szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org
Living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (also spelled #Polesie) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #bogs and #forests, trying not to fuck up surrounding nature too much.
Taking care of a small pack of #dogs – #IdąPsięta.
Luddite working with hi-tech.
#RuralBroadband provider by accident. Starting a small LoRaWAN project to monitor our wetlands. Coding in #Python. Dealing with dirty data, cleaning them when time allows.
#Atheist. I don't *believe* in #science – science is the *only* thing that protects us from belief.
Fuck nazis.
My account on Twitter is still up, for good reasons. https://twitter.com/szescstopni
I check facts before I toot.
I sometimes toot in Polish.
Zdolny, ale leniwy.
Joined Nov 2022
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#IdąPsięta #DogsOfMastodon #DogsOfMosstodon #wetlands #Polesia
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I got an email about my Win32 programming tutorial (circa 1999) from a 12 year old girl whose hobby is making "programs in languages used way before i was born" ...
First of all yes, excellent, this is a good hobby.
Secondly, don't mind me, I'll just be over here crumbling to dust. 
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Faceci to zawsze pierwsi się napierdalać i robić dym, ale jak się dziecku wbije centymetrowa drzazga w palec, to nagle wszyscy mdleją.
Jezu 🤦🏻♀️
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I don't disagree with most of it, but the destruction of the Death Star in Star Wars isn't a terrorist attack. We've got to stop ceding ground to the right who want to make anything against them terrorism. The Death Star was a legitimate military target staffed exclusively by military personnel. The destruction of the Death Star was not intended to cause terror in the population of the Empire. Yes, it was an example of asymmetrical warfare, perhaps even of guerilla tactics (though I'd argue that the Rebels weren't guerillas, merely extremely outnumbered). But not terrorism. I'm sure the Empire framed it as such, but it doesn't meet the definition of terrorism and to allow them to frame reality in that way means they win.
The second Death Star attack was even less terrorism. It did involve some guerilla tactics, but the space battle part was a classic set piece naval engagement. Again, no civilians were involved except Ewoks, and they only fought Empire military personnel with conventional, if unorthodox, tactics.
You may be wondering why I care about this. I care because fiction reflects reality, and in reality we see, time and time again, the right frame any attack against them as a terrorist attack. It's not a distinction without a difference. Terrorism has a definition, and most things which are called "terrorism" are in fact simply asymmetrical warfare (and many things which aren't called terrorism in fact are, but because they're done by powerful forces, we don't call them that). I don't approve of war either, but attacks on legitimate military targets are not terrorism.
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Will glass coffins be a success? Remains to be seen.
Moro broke through to the other side, to the fields of plenty of mice.
Likwidatorka Komisji Macierewicza próbuje ogarnąć ogrom niezbędnych prac porządkowych. I szuka parówek.
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Was trying to read Iceland’s only Nobel Laureate & I couldn’t get thru more than 100 pages bc he kept comparing women to cattle over & over. Ugh!!
Usually I read sci-fi & so naturally I now had the question - why don’t sci-fi writers ever get a Nobel? Did a search & other people were asking this. Very few Nobels to sci-fi. Then I found Aniara, an epic space poem (& now movie!) by Nobel Harry Martinson & whoaaa I’m super excited https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ1jrsoyNuI
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against all odds I've managed to survive, but I wish my brain has less difficulty telling whether it's night or day time.
or which century and how many dimensions I'm living in.
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"Wow, you Europeans really do filthy up your environment," an Indian recently said to me. "All the plastic you use to keep things "clean" and "fresh". And you don't care. You only care about your convenience and lecturing the rest of the world about how they should do things."
What we forgot to mention was that when we create all this plastic waste, we try and then dump it in poor countries. Modern Europeans.
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#repaircafe #Coventry today. 32 items through the door. Don't know how many were fixed, but it was most of them. Several new faces too. And it all promoted a reorg of the toolboxes this afternoon. More space now for extra tools. 😁
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Done a wee bit more work on my new #Textual pet project this morning. Pulled in https://github.com/davep/textual-countdown and used it to implement the per-question or per-quiz optional timer I planned for this.
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Paradoks zmiany percepcji czasu, jak byłem dzieciakiem to odbierałem Presleya jako jakiegoś dawnego muzyka grającego dla starych ludzi.
Facet umarł, będąc młodszym niż ja teraz, całe dwa lata przed moim narodzeniem, a ja sam mam percepcję piosenek sprzed kilkunastu lat jako "nowych" xd
Mały piesek w wielkim lesie. Nadal przekonany, że jest większy od tych drzew.
Living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (also spelled #Polesie) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #bogs and #forests, trying not to fuck up surrounding nature too much.
Taking care of a small pack of #dogs – #IdąPsięta.
Luddite working with hi-tech.
#RuralBroadband provider by accident. Starting a small LoRaWAN project to monitor our wetlands. Coding in #Python. Dealing with dirty data, cleaning them when time allows.
#Atheist. I don't *believe* in #science – science is the *only* thing that protects us from belief.
Fuck nazis.
My account on Twitter is still up, for good reasons. https://twitter.com/szescstopni
I check facts before I toot.
I sometimes toot in Polish.
Zdolny, ale leniwy.
Joined Nov 2022
