Mastodawn

kit 22m ago

Anna Dorofeeva 4h ago

One thousand years of 😳

From an early ninth-century manuscript (Basel, Universitätsbiblitohek, N I 1:3c, fol. 2r).

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kit 31m ago

I can almost understand someone who refuses to accept that the sun will rise at 05:30, because they don't accept the imposed system of time units, but I have a harder time with those who get offended by the sun will rise on that side of the house.

kit 34m ago

I don't think I'm ever going to understand folks who believe, with the whole of their heart, that if they're told something from a place of knowledge, that it infringes upon their freedom.

kit 19h ago

The only way forward is to block Googevil entirely.

kit 21h ago

Oomfie Snoofies 22h ago

kit 21h ago

Max Leibman 21h ago

The expression “scrolling the feed” dates to the late Middle Ages, when scribes hand-wrote the news of the day on scrolls.

kit 21h ago

Totts 21h ago

I've just signed this petition. Will you add your name and share too?

It's about #Palantir worming their way into our British public services
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-palantir-taking-over-our-public-services?source=web_share_api&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=web_share_api&share=d30c8b52-9a07-462b-979d-83bc3b48a0bc

Stop Palantir taking over our public services!

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

38 Degrees

kit 21h ago

Mx. Riley 23h ago

It is appalling to see people conflate "pay me for my work because I must survive" with "selling out."

That attitude is too common on fedi, one of the more problematic inheritances from the early days of FOSS.

There is no virtue in suffering. And relying solely on volunteer labor is a demand that people suffer, or that contributors only be people of privilege.

Relatedly, @thisismissem is one of the most valuable contributors to fedi and she deserves our support: https://support.thisismissem.social/

Support Emelia Smith (@thisismissem)

Fund her work on the open social web, improving trust & safety, and making contributions to various other open-source projects

kit 21h ago

Clair 22h ago

This is a very cheeky request, but does anyone here speak Bengali or Gujarati? I've had some materials professionally translated for my charity work, but I'd love for someone to have a glance at the materials to make sure that they make sense in context. It's a couple of posters/flyers, hopefully just a few minutes to cast an eye over it.

kit 21h ago

mhoye 22h ago

Tired: if a person couldn’t be bothered to write it, why should I be bothered to read it?

Wired: if a person couldn’t be bothered to write it, why would I ever want to run it?

Avatar	Tattoo on the back of the neck, some say it’s a squatting squirrel, but it was supposed to be a monkey: Content warning/label.
Pronouns	pronouns: any
Titles	No. Just no.
Banner.	Tiny human, walks on four legs, with a bottle of the McCallum clutched in its sword side forepaw. Beneath a fauna skin, and concrete. The McCallum likely has a man with sword and target. Start as you mean to go on.