ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

every better go to sleep otherwise santa won't come

I love the randomness of the #federated #timeline. It’s the pure #chronologicaltimeline I’ve always wanted from a social media tool. Right now it’s just a #worldwide #celebration of #christmas shared between total strangers. No #celebrities, no #influencers, just #people.

Any #artists out there with #recommendations for #magnifying lamps for #drawing?

Today I present you the MAGESTIC Taiwan Blue Magpie!

While beautiful, they are not afraid of people and they have strong nest defense behavior. According to locals, it is not uncommon for them to swoop down onto humans from trees and peck their heads!

📷 Danny Khoo Photography, 2018

#birds #bird #photography #photos #photo #nature #amazing #taiwan #bluemagpie #headpeckers!

Also some helpful notes, and never forget that trans men and some nonbinary people may need abortion access too. It’s not just a “women’s issue”. It’s a reproductive health issue. https://twitter.com/ncjw/status/1521640752983511059

🎶last christmas, I gave you my heart
but the very next day, you gave it away…
this year, to save me from tears
you’re getting a starbucks giftcard 🎶

#books #bookstodon @bookstodon #SciFi #SocialJustice #TheTwilightZone #TodayILearned #reddit

#MentalHealth #Depression #Motivation

"Say not,
“I have found the truth,”
but rather,
“I have found a truth.”
Say not,
“I have found the path of the soul.”
Say rather,
“I have met the soul
walking upon my path.”
For the soul walks upon all paths.
The soul walks not upon a line,
neither does it grow like a reed.
The soul unfolds itself,
like a lotus of countless petals..."

#Gibran #Quotes

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.