@jonny I think there are some crawlers who watch the registration and transfer of domains, so it may be hard to stay out of their view completely. Bare IP address?

@thomasfuchs Ive been blocking them when I find them.

YouTube needs a reminder they are not the only option.

I recall the channel "Christopher Walken's mother" saying when yt was acquired by a big company, that
"We got a nice thing going here. Don't mess it up or we take your eyes"
Finer words have not been spoken.

@juergen_hubert @chr

Like, the general vibe in the "serious discourse" appears to be "it is totally okay for Trump to try and annex an ally by various open and obvious plots and so long as he doesn't send troops, it's just Trump being Trump so the Canadians should get over it."

Which is you know, just... I mean this is not sane behavior. This is some next level "maybe if we don't make Dad mad" kinda shit...

@grumpygamer also we have iPads

@mattblaze Ah yes, the famous holey marina algorithm 😃

@jeffjarvis Jeff Bezos is currently pointing to this article and yelling “why don’t we have more of that?” at some poor WaPo sap.

@Alice That doesn’t sound right, but I don’t know enough about sewers to dispute it

Yay! I just finished step 1 of my sheepdog plate. The carving. Now it’s going to dry sloooowly - and then into the kiln!

The dog will look a lot more like a sheepdog once I glaze it with black and white.

This is a new experimental process for me (combining my tile and printmaking techniques for a plate). Can’t wait to see how it turns out.

#pottery #art #sheep #dog #kentucky #handmade #arte #ceramica #workinprogress #mastoart #craft

@clayfoot approximately zero outside the USA, because no other countries have decided it’s too unprofitable to control salmonella in their poultry industries

A couple days ago, Spider-Man punched a Nazi in the face.

Here's his defense fund.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-minnesota-spiderman-recover

Thinking about the feature-phone I'm looking to build... I reckon if/when I've got something together, CrowdSupply would be the appropriate site for selling a professionally-assembled limited run! Whilst benefiting from bulk discounts.

In such plans I'm fantasizing about saying "If I sell enough I'll include some random licensed digital art inside each product, getting your collection started." Stuff like music, ebooks, audio-dramas, & the like.

I'd want to pay the artists for their promotion.

For.. reasons.. I am making a wealth inequality playlist. I posted an earlier version about 10 hours ago. This is the latest version reflecting everyone's feedback. Remember, I want songs that aren't TOO aggro and could be background-ish at an event, catchy, topical, without making themselves the center of attention. Here's what I have for V2 of the playlist. Please parse this list and suggest along these lines, if you like.

Money itself: the source of, and solution to, all problems

The O’Jays — For the Love of Money
The Flying Lizards — Money (That’s What I Want)
Pet Shop Boys — Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)
ABBA — Money, Money, Money
Pink Floyd — Money
Depeche Mode — Everything Counts
The O’Jays — Rich Get Richer
Billie Holiday — God Bless the Child

Inherited wealth and class

Kareem Rahma & Tiny Gun — Really Rich Parents
Lorde — Royals
Creedence Clearwater Revival — Fortunate Son
Pulp — Common People
Dolly Parton — Coat of Many Colors

Work, wages, and survival

They Might Be Giants — Minimum Wage
Dolly Parton — 9 to 5
Donna Summer — She Works Hard for the Money
Shakira & Fuerza Regida — El Jefe
Rise Against — Prayer of the Refugee
The Clash — Clampdown
Tennessee Ernie Ford — Sixteen Tons
Desmond Dekker & the Aces — Israelites
UB40 — One in Ten
Simply Red — Money’s Too Tight (to Mention)
Travis Tritt — Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man
The Kinks — Dead End Street
Tracy Chapman — Fast Car

Labor history, dispossession, communities stripped of value

The Staple Singers — When Will We Be Paid
B.B. King — Why I Sing the Blues
Skip James — Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
Bruce Springsteen — I Ain’t Got No Home (written by Woody Guthrie)
Bing Crosby — Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Patty Loveless — You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive
Billy Joel — Allentown
James McMurtry — We Can’t Make It Here
Bruce Springsteen — Death to My Hometown

Poverty, inequality, displacement

Stevie Wonder — Living for the City
Marvin Gaye — Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five — The Message
Bruce Hornsby and the Range — The Way It Is
Prince — Sign o’ the Times
The Police — Driven to Tears
Bad Bunny — El Apagón
Bob Marley & the Wailers — Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)

The system, the math, and accountability

Pete Seeger — Banks of Marble
Yasiin Bey / Mos Def — Mathematics
Hozier — Eat Your Young
William Shatner featuring Joe Jackson — Common People (produced and arranged by Ben Folds)
Les McCann & Eddie Harris — Compared to What?
Stevie Wonder — You Haven’t Done Nothin’

Closing: Wake up and fight

Johnny Cash — Man in Black
Tracy Chapman — Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution
William Elliott Whitmore — Mutiny
Bob Marley & the Wailers — Get Up, Stand Up

Walk-out coda — after the formal event has ended
Gil Scott-Heron — Whitey on the Moon

We just had a lovely late summer rain shower, complete with thunder, and with a rainbow finale.
#rainbow

The rhetoric Carney is selling might seem desirable by comparison to the actual fascists in charge across the border. Don't be fooled. Given 2 options I take the third, and I suggest Canadians consider doing the same.

Carney's warmed-over neoliberal talking points may sound comfortably reminiscent of an Obama or a Clinton (either of them). But it's worth noting the left fought these people tooth and nail, for good reasons, like those discussed upthread.

(11/?)

@Em0nM4stodon successfully migrated our UK based workers' co-op from Google Workspace to Infomaniak's ksuite (Swiss based) earlier this year and we're much happier (plus our bill is waaay lower). The ksuite also replaces Slack and Zoom, so more services for less money and all encrypted.
Our website is hosted independently in the UK. Newsletter is with EmailOctopus, a UK company.
Won't be sad if we lose Instagram tbh.
I guess we might be impacted indirectly if payment processors like PayPal and Stripe go down but we could find a work around.
Of course, these are all small business solutions and should be separated from personal or activist ones.