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Please enjoy.

Grateful to everyone who showed up! ✊️️

https://tenforward.social/@djwudi/117559245111442646

#USPol #midterms

Grateful to everyone who showed up! ✊️

#USPol #midterms

https://mastodon.social/@bruno_j_navarro/117557949458277418

Last month marked two milestones for me: twelve years since I moved to the US, and four years of being a US citizen.

Today I celebrated by doing my civic duty.

#USPol #midterms #voting #GOTV

"The Voyager 1 spacecraft, which was designed for a five-year mission to observe Jupiter and Saturn, is about to reach a distance of one light-day from Earth after nearly 50 years in flight."

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/space/voyager-1-probe-to-hit-historic-one-light-day-distance-from-earth-in-17-days-49-year-old-spacecraft-travels-16-billion-miles-and-survives-nearly-ten-times-the-length-of-its-original-five-year-mission

#news #science #space #voyager

I guess I can do one this year.

#looptober #Looptober2026

"Launched for public access on October 25, 2001, [@internetarchive's Wayback Machine] allows users to go "back in time" to see how its catalogued websites looked in the past."

Happy 25th anniversary!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine

#InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #DigitalPreservation #archiving #OTD #OnThisDay #history #InternetHistory

The Black Panther Party was founded 60 years ago ✊️

From a 2016 article commemorating its 50th anniversary:

"The work of the Black Panthers remains important for several reasons. First, they remind us that the problem of police brutality has long been with us [...]

Second, the BPP offers a good model of grassroots activism and ideology in practice."

https://jacobin.com/2016/10/black-panther-party-fifty-year-anniversary-founding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party

#history #BlackHistory #BlackPanthers #BlackPantherParty #OTD #OnThisDay

Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

"Babbage saw the analytical engine as a mathematical device. After all, it primarily stored and operated on numbers. But Lovelace recognized that a machine de­­signed to crunch numbers could do much more if the numbers represented other things."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ada-lovelaces-180-year-old-notes-previewed-the-future-of-computers/

(Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20260826192534/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ada-lovelaces-180-year-old-notes-previewed-the-future-of-computers/)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace_Day

#AdaLovelace #computers #STEM #WomenInStem #AdaLovelaceDay

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!

"Be humble and keep learning—especially when it’s hard."

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/10-ways-to-be-ally-indigenous-peoples/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Peoples%27_Day_(United_States)

✊

#solidarity #IndigenousPeoplesDay #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousAmericans #ColumbusDay

Happy World Teachers' Day to all you teachers, tutors, instructors, and educators out there!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yq-NFiEywo

https://www.unesco.org/en/days/teachers

#teachers #teaching #WorldTeachersDay

Hope you're all hanging in there ✊

Hey fediverse, happy:

- #BandcampFriday https://isitbandcampfriday.com
- #FairTradeMusicFriday https://isitfairtrademusicfri.day
- #FaircampFriday

#music #musicians #friday #SupportArtists

It's a fun little challenge, something small to take your mind off things that might feel too big right now.

If making websites is not your thing, October has quite a few challenges to take part in.

https://challenges.stefanbohacek.com

Hey fediverse, happy #WeirdWebOctober to everyone participating!

https://weirdweboctober.website

#WeirdWeb #SmallWeb #MakeAWebsite

"When Coluccio Salutati invented the parenthesis, nearly 200 years before [poet Sir Philip Sidney] perfected it, he rendered visible an age-old rhetorical practice of inserting a particle of a sentence into a greater whole."

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/philip-sidney-and-the-extreme-disgraces-of-the-parenthesis/

#essay #writing #punctuation #parenthesis

I'm not sure I'll have the bandwidth to participate this year, but I'll definitely be listening to what everyone else is sharing.

And if you haven't joined yet, check out some of my favorite resources that will help you get started.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/resources-for-composers-and-music-producers/

#looptober #music #MakingMusic #musicians

Hey fediverse, #looptober is coming up!

https://looptober.neocities.org

#looptober2026 #music #musicians #loops #MusicLoops

"First, it was just one missile, but then another, and another, until the system reported that a total of five Minuteman ICBMs had been launched."

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day, fediverse!

(From 2018) https://www.vox.com/2018/9/26/17905796/nuclear-war-1983-stanislav-petrov-soviet-union

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

#OnThisDay #otd #history #StanislavPetrov #ColdWar

Here's @_elena sharing success stories from the fediverse and reasons to be hopeful for this year's #FediDay.

https://fair.tube/w/csFcmJcnMtHufq5JBr8sid

https://ctalx.c-base.org/fediday-2026/talk/WUERER/

More videos from the event: https://berlin.social/@berlinfediday/117326037771580837

https://ctalx.c-base.org/fediday-2026/

#fediverse #FediDay2026