Apua kässäimmeiset! Lapsenlapsen (tuleva paleontologi) villaliivi on valmistumassa enkä löydä dinosauruksen (ei leludino) kirjontamallia. Aattelin siis kirjoa silmukoita matkimalla sen elukan. Oisko vinkkejä?
In short - help - : Im trying to find a model for dinosaur which I am about to duplicate stitch to a slipover for my grandson. He is a future paleontologist so no can do toy dino. Any suggestions?
Most of the spam we receive originates from Google and Microsoft, so it's somewhat frustrating that they can unilaterally impose email standards on the rest of us, while failing to follow basic standards themselves.
The trillion dollar monsters are all focusing on *finding* issues at high speed in large volumes. Hardly any of them care about *fixing* these problems with any sense of quality.
Here's the demos if anyone wants to go, by the way, stolen off instant gram for you.
Tänään on mielenosoituksia Dadakeskuksiin liittyen ympäri maata.
Tulen itse puhumaan Lahden mielenosoituksessa muutaman sanan.
Tulkaa kaikki mukaan osoittamaan mieltä, jotta näiden rakentaminen ei olisi näin kestämätöntä ja raskaasti luontoa tuhoavaa.
I think the thing that bothers me most about the whole J.K. Rowling thing is how cut and dry the entire situation is.
A movie or a TV show is a massive endeavor that hundreds, even thousands of people work on. From the writing room, to the actors themselves, to the directors and producers and sound and light crew, to the makeup artists and special effects, even down to the distribution network. Who's to say whether buying a movie ticket to the newest Avenger's film is going to result in some of that money ending up in the pocket of someone down the line who holds bigoted views?
Classical music and theatre isn't so black and white either. There are any number of classical musicians and stage authors who held disturbingly misogynist or racist views. But they are dead now. Does paying money to see Tristan and Isolde mean that you are supporting a known racist? Possibly...but arguably not.
And then there are the modern living authors with bigoted views such as Orson Scott Card. Men and women who definitely are bigots. Who have been vocal about their bigoted ideas when asked directly. But who, otherwise, are content to simply be bigots in private and eschew activism. What's the moral imperative there? Should I refuse to buy a copy of Ender's Game, just because I know the author's views on women? I don't know. There's an argument there about separating the author from the work that I think could be made.
But with Rowling, you have the most morally clear example of an author that you absolutely should not separate from their work, for the following reasons.
1. Books are the smallest possible unit of entertainment. When you buy a Harry Potter book, almost all of your dollars are going directly to a transphobe.
2. You have the absolute most amount of clarity about her position. She is, in her own words, a bigot who holds bigoted views against trans people.
3. You have the absolute most amount of transparency about what she uses those dollars for. She uses them to harm trans people, and to support activist groups who harm trans people as a matter of POLICY.
4. She is living. Every dollar you give her, every minute of your time and energy you spend on her, is going to a living, breathing human being on this planet who has made it her life's mission to harm trans people.
If we can't achieve moral clarity in this, the perfect storm of maximum funding, maximum clarity, maximum transparency, and maximum ability to act on it, then where the fuck even is the line? Would you also take your children to watch Mr Hitler's Funny One Man Clown Show About Gassing The Jews? Because that's barely even hyperbole.
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Kaikki tää massavalvonta ja tekoäly joka tunkee varastamaan kaiken kaikkialta ja analysoi automaattisesti niin, että sut tunnistaa jo pelkistä pilkkuvirheistä tai hiiren heiluttelusta ja kasvontunnistus ja identiteetinvarmenne ja yksityisyydensuojan rapautuminen ja salakuvauksen normalisointi ja valvontayhteiskunta ja ja ja ja
Saa tuntemaan olon ku olis vankilassa omassa kotonaan?
Ja sen, että kaikki se työ mitä on oman yksityisyytensä eteen tehnyt (mm ei jaa selfieitä), on ollu turhaa?
Seksuaalisen väkivallan vähättely ja sivuuttaminen ovat iso yhteiskunnallinen ongelma, osa raiskauskulttuuria. Ja ne ovat ongelmia myös täällä Mastodonissa.
Ei ole helppoa jakaa kokemuksia seksuaalisesta väkivallasta, kun päässä kaikuvat entiset loukkaukset, vähättelyt ja alaspainamiset. Jos joku silti jakaa näitä asioita, niin turpa kiinni ja kuuntele! Älä ala puhua ohi tai takerru lillukanvarsiin. Tue, ja puutu epäasiallisuuksiin. Tämä ongelma ei poistu tyhjillä julistuksilla vaan tekemällä.
This coming Sunday would have been Aaron Swartz’s 40th birthday. Hack on something that works to keep the Internet open and share knowledge with everyone in his honor if you can.
https://www.aaronswartzday.org
If you or anyone you know is struggling with thoughts of self harm, there are people who can help. In the US you can call or text 988 any time, day or night, to connect with folks who care. https://988lifeline.org
Everything I know about British history I learned from Blackadder. Living in hotels, Fawlty Towers. Everyday life, Keeping up appearances. Politics, Yes, Minister
By comparison, modern life in Paris and France, Emily in Paris and Lupin.
They tell me TV makes one uncultured. Hah.
What's a reasonable amount to pay someone to commission an updated logo for a Fedi server? Either a better implementation of the existing logo or something new if the artist thinks they can do better.
Obviously needs to be human generated, no AI, and I would like to use it in merch, flyers etc. in future so I need to own the copyright, but happy to credit the artist.
You'll have to endure another shameless job offer from my workplace, but it's a really cool job, so I thought I'd share this:
https://hetzner-cloud.de/jobs/2800749
We're looking for a (Senior) Embedded FPGA Developer (m/w/d).
We're looking for folks with deep knowledge about (Xilinx) FPGAs, PC hardware, Linux. Networking would be a bonus point.
It's a new codebase and I promise it's interesting 😎
Fully remote (in Germany).
#HIRING // EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - Open Finance Consortium
* Contract: Fixed term, initially 60–80% of FT (3-4 days a week)
* US$120,000-$150,000 per year depending on experience and time commitment. We’re open to discussing the balance between hours and pay.
* Location: Remote, within 5 hours of GMT.
* Reports to: Board of Directors.
Full advert - here > https://techjobsforgood.com/jobs/37560/ all applications will be filtered through me as the hiring partner. Feel free to ask questions to me directly.
Recommendations request: in Munich, where to buy (1) tall black women's boots in size 40 width K, (2) a waterproof women's winter coat in size XL/XXL with wide shoulders and long arms suitable for bicycling? Thanks in advance!
"Too often it feels as if the only ideas that get exchanged across the Atlantic are the bad ones."
This week, we're very glad at Europeans HQ to have a Texan on the team. A particularly excellent edition of our Good Week Bad Week newsletter:
okay this is something I would have used instagram for in the past
I've never had a bike with a pannier rack before and it's hard to figure out what I want to do with it, when I barely know any possibilities.
if you have a cute little rear rack storage road bike thing going on, please post a photo! & ty!!
Huomenta!
Se on jälleen kuulkaa perjantai! Välillä tuntuu ettei se tule ikinä ja että maanantai kestää ikuisesti, mutta niin se vaan sieltä joka kerta tulee kuitenkin! Onneksi!
Ja vaikka näyttäis sille, että maapallolla olis kaikki ihan päin v*ttua, niin paljon hyvää, iloista ja kokoajan parempaan menevääkin löytyy 👌 ja keskitytään mieluummin niihin (helpommin sanottu ku tehty, I know...).
Ei anneta pahan voittaa. Nauttikaa ystävien seurasta, viihtykää itselle tärkeiden ja rakkaiden asioiden äärellä just niin paljon ku tahdotte ja pystytte, innostukaa rohkeasti kokeilemaan uusia asioita ja haaveilkaa. Ja tavoitelkaa myös niitä haaveita.
Puhukaa huolet ja murheet jollekulle, älkää jääkö asioiden kanssa yksin. Pitäkää läheisistä huolta, mutta myös itsestänne!
Hyvää viikonloppua! 🥳❤️