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[andmaybegayer]

Penrose quilt is officially finished! 2022-07-30 to 2023-04-02, all hand sewn by me and my mother.

It would figure that the Einstein would be found like a month before I finished this! Honestly probably for the best, the Einstein has too many concave angles.

We'll embroider patches for it soon but for now we're calling it, it still needs its first wash and I'll probably have to patch up some quilting after that.

[andmaybegayer]

this tablet has two USB ports and only one! is configured! for direct communication with the ring-0 bootloader! so if you are plugged into the wrong port it will just refuse to let you talk to the bootloader!

and like, okay, I would have probably figured that out faster were it not for the fact that! there is a second userspace half of the bootloader! that you can talk to with either port! but that half cannot unlock the device! spent like half an hour figuring this one out.

[andmaybegayer]

okay turbosniped by trying to figure out how to generate a devicetree for this thing because Lenovo DOES actually publish their Android sources. it's three in the morning goodnight.

[alexmey-does-an-arts]

so the game picks a random item for the baby montage

[andmaybegayer]

this tablet has two USB ports and only one! is configured! for direct communication with the ring-0 bootloader! so if you are plugged into the wrong port it will just refuse to let you talk to the bootloader!

and like, okay, I would have probably figured that out faster were it not for the fact that! there is a second userspace half of the bootloader! that you can talk to with either port! but that half cannot unlock the device! spent like half an hour figuring this one out.

[andmaybegayer]

Sometimes working with complex software systems feels like when a card game has a "this effect doesn't trigger when you heal, it triggers when you increase your life counter" but the game designers hate you.

[laterkiss]

i have [gestures vaguely] my tendencies

[wuggen]

Everyone say thank you sanitation workers we owe you our lives sanitation workers

[theoriginalsupermodels]

Balenciaga - Spring 2002 RTW

[memories-of-ancients]

Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artif

An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.

Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.

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[motherfuckingnazgul]

oh this is extremely fun. i did NOT do all that well but i can see myself getting good. i will be doing this regularly.

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[andmaybegayer]

One City

London, United Kingdom

[memories-of-ancients]

Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artif

An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.

Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.

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[motherfuckingnazgul]

oh this is extremely fun. i did NOT do all that well but i can see myself getting good. i will be doing this regularly.

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[andmaybegayer]

gaggle of french sales staff visiting the office bewildered by the concept of the "unisex toilet"???

[defendglobe]

project hail mary but grace's translation program uses that awful fucking default tiktok TTS voice for rocky instead.

[andmaybegayer]

watching four people who all haven't played or even looked closely at Disco Elysium talk about why Disco Elysium is bad

(better yet: one person who has played Disco Elysium telling them it's good, and them going, but I heard it's bad.)

[andmaybegayer]

One City

London, United Kingdom

[andmaybegayer]

Last Monday of the Week 2026-06-08

it'll happen any day now

Listening: New Modest Mouse just dropped:

Modest Mouse changes a lot over the years but it somehow maintains a kind of vital essence. He's a very wet type of musician.

Also because I bought this because I was like hang on this has several of my favourite songs: Aims by Vienna Teng, which has the GOAT Landsailor

I love the feeling of like. A down home city song? Everyone wants to be from the countryside or from the small town but this is like no! I'm from the cities! I am of an Industrial Society! I would have died several times over without the wonders of the modern world.

Watching: Fatal Deviation at Bad Movie Night, a 1998 martial arts movie out of Ireland made for zero dollars by some Van Damme fanboys

This movie is dogshit in an endearing way. Incredible small town Ireland vibes. The back half has some "stunts" that feel like they just got a nonexistent wrestling promo together.

Also getting my partner to watch Arcane with me, just cleared e3, which. They're like "It's incredible! I'm so sad!" which is my favourite part of Arcane.

Reading: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, which I am like halfway through. I am having a great time with this. I love having most of my characters be objectively terrible people. War Criminal central. The deeply integrated class structure of Radchaai society is so juicy.

It has a gentle hand on the worldbuilding which I appreciate and I hope it keeps it up through the other books. There are "bov" but there are also just tamarind.

Making: Not much, tinkering with some software projects. Ordered the adapter I need to talk to my servomotor so hopefully project Sewing Machine will be back soon.

Playing: Doing the Forza Horzion 6 weeklies. I think they have definitely amped up the AI difficulty in this one? Highly Skilled feels much more like a decent challenge, I can beat it almost all the time but it takes some pretty precise driving and if you fall behind you often just can't make it up if you aren't driving dirty.

Tools and Equipment: I was having this discussion with a coworker and I will now convey it to you: have you heard the good news? Frozen food is good now!

Frozen pretty much everything is incredibly high quality if the cold chain is maintained and it is a great way to get things that are both very high quality and with good shelf life. I basically only buy peas, spinach and corn frozen unless I really need the fresh stuff for something. If you eat meat, finding a good source of frozen meat is a good idea, I tracked down a local supplier recently that I want to try.

If you are turned off frozen food because you had bad experiences with it 20-30 years ago, we've gotten much better at it! For one thing, most of the meat and fish you see in a grocery store will have been frozen anyway, shortly after packing, and it's been defrosted for you. You may as well cut out the middleman and just get it frozen.

[andmaybegayer]

Radchaai has a base-20 counting system, right?

[andmaybegayer]

@memoryisaneventhorizon said:

because a decade is made of of 20 soldiers? that’s super interesting, i never picked up on that!

There's a lot of twenties in this book, although some of that is just that a major event happened twenty years prior. People say "almost twenty" a lot. Decades have 20 lieutenants, and One Esk consists of 20 ancillaries, not sure about the other ancillary units, they aren't mentioned as much. People use "twenty" as a round number, I think you see more "tens" when someone is speaking a non-Radchaai language. There was a particularly weird one that caught my eye here:

For the next twenty to forty seconds we had nothing to do but wait, and fall.

twenty to forty seconds? that's not very naturalistic, unless you're in vigesimal!