@eylul More seriously, my impression has always been that Iceland is kind of like northern England except a little colder and with volcanoes, while the place which really should have been named "Iceland" is Greenland.
"The commuter" October 2024, Istanbul, Turkey
This is easily one of my favorite photographs from 2024. Busy sidewalk, and just a snail in the middle of morning rush, on its way like everyone else.
#photography #snail #editbacklog #artWithOpenSource #darktable #naturePhotography (?)
#media #journalism #LocalNews #Wisconsin
'WUWM, WPR and WXPR will share reporting on issues vital to communities across Wisconsin, with a particular focus on the environment and natural resources.'
@startswithabang [looks at diagram] I seem to be in "turbulence" now, but I'd really rather be in "star formation" -- any suggestions? :blobcatthink:
(Disclaimer: The above is intended purely for humorous purposes; I'm not technically a scientist, nor am I attempting a career as such.)
(P.S. After the revolution, can we take all the money used to pay for the billionaire-tax-cuts and put them into science instead? I'd vote for that.)
RE: https://toot.cat/@woozle/115916659875950286
"If your feminism isn't intersectional, it's just Sparkling Crystal Patriarchy." -- @mekkaokereke (official misquote)
@mekkaokereke May I misquote this as "If your feminism isn't intersectional, it's just Sparkling Crystal Patriarchy"? :D
(I agree totally, FWIW. Standing on one form of equality to throw the others under the bus is... yeah, what you said. Stop me before I start blathering out more metaphors. :blobcatupsidedown:)
@Asuyuia Good point! :-)
...but also, who cares what they say? It feels a little like appeasement to back away from a strong statement just because the Right might seize on it -- they'd do that regardless of how watered-down it was. They claim the NYT and WaPo are left-wing, fer cryin' out loud.
I kinda feel like no attention is bad attention, when you don't have a lot of PR resources; if we can get them ranting about it on Fox News or Joe Rogan or whatever, that could seriously drive some readership -- some percentage of whom (however small) will be supporters. ...and it wouldn't take all that many supporters to make this work financially.
(...but that's just my hot take in the moment.)
@libreoffice Awesome! Have you had a lot of applications for the Base position? I'd send in my CV, but my experience has been that there's generally an oversupply of devs.
Update: I belatedly noticed that the deadline for applications was late last year -- so I assume you've already hired the devs you need. Hope it's going well!
(I don't have the time to commit to "daily" right now, nor do I feel like there's a really good software platform for it yet... but if anyone is interested in pursuing this, I do have some (limited) resources.)
I've figured out what I would call an anti-authoritarian newsfeed (newspaper but online):
The idea is that everyone -- readers, management, critics, and supporters -- needs to be reminded:
(...and probably a few other things I haven't thought of yet.)
@il Why OnlyOffice, when it's apparently proprietary? We've been using @libreoffice for many years now, with great satisfaction (...aside from Base, but that's a whole other discussion).
Advice welcomed!
Day 1 of figuring out what we're taking with us to Ecuador:
We've picked our apartment, and moving option.
We've chosen a couple of lift vans, since I don't think our place would support a giant crate. We're going to have to empty our house, but well, exile/refuge tends to require such things.
The rules we know:
2 Lift Vans= 80 medium moving boxes
Combined weight limit of clothes = 200 kg.
I want a goal of 75 in order to be safe. I split this into three parts:
25 personal boxes for each of us for personal items, books, clothes.
Equivalencies:
10 small moving boxes= 6 medium size boxes
1 moving bag of clothes= 1 medium size box
Advantage: our place is fully furnished, and has enough bedding/cookware for us to start, though we're gonna need some things.
My issues: figuring out which clothes to take mostly
The joint boxes: I'm kinda rationing them out as follows
5 boxes: Computer stuff
2 boxes: Warhammer stuff
2 boxes: posters/framed pictures
1 box: documents
7 boxes: appliances+kitchenware
1 box or bag: hangers
2 boxes/bags: plushies
5 boxes: bedding (pillowcases, 2 pillows, weighted blanket, spare bedsheets.
A crate would have been simpler, but we don't have enough for that, it's more complicated to deal with, and the empty space means a risk of breakage.
This is not going to be easy, but we can do it. Got 6 weeks before the movers come (not counting the trip south to see friends in 2 weeks)
@nazokiyoubinbou This, of course, is the elephant in the room.
I can't think of any way to prevent this other than getting these assholes out of power, which is what we urgently want anyway -- so I focus on that.
@gildilinie I mean, the problem people were* having with the idea of quote-boosts, which resulted in it only being implented years after other fedi software had it and with the option to opt-out enabled by default (thus resulting in awkwardness when other fedi software which never had a problem with it doesn't check those permissions and lets you quoost stuff regardless).
(* are they still? I've heard remarkably little protest since it was implemented...)
@gildilinie I never understood what the problem was, but I didn't want to be one of those "I don't see it therefore it doesn't exist" people. :-P
