I finally ended up installing the #Bluesky app on my phone today.
About 99% of the accounts that I cared about have moved off of #Twitter. That's a great thing to see.
Mostly local government agencies, traffic reports, elected officials, and a few regional news outlets that will most likely never migrate to the Fediverse.
I've got my account here bridged, so my account there is mostly r/o boosting some artists there.
I've got to say: their official app is pretty feeble compared to #Tusky
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Happy 80th birthday Robert Wyatt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Res3-YX4X8g
[#]music
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Vincent Price, the King of Horror, promoting #ModernArt for Sears & Roebuck as a sensble, sound inventment for the discerning art enthusiast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIQj7_zVzxA
[#]Art #Painting
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Nice to see some new, recent activity with #Python Poetry
I get a feeling there was a bit of a log-jam preceding the 2.0 release.
Poetry 2.0.1 released
https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/releases/tag/2.0.1
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Embracing the New Wave of Satanic Panicβ’ with my new favorite compilation album.
"Anyone who grew up in the seventies remembers it as a bleak decade full of industrial unrest, power cuts, racists marching round the streets, football hooligans and oddly a plethora of magazines, books and movies that focused on the occult and Satanism.
Maybe people thought all the darkness in our nation had somehow opened a portal into the raging fires of hell..."
https://louderthanwar.com/various-artists-the-devil-rides-in-spellbinding-satanic-magick-the-rockult-1966-1974-box-set-review/
[#]music #Satan
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A review of "Live In Keene 1977". Can's sixth release in a recent collection of live recordings.
https://www.thestranger.com/music/2025/01/07/79813428/inbox-jukebox
[#]music #KrautRock #motorik
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Also, for #CI tasks, you've got to add a line to install poetry-plugin-export since that is no longer included in Poetry core(e.g. if you are exporting into a requirements.txt to create a venv for testing).
A shell has also been move out of core, you'll need poetry-plugin-shell.
[#]Python
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Using Poetry's own pyproject.toml https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/blob/main/pyproject.toml as a reference and the occasional glance at the docs made the conversion to 2.0 compatibility pretty straightforward.
[#]Python
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For the new year, I've started to watch the 1974 #TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. I vaguely remember, as a child 50 years ago, being creeped out by this show. I've remembered the opening scene with Darren McGavin whistling in the dark.
Last night, watched the episode Mr. R.I.N.G. where a robot created by the Tyrell Institute develops an instinct for survival & kills one of its makers & goes on the lam.
A great 70s paranormal romp.
https://delightfullydysfunctional.com/2021/04/26/are-kolchak-the-night-stalker-and-blade-runner-connected/
[#]television #BladeRunner
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In preparation for some other #documentation that I am currently working on, I "accidentally" managed to build a page of #Xfce keyboard shortcuts for the #xfwm4 window manager and some default application shortcuts.
Perhaps it will be useful.
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/keyboard_shortcuts
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Well that's not too bad, I guess. All of my project tests still pass with Poetry 2.0. Nothing appears broken so far.π
There's going to be a bit of cleanup to the pyproject.toml; but, that's to be expected. I've already previously deprecated the use of ^(caret) for versioning constraints. So I don't have to deal with that now.
The output from poetry check gives me my new homework assignment:
[#]Python
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Looks like #Python Poetry 2.0 got released today.
Lots of fixes, changes & other goodies.
Time to update the projects.
https://python-poetry.org/blog/announcing-poetry-2.0.0/
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"Washington state is losing farmland to development faster than much of the rest of the nation. But Skagit County is bucking the trend and providing a road map for others to bolster rural economic development."
Interesting article on farmland #preservation in #Skagit County.
https://www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/jan/02/skagit-farmland-preservation-efforts-buck-wa-trend-of-farmland-loss/
[#]pnw #Agriculture #farming
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Spent another portion of the evening capturing updated screenshots for the #Xfce #Documentation for the new 4.20 release.
Thanks to some unexpected help & motivation from another volunteer, I think we are close to getting ~95% of the pages updated with new images. The remainder of the components will have to be built from source which will take a bit of time.
I'm truly appreciative of someone stepping in to help on the project to boost morale & keep me motivated.
[#]OpenSource #FOSS
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Out of 3 Nosferatu #film, Egger's effort is definitely 3rd, for me.
I enjoyed it mostly & will watch it again. I think if I had not had a long history with the others, I may have come away less critical of this 1.
1 point only here: The new Nosferatu is apparently menacing; but, most of the role is obscured by shadows & mumbling.Only in the last 5 minutes do we really get repulsive, grotesque, alien, dessicated & feral.
Herzog & Murnau had this in spades all the way.My 2Β’.
[#]movies
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Tonight, we're catching a late(9:45PM) showing of Nosferatu.
From what I can tell, it looks like the theatre is going to be pretty full.
I, honestly, can't remember the last time that I was this excited to see a relatively mainstream release on the big screen. Also, the first time I've made sure that I've avoided all reviews & trailers, so I'm going in cold.
I'm not too worried; but, I sincerely hope that Eggers doesn't fuck up one of my favorite horror stories ever.
[#]movies #film
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Really nice to wake up and find that #Xfce 4.20 has landed in #Debian testing.π
[#]Linux
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About a month ago, our building management replaced all of the mailboxes & it their chassis(?) due to crappy locks and repeated vandalism.
Tonight, walking down to fetch some things from the car, I saw this.π π‘
Fortunately for us, we've kept a P.O. box for years. But, occasionally, we do have things mis-delivered to the building mailbox. This fucking sucks for folks who rely on these boxes.
[#]Crime #Vandalism
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After several decades(?), it's going to take some getting used to the output from the new #Debian 'apt upgrade' output text.
I mean, this clear & legible. Who asked for this?? /s
[#]WhoMovedMyCheese
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[#]RIP to Lorraine O'Grady (1934-2024) writer, critic, conceptual and performance artist.
Nice to see a mention of Guerilla Girls. A political art collective that folks should learn more about.
Also included in the article is a link to O'Grady's important essay in response to Manet's Olympia: "Olympia's Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity" (1992)
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/lorraine-ogrady-artist-dead-1234727149/
[#]Art #PerformanceArt #Obituary #Feminism
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