Robby Raschke

The TeX Live Utility release notes are still undefeated.

Brìghde Chaimbeul expands the language of the Scottish smallpipes behind the Desk with a quiet, yet demonstrative presence. n.pr/3TPjPPK

I wrote this in 2018. What are we still doing here? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Oookay, I really did not expect plain old mainline German news to report on the PHP problem. But here we are 🤯 www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/d...

Die anti-trans Lobby aus UK und USA zeigt mittlerweile auch in Deutschland starke Wirkung. Nicht dass trans Leute es hier je einfach hatten, aber die offene Gewalt nimmt nun stetig immer weiter zu 😡

Just remembered one of the pithy one-liners I used to randomly put at the bottom of emails: "Feet smell, nose run? Hey you're upside down!" I also remember I stopped adding them after a colleague got very very upset by "A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer."

🤢🤮 www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...

Habe bisher noch keinen Artikel zu den Demonstrationen vom Wochenende in Frankreich gelesen, die das Massaker in Paris von vor exakt 65 Jahren erwähnen. Scheint mir ein recht prägnantes Datum zu sein im Zusammenhang mit den Ausschreitungen und der Polizeibrutalität. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massake...

I almost missed that this beautiful new volume of stories inspired by, and in honour of, Ursula K Le Guin is now out! Edited by @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social and featuring tales from a host of excellent authors (see alt txt for the list), this really looks like a fantastic collection. 💙📚🪐 #SFF

Let's talk a little more about Margaret Hamilton because she deserves it In 1961, Margaret Hamilton was tackling massive systems, having previously wrangled room-sized computers that blared like a foghorn whenever they crashed.

Vieles ginge schneller und einfacher, würden Männer nicht so viel reden.

Oooh, I love Institut für Feinmotorik. Fondly remember a colleague complaining it sounds like a washing machine. Would have immediately played Matmos, if Ultimate Care II existed back then.

I've been way too tired to talk about the bullshit math papers but yeah Bruno did here You can't take any of this at their word at this point, a bunch of these are bullshit, and it takes so much effort to verify that some might be better ignored They're making a mockery of my fucking degree field

1. This software did nothing 'on its own'. The human who approved its programming and release is responsible. 2. These programs are based on scraped government website instructions and millions of illegally obtained novels without any attempt made to distinguish between fact and fiction.

For my ENG speaking followers Unprecedented High School blockades began in the outskirts of Paris in Créteil on the 21st of Sept. National mobilisations followed on the 29th of September, the 1st and the 6th of October. The movement is ongoing and has spread both in scope and scale. #tippingpoint

fwiw arstechnica.com/apple/2026/1...

Why oh why do so many green parties have this self destructive streak? Currently in England doing the weirdest antisemitic backflip possible, a month ago in Berlin deciding to simply not have any election campaign whatsoever. It's infuriating.

The windfarm jackets and Ocean Mist from Constitution Street Bridge

I really really want to like the Canadian drama Trickster, but all the continuity errors are annoying me so much, I sometimes miss what's going on. I'm now looking out for them, which is doubly distracting.

Meinen Text über #Autistici⁩ bei @index.internet.exchangepoint.tech.ap.brid.gy gibt es jetzt auf deutsch. Darin geht es auch um die Abschaltung der .org-Domain, und wie es dazu kam.

This book is about the administration of harassment complaints on campuses, our ideas about campus safety/security, sexual vulnerability and the institution. It's out of print so, with the publisher's permission, I am sharing a PDF. drive.google.com/file/d/1S5vE...

Wow wow wow, @arabstrap.scot getting a lovely warm review in my local Berlin newspaper 😍

"Not all men" is a magic incantation you use to absolve yourself of your sins. Sometimes I try harder, sometimes less, I am always lacking. You can do better, always. And don't expect a pat on the back for doing something that should be commonplace.

Men say "not all men", yet not a single one of the 57 men in that WhatsApp chat protested or called the cops or anything. And evidently none of the 100s of men who would have seen Dominique Pelicot's online invitations to rape his unconscious wife turned him in. That makes it look like all men!

Traffic news of the unusual kind. A warning to be careful, because of raptors on the motorway.

Mache die Tagesschau Webseite auf und bei den ersten vier Artikeln geht es um Autos 🤨 Es gibt nix wichtigeres als Autos in Deutschland. 🤮

I really need to get round to moving away from gmail! I "just" need to decide on a new provider, forward gmail there and start the looong process of adjusting all the bits where my email address is used. Shame I cannot go back to using my own direct email setup anymore, that world no longer exists.

Everyone doing a tableflip because a left party got the most votes the Berlin elections is absolutely wild. It's only "concerning" when an extreme right wing party wins, but "there have to be consequences" when a moderately left wing wins. Political discussions are really quite pointless these days.

Tried to write an animated roulette game on it but quickly ran out of RAM, it had 5KB, with 3.5KB directly usable. Took a while to save up for the 16KB extension.

Just listening to Helmet's first album, Strap It On, and when Sinatra came on, I had an immediate throwback to listening to syndicated John Peel back in the day in Berlin, thinking "that's allowed in metal?!?" Slow, hard, noisy, emotionally wrecking, and oh so tight. youtu.be/SGmRh89q24E

Ah jeez. Wasn’t perfect but had lovely staff and was Alien Heart’s first home. 🥲

It is quite wild that closure of one tunnel and part of one (admittedly very wide) street is causing utter traffic mayhem in the centre of Berlin since yesterday. I mostly cycle through a park to work, but still saw two car accidents and many angry drivers. Bad times for pedestrians and cyclists.

Love how those huge structures come across so wonky 😂 It's like they come as dancing pairs or something

WD-40 transdermal patches. (personal use only)

Watching Johnny Mnemonic for the first time since it first came out. Feels so 80s, even though it's mid 90s. I remember Keanu Reeves & Ice-T, but not Takeshi Kitano, Henry Rollins and Udo Kier 😅 Such a wooden script, it's almost comical.