szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

I recently took an indoor training course in which I was the only one #masked. That didn’t bother me as it’s not the first time and I’ve grown quite accustomed to people’s strange looks.

What truly affected me was the sad fact that when we partnered up at the start, I was last to be picked due to my #mask.

It was clear everyone felt that if they partnered with me they’d have to mask up as well. I told the last unfortunate fellow who was forced to sit with me that was not the case, he was relieved.

Over the 2 day course I found out my new partner had already taken the same course a month previous and barely retained anything.

I was shocked by his inability to remember numbers or follow basic instructions in a timely matter. Despite this, I continuously helped him along, explaining things thoroughly through my mask. At the end he gratefully thanked me for helping him so much through the course.

Upon leaving on the last day, I overheard my former partner admitting to the teacher that since he’s had #covid (multiple times) he now has difficulty remembering things, which is affecting his studies.

So, next time you need to partner in a course don’t assume the only person masked is an incompetent fool, when it’s most probably quite the opposite.

My wife and I have managed to avoid #covid19bc thus far through maintained #masking and social #distancing. Life changed and we’ve adjusted. Masking shows our strength and resilience not our weakness.

#COVIDIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #CapitalismKills #BringBackMasks #masks4healthcare #Eugenics #bcpoli #cdnpoli

July 31 afternoon. Interactive #GIS map shows satellite *heat* detection for #WestHalletFire south side of Spokane WA.

Some heat detections are likely smoke in the air but not fire on the ground. But with that said, never rely on any map to ignore an order to evacuate.

Please read the “Map tips” link and “Legend” in upper left corner.
#WAfire #WAwx #wildfire #Geospatial #Maps #Mapping #Leaflet #ArcGIS #WebMap

Open #GISsurfer map:
https://mappingsupport.com/p2/gissurfer.php?center=47.610906,-117.463074&zoom=12&basemap=USA_basemap&overlay=VIIRS_7_day,MODIS_7_day,State_boundary,Wind_temperature_and_more...&data=https://mappingsupport.com/p2/special_maps/disaster/USA_wildland_fire.txt

productive procrastination: doing literally everything on my to-do list except for the one thing that is most important.

#autism #neurodivergent

As now everyone seems to be mad with that "degoogling" thing, I'll reiterate my point: I won't stop using services that are accessible and usable for me as a blind screen reader user. Period, full stop. You can be a thousand times open-source, have good intentions and be saint angels in flesh, but if your service is not accessible *and* usable by a blind user, I cannot perform my daily tasks, be it for work, hobby or leisure, hence I won't use your service. Make your services accessible and usable for everyone and then preach about degoogling, de-appling, de-microsofting and de-whatevering. #Angry #Blind #Accessibility

One of the creepier tech-related incidents I remember was many years ago when I wanted the Sam's Photofacts (a third-party creator of device specs and schematics, etc.) for a very old portable TV. Way out of date, but I was trying to help someone with it.

I mentioned to a friend that I was looking for old Photofacts, but I did not say anything about the TV. He scribbled an address on a scrap of paper, an address locally here in L.A. "Try him," he muttered.

I drive over. It's a small unmarked storefront. I go in, the bell on the door rings. Sitting inside, like the caterpillar in "Alice in Wonderland", is this little guy perched on a stool, with immense stacks of paper surrounding him everywhere. Total mayhem.

I walk up to him -- knowing that this was a waste of time and really wanting to get out of there -- and asked if he had the Sam's Photofacts for that specific very old TV model.

Without saying a word, he reached over to the pile of papers right next to him, took the TOP item off the pile, and silently handed it to me. It was the ancient one I needed. Stunned, I paid him the amount marked on the item, and left with it, not completely sure what had just happened.

When I drove by there a month later that storefront was something else entirely. He was gone.

Shout out to the DMV agent who, when my mom said no to voter registration, looked her dead in the eye and said, "They're going to take away your grandchildren's rights, you need to register." and now my mom is finally registered to vote.

Bo wiecie, że jak wyszłam z domu, to na drzwiach do klatki schodowej znalazłam kartkę, że sąsiadka znalazła klucz do samochodu, i dopiero jak tę kartę ujrzałam, to odkryłam, że nie mam swojego klucza do samochodu. Dobrze, że sąsiadka była w domu, bo inaczej bym do dupy pojechała, a nie do Żychlina.

Nie, ten klucz u sąsiadki to był ten zapasowy, pierwszy zgubiłam parę lat temu w Kielcach na parkingu, cóż to była za radość w wigilię Bożego Narodzenia jechać fliksbusami z Kielc do Warszawy po zapasowy klucz do auta i z powrotem, żeby zdążyć babcię zawieźć na kolację wigilijną i jeszcze żeby się nie zorientowała, że coś jest nie tak, bo przecież by był miesiąc histerii potem o ten zgubiony klucz.

Nie wiem, czemu to #ADHD mi tak późno zdiagnozowali, jak tak się nad tym teraz zastanawiam.

Had an interesting discussion with someone about how paperbacks aren’t worse for the environment than ebooks because of the vast amount of energy used to maintain the servers and such for ebooks. Anyone else have info on this?
#books #reading #publishing #ebooks

This is the real, human cost of mass surveillance of everyone's private digital communications.

If we actually care about keeping people safe, we need more end-to-end encryption not less.

Disengaging from Gmail is going well. It's going to be a long process, but I'm a few days into it and I'm now receiving almost no messages in my Gmail account.

My approach was to look in my password manager for the accounts I most often use, and then to visit those accounts and change the associated email addresses either to my personal or work account. (That in itself is great, because work and personal stuff was previously mixed up.)

The less access Google has to my life, the better.

Country roads are not freeways, and you simply cannot drive quickly on them. And while this seems obvious, you'd be surprised at the people who try. Better, instead, to accept them for what they are and enjoy the leisurely way they take you through the landscape. More peaceful that way.

Meandering Landscape framed print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/meandering-landscape-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print

#landscape #rural #country #nature #outside #outdoors #art #artwork #artist #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop #stevehenderson #buyintoart #peace

George Takei being on mastodon while Mark Hamill sticks with Twitter is just further proof that Star Trek > Star Wars in every conceivable way.
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CAPTCHAs are getting out of hand these days.

#programming

Web experience 2023, nie wpuścimy Cię na stronę dopóki wszyscy szpiegujący partnerzy nie otrzymają informacji że odrzuciłeś okienko o cookies...

Postęp!

#tech #cookies #web

As I stood in the museum admiring this old dress, I could hear a ghostly voice faintly whispering to me from the past.

"It has pockets!"

#DunedinNZ #ToituMuseum

I tested my new old camera from 1954 that produces square images on a 35 mm film, so on a roll of 36 you can squeeze in over 50 images! (I used the cheapest color film available) 📸

Gear:
• Zeiss Ikon Taxona (Germany, 1954)
• Tessar f/3.5 37.5 mm
• Kodak VISION3 250D

#35mm #35mmfilm #analog #analogphotography #analogue #analogvibes #architecture #architecturephotography #believeinfilm #building #buildings #c41 #city #cutebuildings #filmcommunity #filmisalive #filmisnotdead #filmphotography #fotografia #grain #grainisgood #intheshade #ishootfilm #iso250 #kodak #kodakvision #mastoart #nofilter #oldcamera #outdoors #photo #photography #poland #polska #poznan #reflection #reflections #rollfilm #ShootFilmBeNice #shotonfilm #sky #vintage #vision #zeiss

Not sure if folks are aware but India has stopped exporting rice to other countries and other asian countries are following suit. Basmati and Sona Masoori rice is really hard to find now.

For asians, not having rice is something unfathomable. Our cultures depend on it. There is no bigger wake up call than seeing rice being restricted thanks to climate change.

Y'all remember, before the internet, when people thought the source of stupidity was lack of access to information? Yeah. It wasn't that.