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لا إله. لا الله.

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daviwil, to random
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@flatwhatson excited about Prescheme, congrats on the funding!

kakafarm,
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@flatwhatson @daviwil Where did you get the news?

kakafarm, to random
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https://kaka.farm/haunt/posts/the-night-land-by-william-hope-hodgson.html

The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson is a science fiction tale about the very far future, when the sun had died out and the last remnants of Mankind live in a gigantic pyramid called The Last Redoubt. Their existence dependent on ebbing geothermal energy and a force field to protect them from whatever lurks beyond - outside the pyramid is almost certain death, or fates much worse. Around the pyramid patiently stand beings of unimaginable power, always watching into the pyramid, waiting for the Earth Current, for the force field to fail, for the humans to fall.

That's Israel in the Middle East.

That's The Night Land at The Holy Land.

kakafarm,
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@holgerschurig

Fighter Sees His Paradise in Gaza’s Pain

By Taghreed El-Khodary

Jan. 8, 2009

GAZA CITY

The emergency room in Shifa Hospital is often a place of gore and despair. On Thursday, it was also a lesson in the way ordinary people are squeezed between suicidal fighters and a military behemoth.

Dr. Awni al-Jaru, 37, a surgeon at the hospital, rushed in from his home here, dressed in his scrubs. But he came not to work. His head was bleeding, and his daughter’s jaw was broken.

He said Hamas militants next to his apartment building had fired mortar and rocket rounds. [Notice the detail here: next to his apartment building] Israel fired back with force, and his apartment was hit. His wife, Albina, originally from Ukraine, and his 1-year-old son were killed.

“My son has been turned into pieces,” he cried. “My wife was cut in half. I had to leave her body at home.” Because Albina was a foreigner, she could have left Gaza with her children. But, Dr. Jaru lamented, she would not leave him behind.

A car arrived with more patients. One was a 21-year-old man with shrapnel in his left leg who demanded quick treatment. He turned out to be a militant with Islamic Jihad. He was smiling a big smile.

“Hurry, I must get back so I can keep fighting,” he told the doctors.

He was told that there were more serious cases than his, that he needed to wait. But he insisted. “We are fighting the Israelis,” he said. “When we fire we run, but they hit back so fast. We run into the houses to get away.” He continued smiling.

“Why are you so happy?” this reporter asked. “Look around you.”

A girl who looked about 18 screamed as a surgeon removed shrapnel from her leg. An elderly man was soaked in blood. A baby a few weeks old and slightly wounded looked around helplessly. A man lay with parts of his brain coming out. His family wailed at his side.

“Don’t you see that these people are hurting?” the militant was asked.

“But I am from the people, too,” he said, his smile incandescent. “They lost their loved ones as martyrs. They should be happy. I want to be a martyr, too.”

That’s the end of the article.

kakafarm,
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@holgerschurig From https://www.samharris.org/blog/campus-protests-antisemitism-and-western-values

kakafarm,
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@holgerschurig These abhorrent ideologies in general, yes, but the ideology of Islam especially, are a sort of an eldritch brain infection, akin to The Last of Us's Cordyseps.

aldi80s, to books
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Finished reading one short novel from Stephan Zweig's book: "Buchmendel" (Mendel The Book Dealer).
I love the story and wish to be at that café and have a conversation with someone like Mendel.
#StefanZweig #Mendel #ClassicLiterature #Books #1920s #BookLovers

kakafarm,
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@aldi80s Looks interesting. Thank you.

Athenenoctua, to archivistodon French
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Le 5 mars 1535, les représentants de la Ville de Lyon prennent une consulaire dans laquelle ils décident de remplacer François dans ses fonctions de à l'Hôtel-Dieu de , du fait de ses absences répétées.

Voici donc sous vos yeux ébahis la lettre de
de Rabelais, conservée aux sous la cote BB 55 (abîmée par un dégât des eaux ancien).


@archivistodon @histodons
@litterature

kakafarm,
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@Athenenoctua @archivistodon @histodons @litterature No idea what's written here, but this page's handwriting is BEAUTIFUL!

meedstrom, to emacs
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So I found a situation where emacs -Q runs a loop 60x slower than my personal Doom Emacs config!

Any #emacs #lisp wizard who might have an idea why? It's as if it's garbage-collecting for a whole minute. It's not the loop itself that's slow, because it actually completes all iterations, and only then does Emacs hang.

kakafarm,
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@meedstrom I want to know!

lain, to random
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it's cliche but i must admit that stonehenge is probably my favorite henge

kakafarm,
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@lain Have you read Timelike Infinity?

kakafarm,
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@lain Something about the latest version of this section on the Wikipedia article is very funny. Just the short sentence:

"There is a Japanese version.[2]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vacuum_Diagrams&oldid=1205932054#Versions_in_other_languages

lain, to random
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I live in a country that has no power outlets in bathrooms and I was wondering how to install Japanese style bidet toilets, and I learned that very cheap bidet add-ons exist that work purely by water pressure. They are super cheap ($30) and work really well. Not as luxurious as a toto but much better than toilet paper.

kakafarm,
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@lain What if someone with an urinary tract infection or similar comes over, splashes some of their infection on your bidet nozzle, and next time you use your bidet to wash your poop hole you get infected yourself? Are my fears unfounded?

kakafarm, to emacs
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Some people get Emacs Pinky. I get Emacs Thumb. Sigh.

lain, to random
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Thinking of you guys

kakafarm,
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@lain We also say "bira" in Hebrew! :D

lain, to random
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> kidults

kakafarm,
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@lain Oh god. You saw that too?

louis, to random
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It's been 3 years since I last logged in to my tilde.team account and holy cow, my tmux session with neomutt and weechat was still running :-) Obviously that was my pre-Emacs era.

kakafarm,
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@louis I have an sdf.net account under some name, but I don't remember what it was. :(

lain, to random
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saw phantom of the opera two days ago, was really good

kakafarm,
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@lain How Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote "The Phantom of the Opera" (a Lindybeige special):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIICR3h6Iqo

lain, to random
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Glamorous sky

kakafarm,
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@lain Is that the poop trucks building?

lain, to random
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kakafarm,
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@lain my true self, minus 12 million years of evolution - 6 million years back in time from humans to the most recent common ancestor and 6 years from the most recent common ancestor to chimps (or bonobo? i can't tell them apart).

lain, to random
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Mus Musculus Pensivus

kakafarm,
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@lain In what is called "binomial nomenclature" the species name and so on is all lowercase. Only the genus name is has an initial uppercase.

louis, to Discord
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Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon Spam attacks.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/21/discord-took-no-action-against-server-that-coordinated-costly-mastodon-spam-attacks/

I think it's time to delete my Discord account for good.

Edit: done.

kakafarm,
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@louis 🫡

lain, to random
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selamat pagi!!

kakafarm,
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@lain selamat malam! \o

lain, to random
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What

what

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgvUzdGQTMFn4caTIG2ImPJcn7R3ytn1qBOpZwrTuGExGMGA/viewform

kakafarm,
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@lain Did you submit your application? Were you then invited to any gatherings?

lain, to random
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I read this very beautiful story by Zelazny yesterday. It reminded me a lot of Stanislaw Lem. If you're in the mood for not-so-hard scifi with a märchen touch, check it out:

http://afrodita.rcub.bg.ac.rs/~alexp/books/forbreat.html

kakafarm,
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@lain Thank you! I've recently finished the first half of The Chronicles of Amber, Corwin's Saga. Great stuff! I am still stuck somewhere with Merlin and his weird family situation.

lain, to random
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Nearly everyone knows Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias", but not many know that it was part of a competition with his friend Horace Smith, where they would both write sonnets on the same theme. It's striking how much better Shelley's version is. Both poems use the same theme and are equally long, but Shelley's version is elegant and flowing while Smith's version is very clunky in comparison. Here are the two poems:

Shelley:

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Smith:

In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone,
Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws
The only shadow that the Desert knows:—
"I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone,
"The King of Kings; this mighty City shows
The wonders of my hand."— The City's gone,—
Naught but the Leg remaining to disclose
The site of this forgotten Babylon.

We wonder — and some Hunter may express
Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness
Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,
He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place.

kakafarm,
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@lain Smith's second paragraph is pretty good as a microfic, I think. It's basically the ending of Planet of The Apes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDLS12_a-fk

lain, to random
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:ablobfoxdundundunowo:

kakafarm,
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@lain I've seen you post these weird thumbnails many times before. Why? (other than the obvious "fun things are fun")

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