Mastodawn

Top 3 English language authors* who it's a real shame they died young (I mean obviously for their families but) in terms of the books they might have written:

3. Douglas Adams (49)
2. Iain Banks (59)
1. Jane Austen (41)

#StupidList

* Not including all the ones I've forgotten or don't know about.

Accurate.

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leafdigital May 1

Lonita May 1

A friend shared this elsenet on Valentine's Day a couple of years ago, but I thought today was an appropriate time to reshare, along with the ones I wrote.

Roses are red
False scarcity is dumb
People should have
A basic income

Roses are red
Let's avoid desperation
By sharing what's needed
Through nationalisation

Workers of the world unite!

leafdigital Apr 24

Electrical safety, principles in practice.

leafdigital Apr 16

European Commission Apr 16

UK, welcome back to Erasmus+ 🇪🇺🇬🇧

The EU and the United Kingdom sealed the deal to bring the UK back into Erasmus+ from 2027.

We are rebuilding opportunities for the next generation to study, work and grow together, giving people the chance to connect across borders once again.

It will also help create and deepen partnerships between our academic institutions.

Together again through learning, exchange and connection 🤝

More: https://link.europa.eu/MHc9JP

leafdigital Apr 15

MDN Web Docs Apr 15

CSS Nesting is here — write less, organize more 🎨

Nest selectors directly inside parent rules, just like Sass. No preprocessor required.

> .card {
> color: black;
> & .title { font-weight: bold; }
> }

Learn more 👇
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_nesting

CSS nesting - CSS | MDN

The CSS nesting module defines a syntax for nesting selectors, providing the ability to nest one style rule inside another, with the selector of the child rule relative to the selector of the parent rule.

MDN Web Docs

leafdigital Apr 13

If you go down to the woods today, you're sure of - ooh, bluebells! (Howe Park Wood, Milton Keynes)

leafdigital Apr 4

We went to see 'The Magic Faraway Tree' film today. The BBFC card at the start literally says 'very mild threat' so, predictably, it was 'too scary' for one of our party! I thought it was nice though, good job of adapting the books, and I liked Silky the fairy (who apparently is played by someone from Bridgerton wtf).

Slightly ironic that it has an anti-screen-time moral since I expect kids will soon be watching this on tablets during meals, headphones on, ignoring their family... :)

leafdigital Mar 30

Nice: a Soul II Soul cryptic crossword clue, in yesterday's Guardian Quiptic.

Back to life, back to reality, back to life, with this you can see (3)