I believe the boxing shrimp is also a Centurii-chan piece, so that lines up.

Busuu’s not bad: I made it through the first Mandarin course, with the occasional forced social aspect of “write something for the Community to review”. The second Mandarin course is much less polished though, I gave up on that a couple days in after I ran into all kinds of new words that aren’t introduced before their use.

Huh, so it’s doing this on every thread… Let me investigate.

What is gun snow, and where would I find it?

Where’d the real mickey7 go? We can’t have a fake coming in here posting actual memes.

This sounds like passive suicidal ideation: something that’s always there in the back of the mind, but not about to be actively acted on. To quote Anna Borges:

I don’t always want to be alive. Yes, I mean it. No, you shouldn’t be afraid for me. No, I’m not in danger of killing myself right now. Yes, I really mean it. How do you explain that?

I keep her article in my bookmarks, and re-read now and then: theoutline.com/…/living-with-passive-suicidal-ide…

There was an idea mooted over on Mastodon, that Flight Sim will be renamed Copilot Copilot. Rolls off the tongue.

I’m hosting the Decronym bot on a single-user instance, and it’s a real pain. The bot’s been down for weeks, actually, because an upgrade failed with some obscure error around the database schema…

I’ve ended up just today, wiping the whole thing and starting over, losing all data and having to refederate the bot. So yeah, I wouldn’t recommend.

[Acronyms to help the bot re-establish: LVM, HASS, k8s]

Wow, this takes me back… OP mentions that Nemi ran in the UK for a while, and I can corroborate. It was printed in the free Metro paper distributed at train stations, which I read daily on the way to university.

(I later learned the Metro was a sub-print of the Daily Mail, which is when I stopped picking it up from the stands.)

That was gosh, twenty years ago. Great to see Nemi is still a thing.

A recent episode of Colbert’s Late Show; I remember seeing this segment, should be on the YouTube page.