⚗️⚗️⚗️ pnathan ⚗️⚗️⚗️ @pnathan@mastodon.social

Did cybre.space go extinct? I think I missed that.

Time to schedule July's meetup! Vote for a date here: http://whenisgood.net/bhm23tr

June's poll was tucked away in the last announcement post, so nobody saw it. Oops! I'll try not to make that mistake again.

"An Indigenous opera singer is bringing back his community's traditions and songs...

The classically-trained tenor used wax cylinder recordings of his ancestors singing in the early 1900s, which had been locked away in the national archive for decades.

Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa — translated as "Songs of the River People" — is sung entirely in Wolastoqey, a language fewer than 100 people speak."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/polaris-prize-indigenous-1.4722297

Currently learning about the Third Reich. Hearing all this stuff about the US progression along the road to Nazidom, and seeing people’s denials and other people’s pleas for action. It makes me realise how hard it must have been in the 1930s to

1) figure out what was actually happening

and

2) figure out WTF to do about it.

Don’t think I’ll be making the mistake again of writing the people who lived in that period off as morally inferior because they “allowed” the rise of Hitler + the Nazis.

Oh boy. This is literally what happened at #SHA2017. The Finnish Embassy had a mobile sauna.

(source: https://satwcomic.com/traveling-light-the-finnish-way)

I gotta start writing again. I don't think any media people are still on Masto but if you are and you've got tips for who I should be pitching (to write the sort of thing I write) hit me up

How to download the profiles of every ICE agent on LinkedIn. https://github.com/antiboredom/ice-linkedin The demonstrators blocking ICE agents inside their Portland HQ are already inspiring a nationwide movement around the #SurroundICE hashtag on Birdsite. As individuals, they can also be surrounded where they live, socialize, worship and shop.

Where's the Tolkien fans at?

Noticed my 1973 copy of The Hobbit has a message on the inside cover.

Can anyone translate?

@ksteimel I'm interested in the idea of providing childcare at Texas Linux Fest, but one concern I have is finding a vendor that could do it.

Does anyone know a vendor that could provide conference childcare in the DFW area?

Doodle.com just asked for my govt ID in order to comply with #GDPR and delete any data they may have of me (when I shouldn't even be asking for it in the first place if they were really complying).

Biggest wtf of all the replies I got so far to my removal requests.

So... They want something they never had. My face and full name. Why? Up yours, doodle!

MASTODON NERDS, HEED MY WORDS:

I need your "random encounters for a fantasy warband" ideas again. Specifically looking for "things you might encounter in plains/fields" and "things you might encounter in woods". Ideally not just monsters - I'm thinking sidequest givers, upgrade offerers, or other things with more interesting "hooks" about them.

in case u didnt know about polish chickens

it's interesting how all these little regressive things like the soda tax stick without much problem, even though people hate it, but as soon as you try to tax large corporations even a little bit now it's a huge world-destroying deal.

but then again i don't know too much yet about how it is there

someone buy a mall with me so we can turn it into this amazing commit resource center with counseling, career counseling, shelter for homeless/houseless people, legal aid, etc etc etc

maybe even a community garden in the vast amount of parking spaces

Yours truly got a face full of lolicon again. At least it means I don't have to spend as much time doing research.

Unlike the last one I did get a good look at the pictures that went my way and it was serious fucking lolicon. I recommend you all suspend it's ass.