If you run an organisation of any kind (non-profits, businesses, clubs etc), this guide is aimed at helping you get the most out of being on Mastodon and the Fediverse. The Fedi works a bit differently to social networks you may be used to, and has some unique advantages as well as unique challenges.
As an alternative to depending on Facebook and Instagram, perhaps!
omg these cookies are amazing! I love the ones that look like Greek pottery shards, and the medieval tile ones!
via @colossal@mastodon.art
Companion video from cookie creator: https://youtu.be/XDmaO-Ptvss?si=nUkfAzt7uX_EJMNk
To identify organizations that removed DEI language from the mission statements in their tax filings, ProPublica developed its own list of about 20 DEI-related terms, including “disadvantaged” and “underrepresented.” About three quarters of the changes made to the mission statements explicitly removed at least one word on the list. The other organizations made more subtle edits to remove an emphasis on diversity and inclusion.
via @conuly.dw
Drop letters into place to spell the headline and reveal the story. Every day is a new installment and every week is a new story arc.
via @radiantfracture.dw
You can collaborate in creating the largest public orchard in the world. Participate in this collective artwork by planting a fruit tree in front of your home, business, school or community centre. Take care of the tree and share it with everyone by mapping it on endlessorchard.com. The Endless Orchard collectively creates the world’s largest public artwork – a noncontiguous public fruit orchard planted, mapped, shared and cared for by everyone who participates.
Very cool!
Falling Fruit is a massive, collaborative map of the urban harvest. By uniting the efforts of foragers, freegans, and foresters everywhere, the map already points to over a half million food sources around the world (from plants and fungi to water wells and dumpsters). Our rapidly growing user community is actively exploring, editing, and adding to the map.
Whaaat this is so cool!
20,000 words. 100-ish pages. Everything I knew about taking a bunch of disorganised stuff and turning it in to a Johnny.Decimal system. Lovingly edited and laid out by Lucy. We were really happy with it. We still are. It stood the test of time.
“I felt like Jason and the mods cared more about Claude than the welcoming community they built. Considering Jason is the owner of the server, I wouldn't trust him to be able to put the community first before putting AI first,” ML told 404 Media.
(Need free account to read full article or else here: https://archive.is/Ypur6)
Turn your ListenBrainz, Last.fm, or Navidrome listening history into a shareable poster with your top artists, tracks, listening time, and favourite genre from the last 12 months.
Super cute and fun! A good alternative to the Spotify wrapped things.
A thorough set-up for organizing trip data, useful for keeping track of hotels, flights, sightseeing, etc. Uses quite a lot of community plugins.
Simple setup guide and asset files from https://daily-tarot.squarespace.com for adding a random tarot pull to your Obsidian daily note :)
Definitely adding this to my e-grimoire.
There is a tedious point that advocates of AI art will periodically articulate to the effect of AI rendering art accessible to more people—ones lacking in time or ability to otherwise produce it. The response to this is generally that the time and labor involved is fundamental to art. But even more fundamental is the thought involved. At the end of the day what defines art is the existence of intention behind it—the fact that some consciousness experienced thoughts that it subsequently tried to communicate. Without that there’s simply lines on paper, splotches of color, and noise. At the risk of tautology, meaning exists because people mean things. Nobody else is going to do that work for us. If we don’t do it, really, what’s the fucking point?
Oooooo, I'm gonna try this!
I like the idea of having a Homepage note that links out to things. I'm currently setting up my vault and figuring out what I want to track and HOW to track it, and I'm making use of Bookmarks a lot (and bases). But a Homepage/dashboard/whatever makes sense, too...
INTERTAPES is an updating collection of found cassette tapes from different locations. The audio fragments include: voice memos, field recordings, mixtapes, bootlegs and more.
Opal Irene Whiteley (December 11, 1897 – February 16, 1992) was an American nature writer and diarist who gained international fame for the publication of her childhood diary, which featured meditations and observations of nature and wildlife. Raised in logging camps in rural Oregon, Whiteley was considered by some a child prodigy, and expressed intense interest in both writing and science in her youth.
Sally Carrighar (1898–1985)[1] was born Dorothy Wagner before adopting her grandmother's name.[2] An American naturalist and writer, she is known for her series of nature books chronicling the lives of wild animals. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, and partially disfigured at birth with nerve damage by the use of high forceps that also broke her mother's coccyx, she had a difficult childhood.[3] During a time of convalescence for heart disease and depression, she "developed a remarkable communication with birds that came to feed at her windowsill and a mouse living in her radio, and in a flash she realized that she could write about birds and animals".
Rachel Ruysch (3 June 1664 – 12 October 1750)[1] was a Dutch still-life painter from the Dutch Republic. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime. Due to a long and successful career that spanned over six decades, she became the best documented female painter of the Dutch Golden Age.[2]
Simone Cousteau (née Melchior; 19 January 1919 – 1 December 1990) was a French explorer. She was the first woman scuba diver and aquanaut, and wife and business partner of undersea explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau.[1]
Although never visible in the Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau series, Simone played a key role in the operation at sea. Acting as mother, healer, nurse and psychiatrist to the all-male crew for 40 years, her nickname was "La Bergère", the Shepherdess. She led Jacques to the men and money who would build his scuba invention, she helped buy their beloved ship Calypso, saved the ship during a storm, and made sure each exploration achieved its objective.
Guide to using markdown to write stuff! A good reference to look back on.