Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mastodon.social

climbers on mount rainier...

#climbers #mountrainier #timelapse #nightsky #mountains #animatedgif

if you "FOSS OR DIE" fucks spent half as much time lowering the barrier for entry for everyone who says "i'd love to use FOSS tools but i don't have the skills/time/physical or mental energy/computing power to run a [proprietary/capitalist software] alternative" as you spend shitting on people who can't adopt that aforementioned FOSS alternative, you FOSS fucks would have singlehandedly shut down the entire proprietary software industry by now.

It snowed here last night, on the mountaintops - snow in this part of South Africa is pretty rare, so my friend picked me up and we went driving over one of the local mountain passes to go through the snow, and took the doggies with us. This was just after coming down the pass on the other side into the town of Franschoek.

#Photography

hey everybody! just wanted to let people know that thanks to everybody who contributed to #500pieces we saved THREE TERABYTES of open, cc-licensed images from 500px over only two days!

https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_500px

You can view the hard work of the volunteers at the IA collection, including dozens of people who heard about it specifically from mastodon. Thanks to @eq for providing the initial mastodon call for action!

Let’s let the free market sort it ou..... oh

I wrote up the behind-the-scenes story of "c2rust", a newly-released piece of software from my former employer, which people have been asking me about since it's quite similar to my own "Corrode" project. tl;dr: I have mixed feelings about it. https://jamey.thesharps.us/2018/06/30/c2rust-vs-corrode/

#Pride Month is over, but I want to leave y'all with one thought about visibility.

When I was young, I didn't know what #bisexual meant—thought I was a broken straight.

I want people to see me and know that being bi+ doesn't have a damn thing to do with your ability to love as you will, including the possibility of being in an awesome relationship like the one I've had for over twenty years.

I want some young bisexual to know that and not beat themselves up for decades. I want them to love themselves. ❤️

this is an inadvertently great allegory for humanity

The book that is mandatory reading at every data collection and aggregation company

“One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper” —Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 1651-1695 CE

History is Gay, Episode 2: Cloistered Queers

https://www.historyisgaypodcast.com/notes/2018/1/13/episode-2-cloistered-queers

heck yeah my professional masto workstation is now up and running

"Take Five" sung by Carnatic vocalist Chandana Bala Kalyan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipCqEcEVFxU

h/t @nelson ; attn @ranjit

@cypnk

Godwin's Law in the Age of Trump by... Godwin https://www.rstreet.org/2018/06/25/godwins-law-in-the-age-of-trump/

recycling against car culture part 2...

#kick #kicking #bottledwater #highheels #littering #carculture #animatedgif

This is unbelievably awesome
RT @neuroecology@twitter.com Amsterdam drained a canal and put everything they found online, organized by time from 1300 - present day... from pokemon tokens, to pipes, to guns, to human bones https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondsten