starless @starless@pixie.town

The Mutual Aid Response Network is accepting donations for their Hurricane Ida relief fund.

https://donorbox.org/ida

They're legit, and run through NOLA's Imagine Water Works.

https://www.imaginewaterworks.org/who-we-are/

Please boost.

mid 2000's phone design was fucking wild

the Bachelor but the women stop competing for the guy and form a polycule

It may bring #accessibility issues into clearer focus if we call "inaccessible" what it really is: Disabling.

Pfizer's starting the final Phase 2 trial for a Lyme disease vaccine (Phase 3 to follow):

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/valneva-and-pfizer-announce-initiation-phase-2-study-lyme

If anyone's looking to get a cheap capture card, get this:
https://github.com/maximus64/vxis-capture-fw-mod

It can record at 1080p60 raw, the firmware is very hackable, and there's somewhat of a community working on writing an alternative firmware for it.

As reality continues to have more nervous energy than a puppy drinking espresso, I'm grateful to have #CircusInPlace.

While I'm in there training my acrobatic skills, it's also become a little oasis filled with friends willfully talking about anything but the grim details of the day.

It has saved my insanity during the last year and a half, and I'm happy to be able to share that space with anyone who needs it.

The video chat starts at 8pm UTC-5, and runs all night.

https://meet.jit.si/circushomegym

I spent a day helping to maintain a 3000-year-old hillside chalk monument with a group from Long Now London. Crushing chalk into the ground with a hammer was so satisfying that I kept forgetting to enjoy the view, and I had some great conversations with the interesting people that the task attracted (including @mdales)

Here's a writeup with photos from the previous excursion: https://medium.com/the-long-now-foundation/what-a-prehistoric-monument-reveals-about-the-value-of-maintenance-4d1b89343984

#theCartographer

Please donate to the #StopLine3 bail fund, even if you can only give a dollar or two that is that much closer to someone to make bail.
https://www.stopline3bailfunds.org/

I create special editions of books for charity auctions at conferences. The plague has shut down the cons, so I'm opening this to THE WHOLE DANGED INTERNET.

Only five copies of this edition of "FreeBSD Mastery: Jails" exist. Four are spoken for. Help human trafficking survivors start their lives over.

https://mwl.io/archives/12526

friendly reminder that:

- you do not need to think someone is the scum of the earth to block them or mute them
- being blocked or muted does not mean you are a bad person in any way shape or form
- you have a right to surround yourself with people you enjoy, indeed, you have a right to happiness
- people liking you doesn't mean you are a good person
- you liking something or someone doesn't mean that that thing is good

it is a misconception I think a lot of people hold, and it's not truth.

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ok so i hate to be That Guy but is anyone else weirded out that everyone is using fucking white supremacist 4chan cartoons of "Nordic" and "tradwife" ideals for generic meme characters?

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yes-chad
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/trad-girl-tradwife
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/time-travel-is-invented-men-with-a-time-machine

The Moon is Full 🌝

If you live in the USA please call your senators and representatives and tell them to apply pressure on President Biden to stop the Line 3 pipeline. #StopLine3 #USpolitics

If you don't know who your representative or senators are or don't know their contact info you can use this website to find out: https://whoaremyrepresentatives.org/

Below in the image is a script for calling your reps by @asgitsga on twitter. Of course you can say something else, this is just an idea.

Sorta fun clip from my stream yesterday showing my software tripping over itself + the command line tool working for the first time ever https://picopublish.sequentialread.com/files/stream_clip_2021-08-21_06-26/

Signalise is a platform co-op that enables users to request and book interpreting services. Its democratically owned by deaf people, health staff and interpreters. This year they raised £330,000 pounds of investment in a crowdfunding campaign, exceeding their target by 10%.

It has now won the bid to become the main service provider for sign language interpreter services for the National Health Service in Liverpool, the fifth largest city in the country.

https://medium.com/signalisecoop/signalise-co-op-announced-as-nhs-liverpool-ccg-main-provider-5a52b1346fdc

Ok so I went to the art museum, and this is gonna be a two-parter for maximum effect; here is the placard for a bronze Brancusi sculpture called Princess X, please read and imagine what you think the sculpture might look like

Hot take but using animal activism and vegan virtue signalling to verbally abuse indigenous people (and non white ppl in general tbh) about their meat consumption is racist.