I appreciate that Duolingo focuses on topics and phrases that are useful in everyday life.

#duolingo #language #president #politics

I've recently gotten into "alternative process" printing. I built my own UV exposure box and have started with cyanotypes (the easiest, cheapest, least toxic alt-printing method). Are there any good photo printing/alt-printing hashtags/accounts I should follow on the fediverse? (Boosts for visibility are appreciated!)

#photography #printmaking #artsandcrafts #art #crafts #altprocess #cyanotype

I'm #ListeningTo Part IV by Prequell, from the album 'Debut EP'.

More about Prequell on:
#musicbrainz: https://musicbrainz.org/artist/643abda0-0515-4db7-9e63-4483155864f9
discogs: https://www.discogs.com/artist/5319744

#music #orchestral #electronic

Some great signs at the 'Hands Off!' protest in Philadelphia yesterday.

#USPol #politics #protest #HandsOff

The US is a country where people elect a government that denies climate change and actively works to dismantle any attempts to counter it... while also watching insurance companies drastically increase prices and pull out of entire regions due to massive climate-driven disasters. Insurance companies want to use climate modeling as a factor in setting future prices and the Federal Reserve Chairman himself has said he expects mortgages to eventually be unavailable in some disaster-prone regions.

Now this administration wants to open national forests for logging, a move they are attempting to push forward under the guise of forest management. The Forest Service (part of the USDA) already does this. They wouldn't be cutting jobs there if they were concerned about forest management. This is a land grab.

The attached image is from the "Biennial Report of the State Fish and Game Commissioner to the Governor of North Dakota from March 17, 1893 to December 1, 1894".

It often feels like we have learned nothing.

#climate #ClimateChange #USPol #politics

Many nonprofits rely heavily on federal grants and AmeriCorps members. These nonprofits are being told that they need to scrub anything mentioning diversity, equity, and inclusion if they expect any federal funding or assistance moving forward. (Attached are a couple of examples from a literacy nonprofit called Reading Partners). It's possible that many of Trump's executive orders will be defeated in court, but--even if that happens--the legal process can be slow. Funding is being pulled from programs / nonprofits / research that cannot survive long without it. So, if you see an organization complying with these orders, please do not immediately think less of them. Do not assume they are making these changes because they want to. In most cases they are simply trying to weather the storm and survive long enough to continue helping the communities that depend on their services.

#USPol #politics #nonprofits #americorps #dei

"Performance may be degraded while an army of randos downloads everything at the National Library of Medicine in an effort to save critical medical literature from the GOP's 'Great Purge'. We will not apologize."

#archive #censorship #SafeguardingResearch #ArchiveTeam #DataRescueProject #USPol #politics #DataHoarder

What discussions in archival/DataHoarder groups feel like as US government documents and data sets are taken down.

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If you think you might be able to help these efforts or want more information, check out:

The Data Rescue Project

The Safeguarding Research Discourse

#archive #DataHoarder #USPol #politics #SafeguardingResearch #DataRescueProject

You can help too!: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior

#ArchiveTeam #DataHoarder #InternetArchive #archive

Hulu has updated their TOS to “clarify” that their ‘ad free’ subscription tier has ads. 😐

#streaming #hulu #lies