mdlbear | Done Since 2026-02-15 (Reply)

It's been a rather stressful week, and most of the time I've been very down on myself, mostly for procrastination. But I got through it. I think I'm supposed to count that as a win, even though it doesn't feel like it.

I did figure something out, though. I often (usually?) procrastinate things that may require a decision, because when I finally get around to them the decision often (usually?) turns out to be wrong. (The decision is sometimes to skip something with a time limit, and then regretting not going for it while I had the chance. Same thing.)

Now that Discord has started age-gating NSFW channels and servers, many people (including me) are looking for alternatives. Especially since it was revealed that their age verification vendor Persona left frontend exposed, researchers say. In particular, people are looking for open source alternatives, since those are less likely to be enshittified in the future. We have some time, because most fannish discord communities have few, if any, NSFW channels, and because moving a community is always an extremely lossy process (as those of us who left LJ for DW remember well) and not to be undertaken lightly.

It's concievable that matterbridge could help hold things togather. Not counting on it. I hate this timeline.

You should also replace links that use archive.today, which includes archive.ph et.al., which I have lots of links to. That's going to take a long time. See also Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links.

Links: You can find Babylon 5 on YouTube HERE. OpenFactBook - Country Data & Statistics is the replacement for the CIA's recently-shut-down World Factbook.

Notes & links:
0215Su
* put clean cat fud bowls in tote
* walk: garbage+DSB805 10:36 ~.2km, 2hp, 9mm, 12min, 460st
* CHARGE WATCH--started night (23??) ~60%, now(08:12) 37%; so maybe after coffee 10:40
& manually posted "done since" since posting didn't work on Panther. No idea why not
* DO LAUNDRY
@ Another ‘millionaires tax’ finds Seattle is far richer than anyone knew | SeaTimes
* hx work session
@ My first FOSDEM
FOSDEM 2026 - The Fediverse and the EU's Digital Services Act: solving the
challenges of modern social media?
* 40min Dutch
@ more talks - FOSDEM 2026 - Schedule
@ Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch On YouTube | Cord Cutters News
You can find Babylon 5 on YouTube HERE.
@ The empire always falls

0216Mo
* walk: 8am DSB804: .64km, 7hp, 16mm, 24min, 1220st,
-> took Romann, in walker configuration. powered walker mode simply didn't work.
@ Microslop’s Hilariously Suspicious Actions | by Will Lockett | Feb, 2026 | Medium
* home care - leg wraps. No English (Nederlands en Fran\,cais). Re-used the tubular
bandage (w\o lotion), fresh elastic. Presumably a fresh set will get shipped.
My Dutch was of course totally useless, and so was my French.
@ Musk Just Started The Walkback Of The Century | by Will Lockett | Feb, 2026
: Apparently one of my posting attempts (via charm on Panther) worked;
there were two copies of the post. Deleted one, which turned out to
have been the one I made manually. Fixed the URL in the entry.
@ February 15, 2026 - by Heather Cox Richardson
" Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton said in Munich that Trump “has betrayed
the West, he’s betrayed human values, he’s betrayed the NATO charter, the Atlantic
Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” and warned he is modeling
himself after Putin. "
@ This is what resistance to the digital coup looks like
* set alarms for tomorrow's labwork
* Create account on client portal puurvanjou.nl for (home care)WZHThuiszorg --
requires an activation code. Was told to call back in the morning.
@ The Most Famous Film Music? - Mysterioso Pizzicato (The 'Villain Theme') - YT
* hx work session
* walk using the Roamate as a walker. fail.
* research nextcloud, younohost, European VPN providers, and other things related to
self-hosted and euro-hosted IT.
@ Nextcloud Talk Discord/Zoom alternative:?
Not sure how it stacks up for what the filk community needs
the high-performance backend is a (presumably expensive) "partner product"
* Dutch
@ Discordless.com - Escape Discord (via Go Make Things)
Page mostly AI-generated, so take with a pound or two of salt

0217Tu Lunar Mew Year
@ Lunar New Year - Wikipedia
* SL: hot glue gun, ginko biloba, oximeter
* ~8am leave for GP clinic - labwork - blood and urine FASTING
% too dehydrated to produce a urine sample. Growf.
@ How Canonical is Killing Ubuntu’s Soul | by Can Artuc | Feb, 2026 | Medium
@ This Firefox Replacement ACTUALLY Respects Your Privacy | by Michael Swengel
@ OpenFactBook.org: "Happy Presidents Day. Two weeks ago..." - Mastodon
the CIA shut down the World Factbook - a public domain reference on every country,
used by 6 million people monthly since 1997. We built a replacement:
OpenFactBook - Country Data & Statistics
* make DOL appointment https://fortress.wa.gov/dol/extdriveses/ESP/NoLogon/_/
15809 Westminster Way N, Shoreline, WA 98133 - 425-670-8375
-> next available apt is Wed Apr 1. FSCK. -> 0312 14:00-14:15 in Tukwilla
8:30am - 5pm Tu We Fr; 9:30-5 Th
(Seattle offices are Queen Anne and West Seattle)
* am (?? btw 1300 and 1500) call WZHThuiszorg 0850005918 for act. code for puurvanjou.nl
*- activation code 855795 -> active!
-> scheduled for between 10 and 14, so I'll have time to get to clinic tomorrow
*- ordering - the person doing the treatment will order supplies as needed
*- March schedule (here 0309Mo, gone 0311We and 0313Fr)
*- heel pain -> mention it tomorrow; maybe they can put some padding there
: call from TotaalThuisZorg - Scarlett coming home Thursday am
@ RIP Jesse Jackson - Wikipedia
% 18:06 exhausted.
* hx work session
. rainbows-end.net home page needs update. Site needs better stylesheet
* sysadmin on Lilac - delete timeshift snapshots b\c root was full. now 36%
* make arrangements for March trip:
* make limo reservations -> https://crownlimo.com/ (206) 261-0111 (1-866-822-7696)
-> put the info into the contact form, but haven't heard back yet
-> confirmed. $120+tip 0314 pickup at 11:30
* make sleep center appointment (zoom) (360) 240-4080 08:00-17:00, so call after 17:00
previous appointment appears to have been 2024-06-29 appointment 04-24; call when
I'm in the US to make sure data is getting uploaded. -> patient portal at
mywhidbeyhealth.org still had my old login credentials!
% 18:19 L QL started acting up again, just minutes ago. Blarg. -> naproxen, heat
* 19:00 - 20:30 (10am-11:30 PST) Healing Center Passages support grp - 1st, 3rd Tu
* set up Fly Delta App on Dutch phone
* Load Drugs

0218We
~ 8:30am or earlier: leave for clinic with urine sample
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDGE Lizzy has a flat rear tire (and the pump's
connector is too big to fit), and Romann is uncontrolable. I'm screwed.
-> Uber worked; left about 8:45, got me back at 9:12.
-> If I don't hear from the dealer, we can ask when Scarlett is returned
* walk: back from DSB804 - 320m (with walker). 5hp, 33mm, 3250st (16:19)
: amusingly, gFit interpreted yesterday's scoot as a bike ride
* charge watch upon return
@ Dax Raad just dropped the most honest take on AI productivity | Reading.sh
Word of the Year 2025 | Slop | Merriam-Webster
@ All Your Base Are Belong To Us (slight remaster) - YT ~25 years ago (andrewducker)
All your base are belong to us - Wikipedia For great justice
@ GitHub finally acknowledged open source’s spam crisis | by JP Caparas
Welcome to the Eternal September of open source. Here's what we plan to do for
maintainers. - The GitHub Blog a start.
* 10:00 - 14:00 WZHThuiszorg leg-wrapping (here)
re-used elastics from last week.
% lab results not too bad.
* set up Fly Delta App on US phone
* pm expect call from Haga hematology
-> based on the last set of tests my hemoglobin and its precursors are still low, so
if they're still low at my April 1 appointment they'll do a bone marrow biopsy.
* 22: take out PMD bin (full, so taking today's haul out must wait until tomorrow)

0219Th
out of naproxen :P
* 10: take in PMD bin
~ am TotaalThuisZorg will return Scarlett -> 16:31 not yet
& 15ish make appointment for Lizzy's flat with https://www.scooterreparatieaanhuis.nl/
<- they're supposed to call back within 4 hours. We'll see. -> 20:41 nope
@ California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves!
* hx work session
~40min Dutch
* travel planning
* tracking down scooter repair options
- 18:00 Eurofilk

0220Fr
* walk: 9:18 Jan Greshoffplantsoen 1: 0.44km, 6hp, 15mm, 13min, 830?st
* 10:00 - 14:00 WZHThuiszorg leg-wrapping (here) -> actually came 9:30
used a fresh tubular thing and the elastics that were new on Monday
* call totaalthuiszorg about Scarlet
-> the man who called me is out sick, and so is everybody else. The work's not done
yet. will call when it's done, presumably next week.
~ call https://scootmobielman.nl/scootmobiel-reparatie/ +31 (0)651374722 for Lizzy
can usually(?) do the repair at home. -> too far; would be expensive. Try
0654716016 https://www.autowereld.nl/ -> no, that's a car dealer
* alternatively https://www.mi-scoot.nl/scooter-reparatie-den-haag/ 070-3175335
-> didn't pick up; of course it was noon at that point
-> they don't do repairs here--would be picked up; tomorrow or next week
-> pick up tomorrow btw 9:30 and 11:30. Not a brand they know. 60EUR for pickup &
delivery, which is a lot, but probably less than the equivalent in Uber trips.
Relync R2 Rear wheels: 10" / 2.5 bar
x https://vandaag-scooters.nl/scooter-reparatie/den-haag/ 088 2222 000 also have chat
x 1500 https://www.scooterreparatieaanhuis.nl/ for Lizzy (requested yesterday, no ack)
% 1pm totally fried/stressed. I procrastinate because every decision I make is wrong.
14:35 still very tense
@ Realtor Uses AI to Soup Up Rental Listing, Accidentally Posts Photo of Demonic Figure
Emerging From Mirror

0221Sa
@ International Mother Language Day - Wikipedia
* Lizzy pickup for repair -> 10:30 (window was 9: - 11:)
* 9:30ish D"
@ Pluralistic: Keeping a suspense file gives you superpowers (26 Oct 2024)
* order cat litter
% pain: L forefinger, on the back _between_ the first two joints. scrollwheel RSI, but
weird. -> diclofenac topical gel 17:44
otoh the back pain is a lot less, after ibuprofen 7 hours ago.
@ Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links - Ars
archive.today - Wikipedia
includes archive.ph, which I have lots of links to.
@ Why do WA bakers love flour from Cairnspring Mills? Let them tell you | SeaTimes
* hx work session
* go through my sites; list tasks.