Francis Barton

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Been entirely burnt out on coding side projects for many months now.

But, since I started this daily creative writing habit and have been using Tarot cards as writing prompts, I suddenly want to yak shave and build a better writing prompt generator.

And I just found an MIT licensed Tarot card set. β€‹

https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/lsind18/tarot-json

Tarot Deck

tarot cards with meanings + scans of the RWS deck

Every percentage change reported in the article:

Monarch Butterflies (90% decline) - United States
Rusty-Patched Bumblebee (87% decline) - United States
Flying Insect Biomass (75% decline overall 82% at summer peak) - Germany
Partridges (80% decline) - France
Nightingales (50% decline) - France
Turtledoves (80% decline) - France
Largest King Penguin Colony (88% decline) - Crozet Islands
Bluefin Tuna (97% decline) - Global
Estimated Global Wild Animal Population (60% decline)
Arthropod Biomass (98% decline) - Puerto Rico
Beetles (72% decline) - Netherlands
Moths (54% decline) - Netherlands

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/magazine/insect-apocalypse.html

#Schema.org attributes are ugly and feel like intentionally adding a disease to your code. #structureddata. What happened to #microformats ?

For me, I think it was only the recent massive rise in house prices that finally drove home to me how unsustainable capitalism is.

Housing is a true zero-sum good in a way that, say, computer prices aren't.

When computers are getting better and cheaper each year, it's easier to kid yourself that everything's improving and capitalism is what's driving the improvements.

But houses are not getting better and cheaper each year. And the worse housing gets, the louder the financial media cheers.

Decentralization is key to #privacy and #security. #Nextcloud is making great progress by building an ecosystem!
https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-simple-signup-great-win-for-decentralization/
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bbc 2 has overhauled its idents today after 20 years of this boy

rip 2

bon jovi is short for bonald jovian
Playing around with BitBucket, SourceTree and git - happy learning as always!

YES I will be there again tonight: Weds 26 Sept, 6.30-8pm
YES we are still looking for volunteers (see thread)

Those who have already been in touch, thank you! + emails/tshirts going out soon

YES we'll be in Parliament Sq again at 6.30pm tonight cos #BrexitDoesntAddUp and this is how I'm choosing to spread the word. There were a dozen of us last week with picnic rugs + snacks. Come join :)

BUT ALSO today marks a change of pace, and we…
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