Tinkerer | Solarpunk | Hacker
☸️ Buddhist ☸️
(Previously tinkersec@twitter.com)
Profile Pic: @PixelOccult
Good move, Amtrak! Come on, corporations—do the right thing here; it’s actually good for business too!
Amtrak is slashing executive bonuses to give out $900 apiece to over 18,000 rank-and-file workers
https://fortune.com/2025/12/12/amtrak-bonuses-for-18000-workers-900-apiece/
@cybervegan - Truth
@Aurimas @briankrebs - Using Google Translate gets you to the login page as well. Clicking login fails as it cant set a cookie, but it confirms that whatever block they are using allows connections through Google networks.
i'm not going to pursue this further, but its enough to demonstrate the concept.
https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=https%3A%2F%2Fgenai.mil%2F&op=translate
I have the key in my hand.
All I have to find is... the lock.
Que será, será.
Who needs caffeine when you have cortisol.
10% discount code for my shop, exclusively for my Mastodon readers:
Code name: MASTODON
Code: SOLARPUNK
For some geopolitical reason that I didn't understand, shipments to the United States were cancelled for a while, and my shop was deactivated from September until last week. So I thought I'd offer this discount, better late than never!
Prefiguration - Go Make Things:
https://gomakethings.com/prefiguration/
@kfogel @pluralistic - 7% of the folks you follow (and the folks they boost). Absolutely!
@peatbogfaery - Oh that's so cool!!!!
@tinker My first #Kratky #hydroponic attempts. Plant info in alt text. They are 5L buckets, with 4L of nutrient mix. They were established in my DWC unit, as I wanted to see if this setup supported already growing plants before I tried growing straight from seed (more likely to see issues sooner, was my logic).
Thanks again for your posts!
@unionwhore - That's so flipping awesome!!!
@tinker Yes, I also do that :blobcat_sipsmile: Also maybe I'm a bit of an edge case because I don't have much money and free food makes it a lot easier for me. Also I love good food and also love cooking. Those three things probably make this the perfect group for me.
It's very important for us to make the food nourishing as well as as tasty as possible. Half a year ago we got an industry oven for free (it was advertised for €50, but in the end they giftd it to us) from a restaurant that upgraded their oven and it was the best thing ever. We can now bake up to 100 portions at once, we already made Lasagna, Gratin, and various Cakes.
Especially now it is important that people in Vienna build cooking and food distribution groups since the local government abolished warm meals in homeless shelters some weeks ago. In the midfle of fucking Winter!!! It's fucking grim at the moment.
@tinker Thank you for this great post! I found my mutual aid group (a food not bombs style cooking group) over a signal chain message I got from a demo drumming group I was in at that time, which in turn I found at a demo when I danced to their music.
We cook (nearly) every Sunday for about 3 years now and bring the food to a place where many unhoused people hang out. We get our food half from dumpster diving, half we just buy it. For a time we got much food from a community farm, but at one point it was just too much work unfortunately. The money for buying food we get from donations when we cook for political events that align with how we want to build the world.
One of the biggest challenges is to close the gap between people who mostly cook and people who mostly eat. I don't mean that everyone who eats should cook, but the mostly cooking people and the mostly eating people are still mostly separate communities and one of them holds most of the power, which is a charity-like power dynamic. It is a slow process and it's starting to get better, but it's a lot of hard work to destroy those boundaries. We are now moving into a new, hopefully more accessible space.
@unionwhore - That's wonderful! I've done some hot food prep and distribution. When I do, I always make it a point to eat what I prep and with the folks that are eating it with me. Really good way to blend the two communities as you point out.
@EngagedPureLand - And now I'm reading her blog. This is amazing. Thank you so so so much for posting this.
@EngagedPureLand - I *love* her calling out "Spiritual Bypassing". This was a great article. Thank you for posting it.
@Caution - Hey, cheers!
Here's the app: https://fxbgfoodfinder.com/en/about-us
(The https cert is expired at the time of posting. They just got this up and running and they're using Let's Encrypt, so they might not have their runbook in order for maintaining the cert. I've notified them.)
