🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@qoto.org

If you're concerned about the plight of folks in #Afghanistan and can't help directly, remember you can donate to help people who remain in the country.

There's the Global Giving "Afghanistan Emergency Fund": https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/afghanistan-emergency-fund/
which distributes to local aid groups
CharityNavigator.org lists other charities as well that are responding to the turmoil in Afghanistan as well as addressing the long-term issues in the country: https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=8993

You can also seek out local refugee resettlement agencies if your country is accepting people who've left Afghanistan as refugees.

#effectivealtruism #charity

There used to be a #debian maintainer (I think it was Debian anyway...maybe #ubuntu) who made these really clever, and actually descriptive puns in changelog entries. I don't remember the person's name, and I don't see the puns anymore, but I always appreciated seeing them.

I don't understand how there was ever any negotiation to be had between the Afghan government and the Taliban. The Taliban doesn't consider the government of #Afghanistan to be legitimate. You can't debate with someone about how you exist together when they don't believe you should exist in the first place. What did I misunderstand?

I know it was posted a year ago, but made be laugh.
Brosh has still got it 😂
https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2020/09/richard.html
#blog #comic #comedy

#openscience #softwarecitation https://demo.hedgedoc.org/s/UTCAyOfNQ#

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Swan_Leavitt

I hadn't heard about Leavitt before, but this was a really great contribution.

#astronomy #astrophysics #hubble

https://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/tty.htm

Cool page. I didn't realize how recently text teletypes were (are?) still in use. VRS isn't something I even knew existed.

#tty #teletype #deafculture

The floor routine in gymnastics is so weird. Like, there's this dancy element which is like "okay..." and then they do these gravity defying flips. Why not just do the tumbling?
#olympics #gymnastics