Notices by Alex Schroeder 🐝 (kensanata@octodon.social), page 16

laugh as much as you want about DIY punks, upcyclers, homesteaders and zero-waste people.

of course it's not gonna bring about the revolution but do you really think we can just go on living like we do *after* a revolution, if there's ever going to be such a thing?

we'll have be to be smart, we need to understand how things work, how we can make them work. buying from a cooperative won't turn our economic system into socialism but the people in that co-op are still figuring out how to do our work in the future. we'll need organisational, processual knowledge more than anything if we manage to topple capitalism.

and these efforts are still worth so much more than any "nothing is good enough for me so I'll resort to complaining" online communism / online anarchism.

And proud-of-self-flaggelation coworker is a fresh alumnus and totally incapable of considering how much more effective a dev they'd be if they'd skipped the high-brow classes foolishly required by their last-century CS program and just shipped code.

I've worked with many mathematicians/RF engineers who knew nothing about coding but who we taught and in few short months were helping ship juicy code we sold for 💰💰💰. I maintain CS degree is laughably irrelevant for paying the bills with code.

District Nurse Elizabeth MacPhee astride her BSA motorcycle (1926). Eilean Donnain castle can be seen in the background.

It would appear the photo was taken on the slipway of the former ferry, in the village of Dornie (An Dòrnaidh).

#vintage #photo #photograph #Highlands #Scotland #Dornie

Oh, it’s so exciting! Greta #Thunberg is almost in New York.

Forget the “ecowarrior kid” media hook. Thunberg is one of the best rhetoricians to push Green imperatives in our era, a sincere and incisive thinker, an #actuallyautistic paragon, and speaks with a true blue prophetic voice missing from most mamby-pamby greenwashed corporate-pandering spin. She lays it on the line: Put up or shut up time, humanity.

And she is touring the Americas! I can’t wait! 🙆🏽♀️

https://www.dimsumdaily.hk/exclusive-dummies-guide-to-confrontation-and-war-strategies-by-frontline-protesters-in-hong-kong/

this is fucking cool

@Cathymarinara
Thought you might have interest in this. It's one of the first ever latin alphabet typeface designs created by Japanese woodblock carvers, ~1907 to match the brushwork of Japanese lettering.

https://mokuhankan.com/fonts/

My PD patches are the MOST BEAUTIFUL PD patches, yet another in a long list of skills which are incredibly useful to like, 3 or 4 people on earth, at least one of whom I already know.

Gobsmacked at some of the layouts and typography of these TeX and LaTeX projects:

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1319/showcase-of-beautiful-typography-done-in-tex-friends

A sign of the times. In the UK, "male and female sago palm cycads are producing cones at the same time outdoors. This means that cycads will be able to successfully reproduce at this latitude since at least the Cretaceous Period, roughly 120 million years ago."

#Biology #Cycads #Plants #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #UK

http://www.indefenseofplants.com/blog/2019/8/25/a-pair-of-cycads-are-aiming-to-reproduce-in-the-uk-for-the-first-time-in-over-60-million-years