📢 We are still receiving proposals for the first #PyLadiesCon! ✨🐍🚀
🗓️ Dec 1-3, 2023
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This is legit scary. Marsha Blackburn is openly admitting that her bill KOSA will be used to drive trans people off the internet.
But Democrats are lining up to support it, and LGBTQIA+ orgs have dropped their opposition. WTF WTF WTF
Seksualność, polityka
"Kinsey starał się, poprzez obszerne wywiady z ponad 5000 kobiet, utworzyć statystyczny zapis tego, co ludzie faktycznie robią, a nie tego, co powinni robić wedle prawa i zwyczaju. Nie wydawał osądów, a jedynie opisywał swoje odkrycia; odkrył jednak częstość stosunków przedmałżeńskich i pozamałżeńskich, które, łagodnie mówiąc, zaburzyły rycerski kodeks wielu naiwnych, hipokrytyczny lub zadowolonych z siebie ludzi — zwłaszcza starszych ludzi u władzy.
Alfred C. Kinsey miał nieszczęście opublikować swój raport w 1953, u szczytu McCarthystycznej histerii w Ameryce […]. Wielu określiło raport Kinseya na temat kobiecej seksualności jako ćwiczenie z komunizmu albo, jeżeli nie wprost wywrotowe, to dostatecznie osłabiające amerykańską moralność, by umożliwić komunistom łatwy dostęp do naszych niespokojnych wybrzeży."
(z: Stephen Jay Gould, The Flamingo's Smile, esej 10: "Of Wasps and WASPs", tłum. własne)
Chciałoby się pomyśleć, że zrobiliśmy od tego czasu postęp jako społeczeństwo.
The good thing is that our power line survived. We're at the very end of a long stretch of wires , so we're the last to get repaired.
Today we had many short power breaks, none of them longer than 10 minutes, but they made work hell. Sorry if I didn't reply to your message. Living on the edge, I don't have a UPS, the battery in my laptop is dead, and I'm too lazy to drag the generator out of its lair. Those breaks meant that the power company was still cleaning up after a 12 hour outage a few days ago, caused by storms. Back then we had a very romantic evening, with cooking by candlelight.
As Twitter self-immolates, I am seeing people I know setting up on Bluesky.
I find this perplexing. Can people really not learn the lesson that a social network owned by a capitalist is a social network they don't control?
You can argue about whether Bluesky or Mastodon has the better technology, but what's 100% clear is that Mastodon is run BY users FOR users. And that difference is the only one that matters in the end.
This quiz has ended.
The correct answer is “for a man,” though most people did not hear that. Armstrong swore he said “for a man,” but even after he listened to the audio himself, he was in doubt too, as he could not hear it either. However, in 2006, a computer analysis of the sound waves provided evidence that he said “for a man” and not “for man.”
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Odwiedziłem wczoraj Ślężę, a w drodze powrotnej przy okolicznym lesie wypatrzyłem taki artefakt.
I zastanawiam się, ilu ówczesnych prenumeratorów magazynu "Chip" pamięta, że pod koniec lat 90. ubiegłego wieku wsparło zalesianie okolic Ślęży. Być może niewielu. Ale ślad pozostał.
TIL: the standard error in Unix is a thing because one day in the 70s, a photosetting pipeline ended up producing beatiful printed messages „cannot open file foobar”.
Life with #birds
(Seeds and millet are treats, and you should mostly be feeding your bird some kind of pelleted diet and vegetables.)
The oldest printed book in the Huntington Library isn’t its Gutenberg Bible, but a Chinese Buddhist text nearly four centuries older. https://huntington.org/videos-and-recorded-programs/thousand-years-books-printed-1085
Living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (also spelled #Polesie) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #bogs and #forests, trying not to fuck up surrounding nature too much.
Taking care of a small pack of #dogs – #IdąPsięta.
Luddite working with hi-tech.
#RuralBroadband provider by accident. Starting a small LoRaWAN project to monitor our wetlands. Coding in #Python. Dealing with dirty data, cleaning them when time allows.
#Atheist. I don't *believe* in #science – science is the *only* thing that protects us from belief.
Fuck nazis.
My account on Twitter is still up, for good reasons. https://twitter.com/szescstopni
I check facts before I toot.
I sometimes toot in Polish.
Zdolny, ale leniwy.