it’s not even a new problem – my parents told stories of people back in the ’60s building houses on the wrong side of a crack in Pacific Palisades

• it gave them an excuse to kill Skype
• they weren’t willing to let Zoom hog the spotlight

if it’s a surface level itch

then there’s those damnable itches that feel like they’re buried inside the thenar eminence and there’s no way to deep scratch

“Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.”

“Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”

“Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood. So far as I can recollect I have always been a man, a man of about thirty. I appear today as I did forty years and more ago, and yet I feel that I cannot go on living forever; that some day I shall die the real death from which there is no resurrection. I do not know why I should fear death, I who have died twice and am still alive; but yet I have the same horror of it as you who have never died, and it is because of this terror of death, I believe, that I am so convinced of my mortality.”

“Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel.
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.”

“Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’”

• they might turn into communists, they might burn everything down
• Republicans in the US are already fascists, they are already burning everything down

ImageMagick really is a Swiss Army Knife of usefulness …

a more obscure option is exiftool – and documention

• setup an input folder and a destination folder beforehand
• copy photos from phone to input folder
• bonus: decide on separate suffix or initials for each of you

exiftool -progress -d <destination-folder>/%Y%m%d-%H%M%S-<suffix>.%%le "-filename<CreateDate" <input-folder>

    -progress
        verbose and shows an [x/y] progress
    -d <destination-folder>/%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S-<suffix>.%%le
        renames to YYYY-mm-dd-HHMMSS-sfx.ext format
        and lowercases the extension
    "-filename<CreateDate"
        uses the image creation date (from EXIF metadata) for the above naming scheme

• Ronald Reagan – 5 June 2004
• Margaret Thatcher – 8 April 2013
• Rush Limbaugh – 17 February 2021
• Henry Kissinger – 29 November 2023
• Charlie Kirk – 10 September 2025

unpaid

“You honestly didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Few people ever cried more than once, if you’d used that up, you laughed.”

—Michael David Herr, Dispatches (1977) (writing for Esquire during Vietnam War)

the not ELI5 version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark

just make sure you’re in the right mindset when you watch Grave of the Fireflies – great movie BUT it is an emotional gut-punch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollarding

according to the Bible, both Eve and Jesus are canonically trans

“M’egg”

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/996/cosponsors

currently sitting at only 86 out of 213 Democrat seats

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertalia

yep, Columbine, not Uvalde – suicide at 12:08, SWAT entered school 1:09

Vladimir Putin ← Donald Trump

not that they did anything at Columbine either – police were on site pretty much the whole time, SWAT arrived half an hour later – and they both sat on their thumbs for another hour