Absolutely going to go ride this this week.
"Events will be held across the city during the day, including live music, a fairy festival in Ellerslie, free coffees at some stations, tarot readings as well as the _opportunity to get a train-themed tattoo on K Road_."
🤔 Should I???
I'm working on an audiobook guide on writing for digital rights activism for 11-14 year olds. In the book, we follow Amelia and Daniel, students of Liberty Heights Junior High, as they get ready to give a big speech that reveals their school has been spying on them through the webcams in their school laptops, Webgame-gate style.
Are you a native or near-native English speaker? Do you have at least the bare minimum of acting chops? Do you like #freesoftware and #privacy?
I need your voice -- especially if you're female!
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So many things aren't destiny: demography, biology, etymology, poverty, DNA ...
Is destiny even destiny these days?
I followed @cazabon and now my timeline is so fuzzy with bunnies 🐇
My writing workshop went well.
It's really motivating when you get to meet people face to face.
Hey #tuta users, do you notice that sometimes your messages just don't get replied to sometimes even when they should?
Like two months ago I sent a message to a company asking where their product was in stock. They never got back to me.
This isn't the first time I've been "ignored" like this. It can feel like a gamble every time I hit send.
I e-mailed my Mum @ gmail and it went to spam.
I'm 99% sure some of the time my messages are hitting filters.
If you ignore the insulting cover page, the Fauci diaries are super interesting. Obvs he was a busy man during the pandemic, but I didn't realise how suureal being thrust into the limelight must've been for him.
https://www.paul.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf
NZ politics, everyone.
This is from our "libertarian" party?
How would you make a quiet space for recording for as close to $0 as possible? I'm recording speech and foley.
I'd just get some acoustic foam, but it's really expensive. Apparently, it's a myth that egg cartons work?
I rent, so I can't stick things to the walls.
Anyone in #auckland want a 3-volume box set of the Art of Computer Programming? It's in good-ish condition, perused but not read. It's an edition from the 90s, pre MMIX.
It's yours if you want it and can collect from Orewa. I also have some old Italian learning materials and undergrad Calc/Linear Algebra textbooks.
How it started / how it's going for my kitten Archie.
The first pic was taken the day we found him. He had a horrible flea infestation and got bathed at the vet.
The second pic was taken a couple weeks ago. Now he rules the place.
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I don't understand why everything about free software activism has to be so impossibly difficult.
I am so frustrated right now. How is it that after 40 years things still suck this much?
Why am I asking this on fedi? Because I don't have help locally or access to grant databases.
If I don't reply for a while, it's just because I've gone to bed.
I just don't think Taylor Swift's post-1989 stuff is very good, right? I mean, it's competent and all, but it's boring.
What's everyone's favourite GNU/Linux client for #Mastodon or the #fediverse? Looking for something to go with GoToSocial. I need something with a post scheduling feature.
I was using Tuba, which is fantastic, but it doesn't build on my distro anymore because the gtk version is too old.
I don't know if I'm the only one to discover this, but xanthan gum makes a fantastic egg replacer for breading things for frying. Unlike oil or soy milk it holds onto the breading and you get full coverage.
FYI, if you want #newzealand banks to be made to provide cash services everyone can access, you should really go fill out this 2-min consultation on the RBNZ site:
https://consultations.rbnz.govt.nz/rbnz/access-to-cash/consultation/subpage.2026-01-29.7717165071/