she/her interested in sustainability, inventive technologies, dogs, books, politics (reluctantly), Seattle, San Francisco Bay Area, Britain
header: glitter and paint on wooden tabletop (the ghosts of crafts past)
"Winter Storm"
pastel on pastelmat (butter) - 7x9.5 in
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/tamami-tokutake/winter-storm/1147655
Threatening sky over the hill. Winter storm incoming.
It’s not bedtime yet but here are #3GoodThings anyway
1) Having a husband who may be a cishet Boomer but never colludes with misogynistic comments
2) Finding lots of my old pals on Bluesky
3) Turning around a day of low mood and low motivation into super productivity. Proud of myself
What a great bit of reporting. Please give to ProPublica if you can.
But also, this kind of mercenary capitalism highlights the problem with any government-industrial complex. I personally don't want my government paying Microsoft just because it has to.
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-white-house-offer-cybersecurity-biden-nadella
When the White House welcomed Microsoft’s offer of $150 million in tech services, it helped the world’s largest software provider tighten its grip on federal business and freeze out competitors.
Timeline cleanse
Westerlund 2 is a giant cluster of about 3,000 stars located 20,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Carina. These stars sculpt the surrounding nebula, carving out a cavity lined with a fantasy landscape of pillars, ridges, and valleys. The pillars, composed of dense gas and dust, are incubators for new stars. They are a few light-years tall and point to the central star cluster.
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📷 https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2015/12/3519-Image.html?news=true
An Ohio man was sentenced today to three years in prison for his operation of the darknet cryptocurrency “mixer” Helix, which processed transactions involving over $300 million worth of cryptocurrency from 2014 to 2017.
Breakfast with this smiley best boy .. let's go Thursday! 💜
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The Pizzaburger Presidency; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/29/sub-bushel-comms-strategy/
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Tamami
Charlotte Walker
Taggart
Kelly Lepo
Steve Herman
Pixelcats⁷
Barbara J. King
Cory Doctorow