Thursday morning feels
Weeds till and amend the soil.
They are nectar plants for our 6-legged friends.
Herbicides can harm kids
Or pets
Or your friends’ kids
And pets
And that squirrel there
Wait, what is that? That thing
And flies
Poor flies 😢
Weeds piss off your obnoxious neighbors 😈
Admit it
Some of them are pretty 🤗
Weeds are good. Good enough anyway. Kick back and enjoy your summer.
Thursday morning feels
Nice aurora show at the South Pole Station webcam right now! https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/spWebCam.cfm
Another plant I thought was dead: Jack-in-the-pulpit. Was given some last summer and it promptly died after I planted it... Or so I thought! It's a lovely, native addition to my shade garden. https://toot.cat/media/20PvW8c9Pknyqqr3GVw
Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
a bird discovers a capybara's hidden off switch
"Check" out this brilliant invention by my daughter. #inventor #emotionalindicator #tshirt
it's been a few days... garden happenings!:
- finally planted the female winterberry
- made a teepee/trellis out of brush and planted heirloom tomatoes around it
- wife bought an old iron trellis and a couple flowering annual vines to grow up it and put them in the new graden bed
- I planted bee balm around that new trellis
- discovered new growth on 2 comfrey root fragments
- planted dill I bought at the grocery store
Me...today
I spent a good chunk of the day writing a syllabus for a hypothetical class that I would like to teach some day instead of grading quizzes for the actual current class that I'm a reader/grader for. Sigh.
On the up side, I've got a full syllabus drawn up for a course on digital humanities (extendabe into digital projects in other fields too) that teaches Racket and Scribble, the command line, version control, and licensing to non programmers & culminating in creating their own digital projects
Hey everyone, the Libre Planet session videos are up! Here's the link to our panel on Free Software in academia! https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/free-software-in-academia/
Class dismissed, you may all pay me in samoyed photos and videos.
Check out what
@guerrillablack
has to say.
And may I add a thought that might make it gel for some white people?
White people tend to view racism as a matter of individual virtue. A person is racist, or not. If I'm not racist, then I'm good, right?
No, our *society* is racist. White is normative and people of color are implicitly regarded as dangerous.
If you're not actively trying to change that, you're maintaining the system. Even if you're personally virtuous.
This year, for the first time my wife went with me to LibrePlanet and saw for herself the generous and fascinating Free Software community, then at the digital humanities workshop got a friendly introduction to programming. Two disparate sides of my life have now met.
Special thanks to @cwebber and @mlemweb for their generosity, caring, and ingenuity!
Thread: an exquisite breakdown using real-life examples of how @Facebook and @Google exploited your trust to quietly create a decade-long dossier of your most private activities. With a bonus: how to download a copy of your own. https://t.co/6AjcMfetMD
@mlemweb and I ran another great "Programmable Publishing" workshop w/ Racket and Scribble today. It went well, everyone was very enthusiastic, the Red Hat office was a nice location, Ben Greenman (a Racket contributor/researcher) kindly helped as a volunteer. Lots of fun, and lots of people encouraging us to continue. Yay!
Look! I built a snowman! #libreplanet #digitalhumanitiesworkshop
https://mastodon.social/media/0J1cqD7-nYpDuzzXma4
Got back from my 5-day workshop on Turkish makam theory with Ross Daly. Amazing guy, and he plays a tarhu. That's essentially a 5-string Turkish kemenche with sympathetic strings and a wooden gourd-shaped resonator. I'll post stuff I learned on a blog when I get a chance, but first: LibrePlanet!
