halcy:icosahedron:
Mastodon.py 1.5.0 is done! Contains support for all the new stuff in Mastodon 3.0.0 and some other fixes and improvements!
Changelog: https://github.com/halcy/Mastodon.py/releases/tag/1.5.0
Documentation: https://mastodonpy.readthedocs.io/en/1.5.0/
PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/Mastodon.py/1.5.0/
neville park
She looks so happy when she sleeps! #DailyCatPic #CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats #cats #caturday
neville park
#Arachtober day 12: a sheet-web weaver, family Linyphiidae. These spiders can be very small and their finely woven webs are often low down, suspended in long grass or hollows in trees. #DailySpiderPic 🐘
neville park
@BalooUriza as a devotee of the 11 foot 8 website, I agree
neville park
The zoom in on the sign gets me every time
neville park
This happened back in March, but just learned about it now.
CBC Calgary: "The UCP modified this '6.9m' sign near Jason Kenney prior to his newser today 'to avoid mockery and innuendos online,' according to [his spokesperson]." https://twitter.com/CBCCalgary/status/1109241738999283712
(This would honestly be funny in any context but Kenney is known for, um, being...repressed)
nice 🐘
neville park
I find it a somewhat unsatisfying read; it feels incomplete and it's not as simple as "science good, scientism bad" - science can be exploitative, misguided, destructive, and biased in its own right! But it hits many key points about the limitations and misuses of science.
neville park
> Since the Enlightenment, we have tended to define human identity and worth in terms of the values of science itself, as if it alone could tell us who we are. That is an odd and blinkered notion. In the face of colonialism, slavery, opioid epidemics, environmental degradation and climate change, the idea that Western science and technology are the only reliable sources of self-knowledge is no longer tenable.
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> The precept that society should be based on reason, facts and universal truths has been a guiding theme of modern times...Yet Occam’s razor is double edged. Enlightenment values have accommodated screechingly discordant beliefs, such as that all men are created equal, that aristocrats should be decapitated and that people can be traded as chattel.
In _Nature_, Nathaniel Comfort writes about how science and scient*ism* have shaped our sense of self for 150 years: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03014-4
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Captain Mustard in the Toilet
just got word from my friend who works for TPL (and who has a trans daughter) that the TPL Palmerston branch is allowing the hosting of Meghan Murphy on October 29th, and flyers are being posted around the city
i'ma be up tonight and the weather is good, so i'll be looking for them, but if you live in Toronto, you need to let TPL be aware the approval to let Murphy hold an event on TPL grounds is in contravention of TPL's own use policies under §4.4(a)(i–ii): https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/terms-of-use/library-policies/community-and-event-space.jsp
neville park
in other news i got sucked into looking at cat backpacks and clip-on cell phone macro lenses online
neville park
was going to work saturday but gave up shift so i could spend day doing laundry, #arachnews, & cooking for potluck
Dual Number
@bram I agree but... I feel like it's also the case that folks use this nature as an excuse to deflect systemic deficiencies in the Open Source community. Examples:
1. A contempt for even the most basic UX considerations for normal people.
2. A refusal to think about the interface needs of people with different UX needs (e.g., people with poor close range vision or the inability to hear). Even simple stuff like using a colorblind-friendly palette or making sure that blinking UI elements don't go into the danger zone for epilepsy.
3. An insistence on supporting collector hardware rather than real hardware. This is often coupled with a "not all of us can affor da modern computer so this is why I want to support my retro-designer Z80 dev board but not ARM linux that costs 10x what a RPi3 does."
If a nice feature is missing, we should be understandng and thankful. If someone decided red and green were good colors to use for critically differentiated UI, I think criticism and a bit of anger is fair.
❤ Bram ❤
Something that would really change my life as a FOSS dev is that people stop seeing FOSS as a finished product but instead as a best effort collective work by people that are [in position off] contributing for free on their free personal time on it and gave it to you for free [when this situation apply].
Like stop saying that "this is total shit" because you had bugs or because it wasn't top 100% perfect like you want for your super edge case that it wasn't designed for -_-
neville park
#Arachtober day 11: male Zygiella! I think Z. atrica because of those long pedipalps but I'm not sure. #DailySpiderPic 🐘
neville park
@em on second thought not that sorry
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@em that's mine im sorry
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> "It was very hard to get a good picture [of Holly] out of the water," she says, "because she was a submarine for the entire month. She did not stop fishing, except to dig a belly hole big enough for her to sleep in."
NPR: Stuffed With Sockeye Salmon, 'Holly' Wins 'Fat Bear Week' Heavyweight Title https://www.npr.org/2019/10/09/768475870/stuffed-with-sockeye-salmon-holly-wins-fat-bear-week-heavyweight-title
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Henny Alfredo
why come out of the closet when you could come out of your well to shame mankind
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