I wrote this draft over a year ago. I’ve been editing and re-editing it in the hope that I don’t offend or say the wrong thing as this is a topic I’m passionate about and which, rightly, gets picked over in intricate detail. I re-read it again last week and read an article1 today that made me realise I need to publish and be damned. TLDR; FUCK THE PATRIARCHY. I’ve seen it before and, like me, you can probably tell from the body language; whether it’s the pushy ‘just give me your number’ guy, or…

It’s pitch black, you’re a big-old hawk-moth flying through the night in search of nocturnal nectar and a mate, when your in-flight detection systems pick up the sound of an incoming bat. You can duck and dive, but chances are the bat’s echolocation system will pick you out of the dark and it’s bye-bye hawkeye! What to do? Seemingly, the obvious answer is to rub your genitalia against your abdomen. I mean, it sounds like a last chance at some pleasure in your short life before being eaten by…

The gym was looking a little ominous this morning . The post Creepy Vibes appeared first on @Kevuhnn / 📸 / 📚 / 🇨🇦.

I have been using Debian Linux for a long time, off and on over the years, before finally completely discarding Windows a few years ago. I have dabbled with Linux since around 1999 and have tried many distros in the ensuing years. My first step into Linux was Red Hat 6. I would dual boot my Windows 2000 computer with Red Hat, but never made Linux my home. But I played with so many versions (Slackware, SUSE, Gentoo, Debian, Mandrake, etc.) over the years that my oldest boy learned it, mastered…

America showed up big time last night. We need more of that. Albion, Michigan – shot on the Canon 5D (classic!) and EF 85mm f/1.8.

Wow! Great job USA! Texas flipped, which is both amazing and shows how much Trump sucks.

When I started this blog, I had a specific idea of what I wanted to do. I wanted to discuss things openly without censoring my voice, including subjects that don’t usually come up around the dinner table. I wanted to journal my life, experiences, sexuality, and desires as a man in the last third of his existence. And I wanted to speak plainly. It turns out that doing all of that gets complicated once four letters enter the picture: NSFW. It’s a balancing act. A host might allow your content but…

Update while writing: I started thinking about this yesterday, then got to write this post this morning, went to check how itch's dealing with the filtering and, would you look at that, they are already using this idea. I'll still post what I originally wrote and leave it on the internet because, unsurprisingly (maybe), itch is still a niche storefront, so I think the more people talking about this approach, the better. If you don't know what itch.io is, go check it out. I've been reading about…

When people hear the word troll, many think of the mythical monster lurking beneath a bridge, waiting to trouble unsuspecting travellers. But, internet trolling was not really about monsters, it was about fishing. When fishing by trolling, you trail a baited line behind your boat, hoping to hook a fish. You don’t chase the fish; you dangle something tempting and wait for a bite. Which is what internet trolls do. They post a provocative comment, an outrageous opinion or a deliberately misleading…

I didn’t sleep well Monday night. Actually I haven’t slept well the previous few nights. I was very anxious heading into the mid-term elections here in the U.S. That anxiety actually led to me getting sick to my stomach Monday morning. Certainly, if you have a pulse you know why I was anxious. Last night, following an unmistakable electoral rebuke of all things MAGA, I didn’t sleep well either. Not from anxiety, but from trying to come down from the series of highs and rushes throughout the…

Proton's CEO called a request for security testing "loser thinking". Using AI to write code is fine, but for a privacy company, the guardrails around that code are the product.

[Onward. Forward. Upward.] In what must be seen as a repudiation of Donald Trump’s abhorrent second term as president, as well as the failures of the Republican-controlled House and Senate to actually govern, yesterday’s elections saw voters across America shift left in remarkable numbers. As a result, Democrats will take control of both the House and Senate in January. When they do, the legislative branch can hopefully return to its proper role providing a check on the executive branch, rather…

The biggest loser in yesterday's landslide was not Donald Trump. It was another Boomer, Newt Gingrich, who managed to redraw the political map in ways that have kept the Republican Party in or near power for the last five decades. While the Democratic base eroded, with the Northeast losing relative population and the Midwest turning purple to red, the Republicans secured hegemony in the rapidly growing Sunbelt, with the exception of California. They have evidently overplayed their hand. In one…

Before explaining what the trick is and how it works, I'll take a general example: let's say in a Rust codebase or library you find a better way of doing something, but you still want to keep compatibility with the rest of the codebase or ecosystem. Say you have a new trait Awesome that does what Debug does, but better (for some definition of better). You may want to express code that can consume a value that it either Awesome or Debug like this: fn do_it(value: impl Awesome or Debug) { if…

Insects swarm at gas station light, July 2006, (photo by cgpgrey, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons) 3 November 2026 Remember when you used to encounter swarms of insects around outdoor electric lights? Their well known attraction to outdoor lights is used by entomologists and moth lovers to conduct insect surveys. All you need is a light and a white sheet to see who’s flying at night. Light trapping for insects at Maui (photo by Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Nowadays, if…

Cycles Hyped No More on November 4, 2026 The American electorate has spoken. And it’s not just MAGA Trumpism which has been repudiated, but the unseemly reign of douchebag techbroism. Cycles Hyped No More is a monthly column by Jared White where he takes a critical look at “hype cycles” and the ways Big Tech attempts to steer public discourse towards its own financial goals and away from grassroots development of person-centered tech. No product or service is “inevitable” and we can choose the…

You’re not a urologist just because you took a squirt without hitting your slippers in the morning.

I don't have a lot to say about the midterms, exactly, as I'm not a political expert. But the results are absolutely bananas. The current admin has absolutely crashed out despite getting elected with a LOT of support. And as a Wisconsinite, seeing the state legislature flip after over a decade of absolute idiots running the show, I'm looking forward for the first time in a while. The shift graph is astonishing. But I am especially heartened by the ste of firsts happening in unlikely places.…

I grew up on the Internet. I spent a significant proportion of my childhood, and later my adult life, on message boards, blogs, social networks, chatrooms, and other online communities. I made friends, found jobs, and was exposed to so many new concepts thanks to the Internet. Many of my core beliefs were sharpened by ideas and discussions I followed online. It's been a huge part of my life. But today, the joy is largely gone. This wasn't a sudden change: my experience with the Internet has…

The people finally had enough- and it sure took more than long enough!!! Wish I could say they finally saw the evil in all this and commenced toward the light, but it was little more than their own screamin' pocketbooks, alone and at the mercy of their favorite six bankruptcy "businessman." Will the Dems now make the most of it and fight back as hard and bare knuckled as anything goes, no rules MAGA? Or will they go into the business as usual, try and get along mode they concede to so…

I've been exceedingly cautiously optimistic this time.

It’s amazing what sticks in your brain so many years later. I say that as a guy who has made a whole website about the stuff that sticks in my brain, but today, I finally had the occasion to look something up that I remember seeing years ago and had just never investigated.I speak of the most obscure monster in Chrono Trigger: Yodu De. I think it’s entirely possible to make it through the game without ever seeing this monster’s name on screen, to say nothing of seeing it at all, and unless I’m…

My feeds have been full of the polar vortex this week. Weather accounts post maps of a swirl over the Arctic tearing in two, with captions about the "earliest sudden stratospheric warming on record". Scientists post more careful versions of the same maps. Then the question comes from friends and family: does this mean a cold winter? I work on short-range forecasting, so the stratosphere is not my usual territory. Still, this is one of the few links we have between what happens 30 km up and the…

Megalodon teethA megalodon tooth is a wonderful thing to hold in your hand. The broad crown, thick root and finely serrated edges give us a sense of the animal behind it, even when the rest of that animal is missing. Some of the largest teeth approach 18 centimetres in length. That is a substantial piece of dental equipment, especially when we consider that whales were among the animals on

Yesterday, I was alarmed to learn that LTS versions of Ubuntu are still lacking a critical security update to patch a severe vulnerability that was first disclosed on October 15th. As of now, all LTS versions dating back to version 16.04 have this vulnerability. Ubuntu's security tracker indicates every release from 16.04 LTS to 26.10. is still vulnerable, two weeks after the CVE was disclosed. Until recently my Hetzner VPS ran Ubuntu. Even though it’s unlikely that I would fall victim to this…

Democrats, Liberals and folks who like to claim they are enlightened and modern are celebrating this morning in the U.S. at their blue wave victory. It's fucking hilarious. Why? Because these people actually believe the fantasy that these Democratic politicians are their saviors. That they are the solution to the all the fucked up problems in the U.S. That the scourge of Republicans and MAGA will now be eradicated. Oh children, how soon you forget. Let's just be clear. These are politicians.…

One of the things I've realized I do when I'm in a new city, or a new part of a city, or back in a part of a city I haven't been in in a while, is that I take pictures of bikes.Above: Toronto. But it doesn't really matter, because I do it everywhere.Why do I do it? Because I think that bikes, especially the kind of cargo ebikes I tend to love taking phoots of, like that one, but really any kind of frequent visibility of bikes, are an indicator species of a kind of effective urbanism that I…

Holy shit, even Kansas is blue. This is definitely a referendum on trump. High fuel prices, the failed economy and the Iran war. It is so pointless for us average joes, but the billionaire industrial war complex machines will punch up their push. Yes, they can still make another few trillion off the backs of our taxes before the war is shut down for good. What a shit show. The money train gonna keep on moneying the Ratheons and other harbingers of hate and death. But there is an end in sight.…

The House and the Senate are back under Democratic control. It’s a great first step. It’s a huge sigh of relief. Most of the rest of the world applaud the thorough spanking the mid-terms have delivered to the Republicans who are now starting to see the actual backlash of being Trump lackies. However it is just the start, please don’t let up. You need to go all the way on this, you need to figure out who is going to lead you into the Presidency at the next opportunity, you need to rebuild your…

I Voted 2026: image of a bearded person wearing a black Wrangler T-Shirt with pens sitcking out of the pocket. On the front of the pocket is an “I Voted” sticker. I voted today, as I hope most people did. And, if the results are anything to go by, I suspect this might be the highest turnout in a midterm election for the last couple of decades. And the backlash over the Trump Administrations policies is severe. More severe than I think anyone projected. It’s what many of us were actually…