Notices by Fitheach (fitheach@mstdn.io)

Just noticed this:
https://twitter.com/PamGosal_Bains/status/1193141143535534080

There will be a Tory candidate in East Dunbartonshire.

#GE2019 #JoSwinson #LibDems #Tories #politics

Protests against the imprisonment of the Catalan political leaders continue. There are Marches for Freedom and a General Strike across the whole of Catalonia.

These peaceful demonstrations are growing in spite of (and perhaps because of) intimidation and beatings by the Guardia Civil, Spain's paramilitary police.

#Catalunya #Llibertat #Catalonia #Spain

Spanish justice & democracy, eh?

For organising a referendum the following Catalan political leaders have received these jail sentences:

* Oriol Junqueras: 13 years
* Raül Romeva: 12 years
* Jordi Turull: 12 years
* Dolors Bassa: 12 years
* Carme Forcadell: 11.5 years
* Joaquim Forn: 10.5 years
* Josep Rull: 10.5 years
* Jordi Cuixart: 9 years
* Jordi Sànchez: 9 years

It is a disgrace. Even worse is the almost complete silence from the EU.

#Catalunya #Catalonia #democracy #Spain

Diada Nacional de Catalunya
Catalonia's national day
September 11th

Best wishes to everyone in Catalonia.

#Catalunya #Llibertat #Catalonia

After washing your kitties, make sure you dry them thoroughly.

#cats #MastoCats #caturday #vintage #photo #photography

How Alfred Hitchcock used rear-screen projection to create the illusion of a plane crash for the film "Foreign Correspondent" (1940).

The rear-screen was made of rice paper. Water was forced down a chute and through the paper screen to simulate the plane hitting the water.

Amazing!

#films #movies #Hitchcock #1940s

East Bay Dragons

The black-only and Harley-Davidson-only motorcycle club based in Oakland, California, USA. The club was formed in 1959 by Tobie Gene Levingston, who remains as the president to this day.

#vintage #photo #photography #motorcycles #HarleyDavidson #Oakland #California

Alborada de Veiga /
Muiñeira de Chantada
Carlos Núñez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZGlddScuKs

#CarlosNúñez #Galicia #bagpipes #music

@xosem @kensanata
Project Gutenberg also have "The Voyage of the Beagle" available in various formats. This is the second edition, I think:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/944

"The Great Hack"
Netflix
Available: July 24th

"The Great Hack uncovers the dark world of data exploitation through the compelling personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX8GxLP1FHo

#Netflix #Facebook #CambridgeAnalytica

Particularly abundant on felled woodland areas, rocky waste ground, and often where you don't want them.

Common foxglove - Lus nam ban-sìth - Digitalis purpurea

They are a biennial, producing downie leaves only in the 1st year and the easily recognisable flowers in the 2nd year. Grows up to 235cm.

The Gaelic common name suggests they are for the women fairyfolk rather than gloves for foxes.

#nature #macro #photo #photography #flowers #florespondence #Highlands #Scotland

#Woofday Wednesday

"It was lovely to have walkies in the sunshine for a change."

That was Neachdainn speaking, but I agree. 😉

#dogs #MastoDogs #Neachdainn #DogsOfTheFediverse #Scottie

Want to find your way from A to B?

You should try:
https://maps.openrouteservice.org

I've used it a couple of times today, and it was great.

* Uses OpenStreetMap data
* Service provided by HeiGIT
* Doesn't spy on you
* Maps look great
* Effective routes
* Share with friends
* Add your own tracks
* Export to GPX plus others
* Elevation profile

You can also go to C, D, E and many more. 😉

#OSM #maps #routes #routing #FOSS #FLOSS #CrowdSourced

Just discovered CryptPad via the FLOSS Weekly podcast. Basically, Google docs without privacy concerns.

CryptPad in their own words:

"CryptPad is a private-by-design alternative to popular office tools and cloud services. All the content stored on CryptPad is encrypted before being sent, which means nobody can access your data unless you give them the keys (not even us)."

It's also Free software.

https://cryptpad.fr/

Better still CryptPad is on the Fediverse:

@cryptpad

#FLOSS #FOSS

The ultimate cheat sheet?

* curl or browser interface
* 56 programming languages
* several DBMSes
* 1000+ UNIX commands
* CLI interface too (cht.sh)
* Use directly from code editors

https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh

#Linux #UNIX #CheatSheet #FOSS #FLOSS #SysAdmin

Dearly departed.

I've been on the Fediverse for less than a year. In that time I've seen quite a few people, with whom I had regular discussions, depart from the scene. What went wrong? Did the Fediverse not live up to expectations? Perhaps some of you have shuffled off this motal coil.

Sadly, I may never know the answers to these and similar questions.

I haven't forgotten. I miss the quips, the witticisms, the banter. One day you may return...

#Fediverse

As we had another very sunny day I took a few minutes to do some flower #macro photos. The attached #photo is my favourite. It is a lus a' chinn - narcissus.

The sun is shining through the delicate tepals, with a darker shade where they overlap. The corona is very short and a lovely shade of orange. Managed to capture it when the soft breeze stopped.

#photography #flower #daffodil #narcissus

Google Street View car in Glasgow, Scotland.

#Google #StreetView #SurveillanceCapitalism

@zyx
Looking forward to the tipping point... any day now.

#Facebook #DeleteFacebook