https://www.france24.com/en/culture/20260604-french-iranian-author-marjane-satrapi-author-of-persepolis-dies-at-56 I'm sad that Marjane Satrapi has died.

I have often come across the quote below. Before reposting it, I wanted to verify it. And I found out it's from a 2005 Salon interview https://www.salon.com/2005/04/24/satrapi_2/ -- during the time I worked at Salon! A neat coincidence for me.

The XMPP network graph is growing! 🚀

This is a 3D representation of more than eight thousand network connections!

Every sphere in this image is an #XMPP service (which could represent anywhere between 1 and ∞ users).

Are you running your own XMPP server? Add it to the graph! It serves no purpose other than creating beautiful data representations, but it is pretty great for that! 😄 (solid privacy checks are in place, check out the FAQ section on the website).

https://xmppnetwork.goodbytes.im

78 years ago, more than 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes, their villages destroyed, their identity denied.

The Nakba - the Catastrophe - didn’t end in 1948.

It continues today in every demolished home, every illegal settlement.

That’s why we march.

Hey #bookstodon, I built something and now need your help.

Do you also struggle to share a link to a book? Don’t want to link to a specific store? This might be the solution:

https://bookpile.org/b/9780356508191

A site that lists the reasonable places where to get the book, including libraries.

All open source. I need help in getting the list of cities as full as possible.

Please suggest the best bookstores for your city, including a way to link to a book in that book store.

https://bookpile.org/suggest