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Dev, sometimes writer and artist and definitely not a bot. Enjoying Bluesky so far. πŸ•ΈοΈ: timothymalstead.com

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Don't think I'd handle absolute power very well. Just saying.

09.08.2025 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow. You rarely see such an on-the-nose example of 'Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?'

09.08.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In case you forgot because I really didn't do much during the primary

09.08.2025 02:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t care if this platform is growing I just care if like maybe 15 people think I’m funny

07.08.2025 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1294    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 1
Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes To Midnight (Official Video)
YouTube video by Iron Maiden Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes To Midnight (Official Video)
07.08.2025 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@tailscale.com I think y'all may have the most useful chatbot I've used for technical q and a. Also like that it links to the docs it references. It's the little things.

07.08.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Governors too, and also things like ambassadorships should be treated less like party favors. Weird, old vestigial monarchy shit that belongs in the past.

07.08.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is new in zsh or this is your creation?

07.08.2025 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Mid-Atlantic accent

07.08.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That sounds about as odd and foreign to me as someone with a Mid-Atlantic dictating a newsreel detailing the exploits of Mr and Mrs American and all the ships at sea.

07.08.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Psilocybin is completely decriminalized in Colorado now right? Oh man. Oh man. That could turn into such a bad trip.

07.08.2025 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's one of the weirdest things to me when I read, oh I'd say, pre-1960's material: did people really ever utter the word 'say' using two syllables?

07.08.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hard not to giggle at discerning Phish fan

06.08.2025 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I like container queries, but is the browser support still kinda spotty?

05.08.2025 04:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Jam - The Eton Rifles
YouTube video by TheJamVEVO The Jam - The Eton Rifles

Eating golden raisins and reciting their name like the chorus of The Jam's 1979 classic 'The Eton Rifles'

Gol-DEN RAY-zins, gol-DEN RAY-zins!

02.08.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
What I see as missing from American comics is that bulwark of solid, unpretentious, accessible genre fiction - a more or less undistinguished mass of okay-to-good comics that might catch your eye and give you a thrill, that loyal fans would buy out of habit, and anyone else might just pick up for the hell of it.

We don't have that in the U.S. What we have is Art Comics on one end and Unimaginably Awful Super-Hero Shit on the other. The handful of cartoonists who try to explore some middle ground of decent genre fiction are few and far between, and are usually ignored by the super-hero fans and scorned by the "alternative" fans (unless it was done in the 1950s, in which case they've acquired that patina of coolness). I don't like Sin City particularly, but I have a suspicion that a lot of people who hate it would hate it even if it was done with the skill, wit, and verve of the great Spanish Torpedo series - and a lot of the people who love it love it because it's Frank Miller, and would ignore a much better series done by Joe Blow.

My conviction is that an Art medium works only so long as it is supported by a populist Crap medium. Reading, or going to the theatre, or going to the movies, is a habit, and it's not a habit that imposes itself on the more exalted end of the spectrum.

I'm not arguing that publishers have to do crap to support the unprofitable good stuff. (That's probably true, but it's not what I'm specifically arguing here.) I'm arguing that in what is a pop medium, like it or not, you need the "pop" part to sustain it.

What I see as missing from American comics is that bulwark of solid, unpretentious, accessible genre fiction - a more or less undistinguished mass of okay-to-good comics that might catch your eye and give you a thrill, that loyal fans would buy out of habit, and anyone else might just pick up for the hell of it. We don't have that in the U.S. What we have is Art Comics on one end and Unimaginably Awful Super-Hero Shit on the other. The handful of cartoonists who try to explore some middle ground of decent genre fiction are few and far between, and are usually ignored by the super-hero fans and scorned by the "alternative" fans (unless it was done in the 1950s, in which case they've acquired that patina of coolness). I don't like Sin City particularly, but I have a suspicion that a lot of people who hate it would hate it even if it was done with the skill, wit, and verve of the great Spanish Torpedo series - and a lot of the people who love it love it because it's Frank Miller, and would ignore a much better series done by Joe Blow. My conviction is that an Art medium works only so long as it is supported by a populist Crap medium. Reading, or going to the theatre, or going to the movies, is a habit, and it's not a habit that imposes itself on the more exalted end of the spectrum. I'm not arguing that publishers have to do crap to support the unprofitable good stuff. (That's probably true, but it's not what I'm specifically arguing here.) I'm arguing that in what is a pop medium, like it or not, you need the "pop" part to sustain it.

One reason I won't be that broken up if Conclave wins Best Picture is that cinema is currently in the position comics found itself in 25 years ago, as argued by the GOAT Kim Thompson: More Crap Is What We Need www.tcj.com/a-modest-pro...

15.02.2025 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4

Any other terminal folks, can you weigh in and confirm these commands won't do anything fishy?

02.08.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
tail Man Page - macOS - SS64.com

btw, don't just believe me that these are benign commands, here is more info on the tail command: ss64.com/mac/tail.html

Basically it just allows you to monitor a stream of data, in this case a log file, as it is being updated.

02.08.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

it should allow you to see what is happening, or not happening as the case may be in the app as the app itself sees it.

Could be useful for support?

02.08.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

tail -f ~/Library/Application\ Support/Signal/logs/app.log

and

tail -f ~/Library/Application\ Support/Signal/logs/main.log

02.08.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Any luck with this?

One thing that might help is monitoring the logs of the application.

Idk how comfortable you are on the command line, but if you open up two terminal windows and enter the following commands in each of them...

02.08.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

HHH looks increasingly like a Shar Pei.

02.08.2025 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Loose layers of bright colors with a cool pink and white embroidered cassock. Like a high contrast painting stepped off the page and into real life!

Loose layers of bright colors with a cool pink and white embroidered cassock. Like a high contrast painting stepped off the page and into real life!

Went to the Jack Kirby exhibit at the Skirball yesterday and I am still flipping out at these costumes Mr. Kirby designed for a UCSC Shakespeare production in the seventies. Getting to see it in person. We should all dress like this.

02.08.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 790    πŸ” 269    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 31

Wow. I went until today before I learned The King collaborated with The Bard. Not a dream! Not an imaginary tale!

02.08.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Love how Ditko leaves it visually ambiguous whether he is talking to fellow students or teachers.

02.08.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've always thought a better title would be 'The Thing and 3 Other Assholes'

01.08.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Documentation

You MIGHT be able to get them so useful info by running the Mac console application and relaying them info from that. it-training.apple.com/tutorials/su...

01.08.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can't say for certain, but this looks to me to be an error in the application managing the Signal service on your computer, rather than the Signal service itself.

Good luck!

01.08.2025 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Huh. That's a weird one. At a guess that may be an error with a system called Electron, which is an initialization of JavaScript for a desktop application. JavaScript is the same language your web browser understands.

01.08.2025 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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