🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@qoto.org

second stage application paperwork, wants me to upload a copy of my birth certificate. then requires me to fill in an expiration date for it.

if I knew when my birth would expire I don't think I'd be applying for helpdesk jobs

Carving #trilobites and am cursing myself. Blanks I cut about a year ago, and must have been trying to use up odd pieces… cut the one in front with the grain running sideways instead of lengthwise… oops! It’s making carving… interesting…

#carving #woodcarving #trilobite

Took my kids to MicroCenter today to get parts for their very first built-completely-to-spec PCs. Gave them a budget and just kept them from making any actually-bad purchases.

Highlights: the sales person that helped with the keyboard and mouse selection was a younger gamer enby, and did a great job engaging with helping the kids make good choices like "prioritize stats over aesthetic, but still honor your aesthetic".

Kid1 saying "I want my tower to be pink; but not if I have to pay a Pink Tax", and the sales person helping her finding a case that was pink, met requirements, and wasn't more expensive than a black one.

Kid2 saying, to my surprise, "I'll spend the extra $30 on the AMD GPU because the Linux drivers are better and I want to run Manjaro" (clearly she took my advice to do some research! Holy crap!)

🤕 #PublicLab is shutting down due to lack of funding.

One of the most meaningful citizen science initiatives in a long time, empowering people to understand the changes to the climate and environment around them.

What a loss.

Support the #OpenSource & #FreeSoftware projects that matter to you.

#OpenScience #science

https://publiclab.org/notes/jmacha/04-14-2023/update-from-the-board-of-directors

excited about this ep.

https://changelog.com/podcast/535

Examining capitalism's chokepoints

w/ Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

A pair of dandelions to take us into the weekend.

Quick update on ordering Bea Wolf in Europe: We still don't know what the issue is, BUT if you ordered through Amazon, please cancel your order, then go back to the order page and see if any other sellers can get you a copy. Amazon is apparently not importing copies. Sorry!

Both Peter Capaldi and Sylvester McCoy have been out on the picket lines supporting junior doctors. Doctors for doctors.

Via Dr Gordon Fletcher

a fellow mudlark found this section of fossilised crinoid stem ossicles on the Thames foreshore and generously gave to me when she saw how excited I was about it. the ossicles show a star-shaped interior cross-section and extensions (cirri) around the stem. Pentacrinites?

Tried my hand at a one day build, I always wanted a bubble pipe like in the cartoons but the ones I've seen never work the way I wanted so I made one myself as a quick build #stem #steam #maker

Goblintown NFT images all changed to an illustrated middle finger in protest about royalties

April 11, 2023
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=goblintown-nft-images-all-changed-to-an-illustrated-middle-finger-in-protest-about-royalties

DNA cabling. This will be the band on a knit hat, but needs to be blocked before I can pick up stitches to make the top. #Knitting #Science

Beto is always watching. May the gators in this area — his territory — never know rest.

#BetoTheAlligatorHunter #CatsOfMastodon

Prey

#pixelart

goober in the sunshine

#dogs #dogsofmastodon

I need your help…

NPR is leaving Twitter but they are planning to focus on Instagram

We need to tell them to join the Fediverse

Many of their journalists’ accounts, as well as their main account, haven’t been active on mastodon. Tell them how much we need them here. (In fact, they should have their own instance)

Use the link, tell NPR we are waiting for them here and spread the word far and wide:

https://help.npr.org/contact/s/

*chefkiss*