ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

@tchambers I wrote a detailed guide to how I ported my @covidsewage bot here: https://til.simonwillison.net/mastodon/mastodon-bots-github-actions

Cooked today: Tajine with aubergine, apricot & chickpeas served with pita bread and herb yoghurt.

Recipe refined with honey, coriander, cumin and nutmeg.

#cooking

So... Neil Young contracted polio as a child in the '50s.
He had to relearn how to walk, it left him permanently disabled and contributed to a serious anxiety disorder that he still deals with today.
He has epilepsy and so does his daughter.
He has 2 sons with cerebral palsy. The album TRANS was written as a way to communicate with one of them. He founded The Bridge School for kids with severe disabilities and still organizes annual benefit concerts for the school.
Neil Young understands post viral syndromes and disability better than most.
He understands public health and the importance of messaging, platforms and how they can be used to create good and to also cause harm.
In todays world, it's amazing to see someone with a huge platform use it to send such a loud and powerful message.
I have mad respect for this man and wanted to use my teeny tiny platform to shed light on some of the things that have shaped this good human who has provided the background music for so many of our lives ❤

Neun und neunzig spyballoons

Went to visit some friends today! They live about 30 mins drive from us along the coast. Also, they're penguins.

Pirates Are The Best Customers (Part 1) https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/fd4e5870-8c1e-477b-8855-6b8953749f16

Okay @bookstodon you said I should read #LegendsAndLattes next and I did so last night—in one sitting. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It was the ideal holiday fantasy book about #foundfamily and the #magic you make with your people. Will purchase, to cherish, and listen to audio ASAP #books #AmReading #bookstodon

weird story about our cat: I accidentally discovered a middle school choir in Ohio singing a song about her, specifically, on YouTube. This is not a joke.

i wrote a poem about her. Then @artsyhonker offered to set it for children's choir. Then we put it online with a free licence. Years later I was looking for an actual video of our cat to show someone, and there were these kids from Ohio singing about her. It was quite a moment

https://youtu.be/3OV-bKAxHeY

It's super lateee Still a lot to finish but first time for some sleep

Good night my dear friends ❤️

JUST GOT MY FIRST SALE OF MY BOOK!!! 😆😆😆 (it’s only $3 but STILL…sale is a sale!)

“A Song of Freedom” available in my #KoFi shop. https://ko-fi.com/scribblerrva

#author #writersofmastodon

and the seconds tick and tick.....

On the verge of 10,000 Mastodon followers, I’m launching a “10% off Glenn” sale! Not an arm or leg but rather books, keepsakes, ebooks, and other items from my website! Use coupon code MASTOTEN at checkout through Feb 10. Find all my stuff at https://glog.glennf.com/the-store

This includes:

• Six Centuries of Type & Printing (letterpress and ebook editions)
• Not To Put Too Fine a Point on It (limited edition hand-printed letterpress)
• Walt Whitman “A Font of Type” folio

(Most items ship worldwide.)

Some of you kids are all "Eat the rich!" and, look, Lefty McLeftowicz, let's just make sure the remedy isn't worse than the disease, by which of course I mean let's find a cure for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease first.

⚡ Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities: The Viewing (2022)
Peter Weller as Lionel Lassiter
#Directed by Panos Cosmatos
#Cinematography by Michael Ragen

#fluxiumfilm #film #gif

24 January 2023. Grövlan, Dalarna, Sweden.

Camera: @omsystem.cameras OM-1
Lens: Olympus M.Zuiko 8-25 mm f/4.0 PRO

Settings: ISO 200, 8 mm, f/8, 1/3 sec. High res Shot

#Photo #naturephotography #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #omsystem #OM1 #olympus #grövelsjön #grövelsjöfjällen #sweden #sunrise #sunrisephotography

There's something comforting about Camponotus, the world's second most diverse ant genus (probably?). There are always species that look very much like ones from home, wherever you go, and wherever you're from.

This is Camponotus innexus, which I encountered in Australia.

#Ants #Camponotus #Insects #Photography

Waking in Winter by Sylvia Plath

Children killed annually by mass education of Black history: 0

Children killed annually by mass book reading: 0

Children killed annually by drag shows: 0

Children killed annually by mass shootings & firearms: 4400

GOP: The only way to protect our kids is ban history, ban books, ban drag, and arm more kids with guns.