ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

new year, new #intro!

hi, i'm purnima & i'm from india. i write poetry & SFF fiction, i work as a freelance editor, & i'm training to be a tattoo artist. you might know me as that person who came in here like a whirlwind during the mass exodus & dropped 30 novel writing prompts. or as the one with real-life stories about monkeys that get high on coffee. or the one who wishes you find some joy every day. 🌱

i love talking about books, niche music, & bad puns. come say hi!

#WritingCommunity

how vegans are made

there's a bird that sings in the night, and I searched it, assuming it to be a nightingale. literally every result was like "you mewling fool. you infant. that's a robin and anyone who may have thought otherwise is a stupid baby."

Be very wary of social media orgs who prattle on about "free speech" when it comes to accepting wingnuts, Nazis, fascists, bigots, and other assorted hatemongers, but won't allow sex workers, porn performers, or consensual adult sex speech on their apps because "we might offend the children" or "fear of the government moving in".

Naaaah....you're just a right-wing prude who wants to suppress the Left and stifle queers for power and privilege.

Bring back self-hosted blogs, reinstall a feed reader, make your feed icon prominent on your blog. Blogs + Atom/RSS is the best decentralized social media system we've ever had!

And yes I am saying that as co-author of ActivityPub: self hosted blogs is the best decentralized social networking we've had

*Me, burying myself in a pile of TBR books I deliberately put off till 2024*

Hey all! Happy new year! Whatcha reading? 😊 Any reading goals, wishes, hopes or resolutions?

#AmReading #books #bookstodon #reading

“Today I met with officials in Helsinki, which has had a ~75% drop in road deaths over the last thirty years (including recent years with no ped/cyclist deaths at all),” David Zipper, a visiting Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School wrote in 2022.
Me: “How much of a role has IT played in reducing crashes?”
City official: “Zero. We simply slowed down cars.”
They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars and generally made life harder for motorists.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/how-helsinki-and-oslo-cut-pedestrian-deaths-to-zero

I was looking for some more stories about the 12 percent decrease in the US murder rate and just look at the suggestions from search.

Naturally if you take these suggestions you'll find material that gives you the impression the rate is rising.

Some kinds of misinformation feel huge and intractable. No one wants to hear this, no one wants to looks for this, no one reports it and when they do it's literally headlines like "After Rise in Murders During Pandemic a Sharp Decline"

Team Sheep!!

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #KeepMasksInHealthCare #maskup #WearAMask #covid19 #covid @novid

Posting this pied currawong tonight for no other reason than that he keeps making me happy.

How to Win Fights at School

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - Thomas Paine

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/29/2213736/-Biden-has-been-the-most-effective-President-in-decades-but-no-one-knows-it
Biden has been the most effective President in decades, but no one in the media is talking about it. Why?

babe, you good? you haven't touched your lorem ipsum dolor & cheddar wrap

good morning, enjoy a crime cat.

#TheCrimeCats do not understand downloading or cars but they do love crimes.

#comic #comics #ComicStrip #IndieComic #IndieComics #cat #cats #anarchy #shoplifting #anticonsumerism #acab

At #37c3 they have IRC, and Matrix for text and for voice they setup their own LTE/2G/3G/SIP/DECT network where you bring whatever phone-like device and pick a 4 digit phone number.

Meanwhile in the USA for #defcon they just paid Discord money and told everyone to accept their privacy policy, and even the DC Privacy Village asks people to sign up for Slack and Google.

People ask why I fly to CCC from the USA. It is because that is the closest place to find a thriving hacker culture.