A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
POSITIVE, adj. Mistaken at the top of one’s voice.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Positive,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/1077/
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“Israel's Innocent Oopsie-Poopsie #Medical #Massacre #Mistake”
by Caitlin Johnstone in Notes From The Narrative Matrix on Substack
@palestine
@israel
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@guardian @Independent @thetimes
“To be helpful I have written some headlines the western press can use to frame Israel executing 15 medical workers in the most positive light possible:
‘Medical workers killed by #IDF, says Hamas-affiliated United Nations’”
Caitlin’s Newsletter · Israel's Innocent Oopsie-Poopsie Medical Massacre Mistake
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The kind of ‘mistake’ that a war crime is.
Talk about mealy mouthed hypocrites full of weasel words!
They don’t even have the honesty, courage or gumption to own their own xxxxxx [fill in the blank yourself - I don’t even want to say the word…] 
Yeah, the PCBs I designed for the new Chowndolo arrived at destination but I made a mistake in ordering the components (a 4.7 k resistor in stead of a 4.7...). Fortunately they managed to fix it manually @intelligentinstruments @halldorophone @la.lepre @eurocircuits_official #pcb #chowndolo #electronics #design #instrumentsdesign #musicalinstrument #pcba #pcbassembly #PCBA #pcbart #PCBAfactory #mistake #mistakesarelessons
In The Night Garden 
So, interesting story about this one. I took the photo, realized I'd messed up and had the ISO and shutter speed all the way down in hell with less focus than a toddler on a sugar high, got home, tried to salvage its photographic corpse - Voilà. Eccoci. Here we are.
#photography #reallyamateurphotography #amateurphotography #mistake #dark #moody #night #whimsical #whimsygoth #flowers #spring #experiment #garden #bloomscrolling #aesthetic #dreamy #veronicapersica #persianspeedwell #try #ohwell #leaves #green #blue #afternoon #thursday #italy #bologna #urbangarden #urban
So, interesting story about this one. I took the photo, realized I'd messed up and had the ISO and shutter speed all the way down in hell with less focus than a toddler on a sugar high, got home, tried to salvage its photographic corpse - Voilà. Eccoci. Here we are.
#photography #reallyamateurphotography #amateurphotography #mistake #dark #moody #night #whimsical #whimsygoth #flowers #spring #experiment #garden #bloomscrolling #aesthetic #dreamy #veronicapersica #persianspeedwell #try #ohwell #leaves #green #blue #afternoon #thursday #italy #bologna #urbangarden #urban
Under the #FiveEyes agreement, the #US, #Australia, #Britain, #Canada & #NewZealand share most of their #intelligence.
Defence analyst Hugh White Hugh says Australian leaders are telling the public that the #Trump presidency will make no difference to key elements of the alliance with the US, including AUKUS and Five Eyes and that's a "big #mistake". #auspol #PutinsPuppet is a #RussianAsset
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-25/aukus-five-eyes-trump-john-lyons/104973408
ABC News · As Donald Trump upends geopolitics what happens to Five Eyes and AUKUS?
Wops, I accidentally blocked mastodon.social for a second here on the fediverse.
My apologies to anyone who followed me and got caught in the crossfire, I lost about 79 followers in the process.
I was trying to block a user and misclicked without paying attention
So sorry for the inconvenience!
Sending you all on mastodon.social lots of love! 
Ah yes, just what I always wanted with my cordless screwdriver… 
Another one of my favorites...CROCHET! I had a little etsy business at one point. I did pretty good, had fairly consistent orders. The thing about that is...taking something you do to relax and turning it into a business was a mistake. Putting absolutely ridiculous time frames for completing on myself was my first mistake. The second, not valuing my time and my commodity. I often priced myself so low that I was "earning" like $2.50 per hour I spent on the projects, or less! And so, I let the etsy business fizzle out and go dark. Will I ever sell my creations again? Maybe. But my love for crochet will be forever...even if my arthritis has other opinions. LOL!
#Crochet #SmallBusiness #Skeleton #Newlyweds #MrAndMrs #Etsy #Hobby #Craft #Crafting #DIY #ThingsILove #Texas #Dallas #Handmade #AmericanMade #Relax #Arthritis #Mistake #LearnFromYourMistakes #Favorite #Fave
#Crochet #SmallBusiness #Skeleton #Newlyweds #MrAndMrs #Etsy #Hobby #Craft #Crafting #DIY #ThingsILove #Texas #Dallas #Handmade #AmericanMade #Relax #Arthritis #Mistake #LearnFromYourMistakes #Favorite #Fave
Madame de Tencin said that intelligent people often erred in their conduct because they could never believe that the world in general is as stupid as it is.
[Mme de Tencin disait que les gens d’esprit faisaient beaucoup de fautes en conduite, parce qu’ils ne croyaient jamais le monde assez bête, aussi bête qu’il l’est.]
Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionnée], Part 2 “Characters and Anecdotes [Caractères et Anecdotes],” ¶ 715 (1795) [tr. Merwin (1969)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/744…
Scientific #discovery involves making mistakes, but these are often omitted from official reports. In this preprint, I recount a #mistake which led to the discovery that #rats were making ultrasonic #vocalizations while playing. Scientific serendipity is worth celebrating! (thanks to Markus Wöhr for encouragement to submit the tale for a special issue on ultrasonic vocalizations).
papers.ssrn.comHow We Stumbled Upon the Rat VocalizationsOver a quarter of a century later, most rodent researchers know that specific types of ultrasonic vocalizations in rats appear to index distinct affective state
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Ah, turns out I was totally stupid! 
I've forgotten to include the following Plugin:
TextPlugin
When testing in a separate crate with 0.14, I had included it, but not in my new 0.15 project. Stupid me!
Now layouts are correctly calculated in tests. 
I apologize to everyone for the confusion and especially to the #Bevy project for blaming them of something that was totally my oversight. 
Public Service Announcement to my fellow trans masculine folk who use T:
Do not, for the love of gods above, below, and beyond, put the T gel on your chest unless you are ready to experience and unphatomable itch.
I want to skin myself alive.
@Freyja @Vivaldi the only other thing I can say, as someone a part of a #marginalized group that isn't as small as yours, is that everyone marches to their own #beat
Judging by that person's 15 "followers" to your 1k+ I wouldn't be overly concerned about Vivaldi not giving that ONE the boot.
Probably better for EVERYONE to out those progressively #challenged rather than making the #mistake of letting them walk among us #undetected
!STOP!
If you have homebrew on your mac, never ever run the following command:
“brew install rogue”
At least not, if your productivity is dear to you!
Impatient Long Exposure Mess-up
Description: I'm not sure why I like this mess-up. I was taking a vertical photo, or maybe it was a horizontal
https://thecareyadventures.com/blog/impatient-long-exposure-mess-up/
A quotation from Montaigne, Michel de:
«
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
[Personne n’est exempt de dire des fadaises: le malheur est, de les dire curieusement]
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/2882/