«We have waited thirty years for the cyberlibertarian future to arrive and produce the promised harmonious community. It's time to face the facts. It's never coming. The bus left in 1996. The bus was never real.»

Good Idea: Clay as a PCB substrate

https://feministhackerspaces.cargo.site/Clay-PCB-Tutorial

A circuit board is just a substrate that holds conductive traces and components. It does not have to be fiberglass reinforced with brominated flame retardants, sourced through a supply chain running through conflict zones and toxic processing facilities. The Feminist Hardware project at mz* Baltazar's Laboratory in Vienna is experimenting with natural clay and terracotta as alternatives:
Locally sourced, fired, and traced with conductive paste.

The repository includes actual reproducible tutorials, not just theory. Electrical performance will not replace industrial PCBs, but the goal is to demonstrate that basic electronics do not require a global extraction economy, and to build a practical reference for what genuinely local, low-impact hardware production could look like.
Repo: https://github.com/FeministHardware/Making-PCBs-from-natural-clay

Thanks to our friends @klimadeswandels

#Open #Hardware #Sustainability #Hacking #Manufacturing #Degrowth #solarpunk

@david_chisnall
I was introduced to Anne Rice via Exit to Eden and her other books under the pseudonyms Rampling and Roquelaure. I then read all her Vampire series available by 1990. I haven't read any newer books of hers. I got the impression Lestat was supremely bored and looking for anything to relieve or end his boredom. I ended up switching to almost exclusively reading science fiction and fantasy stories when it wasn't nonfiction.

Just had a panic attack when I realized I'd put a sandwich in the toaster iron 15 minutes ago and then forgotten about it

Good news! I forgot to ever plug in the toaster iron in the first place! Multidimensional chess.

@arod @pluralistic «The genesis of “I Got the Blues” encapsulates the long story of complex interactions between European and African American musicians» that's a way too long euphemism "for white supremacy stole from black people all along".

@aral I wish I could laugh at it but it makes me want to cry 😢

@TheBreadmonkey @LoganFive

One time, when I was a student, I was bitten by a mosquito in my bedroom. I tend to react quite badly to mosquito bites, so this was painful and I tried to find the mosquito, but couldn't.

The next morning, a spider descended from the ceiling onto my bedside table, deposited the desiccated corpse of a mosquito wrapped in web, then ascended back to the ceiling.

Rent paid, in full.

Lol

@CCC Wie praktisch, dass dadurch in BaWü immer weniger Leute genauer hinschauen können, was Palantir dort so treibt. 🕵️

Nice race, better coverage than I've seen in the past years, even though it was still pretty unbalanced between the men's and the women's race. Great winners on both sides.

I hope some of the next races in the circuit will also be streamed. It was pretty good fun.

@elettrona @valigiablu Anch'io ho paura di tutto questo. Sia per la questione dell'accessibilità, sia per la possibilità di inibirci l'accesso alle nostre risorse che potrebbero avere le grandi aziende, e in generale chi ha un po' di potere.

In many open areas that used to be a habitat for wildlife and stray dogs, people today are being forced to use them as temporary living spaces due to harsh conditions.
This overlap between human life and nature creates a complex reality: tents are being set up in places that were once calm habitats for animals, and this shared presence sometimes leads to tension or fear on both sides.
The scene reflects more than just a “place”; it shows a crisis of pressure
https://chuffed.org/project/161851-help-aya-go-to-uni-and-survive-in-gaza

War start at home! The blood is on all our hands ! TAKE ACTION NOW

✊Expose the #genocide profiters - Name and shame every complicit corporations
Pressure elected representatives to end military cooperation and arms trade
✊Organise everywhere -- in unions, campuses, workplaces
✊Join your local #BDS and dismantle the global #weapons pipelinepply chains

IF ELITE INFLICTED VIOLENCE IS GLOBAL
RESISTANCE MUST BE GLOBAL TOO

3/3 🇫🇷 FR in Alt

#1000Madleens #FreedomFlotillaCoalition #FreedomFlotilla

@basepair Thank you very much 😊

"imagine if you went outside without performing"

• [american] what?
• [brain has just kernel panicked, rebooting]
• [looking around, smiling, ok nobody is pathologizing me, drop the defensive smile]

@pallenberg Die Kniescheiben auf rechts drehen 🤣.
Ich war schon immer genervt vom Hype um KI. Spezialisierte KI zum Beispiel auf CT/MRT Scan Erkennung usw. sind sicherlich hilfreich. Aber das Problem ist, dass viele die KI einschalten und das eigene Gehirn ausschalten. Ob Le Chat oder ChatGPT wenn man ein deep dive macht mit Themen in denen man sich selbst auskennt, merkt man schnell wie dumm die KI ist.
Und KI-Coding hat Windows nicht besser, stabiler oder sicherer gemacht.

Looking away doesn’t make us neutral; it enables genocide.

✊ > Learn who is manufacturing these weapons
✊ > Demand accountability from your governments
✊ > Organize to disrupt the supply chain

🇫🇷 FR in Alt
2/3 👇

#1000Madleens #FreedomFlotilla #FreedomFlotillaCoalition #war #palestine