I may end up regretting this, but today I went and got myself not only a pair of 3M P100 7093 particulate cartridges (₹1020), but also a 3M 6502QL #respirator / #mask (₹2430).

I can tell you from merely holding it that the build quality is radically better than that of the 3M 6000 series, and inspires much more confidence.

Here’s hoping it will be more comfortable when worn in the apocalyptically hot and humid summers of #India .

I should make things in general. I want hardware goodies

idea: numerical display for your car that uses a mobile data connection and your car's obd2 port to look up a realtime estimate of your cars value. you can watch your cars value go down in real time

RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.

Just posted an updated statement https://github.com/foocorp/hacienda/discussions/117

The existence of top surgery and bottom surgery implies the existence of up surgery, down surgery, strange surgery and charm surgery

@pluralistic

Trixie is almost here, but we still have some Release Critical (RC) bugs to fix before the release. Check https://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ for the complete list and pick one to fix! #debian #trixie

If you're reading this with tears in your eyes in the deepest of depression.

You must remember you've been here before, you know it will pass. 

You can weather this storm. Your coping skills have roped you to the shore tightly...

And while you might be rocked, you will not break. This storm will pass, and the sun will peak its beauty through those clouds. You will feel its warmth on your face again.

#depression #bipolar #mentalhealth #thisishowihealmyself

🎂 the W3C Patent Policy was adopted 22 years ago today 🎉

https://www.w3.org/press-releases/2003/patentpolicy/

"Royalty-free" is meant to boost adoption, implementation, and ultimately growth of the web as a platform.

W3C standards may be used by anyone at no cost; if they were not free, developers would ignore them.

#Pride
#CSD

Corporations and political parties are not allies! Pride is a Riot!

"What began in the 1970s with the Stonewall Riot as a militant protest (especially by trans* people of color) against anti-queer attacks and the police, is now seen by all imaginable corporations and bourgeois parties as a major advertising event.

The commercialization of Pride provides political parties and corporations with a platform to brand themselves as allies through simple rainbowwashing and to monetize this association without actually advocating for queer people and their rights. Their presence at Pride is and remains an image stunt and has nothing to do with solidarity.
Anyone who prints transphobic hate speech, who refuses to grant asylum to queer people, who tramples on the right of self-determination of trans* people (with the "Transsexual Law"), or who exploits people to the point of death has no place at a demonstration for human rights and queer liberation!

Our existence as queer people is a threat to the patriarchal, capitalist social order. We certainly won't be handed anything for free! We must fight for and defend our rights ourselves. This requires organization and solidarity.
Especially now, when our rights are under attack from all sides, trans people and queer people of color especially need the protection and solidarity of the entire queer community and its allies. We will only win this fight together."

Join the protest, not the party!

With the upcoming #DebianTrixie release, you can install the standard software for astronomy just with one click during the installation! Test the first release candidate of the installer: https://debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
#AstronomySoftware #debian #debian13

On this day 35 years ago, TGV unit 325 set the land speed record at 515.3 km/h on the LGV Atlantique.

This beat the previous record set by the same train on the 5th December 1989 of 482 km/h on the Hannover-Würzburg line

Both these records managed to surpass the record set by an experimental ICE prototype in West Germany in 1988, thus establishing French engineering as superior to the German, at least on speed.

This record stayed current until 2007, when SNCF topped this with a TGV POS setting the new record at 568 and then 574,8 km/h.

TGV 325 is now decommissioned, and is kept at the Cité du Train in Mulhouse.

ive been forced to forward this to you, the unsuspecting victim, by circumstances beyond my control

with deepest apologies