Notices by Wonderskeptic (andersbiork@mastodon.social), page 5

@Strahle_Stern
Der Mond und die Sterne
und ein Traum von morgen
: )

Vegetables, salad greens, broccoli and Brussels sprouts, spinach and chard and carrots, potatoes - the more different things growing, the better the odds that *something* yields.
Elderberries. Hazelnuts. Hickory nuts. Acorns, but they're a lot of work coz of the tannin.
Beats starving hands down.
I haven't even started.
None of this takes tractors or diesel fuel.
Under it we can graze a few cows, few sheep, a few goats, a few turkeys, work stock,. chickens - but it takes attention.

@MLE_online Wow! That needs a cool bike! Or maybe; that will make any bike cool! 👍

Yes, Mastodon still has huge problems with "HOA racism" and user safety. But there is a "path to green" for all of these problems. And people (including me! 🙋🏿♂️) are working on them.

Yes, the current version of ActivityPub is not ready for what's coming. But again, too many of the world's best SREs and API designers are now poking ActivityPub with a stick again, now that the scale constraints have changed.

I have determined that acronyms and abbreviations might be some of my top accessibility foes, just for my own personal internet usage and the nightmare of dealing with those and dyslexia

Once we find the cure for greed...

But we're not researching that are we?

#thought #greed

Here's the thing about dealing with nazis: If you wait until it's too late, it will be too late. I know that sounds obvious, but folks still want to believe it's too soon.

The road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting.

Also from 2012.

Singer.

#photography #photographie #fotografie #fotografia #art #Blackandwhite

This was 2019 and it certainly has not improved. Quite the contrary
https://marketoonist.com/2019/11/kpi-overload.html

Eira yn y gwlan.

good morning on International #WomensDay #IWD2023 :akko_fistup:

The only thing I hate more than giant SUVs and trucks in our cities is the bullshit discussion around giant SUVs and trucks in our cities.

Here's my take on the situation in my latest video, now available on Nebula.

https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-these-stupid-trucks-are-literally-killing-us

Not sure who needs to hear this today, but remember, your local public library benefits from being used! Usage statistics are how librarians argue for funding! By using this shared service more, you are making it BETTER for everyone else!

It's the glory of the commons, not the tragedy of the commons. Go to the library!!!

Black service members who served in wars, were often denied access to the GI Bill when they returned.

So white veterans could get loans for college, or to buy a house. Black veterans could not. This lack of access to affordable education and affordable housing had devastating impacts on Black veteran homelessness.

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/18/1129735948/black-vets-were-excluded-from-gi-bill-benefits-a-bill-in-congress-aims-to-fix-th

Black veterans were also denied access to medical care and benefits. This lack of access to healthcare also drove homelessness.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9XEj1AL9Bsw

I have a point about Nostr!

The tech is interesting. But you can't build social media purely on tech -- you need a community.

But if the whole point of the community is to catch a few BTC, then Nostr is toast.

Yes, Nostr is just tech. It's agnostic. But that's also why, if it keeps going down this route, it will fail.

I don't necessarily want it to fail. Yet, if it's all about the money, what's the motivation to do anything else?

Like, it's bad enough Google defaults its search results to anything remotely business related even when it makes no sense, but now their IdiotAI will probably get its answers to questions from random strings of text on Pinterest or some shit because it doesn't know the difference between good and bad information.

The rivals.

Folks from Europe fly all the way to New Zealand because “it’s so wild and pretty there”, but have never been to the Pyrenees, where they could go just by train.

GR11, July 2017

#hiking #trekking #backpacking #outdoors #nature #mountains #pyrenees #spain #GR11

#clothing

All over the world I see people wearing black/dark winter jackets/coats.

What's wrong with people? do they not find wintertime dark enough as it is?

Be responsible. Add joy. Add beauty. 2500 points for each non-dark clothing item worn.

🙂

A powerful #lesson - source unknown.
A teacher tells her students, "I'm going to come around and whisper to each of you whether you're a witch or a regular person. Your goal is to build the largest group possible that does NOT have a #witch in it. At the end, any group found to include a witch gets a failing grade."
The teens dove into grilling each other. One fairly large group formed, but most of the students broke into small, exclusive groups, turning away anyone they thought guilty.
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