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Fri, 31/10/2025 - 09:19
4 servings You will need4/5 lb. beef, cut into thin strips¼ cup butter2 onions, cut into thin strips⅓ lb. champignons, thinly sliced½ cup flour2 cups milk¼ cup heavy cream¼ teaspoon MSG (monosodium glutamate) (optional)2 sprigs parsley, mincedsalt, pepper Garnish:⅔ lb. potatoes⅓ lb. macaronisaltpeppergrated cheese Sauté the beef in butter in a heavy pot until browned. […]
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Fri, 31/10/2025 - 04:29

The wind howls outside the arts building, drowning out the sound of the approaching deans. We don’t know exactly where they are. The Porcupine and I stand guard by the west entrance. None of us uses our real names anymore.

We are forty strong, the last holdfast of humanity against the gathering administrative flood. Forty full-timers and adjuncts combined, music professors, theater professors, dance professors, game development, web development, graphic design, studio arts, interior architecture and design, and art history. What do we know about fighting deans? What are we going to do? Fend them off with all-combinatorial hexachords? Teach them about Etruscan ceremonial urns? What did the Etruscans know about deans?

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Fri, 31/10/2025 - 03:39

This summary will cover three weeks instead of the bi-weekly progress report, and it will be a little bit different. Since we were very busy with the Driesnote for DrupalCon, the release of AI and AI Agents 1.2.0 (yay!), we were mostly focusing on stability fixes.

DrupalCon Vienna also happened and personally for me also PHP Longhorn in Austin. DrupalCon gave us an opportunity to meet in person, regroup and plan ahead for the 2.0 release. So we will cover that as well in the progress reports.

For me personally it was a crazy event compared to other DrupalCon’s I have been to. Many people to talk to, and many people I wanted to talk to, but never got the time to do it. 

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Fri, 31/10/2025 - 00:25
När jag växte upp på 1960-talet var bilden av vår dåvarande statsminister — Tage Erlander — bilden av en hygglig och snäll farbror som berättade roliga historier i Hylands hörna. När man läser hans dagböcker från 40- och 50-talen — vilket jag roat mig med på sistone när jag befunnit mig på min skärgårdsö utanför […]
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Fri, 31/10/2025 - 00:17
“An ELECTIVE DESPOTISM was not the government we fought for; but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by […]
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Thu, 30/10/2025 - 23:00

I’ve finally arrived. That’s right, it’s me, your bloodwork results, in your inbox three days after that chatty nurse couldn’t find your vein and left you with a tricolor bruise. I think it’s time you open me up, for inside, I have all the health-related answers you’re seeking.

First and foremost, you’ll have to log on with a password that you have long forgotten. I’ll wait as you do your two-step authentication. I promise I am worth the wait. This is serious business after all. This is life or death.

When you open me, you might be looking for a spot where someone, anyone, ideally the doctor, explains me to you. It gives me more pleasure than I care to admit that there will be none of that here. There is no one here to handhold you. You’re on your own, and I don’t owe you shit. You probably should have gone to med school like your parents wanted.

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Thu, 30/10/2025 - 20:02

Israel’s bombing of the Gaza Strip this week, which killed more than 100 Palestinians (including 46 children), shows that the country’s genocide has not ended. It still has the ability and the will to continue its horrific bombing on a defenceless population. After the so-called ceasefire had been agreed, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in […]