# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
# 
# Usage:
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users              View list of users and latest twt date.
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt                View all twts.
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri  View all mentions for uri.
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash         View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
#     uri     Filter to show a specific users twts.
#     offset  Start index for quey.
#     limit   Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 234743
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?offset=234729
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?offset=234629
@kat thanks, I woke up late, so I got my depresso meds late, which resulted in a very cranky morning, had a panic attack (yay!!!) and then I spilled my iced latte I made all over my chair so I had to take a shower :'D I feel WAY better now but today has been strugglebus!!!!!
@kat ;w; it IS some days it's all I can do to even make a list ;w;
@mana ty mana <333 it's so hard isn't it
@mana so far it's been better for me! i hope your day improves though <3
@mana it is funny af don't worry LMAO
@mana noooo hope it gets better
at this point I am surviving today out of spite, what a dogshit day fuck u tuesday how dare u
@kat it happens lol tbh I think it's kind of funny? but I think if I had done that I'd feel mega embarrassed, so I don't want you to feel made fun of >w<;;;
@kat HIIIII :D I hope today was better than yesterday
@kat omgggg thank you :'D (also ty edit button for existing)
@kat god I feel like I've been struggling with that for a while too ;w; good luck!!!
"Step inside the studio of Palestinian-American artist Samia Halaby, one of the earliest innovators of digital art."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdrYqKOBe5E

via @guilhermesv@guilhermesv
I'm obviously completely biased, but, if you are an educator teaching #Python and using #pygame / #pygamece, do check out #py5 (https://py5coding.org).

I'm sure other sprite & game stuff must be easier in pygame, but I'm adapting a #PyMunk example, and IMHO, events are so much easier in py5...

(I'll try post it here tomorrow, I should be doing something else, as usual...)
Chamada aberta da Revista Lusófona de Estudos Culturais (RLEC):

https://rlec.pt/index.php/rlec/announcement/view/91

«O presente número temático “Arte, Educação e Comunidade” pretende realçar projetos e práticas que, em contextos educativos formais e não formais priorizem o sentido de comunidade e pertencimento com e através das artes.»
São da Universidade do Porto 29 das “Mulheres na Ciência” 2025: https://noticias.up.pt/2025/04/17/sao-da-u-porto-29-das-mulheres-na-ciencia-de-2025/
@bmallred Nice! 👌
Sorry, more pixels:

@bender wut?! 😮
@bender Time to update my machines! 😅
Saw someone else posting this and, yep, it’s true:

[![](https://movq.de/v/07e4be1aad/.html%2Dindex%2Dthumb%2Da.ff.jpg.jpg)](https://movq.de/v/07e4be1aad/a.ff.jpg)

[![](https://movq.de/v/07e4be1aad/.html%2Dindex%2Dthumb%2Db.ff.jpg.jpg)](https://movq.de/v/07e4be1aad/b.ff.jpg)
This is fixed now 🥳 Thanks @xuu!
I should be working on my PhD but I'm distracted by:

- My mouse scrolling wheel is jumpy and I can't fix it, I've done many searches about the problem.
- I have an external SSD drive for backup that works perfectly on another computer but is not recognized at all on my main computer (no mention of it on lsusb).
@bender I _believe_ that's the only way. We'll deal with it as it comes up I think.
@bender I _can_ fix and make that work in the parser too. But I'm no longer sure how to cater for the general case. It's too much to support all punctuation whilst at the same time as other contradicting rules. For example you cannot both support . in nicknames and then expect to be able to to end a mention with a . 🤦‍♂️
@bender Yes I know 🤣 It's okay, we just have to build better parsers 😅
@abucci totally my fault sorry 😞
@bender LOL 😂
There are 5 of such "Twters" on this pod that have periods in their nick 😢


sqlite> select count(distinct(nick)) from twters where nick like '%.%';
count(distinct(nick)) = 5
sqlite> select distinct(nick) from twters where nick like '%.%';
 nick = @marado@ciberlandia.pt

 nick = eapl.me

 nick = eapl.mx

 nick = grumpygordie.great-site.net

 nick = @chyrp.doesnm.cc
I'll see if I can fix this and write a test case for what's going on here. I _think_ this is made difficult now because folks like @eapl.me decide that it's okay to have a . (_period_) in their # nick 🤣 tbh I _think_ nick(s) should have rules of what they can and cannot be comprised of. i.e: no punctuation 🤦‍♂️
Whereas @movq @lyse and @bender are all cool 😎
That's kind of weird actually. Hmmm @movq, @lyse, and @bender are all cool 😎
@bender This story just reminds me of the couple of times we've paid for things in cash 💰 💲 and the stupid banks with the ridiculous "scam alert policy" ask you all kind of dumb ass questions about what you need the cash for 🤦‍♂️ One of these days I need an excuse to buy something that costs a few $k just so I can answer when asked, "what do you need the cash for?" to which my response will be "drugs and hookers of course!" 🤣
@bender Sounds good to me! Done ✅ Also you did some, so thanks! 🙏
The #philosopher’s machine: my conversation with Peter Singer’s AI chatbot: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/18/the-philosophers-machine-my-conversation-with-peter-singer-ai-chatbot
Un jour, il faudra vraiment que je lise tout ce site: https://fabiensanglard.net/ #snes
@doesnm.p.psf.lt Remind me alter 🙏
@doesnm.p.psf.lt Because I'm a lazy project manage and I haven't grooomed the backlog in a while 🤣 Since you're there, do you mind cleaning it up for me? 🙏
@andros U2FsdGVkX180/itld+ucWj8NZnmz81h2tteUdRe3IL3gcM2zF4fvVCVZbHFyEvWQN98btXqQ9VHr8Y46z1O5DQ==
@prologic exactly!!!! thank you <33
@kat creating habits or rituals as hard, dropping ones that you no longer need or considered harmful is even harder! Good luck! 🙏
@prologic LMAOOOOO TWINS
@kat That's what she said 🤣
rough day today TT therapy was hard. i'm trying yet again to establish a routine and stick to it. or at least a way of tracking my tasks and making a routine out of that over time. i really hope it sticks
@lyse so cute and so pretty!
@bender WHO CARRIES $3K IN CASH AROUND IN A BAG
@mana FUCK YEAH!!! you did it right :D love it
@mana HI MANA!!!!!!!!
Responded to a bunch of Twtxt open issues across multiple repositories today 👌
🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:1316 ARCHIVED:86446 CACHE:2799 FOLLOWERS:20 FOLLOWING:14
@bender You said:

> as long as those working on clients can reach an agreement on how to move forward. That has proven, though, to be a pickle in the past.

I _think_ this is because we probably need to start thinking about three different aspects to the ecosystem and document them out:

- Specifications (_as they are now_)
- Server recommendations (_e.g: Timeline, yarnd, etc_)
- Client recommendations (_e.g: jenny, tt, tt2, twet, etc_)
@bender wut?! Who carries three grand worth of cash in their handbag?! 👜 Haha 😆
also I may have forgor to bookmark this when I started using zen primarily instead of librewolf hallo timeline again
trying to not feel stressed today, so I digitally colored a smol frog that says fuck terfs! >m< i have no idea if I did that right bc it's my first time using yarn to post an image so rip to me if I messed that up :'D
@bender Thanks! The rain rapidly cooled off the 17°C to just 10°C. I certainly appreciated that. The weather is coming from the west here, so I thought you've sent it our way. Let me try to return it. :-)
📖 Logic and Science: https://philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=FERLAS-7
Today's stroll was really nice. Just around 11km in total I'd reckon. We had a barbie at a mate's garden where everybody went on a hunt for an easter basket. Oh boy, what a preparation that must have been! Baking the bunnies, dying the eggs, mixing the bear leek butter and so on. That's dedication, let me tell you. :-)

Contents of the easter basket, not the pliers, though

It was the first time this year that we had half proper April weather and a thunderstorm in general. It started off with clear sky and lovely sunshine. Right after arvo lunch it started to rain, so we went into the hut. Then, the sun returned.

On the way back with the growling thunder in the distance coming closer and closer we escaped the rain just perfectly. A minute or two after we reached the car, wet stuff started coming down the sky. Not even half a minute after opening the front door, it poured like crazy. Lucky twice today. There's beautiful sunshine again by now. It smells absolutely great after the rain. I love it!

https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-04-21/
@kat Bahahaha so do it all the time 🤣
@andros Some good points here that I share and empathize with 🙌
@bender I see hmmm 🧐
@andros Zulu said:

> what is twtxt for you?

For me Twtxt is just the underlying format that Yarn.social builds upon 😅
@andros Ahh cool! I'll try following it again 🤣 Mind @-mentioning/linking the feed again? 🙏
Also what's a, who's the Pope? 😅
@quark I know! I saw three Hacker News posts on it in a row 🤣
@andros Haha 🤣 We've explored this idea in the past and we decided that it's _actually_ a good idea to have an "append-only" feed for various reasons. We've also explored the idea of using Range requests, but opted instead to just archive/rotate our feeds periodically 😅 There really isn't much point in having a feed in reverse chronological order, except (_maybe?_) so a human read view the new twts at the top of the file?! 🤣_
@bender This is just a website that cycles through random Youtube channels? 🤔
I guess mentions with .(s) / dot(s) like @eapl.me are valid? 🤔 Or nicks even? 🤔
Fark Youtube is so utterly boring 🥱
@bender Ahh yes you caught me 🤣
@bender Not copy/paste 🤣 Hand on heart! ❤️ However it was a pretty nice article 😅
@prologic regex is unholy what am i looking at
@prologic i saw this! so fucked up
Getting Forked by Microsoft • Philip Laine 👈 Yet another pretty sad story of a megacorp (_Microsoft_) being total assholes 😢
Regex Isn't Hard - Tim Kellogg 👈 this is a pretty good conscience article on regexes, and I agree, regex isn't that hard™ -- However I _think_ I can make the TL;DR even shorter 😅

----

Regex core subset (portable across languages):

Character sets
• a matches “a”
• [a-z] any lowercase
• [a-zA-Z0-9] alphanumeric
• [^ab] any char but a or b

Repetition (applies to the preceding atom)
• ? zero or one
• * zero or more
• + one or more

Groups
• (ab)+ matches “ab”, “abab”, …
• Capture for extract/substitute via $1 or \1

Operators
• foo|bar = foo or bar
• ^ start anchor
• $ end anchor

Ignore non‑portable shortcuts: \w, ., {n}, *?, lookarounds.

#regex101=
Voilà, je ferme mon abonnement freebox pour retourner chez ovh. Maintenant, c'est free mobile que je veux remplacer, reste à trouver un fournisseur pas trop mal
@bender No worries 😉
There we go. Restored all the old settings 👌
@bender Lemme look at the old backup...
Pope Francis
@kat it's fixed now but lol i'm so good at this stuff aren't i
good morning everyone. before going to bed last night i accidentally password protected the entirety of my biggest site superlove because i botched a refactor of my caddyfile config. lmao
@prologic your live posting when something goes wrong is environmental storytelling it's so funny help
@kingdomcome at least ur hair kicks ass....
@bender

> I am up to increase the length of a twtxt, though.

Recall what we had this set to for this pod? 🧐
On my blog: Developer Diary, Grounation Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/21/grounation.html #programming #project #devjournal
@bender Really? Wow! 😂
@bender Hah 🤣
Just had a freak storm ⛈️ with lots of horizontal rain ☔️ that took out and tripped our internal RCD (_again_) 😱 Took out our Fibre too (_servers were fine, good 'ol UPS_). Need to get a UPS for the Fibre box 📦 Haha 🤣
😢 Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday at age of 88 - Vatican News: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-04/pope-francis-dies-on-easter-monday-aged-88.html
@andros U2FsdGVkX1/9OJEfAYduLltj1fG6XN51AC8X/mQ0r6+jiWv8TwfUNHzmmPwok2OQPZmD9xUmZl9dgoX3KPIDWQ==
@prologic That was a different view: https://movq.de/v/7fb10a825d/picam-small.mp4 🎥
Je suis surpris de n'avoir rien trouvé ni reçu comme suggestion, alors je retente ma chance. Connaissez-vous des blogs qui testent des jeux retro (snes, nes, ...) ou qui parlent de romhack? #retrogaming #romhack
@movq So cool! 😎 Where's the time lapse video you used to have of this tree? 🌳 Hmm 🧐
@movq Yeah I know 🤣 I found another bug in lextwt 🤦‍♂️ This whole DM / bang-mention thingy has thrown a spanner in the works 🔧 -- Even if I wanted to implement it, I'm not even ready to try at the moment 😢
@movq Oh, that's beautiful!

I opened up all the photos in new tabs and went through them. For a second, I wondered that it was snowing at your place right now. :-D

That made me realize that so far we basically had nearly no April weather whatsoever. May might be full of it then, let's see. :-)
@prologic @movq @bmallred @ionores Thank you! Yeah, the yellow meadows look truly awesome.

Watching "Happy People: A Year in the Taiga" in German the evening before, this thing totally looked like a trap to us. So, we decided to sit on another, more rustic bench nearby. :-) Oh neat, it turns out, there is a much longer four part series of the documentary in English on YouTube. Highly recommended! This is part one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbhPIK-oBvA

Judging by the surroundings, I think this is actually a forest altar or something of that nature. But it looks like they started with the chappel's reinforcement steel and then they ran out of money before completing it or even placing the concrete forms. :-P

Yeah, 78 might be photo of the month. It's one of my favorites.
@prologic I think they’re there, I have a bunch of them 😅 https://movq.de/v/173a153d01/s.png
“The Tree”™ in last winter:

https://movq.de/v/f0c0e1e38c/

Now it’s getting greener:

https://movq.de/v/24e62315ef/

[![](https://movq.de/v/24e62315ef/.html%2Dindex%2Dthumb%2DIMG_20250421_071652.jpg%2Dsmall.jpg.jpg)](https://movq.de/v/24e62315ef/IMG_20250421_071652.jpg%2Dsmall.jpg)
@kate (_as I was trying to say..._), Glad you think so👌 My goal with Yarn.social has always been to provide the best (_best that I can anyway_) truly decentralised (_slow_) social experience that uses the Twtxt format under the hood 😅
@xuu As I also mentioend on IRC I _think_ this is a. bug?
Holy hell?! When I post this:


@<kate https://yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz/user/kat/twtxt.txt> Glad you think so! 👌 My goal with Yarn.social has always been to provide the best (_best that I can anyway!_) truly decentralised (_slow_) social experience that uses the Twtxt format under the hood 😅


Something is swallowing it.