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from Kroeber
“The Great Bailout”, da Moor Mother, ilustra bem as contradições em que me encontro. Emocionalmente estou em enorme e dorida sintonia com esta música e o peso que a história do racismo nos EUA lhe amplifica. Pouca arte me tem tocado de forma tão direta sobre a condição das pessoas que continuam a ser discriminadas, a sofrer violência racial e que estão muito conscientes da feia continuidade da história do racismo. Sinto essa identificação emocional ainda mais intensa e imediatamente que a solidariedade política que a razão produz em mim. E isso acontece mesmo se discordo da terminologia e se algumas ideias são até contrárias ao caminho que acredito poder mudar as coisas. A frase “the truth won't do you no good” parece algo saído de livros como “White Fragility”, normalizando o racismo e cristalizando a identidade racial branca. Esta música toca-me e liga-me a quem a produz, mesmo se está embebida de alguns dos erros que vejo, já de forma racional, em algum do activismo online. Já o meu lado racional é alimentado, muito bem nutrido aliás, de obras primas como “Racecraft”, das maravilhas irmãs Fields. Poucos livros me iluminaram tanto como esse, mostrando-me que “only the truth can do us good”.
from Lastige Gevallen in de Rede
Wemelend, wroetend en wriemelend verkeer op weg tussen de wormen door naar het weeweeweb en overige op afstand bestuurbare netwerken waarin wij op eigen kosten levend en wel omhangen.
Opnieuw een zwoele, warme, zomerse dag in oktober. De hitte golf houdt aan.
Meer gebroken harten als ooit te voren maar dat maakt niet uit want de aandelen koersen op hartzeer stijgen bij nacht en ontij.
U club gedegradeerd, volgend jaar een nieuwe competitie, U gedegradeerd, jammer u kans op beter is nu voorgoed verkeken, is toch net wat anders.
Van je lang zal je leven, in de polyvinyl chloria, In de polyvinyl chloria. Hieperdepiep Nieuw.
Als de machine eenmaal op gang is gekomen is het stoom uit u oren een onuitputtelijke energie bron voor alles waaraan alleen u ten ondergaat. De stokers draaien daarna doodgewoon door.
En meer wringende zaken leest u op misschien wel het engste oorblog van Writeas, in ieder geval het enigste.
... tot zover Van Voorbijgaande Aard deze week, ik wens u een fijne voortzetting van deze dag en later meer mooie of mooier indien nodig.
With the last feature of WebCard behind me I proceeded with the next task to wrap up my RetroChallenge 2024 project: documenting the system.
Since WebCard enhances NoteCards with only a few simple but significant features a full manual would be overkill. So I added to the README file of the project repo some new sections on the requirements and dependencies, the installation, and the usage of WebCard.
The documentation assumes familiarity with NoteCards and Medley Interlisp, large systems in themselves, and describes only what WebCard adds to NoteCards. It explains how to create and manage Web cards and traverse links to them.
In addition the README file now has a screenshot that shows a website opened by WebCard in NoteCards.
#WebCard #Interlisp #Lisp
from HURIDE
While the blog is being set-up and fine-tuned, this post has multilingual links to my current petitions at the EU parliament.
These petitions have just come online. Europe takes about 6 months to run a petition through their reviewing process before it may be available to the public for signing. A full post detailing the reasons for each petition is forthcoming. In the meantime …
To effectively stop Child Sexual Abuse in Europe, the jurisdictional nightmare allowing States to barter victim rights in Europe in cases of CSA needs tackling.
Jurisdictional frenzy in Europe fuels corruption, the creation of an International Anti-Corruption Court is the only valid answer.
The petition system of the EU Parliament could be more user friendly. In order to sign the petition, you need to:
If successfully signed, you should get a confirmation by email.
#petitions
from james holloway
Read more...from G A N Z E E R . T O D A Y
“I gently sucked Simone's breast while waiting for the soft-boiled eggs, and she ran her fingers through my hair. Her mother was the one who brought us the eggs, but I didn't even turn around, I assumed it was a maid, and I kept on sucking the breast contentedly. Nor was I ultimately disturbed when I recognized the voice, but since she remained and I couldn't pass up even one instant of my pleasure, I thought of pulling down my pants as for a call of nature, not ostentatiously, but merely hoping she would leave and delighted at going beyond all limits.”
I knew Georges Bataille's STORY OF THE EYE was supposed to be “transgressive”, but this is just trash. I cannot for the life of me understand what the appeal was to Sontag or Sartre, the appeal that drew me to look into the book to begin with. It is, thus far, not even sexy.
“Simone settled on the toilet, and we each ate one of the hot eggs with salt. With the three that were left, I softly caressed her body, gliding them between her buttocks and thighs, then I slowly dropped them in the water one by one. Finally, after viewing them for a while, immersed, white, and still hot (this was the first time she was seeing them peeled, that is naked, drowned under her beautiful cunt), Simone continued the immersion with a plopping noise akin to that of soft-boiled eggs.”
Odd fixation with eggs and urine, the latter of course I know to be a fetish but one I never could quite understand. None of the characters' actions seem to make any sense to me, they're all just stupid in the same way modern porn actors typically are. Most reviews of this loathsome pamphlet of poorly conceived depravity seem to refer to it as “thought-provoking”. I, thus far, cannot see why. It's short enough that I'll carry on with it anyway, but I have a feeling I'll long for the time wasted on it nonetheless, no matter how little.
I've been awaking past midnight for the past few nights now, tummy growling with want. And every night I succumb to its needs by prepping a little snack. Terrible new habit.
#reads #journal
from Lastige Gevallen in de Rede
Het is ons ter ore gekomen dat u Van Voorbijgaande Aard met de vingers heeft geknipt. Wij, de Vereniging Des Duims belang zijn geschokt. Hoe heeft u ons dit aan kunnen doen weet u dan niet hoe zeer ons dit pijn doet. Jaar na jaar proberen wij de mens te laten in zien hoe schadelijk knippen met de vingers is voor de duim. Het duimdraaien lijdt er ontzettend onder en ook het verhalen zuigen uit de duim. Het aantal gezogen verhalen is gestagneerd sinds 2011 zo is gebleken uit door ons gesubsidieerd onderzoek. Duimdraaien verliest zolangzamerhand al zijn waarde op de entertainmentsmarkt. Het lijkt wel alsof u dat allemaal ontgaat. Heeft u dan geen interesse in al ons wel en wee, in de belangrijke zaken in de echt belangrijke wereld. Stel dat u eigen kinderen de duimen niet meer goed omhoog of omlaag steken? Wat dan. Ik zeg u dat we dit grensoverschrijdend gedrag niet langer goedkeuren, het gaat in tegen de vingerknip wet van 2019. U hoort nog van ons in de media en via die via dan op naar de rechter. Gij misdadige overdadig geluid makende vingerknipper.
from An Open Letter
I’m excited for this Halloween since this is the closest I can get to showing off the body I’ve accidentally gotten with all of this working out. Don’t get me wrong, I’m working out for my mental health, but also I don’t mind looking the way I do now. I know it’s true, but I believe it even more – “The man who loves walking will walk further than the man who loves the destination”.
from Dio Writes
This is work in progress, but for those who were wondering what I look like, well… here you are? Sorry if it is unclear or disappointing… I still need to get that art commissioned.
Name: [Redacted] Aliases: Dio, Diotima, Fucking Bitch
Race: Tiefling Age: Appears to be early to mid-twenties
Height: 5’6&1/2” (66.5 inches / 169cm) Weight: Between 135-140 lbs (61-64kg)
*** Suspected Abilities ***
*** Natural Form ***
Skin Tone:
Smoky, pewter colored skin with bluish purple undertones, tanning to a deeper bluish gray with extended exposure to the sun. Lips are a darker purple, looking almost like matte lipstick. Palms are a lighter greyish blue, fingernails blue-black, somewhat talonlike, and appear almost painted.
I like my lips… I know that’s weird, but I do. Okay and look, I file my nails… well, I leave my right hand long for defense, but toenails and my dominant hand, I file because like… I need to write a lot and shoes are expensive.
Hair:
Shoulder length, soft, wavy, charcoal colored hair with a subtle shimmery undertone reminiscent of charcoal flecked with mica (gothic vanilla). A few individual strands of pure shimmer silver; not an effect of aging but natural coloration variations.
Argan oil really brings out the shimmer, you know?
Facial Features:
A vaguely pixie shaped face, straight nose peppered with a dash of faint purplish freckles. Elf-like ears tapering to a rounded point. A small scar mars her lip on the upper right, and a small freckle breaks up the symmetry of her face on the left under her eye.
Iridescent, glowing amber eyes with larger than average irises, the effect of the variations in the coloration giving them a slight flower-like appearance. Ovoid pupils, black. Naturally long lashes.
Petite, cream colored, slightly curved horns, approximately five inches from base to tip, half hidden by hair. Slightly filed to dull the tips.
Human-like teeth, with the exception of sharp double upper canines, noticeable when she smiles.
I look younger than I am which can be annoying. Vul sometimes jokes that I have anime eyes; they’re not really but it’s funny. The effect of the brown and amber coloration does makes them look a bit like flowers, but they’re actually rounded. I… look, I don’t think I’m pretty, not really, but I do like my eyes. And no, I don’t actually bite people, I’d probably draw blood.
General Body:
Soft, subtle ridges down her spine, along her hips, ribs and collarbone, and across her shoulder blades. Small spurs on her elbows, knees.
Build between average and fit, toned without looking muscular. Muted curves, vaguely tomboyish; chest small to average. Thighs a slight bit larger than one might expect; naturally strong legs.
Thick, strong nails (finger and toe) bordering talons; filed on the left hand and both feet (to allow for fine manipulation / not to shred shoes.) Coloration as above.
Tail long for her body, a little thinner and somewhat expressive of her mood (she swishes it when she is emotional.) Soft to the touch, tip spade shaped with a texture like velvet.
I do not fucking swish, who wrote that? ...Okay, fine. Sometimes.
*** Alternate Form ***
Latte colored skin and charcoal colored hair with a shimmery undertone reminiscent of mica. Amber eyes that seem to glow in low light, vaguely ovoid pupils. Subtle shaping of the upper ears to suggest they’re not quite rounded without being obvious. Lips tinged bluish purple, maintains the double canines of her primary form. Body type and general appearance still the same. Fingernails appear painted blue-black; coloration has not been changed otherwise.
Otherwise, her scars, freckles, etc remain in place, coloration adjusting to suit.
I don’t much like this form, though it is useful when we’re in Earth Realm. I don’t seem to be able to shapeshift but this form is… a bit like that, though I’m stuck with the one. I think cambions can do more, but not me. I guess that’s the price for having free will? I don’t know.
‘Are you able to breathe?’ Ha ha I’ve had people ask, FML for choosing bluish lips I guess?
from Roscoe's Story
Prayers, etc.: * 05:00 – Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel * 06:00 – praying The Angelus * 06:50 – praying the Joyful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary, followed by the Memorare * 07:15 – Day 6 of 9, praying the St. Jude Novena. * 08:15 – Thought for today from Archbishop Lefebvre: Jesus loves us as His mystical spouse. He loves us and He produces in us abundant fruits, an extraordinary fecundity of supernatural virtues that spring from sanctifying grace. The gifts of the Holy Ghost which are communicated to us come to complete these virtues. Finally, there are the beatitudes. Our soul is thus adorned with precious stones, adorned with virtues which are the admiration of the angels. We have to do everything we can to develop them. * 12:00 – praying The Angelus * 15:20 – prayerfully reading The Athanasian Creed, followed by today's Daily Meditation found in Benedictus Magazine. * 18:00 – praying The Angelus * 18:50 – praying the hour of Compline for tonight according to the Traditional Pre-Vatican II Divine Office, followed by Fr. Chad Ripperger's Prayer of Command to protect my family, my sons, my daughter and her family, my granddaughters and their families, my great grandchildren, and everyone for whom I have responsibility from any demonic activity. – And that followed by the Thursday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum.
Health Metrics: * bw= 214.84 lbs. * bp= 140/77 (83)
Diet: * 06:15 – ½ pb&j sandwich, 1 banana * 12:00 – hash browns, biscuits and jam, sausage, scrambled eggs, pancakes
Chores, etc.: * 05:00 – listen to local news talk radio * 06:00 – bank accounts monitored * 10:00 – listening to relaxing music and light reading * 12:00 – watch old game shows and eat lunch at home with Sylvia * 13:30 – listening to relaxing music and light reading * 16:00 – local news and weather * 17:30 – tuned into the radio network of the Georgia Southern Eagles ahead of their football game vs the Old Dominion Monarchs
Chess: * 09:00 – moved in all pending CC games
posted Thursday, 2024-10-24
from Micro Dispatch📡
Couldn't stop listening to “A Little Braver” by New Empire. Thought I'd find a music video and found this kdrama to go along with it. The song is an OST for this drama. Looks like a really good one too!
Update: Turn on the captions on the video to understand better what's going on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OP7HT9TuRY
#Status #NewEmpire #UncontrollablyFond #Kdrama
from Collin Donnell
Joe Steel wrote a post about how he uses different monospaced fonts for different apps. I feel boring now since I just use SF Mono for everything (the default in recent macOS).
from Telmina's notes
いよいよ衆議院議員選挙の投票日まで本日含めあと2日になりましたが、仕事場を出る時間がいつも遅いため、自分が住む選挙区のエリアで仕事帰りに候補者の街頭演説を聴く、ということもままなりません。
前回(2021年)のときは出来ていたのに、と思っていたら、あのときはフルリモートで、訊きに行くのが比較的容易だったんですよね。今回は、本当に明日の土曜日の最終街宣ぐいらいしか聴くことを出来なさそうです。
前置きが長くなりましたが、昨夜から突然悩まされることになった五十肩、案の定現時点でも治まっていません。
昨日朝の出勤時には、ほとんど痛みも引いていて、Mastodonでは移動中の電車の中でその旨の発言をしたのですが……
その直後に肩に激痛が走ってしまいました。トホホ。
昨日はそのまま出勤し、痛みに耐えながらも何とか仕事をするという有様でした。
暫くすると痛みはやわらぐのですが、完全になくなるわけではなく、腕を伸ばしたり物を持とうとしたりするとやはり痛みが走ります。
力仕事でないのが幸いですが、普通に荷物を持つのもしんどい状況です。出来れば通院はしたくないので、市販の薬物で治療できるのであればそうしたいです。
4年前にギックリ腰になったときは、なってからしばらくは痛みに耐えながら生活していたものの(腰を痛めたのが年末で、そのまま年を越してしまった)、その後は再発せずに済んでいます。ギックリ腰は一度なってしまうと再発するという話を聞いていただけに、そのときは不安になっていたのですが、とりあえず今の時点ではあのときの苦痛を再度味わわずに済んでおります。
ギックリ腰になったときは、腰を固定するサポーターや貼り薬を購入したものの、通院はせずに済ませました。今回の五十肩でも同様の手が通用するのかどうかはわかりませんが、先述のとおり出来れば通院したくないので、薬物治療で済ませられるものならばそうしたいです。
This image is created by Stable Diffusion WebUI Forge.
#2024年 #2024年10月 #2024年10月25日 #ひとりごと #雑談 #体調不良 #五十肩 #Mastodon #マストドン #SNS #Fediverse #分散型SNS
from Lastige Gevallen in de Rede
O schat wat ben je de laatste maanden weer akelig liederlijk je maakt overal iedere keer een driest ophitsend versje van waar dan weer zo'n hemelsche melodie in kan natuurlijk eentje vol koperblazers en aangedikt met snaar gestrijk
Hou die driftige vrijers wil toch eens binnen de perken man je hoeft toch niet iedereen en alles die hoge noot te openbaren op een bassdrum met snare en met die twee ritmische gitaren je weet dat er wel een generatie zonder je composities kan
Componeerde je er maar stukken minder over dan konden we het samen zoveel vaker doen maar jij sampled de lippen liever dan je ze zoent en die lieder teksten worden alsmaar beeldender en grover
Waarom doe je niet iets met die sensuele frustratie merk je dan niet op hoe erg ik er inmiddels aan toe ben ik kan het niet meer aanhoren hoe je alweer over de daad zingt die lippen dienen blijkbaar alleen voor uitmuntende intonatie
Ai mij, mijn echtgenoot is een verstokt liefdesliedjes schrijver dat is zijn leven en meer nog dan dat is het zijn lust en in al zijn werk wordt ieders laaiend vuur geblust maar ik dobber helemaal alleen in zijn fraulein vijver
Nimmer nog word ik licht als een piano toets aangeraakt door zijn grote, ranke, vaardige vingervlugge handen wij samen verkerend in de hoogste der opgewonden standen O neen, hij heeft al jaren mijn genoegens niet gesmaakt
Die lang gestoofde heerlijkheden al die tijd niet opgemaakt voor vibrato gebruik ik inmiddels een oplaadbaar instrument gekocht dankzij verkoop van een vals dwarsfluitje van een cent waarmee hij ooit zijn grootste hit 'Lenden vuur' heeft gemaakt
Mijn liefste kon je maar ophouden met liederlijk componeren dan kon ik je weer onbedaarlijk en wellustig beminnen gingen we samen op pad voorbij de buitenste aller zinnen maar jij zit elke dag in de studio met volle noten te jongleren
jij bent alleen nog in de weer met je uitgebreide instrumentatie en dat eeuwige bloedeloze geneuzel over de notige variatie of die vrees voor de uitdroging van de bron der inspiratie toe lief denk eens aan mijn essentiële behoefte aan gratificatie
Kom poneer terug bij mij, wees eens niet zo overdreven liederlijk wees wijs maar met maten en als het kan zonder wijsje doe het voor je allerschoonste blijgemutst opgeviste meisje laat mij het zijn die elke dag over je fijn besnaarde instrumentatie strijkt.
from Daniel Hayward
Every week, Amazon executives get together and discusses 400-500 metrics in 60 minutes.
That's 9 seconds a slide for an hour straight and it provides enough value that they've been doing it for years.
Actually, some of these slides are 3 seconds and others are 30. It depends whether there is anything to report. Looking at them each week gives them good familiarity for when there is something to report.
There are some things about Amazon I hate (they have an outsized negative impact on warehouse safety in America). I'm not going to deny that they are profitable. This practice might be a big part of “why.”
Translating this to a small contractor (which relative to Amazon, your business is small), 400 metrics would be insanity.
What wouldn't be crazy is to look at how they got to that many metrics. For each department they have done their level best to identify causal metrics for specific outcomes.
And they continue to iterate and work on this.
Example:
If you're trying to get more customers (who isn't?), then you might identify that bids need to go out more often. After you think about it for a while and track that, you might realize that there's something upstream of bids going out.
You aren't getting invited to bid as much as you would like (or aren't getting invited by the right folks). And then you would do the work of identifying the causal metric for that and start reporting it.
So then we come to where I had intended to write from the beginning, which is, what should I put in a dashboard? Sometimes I see dashboards or desire for dashboards for no other reason than “I want to be data driven.”
Mimicking someone before you have any understanding of why isn't going to get you where you want to go.
If you're going to make a point of tracking expenses, revenue, hours, incidents, close calls, win rates, overhead, margin, schedule variance, equipment downtime, then have a reason!
What are you actually trying to accomplish? Is spending the time tracking actually getting you what you want?
Full article:https://commoncog.com/the-amazon-weekly-business-review/
from Faucet Repair
I take the bus home from the studio most nights now, and around this transition from fall to winter is when it becomes a sort of public hibernation space. The smaller the hours, the more bodies morph into hooded cocoons of shadow and fabric. I’m always fascinated by how people choose to fill their idle time behind these walls—imagining their interior lives is often my own modus. I enjoy the fragmented glimpses of football obsessives late to livestreams and kids snapping crushes their smizing faces. The best are messages drafted and deleted, the raw instinct before the panache. But if I don’t have the energy to steal glances, I usually just stare off into space trying to let the day dissipate from my chest. Feels good to make room for my thoughts to fuse with reflections of other passengers, to come down with the moonrise as we go our own ways together.