Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

The Dutch public broadcast organization NPO ( (like a BBC or PBS) is now running its own mastodon instance with handles on its main domain!

Radio 1: @nporadio1

The instance itself is at https://social.npo.nl/

Too many seem to think that, in the end, NHS coped fine with covid.

I'm planning a substack on what happened from March 2020 to 2021, inc ICU

I'd like to include ANONYMOUS quotes from FRONTLINE staff on what it was like, to bear witness.

Please fill out & share!

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/PKH9MRT

"The key to our collective survival is our collective knowledge and our willingness to collaborate in good faith. To unlock and utilise the great and growing pool of knowledge, we need to reimagine higher education as an open commons. Scholars are not cogs in a capitalist knowledge factory. We need stewards of the public knowledge commons."

👏🏽 Jim Luke (@econproph) is on 🔥 here - go read his amazing chapter
"Closing the factory: Reimagining higher education as commons", which has been published just earlier this week as an #OAbook with @OpenBookPublish

https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0363

‘The Word’ - a new 5 week, online, highly practical workshop exploring the possibilities of words & photography with @PrintedLand & I.
Develop your writing skills as a photographer, both creatively and functionally.
7/1/24 - 11/2/24 / Booking open now:

rkphotographic.com/the-word

When somebody asks "does this software need to be accessible to people with disabilities?” the answer you're looking for is “any level of discrimination is unacceptable and illegal.”

#Sarcasm
Why do we spend so much time looking for intelligent life on other planets? I’d be happy to find intelligent life here on Earth first.

Whiney VC upset that people's rights get in the way of him making money

Remember when browsers used to display an RSS icon in the URL bar when feeds were available on that website?

After the lost decade in social media, can we please bringt that back now?

#Firefox #Browser #IndieWeb #RSS

Sister Voyager 1 has sent a ~6-1/2 hour playback from her 8-track reel-to-reel tape of data from interstellar space. Earth will try to capture this data with 5 arrayed antennas at the Madrid Deep Space Network facility in Robledo de Chavela, Spain.

I'm talking about gravitational waves and black holes in today's lecture and I just watched a bunch of the simulations here and now I'm feeling slightly anxious about getting swallowed by a black hole.

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/videos?category=simulation

(I know, it's not going to happen. But entire stars are getting swallowed by black holes somewhere in the universe all the time! Wild)

At my lunch time tomorrow I’m teaching a free photography class at a Tenderloin community group. Participants will receive a disposable film camera, free film developing, and be part of a Tenderloin community art show in December

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzWkCnPrrMK/?igshid=Y2Yyb3BhYWw4d2Z6

#BelieveInFiIm #Photography #FilmPhotography #SanFrancisco #Tenderloin

The hatch Israel claimed was a Hamas tunnel is only a water reservoir for the hospital#Israel-Palestineconflict
Investigation disproves Israel claim of Hamas tunnel under Gaza hospital

📢 Last call: LibrePlanet 2024's "Cultivating Community" session submission deadline is Nov 17. 🌱 Share your insights and strengthen our community. Whether it's a talk, workshop, or panel, your voice matters. Details at fsf.org. Let's grow together! 🚀 #LibrePlanet #FreeSoftware #CommunityBuilding

When I was about ten, I noticed an infrared light in our VCR and became convinced that it was a hidden camera that my parents were using to spy on me.

I wasn’t a bad kid so I wasn’t worried, but I convinced myself that if I sang and danced for the camera, my parents would FINALLY see my talent and help me get on Star Search.

For the next month, I did super weird performances in front of that VCR until I finally acknowledged that they hadn’t provided any feedback on my skillz, at which point I concluded that the only logical conclusion was that the camera wasn’t working, so I…

DISMANTLED THE VCR to examine the camera.

Once everything was opened up and pulled apart, I realized I had no idea what I was looking at so I just screwed everything back together with a bunch of loose, rattling parts inside.

About a week later, I remember watching my dad trying to play a Beverly Hills Cop VHS tape to no avail and silently thinking “this is YOUR fault for not seeing my full POTENTIAL, daaaaad!”

@coffeegeek @tchambers We couldn’t scrub Twitter off our website fast enough. We had very little interaction there anyways (company account was started in 2010). We ceased all ad spend October 28, 2022 and never looked back. I actually look at companies and organizations less favorably if they have a link to twitter. I look at them with disgust if they changed it to “X”.

Aid agencies like
https://nitter.cz/Oxfam
,
https://nitter.cz/savechildrenuk
&
https://nitter.cz/christianaid
are clear that a humanitarian pause in Gaza isn't enough - to mend critical infrastructure like roads & hospitals, we need *immediate ceasefire*. If you're meeting these groups, Minister, why aren't you listening to them?

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1722255290668863692#m

[2023-11-08 14:10 UTC]

Fabian Nelson, a Black gay man, had already won a Democratic primary runoff in House of Representatives District 66 and had no opposition in Tuesday’s general election except for a write-in campaign. But now he’s won the general.

https://www.advocate.com/politics/fabian-nelson-mississippi-first-gay?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fgaycommunity

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA