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A man from Texas with a wonderful husband.

My interests include but are not limited to video games, science, reading, and animals.

My types of scifi include #StarTrek and #Tron

I have a degree in software engineering that I've never used.

I love contributing to the OpenStreetMap project. If you have any interest or questions, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Find my video game music playlists on Peertube.

@openvibe

Hello there!

I don't know if it is something that falls under the umbrella of what you want your app to accomplish, but:

Have y'all heard of Mangrove Reviews?

If so, is this something you would consider building support for in your app?

They are on the Fediverse: @mangroveReviews

Mangrove Reviews -

Try out writing reviews in the public domain, using a cryptographically generated account that puts you in control of your privacy.

With enough patience it turns out you *can* pull the helicopter up to the gas station and refill your tank without blowing up!

#Fortnite

Wanna help #PeerTube?
We need tests and feedbacks on our future mobile app!

Whether on iOS, Play Store or with an apk, download our test version and share your feedback on here: https://framaforms.org/peertube-mobile-application-release-candidate-1731599644

You have until dec. 8th to share, test and help us have a great release!

PeerTube Mobile Application Release Candidate | Framaforms.org

I'm just the right kind of petty that I'm replacing all of the #Mapillary tags in my town with #Panoramax.

I've always hated supporting Meta.

#OpenStreetMap

@bsky.brid.gy @georgetakei I found Kate Mulgrew and Nana Visitor as well!

#StarTrek

#PPOD: Jupiter's innermost moon, Io, was captured by the #JunoCam instrument onboard NASA's Juno spacecraft during Perijove 57 on 30 December 2023. The image is processed in approximate true color as the human eye would see it. Note the amazing details in Io's volcanoes! Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Simeon Schmauß

#space #science #scicomm

Hello my fellow #Fediverse #StarTrek fans.

Jeri Ryan, Robert Picardo, and LeVar Burton recently joined Bluesky. I've sent them a message to see if they would use the Bluesky bridge.

@georgetakei is also there, but he also posts here in the Fediverse.

I am able to follow them from my Friendica server, but I wanted to let yall know in case you would be interested in adding the bridge to your account. I know how some people feel about it, but this message isn't for you.

From our side you would follow @bsky.brid.gy

New OSM tool (to me):

sb12.github.io/OSMStreetLight

It is an easy way to see where lights are already mapped, and what still needs to be covered. I do believe MapComplete has one as well.

#OpenStreetMap

Street Lamps in OSM

This map shows street lamps and their settings in the data of OpenStreetMap. It shows e.g. operators, reference numbers and details about the used lights.

Testing post to Fediverse/Bluesky
There is a joke in Germany that was told between the world wars,

Daughter: "I have a new boyfriend"
Mother: "Wonderful, what's his name?"
Daughter: "Friedrich"
Mother: "Oh that's great .... but did he have to be a Jew?"

Friedrich is a very German name. A great deal of Jews tried to flee the reprecussions of the Holocaust by integrating moreso than Germans, and taking very German names. They tried to Germanify themselves even to the point of many of them becoming Jew Hunters themselves. It did not save them.

There are examples of several Native American tribes Americanifying themselves. "White-ifying" themselves. Those tribes are now extinct because American Racism DOES NOT CARE about you white-ifying yourself. It cares about the color of your skin.

LGBT people in America like to say they won their rights by assimilation. They did not. You don't win your rights by asssimilation or being spineless. They got their rights by trans women of color throwing bricks at cops. Thus the calling card of queers "Stonewall was a riot/be gay do crimes" they just weren't rooted out and destroyed by AIDS, or by their own community so they got to live and declare themselves the victors when their lazy, gentrified bull shit will lead to the repealing of Obergefell v Hayes. They accomplished nothing except for gloating in their rights while the people that won them were summarily executed.

You cannot save yourself by siding with your opressors. You cannot save yourself from fascism by siding with the fascists. You also cannot save your community by holding a pure standard of what it is to be pure and doxxing your community for not holding your exact innane beliefs that nobody in the real world gives a shit about.

There's no difference between your dog whistles and your white nationalism than people that wear swastikas or white hoods. White nationalism is white nationalism. It doesn't matter if it's burning crosses or hiding it in Leftist Therapy speak.

Holding your community to purity you would never hold a cis heterosexual to will not save you. People like Caitlyn Jenner and Blaire White siding directly and overtly with fascists won't help us either. We have a name for people like this and it comes from the last name of Jewish Jew Hunters. "Quislings".

The only way we win is by standing together. Not standing with the fascists. Not tearing eachother apart. TO-GE-THER. I don't know why this is such a hard concept.

#leftism #fascism #history #worldpol #uspol