ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

Bessie Coleman was born in Atlanta, TX. She is the 1st African Am/Native Am aviator to receive a pilot's license. https://tinyl.io/7dok

She attended flight school in France & thrilled fans in the States while standing up to segregation.

Coleman inspired generations of African American aviators, incl. Tuskegee Airmen.

In 1992, Astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison carried Coleman’s picture with her on her first mission in the Space Shuttle Endeavor.

#BlackFriday #BlackMastodon #History #Aviation

Cool pic, bro

Too bad it doesn't have Alt Text or I'd boost it

ListenBrainz finally got their Spotify-like "Year in Review" mechanism working and it's pretty sweet. #music

It's much easier and cheaper than you think to start your own server on Mastodon and the Fediverse.

Non-technical people can use a "Managed Hosting" service, where the hosting company does all the technical stuff for you, including setting up, upgrades and fixing things.

I run a website all about creating your own servers through managed hosting at:

➡️ https://growyourown.services

This section is all about making your own Fediverse servers:

➡️ https://growyourown.services/grow-your-own-social-network/

#Fediverse #Mastodon

Here's an adorable Quokka having a snack you didn't realize you needed in your feed.

❤️

We've had a chunk over 2,000 applications for our developer roles this week. Normally we'd expect about 500 over the space of a ~3 week period.

I think there's a combination of factors. Layoffs are obviously a big thing, new year bringing in restless feet. Also we've done a lot of work on our job ads and the #Overleaf brand is becoming more well known.

Hoo, boy this is a CV sift and a half though.

(There's still time if you're a #JavaScript engineer, but be quick! https://apply.workable.com/overleaf/)

One of the things on my to-do list is to post a personal #introduction and today is the day that I will cross that off!

You can call me Sherry. I love to laugh, and am very joyful and fun overall. Wife to one man, mom to one daughter, and grandma. Owner of 2 #parrots and 2 #dogs (1 of which is my #ServiceDog). We live in a 5th wheel in the midst of one of Michigan's Amish communities on a secluded lot in a beautiful area. BA in #music - currently love playing my #Tyros5 and my small #ukulele collection. Use my music to worship #Jesus, am a #Bible believing #Christian living out the Scriptures 24/7 by holding God's hand throughout my life, failing only when I let go. Always aware I am His vessel. “Where the Bible speaks, we speak; where the Bible is silent, we are silent” (Thomas Campbell) is how I deal with most things. A strong conservative politically, I choose to focus instead on the eternal rather than the temporal in my relationships, online and off, and on loving those that God puts in my path, meeting them where THEY are. Love to cook, and eat to minimize the effects of my disabilities as much as I can since 2004. For me that's been #lowcarb and/or #keto and/or #ketovore and/or #carnivore almost exclusively. Been using social media since my #Compuserve and local #BBS days in the 80s, and my interest remains strong to these #Fediverse times because meeting interesting people is such a delight and joy!

holy crap!

My direct sale ebook income in 2022 exceeded my Amazon income.

I'd like to exult and shriek "I did it!" -- but the truth is, y'all did it. I made the DRM-free bookstore available. You chose to buy direct from me rather than through the Bezosbeast.

Thank you. Sincerely.

But also: "I DID IT! I CANNOT BE STOPPED! GAZE UPON MY WORKS AND DESPAIR, YE BEZOS!"

Fuck RIGHT off.
If you don't want essential workers going on strike all the time, try bloody well paying them enough!!
I'm sick and goddamn tired of the richest people across the world robbing us all blind to put an extra zero on their Bank Account High Score, while refusing to throw more than scraps to the folks who actually make the wheels of society turn and GENERATE all that profit.
https://youtu.be/8au38etAoZg

On #TheDataExchangePod I speak with Mark Chen, Research Scientist at OpenAI. We discuss DALL·E, CLIP, and other key research developments that led to DALL·E 2; data sources, safety measures, other ML models needed for its success.
#machinelearning #dalle2 #dalle #AI #generativeai
https://thedataexchange.media/exploring-dalle-2/

Waiting for that test was 15 minutes of terror. I know that's a bit personal for social media, but I think it's important that we talk about the effects these laws have. You know a woman who has felt that terror. You may know a woman who wouldn't be here today without Roe. This will kill some of us and yet we soldier on. I hope we still have allies as brave as the Janes.

she burns incandescent
the shadow of her skeleton
flickering on her skin

my days are washed in her light
it teases new growth
green tendrils from my fingers

outside her light are darknesses
some that fell from me
the day she first lit up

so i photosynthesize quietly
ignoring plainsong whispers
filled with talk of dusk

for here in the beautiful now
my face lit by her presence
she burns and burns and burns

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poem

yellow blooms
a big thing
in winter

#haiku

SHAKESPEARE: to be or not to be, that is the question

SCHRÖDINGER: see this guy gets it

Girls Don't Like Boys, Girls Like Cars And Money #midjourney #AIArt #GoodCharlotte

Inviting all #writers to join us for the fun and friendship of #WritingWonders. You can participate with a WIP or an already published book. Alina, Amelia and I have come up with some hopefully intriguing questions for January. Looking forward to seeing all your answers and meeting new friends this year. Here you go!
#amwriting

if i demo my banana cleaner and nobody is there to see it, are my bananas clean

I've been procrastinating writing my #introduction post, so here we go.

I'm a software engineer primarily working in #dotnet. I prefer #fsharp, but #csharp works too.

In my free time, I play too much #FFXIV. I'm a moderator for the free company Rainbow Garden on Faerie.

Other interests include playing tabletop RPGs, checking out the local vegan restaurants, reading, and taking naps.

Thanks for having me #hachyderm, and thank you, @nova, for making it happen!