Had to bath the cat... she is sooooo fluffy, but soooooo angry at me. Her privacy will be respected during this traumatic time. #Caturday
Bass Guitar Noob.
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Oli Passey
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DevOps Engineer during the day, Indie Bookshop Tech at the weekends.
Bass Guitar Noob.
Bass Guitar Noob.
The Wedale BookshopHello! We are a small independent bookshop in Stow, in the Scottish Borders. We are no longer using Twitter, for obvious reasons, but could use some new followers on Mastodon and other social media channels - where our presence is smaller than on Twitter. Please help / share this is you can! Thank you.
This year has provided a constant reminder that we are all on this planet for a relatively tiny amount of time. And at any point it can all come to a screeching halt with no warning. Give those you love an extra big squeeze whenever you get the opportunity.
Orange LanternCold is relative.
+10°C : Tenants of Helsinki turn off their heating.
+5°C : People in Lapland take a sunbath, if the sun still reaches over the horizon.
0°C : Destilled water freezes.
-1°C : Breath becomes visible. People in Lapland enjoy some ice cream and cold beer.
-4°C : Your cat wants under the blankets.
-12°C : Too cold for snowfall.
-18°C : Tenants of Helsinki turn the heating back on.
-20°C : Breath now becomes audible.
-23°C : Politicians start to claim sympathy for the homeless.
-26°C : Breath can now be used as material for ice sculptures.
-29°C : Your cat wants under your pajamas.
-31°C : Too cold for kissing, lips freeze together. The Lapland national soccer team begins training for spring season.
-39°C : Quicksilver freezes. Too cold to think. People of Lapland start closing their shirts.
-40°C : Your car wants under the blankets. People in Lapland think about wearing a sweater.
-44°C : Your dad is considering letting you use the thermostat. Maybe.
-50°C : Sea lions leave Greenland. People in Lapland start wearing some light mittens.
-70°C : Polar bears are leaving the north pole. At the university of Rovaniemi a field trip is getting planned.
-75°C : Santa is cancelling Christmas. People in Lapland start wearing wool hats.
-250°C : Alcohol freezes. People in Lapland are getting annoyed.
-268°C : Helium becomes fluid.
-270°C : Hell freezes over.
-273,15°C : Point Zero, no movement of elementary particles possible anymore. People in Lapland grudingly admit "yes, it's a bit chilly. Give me a schnapps to suck."
+10°C : Tenants of Helsinki turn off their heating.
+5°C : People in Lapland take a sunbath, if the sun still reaches over the horizon.
0°C : Destilled water freezes.
-1°C : Breath becomes visible. People in Lapland enjoy some ice cream and cold beer.
-4°C : Your cat wants under the blankets.
-12°C : Too cold for snowfall.
-18°C : Tenants of Helsinki turn the heating back on.
-20°C : Breath now becomes audible.
-23°C : Politicians start to claim sympathy for the homeless.
-26°C : Breath can now be used as material for ice sculptures.
-29°C : Your cat wants under your pajamas.
-31°C : Too cold for kissing, lips freeze together. The Lapland national soccer team begins training for spring season.
-39°C : Quicksilver freezes. Too cold to think. People of Lapland start closing their shirts.
-40°C : Your car wants under the blankets. People in Lapland think about wearing a sweater.
-44°C : Your dad is considering letting you use the thermostat. Maybe.
-50°C : Sea lions leave Greenland. People in Lapland start wearing some light mittens.
-70°C : Polar bears are leaving the north pole. At the university of Rovaniemi a field trip is getting planned.
-75°C : Santa is cancelling Christmas. People in Lapland start wearing wool hats.
-250°C : Alcohol freezes. People in Lapland are getting annoyed.
-268°C : Helium becomes fluid.
-270°C : Hell freezes over.
-273,15°C : Point Zero, no movement of elementary particles possible anymore. People in Lapland grudingly admit "yes, it's a bit chilly. Give me a schnapps to suck."
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Jerry 🦙💝🦙Pardon the intrusion. Many thanks to those people who donate to support the fediverse instance(s) you use. Nearly all fediverse instances are free to join and use, but they are not free to run. Most instance operators donate tremendous personal time and money because we believe in a better, more privacy conscious social media and we love the growing community that exists here.
These are tough financial times for many. I believe it is important for people going through rough times to have an access to this social outlet. If you are in a position to do so, please consider setting up a monthly donation to support your instance. You can usually find information on how to do so on the About page of your instance. For example, https://infosec.exchange/about. In my experience, most donors contribute between $5 and $20 per month, with some less and some more.
The fediverse doesn’t sell your data or monetize your social activities, which is how nearly all other commercial social networks pay their bills. We generally are dependent on donations from ourselves and from the people using the instance.
For Infosec.exchange, the bills are about $3000US per month, between server rentals, storage providers, and content delivery services. (If you’re curious, that’s $2k to Hetzner for servers, $300 to Wasabi and Backblaze for storage and backups, and $400-$700 for Bunny and Fastly - and this includes all the various mastodon, peertube, pixelfed, lemmy, bookwyrm, firefish, and other servers). I am fortunate that our donations usually come close to covering the bills. Sometimes a bit more, sometimes less. That’s not the case for many instances, though.
Again, donating is voluntary and not required and there is zero problems with those who can’t afford it. At the same time, donations keep this thing called the fediverse alive, and without them, we won’t go far.
I sincerely appreciate being a part of this community and hope you have a great October.
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