An AU take on Season 5’s “Doctor Bashir, I Presume.” With no recourse but to resign from the service, Bashir takes a chance that he couldn’t have contemplated as a Starfleet officer. Meanwhile, the crew looks for a creative solution that will keep their doctor on the station.

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Modal is an independent collective building emancipatory software.

A joint linguistics blog by Mark Liberman and Victor Mair. Posts frequently on many different topics, but not for me, sadly.

via: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~myl/ via: Montell, Wordslut

Daniel’s barely thirty; he can’t fathom one century, let alone five. It’s probably a wonder Armand doesn’t spend his time skulking in a cave somewhere, muttering to himself, covered in the blood and muck of his innocent human victims.

Armand tilts his head a little, lips pursed, chiding. “Really, Daniel. Must we give in to such lazy stereotypes?”

Daniel just got pleasantly fucked in a Japanese love hotel and taken out for pancakes by his sleep paralysis demon; there’s nothing stereotypical about this.

“Pleasantly?” Armand picks up on, with no little offense.

WEDEL: There’s a great saying, that everyone is born with 1000 bad drawings inside them. You get to the good drawings — you get to be good at drawing — by exorcising the 1000 bad drawings. “I can’t draw” is just a shorter way of saying, “I’m unwilling to practice drawing.” (That probably sounds pretty strident. If you don’t want to be good at drawing, that’s fine. The world is big, full, and busy, and not everyone has to be interested in every possible thing. Just don’t mistake “I can’t draw” for a good reason not to try.)

LAWS: The first pancakes off the griddle are always funky, but you need to make them to get to the good pancakes. So too with drawing or journaling. Do not judge yourself by your first lines on paper on any given day.

LAWS: Drawing with the goal of the drawing itself makes a fetish of the product. […] Each drawing is not an end in itself. It is a vehicle to help you focus your attention.

Course on Linux low-level internals and architecture

Article that introduces the concept of build executor and catalogues useful features that are part of the author’s under development system

Straight fire. Being able to make videos like this is one of the many benefits of computer music.

Marathon OS is a gesture-first mobile operating system built on Linux. Inspired by BlackBerry 10’s brilliant interaction model, reimagined for modern hardware with PostmarketOS and Qt6.

waypipe is a proxy for Wayland[0] clients