NEW POST: What do Gandalf, Hannibal Lecter, Chewbacca and Jerry Seinfeld have in common? It turns out each of these characters has a specific point of latitude and longitude named after them, which you can find printed on FAA aviation maps. I dig into these insanely information-dense maps, and hear how pilots use them. #aviation #FAA

https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/faa-aviation-maps/

Start Trek: The Next Generation has a counselor as one of the main characters, sitting next to the captain on the bridge. Counselor Troi would often times help with her crew mates' mental health and guide them in understanding their emotions. If you need a 'Counselor Troi' in your life, don't hesitate to reach out to someone you trust. Those seemingly 'alien' feelings are not so alien. You're not alone in what you bear #mentalhealthmonth #mentalhealth #startrektng #startrek #counselortroi

@sirber@fosstodon.org I've never heard of #darktable. I've used #lightroom since its release. I'm intrigued.

Me: Why is your mouth all blue?
Son: I tried sugar with blue food coloring.
#parenting #sugar #blue #yummy #cooking

I think it’s important to repeat: you don't "have something to hide" when you put blinds on your windows or close the door when you're on the can or wear clothes.

Privacy isn't about having something to hide. It's not about keeping secrets. It's about you being the person who chooses what you reveal about yourself, and when, and to who, and the other word we have for that is "dignity". Your inherent dignity, as a human being.

Your privacy is the agency you have over your dignity.

Watch "24- Special Presentation- The Star Trek: The Next Generation Reading Rainbow Special" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/NIFYpKucMa8

#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #StarTrekPicard #Picard #ReadingRainbow

When I was six, I asked for a pair of roller skates for Christmas. On Christmas morning, I opened my present to find a single roller skate.

I knew my parents didn’t have a lot of money, so I was still grateful and determined to make it work and I thanked my mom and dad and went outside to play with my roller skate.

I proceeded to “skate” along the curb with the roller skate on my right foot and my sneaker on my left foot and I was honestly having a blast when my mom came outside.

Mom: Uhhh…what are you doing?
Me: I’m roller skating, mom!
Mom: Yeah, but why are you only wearing one of your roller skates?
Me: There are TWO skates?!?

It turns out my mom wrapped the roller skates separately to give me more presents to open, but the other roller skate got buried in the Christmas morning shuffle and nobody noticed because I didn’t say anything about only receiving one roller skate.

Today marks ten years since I lost my mom and, every so often, I remember that day because it was so very her, doing whatever she could with what she had, even if it meant wrapping presents separately to make me feel like I had more.

If your mom is still around, hold her tightly. If she’s gone, remember the good times fondly.

How Did the Chess Pieces Get Their Names? - Atlas Obscura
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-did-chess-pieces-get-their-names

"One player’s pawn is another’s farmer. And at one time, the queen was the virgin, and rather powerless. "

#Language #Chess #History

@hikingdude Where can I get the calendar? I see a lot of black/white photos, and many times ask if the color version would have been a better choice. But these landscapes work really well with the choices you made. Were the photos originally shot in color and converted to black/white?

United States, National Library Week April 23-29 #library #celebrate #books #resources #morethanbooks #community

@arstechnica Today I learned a SIM card inside our mobile phones have a CPU, RAM, storage, etc. Pretty cool. But can I play Doom on it? #doomvideogame #simcard #mobiletech #cellphone #mobilephone #til #todayilearned

Good night. As much as I like #DarkMode , it's time for bed.

@internetarchive The K-Mart audio cassette tapes are amazing! I can imagine myself shopping and hearing this in the background.

I hadn't realized just how much of the online #blind community had migrated from Twitter to Mastodon. That gives added oomph to the need to use #AltText on our images (as well as CamelCase on hashtags).

https://openletter.earth/an-open-letter-to-organisations-engaging-with-the-online-blind-community-twitter-has-abandoned-us-many-of-us-have-abandoned-twitter-join-us-on-mastodon-8ead4746

h/t @JonathanMosen #accessability #a11y

ATTENTION K-MART SHOPPERS! 🛒 Back in the 80s & 90s, a former Kmart employee saved a private collection of original in-store background music cassettes from being lost to history. Take a nostalgic stroll through the aisles at https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers

You don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon!

All links on Mastodon count as 23 characters towards your post limit, no matter how long the links actually are.

Link shortener services like bit.ly, t.co etc track users who click on their links. This is really bad for privacy. If you use link shorteners on Mastodon, people may assume you are just doing it for tracking purposes.

More info at https://fedi.tips/you-dont-need-link-shorteners-on-mastodon

@hikingdude That's really wonderful. Happy to boost in celebration!

1. Go get a library card.
2. Borrow something from the library.
3. Return that thing you borrowed from the library after you're done with it.
4. Frequently repeat steps, two and three. Feel free to borrow more than one thing in step two.
#library #borrowabook #borrowavideo #read #listen #watch #learn

Bike of the day.

I know it’s a stretch but I’ve always thought with this shadow I see a bicycle.

#BikeOfTheDay #Photography #MyPhoto #Shadow #Biccycle