#Soil, ecology, low-input #MarketGardening, women's history, material history, math, programming, literature of the long nineteenth, #waltz, #polka, leavened bread. Mostly around the Salish Sea.
Moved over from octodon.social as that delightful venue closed.
Profile image looks grayscale but is a color photo; a gull on a gray day here is just that gray. Header, for contrast, is an edible-flower harvest, punnets of brilliant oranges and purply-blues and pinks, on a scrubbed washpack table.
My first paid software development job was on accessibility software. I remember visiting a user to help set up our code, and the sheer joy he had at being able to communicate more quickly than he had been able to for years.
Seeing the effort put into improving modern Linux accessibility is heartwarming. There's been almost 20 years of almost nobody caring. It's important. It's worthwhile.
Say thank you to the people doing that work. Stop amplifying the people saying that work isn't happening.
In @pluralistic 's The Lost Cause there was some software that kids used to show fellow residents a vision of a better future by modelling their streets and their houses. Basically what construction companies do to sell houses, or what road building companies do to sell asphalt. But easier and faster to use.
The question is, do we have anything like that? I'm at a point where I need to show a future of my town to residents, and I want to show them pictures and renderings, not just maps.
More discussions w/ new hams should focus on HOW they HAVE to operate vs âwhat youâre trying to accomplish.â New hams donât know what direction theyâll take out of the million available in #AmateurRadio
âYou live at 35° lat, on the US east coast, have to be quiet at home & have daytime flexibility in the summer? Consider Six Meter FT8, you can have fun chasing DX as a Technician with a homebrew antenna!â would have been helpful advice for me.
I just graduated from CW academy's beginner course. Who's ready for a really slow QSO?
All it took was six years of care-taking, lessons learned, and more than a little luck (or possibly divine favor), but this year I have peaches! Or maybe the peach trees are saying, "Hey, this year has been rough - here's something sweet to help you through for a bit." Either way, I'm grateful.
waves to everyone from a Juneteenth celebration in South Central Los Angeles
I just had red beans and rice and bread pudding, I'm listening to good music, and I'm watching teens dance.
Even in a "warzone" (according to Trump, anyway), life finds a way.
People are supporting #LosAngeles food vendors by buying all their stock so they can go back home and hide from the #ICE Nazis. (And, as I posted earlier today, students in Boyle Heights are bringing groceries to people who can't leave their homes. This kind of program is going on all over the country.)
Mutual aid is resistance! Not everybody can physically handle tear gas or the heat or rubber bullets, but many can still help those in hiding get enough to eat.
https://lapublicpress.org/2025/06/street-vendors-hiding-after-ice-raids/
Plastic bag bans, it turns out, WORK! They reduce the amount of plastic bags that end up in the wild.
Might seem obvious, but it's good to have the data. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp9274
"While 'Neighbors,' an app for #Amazon Ring doorbell users, usually helps people find lost pets or packages, last week saw a dramatic shift: shocked by #ICE operations in and around #LosAngeles, residents began using the Amazon-owned platform to warn their communities about immigration agents conducting searches and arrests."
Now THAT'S fuckin funny, using the fascists' own apps against them.
Like I said, LA resisters are even funnier and cooler than glitter bombs.
The problem with self-driving technology isn't even *primarily* "safety" but the *shift in liability*, meaning the liability is tossed in a black hole. This is the *prime function* of a lot of tech (including genAI), but esp self-driving--a story is told that it's "safer than humans"...
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Well⊠among the possible livestock, what would provide ecological benefits (directly or substituting imports), what will be happy and safe with the amount of training and monitoring youâre willing to provide, what animals do you like hanging out with?
Would you be as happy making great wildlife habitat and interacting with (or eating) the wildlife?
And before the ACA the sickness you lost job 1 for could keep you from getting insured at the next job, or even keep you from *getting* a next job
"Are you a voracious romance reader? For ONE DAY ONLY [Friday, June 20], stuff your Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Apple Books or Google Play ebook reader with more than 1600 free romance reads"
bsky.app/profile/tkingfisher.com/post/3lrvnqdic7226
Heh. Remember a few thousand years ago when we were all talking about how certain well-meaning things can flag as international money laundering? I just got a wire frozen as my Ukrainian publisher tries to pay me.
does anyone in europe or the UK know of any windows stickers to stop birds crashing into said windows that are NOT made from vinyl please?
edited in case anyone else is looking too: i'm ordering a white chalk marker pen for glass and am going to draw on the inside of the window,s probably the dot or line patterns recommended by some bird experts. i'll let you know if it works!
and i might stick some sticky notes up there in the meantime ...
#WAPol #ORPol #Climate #ClimateChange
We received a mailer from "NW Coalition for Energy Choices"- a gas industry group fighting against limits on new natural gas installs and such. (As a reminder, these limits *must* pass as part of any hope of slowing climate change.)
It has a Freedom Foundation kind of feel to it. Genteel. Less crass than Heywood's garbage mailers. Clip art with brown and white women in professional attire and serious expressions. Nice work.
Watch out. They're coming.
After a round of layoffs, Grammarly is literally hiring for my exact role that they dissolved last month.
LOL, what? I ended up with a huge upgrade in all ways, but⊠seriously, what? This is leadership by coin flip.
#pdx #shakespeare signal https://www.leachgarden.org/oregon-adventure-theatre come see a Winterâs Tale at Leach Botanical Gardens, July 11, 12, or 13!
I havenât seen this troupe yet, but i am excited to!
