this seems to have ben a oneoff, a fluke if you will, but have a look at the #NVDA error I got when trying to do insert q then telling it to restart NVDA.

Error dialog Couldn't terminate existing NVDA process, abandoning start: Exception: [WinError 5] Access is denied.

I could not post about #MLK Day today.

We so completely failed to manifest his legacy & to honor his terrible sacrifice.

Given the state of the nation, posting a quote with his picture or some trite nonsense was just too utterly blasphemous.

#MartinLutherKing

"bash: yotune: command not found"

In case anyone was wondering, when you type "yotune" on a terminal, unless you map an alias, you will not get uptime.

Yotune is also not a really bad iTunes rip-off.

This PSA brought to you by me, sucking at typing.

I mean, at least when I type something wrong, it's really, really wrong..., like "gesrib" instead of "bridges" a couple of weeks ago.

The United States is a global superpower,
and its military trains for war in every domain.

During my years as a military educator, I saw American officers wrestle with any number of scenarios designed to challenge their thinking and force them to adapt to surprises.

One case we never considered, however, was how to betray and attack our own allies.

We did not ask what to do if the president becomes a threatening megalomaniac who tells one of our oldest friends, Norway,
that because the Nobel Committee in Oslo refuses to give him a trophy,
he no longer feels
“an obligation to think purely of Peace”
and can instead turn his mind toward planning to wage war against NATO.

As my colleague Anne Applebaum wrote today, Donald Trump’s threatening message to the Norwegian prime minister should, in any responsible democracy,
force the rest of the U.S. political system to act to control him.

The president is talking about an invasion that would require
“citizens of a treaty ally,” as she put it,
“to become American against their will,”
all because he
“now genuinely lives in a different reality.”

And yet neither Congress nor the sycophants in the White House seem willing to stop him.
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/…

The U.S. Military Faces a Reckoning on Greenland

Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do.

^{Tom Nichols (The Atlantic)}

RE: mastodon.social/@Viss/11592310…

"We should stop using open source software written using 'AI'", I say

"That's impossible," people tell me. "There's no way you'll be able to tell the code was written using AI"

one of those perfect-storm winter driving days, when it's cold enough but the snow is coming down hard enough that your wipers just smear ice across the windshield.

very glad to be home. maybe not going out again until spring.

"Stormtroopers Who Killed Tatooine Farmers Feared for Their Lives"

hard-drive.net/stormtroopers-w…

Stormtroopers Who Killed Tatooine Farmers Feared for Their Lives

TATOOINE — Amidst galactic unrest, a group of stormtroopers who burned farmers Owen and Beru Lars alive on the desert planet Tatooine... Read the full masterpiece

^{Matt Fresh (Hard Drive)}

A weather report done in Trump speak. he even uses metric for a bit: Look, we have the best weather in Palm Beach, believe me. Everyone says it. It’s a beautiful night, absolutely spectacular. We have a temperature of 15°C, which is perfect, frankly, it’s much better than what they have in those other places—those cold, shivering places.

The sky is clear with periodic clouds, very high-end clouds, the best you’ve ever seen. We have a wind coming from the north at 11 mph—it’s a gentle wind, a very smart wind. The humidity is at 72%, very nice. 500 times better than other places. and the chance of rain? 0%. No rain, zero, that's 300% better. because we like to win, and we’re winning with this weather.

For the rest of Monday, January 19, 2026, it’s a total success:

High Temperature: A very strong 19°C.

Low Temperature: 8°C, very cool, very crisp.

Condition: Partly sunny, then clear. It’s going to be a beautiful situation.

Finally we have reached racial equality

rawstory.com/don-lemon-2674908…

Trump's DOJ plans to hit ex-CNN host Don Lemon with Ku Klux Klan Act charges

A top Justice Department official floated the idea Monday of charging ex-CNN host and journalist Don Lemon – who had reported on an anti-ICE demonstration at a Minnesota church Sunday – under an 1871 law designed to combat the Ku Klux Klan.

^{Alexander Willis (Raw Story)}

Air to Ground Message:

CORRECT BUT ITS AMBER TRANSIT SO I THINK IM NOT GONA HAVE THAT FUEL

Area: Killeen, TX, USA
Type: Airbus A319
A: #a497d31bdfd
F: #ff29f8c3aa2

#acars #vdlm2

I try not to read any comments about the GC cuts (except for here), because people haaaaate public servants with a passion.

But I just saw someone say that they use ZERO service from the government and looool