Bug 292775 is totally and completely unrelated, but it was one of only three hits when I broadened my search by deleting search terms until only this remained:

Undefined symbol "xmlSchematronFree"

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port devel/appstream 1.1.2 (in ports tree git branch 2026Q2) failed with error messages the 'Net never saw:

FAILED: [code=1] data/org.freedesktop.appstream.cli.metainfo.xml

ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lxml/etree.cpython-311.so: Undefined symbol "xmlSchematronFree"

The only hint is Bug 292775:

Upgrade devel/py-lxml (from py311-lxml-6.0.1 to py311-lxml-6.0.4 in my case), which upgraded lang/cython (from py311-cython3-3.2.2 to py311-cython-3.2.4 in my case).

@NanoRaptor

I found myself with a little inspiration from the Highlander movie:

From the dawn of time we came, moving quietly through the centuries.
Living many secret lives - artists, scholars, healers, courtesans, priests.
Struggling to reach The Time of the Gathering,
When those that still walk the earth
Will gather and sing and dance and rejoice
At the lives that we have claimed
And reclaimed,
When we may finally dance in the light of the sun,
As we have long danced under the gentle glow of the moon.
When the Powers that Be have glimpsed our power -
Our wisdom, our subtlety, the call of our song -
They have sought to eradicate our threat, to take our lives
With brute force, with cruel power, with dull muscle.
But our song remains, hidden in shadow.
The song - true song - cannot be silent, and will never be silent
Until the last human being has gasped their last breath.
For we are your mirror, we are your truth
The truth you have only refused to contemplate.
Few outside of our circle have known we were among you... until now.

So, my lovely companion… are you ready to join in the dance?

👯

If you’re trans & born before 2000, when asked who you are you can legit answer:

“Do not ask me for a single title, I have crossed millennia under different names and worn more than one form besides. Revered by some and feared by many, I have seen the fall of nations and am remembered differently in each age that survives me.”

We didn't even notice that Google killed its most beautiful flower, Search, more than 15 whole years ago.

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upset at social media? tired of parasocial relationships that prey on addiction?

try lesbiaboard

lesbiaboard: a welcoming web 1.0 forum

log in and post to your heart's content

you will certainly not regret posting on lesbiaboard

forums.transbian.love/

Like the rest of the World Wide Web, they didn't go away. We did.

We got lured away from the World Wide Web into the shiny and green walled gardens. Now we forgot what's beyond that wall, and we're only just noticing that the garden's flowers are wilted and its grass is long since dead.

The World Wide Web is still there, only diminished by our absence and invisible behind the walls of the worst tech corporations selling us a utopia that isn't.

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@mavica_again I'm gonna start doing this. The y is silent. (The "why" of it was always silent.)

i don't have any sort of analytics on my websites. i don't care about number go up. i care about hearing about people enjoying the things i built

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i wish one tenth of the thousands of people who posted and reblogged about especially during its viral phase when it launched had sent me the internet equivalent of a postcard

have i ever shared my accidental trans eevee who stood in wet paint

I am not boosting that keyboard photo account because it posts with absolutely zero sourcing, zero credit, zero indication it has anyone's blessing, and zero descriptions of any kind. It could be posting photoshoops for all we know.

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