About 20 years ago, I sought an alternative to Amazon. A friend recommended Kennys.ie. A physical bookshop with the oldest book webshop in the world. A family-owned, family-run, tax-paying bookshop. New and used books. An independent bookshop in Galway, beloved for supporting authors and the local arts. The first books I ordered arrived with a bookmark and a handwritten note signed by one of the Kennys. I swear I could smell the Atlantic Ocean waft out of the parcel. The opposite of Amazon.

Friday Fun 🤣
It's called vibe construction...
#fun #humor #meme #fridayfun #fridayhumor

@dlakelan @voltagex omg

It's hard to predict which issues will occupy kernel developers in, say, 2030, but chances are good that random numbers will be one of them.

not if i have anything to say about it

@strypey but photos and video take more space!

@scottmichaud It doesn't even need a bully. I've seen people who, without boundaries, have others (like family) unconsciously place more and more burden on them. But yes, those people also attract bullies

4mb of RAM, 40mb hard drive, 8mhz processor... and it's enough to run both GlobalTalk Chat and Photoshop at the same time. #globaltalk

@randahl
#alt4you First pic: A city in the dark, perhaps very early morning. Somewhere far behind a housing block a large smoke plume rises.

Second pic: A warehouse in dawn light. A huge fire and smoke cloud rises from the middle of it.

Sickly hilarious to hear the pro-AI gang trying to talk up jobs that will be created by data centers. Yeah, there will be construction jobs until construction finishes. And then the whole gigantic hyper-scale data center monstrosity will be operated by a dozen people or so. JOBS ARE THE BIG AI LIE. One of them, anyway.

#OtD 22 Aug 1943 the Statesman published this photo of the Bengal famine, which killed up to 4 million after British authorities under Winston Churchill, who "hate[d]" "beastly" Indians, destroyed and diverted food from the area and restricted imports. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9450/bengal-famine

4 in 10 travellers visit tourist sites to capture social media content

https://www.tuigroup.com/en/newsroom/news/travel-in-the-age-of-scrolling-tui-musement-research-reveals-4-in-10-travellers-visit-tourist-sites-to-capture-social-media-content

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49396620

#HackerNews #travel #trends #socialmedia #tourism #research #influencer #culture

@jenniferplusplus lol, 205lbs -> 220.5lbs in about one month sounds turbo fast to me!

Curious, are you mostly hitting leg stuff or all over? I'm mostly even, with probably some disproportionate focus on my upper back because getting to chinup/pullup territory feels very compelling to me.

Wow. In GB gibt es gerade eine große Medienkampagne, die sich gegen #Autismus und #ADHS richtet und bei der den Menschen ihre Diagnosen abgesprochen wird.

Kurz: Wer sprechen kann und keine 24-h-Betreuung braucht, kann kein*e Autist*in sein und wer auf Regelschulen gehen kann, ist kein*e ADHSler*in.

Ein hasserfüllter, reaktionärer Backlash gegen alles, was nicht in die reaktionäre Vorstellung von "Normal" passt.

Since the upcoming #hacktoberfest seems to become #sloptoberfest (see https://hacktoberfest.com), I had an idea: what if there was a community organized counter point from the @Codeberg users? It could be called #hacktoberg or something like that.

#AI

Ich kann ab heute die @bhlounge nicht nur von hören-sagen empfehlen, sondern auch persönlich. War dort alleine hingegangen und hatte keine Ahnung von nix. Srsly. Als trans habe ich mich sehr wohl aufgehoben gefühlt. Die Beratung war nett, beruhigend und die Nervosität wurde mir genommen. Viel liebe dafür.

As I am missing a few followers in my instance move, it is with an actual purpose that I say:

It's my birthday, give me boosts.

@rimu Thanks. Since FEP-1a11 documents PieFed behaviour and only addresses Likes/Dislikes/Undo in FEP-1b12 Groups, I figured a new FEP would be useful. This one is for any activity to any actor(s)