Gŵr. Tad. Taid. Caethwas cathod. Groucho-Marcsaidd. Nyrd. Hen begor.
Husband. Father. Grandfather. Slave of cats. Groucho-Marxist. Nerd. Old codger.
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Mike McHargueI don't know who needs to hear this, but the term "woke" didn't start with kids on Twitter.
The was first recorded by Lead Belly in the 1930s in a song called "The Scottsboro Boys," about the dangers Black Americans faced traveling through states in the Deep South. The original line was "best stay woke," as in, "remain aware of the dangers of racism."
Black communities shortened the term to "stay woke," over time, and eventually added "woke" as a state of being--or constant awareness.
@danielholt
The precedent is well-established. A civil court found that, on the balance of probabilities, he and another man raped a woman. This is a matter of public record.
As an employer knowing this, would you give him a job? I wouldn't.
I'm not an employer, but I have a daughter.
The only victim in this case is the woman.
Mercurius GoldsteinPls boost so I can show my wife how a toot can go round the world
(we are boarding a long haul flight and will be on the other side of the world when I turn my phone back on, so even with 0 boosts I think this will be a sound demonstration)
(we are boarding a long haul flight and will be on the other side of the world when I turn my phone back on, so even with 0 boosts I think this will be a sound demonstration)
Blaft PublicationsTwitter used to be our main marketing tool--the primary way we sold books online and got the word out.
These days, not so much.
Please help support us and our authors with a signal boost! We are an independent publisher based in Chennai with books on folklore from different parts of India, graphic novels, ghost encyclopedias, weird horror, pulp fiction in translation, and some pretty strange little zines.
@nigelharpur Me too.
HydroponicTrashReviving Chromebooks with Ubuntu: Autonomous Servers, Planned Obsolescence, and Permacomputing: Half tutorial, half manifesto.
Step-by-step instructions with additional commands and things to look out for. Along with steps toward a better future.
https://anarchosolarpunk.substack.com/p/chromebook-revive
Chromebooks reach end of life and stop getting updates. They tend to either be trashed or scrapped. Let's make them boot to an up-to-date and secure OS and give them out to anyone who needs them. Make them into portable webservers, make your own off-grid networks. I talk about the issues, but also steps we can take to reframe our relationship with technology by changing our social relations. This connects with the revolutionary vision of the early internet & computing and the cross-over of the counterculture.
https://anarchosolarpunk.substack.com/p/opensourcesocieties
In the face of climate collapse we can move away from profit driven and destructive practices in tech - and towards decommodified, interoperable, modular, and appropriate technology that is shaped by the people, and made to last with as little impact on the ecosystem as possible.
#permacomputing #solarpunk
Reviving Chromebooks with Ubuntu: Autonomous Servers, Planned Obsolescence, and Permacomputing
A tutorial and slight manifesto on reviving end-of-life Chromebooks. How to make them into autonomous servers, and why we need to rethink computing in the age of climate collapse.
@simonblackbourn @passedwonder @BobbySeal
This is excellent. We should cherish all lost rivers. I love the Effra Redevelopment Agency.
In Gwynedd we have Afon Adda, culverted beneath Bangor, and Cadnant, which flows beneath Caernarfon.
I used to take the bus down Kentish Town Road, along the culverted Fleet and past the Jolly Anglers pub at the end of Anglers Lane. I wonder when the river was fished there for the last time.
Croeso! An interesting aside is that the Celtic languages are divided into the P- variants: Welsh, Breton, Cornish; and the Q- variants: Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx.
Welsh word for children is 'plant'.
Now you know where the Scottish word 'clan' comes from...