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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 04/09/2026

Mine ended up pretty blue for Hawaii. I’m not sure what answers triggered that though.

My dialect results map. The Deep South is red (indicating most like you) while the rest of the map fades from orange to blue. New England is the darkest blue.

Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 20/07/2026

But I am listening to the Drive-By Truckers song “The Driver” now because it mentions Sheffield. youtube.com/watch?v=Kak_...

The first verse from the Drive-By Truckers’ song The Driver:
Used to go out driving, sometimes late into the night
Twenty-one, fucking round and wasting gas
Across the bridge to Sheffield
Then out into Tuscumbia
Where the main street's a time-trip to the past
Behind the Hotel Grant, there was a flaming dumpster
I saw a group of Klansmen in their robes
I circle back, but they had vanished like rats
Leaving nothing behind them but some smoke

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 09/07/2026

I just updated the app to 1.127.0.1848 and now “from:me Atlanta” works in the main search.

Search results for from:me atlanta in the main search.

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 09/07/2026

I’m seeing a similar issue. I’m using the iOS app version 1.126.0.1800 on iOS version 26.5. “from:me atlanta” does not work from the main search page. “from:danielmote.com atlanta” works from the main search page. “atlanta” works from my profile page.

Empty search results for from:me atlanta on the main search page.

Search results for from:danielmote.com atlanta on the main search page.

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 21/05/2026

Auburn University has about 100 acres of cow pasture and once elected a cow as Miss Auburn. www.theplainsman.com/article/2024...

A campaign poster for a black-and-white cow named Bessie who was elected Miss Auburn in 1979. She ran a write-in campaign under the slogan “not just another drop in the bucket.” The poster contains a photo of her facing the camera with her head and right shoulder in view. Her ear is tagged 18. There is another cow in the background.

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 15/04/2026

They put out an album in 2024! This cover from their 2018 album is… something.

The album cover for Stryper’s God Damn Evil. It features a Greek god-like figure smiting a city with a spear. There are skyscrapers in the background. The foreground shows the impact of the spear and people in the process of being flung away from the strike. The top half of the core is blue toned and the bottom is orange tones.

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 12/02/2026

Well, my partner did. I did have a hand in naming her siblings-by-adoption Elektra and Perseus.

A tortoiseshell cat stares at you. There’s a blue wall and a gold-bordered mirror in the background. She appears to be impossibly wise.

A grey Korat cat caught in the act of scratching his ear with his back paw. His head is tilted and he has one eye closed.

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 12/02/2026

We know our place in the household pecking order. If beating on us didn’t get results, she resorts to biting our elbows.

A black cat looms over you with unspecified demands. There’s a gleam in her eye. She’s wearing a red heart-shaped name tag that says “Antigone (Tiggy).”

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 13/12/2025

Thanks! My search continues. Also, cat tax.

A black cat peers at you from across the table. She’s sitting in a chair and only the top half of her head is visible. She wants your ham.

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 07/11/2025

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.”

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 30/10/2025

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

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 13/10/2025

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.

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 02/10/2025

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?

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 27/09/2025

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.

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 14/09/2025

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.)

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 24/06/2025

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.

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 10/06/2025

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…

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 09/06/2025

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.”

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 25/05/2025

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.

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 06/05/2025

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.

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 30/04/2025

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

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 29/04/2025

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.

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 13/04/2025

Small toothy dogs with shark-like tendencies, unite!

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

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 04/04/2025

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"

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 02/11/2024

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.

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 01/10/2024

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

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 23/09/2024

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.

A screenshot from the Windows 11 snipping tool, showing part of the toolbar.

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 22/09/2024

This Reddit copypasta gets pretty close to the mindset required.

"From now on, when dealing with crazy / possibly violent people, you will lose every argument. You are always wrong. You are sorry for impinging on their day. You will apologize and apologize again. You will back the fuck down. You will put your tail between your legs. You will let them talk shit about your ladyfriend. You will let them call your mother a bitch and a whore and your dad a bastard. You have no ego. You do all this because if you are the one to start a fight, by default that fight now has a gun in it, and if you start losing, you're going to pull it and kill him. And even if you don't go to jail because you could convince the jury that it was self-defense, you're going to have to live with the fact that you could have saved someone's life and yet you let your ego kill someone. You are not the police, so don't act like them. Though all of you [civilians] are better shots than the police, you do not have the training, the continuum of force policy, or a union plus free lawy

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 18/07/2024

I’m backer #1!* *Due to some BackerKit weirdness where I backed it in May before it actually launched.

A screenshot saying “You're Backer #1! Let the world know about your pledge.”

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 06/05/2024

Yeah, that’s what I saw as well.

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 06/05/2024

I visited the page to make sure that I was following it, and it gave me a “Back It” button, and so I did. It looks like it’s currently set to end on August 8th.

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 06/05/2024

I was just able to back it, I think.

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 18/03/2024

Meet Percy, who loves nothing more than biting me when he is not getting the attention he craves.

A grey cat sticking his body through some window blinds and resting his paws on the divider in the middle of the window

A grey cat standing on top of a bookshelf with a long rainbow toy in his mouth

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Daniel Mote @danielmote.com · 11/10/2023

Here’s a harvest moon for a first Bluesky post.

Silhouettes of tree branches backlit by an orange full moon.

An orange full moon. Craters are visible.

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