TIL about
Antenuptial Fornication
http://www.bluethistlegenealogy.com/antenuptial.htm
Doing some family history is a ride. Particularly when you get to the church records in North East Scotland.
Yes you could get sanctioned for unmarried sex. What a thing.
I definitely recommend screening your followers.
Especially as the channer maga trolls start to come on here in the open sign-up instances.
The OSU open source lab is one of those lynchpins for many Projects in FOSS.
Even small projects like @librecast depend on those servers. To be clear we don't host our project infrastructure with them.
But when we do a Librecast release it gets tested on Debian infrastructure to package it for #Debian and #Guix. Which OSUOSL is a part of.
So if you can spare some cash for this lab, please do so.
Our ecosystem depends on this.
Since many of us have grandparents who lived under occupation. Here's something I wrote about mine last year. He resisted fascism.
It's also about community.
Ok, this isn't really an essay. It's just some thoughts.
I had some thoughts, but this should be a blogpost
@downey remember the time Fosstodon blocked you for goat screaming videos?
I do because that's on my notes for your profile 🤣
Sometimes Mastodon notes should be for fun.
I currently follow 43 people on Fosstodon and I have 117 followers.
The Mastodon interface is very handy for telling you the follower relationships when you consider blocking a domain.
I'm not blocking the domain yet. Because it was my first home and there are projects and people on there I follow.
I'm honestly disappointed with the admins on how they've handled this. But their attitude isn't the first time. We all need to grow as people. Which I don't see here.
"it's identity politics"
No shit Sherlock.
Yes, as a bisexual who's grandfather was literally tortured by the Gestapo my identity is very much about respecting and fighting for the human rights of others.
That's before I even get to my long COVID and my family who are also disabled.
Of course it's about my identity. Why do your feelings of discomfort over politics matter over other folks human rights?
So no, I don't tolerate Fascists.
I feel this may be pertinent. This was a talk for @fluconf but we should look deeper into our values. We should consider carefully what we support as we face this descent into authoritarianism.
Zen and the Art of Multicast
An Inquiry Into Values
https://www.librecast.net/fluconf-2025/
Just in case you wondered why some of your projects are moving instances.
Look folks I know that the idea of defederation is scary.
But it's not going to break FOSS or the fediverse. People do. By the political choices they want to make. Choosing FOSS is a political act. Wanting to have nothing to do with Fascists is a political act.
On here it's not just about free speech, it's freedom of association.
We don't need to connect to every single person on the planet. We have that choice.
Aw noo NGI 😭, there won't be a Next Generation Internet if it's all AI Generated content slop.
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This is why many of our projects won't go on your communications course even though it's now on jitsi rather than zoom. 2 steps forward, 20 back. 😞
https://ngi.eu/training/programme/#1669814662145-108ed5a5-065f
You realise JD Vance and the Pope is America's Liz Truss and the Queen moment.
I have signed the Petition to the Open Source Initiative: Publish the Full 2025 Election Results.
Organisations that are meant to safeguard our licence definitions for the commons should be open.
This petition is as much a signal to let others know they aren't alone in their disquiet with the direction of the OSI.
It's not pointless, or a waste of time. If you feel the same about the lack of transparency with the election. Now's the time to sign.
Like what a way to piss on the memory of Suzanne Warenghem and the various ladies he conned.
Ugh.
https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/suzanne-warenghem.28460/
More stories about women and the couriers on the networks like comet.
Or the book I'm currently reading.
Like read this folks. From the Nephew of Bruce Dowding one of the folks he betrayed.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196934414-secret-agent-unsung-hero?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_10
Well I hate this
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/266733.The_Blue_Noon?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=i3AYS3evmv&rank=1
Like my dude the man was a traitor. There's books from the descendants of the people he betrayed.
From the description:
"But traitor? He did break a few rules and hearts along the way...but that was before he met French nurse Odile. Together they are the best clandestine operatives in northern France, heroes of the Resistance, rounding up downed pilots and ferrying them to safety. The beautiful Odile nurtures Harry's talents for the greater good. "
I remember sitting in the car and I was thinking about something and possibly acting it out.
Apparently my physicality of that was hilarious.
So there's that as well.
Bigots have an idea of their norm. Often it's not just one thing they are against.
So you have to consider if they are transphobic are they homophobic, racist, ableist?
Are they secretly sexist? Who are their allies?