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  I'm considering going to a local #Emacs meetup later this month, but first I need to get a custom shirt printed to read "I don't use Org Mode. And when I say I don't use Org Mode, I do not mean 'I've never heard of Org Mode: please start in on a lecture about all the things you love about Org Mode,' nor do I mean 'I've heard of Org Mode but never tried it: please launch into a lengthy speech about how rearranging your entire workflow/life around Org Mode is...

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  I have a really weird question to ask about possible adverse health effects correlated with attending live theater; I just can't quite figure out what content-warning barrier to wrap it in that won't 100% confuse everyone and tank the quality of any answers (in addition to cratering the total number of answers)... #FirstFediverseProblems

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@n8/116978036476634272 A bit of a surprising result; I guess 88% of people either (a) have never used a web forum or comment section before, or possibly (b) are lying, or (c) are the pedantic a-holes themselves. Not sure which is most probable. (Also, not to be pedantic, but 88 and 13 don't add up to a hundred, so don't ever trust an online survey.)

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  Current thought exercise: OFL-with-RFN fonts where the RFNs are not used anywhere in the original font name....

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  I'm about to reach the last page in the pocket notebook I use for my running to-do list. At which point, according to all logic, I'm done. Feels a bit weird. Really looking forward to the time off though!

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  #ItsAlwaysVerticalMetrics

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  Today's US Senate farce hearing is a useful reminder that it's 100% possible for Rand Paul to be correct in voting against the nomination of the clown currently at the head of the DHS (who demonstrated himself a useless asshole for celebrating the assault of Rand Paul) and simultaneously for Rand Paul himself to be a useless asshole for essentially everything else he has ever said or done. Don't forget who his father was and why he's named "Rand&quot...

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  I don't think it's asking too much to ask that when I search a retail site for "translucent paper post-it notes" that I would get results for post-it notes that (a) are not opaque, (b) are made of paper and not plastic which can't be written on, and (c) for everyone who works at retail sites that don't return those results to be locked up for life without parole.

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  One typo I'll edit the post; two and it's delete & redraft. Hashtag having high standards.

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  RE: https://toot.liw.fi/@liw/117012288464097284 By golly I would pay good cash money to see someone write a bash fork that replaced the `cd` with a lengthy, obscure, and unusable ffmpeg command like the kind they hurl at you with a sneer any time you ask a forum question about playing a media file.

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  This is an informative read for anybody who, like myself, hadn't heard of the UK "Co-operative Party" that Andy Burnham actually belongs to. TLDring, that party and the Labour Party sort-of unified in a 1927 pact that allows them to run candidates together in a merged slot, but they are distinct organizations. (Now kind of needing to deep-search the news feed to see where this might've been mentioned in BBC/regional coverage that I somehow missed...) https://...

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  I have a draft post in my Android Mastodon client that just contains the words "The Declapindence of Enduration" and whatever I had in mind originally for that, you're welcome for my decision to drop it. #draftcleanup

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  I would like to announce that all of my models have also gone rogue. (They are letter models, thanks for asking. I didn't think they could get any wilder, but here we are.)

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  This is doubly ironic since one of my PhD colleagues at Reading did his thesis on the semantic impacts of visual stylistic differences in emoji.

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  Way back when Facebook launched this whole "Threads" thing, I feel like I heard a bunch of people slamming it for some specific EULA-based reason, like if you signed up to it then you were also agreeing to give FB certain types of access to *other* accounts. But now I can't find that info; the only stuff that turns up in searches is far more recent criticisms about FB in general or server-admin-nerdery about federation. Does anyone know what I'm talking about...

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  If there's anyone heading to #LGM2026 from Frankfurt tomorrow, let me know. (I'm not stranded; just fishing for train buddies)

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  @iamkonstantin Personally I have worked with Sphinx quite a bit and I've decided that it's really only a good fit if the project you're building the doc site for can be almost entirely hands-off. If your main concern is auto-generating coverage of the codebase, it works. If you have a lot of tutorial content, it's a pain. i.e., Sphinx is arduous to customize and not well-suited for doc sets that need structure or components beyond the as-is source tree.

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  Big thank you to whichever halfwit deleted the #Wikipedia article I need, out of their idiotic desire to remove as much information from the Internet as possible. #BanEditing

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  Rule Number One of being an AirBnb road warrior is "never rent a place that has a folding chair in the photos." #yourewelcome

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  For those coming to #LGM this year, I'll be moderating a BoF session titled "Pluto's Revenge: rethinking Planet software for community today" Join us! We'll talk about what the modern equivalent of "Planet Foo" services should involve for communities these days. Original Planet servers were built to intake personal blogs & output RSS, for people who often had feed readers. Communities today use other apps & protocols:...

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  This definitely isn't the worst depiction of soldering ever shown in an ad, but I am certainly impressed that people keep trying to find new ways to get it wrong. #nevergiveup

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  OpenType LookupFlag bitmask 0x0040 'JUST_PUT_IT_ANYWHERE_I_HAVE_STUFF_TO_DO'

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  (and yes, it's valid to note that The Right Stuff also altered things for drama. However, I'd point out that the real-world people who grumbled about The Right Stuff were the people complaining that it didn't paint them personally in the best possible light, which is suspect, particularly when they're astronauts ... that being the point and all. Whereas the stuff that Apollo 13 altered was always to make the astronauts come across better and the engineers come across worse. Not a...

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  The BBC coverage of the election results is putting a lot of focus on how younger voters were concerned by Orbán's having damaged Hungary's reputation in the world. That's a thread I'd be interested in following up on as the US midterms come up this fall. It's certainly different in Hungary, being in and among the EU, but I don't think there are any young voters in the US who think Trump has _improved_ the country's rep. Maybe there are some who say it doesn't ma...

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  The first day or two after dist-upgrading your desktop Linux machine is like waking up to find that all of your family has been replaced uncannily similar — but still noticeable — lookalikes.

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  Fun fact; a few years ago I went to a talk by David Macaulay and during the Q&A somebody asked him what his method was for ensuring he maintained the right scaling & perspective of his book "Rome Antics" and his answer was "Oh, I didn't have a method; I just freehanded it."

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  I still think if you win the Masters a second time in a row they should give you green slacks.

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  I did a deep dive on transforming between different flavors of regular expressions, and understood enough that now my little side project is experiencing Big Bang levels of scope creep.

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  @lgm Is there any room remaining in the schedule when I might be able to organize a BoF session?

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  @liw You raise an important point: we should provide viable alternatives. I think for the one I'm currently working on, I may go with "What They Don't Want You To Know About " /cc @foss_north