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Daniel Mote

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Pin-Pen merger for life!

A two panel meme generated by a meme generator website.
The upper panel has two hands each holding a pirate of paper. One piece is labeled “PEN” and the other is labeled “PEN. It is captioned “Corporate needs you to find the differences between this word and that word.
The lower panel has an image of Pam from the TV Show “The Office” sitting and facing the camera, like she’s in a documentary. It is captioned “They’re the same word.”

November 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM

Daniel Mote

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Yep. bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug...

Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote on 2017-08-31: Re: calibre bug 1714107

No, it doesn't. I am perfectly capable of maintaining python 2 myself.
Far less work than migrating the entire calibre codebase.
status wontfix

October 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM

Daniel Mote

@danielmote.com

I believe the classic Balk Rules copypasta covers this exact scenario.

You can't just be up there and just doin' a balk like that.
1a. A balk is when you
1b. Okay well listen. A balk is when you balk the
1c. Let me start over
1c-a. The pitcher is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, batter, that prohibits the batter from doing, you know, just trying to hit the ball. You can't do that.
1c-b. Once the pitcher is in the stretch, he can't be over here and say to the runner, like, "I'm gonna get ya! I'm gonna tag you out! You better watch your butt!" and then just be like he didn't even do that.
1c-b(1). Like, if you're about to pitch and then don't pitch, you have to still pitch. You cannot not pitch. Does that make any sense?
1c-b(2). You gotta be, throwing motion of the ball, and then, until you just throw it.
1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the ball up here, like this, but then there's the balk you gotta think about.
1c-b(2)-b. Fairuza Balk hasn't been in any movies in forever. I hope she wasn't typecast as that racist lady in American History X.
1c-b(2)-b(i). Oh wait, she was in The Waterboy too! That would be even worse.
1c-b(2)-b(ii). "get in mah bellah" -- Adam Water, "The Waterboy." Haha, classic...
1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. A balk is when the pitcher makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the baseball and field of
2) Do not do a balk please.

October 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM

Daniel Mote

@danielmote.com

Elektra got high on catnip, was a jerk to the other critters, and then crawled into a paper bag. I naturally had to pick her up and carry her around.

A tortoiseshell cat in a paper Aldi bag is looking up at you. Her head has mostly black fur with some orange and cream hairs sprinkled in, but that pattern is reversed around her left eye. She’s wearing a blue-green collar and looks mildly concerned. You can only see her head. Someone is holding the bag out towards you. Will you accept this kitty?

October 2, 2025 at 3:28 AM

Daniel Mote

@danielmote.com

I like his poem Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio. I’m not sure that it conjures up a necessarily universal feeling, but it certainly applies to the rural south where I am from as well as it does the Midwest that it explicitly discusses.

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
—James Wright

In the Shreve High football stadium,
I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville,
And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood,
And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel,
Dreaming of heroes.

All the proud fathers are ashamed to go home,
Their women cluck like starved pullets,
Dying for love.

Therefore,
Their sons grow suicidally beautiful
At the beginning of October,
And gallop terribly against each other's bodies.

September 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM

Daniel Mote

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Yeah, that was weird. For reference, here’s the replay I was talking about. He does hit him in the facemask. If there’s any grabbing, I think it would have had to be on the side of the helmet or the ear hole (which is still a facemask). (Apologies for the poor quality video.)

September 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM

Daniel Mote

@danielmote.com

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Police charges are mounting against the 35-year-old woman known as “Sika Golf” who allegedly had sex with many senior monks at well-known temples in many provinces and also blackmailed them.
Pol Col Anek Taosuparp, deputy commander of the Crime Suppression Division (CSD), said Wilawan “Sika Golf” Emsawat was charged additionally with fraud in connection with an old complaint from a former director of Buddhism in the northern province of Phichit. “Sika” is a Thai word that monks use to address a woman.
According to the deputy commander, the former Buddhism official lent 400,000 baht to Ms Golf, who claimed she needed money for medical treatment and pointed out that she had evidence for a relationship with a senior monk in Phichit.
The former director filed his complaint in 2016 and the investigation was first revived in 2018, when there was clear evidence of money transactions.
The CSD is also prosecuting Ms Wilawan for alleged extortion of money from a former assistant abbot at popular Wat Sothonwararam in Chachoengsao province.
Fire scare at hospital in Chiang Mai
Pol Col Anek said the woman's methodology was to develop a close relationship with a monk before shifting to money issues. In this case, police had proof the former assistant abbot transferred 8,000 baht to her associate.
Pol Col Anek said the CSD was handling fraud and embezzlement cases concerning “Sika Golf” and other people, and the police Anti-Corruption Division was proceeding with cases concerning monks’ misconduct and embezzlement.
Ms Wilawan was arrested at her home in Nonthaburi province on Tuesday and has already been charged with supporting a monk's embezzlement of temple funds, laundering money and receiving stolen goods. She is being detained at the Central Investigation Bureau in Bangkok.

According to police sources, Ms Wilawan, aka Sika Golf, is a native of Phichit province. She was the wife of a local politician who left her after learning she phoned lovers at night and received banknotes, coins and daily necessities donated to monks and regifted to her. She reportedly had many pictures of monks on the walls of their home.
The scandal around her activities erupted late last month when the abbot of Wat Tri Thotsathep in Bangkok disappeared. Police suspect she had tried to blackmail him.
Police searched her house and found a number of mobile phones storing about 80,000 sex photos and videos involving many senior monks at many famous temples.
About 15 monks are suspected of having a special relationship with the woman and ten were known to have already left the monkhood as of Wednesday, when an ecclesiastical chief of monks in the northern province of Phisanulok doffed his robes and reverted to being a lay citizen.
Meanwhile, an assistant abbot of Wat Prayurawongsawat Worawihan in Bangkok has denied he had sexual relations with her, although police have copies of their intimate conversations and his photo on a chat app.
Police said on Tuesday that about 385 million baht was paid into Ms Wilawan's bank accounts over the past three years and she lost most of it gambling online.

July 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM

Daniel Mote

@danielmote.com

And for a more modern example, plenty of Braves fans (me included) definitely appreciated the charms of Charlie Culberson and Dansby Swanson.

(But that guy’s Acuña take was reddit-worthy.)

Dansby Swanson and Charlie Culberson celebrate after some late game heroics to win a baseball game for the Atlanta Braves.

June 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM

Daniel Mote

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The same sort of moderate that King wrote about from the Birmingham jail, perhaps. www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...

I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection
I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and l…

June 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM

Daniel Mote

@danielmote.com

Yes, except Zaslav will now be in charge of the HBO/WB side and not the cable side.

Screenshot from Wall Street Journal article, saying “Warner Chief Executive David Zaslav will remain as chief executive of the Streaming & Studios company, while Chief Financial Officer Gunnar Wiedenfels will serve as chief executive of Global Networks.”

June 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM

Daniel Mote

@danielmote.com

@ethankocak.com saw this meme and thought of you

A meme showing a salamander saying “hey guys” to two stick figures. One points and yells “Salmonella!” The salamander replies “Not what I’m called” in what we can only assume is a long-suffering and weary tone.

May 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM

Daniel Mote

@danielmote.com

They do indeed. The truck version’s wheelbase is longer than I’d like.

A blue electric VW Scout truck seen at an angle in front of an old red barn.

A red electric VW Scout truck seen from the side in front of the ocean.

May 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM

Daniel Mote

@danielmote.com

The Spoon Theory is a creative way to explain to healthy friends and family what it's like living with a chronic illness. Dysautonomia patients often have limited energy, represented by spoons. Doing too much in one day can leave you short on spoons the next day.
If you only had 12 spoons per day, how would you use them? Take away 1 spoon if you didn't sleep well
last night, forgot to take your meds, or skipped a meal. Take away 4 spoons if you have a cold.
8888
get out of bed
bathe
888
m0
make & eat a meal
go to work/school
get dressed
take pills
style hair
]
surf the internet
make plans & socialize
light housework
go shopping
+
go to the doctor
watch TV
read/study
drive somewhere
The Spoon Theory was written by Christine Miserando, which you can check out on her website www.butyoudontlooksick.com.
exercise
www.dysautonomiainternational.org

May 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM

Daniel Mote

@danielmote.com

I’d like to submit Death Troopers for consideration. Apparently Han and Chewbacca survived a zombie plague right before A New Hope.

The cover of a Star Wars book called Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber. It shows a stormtrooper helmet hanging from a hook. There’s blood coming out of the eye holes and a bullet hole in the right temple. Looking at the base of the helmet, there’s some gore in the shadows that indicates a stormtrooper’s head is probably still inside the helmet.

May 6, 2025 at 2:44 AM

Daniel Mote

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A couple of examples from 2000 and 2022.

Lyrics from a song called "You Take My Rights Away" by Skillet.

You take my rights away
You take control. No stopping You
You take my rights away
I can take it, oh, oh

See me let it go
You are in control
Suffer as we grow
And we say - we say we don't want to
Holding nothing
You take everything
You're worth anything at all

Lyrics from a song called “Dominion” by the band Skillet.

Colliding chaos
Pre-programmed robots
No dissent allowed at all
A forty foot golden idol
Not your place
I'll never bow down
To the power state
Death will not dominate The fighters finally rise
They refuse to believe the lies
Our rebellion has begun
Dominion, dominion
Under the fist of a powerful
Dominion, dominion
Don't let the empire take control
Revolution from within
Let the kingdom reign begin
Dominion, dominion

April 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM

Daniel Mote

@danielmote.com

Our chihuahua-terrier (we think) does the same. I recently found a batch stored under the other dog’s bed.

A small dog sleeps angelically on a red chair while wearing a red and black sweater. She was probably dreaming of stealing my socks.

April 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM

Daniel Mote

@danielmote.com

Small toothy dogs with shark-like tendencies, unite!

A chihuahua-terrier mix laying on her back and showing her teeth. Her canines are prominent.

April 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM

Daniel Mote

@danielmote.com

I’ve always liked CS Lewis’s perspective on fairy tales.

"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." - CS Lewis

"My Dear Lucy,
I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realised that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand, a word you say, but I shall still be
your affectionate Godfather,
C.S. Lewis"

April 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM

Daniel Mote

@danielmote.com

This is Percy, a right proper 14lb menace.

A brown-haired guy wearing a yellow hoodie has a large grey cat on his shoulders. The cat is licking its nose. Both of them are staring at the camera in the style of the “don’t ever talk to me or my son ever again” meme.

November 2, 2024 at 1:38 AM

Daniel Mote

@danielmote.com

I asked my partner who has dyslexia, dyscalculia, and a computer science degree. Here’s what my they suggested:

Almost every editor has the ability for font changes. Change the fonts to comic sans on everything. On top of that all editors have the ability to change the color schemes and word hilighting. He can manually go through and change the word colors for different items so they aren’t painful to the eyes and make things easier to see. As for syntax errors, normally you can change the color of the red squiggles that show up under your errors. Some editors also have a thing on the side that will put a colored hilight by the number of a row with an error on it so making sure that’s a noticeable color is important. I think the last biggest thing is to ALWAYS USE DARKMODE. Dark mode makes it 1000% easier for adhd/dyslexic individuals, such as myself, to be able to actually focus on what’s written on the screen.

Once his editor is set in a way that makes it easier for him to read it will be life changing. Plus it’s fun to go through and pick your own colors. I normally spend an hour or so on that whenever I get a new editor and it saves me so much time down the road. One thing to note is that other people will most likely have a harder time reading his screen and code, which makes sense cause he can’t read theirs. That being said, never let anyone make you feel bad for having settings that help you.

I get a lot of comments of “Wow… that’s a lot” or “or those settings are a lot different” when others look at my screen but I can actually read it so it doesn’t matter. Their bright white screens with typewriter fonts and beige color coding is a lot for me to try and read and I’m not commenting on it

October 1, 2024 at 6:22 PM

Daniel Mote

@danielmote.com

The built-in Windows 11 snipping tool has OCR.

After you make a selection with text, click the text actions button (in the center of the screenshot below) and then you can select and copy the text.