Mark Lamourine (he/him) defiantly

This is why I pay for the World Wide Web. Because it delivers ART!

Stupid storm is trending too far north for me to get a good light show. The sound check is good though.

I have come to consider, when interacting with -- Basically everyone, I try to remember that I have no idea what they are going through.

Cool summer evening reading on the deck. Mmmmm Dread soon?

Big Days, Small Groups Today we only had 5 riders. It's the Tuesday after a Monday holiday so a lot of people are starting the summer this week. The number of riders makes "mass start" a bit academic. To race, one has to man the lap counter and score, so only 4 on track, so we came up with another…

Morning in the US. Time to watch the @lavueltafem.bsky.social and THEN the start of #giroditalia!

We are still in the "Paint your teeth with Radium" stage of AI.

Just *sigh* at the gd gatekeepers.

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I'm doing a talk on Heaven's Vault and a Let's Play this weekend at the Hitpoints and History conference! It looks like there's going to be a lot of amazing stuff going on all weekend. Come check it out! hitpointscon.com

Here goes: I'm running an improv RPG scenario for @theozymandiasp1.bsky.social on Sun Apr 27. Wanna tell a story with me?

If judges weren't partisan (or required to at least try to treat every case seriously) I swear every act of Trump could be vacated merely on the grounds that they're uniformly arbitrary.

Dear supreme Court: this wasn't "foreign relations" until the president had a legal resident sent to a foreign prison. The illegal acts all took place on us soil.

What am I doing while looking for work? Building the network infrastructure I wish I had: electron-swamp.blogspot.com/2025/03/buil...

Suggestion for Universities and Companies: Just rename it "Department of Fairness" which is what it always really was.

A 2am brain flash: The reason 1/3 of Americans are ok with a president acting like a king is that they have always believed that presidents are kings.

This is literally awesome. And yes I used both words correctly.

You know, when this finally does blow up they're going to try to blame everyone else.

It's not about the eggs. It's about the birds.

Who in political history could say "Im going to make mistakes" and not be pilloried by the press and both parties?

Donald Trump is the perfect counter-example to the implicit assumption in current computer science that the ability to produce strings of words that appear on the surface to be a coherent response to a question does not constitute "intelligence" in any sense.

I'm really hoping the failure of the administration to clearly state who the doggie administrator is will encourage fed staff to reject requests until the authority of those requests is validated in writing.

How about we ask the supreme Court to think again.

Dear .... People. When it's you getting chopped, and it will be, we LibTards will still be here to help you, despite yourself.

I held my tongue when W lied for his war and I've regretted it ever since. Not this time.

I'm thinking of how to place a router between my home network and the uplink (Verizon) with a VPN to canada.

Yes, my track bike is Canadian. Argon 18 Electron track bike.

Seriously, pay attention to what he's doing but focus on how he's trying to do it and the implications.

I'm out of work at the moment so this is easier to say, but I wish I was a federal employee so I could quit.

I heard about this from @hankgreen.bsky.social first and found nyt to confirm: www.facebook.com/share/p/18C3...

Well I'm pretty sure I bombed that interview. Time to write another tech blog and then spend some time on a TTRPG scenario set in Sumer during the Old Babylonian Period. Gotta do something to soothe my soul.

@markey.senate.gov are you sure now is the time to antagonize the US military? He's doing enough to alienate them for us. If there's anyone we're going to need to see that he's not on their side, it's them.

Let's make Bureaucracy a proud word again. It's what really runs our country.

@friede.bsky.social I am just over half way through the CR final ep. And Oh! So GOOD!

Yesterday a friend from NH defended the elimination of DEI efforts because he's a libertarian and some people might be hired who are not the most qualified. After some thinking, Libertarianism is the laziest fucking idea a white male in America can use to justify their own privilege.

Well, I guess one way to lower immigration is to just make it a more shitty place to live.

Yes, all of the US government computing stuff is a security breach (not risk, that's long past) because the first thing any cracker does after gaining access is install a back door. There are a lot of pissed off real govt computer security people right now.

It's really disheartening to see objectively the number of people and institutions that gave lip service to inclusion merely because they were forced to.

To settle before bed, my wife and I watch a couple of episodes of #stillstanding. Great stories about the struggles and triumphs of small towns in Canada. Just what the shrink ordered before sleep.

Damn people. If you just want to scream 'Do Something!' you should have voted Republican.

Looking at all the cat posts and wondering if I need to get one again to show me how to respond to the bullshit.

It occurred to me that many accounts I'm seeing are promotional. On Facebook I got used to 'ignore forever ' on reflex any site I saw that was not a person. Now I have to note them, look, decide if they need block or just mute. I kinda wish bsky could distinguish them for me. I'm here for people

There's more than one Project this year and this one actually helps people. projectforawesome.com

I'm watching the Secret Level series and just not even phased by an Enforcer stating "You can't run from Freedom!"