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I planned to run on the treadmill, but once it got past eight, I lost the will to make myself do it. So, I did ten pull-ups and forty elastic band pulls, which of course is nothing like running. But it is something.Comments
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Avoision posted about found keys in 2013. The comment section now has years of comments about memories — spanning decades — of working in the metalworking plant where the keys were from.Comments
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Tom MacWright made a simple guerilla Bandcamp year-in-review web app.Comments
Here's what I got this year:
Rough genre breakdown:
Metal: 7
Ambient: 4
Electronic: 4
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The Devil’s Plan is actually a dramatized board game show.Comments
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Dag, you may want to hold off on chugging cinnamon.Comments
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I like the minotaur's expression in this Blake painting.Comments
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Back workout, five deadlifts, eight pull-ups. I could probably do more weight on the deadlifts, but I’m taking it extra slow.Comments
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Once a week I go to judo to work out myself, but most of the time, I take the guy to work out while I sit with a laptop. I normally don’t talk to anyone one, but today, I got in a conversation with a couple of parents from other countries (there are many of them at judo). I heard about things going on in Georgia (the country) and Korea.Comments
Georgia is trying to join the EU in two years, which is threatening to Putin. So, he’s turned the heat up on the influence and support of anti-EU factions. The college-age people in Georgia do not speak Russian, and Russian influence is alien and unwelcome to them. They’ve been maintaining a long-term protest.
There were roughly two hours between the declaration of martial law by the president of Korea and the annulment of it by the National Assembly. During that time, anything could have happened, especially to dissidents and journalists. Part of the reason Yoon is in power is that he still uses rhetoric about Communist spies being everywhere that older people that lived in the Korean War are attuned to, no matter how ridiculous it is. On the other hand, older people remember protesting for free elections, and they showed up this time, too. -
I have neither a dark sky nor a “modest 200 mm telephoto lens,” but if you do, and you’re in the northern hemisphere, apparently you can see Jupiter and four of its moons.Comments
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I actually put air the tires and finally got a resident parking permit today. It's a car maintenance spree!Comments
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Splash pads really are fountains of fecal material; CDC reports 10K illnessesComments
Between 1997 and 2022, splash pads across the country were linked to at least 60 outbreaks, with the largest sickening over 2,000 water frolickers in one go. In all, the outbreaks led to at least 10,611 illnesses, 152 hospitalizations, and 99 emergency department visits. People, mostly children, were sickened with pathogens including Cryptosporidium, Camplyobacter jejuni, Giardia duodenalis, Salmonella, Shigella, and norovirus, according to the analysis, published Tuesday in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The tallies of outbreaks and illnesses are likely undercounts, given reporting delays and missed connections.
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[Kennedy-Longfellow school’s] student body is 86 percent high-need, and it has the highest percentage of unhoused students at 20 percent.
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This was the first judo workout in which I neither injured a rib muscle nor retriggered that rib muscle injury. I did some oblique sit-ups yesterday, which tested and maybe strengthened ye old rib muscle. Or: it was just the passage of time. Either way, that’s my greatest judo victory of 2024.Comments
I did rip skin off my elbow again. I guess I should consider wearing a rash guard under the gi.
I try to do at least three rounds of tandoori each workout, but there were a lot of people, maybe fifteen? So, I let myself do just two. Still, someone once again asked me after class if I was OK, and I said yes, I’m just in really bad shape.
Earlier, the point was made that the way to close the distance for a throw is to first step to an angle at which the opponent’s balance is worse. Which I noticed myself last month but totally forgot. I tried to do it in randori, but again, it’s hard because the other guy also moves.
After trying harai goshi on a bigger guy again, I decided to put it away for a while. I don’t think I have the strength to consistently off- balance them so that they’re in their toes. I’m working on seoinage again, which only requires a downward-ish pull.
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If you didn't know, Korea currently has a Trump-like as president. People are calling for his impeachment, so he declared martial law.Comments
Accusing the opposition of what he called “anti-state activities,” Yoon said martial law is necessary to safeguard the constitutional order and to eliminate pro-North Korea forces in the nation.
Well, that's bad. I think he's trying to ride the authoritarian vibes picking up around the world.
The move came in response to the main opposition Democratic Party’s repeated attempts to impeach key government officials, according to Yoon.
Yoon said the opposition is paralyzing the government, noting that it impeached the interior minister as well as the head of the Korea Communications Commission and is now seeking to remove the defense minister, a number of prosecutors, and the chair of the Board of Audit and Inspection.
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Hey, I signed up for izzzzi, which is like a social network, except you can only have one post per day. So, each day, you can see one post from each of your friends. You won't get overwhelmed by someone that posts a lot, and you won't have to keep checking in case you miss one of the posts. You can check once and be done.Comments
I'm deathmtn on there.
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In a meeting where they're "introducing" OKRs. My brain has just walked out my head.Comments
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Whoa, Islamists took Aleppo. Being ignorant of Syrian issues, I have no idea whether Assad or the Islamists are better for Syria, but Assad was widely assumed to have won the civil war last year.Comments
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I finished Free by Lea Ypi last week. It's about her childhood growing up in Albania. All the stuff about her parents letting her internalize ideas — for he own safety — that the dictatorship pushed was fascinating. So was a lot of the rest of it, like how a different kind of misery hit the country when capitalism was unleashed and how Western leftists would tell her she didn't grow up under "real" socialism.Comments
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