Alan Lomax's Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 20,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings | Open Culture

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Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.

Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.

My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.

🏇 🐎 🐴

Have you sat on a horse?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.

Does anyone have a *personal* recommendation for a sewing-machine engineer who will come to a house in South London to fix a non-working machine?

I’ve already done a websearch — no need to search on my behalf, I’m only looking for an engineer who someone here has used and would recommend.

(Asking for a friend, not for myself — I have someone local who picks mine up and services it and brings it back, but that’s because my house is on his commute, not because he does house calls in general.)

Boosts welcome — thanks!

#London #sewing

UK: Awesome to see Zack Polanski supporting the "Not In Our Name" campaign of women opposed to transphobia.

86,727 have signed. Let's help get it to 100,000

Update: 90,323

https://notinourname.org.uk/

#UK #Transrights #Trans #ZackPolanski #GreenParty

A couple of months ago a family friend had a very serious health issue and he couldn't move or speak much. So I put together a web app with a set of phrases, connected to a game controller, in a way that he could just select phrases from the list to communicate. Luckily this person got better quickly, and this app was no longer needed, but I decided to improve this experiment and publish it as an Open Source project.

So, this is VoxEase. It can be operated with a mouse, a touch screen, a computer keyboard, a game controller using a single hand, or you can set it to scan the list of phrases automatically so you only need to press one button to pick your phrase.
It only requires a modern browser and once downloaded it works offline.
It supports multiple languages and it can also be used by people with sight impairments (it works with screen readers).

Any suggestions on how to make it better are welcome!

Link: https://turisc.github.io/voxease/

#openSource

My friend needs to re-home her cat sadly, a lovely black and white kitty, she's in Newcastle (England) if anyone in the north east here is looking for a sweet little cat?

update: the cat is called Lola! not "sadly"