Good morning from Germany in the Central European timezone! 
Yesterday, I spent an afternoon at a thermal spa, spending time with a friend and having some very good relaxing time and fantastic conversations. He is 26, and one example why I get along best with younger and mostly queer people.
I was so relaxed, that I fell asleep at around 8 and, with only one brief bathroom break, slept for over nine hours, which is rare for me. Must say I feel very well rested this morning.
What are some examples of things you used to think but changed your mind on?
In my case, in public transport and urbanism:
* I used to support some tech I now think is a dead-end (large-diameter TBMs, active tilt)
* I used to think local community empowerment and consensus were a good way to run cities
* I thought Japan did both clearly better than Europe
Tilting Trains and Technological Dead-Ends
The history of tilting trains is on my mind, because it’s easy to take a technological advance and declare it a solution to a problem without first producing it at scale. I know that 10 years…Pedestrian Observations
AOL Optimized PC Instructional Video
This is an instructional video that came with the AOL Optimized PC, in both English and Spanish.YouTube
Loving this new era of indie blogs splitting off from their corpo bastards and forming their own coops:
404media.co/
aftermath.site/
defector.com/
Even more listed at the end of Hearing Things’ about page:
hearingthings.co/about/
Google's Extension-Killing Manifest V3 Rollout Is Stepping Up, and It's Time to Jump Ship
Why stick with Chrome when there are so many other options?Gavin Phillips (MakeUseOf)
Speaking of #MyAdoredDaughter this morning... I don't know if I ever posted this photo.
This is ... my daughter? This is how she looks like, exactly - a beautiful, young person with long legs, and wonderful hair. And she keeps telling me "OMG, we look so alike, we could be twins..."
#Trans #Enby #NonBinary #TransJoy #EnbyJoy #NonBinaryJoy #Selfie
...
... but no, this is not a photo of her, this is a selfie of me reflected in a window. When I saw myself reflected in that window, I had to take a selfie and send it to her and she was absolutely amazed at how similar we look now, really, like twins, everything, the form, hair, posture, arms, legs, ... only her face is slightly different (and way younger, obviously 🥰
@Marco TBH, she resembles my wife more than her mother (my wife isn't her mom), but she looks more or less exactly like me. So the photo above could really be me or her, if I didn't tell you who that person is on the photo and you'd see us next to each other, you couldn't tell who that was.
But, and that's the fun part, whenever she is visiting us and we three, her, my wife and me, go out for a walk, people are 100% sure she is our daughter, because she has nearly nothing from her biological mom, but some really interesting similarities with my wife.
In my own case, I have half-half, i.e. about half of me resembles my father, and half my biological mother (as far as I can remember, and I have one single photo of her).
Then, it is even more interesting that you three look so alike.
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National Federation of the Blind of Massachusetts Scholarship Application
The National Federation of the Blind of Massachusetts is pleased to announce the availability of scholarships for the 2025-2026 academic year. Up to four scholarships will be awarded: one in the amount of $3,000.00, 2 in the amount of $1,500.Google Docs
Three photos around SF Chinatown in Kodak Tri-X
(Leica M3, 50mm Summilux, dev in Xtol stock @ 7:45, scanned on Nikon Coolscan 8000ED)
#BelieveInFilm #Photography #FilmPhotography #BlackandWhite #Kodak #Leica #SanFrancisco #BayArea #California #Chinatown #Chinese
"If you are in the white liberal minority and you want to freak out about something, freak out about your cousins and grandmothers and colleagues who are about to cast a ballot for an unhinged authoritarian. Go deal with the white people in your life instead of placing the burden on Black folks to save this country from the majority of white folks yet again."
— Black Men Will Vote for Harris—White Men Are the Problem.
thenation.com/article/politics…
Black Men Will Vote for Harris—White Men Are the Problem | The Nation
Why is the media talking so much about the fraction of Black men who might go MAGA when more than 60 percent of white men will vote for Trump?The Nation
"The document with the file name xxx - Your xxx receipt [#xxxx-xxxx].pdf cannot be uploaded. Please upload a document with the file name which contains the following characters only a-z A-Z 0-9 # + , @ ^ . _ & -.']"
What the actual Zarq. Why should you care about the file name? You asked for a name for the file in a separate text box, so the file name on my local file system is literally irrelevant. Incompetence seriously annoys me.
Did you know the government is directly asking you if you want them to regulate SUV so they kill less people, especially children?
"We seek to address the many U.S. variants and other models built upon uniquely American platforms.
This includes essentially the entire pickup truck and large SUV segments."
Take control back from car makers and pro-SUV by giving your feedback here⬇️ (and don't hesitate to retoot, thank you!).
regulations.gov/document/NHTSA…
#car #suv #regulation #carculture #regulation #pedestrian #children #walkability
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Look, if Trump wins, everything's gonna be fine. Not much is going to really change for you in your day to day life let's be honest. I mean, as long as you're white, pretty much nothing will change.
As long as you're white and male. Because let's face it, women aren't getting their bodily autonomy back under a Trump presidency. But as long as you're white and male, things should be fine.
As long as you're white, male, and cisgender I mean. God help you if you're trans. Trump has promised to make your existence illegal and probably will on day one. But that's it. As long as you're white, cisgender and male, it'll be just fine.
As long as you're straight too. Trump is definitely going to try to outlaw gay marriage again, and according to Project 2025, wants to try to get sodomy laws back on the books. But that's it. As long as you're a white, cisgender, straight man, nothing is going to change.
And also Christian. Again, that Project 2025 stuff comes back here. Muslim bans, atheism bans, not to mention a whole slew of antisemitic nonsense. But that's all. As long as you're a white, straight, cisgender Christian man, you'll be fine.
Uh, and by Christian I mean specifically evangelical Christian, obviously. You better not have any heretical ideas about God like this crap about loving thy neighbor and feeding the hungry and clothing the homeless. That's the sort of idea that'll get you in trouble in Trump's America. But as long as you're a white, straight, cisgender, evangelical Christian man, you'll be fine.
Oh, and this really goes without saying but don't be a dirty fuckin liberal, obviously. Trump has said he considers liberals the "enemy within", and that they're a bigger threat than China and North Korea. He said he wants to "fix" liberals using the "National Guard or maybe the military". So, you know, that's not good. But as long as you're a white, heterosexual, cisgender, evangelical Christian Republican man, everything will be juuuuuust fine don't you worry.
Also it wouldn't hurt to be rich.
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