Leif Harmsen
@harmsen.net
Painter, webmaster-coder, art-historian, husband, brother, uncle, friend, neighbour, citizen, tourist, investor, renovator, cabaret, queeraoke, burlesque, club-kid, filmmaker, centrist, otter-top, cyclist, shill for PR, lumberjack, gentleman parvenu.
I admit I was doom scrolling and this stopped me and made me think... and go share a Popsicle with my husband.
November 28, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I admit I was doom scrolling and this stopped me and made me think... and go share a Popsicle with my husband.
You got WHAMED! Fortunately I had my audio muted.
What makes "Last Christmas" an "Adult Hit"?!
What makes "Last Christmas" an "Adult Hit"?!
November 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM
You got WHAMED! Fortunately I had my audio muted.
What makes "Last Christmas" an "Adult Hit"?!
What makes "Last Christmas" an "Adult Hit"?!
Moscow spent its frozen assets already by destroying foreign property.
November 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Moscow spent its frozen assets already by destroying foreign property.
Um... Karoline Leavitt's brother is ICE-detainee's baby-daddy? Family dysfunction much?
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Um... Karoline Leavitt's brother is ICE-detainee's baby-daddy? Family dysfunction much?
Si vous vous sentez comme Ponce Pilate aujourd'hui, ne désespérez pas, de l'aide est disponible, partout au Canada, composez le 9-8-8.
If you're feeling like Pontius Pilate today don't despair, help is available, anywhere in Canada dial 9-8-8.
If you're feeling like Pontius Pilate today don't despair, help is available, anywhere in Canada dial 9-8-8.
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Si vous vous sentez comme Ponce Pilate aujourd'hui, ne désespérez pas, de l'aide est disponible, partout au Canada, composez le 9-8-8.
If you're feeling like Pontius Pilate today don't despair, help is available, anywhere in Canada dial 9-8-8.
If you're feeling like Pontius Pilate today don't despair, help is available, anywhere in Canada dial 9-8-8.
The UK needs proportional representation. The 2 party system was never great and is especially failed now.
November 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The UK needs proportional representation. The 2 party system was never great and is especially failed now.
He must be from Turnham Green.
November 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
He must be from Turnham Green.
Using a heat gun or blow torch to "flash" the surface might have worked, or it might turn it into "art". Better, don't buy plastic crap. Make a picnic table out of lumber. You can find easy plans online.
November 26, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Using a heat gun or blow torch to "flash" the surface might have worked, or it might turn it into "art". Better, don't buy plastic crap. Make a picnic table out of lumber. You can find easy plans online.
You can do it in 5 mins today for free. It's the one free easy thing you can do now to thwart autocracy. If Musk then buys Bluesky, you can move to Gander or any other ATproto server and still have all of your followers. We're not married to any one platform, it's the protocol that's important.
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
You can do it in 5 mins today for free. It's the one free easy thing you can do now to thwart autocracy. If Musk then buys Bluesky, you can move to Gander or any other ATproto server and still have all of your followers. We're not married to any one platform, it's the protocol that's important.
Jake, connect the dots and figure from this WHY you can and should switch to using your own domain name here at Bluesky. There's no penalty or loss of followers from doing it - all that happens is your handle changes to your name you legally own rather than the platform owning it.
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Jake, connect the dots and figure from this WHY you can and should switch to using your own domain name here at Bluesky. There's no penalty or loss of followers from doing it - all that happens is your handle changes to your name you legally own rather than the platform owning it.
Happy Birthday!
but fuck Instagram, stop pimping for that fascist shit.
but fuck Instagram, stop pimping for that fascist shit.
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Happy Birthday!
but fuck Instagram, stop pimping for that fascist shit.
but fuck Instagram, stop pimping for that fascist shit.
Heck why not "return" all of mainland China to China's only legitimate government; the one that remains in Taiwan?
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Heck why not "return" all of mainland China to China's only legitimate government; the one that remains in Taiwan?
That's so totally backwards by every measure.
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
That's so totally backwards by every measure.
Not even close. There has never been more people and our population continues to grow at ever more dangerously unsustainable rates. Rabbits should talk about "breeding like humans".
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Not even close. There has never been more people and our population continues to grow at ever more dangerously unsustainable rates. Rabbits should talk about "breeding like humans".
AI is a problem looking for a problem.
November 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
AI is a problem looking for a problem.
I've often thought if we put all that ai money into geothermal r&d we'd be waaaaaay further ahead.
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I've often thought if we put all that ai money into geothermal r&d we'd be waaaaaay further ahead.
If anyone is like "well gold is more scarce than cloves" you'd be wrong. There are about 200k metric tons of cloves in the entire universe at any one time - you could fit them all on one container ship. The amount of gold in our one tiny galaxy alone is 100 million times the mass of the Earth.
November 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
If anyone is like "well gold is more scarce than cloves" you'd be wrong. There are about 200k metric tons of cloves in the entire universe at any one time - you could fit them all on one container ship. The amount of gold in our one tiny galaxy alone is 100 million times the mass of the Earth.
Nice Persian carpet btw. Children love those - being closer to them and being more in contact with the floor. Ours are wearing out, very slowly. But when I get down on one and feel it and really look at the patterns, I feel like a kid again.
November 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Nice Persian carpet btw. Children love those - being closer to them and being more in contact with the floor. Ours are wearing out, very slowly. But when I get down on one and feel it and really look at the patterns, I feel like a kid again.
In the 17th and 18th Centuries cloves were worth more in money than gold. Let that be a lesson about money. Cloves have always been, are and will always be worth more than gold - just not in money.
November 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
In the 17th and 18th Centuries cloves were worth more in money than gold. Let that be a lesson about money. Cloves have always been, are and will always be worth more than gold - just not in money.
My sad song will be about a girl on skid row who has a black eye and her harm is in a cast from being abused by her sadist dentist boyfriend, wishing she and a geek shop assistant named Seymour with whom she is secretly in love were living together in a suburban house "Somewhere That's Green".
November 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
My sad song will be about a girl on skid row who has a black eye and her harm is in a cast from being abused by her sadist dentist boyfriend, wishing she and a geek shop assistant named Seymour with whom she is secretly in love were living together in a suburban house "Somewhere That's Green".
Defiant pelargoniums! Snow and blue skies here too. Invigorating.
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Defiant pelargoniums! Snow and blue skies here too. Invigorating.