We are not going around in circles, we are moving up, the circle is a spiral, we have already ascended many a level.

Hermann Hesse - “Siddhartha”

Mas isto não engloba todos os burlões? Até os que estão online.

GNR alerta para burlões de “boa aparência e bem-falantes”

My feet are cold
My eyes are dim
As I lay down

Today’s Crucial Track: Cult of Luna & A.A. Williams - “Beyond IV”

This year’s return to 9/11, with all the sharing in socials or the documentaries on TV, hit me in a different and particular way. Not because 25 years is a round number, but because it now kind of marks the halfway of my life. From now on, most of my life has been after 9/11…

Ainda nem há dez minutos partilhava como o regresso da rubrica da Joana Marques já me estava a deixar com uma baixa tolerância a estupidez, e abro o Threads e aparece-me isto!!!

Foda-se! Parem o mundo que eu quero sair!!!

A woman identified as Ossanda Liber, Minister of the Colonies, is seated at a desk signing a document while a man looks on, with various colonial-era items and a bust of Salazar in the background.

O Extremamente Desagradável voltou esta semana? Sim.
Se tinha de fazer a magia a propósito dos influencers das últimas semanas, incluindo os que foram fazer turismo a Gaza? Obviamente! Se sinto que a Joana já me expôs a gente imbecil suficiente para os próximos tempos? Muito, e é só 5ª-feira…

Sabes que és uma pessoa de meia idade quando os concertos a que vais são em igrejas. Há menos de um mês: Penelope Trappes (ok, foi num festival gótico). E hoje: Ana Roxanne.

A dimly lit church interior features a person seated near the altar, surrounded by architectural arches and religious statues.

The antidote to ultra-capitalistic platforms whose main goal is to keep you inside their walled gardens can be traced back to the very origin of the World Wide Web; (…).

“Small (web) is beautiful - fredrocha.net”

Nowadays, I start to feel anxious when the software I use becomes unmaintained. At some point, it either won’t support where it’s meant to run or, much worse, is a good candidate for a malicious attack. One of my cornerstone plugins for Obsidian (Periodic Notes) is exactly in that situation: it still works, as it’s a fairly straightforward plugin, but it hasn’t been updated for years, so I’m starting to look for options, maybe this one.

By the way, I’m not complaining about people who stop working on their projects; after all, we all have a life outside the internet.

Este dia de Verão tapado e com chuva faz-me lembrar o sudoeste asiático, com a diferença que no sudoeste asiático estaria muito mais calor e abafado.