CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@lyndamerry484 duh

Think this through.

Marco #Rubio is walking around, allowing himself to be photographed, wearing shoes that are two sizes too big.

He can afford to buy those shoes in the correct size and save his boss and himself the embarrassment.

But Rubio suspects, fears, knows in his black tiny heart, that #Trump gave him shoes two sizes too big on purpose, in order publicly to humiliate him, in order to force him to broadcast his blind self-annihilating loyalty before all the world. It is literally The Emperor Has No Clothes, except with the humiliation transfered to the courtiers.

#uspol

@pixelate Too bad T.V. Raman isn't on here to shout out too.

> James you should also be my Craftering friend wink/nudge/intimidation

@shom me and you go way back my dude

Oh wait you mean I should join @daviwil 's webring thingy okay

@mousebot Agreed. And thanks for mastodon.el!

@pkal See my sibling reply. After I retire, maybe I will re-write everything for fun.

@benjamineskola AT FIRST, I thought, but all these great packages exist! Why make yourself write them again?

AND THEN, I thought, but you could write them again! Why not let yourself write them again?

What are the gifts of #Emacs? What does she provide that is precious to us? @chesheer

First gift: the Four Freedoms. I have learned a little, over lo, these 37 years, but (as @joeress might say) "I'm too thick." I cannot replace most of my packages, much less write a featureful version control like #Magit!

Second gift: the Community! Let the world know that I still trust @tarsius with my life. Here I again publicly thank him for Magit. I could give up this package or that package, but I WILL FIGHT to support @publicvoit @daviwil @sacha @rougier @howard @bbatsov @xenodium @danderzei @oantolin @minad @tusharhero @kickingvegas @divyaranjan @sanityinc @ramin_hal9001 @andros @yantar92 @bzg @mousebot @ericsfraga @amake @mms @pixelate @susam (sorry if I forgot you)

RE: https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator/116202173100706221

Interesting read. At first my response was "What? WHY?? No!"

But then I remembered: this is exactly why we cherish #FreeSoftware! So fly your freak flag, my friend!

#emacs #floss #softwarelibre #packyourownparachute

@Daojoan Every fucking word in the goddam English language

starting with "space"

and you are not allowed, on pain of death, to say "DNA"

Trump: [Trumps trumpily]

Carney: Blah blah blah we must self righteously demonstrate the self righteous courage to face the blah blah blah unwinding of the old order blah blah hot air on my high horse

Washington and Tel Aviv: Are you SURE ???? Because we're BOMBING middle eastern CIVILIANS from the AIR like we know you LIIIIKE

Carney: goddammit baby you know I can't quit you

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/03/canadian-prime-minister-defends-israel-and-the-u-s-as-they-commit-war-crimes/

@blogdiva

@glasspusher @skyglowberlin Hiking by marsshine

@skyglowberlin Just like that.

@skyglowberlin They were not afraid of the dark. They had a genuinely Lovecraftian moment when "CONFRONTED WITH THE COSMOS."

@skyglowberlin @reay @GeoffWozniak More bizarre irony.

@skyglowberlin They jumped back in the car and calmed down. We kept on to our destination. I was too young really even to understand what had happened, much less how to react constructively. I don't remember what I said. I was probably an asshole to them.

@skyglowberlin @venya @SaraBPritchard Wow. Now there is a little vignette that summarizes the human condition all right

@venya @skyglowberlin I can't beat that story, but I got two stories.

In 2005 outside the refugio just below the summit of Champaqui about 60 km southwest of Córdoba Argentina. Clearest darkest sky I have experienced and golly, the southern hemisphere sky is disorienting. We were far from home.

In 1990 in rural Ohio with two young women who had grown up in Tokyo. They had never seen a non-urban night sky. Parked the car next to a cornfield, told them I had a treat for them. They flew into a blind panic. Screaming, crying, covering their eyes.

@skyglowberlin Almost certainly not.

It's an empirical question: you have to do the experiment. But all of developmental neurobiology shows us that disuse leads to loss, and disuse during critical developmental windows leads to permanent loss. Your hypothesis is almost certainly correct.

@skyglowberlin When I teach about retinal physiology, it breaks my heart. Often there isn't a single student who has ever experienced vision after true dark adaptation.

It turns out that—it takes time, but it's real—you can see by starlight. And the faintest stars you see? That's a single rod cell detecting A SINGLE PHOTON. Your retina is that sensitive.

Before 1879 this was an absolutely universal human experience. Now it's exotic, unimaginable.