Malcador

Reminds me of how I had to read the Witcher books, ended up finding an English fan translation of a French fan translation of a German translation of them. Like Case's PPK in Neuromancer but worse.

Just a reference to https://www.timesofisrael.com/fc-barcelona-distances-itself-from-stars-palestinian-flag-waving-amid-israeli-anger/

Eurovision chose to incite hate against Israel.

If it's a good book, yah. I am running out of space otherwise. Books have the nice perk of not being subject to post purchase changes from Amazon or whoever, heh Watching Eurovision today, for some reason. Also was listening to some Russian music but it's actually propaganda (Слаава ВДВ)

Think I will give Kobo a go, I still have a Fire so I suppose I can still get books from Amazon if need be.

Amazon cutting off my veteran Kindle soon, which is annoying. Might get a new Kindle, although I guess I could get a Kobo - although that means buying books would make me have to use Indigo here, an equally scumbag corporation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/us/politics/iran-missiles-us-intelligence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.h1A.KEi6.mI9HVoTXfxnn&smid=url-share Hegseth to make everyone watch 300 3 times, or something.

Takes me back to 2006, used to be on a Shoutcast station I listened to at work constantly.

Got a nice charm set where my imbuements always have shadow, plays nice with cold. Well on T5 anyway. Eventually have to fight bosses with the one shot BS

Ted Turner, quite a life

Have to respect the grift

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/03/trump-us-navy-iran-ships-strait-hormuz The new Hormuz Strait initiative will not necessarily include U.S. Navy ships escorting commercial ships, according to two American officials. One of the officials said U.S. Navy ships will be "in the vicinity" in case they need to prevent Iran's military from attacking commercial ships moving through the strait. The officials said the U.S. navy is going to provide commercial ships with information on the best maritime lanes in the strait especially when it comes to using lanes that were not mined by the Iranian military. Seems half assed.

Change controls at work have decided to take inspiration from 40k. A P1 occurred because we didn't have approval to make a 30 s code change to a stored procedure as we only had one approver available. On the bright side, I found some pencils I bought in 1998. Amazing how better quality they are than modern pencils I get now, even if they were cheapo Berol Eagle HBs from Staples at the time.

War plans in D4 LoH seem incomplete. I need JIRA and a end of list retrospective with Tyrael.

AP NewsTrump says he'll place 25% tariff on autos from the EU, a...The head of the European Parliament trade committee calls President Donald Trump’s tariff hike on European Union automobiles “unacceptable.”Tantrum over Hormuz continues