C’est la #JournéeMondialedelaPlomberie ! 🎉
Eh ben, même sur ce sujet, on a de quoi faire dans les collections du service Histoire de @labnf : direction les années 1920 et la marque Crane, plomberie industrielle… ⤵️
I finished the very Ontario Meet Me by the Lake by Carley Fortune and I enjoyed it quite a bit.
I don’t always listen to Canada Reads, but I try to pick up a few books off the list every year just to get me out of my usual circuit of speculative/sci-fi, fantasy, closed-door yearning romance novels, and whatever non-depressing queer darling has come out that year. Sometimes there is an overlap. Sometimes not.
Next I’m planning on picking up Denison Avenue (a vastly different novel, but still very Toronto - which is an interesting choice for a former Calgary mayor (naheed nenshi) but admittedly I don’t know much about him) #bookstodon@bookstodon
During a presentation by an executive with Google’s Israel branch on Monday, a Google Cloud engineer stood up and shouted, “I refuse to build technology that powers genocide or surveillance.” They were later fired.
Fair enough. That hasn’t been my experience for the last almost 2 years. Teams in our org have been told that if they lose people they can’t hire replacements. Shit’s sucked
I’ve also been hearing about massive layoffs at tons of the biggest companies. I’d be surprised if they were still hiring, obviously.
So I'm currently toying around with NeoCities, and decided to trial it by building your classic mid '90s Geocities/Tripod/Angelfire pastiche website.
Some of the most important elements are already in place.
Tile background? Large font? Heading in bright pink with a shadow? Unusual colour choices? Random cat gifs? Under construction gif? Check! Check! Check!
In the true spirit of the '90s DIY web, some more pages (including the links page) are coming soon.
(I'm thinking of adding a page dedicated to either Britney or a nu-metal band.)
My only question is about whether drop shadows on text was prominent. I’m having trouble remembering how that effect would have been accomplished in the 90s, since I don’t think CSS got it until later. Would it have been something on the <font> tag only supported in Internet Explorer?
@ajsadauskas@neil@asklemmy As for chat, probably the best way to do that today is to use Web Sockets but style it to look like frames or a Java applet on the page.
My brain is currently a mess (whomst among us is not floundering while the world burns), and you know what that means: COMFORT REREADS. I'm revisiting THE SHADES OF LONDON series by V.E. Schwab before I read THE FRAGILE THREADS OF POWER.
Read A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC if you love traveling between parallel worlds, interesting magic systems, collecting trinkets, pickpockets, plagues, night markets, masquerades, the river Thames, dive bars, fancy coats, too many knives, lucky kisses, queer dynamics & secrets.
Heute im DLF in der langen Nacht: „Die Schriftstellerinnen Brigitte Reimann, Irmtraud Morgner und Maxie Wander sprechen in ihren Werken offen über Ängste und Sehnsüchte, unerfüllte Träume und Visionen.“ (Sendung von 2014.)
@ankegroener danke für den Hinweis, wäre mir sonst vielleicht entgangen. Schätze gerade Irmtraud Morgner nicht nur wegen des Vornamens sondern auch wegen der #Märchen und Trobadora Beatriz. #Maerchen@buchstodon
D-does that mean the feds know about my fedi loli cunny plapping posts? And my armpit liccing interest? And my facesitting femdom cravings? And my sister incest ponderings where I’m the big bro? And my shota age gap fantasies where I’m the lil shota? :catstand:
Which is in fact because I have just finished #AliSmith's 'Spring'. It is a beautiful novel. Part 1 is particularly brilliant. I'm not sure about its flirtation with magical realism in part 2. We need a writer who can find hope without recourse to magic.
On the other hand, it is more mythological realism than magical. We can believe in myth making and story telling. What is real is not the mundane, but the eternal or, better, the eternal in the mundane. Smith is on the side of the angels because she believes in art, in myth in story telling. Spring, with its promise of life, is contrasted with winter which is dark and unenchanted. It is also art and the mundane. Smith is with Chaucer not Elliott. So am I.
What I particularly like is the motif that none of this is about you. It serves to cut the privileged down to size, but the moral extends. The story isn't Florence's or the Machines. It is a shared world and 'world' here is truely all that is, was, will be or even could have been the case.
Dr. Sherita Goldon was forced from her position as chief diversity officer at #JohnsHopkins University for including the following (helpful, accurate, and necessary) definition of privilege in an email newsletter:
"a set of unearned benefits given to people who are in a specific social group. Privilege operates on personal, interpersonal, cultural and institutional levels, and it provides advantages and favors to members of dominant groups at the expense of members of other groups...“ 1/2
"Privilege is characteristically invisible to people who have it. People in dominant groups often believe they have earned the privileges they enjoy or that everyone could have access to these privileges if only they worked to earn them. In fact, privileges are unearned and granted to people in the dominant groups whether they want those privileges or not, and regardless of their stated intent.” 2/2