I'm sitting down here in Florida waiting for the dumpster fire that will be tomorrow's election.
I cast my absentee ballot in Wisconsin before I left - and will watch that dumpster fire from afar.
2022 will likely be the last time I cast a ballot in Wisconsin. Even though Florida is a political hell hole, Wisconsin is the most gerrymandered of all the gerrymandered states. I'll stop paying state income taxes to Wisconsin because they DO NOT deserve my money.
Realised I’ve been rude and not introduced myself 🫠 #Belated #Introduction
I finished my PhD in 2020 on building sustainable science, and the main point of my dissertation was that we need to reshuffle publishing from outcome based (e.g., papers) to process based.
To realise this, I founded Liberate Science, the organization behind the open access publishing platform ResearchEquals.com
All apps - App Store - Nextcloud
The Nextcloud App Store - Upload your apps and install new apps onto your Nextcloudapps.nextcloud.com
China is likely stockpiling and deploying vulnerabilities, says Microsoft reg.cx/46jZ?utm_source=twitter…
Original tweet : twitter.com/TheRegister/status…
China is likely stockpiling and deploying vulnerabilities, says Microsoft
Increase in espionage and cyberattacks since law requiring vulnerabilities first be reported to BeijingLaura Dobberstein (The Register)
With hundreds of thousands of insect species facing extinction, the fight to save a single butterfly seems pointless. But doing so actually helped rescue an entire ecosystem, Jaclyn Moyer reports for @highcountrynews: on.theatln.tc/qanklOn
Original tweet : twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status…
#youtube
Смотри, Мам, без компьютера
youtube.com/watch?v=zytjONYkU9…
Чел угорает по элтеху и музыке.
DRUM MACHINE USING NASA TECHNOLOGY - Rope Core Memory Sequencer
if you'd like to see more videos on this project, samples and much morecheck here :- https://www.patreon.com/lookmumnocomputeror you can use the super thank...YouTube
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Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump
A new Homeland Security report details orders to connect protesters arrested in Portland to one another in service of the Trump's imaginary antifa plot.Dell Cameron (Gizmodo)
A total lunar eclipse is set to dazzle tomorrow – along with some other stellar sights
People across Australia and New Zealand will be able to catch the blood moon. Here’s what you need to know to get the best view.The Conversation
Pedalboard boxes work great for people like me with lots of small, random bits of gear.
These ones are great because I can keep everything secured to the base with velcro!
#music #musicproducion #electronicmusic
Five Geek Social Fallacies
Within the constellation of allied hobbies and subcultures collectively known as geekdom, one finds many social groups bent under a crushing burden of dysfunction, social drama, and general interpplausiblydeniable.com
Freedom Toaster: The Weirdest FOSS Invention
Have you ever wondered how you might distribute foss to people with no or a terrible internet connection, well maybe you could try out a freedom toaster an i...YouTube
Google Play Games - Play Android games on PC
Play Android mobile games on PC with Google Play Games, Google's app player and gaming platform for Windows PCs and laptops.play.google.com
Y'all, I want to boost something really important that I haven't seen #academic Mastodon, #histodons and etc broach yet.
Beginning November 14, UAW Academic Workers have announced a statewide strike against the University of California.
The #strike may become the largest academic worker strike in US history.
You can show support for grad students, postdocs, and researchers in several ways. To learn how, check out:
"Pointer on a plank"...?
I do not do yoga, so I'm struggling here. I do yoghurt, regularly, but not yoga.
🤣 Holy shit, Secret Base writing is so good. Them gently remarking on Steve Jeltz getting clowned on his own baseball card made me pause to laugh for a long minute. youtu.be/VfFn4NqQr_U
Also: “Bob Walk? More like Bob Walk.”
And: "I wonder whether [Jim Rooker, who wagered a walk from the Philly stadium to Pittsburgh if Pittsburgh lost] remembered that Pittsburgh and Philidelphia are separated by the Allegheny Mountains."
Their work is so good.
How to score 10 runs in the first inning and lose | Dorktown
On June 8th, 1989, the Pittsburgh Pirates produced one of the greatest first innings in baseball history, jumping out to a 10-0 lead over the Philadelphia Ph...YouTube
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Hi all,
Got the invite by @kathrynyu
Excited to be here. My name is Glen Henry (he/him).
I'm a software project manager by trade and face & fingers behind Spritewrench Studios. A solo-ish micro-studio based in Kingston, Jamaica.
I (usually) focus on smaller self-contained titles with an emphasis on narrative elements.
Current:
Working on two projects at the moment:
+ "On the Peril of Parrots", a narrative puzzle game where you play as an AI trying to prove it's intelligence.
store.steampowered.com/app/213…
+ "Duppy Detective Tashia", a detective game based on Caribbean Folklore.
store.steampowered.com/app/195…
About Me:
I'm a self taught artist and have spent most of my life trying to find a way to sustainably combine my passion for art with technology.
Naturally, games felt like the best fit. I've gone the indie route as there isn't an established industry in my country, and I try to help out the local game dev scene through efforts with the JGDS (Jamaica Game Developer Society).
On the Peril of Parrots on Steam
A puzzle game where you prove your humanity by solving color-based challenges.store.steampowered.com
"Featured hashtag editor replaces camel case by lower case"
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
Currently, when adding a featured hashtag to your profile, if you use camelcase (e.g. MastodonCats) it gets lowercased (e.g. mastodoncats), which isn't great for #accessibility / #a11y.
If you're into it, click through to the Github issue to add your 👍 or comment of support. And if you don't have a Github account but still want to support, please boost. 🚀
Featured hashtag editor replaces camel case by lower case · Issue #18184 · mastodon/mastodon
Steps to reproduce the problem Log in and start editing your profile Try adding a camel-cased hashtag to your featured hashtags, e.g. #ArtOfHosting See it added as #artofhosting Expected behaviour ...GitHub
Had a delightful #BeatSaber session this evening, and landed on a wonderfully difficult and clever map: tofubeats' "CANDYYYLAND (Pa’s Lam System Remix)", mapped by Saut: bsaber.com/songs/294c/
Here's a very skilled person playing on Expert, the hardest difficulty I beat: youtu.be/3XjdriFOgLk (unrelated: they have wildly low-contrast block arrows! 🤯) The segment starting at 2:48 in that video is so smoothly mapped that I didn't even get tangled up in left-handed mode.
tofubeats – CANDYYYLAND (Pa’s Lam System Remix) V2
Mapper: saut | Description: expert+ -> expert++ expert -> expert+ hard -> expert normal -> hard easy -> normalBeastSaber
Ooh yes this is EXACTLY what I was after, thank you! ❤
The pattern I was trying to name/define isn't a stream exactly; it goes rightdown/leftdown/rightup/leftup (or from the left, leftdown/rightdown/leftup/rightup) kinda moving your whole torso-attention from one side of the stage to the other, rolling your arms in a kinda barrel roll. There's a map of "Elements" by Lindsey Stirling that does it a whole lot
@ifixcoinops Yes, those are maybe piano streams? Barrel roll is a better name, imo. It's a really fun pattern, and feels good when you can nail it. I had a very pretty, atmospheric map sit for *months* in my Ex --> E+ struggles because of a fast burst of those in the middle of the song that just knotted my brain up and sometimes clashed my controllers painfully. 😁
Oh! And thank you for reminding me Lindsey Stirling exists! Some good-looking maps of her stuff out there. 💃🏾
Thousands Have Joined Mastodon Since Twitter Changed Hands. Its Founder Has a Vision for Democratizing Social Media
Thousands of users have joined Mastodon since Elon Musk took control of Twitter. Mastodon's founder Eugen Rochko says it's been a vindicationBilly Perrigo (Time)
Thanks for sharing.
While I am grateful to Eugene Rotchko, I am also grateful to all involved in creating, maintaining, hosting, developing, posting and otherwise contributing to Mastodon.
But I feel the cult-of-personality messaging doesn't fit here, even if his intent is well stated. If newspapers like Time feel they need a Joseph Campbell style "hero" they have missed the point.
(plus the interviewer mentions funds/pay/money more times than necessary)
In searching for an instance to join, I noticed that many do not mention ableism in their ToC. I care about avoiding ableist language, so I picked one that did mention it.
I do notice quite a bit of ableist language in the larger fediverse, so decided to write a blog post of common objections to avoiding ableist language, and my responses to them.
Here it is: medium.com/@kavanaram/avoid-ab…
#Disability #Ableism #AbleistLanguage @disability
Avoid Ableist Language - Kavana Ramaswamy - Medium
Ableist language is any communication that validates the belief that disabled people/bodies/functioning are less worthy of respect than others. Let’s break this down. In an ethical society, every…Kavana Ramaswamy (Medium)
vis.social/about/more and I thought mastodon.art/about/more is one too.
Mine i socialserver.science/about/mor… and is mainly aimed at scientists and scientific visualizers.
Please boost!
vis.social
vis.social is an open social platform for creative people, especially anyone in SciArt, SciComm, data, visualization, creative coding, and related arts and research. English is the common language of the instance.Mastodon hosted on vis.social
I see quite a lot of #Science posts expressing concern if The Public will follow their authors' #TwitterMigration over on here.
Here's the thing: they don't even have to. Every #Mastodon account has an #RSS feed. For example, here's mine:
mstdn.social/@rysiek.rss
Every hashtag has an RSS feed as well (as seen from a given instance), for example:
mstdn.social/tags/Science.rss
Your audiences can follow you without ever setting up an account on fedi, with any RSS reader.
Obviously #Fediverse is more than just Mastodon. I am not sure if #Pleroma and #Misskey offer RSS feeds of accounts and hashtags — would love input here!
I know some other fedi instance software also does offer RSS feeds. For example, @Castopod does: podcast.tomasino.org/@Solarpun…
Anyone who knows about RSS support in other fedi instance software, please do jump in and share!
Biotech Without Borders
Welcome to BwoB Loomio group!I have set this up in order to have discussions, gather opinions and make collective decisions on matters that concern BwoB.Loomio
I am a Taylor Swift fan and I'm not afraid to say it. Just like Van Halen, I'm attached to her older stuff.
Also an engineer but I work with scientists in a medical research lab. They're all super smart so I'm always interested in keeping up on biochem science.
@Smootasaurus yes we are a community lab. You can read more about it here in the #summerschool presentation I did on it: Community biology as an organizational framework for social change: a perspective from Biotech Without Borders
#Mastotips If you are not concerned about content warnings for yourself and want to have fewer clicks/taps in your timeline all the time, you can set all content warnings to automatically expand 😀
It's near the bottom of the page in Preferences > Appearance
Up until yesterday/today it was feasible for me to respond to most un-described art from new users with a note about image descriptions. It's too busy for me to do that now, but if you want to ask people to consider it, please do it gently, and you can send people the following link that explains why it's important, and how to do it:
mastodon.art/@Curator/10927903…
Remember the frustration of trying to understand an unfamiliar technology; be kind, be courteous, be compassionate. 
Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator :masto: (@Curator@mastodon.art)
We have a lot of blind and partially sighted users on the fediverse. Accessibility is important here, and as such, it's good form to include image descriptions (alt text) when we add media to our posts.Mastodon.ART
AYY, I finally took a ban on #twitter 😂
I'm unsure what the fuck did I break, but here are all of my tweets, and can you point to me which tweet was the one I broke rules with? (in dora's the explorer voice)
- nitter.esmailelbob.xyz/esmaile…
Just a reminder that all my music is free to download at jefftheworld.com , so please check it out if you're into #chiptune, #chipmusic, and other #micromusic.
jefftheworld
Official website of Toronto-based micromusic and chiptune musician jefftheworld.jefftheworld.com
jefftheworld live @ TIFF Bell Lightbox Theater
In case you missed me a couple years ago! I finally got the footage from this event. I'm clearly not exceptionally animated in this video but I was exhausted because I was doing two shows in separate parts of the city and I'd been running back and forth between the two all night long. Worthwhile in the end, but oh-so-tiring.
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Danny (he/they)
in reply to Barry Dahl • • •Administrative account
in reply to Danny (he/they) • • •@danwchan This needs to be either posted as Unlisted or with a CW
Delete & re-draft to fix this
Thanks for understanding