Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 5

I was probably wrong in 2022, and the T10 I was remembering was probably 2018's Typhoon Mangkhut. When you're already at the highest rating, there's a difference between a T10 and a T10. In 2017, Hato was the strongest typhoon since 1983, but in 2018, Mangkhut was stronger.

#TyphoonMangkhut

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_…

Me 2 years ago, 2022-08-23, reacting to the above:

Still remember this T10. The bike road and shore promenade near our home was torn to bits and took 2 years to renovate to a more resilient design.

Me 2017-08-23, 7 years ago:

After years of complaining about fake typhoons I finally get the front row seat to nature's rage!

There is stuff flying upward, falling downward, passing sideways across the view through our bedroom window. Leaves are hitting the windows, plastic bags and plastic traffic dividers from the construction site nearby are doing a confused dance on the street. The occasional banner flies by. The wind is skimming water off the sea and blowing it across the street, effectively raining from below.

Observatory webcams: hko.gov.hk/wxinfo/ts/index_web…

#HongKong #Typhoon #TyphoonHato

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_…

I just read infosec.exchange/@jerry/112887… again and it just hit me that "new kid on the block" Mastodon has been around for over 8 years already! The "Mastodon Network" era is now most of Fediverse history!

The Fediverse is 16 years old since May[1] and Mastodon has been up for 8 years since March[2], so 2024 marks the year when Mastodon has been on the Fediverse for the majority of the time the network has been around.

Of course, for the vast majority of fedizens, Mastodon has always been around and their first server was a Mastodon server, and for many, the part of the Fediverse that runs on Mastodon is the #MastodonNetwork , but as of this year we have passed a milestone where that perspective is not entirely objectively wrong by yet another measure.

#mastodon #fediverse
#mastodon8years #fediverse16years

[1] web.archive.org/web/1/identi.c…
[2] web.archive.org/web/1/mastodon…

I just read infosec.exchange/@jerry/112887… again and it just hit me again that "new kid on the block" Mastodon has been around for over 8 years already! The "Mastodon Network" era is now most of Fediverse history.

The Fediverse is 16 years old since May and Mastodon has been up for 8 years since March, so 2024 marks the year when Mastodon has been on the Fediverse for the majority of the time the network has been around.

Of course, for the vast majority of people on the Fediverse, Mastodon has always been around, and for many, the part of the Fediverse that runs on Mastodon is the Mastodon network, but as of this year we have passed a milestone where that perspective is not entirely wrong by yet another measure.

#mastodon #fediverse
#mastodon8years #fediverse16years

It's called "polygonal Lesbian masonry" because the angles are not straight.

Otherwise it would be "rectangular Lesbian masonry".

Where was that post on tumblr or twitter or something that went along these lines:

"[My favorite Twitter interaction of all time was that person who claimed that you can change a person's mind if you have the facts on your side and you present studies and evidence, so I presented the studies and evidence that you can't, and they went 'well, I still believe you can']"

@Open Knowledge Sweden Ni finns!

... men det är ju Diaspora ni svarar från nu. 😊

@Kermode @Marc ODF support isn't great, but Office's own OOXML is also XML+zip.

It's easier feeding Excel and Word HTML files though, if you're producing it yourself from scratch. You just name them xls or doc and the Office apps silently accept and parse them. You can export documents and spreadsheets as (very messy) HTML to get an idea what kind of structures they will expect.

After a brisk bit of brainstorming, the collective hive mind of the Beijinger staff came up with this non-exhaustive list of names for people who live in a certain place. We offer it up humbly for your reading pleasure:
[ . . . ]
and our clear favorite:
Shenzhen – Shenzhentlemen and Shenzhentlewomen

I seldom have the opportunity to mention people from our sibling city across the fence, but if I do, I'll try to remember this term. 😊

thebeijinger.com/blog/2019/02/…

Mid-Autumn Festival is coming up on us.

Lots of people receive more mooncakes than they can finish, from business partners, relatives and friends. Every year Hong Kong throws away over 3 million mooncakes!

Don't throw your excess mooncakes away! Find your donation point here, donate before September 13th, don't wait until after Mid-Autumn Festival is over:

feedinghk.org/mooncake-madness…

#hongkong
#MidAutumnFestival
#JungChauJit #ZungCauZit #中秋節
#ZhōngQiūJié #zhongqiujie

Not only her dad, but Shinawatra's aunt was also Prime Minister. She was 44 when she was elected in 2011.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yingluck…

Still not young as Sanna Marin though. She is 38 now, but was 34 when she became Prime Minister of Finland, and she didn't have a former Prime Minister for father. She grew up with a mom and stepmom after her alcoholic dad left.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanna_Ma…

The youngest daughter of Thaksin Shinawatra, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, is now the Prime Minister of Thailand. She is 37 years old.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paetongt…

♲ @vampiress@eigenmagic.net: It's kinda low-key uncomfortable when someone becomes the new head of state of some country or other and they're younger than me.

I should really get over that, as it's only going to get more common over time.

@Marc The quotation marks mean that it was the kiddo who said it.

I have seen so much static.