Which is funny cuz I've never really been to any of those. No accounts and only visited IG a few times because something else linked there for some information.
Also, I didn't really notice Threads was succeeding.
I post about !boinc a bunch on mastodon hopefully to get some excitement from astrophysics folks, there’s tons of cool boinc projects doing astrophysics research. Science runs on twitter, and many scientists are desperately searching for an alternative, imo it’s only a matter of time before they all end up on mastodon or nostr.
“To pick up a pen is to place oneself outside the community in the act of being self-conscious about it. As Burns discovered, it is not really possible to write about community and remain uncompromised within it.”
—read Dorothy McMillan’s essay “Rural Realism”, on George Douglas Brown’s THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUTTERS
Interesting reflection by two older musicians (Beato and Tim Pierce) about how the music industry used to have a "middle class" that's been pushed out now by an industry that focuses more and more on profits.
They don't really go into the details of how the changes happened, with big-corp #capitalism being the elephant in the room ... but their observations, which include tech, paint a pretty clear picture.
I remember a piece Harlan Ellison wrote back in the 1970s. He was working on television shows, and said that if he could save $1,000.00 he could live for six months and just write the stuff he really wanted to do.
@joyce there's a stealth category of Supposed Kids' Books That You Should Absolutely Read As An Adult and that's my number two all time book on that list, the first being The Thirteen Clocks by Thurber - I know @neilhimself is a fan as well - an absolutely masterful book on every level. Everyone should get to know the Golux and the Todal. Anyone who loves The Last Unicorn is likely to love this book too
@KShortill@joyce I would certainly list the younger-audience works by @neilhimself to start with. He writes with respect for the minds of younger people, which is the key quality of a work like this. Calvin & Hobbes is a canonical text of this type, as are the first few Earthsea books by LeGuin. The Princess Bride novel is not, which surprises many who see the movie first. I've never written out an actual list so I'll have to think about it to recover a few more examples.
My theory is that the edges of trees are actually invisible to us, so they are touching (on both ends, obvs), but not in a way we can see. What they are not doing is fighting each other for the light. They are optimizing and cooperating. https://toot.lgbt/@book/111749320285900616
@SylviaSolanas Well, truth is nothing did, but in retrospect I'm assuming that either accommodations or being taken out of school, removed from the neurosupremacist environment I grew up in altogether and live in one in which I would have been allowed to be myself (explore my special interests, be allowed to stim, unmask and not stigmatized for my meltdowns leading me to internalize them) may have helped.
Or at the very least perhaps I wouldn't have already been burnt out and an addict by the time I reached adulthood.
@SylviaSolanas Well, truth is nothing did, but in retrospect I'm assuming that either accommodations or being taken out of school, removed from the neurosupremacist environment I grew up in altogether and live in one in which I would have been allowed to be myself (explore my special interests, be allowed to stim, unmask and not stigmatized for my meltdowns leading me to internalize them) may have helped.
Or at the very least perhaps I wouldn't have already been burnt out and an addict by the time I reached adulthood.
The lightest, this makes makes me think, what actually constitutes a gaming laptop, I have an old Intel 530 laptop, I can play Abe’s Oddysee on it, and probably fallout, which makes it a gaming laptop, why do gamers chase the latest hardware when for mere cents they can get a good experience, an experience which was a dream to many.
It’s just marketing terms and they carry zero weight (lol) or reasoning anymore. Best to ignore anything a company says and just look at the hardware and its use case. Companies will continue to lie to consumers and nothing will change that
According to Engadget’s coverage of the first model with the touchscreen case, the case mostly just lets you use functionality from the app that goes with the earbuds without actually going into the app. I don’t use the apps for my earbuds or headphones, so I can’t say how useful quicker access to their functionality would be.
Zit er iemand op Goodreads, of weet er iemand een goed alternatief?
Achtergrond: ik heb me dus voorgenomen om wat meer te lezen. (Ben begonnen aan 'La Vieille' van Georges Simenon. Mijn tweede voornemen is om mijn verroest Frans wat WD40 te geven.)
Ben op zoek naar allerlei leestips, vandaar. ik lees uitsluitend fictie, en van het soort waar personen centraal staan. My all time favourite is El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha. (dat is trouwens mijn leestip aan jullie!)
#domicide must be recognised as an international crime
The massive, arbitrary destruction of civilian housing in violent conflict should be recognised as a crime under international law, the UN’s independent housing rights expert told the General Assembly today [28 October 2022].
"I do believe that #Israel's actions amount to domicide, and may now very well constitute acts of genocide as well. The attacks by Israel have destroyed not just homes, but hospitals… historic streets, public buildings holding important records and archives… the main public library, all four of Gaza's universities, #Gaza's old city, the ancient port of Gaza, and many museums including the newly opened #Rafah Museum of Palestinian Heritage. This utter annihilation of Gaza as a place erases the past, present and future of the Palestinians."
[cont’d] The obliteration of Gaza’s multi-civilizational treasures [Ibtisam Mahdi]
[…] #Israel’s war has brought ruin to thousands of years of rich heritage in #Gaza, with Palestinian experts decrying the destruction as a cultural genocide.
set page background color to match fenix_colors.css, fenix_one.css, and fenix_one-alt.css
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optimized colors to better support styles that do not hide the tab bar: desktop and mobile styles, as well as all styles while using larger screen (lapdock, monitor, or tv) including laptop and desktop computers
Modified install.sh:
optimized logic: only attempt to create backup on first run of install.sh script
added new user selection option for applying recommended preferences to user.js
fixed typo preventing dynamic_popups_max.css from being applied
Modified uninstall.sh:
optimized logic: only continue with uninstall if at least one chrome directory has been located in selected browser profiles
added logic to remove added preferences from user.js if present
Modified README.md:
added note to pre-install section about applying recommended preferences with install.sh script
Thank you for the interest. I will start adding screenshots in the new year, very soon. I have taken several, but I still need to decide which ones to use and how I'm going to organize them.
I had added lots of screenshots, but the repo ballooned in size and took too long to clone. So I completely removed all screenshots and opted instead to link a screenshot that I posted to the Purism forums. I may add some more in the future, but I don't want to clutter the README.md with too many images. Sorry if that's a let-down.
I can make lists of accounts on the web browser. I can make hashtag groups in Tusky. What I want is topic groups, where I can put accounts and hashtags together that are all about the same topic. Is there anything that does that yet?
I literally just opened Geometry Dash and was met with a terms of service pop up.
"…Why are they showing me this? Did my data get wiped or something?"
And then I see the Tower and realize that 2.2 just released.
Glad to finally see it here. Played through Dash (which is really easy for an insane imo, beat it much more quickly than usual), and it was mostly great! Only issue is that I REALLY don't like the swing copter. It's not fun to use at all.
@juggles
Can't say I'm great at it either. Honestly, platformer game type is a weird concept for Geometry dash, but I don't mind it. The way different game modes are incorporated into it is really fun though