i updated my mastodon installation the other day and it looked like everything went swimmingly. but, i discovered that they’d changed the structure of the docker containers. this was evident if i was using the docker-compose.yml that was in the repo and just blithely using that. but, durrr, i’m not. this seemed to chug along for a while with little/no apparent ill effects, but i restarted the containers the other day for something else and lo, the mastodon-streaming container was unhappy....

links, etc Shrine of the Mall Ninja – LonelyMachines i was reading article about how right wing culture fetishizes armageddon scenarios, which led to a pointer about an early 00s thread about the mall ninja. i suspect that @Gecko45 was not doing this ironically, but the results are priceless. albeit bonkers.

the only white paint pen that i’ve found that does not suck is the sharpie paint (fine) - oil based. meta location: minneapolis, mn weather: ☁️ (Overcast) +42°F(+36°F)

links, etc American Kakistocracy the atlantic’s considered take on how trump’s grafting wrong. Berlusconi’s shortcomings helped fuel his success, but he wasn’t proud of them. Trump wears his flaws like medals, and is appointing people to his coming administration who have the same attitude. Berlusconi would never have allowed the equivalent of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. near Italy’s department of health. An Italian Matt Gaetz would have been considered for a reality show on one of Berlusconi’s TV channels, at most....

bookshop link notes this has been in the reading queue for a while now. a trip to zenith books provided the irresistible impetus to grab a copy. this was not the book i was expecting. for its page count heft it’s a remarkably sparse book in terms of text. there’s a lot of white space in here. it’s less a treatise on the creative process and … living up to its subtitle, more of a discussion on a way of living/being....