thinking a bit about how hockey is held up as the ultimate, essential Canadian thing, that also happens to be extremely white and requires boatloads of money and is steeped in toxic masculinity
just a bit
thinking a bit about how hockey is held up as the ultimate, essential Canadian thing, that also happens to be extremely white and requires boatloads of money and is steeped in toxic masculinity
just a bit
update: i'm extremely anxious because i can't get to the mall to buy a bedbug mattress protector for a few days and am just gonna have the mattress...there...and I'm sure nothing will happen but it feels very risky, like sex without a condom, you know?
@mooncake for me what comes to mind is former Maricopa Country sheriff (and notorious "birther") Joe Arpaio forcing inmates of his "tent city" to wear pink underwear https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/05/new-sheriff-in-town-to-close-joe-arpaios-outdoor-tent-city-jail-of-pink-underwear-fame/
- fire alarm testing
- cat peed on bed
- gotta shell out for a new mattress encasement
- wiped down cat
- we're not speaking at the moment
@Shufei @syndikalista it doesn't NEST
@Shufei @syndikalista speechless anyone would advocate for the worst date format
@Shufei @syndikalista ...
@leifurhauks looks like a shiny spider beetle: https://bugguide.net/node/view/245638
harmless, normal indoors
Friends here in Tokyo are in the process of starting a media co-op. We are currently brainstorming a multi-stakeholder model that includes the following member classes: journalists, readers, organizations/special interest/unions, worker (editorial staff). This comes from a need identified by several journalists that there are no mainstream outlets for labour and minority issues related stories.
A few asks:
1) any successful examples?
2) ideas of where to file legal incorporation docs?
@alice @SouthernGothHick (sorry i realize chili with beans may be offensive to southerners, im from canada, chili has beans)
@alice @SouthernGothHick the soft serve machine, the guy pulls the lever but instead of ice cream coming out it's just a thick chunky chili full of beans and instead of a cone it's a bread bowl
With Twitter purging inactive user accounts -- including potentially numerous notable dead former users -- preservation and archival are again concerns.
There are serveral extant public archives:
http://www.archive.org/details/twitter_cikm_2010 (2006-2010)
http://www.archive.org/details/2011-05-calufa-twitter-sql (2011 -- 90 million user scrape)
https://archive.org/search.php?query=twitterstream (Archive Org)
All from the ArchiveTeam page:
https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Twitter
Twitter inactive accounts purge: what archival tools exist for preserving public tweets?
A friend asks elsewhere if I know of tools or archives for preserving public Tweets from inactive accounts, specifically of users who've died and whose Twitter accounts will likely be purged in coming days....
https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/e2br7g/twitter_inactive_accounts_purge_what_archival/
(Boosts welcomed, as are shares elsewhere.)
@oolongstains i feel this is what capital-g Gamers didn't get about the Wii. it was fun *because* it was easy. "games even total beginners can play at a party" is a huge and vital market
@body i'd joke "are the rationalists okay" but we all know that the rationalists have not been okay since at least roko's basilisk
went on big grocery run & also got cat litter and too tired to do anything but eat half a panettone, add some edits, and go to sleep
Employee takeover of insolvent Quebec media group at risk of collapse after main credit union declines backing
@velexiraptor gotta hear both sides
@scruss yes! a wonderful showcase of his work
i just realized i linked it in a different item but not in the main one, will fix when back from groceries
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