Pomroka @Pomroka@social.cleverlibre.org

Happy Birthday to English mathematician Ada Lovelace, born in London #OnThisDay in 1815. Lovelace, the only child of Lord and Lady Byron, is often called the first computer programmer for her machine algorithm written in the 1840s to be carried out by Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine (which existed only on paper at the time).

#AdaLovelace #OTD #WomenInSTEM #history #histodons #HistoryOfScience #WomensHistory

Photographer Renatas Jakaitis captured this unintended moment when three fallow-deer were walking along a path and the sound of her camera caught their attention. Like an optical illusion, the deer appeared as one body with three almost identical heads.

Hey'all~ @h3r2tic, @lydmartin, @OdaTilset and I announced our castle doodling game last Thursday at Wholesome Snack!

It's called 🏰🌿 #TinyGlade 🏰🌿

Phew~ what a ride! We are still waiting for more data, but so far based on the first day, the reveal has gone WAY better than I had anticipated 😳 I'm planning to make a small blog-thread about how it went, what we did, newsletter, tiktok, etc. sometime after I've degaussed a bit 😁

For those wondering, ′′ how did i do it?":
I Boiled 10l of water, added 2 tablespoons of vinegar, 1 teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate, two cups of coke and half cup of lemon juice then stirred well .
Waited 3 minutes, put the pan in the solution for 45 minutes, then added a quarter cup of chlorine bleach to the mixture.
Then I brushed it with a firm toothbrush and put it back into the liquid for another 25 minutes.
I took it out, rinsed it and it looked exactly the same, so I threw it away and went out and bought a new one.

I'm a maker. I've been using your boards for years. I've recommended their use to countless people, advocated for your goals, and remained excited for everything you had done to further coding in education. You were doing good work, and had an immense amount of goodwill within the maker community. Have credit where it's due.

But your recent antics are wholly unacceptable.

Firstly, you have abandoned the maker community in recent years by prioritizing your industrial customers over them. The very same maker community that fueled the wide adoption of your products, the people who tirelessly evangelized your mission, are being left behind.

You're right - people are cross that they can't get your products any more. And that's because you're not making them for us any more. And we know it.

Secondly, your recent "Hey, we hired a cop!" post is concerning. UK law enforcement has a long history of terrible behavior in infiltrating activist circles, establishing sexual relationships with activists, and in some cases abandoning the children they fathered in those relationships.

This is a well-documented pattern of behavior, and is still playing out in the courts. The individual you hired most likely had a direct hand in enabling that behavior, as his role was in developing surveillance techniques. That history should be considered shameful, yet somehow you've decided it's a selling point.

This raises further concerns when considered within the context of your recent pivot towards prioritizing industrial customers over the maker community. In many perfectly reasonable ways, this could be considered a signal to government and law enforcement agencies of your willingness and intent to expand your business with them.

After all, you also manufacture small cameras as well as small, network-enabled computers. Now you're advertising that you've brought someone in-house with extensive experience in law enforcement under a dubious title (what exactly is the job description of a "Maker-in-Residence" anyhow?).

It's clear that your original vision has changed, and not for the better.

All of this is concerning enough. But when these perfectly valid criticisms and concerns were brought to the attention of your Fediverse instance, your brand ambassador responded with glib dismissals and began blocking the very people who have supported you for the past decade.

Not to mention the absolutely ridiculous recent claims by your co-founder, Liz Upton, that this backlash is due to not putting a CW on a picture of pigs in a blanket. That's patently absurd, and had she taken any time whatsoever to seriously look at the conversation, she would know it.

But, again - we're not the customers you care about any more. And we know it.

The fact is, you have managed to burn down a decade's worth of goodwill in the span of a day or so by being condescending, inconsiderate, and tone-deaf towards your most loyal customers and their extremely valid concerns. And on a personal level, I'm wildly disappointed and feel a certain amount of betrayal.

Of course I'll be vigorously recommending your competitors from now on, for both moral and practical reasons. There are far superior alternatives on the market already. At the basest level, I'm quite comfortable forgetting that #RaspberryPi is even an option for a single-board computer, and never mentioning the name to another potential maker again.

Not that it matters, since we can't even get your boards without an obscene markup anyways.

#RaspberryBye

A lot of anti-trans arguments boil down to saying, "That's impossible! Biology!"

When clearly, it happens all the time, on a regular basis, and causes a great deal of distress if trans people aren't allowed to express ourselves. 🤷‍♀️

It doesn't matter what YOU think is possible.

This week's comic on the blind zones of America's gargantuan trucks and SUVs.

#transit #cities #mobility #cars #bikes #pedestrians #transportation #safety

#DurhamNC
Spotted by our youngest whil's't out on a Pokémon Go walk.
cc: @Harena

Well this is an adorably cute Christmas advert from J&B Spain, of an older person doing something nice & supportive for a younger trans relative.
😊😊😊👍🏻👍🏻🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ 🎄👴🏻💄
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LEshVJ1IECw
#christmas #trans #wholesome

Did you know Monopoly was invented by a woman named Elizabeth Magie in 1903?

Originally ‘The Landlord’s Game,’ it was designed as a protest against the big monopolists of her time like Carnegie & Rockefeller.

But it was Charles Darrow, an unemployed salesman, who eventually sold it to Parker Brothers after playing a version.

Parker Brothers credited Monopoly with saving their company. Magie died in 1948 without recognition. Darrow became very wealthy & his legend lives on. #history #women

And what's on the top of your to-do list for next week?

Surely this can't be true... #AdventOfCode as a virus scanner?

https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/zb98pn/2022_day_3_something_weird_with_copypasting/

#Otter
Sea otters hold hands to stop drifting apart and losing each other while sleeping in the water.

Expensive Taste.

Another amazing encounter with an otter, from a couple of years ago on Mull.

I had been watching two otters fishing in the loch for over an hour when one of them caught something large, and started swimming towards the shore.

I got into a location to watch from, and saw her splash through the waves and out on to the shore with a huge lobster in her jaws.

She spent half an hour eating almost all of it.

#otter #Mull #lobster #WildlifePhotography #wildlife

I am now compiling a list of all servers who may have an interest in joining the United Federation of Instances.

Quite a few instances have already signed up.

Please reach out to me, all servers of any size are welcome!

This is non binding, its just to get a preliminary list. You can withdrawl at any time and dont have to go through the application process. I just want to know what servers to reach out to once we begin kicking things off.

If you are a server admin please let me know **in DM** if you have an interest and I will add you to the (for now) private list. I want to only release the list once we have enough momentum so please respond in DM only.

for those who are new to this you can read the proposal here:

https://ufoi.gitlab.io/constitution/united_federation_of_instances_proposal.pdf

You can read the early draft of the full bylaws here:

https://ufoi.gitlab.io/constitution/united_federation_of_instances_bylaws.pdf

Both of these will still undergo a lot of modification. For information on how to join the conversation see this post:

https://qoto.org/@freemo/109433298021890915

You can see the progress and conversation specifically at the official repo here:

https://gitlab.com/ufoi/constitution

#UFI #UFoI @ufoi #mastoadmin

Zoom in as far as you can. Then zoom in as far as you can... #zoom #animation #digital #art

It’s never too late to transition (even if you spent some of your early 30s as a pirate)

this is now my favorite trans timeline comparison that I’ve done
#trans #lgbtq #selfies

#Cats and #snow

This is Jessie. ❤️
She's an emotional support dog at a children's hospital in Southampton in the UK.
Jessie shows children it's not scary to have a echocardiogram, she shows them how to do it first.
Just lie down, hold your parent's hand and voila!
Dogs. ❤️
Info and images from @Goodable