Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@social.cleverlibre.org

@ottocrat But then I'm used to being on the wrong side of some cusp or hiatus. My brother is two years older than me and was taught to use a slide rule in the same classes I wasn't.

@ottocrat I'm from roughly the first generation of software engineers who didn't get an Electrical Engineering degree, which was once the only relevant discipline the universities knew about. So occasionally I'll find myself in the lab trying to solder together some a cable end or something in order to get some vintage hardware working as a reference, and a slightly older bloke will watch me for a moment in growing dismay and finally say "for god's sake didn't anyone teach you how to solder?", gently move me aside and with a deftness I could never hope to emulate produce this seamless thing in seconds...

@ottocrat Promise to use your power only for good.

@JohnShirley2023 If only there were a way to get VCs all excited with visions of a hot IPO about, y'know, not cutting down the rainforests.

@JohnShirley2023 If onlly there were some well-established, self-sustaining means of removing carbon, one which used unlimited free energy...

@History_of_Earth Personally I think the Hudson Bay, as well as possibly the entire Arctic ocean perimeter, are from gigantic asteroid strikes. My evidence? It kinda looks like that and I have a vivid imagination.

@History_of_Earth I for one welcome our basin-filling basaltic overlords.

@hasmis Perhaps I just catch the one that doesn't move in perfect silence, clean up his droppings and reseal the bread bags he gnaws into, and the rest are more clever than that. I've had worse housemates.

@hasmis Perhaps, but this isn't quite my first rodeo. On several other occasions in my life I've seen consistent indications, trapped one (once two on subsequent nights) and that was the end of it. All indications, noise, residue and other effects gone.

@politico_eu_bot "update"

@mrbatsu When the ocean rises they only need to reinforce those windows and they can carry right on using those buildings.

@stevetex Historians of domesticity have shown that it was very hard work being a numbskullery maid.

It's something that's really held me back in life: whenever I'm captured and tied up by villains, I keep waiting for my signature incidental escape music* to start before I make my break.

*No, I don't know what it is, that's the point: I've never heard it. But I'm sure I'd know it if I did.

One thing I've often wondered: why did James West always wait until the "James West escaping from captivity" incidental music started before he'd release his switchblade boot knife, gymnastically cut his ropes and escape? Was it so that the music would mask the noise?

@harphat That sounds like an epic journey for a mouse. It must be worth it.

I live in a medium density old neighborhood in the western US. I have to assume if he doesn't end up back here it'll just be someone else's house, someone who might be less disposed to be humane. I'll go to a riparian area up by the Columbia river a mile or so from here next time.

@TheRedVegan@veganism.social Perhaps in meaningful units, like how many years it would take a medium sized pine tree to sequester it.

This weekend I managed to corner and harmlessly trap a mouse that had been visiting our kitchen for a few weeks. Evidently living in the space between the floor and basement ceiling. Really rather an adorable little thing. I took it well away from the house and released it.

Thing is, I've repeatedly found myself hoping it's okay. I need to read up on the most benign way and place to release a mouse for when this happens agaain.

... I just noticed the other evening when I had occasion to review doorbell camera videos, that there are a lot of shots of me getting out of the car with my mask on. Apparently i forget that I have it on even more than I realize. it's just amazing that that upsets some people.

Brexit, Kyiv, contrast, screenshot from *that place*