Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 26

Clarification: The "infrastructure" they're mentioning is not the proper functioning of opencollective.com in general.

They seem to be talking about functionality they needed in Open Collective the software to assist a huge fiscal sponsor, and/or organizational structure and software they needed on the Foundation's side to handle the workload internally.

Loons of the Rings: Bugs Bunny is Tom Bombadil, takes the ring, goes through a number of ridiculous mishaps, enters Mordor disguised as an Evil Volcano inspector, and Daffy Duck is Gollum.

tumblr.com/unassimilatedsoul/7…

I hope someone in the future will produce a more detailed account of what happened, because this official statement raises more questions than it answers.

#OpenCollectiveFoundation
#OpenCollectiveFoundationDissolution

"We experienced a period of rapid growth and increased demand arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, tripling in size without taking the time to establish the appropriate systems and infrastructure to sustain that growth."

"Unfortunately, it became clear that it would not be financially feasible to make the necessary corrections, and we determined that OCF is not viable. We have decided that an orderly dissolution is the best option to pursue while there is still time to do so."

opencollective.com/foundation/…

Yep, that's me. Subtitles, please.

I'm not a native speaker, people in movies are speaking less theatrically and more realistically than they did 40 years ago, so more mumbling and more speaking fast, there's usually some idiomatic stuff or brand mentions that are impossible to catch without text.

Plus, I'm already watching with my hand on the remote to quickly change volume so we can hear when people speak while also not waking the neighbors when shit explodes.

Fairbairn Films: "Guy That Has To Have Subtitles On"

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=KvOkQXvpAF…

It's a fun and silly video and a cool idea for a project, but also the final song is really sweet and sad. And an earworm!

Joel/Roomie spends two months figuring out how to automatically mix between mics auto-tuned to force one note each, so you have to run between them like the mouthpiece of the world's biggest harmonica to get a melody.

Then goofs around with friends jacksfilms and Daniel Thrasher, and finally records a vocaloid-like song in six tones about heartbreak, good will and ambivalence, "It Was Worth It".

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=s3QFijXK_s…

#RoomieOfficial #jacksfilms #DanielThrasher #autotune #vocaloid
#ItWasWorthIt

"Stories" is such an annnoying feature on any platform that features them. And the way many people use it makes it even worse.

Why would you post two minutes worth of text on a picture I will see for ten seconds and then never be able to find again?

Swedish under-the-lip snuff ("snus", /snoos/) goes under Hong Kong's "smokeless tobacco" law and is illegal to import, sell or possess for the purpose of selling or otherwise delivering.

According to importers of Swedish goods, this extends to snus-like products that don't even contain tobacco. Like, there are mint-flavored packs you can put under your lip. But, tobaccoless smokeless tobacco products? How does the scope of this law even work?

I don't use snus myself, I just read Swedish Hong Kong groups and stumbled over this and it boggles me.

Does tobaccoless snus still have nicotine? I don't even know. If it does, I guess that's how it'd be in scope.

@Kermode So you do get it. 😊

It's easier to think of the Book of Mormon as fanfic, but there is no clear delineation.

@Kermode I just love it when people call millennia-old text revered by billions "fanfic".

Because it's accurate, but people seldom think of it that way.