worldwithoutcaesars.com

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Become Your Own Soda Manufacturer - Spiffle! Stop paying $1 a litre for club soda, and more than 50 cents a liter to sodastream; discover home soda making for less than 2 cents a litre.

#NCP

Remember blogs? I got a blog. And it has nothing to do with coffee. Don't update it often, (used to, way, way back in the day) but I think there's some good content up there. Like this one, on becoming your own soda manufacturer, making soda water for $0.02/litre.

spiffle.com/food-drink/b...

Friendly reminder: I've got you covered from audio editing to complete show management. Whether you’re just starting or looking to streamline your process, I’ll make sure your podcast shines. 🌟

#DontBanTikTok US politicians are trying to ban TikTok! But censoring TikTok won’t address valid privacy and security concerns. All it will do is reinforce xenophobic tropes and silence millions of people

We've updated DontBanTikTok.com to make it super easy for you to write and call your lawmakers in support of @edmarkey.bsky.social's new bill to delay the ban of TikTok.

Look, all Big Tech companies need to be regulated, including TikTok. But banning it next week is a terrible plan.

Reskeets? Lfg

I stand by this.

From the espresso community on Reddit: Adding water filter to the Bambino Plus Explore this post and more from the espresso community

@coffeegeek.com hi there, your First Look of the Bambino Plus says it's possible to use the Claris Filter Holder Kit; but Breville's catalog shows it as incompatible with the Bambino+.

And this reddit thread confirms such incompatibility www.reddit.com/r/espresso/s...

Have you used it with yours?

How exercise may be the ‘most potent medical intervention ever known' It's been well known for many decades that exercise provides many benefits to our health. But a new scientific consortium is revealing new insights into just how profound exercise can be for the human...

How exercise may be the ‘most potent medical intervention ever known’ | PBS News www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Pandemic Roundup: January 2, 2024 | Violet Blue Get more from Violet Blue on Patreon

Pandemic Roundup from @violetblue.bsky.social!

Top Stories:

-AU surge hammers hospitals; data deserts in UK, NZ; South Africans ignore surge warning; Northern Ireland hospitals overwhelmed

-US: 6.7 million new infections/week and rising

-A chilling look at #Covid in red state America
& more

Wayback Machine capture of MTV News.

This year, we worked swiftly to save legacy media sites Vice.com and MTVNews before decades worth of valuable journalism could be erased. These sites are now searchable on the Wayback Machine!

Help us in saving these resources:: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024

Aesthetic or function?

CDC says H5N1 bird flu sample shows mutations that may help the virus bind to cells in the upper airways of people The CDC said Thursday that the mutations, detected in a sample taken from a Louisiana patient, may help bind the virus to the upper airways in people.

“It’s not great. It’s not great news.”

¡Felices Fiestas!

For what it’s worth TechCrunch has an article doing a good summary on this outrage and why it’s a big deal. I can’t say I was familiar before now so if you’re lost like me but see people complaining about BlueSky’s moderation, here’s a starting point

techcrunch.com/2024/12/13/b...

COVID virus finds a home in your brain A landmark study has found the virus that causes COVID-19 accumulates and persists in the body - especially the brain - for years after infection.

No, not a study by me, I just talk about it. Amazing work by Ali Erturk and a very large team.

thewest.com.au/business/hea...

-The Outer Worlds (GOG) -Quake 2 (GOG) -Space Hulk: Deathwing — Enhanced Edition -Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine -Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War -Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition (GOG) -Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition (GOG) -Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition GOG) -Spelunky (GOG) -Necromunda: Hired Gun (EGS) -Disney•Pixar WALL-E

today's free Prime Gaming titles are up (plus more additions for Secret Level): amzn.to/3mEuo1C

list in the alt text

TTR: the out-of-control metric I’m currently reading The Machine That Changed The World. This is a book written back in 1990 comparing Toyota’s approach to automobile manufacturing to the approach used by American ca…

I wrote about TTR recently: surfingcomplexity.blog/2024/11/23/t...

Because TTR is power-law distributed (fat tailed), the mean of your sample won't tell you anything useful. See: sre.google/resources/pr...

Repeating from past years:

This week is significant.

To those of you who are on-call during this week and next,
who are schlepping your laptop to Thanksgiving, who will have 2nd thoughts about that glass of wine or cocktail this Thursday or next Sunday night…

You are right. Here's the ProtonDB entry www.protondb.com/app/1043810

For some reason it took two searches to actually find it.

Thanks for replying 😄

I know this is an old post, but did you play it on Windows or Linux (via Proton)?

Hello! I'm pleased to announce my first ever Patreon sale! From now until the end of next week, you can get 20% off annual memberships for my Patreon in my first ever Black Friday sale! Click the enclosed link for more details!

Zhiyun Crane M3 Pro Gimbal Kit - Open Box, Unused | eBay This is a very nice Zhiyun M3 Gimbal Pro Kit. I bought this about a year ago when I wanted to start vlogging, but I never got around to doing it. It's never been used.

For my friends that do vlogging/video work, I’m selling a very nice gimbal from Zhiyun.

This is the book I'm reading today.

Trying to develop comic drawing skills to communicate new ideas at work.

Pregunta para venezolanos o gente que coma tamales: ¿qué otras comidas usarían para servir la hallaca que no sea el típico pan de jamón más ensalada y pernil?

🤔

En mi casa la servían a veces con una rodaja de jamón planchado, una de queso y pan de banquete

Estoy buscando opciones 👀

También menos radiación 😂

Si les gustan cosas como "Fallout" (la serie y/o el juego) podrían darle una oportunidad a ver "Silo" en AppleTV+

If you like stuff like "Fallout" (the streaming series and/or the game) you might want to watch "Silo" on AppleTV+

Yo apenas me enteré que ahí todo el timeline lo controla un algoritmo que no le importa el orden cronológico. I was like: "wut" 🤯

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Saludos a los nuevos seguidores, mi cuenta más activa es en mastodon. Voy a descargar algo que me permita postear en ambos sitios al mismo tiempo.

Hablo de seguridad informática y me interesa la fotografía.

Cuentas claras conservan amistades, quien venga a hablar bien de Trump lo bloqueo 😬

If you’re interested in joining the #BlockParty

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