TottsSome of you are too young to remember when we found the 'black gold' in the North Sea ....
#filmphotography #alternativeliving #formalmethods #vanlife
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I also go by Jack, they/he, and around the right friends, I am known to be Xanathor, Destroyer of Worlds. 😊
#filmphotography #alternativeliving #formalmethods #vanlife
#filmphotography #alternativeliving #formalmethods #vanlife
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Wonder of ScienceThese boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by Japanese artist Jagarikin.
luna the doggie 
Y'all please CW things related to Meta (company), Threads, etc. with "Facebook" and not the words that have plenty of other meanings.
Fuck corporations naming their shitty products with common words so that discussion about them can't be meaningfully filtered out.
Just say "Facebook", then people can easily and specifically filter it out.
Like, if you mute the word "meta" now you also won't see actually relevant fedi meta discussion.
If you mute "threads" that's even more broad.
If you only have to mute "Facebook", that's not a word that means anything else other than the evil corporation.
Fuck corporations naming their shitty products with common words so that discussion about them can't be meaningfully filtered out.
Just say "Facebook", then people can easily and specifically filter it out.
Like, if you mute the word "meta" now you also won't see actually relevant fedi meta discussion.
If you mute "threads" that's even more broad.
If you only have to mute "Facebook", that's not a word that means anything else other than the evil corporation.
bigjsl
David Marler10th anniversary this week of fact-checking. Prime Minister Tony Abbott at the time complained that it was a waste of taxpayer money and unnecessary, as fact-checking should come naturally to any media organisation. #auspol https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-17/fact-check-fact-check-10-year-anniversary/102738260
SomcakDoing some research and came across this image. For those not aware, curb cuts were first installed en masse after the large number of injured veterans came back from WWII. #accessibility
Image credit: https://sketchplanations.com/the-curb-cut-effect
The curb-cut effect
The curb-cut effect illustrates how when we design to benefit disadvantaged or vulnerable groups we end up helping society as a whole. Angela Glover Blackwell explains how campaigning by students with disabilities in Berkeley in the early 1970s led to adding curb cuts to the Berkeley sidewalks to make access easier for those in wheelchairs. Yet it wasn't just people in wheelchairs that it helped. Curb cuts also made life easier for people pushing children in strollers, people using trolleys for deliveries, people pulling a suitcase, those wheeling bikes or on skateboards, and it also helps save lives by guiding people to cross at safe locations. Another example is adding closed captioning to TV that helps anyone watch in a noisy bar, a waiting room, or watching an airline safety video. Or a classic example of universal design in the OXO Good Grips range originally made to be comfortable for holding a peeler even if you have arthritis. It's also a useful analogy for "how laws and programs designed to benefit vulnerable groups, such as the disabled or people of color, often end up benefiting all," (PolicyLink) whether that be increasing broadband access, improving public transport or taking cuts out of curbs. Here's a short, fun video of Gary Karp explaining the curb-cut effect. Thanks to my patron Quintin Balsdon for sharing it with me.
CalishatOkay, y'all. I've taken what I've learned while using #RSS over the last 23+ years and made a 4,000 word, information-packed, free, ad-free article:
- What is RSS?
- Finding and Using Site-Based RSS Feeds
- Finding and Using Keyword-Based RSS Feeds
- RSS Feed Readers
- RSS Feed Tools
If you're looking for ways you can continue monitoring news and the web in a post-Twitter world, I think this will help.
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Aral BalkanThreads is Instagram. Instagram is Facebook. Facebook is Meta. Meta is Mark Zuckerberg.
Facebook was complicit in a literal genocide.
Meta is a surveillance capitalist that exploits you for profit.
Mark Zuckerberg straight up called you “dumb fucks” for trusting him.
What’s it going to take for you to not help these assholes continue to fuck people over?
megaspelFacebook's Threads will straight up DOX you.
https://twitter.com/mistressmatisse/status/1676763121330028544
https://twitter.com/mistressmatisse/status/1676763121330028544
Mistress Matisse on Twitter
“If you’re a sexworker, think VERY carefully about joining Threads, because here’s what Mark Zuckerberg did to me: I had a FB account as Mistress Matisse, but FB scraped my legal name from somewhere else and then changed my displayed NAME on my account without notice/consent. Yep.”