🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@qoto.org

As the year comes to a close, I wanted to take a moment to share some of the illustrations I've had the privilege of creating for the amazing team at @Framasoft .
This year is especially significant, as they're celebrating a remarkable 20 years of promoting free and open-source software, digital freedom, and community-driven initiatives (you probably already knows some of them, like Peertube).

Help them reach their 2025 budget: https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/

Festive Swamp Wednesday!

I'm super happy with this: this xmas day marks a full year of a couple 100 sqm of our woodland being submerged!

Our little anaerobic wetland is an area that -until it was planted with spruce in the 1950s- for many years was some type of peat bog nestled in the sandy expanse of jutland. I hope it's capable of restoring itself without too much help from us.

#woodland #nature #christmas

Variegated Fritillary (Euptoieta claudia) on Dahlia in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on October 25, 2024

Some of the camera settings I used to make this photo are at: https://www.rsok.com/~jrm/2024Oct30_birds_and_cats/2024oct25_butterfly_IMG_2182c.html

#butterfly #fritillary #Euptoieta #pollinators #bloomscrolling #naturephotography #Oklahoma #photography

My whole life, I've lived in New England: the land of blizzards and ice storms. When there's a storm on the forecast, we prepare. Stock up on bottled water and nonperishables, refill prescriptions that are running low, charge the flashlights and electronic devices, have a stack of blankets on hand, make sure there's fuel in the car and (if you're lucky) generator, restack the indoor wood pile. 1/3

#USpolitics #USpol

Sketched this blue jay with Pentel pencils in a Leuchtturm A6 softcover. Blue jays’ feather patterns make them great subjects! Use code MIKE20 for 20% off your next Leuchtturm Canada order.

@ardgedee As a programmer, sometimes I think I'll be making off-by-one errors until the day after I die

I have my #Halloween costume ready, and you?

#AcademicChatter @academicchatter

For anyone knowledgeable in recruitment, referrals, or even you know a place/person hiring in the IT industry for a System Administrator, IT Support, Helpdesk, or any entry level role feel free to reach out.

Primarily seeking fully remote, locally based in Michigan, Washington state, or If any anyone is knowledgeable of potential companies residing in an EU Union country (Germany, Nordic, Dutch, Ireland, Finland, etc) that is offering sponsorships for talent please feel free to reach out.

As well for any locals of MI reading, this post includes ANY full-time position as I am currently unemployed in job search hell.

Reposts are appreciated and thanks in advance for any assistance.

#FediHire #GetFediHired #Laidoff #Layoff #Jobs #Employment

@antoniahamilton

The key about conferences are the disintermediated moments that online events cannot replicate.

I’ve made lifelong friends bumping into random folks in the corridors of events. That doesn’t translate online.

Additionally, there are the convos that are spontaneous and ephemeral, where there isn’t the potential of a persistent record somewhere or where one needs not perfectly curate one’s words to present an image of self.

And this morning there are witches!

Big friends make for good pillows
#SilentSunday

#SilentSunday

Happy #WorldAnimalDay! This is a detail from Dog Beneath Bamboo, an ink and colour on silk painting by Qizong Zhang (c. 1931)
https://collections.ashmolean.org/object/361843