge that were seen as valuable in their own right."
👻 ✒️ Phantom Ink (⚙️ Mary Flanagan & Max Seidman | 🖌️ Spring Yu | 🖨️ Gigamic).
J'en avais eu des échos mitigés, j'ai beaucoup aimé. Ca créée des vibes à la Decrypto, en plus accessible en terme d'explication (mais en moins fou quand même), et avec une vraie mise en scène dans la transmission des infos. Plutôt à jouer à partir de 6, pour créer les discussions entre les médiums, ce qui est très amusant à observer en tant que fantôme.