This morning we went to see an exhibition by the wonderful Margot from watercolorpatterns (watercolourpatterns.com/), and it's just insane the precision, dedication and just sheer amount of care and detail she puts into every single one of her watercolors.
And it's all just this wonderfully enthusiastic lady doing everything herself!
Give her a hand if you have the chance, she's wonderful
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VOTE EARLY THIS WEEKEND
Good morning. If you live in a state where you can vote early or vote by mail, why not vote this weekend?
Check your state: cbsnews.com/news/map-early-vot…
Voting early is the best thing you can do to help Harris. It establishes a winning narrative which undermines polling manipulation by biased GOP pollsters. It also motivates our team and demoralizes them. Right now, with more than 10 million votes already banked, Dems are up by >1.5 million votes.
VOTE!
Map shows which states offer early voting and mail-in ballots for the 2024 election
Weeks before the 2024 election, early voting by mail or in person will be available in most states — here's a map with more information about early voting options.CBS News
Tim Walz is not "redefining masculinity." Tim Walz is redefining *white masculinity*.
Trump does not have a big lead with men voters. Trump has an *absolutely massive lead* with *white men voters*.
70% of the NFL is Black. 90% of those Black men vote Dem. More Black men than white women think the environment is important. Black men support masking to prevent the spread of Covid. Black men are more likely to support women's reproductive rights. Etc, etc.
usatoday.com/story/news/politi…
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Football coach and cheerleader: How Tim Walz is defining masculinity in 2024
With gender central to the campaign, Democratic VP nominee Tim Walz is taking a different approach to masculinity compared to bro-ness and aggression., USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
Are you still using social media platforms? What's your reason?
For Google and Facebook users here's how you can better protect yourself!
Step 1: Stop Facebook collecting SO much data 👉 tuta.com/blog/what-does-facebo…
Step 2: Reduce how much Google knows about you 👉 tuta.com/blog/what-does-google…
All The Data Facebook Collects - And How To Stop This | Tuta
Want to know what data Facebook collects about you? In this guide we outline what data Facebook collects about its users and how they use it.Tuta
Mamutovo
Vítejte na mastodonní instanci Mamutovo! Instance Mamutovo byla vytvořena pro běžné uživatele, kteří touží po klidném prostředí, ve kterém mohou svobodně sdílet své myšlenky.Mastodon hosted on mamutovo.cz
Pixelfed CZ
Pixelfed.cz je platforma pro sdílení obrázků, etická alternativa k centralizovaným platformám.Pixelfed CZ
wikiloops.com | Free Backing Tracks | Online Jamsession
The open wiki for Backing Track Collaboration since 2011. Easily find Jamtracks missing your Instrument and Play-Along. Join the international Musical Collaboration by sharing your own home-recorded Remixes.wikiloops.com
KUnifiedPush: KDE's efficient way of delivering notifications to your apps
KUnifiedPush, KDE's client library for the UnifiedPush protocol, has reached version 1.0.0. KUnifiedPush provides a way to deliver notifications instantly to multiple apps on your devices even if the apps are not running.
Ideal for social media, weather and instant messaging apps, it will also contribute to improving the battery life on your mobile devices.
blogs.kde.org/2024/10/19/kunif…
KUnifiedPush 1.0.0 is out!
KUnifiedPush provides push notifications for KDE applications. Push notifications are a mechanism to support applications that occasionally need to receive some kind of information from their server-side part, and where receiving in a timely manner m…KUnifiedPush 1.0.0 is out!
On this day in 2006, 18 years ago, I started offering the Mozilla CA cert bundle as a PEM file for everyone to use. The service is still running, uninterrupted, ever since.
Because I think we need it.
Today is **fifteen years** since I posted about the "null-prefix domino" - common problems in TLS server certificate verification functions in many projects, including #curl
Oyes, ¿recordáis cuando medio internet daba la matraca sobre como "estar sentado es el nuevo fumar" y como nos vendían los "standing decks" como la gran revolución en el mundo de la salud laboral y casi una obligación si no querías morir de un infarto en tu silla de trabajo?
Pues acaba de salir un estudio al respecto y adivinad qué: no solo no reducen la mortalidad sino que aumentan el riesgo de varices y trombosis venosa profunda.
👉 academic.oup.com/ije/article/5…
Device-measured stationary behaviour and cardiovascular and orthostatic circulatory disease incidence
AbstractBackground. Previous studies have indicated that standing may be beneficially associated with surrogate metabolic markers, whereas more time spentAhmadi, Matthew N (Oxford University Press)
AOL Optimized PC Instructional Video
This is an instructional video that came with the AOL Optimized PC, in both English and Spanish.YouTube
Loving this new era of indie blogs splitting off from their corpo bastards and forming their own coops:
404media.co/
aftermath.site/
defector.com/
Even more listed at the end of Hearing Things’ about page:
hearingthings.co/about/
Google's Extension-Killing Manifest V3 Rollout Is Stepping Up, and It's Time to Jump Ship
Why stick with Chrome when there are so many other options?Gavin Phillips (MakeUseOf)
Speaking of #MyAdoredDaughter this morning... I don't know if I ever posted this photo.
This is ... my daughter? This is how she looks like, exactly - a beautiful, young person with long legs, and wonderful hair. And she keeps telling me "OMG, we look so alike, we could be twins..."
#Trans #Enby #NonBinary #TransJoy #EnbyJoy #NonBinaryJoy #Selfie
...
... but no, this is not a photo of her, this is a selfie of me reflected in a window. When I saw myself reflected in that window, I had to take a selfie and send it to her and she was absolutely amazed at how similar we look now, really, like twins, everything, the form, hair, posture, arms, legs, ... only her face is slightly different (and way younger, obviously 🥰
@Marco TBH, she resembles my wife more than her mother (my wife isn't her mom), but she looks more or less exactly like me. So the photo above could really be me or her, if I didn't tell you who that person is on the photo and you'd see us next to each other, you couldn't tell who that was.
But, and that's the fun part, whenever she is visiting us and we three, her, my wife and me, go out for a walk, people are 100% sure she is our daughter, because she has nearly nothing from her biological mom, but some really interesting similarities with my wife.
In my own case, I have half-half, i.e. about half of me resembles my father, and half my biological mother (as far as I can remember, and I have one single photo of her).
Then, it is even more interesting that you three look so alike.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
National Federation of the Blind of Massachusetts Scholarship Application
The National Federation of the Blind of Massachusetts is pleased to announce the availability of scholarships for the 2025-2026 academic year. Up to four scholarships will be awarded: one in the amount of $3,000.00, 2 in the amount of $1,500.Google Docs
I’ve always lived on the west coast so when east coast friends told me years ago that Market Street in most cities is named for slave markets I’d be like “what?! but every town has one!” and they’d say “yep”
Anyway, this sign is 100’ from Louisville’s Market St
Three photos around SF Chinatown in Kodak Tri-X
(Leica M3, 50mm Summilux, dev in Xtol stock @ 7:45, scanned on Nikon Coolscan 8000ED)
#BelieveInFilm #Photography #FilmPhotography #BlackandWhite #Kodak #Leica #SanFrancisco #BayArea #California #Chinatown #Chinese
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From my Newsletter:
Know the Differences Between Web Services and APIs
telerik.com/blogs/know-differe…
Know the Differences Between Web Services and APIs
Wondering what the difference is between Web Services and APIs? Learn when to use each to build robust, scalable and efficient applications.Dennis Martinez (Telerik)
Interesting job, keeping old technology running.
IEEE Spectrum: What It Takes To Let People Play With the Past spectrum.ieee.org/vintage-tech #vintagecomputing #computers #technology
What It Takes To Let People Play With the Past
Libi Rose keeps obsolete technologies running at the Media Archaeology LabStephen Cass (IEEE Spectrum)
MySQL 9.1: New Features, Deprecations, and Important Updates | Linux Today
MySQL 9.1 introduces key updates, including enhanced trigger handling, optimized EXPLAIN output, OpenID Connect support, and more.LinuxToday
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online! What a week! 🚀
#170 Portal Updates
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/…
Ok, as promised here's Wordpress, very lightly modified to use SQLite as a backing store instead of MySQL.
You don't need to stand up a database, run a big machine or really much of anything, this is perfectly happy on the smallest VM you can find.
GitHub - mhoye/pressonward
Contribute to mhoye/pressonward development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Microsoft blocked your Windows 11 upgrade? This trusty tool can fix that
A new version of the popular Rufus utility once again bypasses the strict hardware compatibility requirements for Windows 11 upgrades. Your move, Microsoft.Ed Bott (ZDNET)
She's ravenous.
Then she won't eat.
Then she tries to eat the Retriever's food. Now she will only eat her breakfast when it's next to the Retriever. Not her dinner though. She wants her dinner other side of the kitchen next to the water dish. Ah well. Whatever makes the old gal happy. 😄
#Pug #Pugs
#DogsOfMastodon
Installing and Using Curl on Linux Like a Pro
In this article, you will learn how to install curl (and libcurl) on a Linux system and how to use curl in your daily computing work with practical examples.Linux TLDR
mekka okereke
in reply to mekka okereke • • •If you look at survey results on important social issues without looking at race, you come to incorrect conclusions like, "There is a growing divide between the views of men and women on social issues! Oh no!"
But if you slice the survey participants into race and gender, you see that Black men's answers align more closely to women's answers than any other cohort of men, and in many cases, more closely to women overall than white women. 🙂🙃
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mekka okereke
in reply to mekka okereke • • •I'll keep saying this until it sinks in:
hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113…
The white US notion of masculinity is toxic, petty, violent, fearful, hurtful, and hateful. It's basically a grown man with the same emotions and selfishness as a 3 year old boy throwing a tantrum.
I'm OK if white people overall want to define that as masculinity for themselves, but don't put that on us. That's not how Black men define masculinity.
mekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)
Hachyderm.ioDavid Njoku
in reply to mekka okereke • • •The reason this view is so discordant is that so many people's view of Black men is based on gangsta rap - base, aggressive, violent.
Which is funny since, as I learned from a post of yours from many months ago, gangsta rap is more popular among white people than it is among Black people.
Sablebadger
in reply to David Njoku • • •@davidnjoku it took me a while but entirely I finally clued into how media portrays black men. Once you start seeing it, it's perversive.
How they show a mug shot if one is available by default. White guy criminals get yearbook photos. words like thug get used a lot. White guys get discussions of their lost future, black guys get only discussions of the crime.
Someone benefits if we're all afraid of black men. It's bullshit. And a lot so called liberals buy into it too.