Michael Roberts

@vivtek@indieweb.social
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Coder so old my #CPAN account is literally "MICHAEL".

I pay the bills with #technical_translation, mostly German to English, but I also work from French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, and on occasion Portuguese or Dutch.

I've lived in #PuertoRico off and on since 2004, and now own and live on a #coffee farm working on land tending #robotics and - very eventually - harvest.

My wife is #Hungarian and a theoretical physicist with a side gig in banana bread biscotti.

This is one of the files from today? Because it's really interesting that the search function on the DoJ site returns zero hits for "Trump", isn't it?

Someone could choose to be a historical figure and be the "Deep Throat" of "Epsteingate".

The unredacted files exist. We just need someone who isn't using them to blackmail others, or keeping them hidden for a book they are secretly writing, to send them to a courageous reporter who hasn't bent the knee for "access".

Whatcha thinking about there, kitty?
The White House announces that the Epstein files will be renamed the Trump Epstein files.

RE: https://boriken.social/@notibotPR/115746336758788183

"... que representa un avance significativo para la seguridad nacional, la estabilidad regional y el desarrollo estratégico de Puerto Rico"

Somehow I hate it worse when Puerto Rican media lies than when American media lies. Regional stability? Nothing America does supports regional stability. I got Ospreys flying over my farm preparing to steal regional oil.

Periodico Vision isn't owned by billionaires. Why do they need to kiss up to power?

I have a new hobby. You see, our local Lidl is where a lot of the refugees in "temporary asylum accommodation" shop. And they are trying to get food that feels like actual food, in a place where there have been some really nasty xenophobic protests.

The other day it was two guys from South Sudan, and I have never seen two such tall, fine people try so hard to be invisible. But they were staring at the.tomatoes and about to buy the big, pretty, tasteless ones. Very carefully I stood next to them and picked up the small, tasty, same-price-or-cheaper ones and said, "these ones taste better." They heard me, but they weren't going to risk a conversation. So I said, to them, "These small tomatoes taste much better." Now they knew I was definitely talking to them, and having a normal market conversation.

"Better?"

"Yes, better, and not expensive. Sudan?"

"Yes! South Sudan." (Guarded smile)

"Welcome! I'm glad you're here. The fruit is better in South Sudan, isn't it?" (Other people are listening now, and see that these two men are far from home and miss home food, and how can someone like that be scary?)

Now we kept talking around the shop. And they straightened up and stood comfortably, and got better, cheaper food.

So that's my new hobby. Being friendly to refugees buying fruit.

the g in gobject stands for glib, and the g in glib stands for gtk, and the g in gtk stands for gimp, however the g in gimp stands for gnu, so really the g in glib stands for gnu, but you shouldn't confuse it with gnulib, which is developed by the gnu project, who shouldn't be confused as the developers of glib, which is the gnome project, in which the g also stands for gnu
Throwback #caturday with Carlo & Pepe. Have a lovely weekend, fedi friends!