DocAtCDIA farmer who owned 67 sheep asked me to round them up.
I said: Sure. 70.
Jon Knight
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Repair Café Isle of WightJoin us for our monthly Repair Café session at Quay Arts tomorrow! We're looking forward to helping you fix all kinds of items you bring in. If you haven't booked a slot yet, don't worry—you can still drop by on the day. We have a few open slots at 10:40 am and midday. Hope to see you there!
Shouty personOver on BlueSky, authors are sharing their #unbound horror stories. It’s awful. So much worse than I imagined. It’s Alan Dean Foster vs Disney all over again.
Unbound went into liquidation and immediately a new company, Boundless, popped up. They now own all of Unbound’s assets … and none of its debts.
There are so many authors owed tens of thousands of pounds each. Many of them have no other source of income and this represents a year’s worth of royalties.
Gabe SchuylerAnnouncing: https://justaqrcode.com.
Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.
My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!
Kate MorleyMy train earlier was delayed by what the announcer called a “bovine intervention”: a cow on the line at Tiverton which was eventually moved onto the platform. My train now is delayed by a swan on the line at Bath, which is “being dealt with by the police”. I feel like I’m in a Thomas The Tank Engine story.
Looking for a sustainable way to fix your beloved items rather than tossing them out? Join us at the Repair Cafe at Ventnor Exchange (10:15am to 12:30) this Saturday (24th May)! It's a great opportunity to bring in your broken gadgets, appliances, and other items for a little TLC from our skilled Repairers. You'll also get the unique opportunity to learn valuable repair skills too.
There's still time to book a ticket and ensure your spot to get something repaired - https://buytickets.at/repaircafeiow/1208692/r/mastodon
There's still time to book a ticket and ensure your spot to get something repaired - https://buytickets.at/repaircafeiow/1208692/r/mastodon
Lauren WeinsteinIn retrospect, perhaps I should have left the ARPANET turned off that late night so long ago in the ARPA machine room at UCLA.
Thomas FuchsWith AI we can now directly write legacy code, skipping the annoying waiting period for no one who understands it being around anymore.
🍋 Superball ☀️“In the Netherlands, every citizen is allowed to clear and plant a strip of paving slabs up to 50 centimeters away from the house wall without asking the authorities. ‘We want as many people as possible to take responsibility for making cities greener and therefore more resilient to the climate crisis,’ explains Landegent as he rolls up a blue fiber optic cable that was buried in the sand bed under the tiles. Later, he says, they’ll lay the cable back in the bed. Doesn’t the network operator have to agree to this? Or send a fitter to supervise? Or doesn’t the homeowner at least have to be informed? Landegent smiles and shakes his head. Dutch people—who are accustomed to taking matters into their own hands—would never ask such questions, he seems to think.”
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/netherlands-tegelwippen-flowerbeds/
Martin Hamilton@greenjimll And after all, who doesn't bring a set of Allen keys with them everywhere?! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯