rixx

I do all this work to convince people that, unlike Dutch, German is a real language and then a company goes and names itself Gangolf Eierschmalz

“Hello and welcome to episode one of cooking with David Mitchell. Today I’m attempting eggs benedict, a breakfast so needlessly elaborate it could only have been invented by people with a profound misunderstanding of hunger”

Pretalx

🎉✨ A warm thank you to Pretalx for supporting EuroPython 2025! We're proud to be a space where communities come together, and we value the opportunity to collaborate with other communities and open-source projects. 🙌 pretalx.org

A framed 14x11 motivational poster from IBM. It has a gray background. The header says “Quality” and there is an inset frame of Challenger on the launchpad. The bottom says “Defect Prevention… It Matters.” with a classic IBM logo in white.

I saw this poster on eBay. It was way too expensive. Then I realized which shuttle it was.

I did some digging and IBM HQ immediately recalled and destroyed them. Guess they missed one.

Whatever, it was my birthday a few days ago. $350 later and this is on the way to my apartment.

Amazing ego-deflating moment yesterday at lunch. Staff member comes over. ‘I think we have one of your books in the office.’
Me (smugly flattered): that’s entirely possible.
He: yes, you left it here last time you visited.

Still funny to me that the only reason we have country-level TLDs is because University College London academics got pissy about having to be on .edu with the Americans.

(Also why the main British domain is .uk not .gb)

i have used the phrase "we nailed legs to a dog to make an octopus" a lot in technical reviews of late

This whole thread is fascinating, particularly as a key part of the treatment for anxiety it describes is the ancient Assyrian for "get really into Warhammer"

ok that is so wild though. the thought that your vision slowly turns more and more yellowish just by … getting older sounds both so reasonable and so screaming-inducing

Go play with the lights in the dark on the Autobahn. (Germany)

or

Go catch the lights in the dark on the Autobahn. (Germany)

I particularly like "vai se fuder com cobra pra ter filho comprido" (go fuck a snake and have lengthy kids)

Just realised I forgot to mention my favourite Hungarian way of telling someone to get lost, which is szarj egy taliga aprósünt. It means “go shit a wheelbarrow’s worth of tiny hedgehogs”

* and if the person asks why the hedgehogs are tiny, you respond with “more fit into the wheelbarrow that way”

If you want to tell someone to leave you alone while in the Basque Country, you can’t go wrong with zoaz antzarak ferratzera, or “go put horseshoes on a goose”

My favourite Polish phrase for telling someone to feck off (or shut up) is idź do parku sufit malować. It means “go to the park and paint the ceiling”

Six colourful fuck offs from around the world:

6. Go comb a monkey (Brazil)
5. Go ski into a spruce (Finland)
4. Go fry some asparagus (Colombia)
3. Go get fucked by a blind bear (Albania)
2. Go take it in your ass from a runaway donkey (Italy)
1. Go back home, your mother made you waffles (France)

King John calls Hiss a Procrastinating Python and could've just, y'know, tagged me instead

new trick to get rid of tabs that I want to ✨ process ✨ before closing them: just dump all thoughts in my notebook blog. no need for anybody to read it, just helps me to get it out of my brain.

first attempt today: cs lewis reviewing LotR https://ramble.rixx.de/2023/04/29/lewis-tolkien.html

at this point, I just use it so friends know implicitly if I'm replying from my phone (might be bored but won't write long texts) or from my laptop (happy to write a ton, but no pictures)

🦋 Bluesky Berlin Meetup #1 - Picnic in the Park · Luma

🦋 first bluesky berlin meetup! 🦋

📍 volkspark friedrichshain
🕑 TOMORROW! sunday! (4/30), 2 pm
🗺️ https://w3w.co/pitching.makes.straw
🧺 bring blankets, snacks, drinks!

pls RSVP 💙🦋: https://lu.ma/xybv2b2z

phone just reminded me that self-made masks and good times in a friend's parents' garden was three years ago, and … idk, it doesn't feel like "it's still March 2020", and it doesn't feel wildly out of sync, but it still surprised me somehow