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Graham Perrin

Discovered this evening: a FreeBSD committer badmouthing me in an early January response to a survey.

I wish I had known about that, before I quit FreeBSD Discord a few days later: mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperri

Rewind to November 2024: the same committer abused someone else. A few days later, his mentor wrote: "… Do not make me into a baby-sitter; I will not accept this role. …"; around an hour later, he apologised for use of a diminutive term.

Frankly:

― the offender does need a baby-sitter.

I have screenshots of the offender ranting in Discord, and so on. This is why I have largely withdrawn from contributing to the FreeBSD Project.

@emaste sorry, I'll not participate in tomorrow's meeting of the Laptop and Desktop Workgroup.

@FreeBSDFoundation FYI

BSD.cafe Mastodon PortalGraham Perrin (@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe)Spirits of cooperation: their lives, deaths, afterlives, and endings … I find it increasingly difficult to handle the emotional and other aftereffects of being targeted by irrational, ugly, ad homimem abuse, from a developer, in an online working group space between 05:30 and 06:06 a few days ago. Maybe more prolonged; I quit the server, without responding to the abuser, after waking to find a bad situation made worse by a so-called moderator. This is, perhaps, not the type of group work that inspires a person. It certainly does not foster a spirit of cooperation. Rewind: I lost sleep, much more than I ever admitted, in 2023. Fast-forward to 2025: I'm losing sleep, again. Despite my best efforts, the passing of time is not improving the situation, I need to do some thing quickly to halt the tide, the thing is this post. Part of this morning's sleeplessness was spent philosophically and positively, crafting various ways in which I might sugar-coat the situation. In my mind's eye this morning was a perfunctory, factual post that ended upbeat, by thanking (but not naming) a great peacemaker who reached out to me in 2023. Less philosophically: I'm tired, I'm disinclined to sugar-coat casually-dropped turds, and ― frankly ― the tiredness, past and present, is a direct consequence of unreasonable behaviour. I'm no angel, but hey, I have a breaking point, and if you wanna get your kicks and giggles through breaking people: I'll prefer alternative spaces, where the good in people can be brought out. This is not rocket science, you shit-heads, you utter shit-heads. To anyone who might respond here: please understand that I'll probably not continue the conversation. Further unravelling in private, or public, is not the way forward. Right now, I like the idea of a quiet end to this phase of my life. Around a decade might have been long enough. I want the decade ahead to please me, and I'm suitably calmed by the idea of silently abandoning everything from 2015 to date. I abandoned masses of stuff about which I was passionate in the past, never regretted moving on, if now is another ending I'll have no regrets. I'm calmed not only by the idea of abandonment, I was also calmed at the end of my working day by using two operating systems that worked perfectly. It's now 19:15, I'm done with writing about this. Cat time :-) To future peacemakers: thank you. To casual troublemakers: I have had more than enough of your turds. Don't make me share additional thoughts on the subject.
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Juggling With Eggs

Watched first two episodes of #Ludwig tonight. Much to like about it.

Its pure Agatha Christie gathering the suspects in a room and talking through the logic of the case and then accusing the guilty party.

We are also led to believe John (puzzle setter name Ludwig) is autistic - hates leaving the house, noise of workplaces, eats according to a weekly schedule. But as a twin mum of an autistic child you can feel the love he has for his sibling, even though he can’t express it. Really well done

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Chuck Darwin

Samuel Alito accepted concert tickets from conservative German aristocrat

#Samuel #Alito, the US supreme court justice, accepted $900 concert tickets from a Catholic German aristocrat known for her unabashed conservative views and ties to rightwing activists, his latest financial disclosure form reveals.

#Princess #Gloria #von #Thurn #und #Taxis reportedly gifted the tickets to Alito and his wife to allow them to attend the Regensburg castle festival,
an annual summer music extravaganza hosted at her 500-room castle in Bavaria.

The princess, a descendant of princes of the Holy Roman empire, is noted for ties with #Steve #Bannon, a key supporter and former aide of #Donald #Trump, and connections to figures in the Catholic hierarchy opposed to Pope Francis.

Her donation to Alito is set out in the justice’s annual financial disclosure report, which he filed late after requesting an extension.

The declaration follows a series of controversies over the ethics of supreme court justices amid revelations that some, including Alito himself and Justice #Clarence #Thomas, have accepted gifts from wealthy benefactors without disclosing on mandatory forms.

Alito has been at the centre of reports that he accepted a private jet free travel gift for a luxury salmon fishing trip from a conservative billionaire who had cases pending before the supreme court.

He previously met von Thurn und Taxis along with fellow justice #Brett #Kavanaugh when she visited the supreme court in 2019 along with #Cardinal #Gerhard #Ludwig #Müller, who was dismissed from his position as head of the Catholic’s church’s doctrinal body by Pope Francis, and #Brian #Brown, a leading anti-LGBTQ+ activist.

Von Thurn und Taxis’s palatial castle in Regensburg – the venue for the concert attended by Alito and his wife – has been mooted by Bannon as a potential venue for a 🔸European network of finishing schools for rightwing conservatives.
After her reinvention as a conservative Catholic activist, she drew criticism in 2001 after saying on a television talkshow that the high rate of Aids in Africa was due, not to a lack of safe sex, but because
“the Blacks like to copulate a lot”.
She later tried to amend her remarks, saying Africans had a lot of sex due to the continent’s hot climate.

theguardian.com/us-news/articl

The Guardian · Samuel Alito accepted concert tickets from conservative German aristocratBy Robert Tait
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