ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

I do not mind having a 1x/1080p/non-retina monitor, but sometimes when I'm taking screenshots I wish I could temporarily get the computer to *pretend* it was rendering at 2x. It seems like this at minimum shouldn't be hard when taking screenshots of web pages. I wonder if there's a Chrome plugin for it already.

Before i pop a Xanax and get ready for Christmas Eve with my family, here’s a gentle PSA:
There is no wrong way to Mastodon. This isn’t the Blue Bird of Hostility app. Being kind to new users helps further the community. Starting out with telling people what they should and shouldn’t do is tacky and rude. Welcome people into the fold. Help them out. Be kind-we’ve all started over at one point or another.
Merry Christmas ya filthy animals.
Xoxo
Jenn

I know I'm like 16 years late to this party, but I could never get into the text version of #DwarfFortress. The game itself sounds fascinating, but I couldn't ever get enough time to invest in understanding the interface.

But now, as of earlier this month, the developers have released a graphical version of the game. I spent entirely too much time yesterday playing it. It's amazing: the detail, the depth, the seemingly endless world of possibility.

I have extensive professional experience in this area. Here's an article from 29 years ago, when I was engaged as an elf-wrangler/santabot master for the holidays. https://archive.org/details/RTFM-D-19931224-santa/mode/1up

After George Floyd was killed miles from my house, I quit my corporate law job to build @TurnSignl—an app to instantly connect drivers to a lawyer on a video call 24/7. TurnSignal:
✅ Auto records the stop
✅ Is voice activated
✅ Free for low-income folks

Download @ link in the about tab!

CyberSpace must not become just another power-oriented frontier fraught with struggle and violence. ↯92MAR

The seventh candle is We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, by Karen Joy Fowler. It's hard to know what to say about this book, because I advise approaching it as fresh as possible. The story is told in a certain way ("start in the middle," the narrator's father tells her) for a reason. A story about a family coping with a rupture that won't heal.

#BookishHanukkah #Chanukkah #Hanukkah #bookstodon #seventhcandle @bookstodonmy #BookishAdvent

The #Sun is starting to win its fight with the darkness, but at the moment it still looks like it's failing. #Sunset

The @internetarchive is magic.

1. One-line command to download 449 items and specify --format="DjVuTXT". You get the OCR'd text for each book.
2. egrep "^ISBN" */*txt
3. Clean up the results (<30 minutes)
4. Modify metadata to add isbn:$value for each item.
5. Kick off a book_op for each, and it will go fetch a MARC record for each item.
6. Voila! All the metadata is now populated from the MARC record.

Librarian cataloging on steroids.

I cannot stress enough that organised media manipulators, harassers, & white supremacist orgs use flamebait, debate, flame wars, drama, arguments, outrage & tabloid gossip as part of their strategy.
Amplifying them and assembling an audience for them is exactly what they want. They will pivot on that to multiply harms - at the low end of the harm scale, they’ll goat se the audience. At the high end: hundreds of people see revenge porn of a secondary target. Or worse.
Squelch them, every time.

Pooch pic time! #dogs

Ice along the edge of the Arkansas River down below the deck

It's probably just me, but I get sad every time I lose a sock. This is my sketch of 8 years ago that tries to express it. #rnapper #MastoArt #watercolor

For #caturday, I offer thee my mom's tiny lady cat Freya.

She's about a year old was rescued this summer with her first litter of mini kitties, which have since been weaned and rehomed.

Two weeks ago, after 4 months being fostered, Freya got to meet my mother and got her forever home, where she already has taken to battling specs of dust, running after toys and bullying her human to go to bed for comfy cuddles.

#catsofmastodon #rescuecat

But there is kindness out there too. Heaps of it. Nestling quietly in those places where the brash and the hateful and the egocentric don't care to shout. I've been the recipient of so much kindness. Kindness as love. Kindness as meaningful citizenship. The one sovereignty worth holding. A flag raised over the best things we can be. x

Jesus: *holds up bread* this is my body
*holds up wine* this is my blood
*holds up hotdog* this is a sandwich lol
Judas: ok that does it

Tjornin, Reykjavik.