The Python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5 million U.S. government grant because it required them to renounce all diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/p...
Nรฅgra bilder frรฅn kraftsamlingen fรถr Gaza i Stockholm i lรถrdags. Enligt SVT var det 30 000 personer. Tog en timme fรถr hela demonstrationen att tรถmma Odenplan frรฅn den bรถrjat gรฅ.
Fรถrst samlingen pรฅ Odenplan.
Maybe I have that โcilantro tastes like soapโ gene and just happen to _like_ eating soap.
As an outside (Swedish) observer, filibustering is definitely one of the most bizarre tactics in US politics.
It feels rather a lot like putting your fingers in your ears and refusing to listen.
Yeah, why DO people write catchy songs about Hondas? Research needed.
open.spotify.com/track/6Yufjj...
Rewatching #thelastofus season 1. Episode 3 (the Bill and Frank story) is such a gem - instead of the expected zombie action you get this beautiful, sad love story. Great acting from Murray Bartlett and particularly @nickofferman.bsky.social, and a bold move from the producers.
A screen shot from Duolingo giving me three options: 125 gems for 25 days, 250 gems for 50 days, or 375 gems for 75 days.m
It's so weird that Duolingo offers three options for my next goal, but they all offer exactly the same reward: 125 gems for 25 days - the options are just how often it kicks in. Weirdly gamified. Why did they do it like that?
#duolingo #gamification
If you're looking for the feed about #swedish tabletop role-playing games ( #ttrpgs ) like #dragonbane, #mutantyearzero, #mรถrkborg, #troubleshooters, #kult, #alien, #coriolis, and others, it has moved!
Swedish TTRPGs
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Did you know the dots are in the right place in Malรถrt? It's the Swedish name for the plant wormwood.
It's not like names like Motรถrhead, Mรถtley Crรผe and Hรคagen-dazs where they're just random โrรถck dรถtsโ.
sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal%C3%...
On #swedish radio today - on P1, which is the most serious public service talk radio channel - they pronounced #DOGE as โdoucheโ.
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
Min fru vรคckte รคldsta barnet genom att sjunga โupp och hoppa, Leonโ till tonerna av โVar รคr tvรฅlen, broderโ. Ovanligt lรฅtval, men i รถvrigt helt normalt hรคr hemma.
youtu.be/8k7p23Av0So?...
Pics or it didn't happen!
I meant to say an hour north of _Stockholm_. Sweden isn't north of Sweden, that would be strange.
Any chance you can share which four you liked?
A photo of a hillside with moss, rocks and some trees, and three cats, two grey and one black.
We took all our three cats for an expedition to the rocky hill behind our house today. They were a bit skeptical on the walk there but then they seemed quite happy. This is Sweden, an hour north of Sweden - no snow at the moment.
#cats #nature
So howโs it going so far?
Polaroid photo of dice and game pieces on an indistinct map. Text: Join the Jam Forever Open Source 2025
Running all year long! The *third* Forever Open Source game jam. Come contribute not just games (though we love games!) but SRDs, art, music, settings, anything that helps people create or play TTRPGs! Explore a world of open gaming:
itch.io/jam/forever-...
#TTRPG #GameJam
๐ฅ Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! ๐ฅ
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
I'm fuming about this too.
But maybe look up Deezer's owner, Access Industries, with shady billionaire Leonard Blavatnik at the helm - and then decide if you really think that's much better. They donated $1M to Trump last time.
There's some combination of listening to Spotify via Bluetooth and answering handsfree calls in my Suzuki that makes my infotainment system freeze up until I turn the whole car off and on. This happened twice.
In Sweden โeverybodyโ has a driver's license or an ID. You don't register to vote, you just get a letter in the mail. Bring that document and your ID, and you're all set. Voting is always on a weekend, or you can swing by the library and vote early.
Sorry, what was the problem, exactly?
Wait what, Mork was a cyborg?!
Anyway, yes, the รถ is a distinct letter in #swedish (as are รฅ and รค), it's not a fancy o. It is pronounced a bit like โmurkโ, but with a short vowel! The โborgโ is also just one short syllable, kind of like โboy" but with an โrโ in there. It's /mลษนk bษษนj/ I think.
I am confused by Bluesky.
Where are all the crazy people? You can look for posts on any trigger topic (and there are so many... Moon landing, dinosaurs, climate change, pyramids, vaccines, etc.) and there are ZERO conspiracy theorists in the comments.
What's going on?!
I just (yesterday!) started a feed where I collect posts specifically about Swedish RPGs (from Sweden, not necessarily in Swedish). Dragonbane, Vaesen, Mutant Year Zero, older and more obscure Swedish stuff, the Swedish edition of Call of Cthulhu... we'll see.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Enjoying my yummy glergue smoothie right now!
Check out this story about "teaching" LLMs about the existence of a new fruit from just a few posts.
I tried asking perplexity.ai, and it does not know about glergues, but it still suggests some follow up questions.
#LLM
Hello blue sky, how you doin'?
So, uh. I just turned on the lights in a room so my robo vacuum cleaner wouldn't be alone in the dark. There, that's my introduction.
