"Why was the flight delayed for an hour?"
"The pilot saw a problem with an engine, but it is okay now."
"Wow, you replaced an engine in an hour?"
"No, we replaced the pilot."
(This is an old Soviet Union joke, but it now applies to America under Trump)
06.08.2025 05:37 — 👍 705 🔁 169 💬 10 📌 7
Historical Documents - Office of the Historian
history.state.gov 3.0 shell
New FRUS volume just dropped on SDI and the Reagan administration's strategic modernization program, compiled by @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social.
history.state.gov/historicaldo...
01.08.2025 13:35 — 👍 31 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 1
A display from the Smithsonian American History Museum with the title “Impeachment.”
Guess I’m glad I snapped this last August.
31.07.2025 23:45 — 👍 104 🔁 24 💬 3 📌 0
Slide saying "We will return to infrastructure later."
Slide from @javiercha.bsky.social's keynote presentation at #DH2025, what a cliffhanger ☺️
15.07.2025 18:27 — 👍 21 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2
A stars massive outburst captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Credit: NASA/ESA
12.07.2025 00:43 — 👍 5360 🔁 960 💬 140 📌 84
Lines consisting of little more-or-less perpendicular strokes of various angles, lengths, and hues (teals and yellows). Squint and it is some odd alien manifesto or tally. There is some correlation from across and between the lines, but also sharp discontinuities. You almost start to see a rhythm to it... and then you don't.
Colophon: several frothy noise functions drive the pattern with intentional large shifts from line to line so avoid too much line-to-line correlation.
#GenerativeArt interlude
Little lines
#XQuery #SVG #CreativeCoding
26.06.2025 16:47 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Action speaks louder than words.
Danish Minister of Digitalisation @carolinestage.bsky.social wants to phase out Microsoft from the ministry to reduce the dependency on US tech.
This will be a long process. But actual action, not just talking points, is noteworthy!
09.06.2025 07:00 — 👍 401 🔁 152 💬 15 📌 20
Picture of Duncan and Juri
On our way home from #MarkupUK! We had a great time—inspiring talks, cool ideas, and great conversations. Huge thanks to the organizers for a top-notch event.
See you at #DeclarativeAmsterdam or next year at #XMLPrague! #eXistdb
08.06.2025 12:58 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Pictore shows at the top an image of London and at the bottom an image of the venue. In the middle it has the Text:
<𝗐𝖾𝖺𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗋 /> 𝗂𝗌 𝗆𝗂𝗑𝖾𝖽 𝖼𝗈𝗇𝗍𝖾𝗇𝗍 ☁️
<𝗏𝖾𝗇𝗎𝖾 /> 𝗂𝗌 𝖼𝗈𝗈𝗅 😎
#𝖬𝖺𝗋𝗄𝗎𝗉𝖴𝖪 𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟧
Pictures taken by Juri Leino, Design by Juri Leino and Lars Windauer
<𝗐𝖾𝖺𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗋 /> 𝗂𝗌 𝗆𝗂𝗑𝖾𝖽 𝖼𝗈𝗇𝗍𝖾𝗇𝗍 ☁️
<𝗏𝖾𝗇𝗎𝖾 /> 𝗂𝗌 𝖼𝗈𝗈𝗅 😎
#𝖬𝖺𝗋𝗄𝗎𝗉𝖴𝖪 𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟧
06.06.2025 10:38 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
An array of translucent cubes, oriented at various angles, with fractures running through them, and fractures through some of the fractured pieces. The fractured pieces are set slightly apart from each other, like they were just now smashed and are starting to fall apart. The cubes are white over a slanted tan gradient background.
#GenerativeArt interlude
Chopping up cubes
#XQuery #SVG #CreativeCoding
02.06.2025 16:05 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Original picture by Elliott Brown (https://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/6447506387/) - Remix by Juri Leino - The original picture shows the Bush House - Aldwych, London where Markup UK takes place. Juri added the phrase: "London Calling"
Hey, fellow XML nerds & tag lovers!
If you happen to be at Markup UK in #London this week, and got questions about eXist-db or want to talk about XQuery, native XML databases: Juri and Duncan from the eXist-db core team will be in the house! Come say hi — we’d would be happy to talk 💬😄
02.06.2025 15:11 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
GOP claimed that COVID contact tracing was “government overreach.”
They said that background checks violated freedom.
They wanted to ban data collection about gun violence.
But now they have hired Palantir to track us all.
This is the machinery of a surveillance state, run by billionaires.
01.06.2025 00:34 — 👍 622 🔁 255 💬 27 📌 10
Atomic Wiki
The eXist-db core developers published a statement concerning license violations in Elemental by Evolved Binary: exist-db.org/exist/apps/w... #LGPL-2.1 #XMLDB
28.05.2025 08:16 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
New -slim images for duncdrum/existdb! 🚀
Now available for 6.4.0+, these come without stockapps in /exist/autodeploy — perfect for minimal base images or lean #XQuery only setups. All distroless variants have a -slim twin: e.g. duncdrum/existdb:6.4.0-nonroot-j8-slim
hub.docker.com/r/duncdrum/e...
22.05.2025 13:34 — 👍 5 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Welcome to Expat! · Expat XML parser
Expat XML parser
#libexpat 2.7.1 has been released ( #Expat / #XML / #CVE / #SecurityVulnerability ) libexpat.github.io
08.04.2025 22:49 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Just released vscode-xml 0.29.0. The new feature is that the colour picker works with hex colours that don't have a leading `#`; i.e. it will work properly for `#FF00FF` and `FF00FF`.
#vscode #xml
09.05.2025 15:49 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Jackson Release 2.19
Main Portal page for the Jackson project. Contribute to FasterXML/jackson development by creating an account on GitHub.
Jackson 2.19 release candidate -- 2.19.0-rc2 (*) -- being released.
See github.com/FasterXML/ja... for contents.
(*) rc1 process failed due to operator (...me) error so rc2 is the first actual candidate
#java #jackson #json #xml etc
08.04.2025 01:33 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
"Convert between fixed format data and #XML, #JSON, and other data structures."
23.02.2025 05:19 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Do you post about #xml #xslt and #xquery ?
Or do you know of accounts that do?
Would love to hear from you!
20.05.2025 11:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Kekius Maximus & @elonmusk
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Please put "Never went to therapy" on my gravestone
men will literally dismantle the federal government instead of going to therapy
17.05.2025 20:18 — 👍 13959 🔁 1998 💬 662 📌 243
a cartoon of snoopy dancing with the words oh yeah written above him
ALT: a cartoon of snoopy dancing with the words oh yeah written above him
We are happy to announce that version 6.4.0 of eXist-db was released last week 🥳
Thanks to all who helped getting it out and everyone else who contributed in any other way like posting issues and testing.
For more detailed information see: exist-db.org/exist/apps/w...
Happy hacking! 🚀
15.05.2025 13:25 — 👍 4 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
a sign at the grocery store reading EGG LIMIT
ONE CARTON PER
CUSTOMER
ALL EGG BRANDS AND TYPES
shaking my head in the dairy aisle, loudly complaining that “it was never like this under Biden”
23.02.2025 17:28 — 👍 387 🔁 23 💬 8 📌 2
#Merz fragt, wo die #Antifa war, als Walter #Lübcke ermordet wurde. Merz fragt, wo der Aufstand der Anständigen war, als Walter Lübcke ermordet wurde. Achtung: es kommen Fakten. Etwas, was Merz und #CDU nicht mögen. #thread
23.02.2025 11:32 — 👍 2100 🔁 773 💬 36 📌 40
list of banned keywords
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
04.02.2025 01:26 — 👍 27948 🔁 15829 💬 1282 📌 3693
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