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jbotToday's daily <a href="https://mastodon.brk.io/tags/fortune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fortune</a>: ----------------------- Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience. -- Albert Einstein

Tania LévyDes remèdes de l'une et l'autre Fortune : traduction de Pétrarque par un auteur rouennais vers 1503. Plusieurs magnifiques enluminures pleines pages illustrent les chapitres de l'ouvrage avec notamment la représentation de la Fortune prospère et adverse, devant la roue qui tourne. Image riche et complexe !Le manuscrit est visible en entier ici : <a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b60007782" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b60007782</a><a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/HistoireDelArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoireDelArt</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Manuscrit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Manuscrit</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Petrarque" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Petrarque</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Rouen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rouen</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Fortune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fortune</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/enluminure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#enluminure</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Renaissance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Renaissance</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/BnF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BnF</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/enlumineur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#enlumineur</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Manuscript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Manuscript</a>

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jbotToday's daily <a href="https://mastodon.brk.io/tags/fortune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fortune</a>: ----------------------- I went to my mother and told her I intended to commence a different life. I asked for and obtained her blessing and at once commenced the career of a robber. -- Tiburcio Vasquez

jbotToday's daily <a href="https://mastodon.brk.io/tags/fortune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fortune</a>: ----------------------- "Bureaucracy is the enemy of innovation." -- Mark Shepherd, former President and CEO of Texas Instruments

jbotToday's daily <a href="https://mastodon.brk.io/tags/fortune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fortune</a>: ----------------------- Humor in the Court: Q. Officer, what led you to believe the defendant was under the influence? A. Because he was argumentary and he couldn't pronunciate his words.

Stuffed Crocodilettrpg fortunes <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/fortune-fail.webp" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix)" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><code>fortune</code></a> is one of those classic unix programs that are available on basically all unixoid systems. The only thing it does is “display a pseudorandom message from a database of quotations”, or as the man-page of fortune for debian says: “fortune – print a random, hopefully interesting, adage”. To be fair, the fortune part of the name comes from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_cookie" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">fortune cookies</a>. So whatever is printed is not meant to be taken too seriously. You wouldn’t think this is a terribly interesting or even useful program, but people have found uses for it over the last few decades. It might just be used to provide a human element to an otherwise sterile work environment, but I also found it used at least once to provide a noticeable update to an otherwise static website (by printing adages about project management. So the updates were functionally useless, but the program did fulfill an important task). What the program does is this: it takes a file of adages, or sayings, or other small text snippets, and when called prints one of them. You can chose which file you want to take those from, you can choose the length you want your printed text to be, and a few other smaller options. It will determine one and output it. It’s one of those programs that breathes the unix philosophy that a program should do just one thing, but do it well. You might encounter it every time when you log on to a shell, where the admin has configured <code>fortune </code>to print a quote. Or some people have it in their signature for forums or emails. (sometimes connected with something like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><code>cowsay</code></a> which prints a bit of crude ascii art cow (or whatever) saying whatever fortune spit out. <pre><code> ________________________________________/ I could never be a druid, I just don’t \\ trust the trees. They’re too shady. / ---------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||</code></pre>There are a lot of different fortune files available, from the stock ones that are shipped with distributions, to other projects where you might, e.g. find <a href="https://www.splitbrain.org/projects/fortunes/discworld" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Discworld quotes</a>, or, I dunno, your favorite <a href="https://github.com/JKirchartz/fortunes/blob/master/chuckfacts" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Chuck Norris facts</a>.Anyway, I was futzing around with our <a href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/chat/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">IRC network</a> lately and while playing around with a bot that could use <code>fortune</code>, I realized that there was no actual file available for stuff about roleplaying (or wargaming, or boardgaming, or any gaming for that matter).So I decided to make one.Right now it’s only a small page on <a href="https://campaignwiki.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">campaignwiki.org</a>: <a href="https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/TTRPGFortuneFile/HomePage" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/TTRPGFortuneFile/HomePage</a> but the idea is to soon enough move that to github and do it on there.If you want to add to the file: the page above is a wiki so you can just add what you want to add. (some people already did). I am looking for pithy sayings, jokes, DM advice, and everything else that might be interesting. Have a great quote about roleplaying games? Maybe even a more or less short story? Just add it on there. Edit: I decided to just go ahead and create a Codeberg repository for it <a href="https://codeberg.org/kyonshi/ttrpg-fortunes" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://codeberg.org/kyonshi/ttrpg-fortunes</a><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/dnd/" target="_blank">#dnd</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/fortune/" target="_blank">#fortune</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/linux/" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/osr/" target="_blank">#osr</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/rpg/" target="_blank">#rpg</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/ttrpg/" target="_blank">#ttrpg</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/unix/" target="_blank">#unix</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/tag/wargames/" target="_blank">#Wargames</a>

Nils WilckeLes bijoux Dati, suite. Le gouvernement réagit en deux temps après les révélations de Libé sur les trésors de la ministre de la culture. 1. La défense: "Elle doit régulariser si c’était vrai, affirme Sophie Primas. De 2. L'attaque contre la presse: "J’ai discuté avec elle. Aujourd’hui, ses avocats vont porter plainte, (ils) ont écrit à la HATVP", ajoute la porte-parole sur le plateau du Grand Jury. My ministre is rich...<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Politique</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dati" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dati</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Corruption</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bijoux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bijoux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fortune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fortune</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gouvernement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gouvernement</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bayrou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bayrou</a>

jbotToday's daily <a href="https://mastodon.brk.io/tags/fortune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fortune</a>: ----------------------- YOU!! Give me the CUTEST, PINKEST, most charming little VICTORIAN DOLLHOUSE you can find!! An make it SNAPPY!!

jbotToday's daily <a href="https://mastodon.brk.io/tags/fortune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fortune</a>: ----------------------- <edLin> LWE? <edLin> Linux W?? E?? <seeS> will eatyou <JHM> World Expo? <edLin> i see

jbotToday's daily <a href="https://mastodon.brk.io/tags/fortune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fortune</a>: ----------------------- The beer-cooled computer does not harm the ozone layer. -- John M. Ford, a.k.a. Dr. Mike [If I can read my notes from the Ask Dr. Mike session at Baycon, I believe he added that the beer-cooled computer uses "Forget Only Memory". Ed.]

Nils WilckeDati n'a pas déclaré à la HATVP sa fabuleuse collection de bijoux offerts par son amant Henri Proglio. La liste estimée à 500 000 euros donne le tournis: une montre Chopard (32 000 euros), des ballons bleus Cartier, le Serpenti Viper de Bulgari (28 900 euros), un bracelet Anita Ko (24 265 euros) etc. "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend", chantait Monroe... Pas sûr que la Justice entonne la même chanson <a href="https://www.liberation.fr/societe/police-justice/les-bijoux-caches-de-rachida-dati-revelations-sur-le-patrimoine-de-la-ministre-de-la-culture-20250409_CSZOOEG3AVFCJBERYAWHKY6F7M/?redirected=1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.liberation.fr/societe/police-justice/les-bijoux-caches-de-rachida-dati-revelations-sur-le-patrimoine-de-la-ministre-de-la-culture-20250409_CSZOOEG3AVFCJBERYAWHKY6F7M/?redirected=1</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Politique</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dati" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dati</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bijoux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bijoux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HATVP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HATVP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gouvernement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gouvernement</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Macron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Macron</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fortune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fortune</a>

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