I like X11. I like Motif. I like the way we used to do shit on Unix. We didn't need 128GB of RAM to run a browser. We didn't need 3D acceleration to run a desktop environment. We weren't afraid of a C compiler, we didn't need an IDE.
Finally, we will convince all the Trump-voting Atlantic readers to turn away from him.
pete seeger, don mclean, all sorts of folks on that project. they reversed damage on the hudson and showed we could fix the damage we'd done to the planet. also share music and hope. we need more of that.
@joelvanderwerf The first live music concert I went to was when my parents took us to Hudson NY to see Pete Seeger and that sloop. The music! The message! It was a defining moment for me. My parents were GOP and the GOP then was the party that was concerned about our responsibility for stewardship of Earth. Looking back now, the strangest thing is how so many people retained their party identity even as the party platform changed. I for one stuck with Pete's message.
This is how they keep "the stupid" hooked:
This July 4th reminds me that I only learned a few years ago that the Statue of Liberty is an anti-slavery monument created by a French abolitionist back in 1865 to celebrate emancipation, so I tell my little cousins about the broken chains at her feet any chance I get.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@luckytran/116863488282016628
That's the boat Pete and Toshi Seeger used in their successful campaign to clean up the Hudson River and organize people to work for environmental justice.
Everybody out on that water is benefiting in immediate and quantifiable ways from the "left-wing" "politics" of the Seegers.
Amazing photo by Cheney Orr from today. Black woman sitting alone on the DC Metro with a crowd of masked white supremacists on their way to the capital to march with confederate flags.
There is also a deeper analogy for what I keep hearing over and over from Black people: finding themselves surrounded by white people who either do not know, or do not care, about how America looks from the Black person's perspective.
This is a hell of a picture
If you’re buying pickles in the US this week, just know that Mt. Olive Pickle Company did humanity a solid and pulled out of the Trump fair bullshit when they learned that North Carolina’s booth had a confederate battle flag on it (which, incidentally, was never flown over North Carolina during the confederacy…).
Out of curiosity I let some of my carrots bloom. I had planted them too late last year, so there was not much carrot to start with.
I'm glad I did this. The flowers are loved by so many insects. I've seen bees of many types, bee-flies, flies, wasps and tiny beetles. The flowers last a long time and give out a sweet fragrance, which is very appreciated by Little Kid.
I love how gardening sometimes goes like that. You make a mistake, but then is not a mistake, it just turns into something else.
A 12 year old child in the United States or Canada and arguably in many other countries can get the highest level of a ham radio license and theoretically build or service a 1500 watt tube amplifier. This exposes them to lethal voltages. They are however forbidden from participating in “social media”.
The problem isn’t the children, it’s the tech bro billionaires and their non stop harvesting of your data.
i don't think there's ever any positive news about meta
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/meta-paid-hundreds-contractors-pretend-130200038.html
Fireworks display 2
#BloomScrolling #nature #photography
“California returns stretch of Mendocino Coast to Indigenous tribes: ‘This is beyond huge’” https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/07/02/california-returns-stretch-of-coast-to-indigenous-tribes-this-is-beyond-huge-2/
I need to process the photos from my camera but here’s a quick one from my phone just to give you an idea… it was like being in another world! (A very, very humid world.)
#photography #nature #DelawareWaterGap
Good afternoon to everyone but especially Liz Murray.
'In the two years the project ran, Murray and her colleagues collected 12,000 pounds of plastic and created 12 benches. Various locations throughout Saranac Lake feature the benches.'
🗣 THERE IS NO SAN ANTONIO, PUERTO RICO
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000ta10
this would be like saying an earthquake happened NW of “Madison D.C.”.
the #weather app i was using from pulled info from NWS and was reporting 10 degrees less than the weather services of Norway, Germany and France.
now we see with this #earthquake tracker from USGS that they’re misnaming geographical areas ―THEIR AREA OF EXPERTISE.
what #TRUMP #MAGA #PROJECT2025 have done to these agencies is worse than i could imagine.
📜🇺🇸 Printed on the night of July 4, 1776, the Dunlap Broadside was the first published copy of the Declaration of Independence, carrying news of independence across the colonies. Check out this high-resolution scan of the historic print.
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