Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek@v.st

In case you haven't noticed, even if you start a toot with an @, it will still show up on the local timeline for all to see. It doesn't magically make it Unlisted.

@cstross @Uilebheist @angusm

Elder Scrolls

I still get shocked surprise when I tell people that H G Wells wrote War of the Worlds after learning about the genocide inflicted by British colonists on the Aboriginal Tasmanians. It's right there in the foreword of the book.

#HGWells #WarOfTheWorlds #Indigenous #FirstNations #Aboriginal #lutruwita

The galactic core region of the Milky Way hanging over the Exmoor landscape - with vehicle light trails on the Porlock to Exford road near Lucott Cross. Part of the #Exmoor Dark Sky Reserve. #exmoornationalpark #photography #landscapephotography #astronomy #astrophotography #darkskypreserve #darkskyreserve

DROP DATABASE

photograph of a server that has…

Trans rights are human rights.

Black lives matter.

No human is illegal.

Love is love.

Their body, their choice.

Science is real.

Kindness is everything.

P.S. If you started following me due to this post, PLEASE look at my profile and decide if it's for you.

Make sure general nerdiness, tabletop roleplay, and other related pursuits are the kind of content you want to see in your timeline.

Our values obviously align, but our interests/hobbies might not. No hard feelings if you unfollow. 😉

Eigg isn't connected to the UK national grid. Instead we generate 90% to 95% of our electricity from wind, sun, & water (hydro). Community-owned Eigg Electric was switched on in 2008. Islanders are trained and employed to manage it. Electricity costs 28p per unit/kWh. Before 2008 each property had its own diesel generator. Now we have 24kW of wind, 110kW of hydro, 170kW of solar PV, storage batteries, and a back up generator. Next challenge is #netzero #renewables #eigg http://isleofeigg.org/eigg-electric/

Stumbled upon this which seems like a cool thing to help out with if you can.

Sponsor a book for an indigenous child, and they'll receive a book, translated into their own language. The books are culturally relevant, so the kid can read about someone like them and not just some random white person. As an added bonus it will help support indigenous authors and illustrators. So two gifts in one.

https://chuffed.org/campaign/ilf

@indigenousauthors

Awareness post: there is an instance on fedi called 'dolphin.town' where you can only post 'EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE'

my experience on this dying world has been made richer through this knowledge, and may yours be also

I’m watching a murder mystery movie where people are stuck in a house and they can’t leave because the cars they have broken down and.. that’s the most American thing ever.

Until I moved to this country I have never, not even for a moment, been in a situation where I could not go somewhere or do something or leave without an automobile.

Car dependence is a disease. And truly bizarre to me.

oh you're german? which debian package do you maintain

In winter, 20% of every university staff member's time is spent frantically waving their arms around to turn the lights back on.

So all this talk about thunderstorms last couple days reminds me of the Supercell storm that blew through Christchurch in September 2012, I'd been out chasing this storm front everywhere got hammered by hail and rain, didnt really get a shot

Went home, setup the camera on tripod on the deck, locked the cable release on auto and went inside to sort out washing

This is the result

#aotearoa #nztwits #nz #newzealand #photography #nature #landscapephotography #longexposure #NewZealand

Understanding #Mastodon gets easier once you get the basic idea that federation between servers can be understood as homeomorphisms across hyperplanes between the Riemannian manifolds of toots, whereas the servers represent countable finite sets of discrete entities.

There's A LOT of discussion about content moderation right now and very little of it touches on the fact that we've all lived on the big social sites for the last decade-plus thanks to the massively exploitated labor of mostly-invisible moderation workers. The social web at scale wouldn't have happened without these laborers, who in addition to shit wages, have been exposed to literally every imaginable horror.

If we're remaking this world, let's do better on that front.

Meanwhile at #cop27 …