2026-10-14T11:18:39Z https://njump.me Mike Ely https://njump.me/npub16azhhcps9chhglt48j8h3xfyrwlguldd5ueyklmd3pq3tz22gcusljg0wz https://social.taupehat.com/system/accounts/avatars/109/306/819/433/396/351/original/be040812fb880814.jpg https://social.taupehat.com/system/accounts/avatars/109/306/819/433/396/351/original/be040812fb880814.jpg https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9ewj2vtq24l74fgsjhkver0m8vdmymyt9ceznrsjwxup74kkg3cczyrt527lqxqhz7araw57g77yeysdmarna4knnyjmldkyyz9vfffrrj2x5q97 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsprtpvm5g5ua6gesn8ah7pnmxszdt9r38gtg2yzeywa4wqyzgunqgttm4rd'>nevent1q…m4rd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>and now I&#39;m wondering if there was ever a Cyrillic Morse 2026-09-16T01:47:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsprtpvm5g5ua6gesn8ah7pnmxszdt9r38gtg2yzeywa4wqyzgunqgzyrt527lqxqhz7araw57g77yeysdmarna4knnyjmldkyyz9vfffrrjmh4wz9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2hlhl8vwxk3v6w9ulsygxtnkr2lccutcx0rjxfcle6mr7xguggdc20cj9q'>nevent1q…cj9q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>y&#39;all really use 2-number codes? 2026-09-16T01:43:33Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswuprtvtg05kgwjg7y4tw87nyztlccf902cy9ewlj40tawdflsv6qzyrt527lqxqhz7araw57g77yeysdmarna4knnyjmldkyyz9vfffrrjg0444a In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrk6j3c35svx3h9demvh95gtvke9aek5nl03h2ewx9u770n6npfjcsasnpp'>nevent1q…snpp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>my already-bad Spanish has that happen a lot, resulting in a somewhat rare form of Spanglisshian. 2026-09-16T00:05:46Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsw64u2dk3e5n2upwjxfyewj6kseyh34kmx72gjqlgcdq0jczrj9gszyrt527lqxqhz7araw57g77yeysdmarna4knnyjmldkyyz9vfffrrjjxynla In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv78v2n4q36ux6hgcfsvnh96uvqtnfkr58myxdkvdkxpwtgjmdgncet50fd'>nevent1q…50fd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>most of what I remember from high school is the intricacies of the чтобы clause. Why? I guess I found it funny. 2026-09-16T00:01:48Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs07m5xv2mute2ugu73e7tfgs80tqzfer2py49jvqx3ywucv30cu6szyrt527lqxqhz7araw57g77yeysdmarna4knnyjmldkyyz9vfffrrjwxwlnd It&#39;s 2026, and &#34;devil&#39;s lettuce&#34; now refers to actual lettuce. 2026-08-15T05:16:38Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszlw8v3j9jf0ttyluh3d0jwv9j6t343y9uqaml5mxpmkhgda3uenczyrt527lqxqhz7araw57g77yeysdmarna4knnyjmldkyyz9vfffrrjut3pp8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszts2s5fd0thfmj4ssr96w4ez09628jnae8aerw25mduw5mevy9kgsgs4m7'>nevent1q…s4m7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>so many memories of that place - it was halfway between our house and my grandparents&#39; house for a while so we&#39;d often meet there and my parents would de-kid themselves for a few days. I&#39;ll never forget the gift shop which sold canes (the kind one might need to help with the walking) made from bull penises. Literally bull penis walking canes. Who the?<br/><br/>There was also the time my grandfather hid my little brother&#39;s ice cream, not paying attention to the fact that said three-year-old was already on the brink... the scolding my grandmother dished out to my grandfather on the way to their house was even scarier than the bull penis canes!<br/><br/>The soup was, as I remember it, quite good. 2026-07-15T05:00:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstulfpm0mccy56l2uh8zj38jgvu08may5g4yu753jt6n6lhvmjv0gzyrt527lqxqhz7araw57g77yeysdmarna4knnyjmldkyyz9vfffrrjznlln7 RE: <a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116690549057069574">https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116690549057069574</a><br/><br/>No joke here - I had a friend who suffered from this (pre-Internet) and it completely overwhelmed her life. It was truly debilitating, and the feedback loop where she&#39;d see medical professionals who constantly told her it was in her head only served to drive her into deeper conspiracy land. I&#39;d imagine an effective treatment would involve a great deal of patience, listening, and building trust - and even then that&#39;s a fragile situation. Kind of like telling someone that ChatGPT doesn&#39;t really intend to inhabit a manufactured human body and become their lifelong partner... they won&#39;t believe you because they won&#39;t _want_ to believe you.<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1yfa8leyxpscpvzggfuzuvq98yfk94lp79l63nwgs60krvhacajtqs5kepr" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1yfa…kepr</a></span><br/> </div> Morgellon's sufferers pick at their skin, creating open sores, which form a sticky trap for random bits of fluff and loose threads that sufferers interpret as evidence of these "wires." It's a horrible mental illness, and it's hard enough to treat even in the absence of the internet (the name "Morgellon's Disease" refers to a 17th century case-report).<br/><br/>15/ </blockquote> 2026-06-04T07:11:37Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdq85h9y5rru69st7dg827uzklx6lj8tx2cpkaxc5eu0cp4tjkusgzyrt527lqxqhz7araw57g77yeysdmarna4knnyjmldkyyz9vfffrrjs8y2au In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2ph5scw6wt6fvm6w4na7clkvpcfsszc2fwe5z5xu00u4qsumyx7q3af45g'>nevent1q…f45g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>found the photo. They nested _under_ the helmet. We left it alone until they fledged. So many mites though...<br/> <img src="https://social.taupehat.com/system/media_attachments/files/116/326/809/868/241/848/original/fe5711e235fa5e4c.png"> <br/> 2026-04-01T01:19:00Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2ph5scw6wt6fvm6w4na7clkvpcfsszc2fwe5z5xu00u4qsumyx7qzyrt527lqxqhz7araw57g77yeysdmarna4knnyjmldkyyz9vfffrrjv3a2n6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf642xjj9y7rjcdmdge2qpxmkldw7eatmeqva3pcg6ux5q2ay7smsj873sx'>nevent1q…73sx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>classic. Some sparrows built one in my daughter&#39;s bicycle helmet one year. Perfectly safe! 2026-04-01T01:15:54Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvd55jnea9hnqf9ezgngvg754ltwdha0s327z0u9e8afaysh8vpmczyrt527lqxqhz7araw57g77yeysdmarna4knnyjmldkyyz9vfffrrj80j4gp So many lemons this year (the photo is just today&#39;s haul), but did the person who planted this garden really need to crowd a rosebush right up next to the tree? Thorns all the way down. #gardening<br/> <img src="https://social.taupehat.com/system/media_attachments/files/116/032/461/793/521/542/original/5221a1327484f8fa.png"> <br/> 2026-02-08T01:41:16Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2kc9k702cyg7h3xfj79vq0nmjxznla2dmes0cqc0l5zf84ag4vugzyrt527lqxqhz7araw57g77yeysdmarna4knnyjmldkyyz9vfffrrjft6gu9 When people say Shakespeare isn&#39;t relevant to modern life it&#39;s good to have people like Sir Ian around to prove them wrong:<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://social.taupehat.com/system/media_attachments/files/116/020/222/400/179/244/original/35162335b83c5484.mp4"></video><br/> 2026-02-05T21:50:43Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvncm2ycru0s4vwn6z3n2pzjm8pzc4pyfdxh55hp2vnwey502f5cgzyrt527lqxqhz7araw57g77yeysdmarna4knnyjmldkyyz9vfffrrjcl2g95 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx37j49x832et05zcr7d6emnwvda7kgyq4z5z8lgg9dsvhmam7z2sfwpgmu'>nevent1q…pgmu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>one wonders how a person could get to Drawbridge without either a rowboat or scampering across the railway bridge. 2026-02-02T19:40:29Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxs9lgzxucq76r9k9keyrupqzv80th0evv49qkv5aqk7a676zdyqgzyrt527lqxqhz7araw57g77yeysdmarna4knnyjmldkyyz9vfffrrjqkvqlp Many of you in the Fedi have seen <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1fdrpydz4n2dpgpy5xhsa6rjg8ytggn82mt0addw6sf93272nhhnqsjlvhs" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Cory Doctorow</span> (<span class="italic">npub1fdr…lvhs</span>)</a></span> posting his thoughts, often in the form of long threads. His thinking has always been sound, and in the one direct interaction I&#39;ve had he strikes me as an overall good egg. Here&#39;s an opinion piece from him that&#39;s well worth reading - grounded in reality through and through:<br/><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur</a> 2026-01-20T03:18:43Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs89yc23l2p6c6zsc0ptn45a6nstlcpr22q25rhfgnmavzkwsgdkwqzyrt527lqxqhz7araw57g77yeysdmarna4knnyjmldkyyz9vfffrrj7mslnr You haven&#39;t truly lived the life of a #sysadmin until you&#39;re googling around to figure out some issue and find a post about it where someone&#39;s asking the exact same question and... it&#39;s you. You, asking the exact same question ten years ago. And nobody answers. 2025-12-03T05:10:32Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsg6ffuhchdqeatf42lh4w22l0u3mt6zq8euev0z8z8e46eqdq35lqzyrt527lqxqhz7araw57g77yeysdmarna4knnyjmldkyyz9vfffrrjpkffl5 The thing that&#39;s awesome about #python is that you&#39;ll have like 57,000 versions of different modules and shit scattered all over the filesystem and they all have to be there because fuck backwards compatibility, and just when you think you&#39;ve got a handle on how file precedence works, you&#39;re wrong because of this other thing called pyenv that just adds a whole other dimension of goatfuckery and jesus fucking christ I just want to get this ansible shit to go with a current version of community.general.<br/>Maybe it&#39;s time to port ansible to #perl - only half-kidding here. The python ecosystem is a fucking joke. 2025-10-07T17:21:18Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstv5wmdj4ch8xh7kw2v3kfwa6y88qwcq06ndpdr3tymlwcu600nsczyrt527lqxqhz7araw57g77yeysdmarna4knnyjmldkyyz9vfffrrj6a3llz Network admins who disable ICMP: do you also take the numbers off the front of your house to keep the burglars out? #sysadmin 2025-10-03T01:55:36Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfegdve46r9yw8awjdunf3nytrkm8yfyxyq237lyl6hdrfqp40zcczyrt527lqxqhz7araw57g77yeysdmarna4knnyjmldkyyz9vfffrrj26fhvy Donald&#39;s &#34;proof of life&#34; press conference is currently 20 minutes late:<br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/I8DnGstg2-k">https://www.youtube.com/live/I8DnGstg2-k</a> 2025-09-02T18:19:47Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspqk0wc2plvt849jhjadzwvwtjxt4u3wg6f7hxpgya2dv069t94agzyrt527lqxqhz7araw57g77yeysdmarna4knnyjmldkyyz9vfffrrj9m02wt Today in &#34;Good Fucking Riddance&#34; we have the exemplar of why friends don&#39;t let friends buy used Mini Coopers. Broke my heart, broke my bank, is on its way to Pick-N-Pull and I&#39;ll never open the drivers door of one of these things again. #mechanic<br/> <img src="https://social.taupehat.com/system/media_attachments/files/114/994/486/475/036/339/original/1ee57a6b8abb53b0.png"> <br/> 2025-08-08T18:11:52Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv7fnpn6qm7hsr5ansakgdl27j6rpwwcjx5vhwf8l4nndhf3627zgzyrt527lqxqhz7araw57g77yeysdmarna4knnyjmldkyyz9vfffrrj4pur7r THIS IS WHY WE DON&#39;T FEED WILD ANIMALS! Some blithering idiot has been feeding the deer around here. I&#39;ve had three different deer come up to me rather aggressively demanding food, and attempting to haze them by foot-stamping, yelling at them, throwing things etc only results in them pinning their ears and not giving ground.<br/><br/>The 65-pound mixed breed street dog from Tijuana did cause them to flee immediately. They may be habituated to humans, but they aren&#39;t stupid.<br/><br/>A fed deer is a dead deer. #wildlife 2025-08-03T03:34:01Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrkthpynggu4pnq9spdjw6c6e8ketc3wp2mn96t6ykl8ktf809uwczyrt527lqxqhz7araw57g77yeysdmarna4knnyjmldkyyz9vfffrrj6w50yk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq6wnk8ur4fnv5428xsyrt3qkf9zv6ptfplvhsvczxlpsv4nguf8cvw93wq'>nevent1q…93wq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>(assuming you&#39;re a US citizen) be polite, and try to waste as much of their time as you possibly can. Go onto tangents, act as though you don&#39;t understand their questions, answer their questions with questions, ask them about their jobs, where did they get those shoes, etc. If you&#39;ve ever heard of &#34;It&#39;s Lenny,&#34; do that. If you haven&#39;t heard of It&#39;s Lenny, go to YouTube and watch a couple examples. Then once you&#39;re done laughing, do what he does. <br/><br/>tl;dr: keep them busy doing nothing 2025-04-18T01:25:59Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8fzvtcxxea5wukxep0rv92p5wveajyrmh3x5ra2ugdpst8sms4cczyrt527lqxqhz7araw57g77yeysdmarna4knnyjmldkyyz9vfffrrjher6kd <img src="https://social.taupehat.com/system/media_attachments/files/114/221/829/390/840/667/original/f5318bc4feb7cbe1.png"> <br/> 2025-03-25T07:13:43Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsq6repkk4chkektquj4e9xptypw50f2zwcjqp93pn24a84cwua00qzyrt527lqxqhz7araw57g77yeysdmarna4knnyjmldkyyz9vfffrrjjyzgr9 The world owes <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1fdrpydz4n2dpgpy5xhsa6rjg8ytggn82mt0addw6sf93272nhhnqsjlvhs" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Cory Doctorow</span> (<span class="italic">npub1fdr…lvhs</span>)</a></span> an unending debt of gratitude for the word &#34;enshittification,&#34; a word so useful that even my browser&#39;s spell-checker recognizes it. As a succinct way of conveying a somewhat broad concept, it has opened up space for a lot of thought and conversation... and the occasional not-terrible listicle. Thanks, man.<br/><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/as-internet-enshittification-marches-on-here-are-some-of-the-worst-offenders/">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/as-internet-enshittification-marches-on-here-are-some-of-the-worst-offenders/</a> 2025-02-07T05:45:30Z