@stefano I like the 'documentation first' approach. Never sent it before, but it's nice. What I read sounds so sincere and bullshit-free I can't wait to run it.

IT’S ironic that a board game designed to challenge the evils of land monopoly resulted in the female creator being cheated out of the money it made.

Charles Darrow was the first person to make a million from a board game but it was actually the pioneering feminist and economist, Lizzie Magie, who invented The Landlord’s Game that became Monopoly.

Scottish play honours woman who really invented Monopoly | The National

https://www.thenational.scot/news/26584639.scottish-play-honours-woman-really-invented-monopoly/

Die Koffer sind gepackt. Es geht los nach Linz zu den @OATage
Wir freuen uns auf eine schöne Tagung.

#oat26 #AOvonOA

What are your main uses of #GIMP ?

Can you show us an example, and say how you use GIMP in the process?

Barnacle geese, cormorants, Mediterranean gull and a mallard x Muscovy duck hybrid at Strathclyde loch yesterday 🪽

How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports.

Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/21/saudi-arabia-aramco-oil-scientists-ipcc-climate-reports

Also it's really cool that my brother has managed to raise a child who spontaneously asks when she doesn't understand something instead of worrying she'll look stupid. Long may that continue too

This seems like less work than updating my custom theme to the new Zola version 😭 And Hugo theme shenanigans mean I need to install a separate version for each site

The Moon is Full 🌝

Once again: A prohibition on "talking politics" or "political ads" just means that someone in power gets to decide what's politics and what's not politics.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/elon-musk-documentary-trailer-rejected-tiktok-youtube-1236710259/

@jayeless @hollie YES to a fedi integrated lj alternative :)

Just checked, write.as blogs can be followed on fedi!

Wasseramseln sind schon interessante Vögel, und die einzigen Singvögel in Europa, die auch tauchen können.
Hier kam sie mir immer nähe, bis die Fokusmindestentfernung unterschritten wurde.

#Wildlife #Vogelfotografie #Wasseramsel #Dipper #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography

There's an orange order march today you say? Well now

I was chatting with my brother and he used the phrase "emotional baggage", and my twelve year old niece asked what it meant. And as we tried to explain ("it's the emotional things you carry around like heavy luggage" "it's like when someone treats you badly so you expect everyone else to treat you badly even though they're completely different people") it struck me that the concept just wasn't meaning anything to her, and I really hope that continues for as long as possible. I'm not sure at what age it kicks in, maybe late teens.

So help me, I’m actually thinking about writing my own “”static site generator””which is actually just 3 bash scripts.

Anyone done this already? Like:
1. .md to .html
2. Image gallery something something
3. Add blog posts to RSS / Atom

I just really like writing in markdown.

#html #smolweb #indieweb

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@shodansafari/117342182622825749

HELFENDE ELFEN!

It's impressing me more strongly than ever that the unethical way these bros went about designing social media (and fuck the psychologists/psychiatrists who must have abetted this) really worsened things for people globally by playing to extreme emotion all the time in order to drive traffic and thus drive ad revenue.

Extreme expressions, extreme overblown headlines (and often outright lies that sound more "exciting"), low attention span-catering in editing, vapid "feel good stories" to counter the constant stream of panic they also encourage, variable reinforcement scheme algorithms....

It's fucking awful and I really do think that for folks who use social media in more than occasional way, over decades, it's rewired us to some extent.

I was watching an informative short DW video and noticed how nearly every second featured some kind of cut or animation or "dutch angle" because they were too afraid to trust viewers to just remain there listening to factual info.

@foss_events brilliant idea!