Peter Griffin ☕

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The Tomorrow Club aims to support and mentor young writers amid polarity and tech-driven chaos
https://globalvoices.org/2025/12/26/tomorrow-club-spotlighting-and-mentoring-young-writers-amid-polarity-and-tech-driven-chaos/
The Tomorrow Club aims to support and mentor young writers amid polarity and tech-driven chaos

“The youth should never believe that history is written only by the victors, or that it can be permanently manipulated through narrative wars.”

Global Voices
Red Sprites and Circular Elves Lightning over Italy https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251223.html #APOD

Ever wondered how I create labels with the exact shapes of screw heads?

I use the "Schraubenkiste" font, perfectly designed for this task! Found it a few years ago and it's been super handy.

Grab it for free under the SIL open font license at: http://www.peter-wiegel.de/Schraubenkiste.html

#Font #Label #Organization #StorageBoxes

Schraubenkiste

Schraubensymbole

'The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) is the average number of children that a woman is likely to have in her lifetime...By Indian estimates, TFR fell below replacement in 2019, with TFR in urban India reaching this milestone much earlier in 2004. TFR in rural India is also estimated to have fallen below replacement as of 2023'
https://scroll.in/article/1088406/fertility-faultlines-the-unsolved-puzzle-of-why-indian-women-are-having-fewer-babies?fbclid=IwY2xjawO1LU1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeNwupn_CEZMHyUMgseyUan5oY4-lC61lb5qBl5fFbyxoZ1G1m_1zi2Vngi2Y_aem_wrKnsnP4xmaznAsxIKoOLw
Fertility faultlines: The unsolved puzzle of why Indian women are having fewer babies

Data on five key aspects suggests that India is both an outlier and a part of the global trend of falling fertility rates.

Scroll.in
There is a Hindi phrase, आपके मुंह में घी शक्कर हो. Literally, it wishes you ghee (clarified butter) and sugar in your mouth. Metaphorically, it means something like ‘from your mouth to god’s ears,’ or ‘may your words come true.’
@pluralistic, I don’t know your taste in sweet dishes, but may you get as much ghee and sugar as you desire. https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Not my dimensional gate, not my demons.
Techniques of Successful Con Men: Find ways to acquire expensive properties at bargain prices. [news report, March 4, 2025] https://improbablestuff.substack.com/p/con-men-hunt-for-bargains

✨ new on #TheFutureIsFederated 🚀

"My Fediverse Starter Guide" for newbies, based on my video and articles about Fediverse software and culture.

🔗 : https://news.elenarossini.com/my-fediverse-starter-guide/

mentioning @Mastodon @news @gotosocial @pfefferle @pixelfed @peertube

If you share it with friends/family, let me know how it goes and if this guide is helpful to them 🙏

#digitalliteracy #BigTech #tech #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog

The Future Is Federated: My Fediverse Starter Guide

A starter guide for the Fediverse: what it is, how to join and its culture

Elena Rossini

@zigzackly @meganL

I'm in Germany and sometimes older relatives will bring something over and it is in one of those high quality plastic bags from the 1980s. They are almost exclusively from clothing stores or department stores. And you can tell they're from before the 1990s because we changed all the zip-codes after the reunification. And I can confirm: those last forever. As children we would use them as substitues for sleds (less heavy to carry up the hill).

The most enshittification-proof way to get the Enshittification audiobook, ebook and hardcover is to pre-order them on my Kickstarter! Help me do an end-run around the Amazon/Audible audiobook monopoly and disenshittify your audiobook experience in the process:

http://disenshittification.org

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