Matt Bornski

As someone who wrote lots of software to do things like this I liked to use easily recognizable but within-bounds things as fallbacks. Geolocation to the Rose Garden, sure thing. Localization in Klingon, no problem. Lunar timezone, got it boss.

Been doing a bit of the old genealogical research and hooboy. Irish ancestors have fewer children challenge: difficult. Irish ancestors use more than 3 names challenge: impossible.

La casa de miel

It's why I'm still suffering through it!

This is possibly a mostly-me problem; I have something in the neighborhood of 60gb of mail, and it took *months* for Proton to build an index to search message content. Searches of message content take more than a minute and return very sparse results. Search operators seem lacking for power users.

I also switched from Gmail to Proton recently. I miss the speed and searchability of Gmail TBH, but I had also passed my limit on evil.

For that matter you understood it was a laugh like two posts ago. What happened to you man, you used to be cool.

Yeah we're all pretty sure that it wasn't intended to be a mystic curse, we're just observing that when you squint at it just right, the translation service many people use says it's a mystic curse, and we lol'ed.

I appreciate the latin-knower angle I guess? but nobody actually thought this.

Hey my Latin is atrocious to non-existent, however as a data point, this does reproduce in my Google translate app. 🤷‍♂️

I saw this story breaking about Mike Waltz and noticed something weird about his phone in that he isn’t actually using “signal” as in the secure messaging app but is using something MUCH worse that I haven’t seen reported on yet. Quick thread but it’s an Israeli intel guy behind it

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

Ah! Thank you. Can't really un-see it now.

I'm sorry I have a reasonable grounding in math and pretty good Google-fu but can't for the life of me figure out what a Fibonacci star is. It looks neat though. What defines a Fibonacci star?

"all empires fall but it's rare you see one jump"

Not tagging because you clearly don't want the interaction but said guy is also here.

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Yeah time.gov runs a ton of NTP servers, very definitive.

LIVE IN THE MOMENT This moment is bad

The idea that justice and adjudication are different things is hard for many people to grasp, and indeed our language and system of government seem to go out of their way to obscure those differences.

Yes I'm aware of the irony of my default avi calling somebody else's account "almost certainly a bad faith actor"

Thread from @gothamgirlblue about people suddenly awakening to danger now that the victims of the danger look like them, and a bad faith reply from reputationLaunderingUsername123456789 with a pfp from media arguing exactly the point she was decrying.

The pictured reply is almost certainly from a bad faith acct, but to rebut the thought: the main problem with extrajudicial violence is primarily the lack of justice, not the lack of adjudication. There are few examples of just extrajudicial violence, and many examples of unjust judicial violence.

NY Times, Feb. 11, 1933.

Oh hey Mr. Canary, you takin' a little canary nap? You deserve it, workin' so hard down here in the dark.

UK was all like "oof, Brexit, huge regrets, pretty big self own" and the US went "hold my beer and get your stopwatch"

What the hell is this chyron, like they're the evil ones?

I looked it up, tbh a bit confused.. Medical doctors swear the Hippocratic oath to do no harm but the HIPPOcratic oath appears to be "fuck shit up", honestly not sure why they are also called doctors?

A screenshot of a post on Bluesky in which a person pitches the sob story of another person who was unable to afford rent increases in the Hamptons over the last five years and found that her friends from sixty years ago and her estranged relatives were not excited about taking her in

If this was an AITA post everybody would be going "what aren't you telling us that everybody wants you out of their life".

Seriously. Who gives a check to seal-on-sheet flags in this day and age? You can do better, Illinois.

Thanks for the education!

This is a serious question which might seem asinine, but the seating arrangements are very different from what I am accustomed to seeing. What tradition is this?