Photographer, writer, poet. Web developer, coder and help author for survival purposes only. Functionally stateless person of Irish Greek extraction, adoptive country Germany. Inception date 1955. When I eat at home I lick the plate. I have been known to eat nacho chips with cold butter. ⚧️
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Last Notes npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün One pair of #moorhens in the local park has been building a much larger and more elaborate nest than all the others every year, always in the same place. This year they have really outdone themselves, building a veritable little castle. Here you can see proud Mum brooding on her second batch of eggs for the season. https://ftp.ieji.de/media_attachments/files/116/692/215/211/878/869/original/96965f4fbe3dce26.jpg npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…hq9d Apple Keyboard Rant: My M3 Max MacBook Pro, for which I paid over €5,500, has developed sticky keys that often only work on the second press. Compressed air doesn’t help. I bought this laptop, among other things, specifically because Butterfly Gate was behind us and Everything Is Good Now. To be clear: I do not care what the cause is. Not even a tiny bit.I have a 15-year old Lenovo laptop that probably has more crumbs mass than key switches under the key caps and the keyboard is still perfect. It has never ever not typed a letter when the key was pressed. Never. Functioning Laptop Keyboards Are Possible. Also: The key caps on the Lenovo keyboard can easily be removed for cleaning and replaced without permanently destroying key switch mechanisms that are apparently made of gossamer, tissue paper and butterfly wings. Also: The keyboard on my MacBook Pro also sucks as a keyboard. It’s mushy, cheap, the keys are flat and the typing feel is no better than a €20 grab bin keyboard from the supermarket. This is what behaves like a €20 keyboard in a €5,500 laptop. How in the ever loving world is a multi trillion dollar company unable or, more likely, unwilling, to make a high-quality and functioning keyboard, in the face of so many examples of keyboards that not only work without failure for decades, but also actually function accepably for the purpose which they exist? I’ve been using Apple computers since the Apple II. Dammit, I was even at Reed at the same time as Steve Jobs and met him a couple of times in the dorm there. I don’t want to stop using MacOS. I like it and prefer it, even though I work for a Windows company and have to jump through a lot of hoops to keep using it. But dammit, a laptop with a usable, reliable and even pleasant to use keyboard is really beginning to look pretty fracking attractive, even when the price for that means moving back to fracking Windows. Ugh. I have spoken. #apple #keyboard #laptop @nprofile…psmt npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…0p6h For a moment I thought this was infra-red until I recognized the snow. Great shot. Wonderful atmosphere. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün Flamingo Ballet #photography #nature #birds #flamingos https://ftp.ieji.de/media_attachments/files/116/306/725/544/550/828/original/643efebd6babae15.png npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün Die SPD: Weint bittere Tränen, dass Arbeiter sie nicht mehr wählen. SPD am nächsten Tag: Wir schaffen das Ehegatten-Splitting ab. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…ck07 Ditto. But Eric Steckel still charges an honest €27 for an evening-long gig in Cologne. 🐸 npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…fw69 The toddler in chief has achieved maximum attention. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…5rls Just for funsies, I booted up my old PowerPC G4 PowerMac in the cellar for half an hour. Lots of online incompatibility, but oh those user interface guidelines taken seriously... 🙃 npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…5rls Here in Germany the current price works out to around $7.25 per US gallon. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün Does Britain have a problem? Asking for a friend. 😂😂😂 https://ftp.ieji.de/media_attachments/files/116/159/799/677/990/496/original/1f32754e3d40f2fb.jpeg npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…30yh We filled the glasses as soon as they were half full and doubled the vodka in the punch. 🙃 npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…30yh My best friend and I used to waiter at our parents' parties, where we would take it as a challenge to get all the adults drunk as quickly as possible. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…8mhq @nprofile…2acj He believes that the economy is the primary reality. Unfortunately, what it will take to convince him otherwise will not be reversible, for any of us. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…vj68 This morning I did two things: I modified my FTP tool to include detection and graceful handling of server throttling, and swapped out my help system for a new one that requires completely different calls. In the past these two tasks would have taken several days to a week. Today I completed both in 90 minutes. I have very mixed feelings about this. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…2efc Hmm — strangely, this made me think of another topical case where this approach just might be appropriate. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…x6cd I see you and raise you Greek fire in trebuchets. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…dz7t Then there’s anyone in preventive security, who, if they do their job right, are either completely invisible or hated because of the additional inconveniences that are nonetheless preventing catastrophe. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…sraj Once again: Idiocracy was a documentary npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…q5hl Just tried this in Moshidon. It works there, with an additional “Send to device” button popup that sends it to the text editor. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…dz7t Get well soon 🐻🐼🐭🐯🦊🦁 npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…30yh Saturday feeling https://ftp.ieji.de/media_attachments/files/115/949/360/321/069/587/original/896aba12230441a2.jpg npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…m5mz BTW: Did he give Machado his FIFA Peace Prize? npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün Following AI slop, enshittification is now also giving us video slop (90% of Netflix and 98% of Prime Video) and audio slop (a good 90% at least of all podcasts). npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün Quote of the day: “The great American experiment has been revealed to be little more than a gentleman’s agreement among white men in knee breeches.” —Michael Ian Black (Daily Beast) npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…a2ht Oooh—I want a big MicroSlop sticker for my laptop npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…3tsk AI Slop AI Slop AI Slop AI Slop AI Slop AI Slop AI Slop AI Slop AI Slop AI Slop AI Slop AI Slop AI Slop AI Slop AI Slop npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün There was a time when #Apple associated themselves credibly with Einstein and Martin Luther King. Now? Dad jokes, posting AI slop on X and sucking up to dictators. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…tlwm It’s pretty simple: Anyone who can even consider supporting the Republican Party is permanently suspect. There’s no way around that. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…ujy9 @nprofile…z68c Or access your entire file system. 🙃 npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…z68c The Windows 3 netBEUI network didn’t distinguish between what was on your computer and the rest of the network or the internet, once it was available. It was all directly accessible. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…9fqy Damn. That’s ludicrous. And scary. On the lighter side, perhaps the plod will now have to start patting people down for bananas. “Excuse me sir, is that a banana in your pocket?” npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…pyja I’d offer but we’re actually 15km out of town in Brühl npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…du8n Fun fact: If I went by my middle names I’d be Mikey Costello 😏 npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…du8n Absolutely ☘️😎 npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…hckj Pretty much anything by Bukowski. I feel uncomfortable in his world but damn he can write so that the words jump off the page and turn into a world. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün My family is Irish but I’d never heard of the Irish superstition about seeing a broken comb on the road until yesterday and today there was a big broken comb in the middle of the path in front of me and now I’m wondering if the Irish me should be freaking out. #irish #superstition npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…wd6z They’re nor@common, but they do/have exist/ed: https://www.topspeed.com/best-diesel-motorcycles-of-all-time/ npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…t03n There is no difference between William Calley and Hegseth, except perhaps of degree: Hegseth is significantly more culpable,because he is directing operations from above, cold-bloodedly and with full premeditation and intent. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün Homeward bound #photography #street #angels #celebration #urban #cosplay https://ftp.ieji.de/media_attachments/files/115/633/241/607/364/549/original/271eee2a1d93a4be.jpg npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün #Apple Black Friday offers are about as prissy and cheap as companies offering the employee of the month a bagel and a card. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…d773 I grew up in a family of writers where big names were in and out all the time. This lowered my literary hero expectations very early on. 🤡🐸🙃 npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…fj6t They all demonize what they themselves are because they think that by externalizing it they can banish it from their own being. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…es2w Especially me npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…2y68 Gosh, Marge, no one could have predicted that Trump would be a fickle, traitorous jerk. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün Cartoon by Martin Perscheid. Text: "Traditionally, the nativity play of the Rudolf Hess middle school in Buttcrack is performed without refugees, Jews, Arabs and Africans." https://ftp.ieji.de/media_attachments/files/115/600/245/998/757/957/original/84cbdaf7b03e4b2e.jpg npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün Cologne, Rudolfplatz #photography #urban #street #nightphotography #SilentSunday https://ftp.ieji.de/media_attachments/files/115/599/650/602/594/535/original/2dc05cecff18f54b.jpeg npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün #photography #people #portraitphotography #bnw #monochrome https://ftp.ieji.de/media_attachments/files/115/592/835/662/826/317/original/a32e4b3f8c8e0e91.jpeg npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…c6t2 Windows on Apple Silicon Mac: This is a *lot* better than your discussion indicates. I have to use Windows for my jobby job and I’ve been running Windows 11 ARM under Parallels on my M3 Max MacBook Pro as my primary development platform for several years. It is frighteningly good and stable. I’ve never tried to run games on it, but everything I do use works seamlessly, including development with Visual Studio and a swathe of other tools, a full XAMPP web server stack with PHP, MariaDB, FileZilla, diffing and merging tools, git, SVN and a lot more. Performance is also radically better than any of the ARM-based Windows machines I’ve tried, so I get the best of both worlds. That being said, I do have a really good MacBook Pro setup, with 64GB of RAM, the top-end M3 Max system and 2TB of disk space. All that probably contributes, but in all the time I’ve used it I’ve never had a single incompatibility ever since I installed it — neither with native Windows ARM apps nor with X86 apps. It’s seamless and transparent, and I never notice any difference in performance between them. Like I said, scary good. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…ldz2 Ermmm… 🤡 ? npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…c9uz Yes -- thus the three smileys in appreciation of the pun. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…6ena 🙃🙃🙃 But another 1859 Carrington event would beat this by quite a bit, and tree ring evidence suggests a 10-20x more powerful event than that in the year 775. A repeat of that might fry every computer chip on the planet surface. (Please chime in anyone who knows more about this.) npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün Autumn in our local park #photography #nature #forest #trees #autumn #fall https://ftp.ieji.de/media_attachments/files/115/553/049/640/060/401/original/cbaaf8448492a653.png npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün https://ftp.ieji.de/media_attachments/files/115/549/117/100/335/515/original/3cebfbdb3fa1e27a.jpeg npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…9fmj In Cologne where I live there was an alternative coffee shop chain called Woyton that was everything Starbucks should be: Genuinely good coffee, amazing salad bar, great everything else edible, pleasant tables not designed to make you uncomfortable after 20 minutes, chill atmosphere. Unfortunately, they suddenly closed down. No idea why. Enshittification rules, apparently. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…pg25 The further in the past Steve's passing recedes, the clearer it becomes just how pivotal he was in the prevention of the boneheaded types of decisions we are increasingly seeing now. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün I'm pretty sure that over 90% of review articles with the word "I" in their headline are paid shills. The percentage is much higher when "I" is combined with "this one thing". npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…mr07 Fujinon 100-400 bei 400 npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün 'Nicht ganz scharf aber trotzdem gut' ‘unfocused, but still,ok’ #FotoVorschlag #photography #street #bnw #people https://ftp.ieji.de/media_attachments/files/115/508/036/260/913/124/original/0337001af0a707c7.jpeg npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…slkt Add to this the batshit crazy and terrifying ideas of Peter Thiel, including his belief that Greta Thunberg and others like her are minions of the Antichrist, and that we need real wars instead of video games to become heroic again. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-lectures-antichrist npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…mr6q Trump is Walmart people npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün Full moon from our front porch. #photography #nightphotography #astrophotography #moon https://ftp.ieji.de/media_attachments/files/115/504/188/981/335/297/original/58e56a8708c29e5e.jpeg npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…fj6t It's an about face race npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…h4mc Labour in Britain and the SPD in Germany have the same problem. The parties have moved further and further to the corporate right, abandoning the actual support of their base. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…d76m I often fantasize that if NATO had overnight fast-tracked Ukraine membership while GRU Gollum was still massing his troops on the border it would have called his bluff and he would have backed down. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün #FotoVorschlag ‘low key’ #photography #nature #nightphotography #trees #stars https://ftp.ieji.de/media_attachments/files/115/492/470/946/164/423/original/41d2d1014a8fdcbb.jpeg npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…73nn Radiohead maybe. Fleetwood Mac? Nah. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…k32g Trusting Trump is like trusting Lucy to hold the football. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…828h There’s a South American drug that turns off free will and makes victims manipulable so you can just ask them and they empty their bank account for you. I sometimes wonder whether testosterone does the same thing to self awareness. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün #FotoVorschlag ‘gespiegelt’ https://ftp.ieji.de/media_attachments/files/115/479/733/895/072/239/original/383c6684b54215f7.jpeg npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…gmz5 Defining you as sinful and then selling you relief is pretty much what crack dealers do. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…mtel @nprofile…e9ss Nobody holds a grudge like Apple. Once they decided they hated Nvidia it was forever, and that has colored and influenced their design and engineering decisions ever since. It's a little odd, since key areas of their high end Mac market would benefit greatly from unlimited GPU power. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…26kr I wish that my room had a floor I don’t care so much for a door But all this walking around Without touching thre ground Is getting to be quite a bore — Ogden Nash npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…huu7 One of the most egregious examples of this I’ve seen recently is the The Last Invention podcast, which over many episodes uncritically promotes the idea that current LLMs are moving fast towards AGI, while pretending to do an expose of the industry. I’m not sure whether the producers are clueless or grifters. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün Anyone with a basic understanding of what #LLMs are actually doing knows that they are still as far away from genuine #AI as #Eliza — they are just faking it a lot better — and that they totally lack even the most fundamental #cognition and #reasoning needed for genuine AI. And that raises the question: Do all the folks in the LLM business talking about #AGI being on the horizon now believe what they’re saying, or are they really just spouting marketing spin? npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…d2jh Zoom web indexer is payware but reasonably priced and pretty capable. Its html search page is primitive but easy to fix. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…fj6t And I can remember the days when we thought that Reagan and Thatcher were the absolute worst that could possibly happen politically in our modern world. Sigh. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…fj6t What's kind of hard to understand from outside the US is why he hasn't been escorted out of the Oval Office in handcuffs. I mean, I know why, but it seems insane that it's not happening. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…e0y4 @nprofile…98wc And I fondly remember stays in little French pensions many years ago, with a scurrilous patron and creaky beds and home cooked meals with no menu you get what's in the pot today and wine from bottles with no labels on a wobbly table with an oilcloth tablecloth and oh my god was it all glorious and alive. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…juq9 I just learned I can get an Irish passport because my mother, grandmother and great grandmother (and further back) are all Cork born and bred (Costello and Bourne). That would be awesome. I've always felt more connection to that side of the family. I just need to locate copies of their birth certs. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…pyja I’ve started speaking German to our cat. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…cpl8 Makes sense. People writing to support also assume clairvoyance. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…rxxj Charlton Heston even more so. As a kid I thought El Cid and Ben Hur were beyond awesome. The fall later was brutal. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…wtjt “Look what you made me do!” Said every Biff bully since the beginning of time. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…fj6t Also remind them that their parents or perhaps grandparents were Antifa and were willing to risk their lives for that cause, and ask if they would be willing to tell them face to face that they are now on the other side. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…sv5x I’m going to be in the area at the end of the month. I’m going to drive by and have a look. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün I just learned that the now abandoned building of the former Moreton Hall Catholic boys’ boarding school in Bury St Edmunds was further destroyed by arson this summer. I can imagine it was another former pupil. I was sent there when I was 5 and it was a hell on earth of abuse and dark indoctrination. It was literally sending your kids to prison. The whole place should be razed to the ground and obliterated forever. #boardingschool #catholic #abuse https://ftp.ieji.de/media_attachments/files/115/383/314/447/450/281/original/38dc7e1e3b2fb8c8.jpeg npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…nydn https://ftp.ieji.de/media_attachments/files/115/383/138/279/008/556/original/ec7174e66bcc5fec.mp4 npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…ypaf Joanna, Paula, Georgina and Ringa npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün In the wild woods #silentsunday #nature #mushrooms #fungi #woods https://ftp.ieji.de/media_attachments/files/115/361/925/800/887/999/original/e0e3f2c979c1fff7.jpg npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün Getting my motorcycle ready for a road trip to England to see my mother on her 100th birthday. I'm calling it the Century Tour. I just installed side racks for easier installation of soft luggage. On the first day I'm riding from Cologne to Florennes in Belgium, next day to Berck sur Mer on the French coast. Then up to Calais for the ferry. The hardest leg will be from Dover to Cambridge on Friday afternoon. Then back overnight from Harwich to Hook of Holland and home from there in one day. https://ftp.ieji.de/media_attachments/files/115/355/720/340/631/737/original/3553c89297c277bf.jpeg npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün #autumn #photography #wallflower #nature https://ftp.ieji.de/media_attachments/files/115/355/626/815/580/252/original/40dc8a0d83810492.jpeg npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…7mte @nprofile…jams Damn. I’m already hosting a couple of my git projects myself via ssh. Now I need to move all the others over too. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…j7m0 They’re still just as far from AGI as Eliza. They’re just making more noise and the fakery is better. And they *desperately* need to justify the billions of sunk cost to keep the bubble inflated. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…a6x4 As usual, every accusation is a confession. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…gczr High there npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün If you enjoy "reality TV" we probably can't be friends. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün Dear YouTubers: Please get to the damn point. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…md38 QNAP: You might want to look into QNAP security issues before getting into the system. Both what happened and how they responded. They may have improved, but just a heads-up anyway. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…yj3v And that is literally true. npub1ht69a2vnlwqf3ndsyrwfaq5mc8xf20d2vdh8vssempzqghm333qscgy7zu Timo Grün @nprofile…qhls In other news, Microsoft, while posting record profits, is laying off tens of thousands of employees, believing they can be replaced with AI. And sooner or later, tech bros, the scary realization is slowly going to dawn on you, that AI isn’t going to buy your fucking products.