Thinking about substituting "Let's bless ..." when someone would use "God bless etc".
The Sign Language Toki Pona Lexicon
Christopher Huff [Chuff] | 2013
Are there any European history nerds on Masto? I can't find any good info about Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, "The Red Archduchess" who renounced her title, joined the Social Democratic Party and married a teacher who was sent to Dachau.
Where to start besides really vigorous Google searching to find more info about her? I've found photos and the same few paragraphs about her life, most of it is just repeats of Wikipedia.
Do I need to re-start my German language studies?
Another important take-away from my meetings already: calling MEPs is way more effective than e-mailing them.
E-mailing MEPs with a standard e-mail from a template can actually be counter-productive.
If you can, please *call* your MEPs. You can find your MEP here:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/map.html
If you'd rather e-mail, please write two-three paragraphs in your own words, from your e-mail address. Even if it's not as slick as the template, it will work way better!
@shoeberto this is the next act in the play I tooted about couple weeks back
"I want to talk through why you are upset, let's schedule a time to retrospect about the items brought up in retro"
"We need to be agile!!" We can't be beholden to old design parameters from *a year ago*!! ancient history!! Nerds!!!
Back to managing data locally, I guess, with lots of dupes, out of date, and missing stuff! 
pt 2:
5) so we don't know who exactly is going to be managing and maintaining that data? and a lot of it is looking really bad and duplicated, even though we spent a big effort getting the stuff we were using cleaned up before launching our project?
6) oh, so how are we going to store which specific piece of data we're referencing if our new lookup only takes in one overarching parameter?
7) oh... we're just going to store it locally.
how to design a thing, part 1:
1) we have data stored in other locations already, and we don't want to manage data ourselves, so let's just build lookups to that location and only store foreign keys in our db
2) man this old location we're pulling data from is so shaky, I'm glad we're going to replace it with an enterprise data storage thing
3) oh, there's no budget for enterprise data storage? ok..
4) well, this other team got budget to develop an info repo, so we can use it too
Something I don't see a lot in analyses of The Matrix, and especially The Animatrix, is how thoroughly rooted in the web 1.0 era alienation and process of reaching out to others.
"...the profundity of the burden that he was under, fighting against the government for these families, seemed suddenly unimaginable. “I feel terrible that I couldn’t get him to budge on the timeline,” he said...
A little while later, I sat with Anthony Romero, the A.C.L.U.’s executive director, in his office looking out on the Statue of Liberty. “Rome burns,” he said. “Rome is burning. And the government’s lawyers can’t work a weekend.”"
RT @_amroali@twitter.com: This is insane, #Denmark. The speed at how you went from slippery-slope discrimination to downright descent vilification and dehumanisation is mind-boggling but not surprising in this age of manufactured fear https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/01/world/europe/denmark-immigrant-ghettos.html
Unrelated, but what is the best way to dispose of used cooking oil
I was cutting up a pineapple and dropped a big chunk into the sink... right into the dutch oven I'd used to fry up squash far too long ago now, still full of unreclaimed vegetable oil and incidental sink water.
I ate the pineapple anyway after rinsing it, but somewhat regret doing so 🍍
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!
@njoseph IMHO breaking folks out of the #DataFarms requires every geek to set up a VPS (or box-in-the-closet) for their tribe (150 closest family and friends), and actively trained anyone keen to learn how to do the same; #CommunityHosting more so than #SelfHosting
So, we just made a soundcloud account for my a capella singing trio, and we put two recordings from our last practice on it: https://soundcloud.com/3-cactus-flowers
One is an English song by some dude from the 15th century, the other is a nordic folk song.
Aaaand.. we'll sing a few songs live on Tuesday in Berlin as part of a bigger choir concert (Zionskirche @ 8 PM).
This is my friend's cat Angel. She is 20 years old today. Boost this toot to wish her a happy birthday! #mastocats
'The internet has helped to bring people together from all over the world, but it has not helped neighborhoods or communities nearly as well. The #GrassrootWavelengths project is piloting solutions for community information platforms and media pluralism...'
''...brings together engineers, social scientists, artists, designers, and communities to redesign community #radio technology from scratch.''
