ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

On one hand having to blast spammers is annoying.

On the other hand it does mean that a precious ad-free zone badly wants to be penetrated precisely because it is rare and valuable in this world and we own it. Let’s keep defending it. Thanks to members for issuing reports, thanks to admins for forwarding them to the attacked sources. Together we will defeat the pernicious pollution of #cryptospam

#bw #photography #light #shadow

Patterns of light created by early morning light filtering past blinds made of bamboo.

BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY SUNSET:https://fineartamerica.com/featured/blue-ridge-overlook-at-sunset-norma-brandsberg.html

Virginia Blue Ridge Parkway Overlook at sunset with layered mountains framed by two bare silhouette trees on early spring.

#blueridgeparkway #blueridge #virginia #sunsetsilhouette #sunset #mountain #landscapephotography #landscapephotography #art4mom #travelphotography #nature #BuyIntoArt #springforart #AYearForArt #artforsale #Travel #photooftheday #normabrandsberg #elegantfinephotography

Oh, so business is all about the bottom line, you say? Well, Singapore Airlines begs to differ. They just paid their staff an 8-month salary bonus after record profits, recognizing their hard work and sacrifices during the pandemic. Senior management won't receive the bonus. #BusinessBeyondProfit #SomeGoodNews

https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2023/05/18/singapore-air-hands-staff-eight-months-salary-bonus-after-record-results

Netflix, but the movie or show is imprinted on physical data storage disk that is mailed to you and that you mail back after watching.

PEN America v. Escambia County School District

"This lawsuit brings together authors whose books have been removed or restricted and parents and students in the district who cannot access the books, in a first of its kind challenge to unlawful censorship....

Per the lawsuit, the district also violated the Equal Protection Clause of the constitution “because the books being singled out for possible removal are disproportionately... related to race or LGBTQ identity.”"

https://pen.org/pen-america-v-escambia-county/

Even living in the area, I don’t often take the opportunity to walk by the brink, but it never disappoints.
#WaterfallWednesday
#niagarafalls

You tried to avoid the Giant Owl, but it detected your presence.
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🦁 Giant Owl
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🛡️ 12 ☁️
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Just loving this strong black and white work of NYC by actor Jessica Lange: Alone in the City via Blind Magazine https://www.blind-magazine.com/news/jessica-langes-intimate-chronicle-of-new-york-city-during-covid/ #photography

relatively bonkers idea regarding neruological makeup and nature of reality. Could be plausible. What do you thing?

https://medium.com/@DarkSideOfGood/unified-theory-of-bs-and-also-reality-itself-mayb-1f2d7d9b6e0d

A few weeks ago, a story fell out of my head and onto the page in a matter of hours.

Today, I get to announce that...I SOLD IT TO @UncannyMagazine!!!

I'm so excited for you all to meet Tantie Merle & the Farmhand 4200. Written entirely in the voice of a Trini grandmother, and our Creole language, this one has love, robots and one very irascible goat!

Look, we here at Tory H.Q. know what it looks like, ‘’why is it always a Tory donating peer, that’s in the news for horrible horrible things’’? And yes we may have promised to end ‘no fault’ evictions,but there is a simple explanation- We don’t give a fuck about you, unless you donate millions to us, then we’ll make you a lord
#brexit #ToryLies #tory #tories #ToriesOut #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #Corruption #ToryCorruption #inflation #bbc #news #costofliving #rishisunak #SunakOut #EU #Sunak

This kind of light is always teasing me out here. I see it when I don't have camera or lens that I want to have for the scene. This day, I went ahead and got a picture with what I had, the phone camera.

Just finished presenting "Why Contributing to Open Source is More Important Than Ever" for @openuk - thank you @lornajane for being a fantastic M.C.! Here's an interesting piece from GitHub's ReadMe blog about how "open" your project might be. https://github.com/readme/featured/how-open-is-open-source

Patients are protesting from their hospital beds to #KeepMasksInHealthcare. This is powerful! #maskweekofaction

JUST NOW: Dems HAVE flipped the mayor's office in Jacksonville, Florida.

This was the most populous city with a GOP mayor anywhere in the country. No more.

Donna Deegan, who faced attack ads for… simply attending a BLM rally, will be the next mayor.

1. I created a Game Boy filter, which takes any image or video and turns it into a Game Boy screen, including limited Game Boy Color support.

I confusingly turned it into a Twitter account that posted random King of the Hill screenshots turned to Game Boy images, but you could use it for non-King-of-the-Hill content too I guess.

#BoardGames idea: Mend

There are plenty of engine builders out there, where typically you get your engine up and running and then get to turn the crank once or twice before the game ends.

What if, instead, we had an engine maintainer?

Your economic engine would be up and running at the beginning of the game. The task is to maintain it by:

* Repairing or replacing components that wear out over time

* Performing preventive maintenance to prevent wear

* Fine-tuning the engine's efficiency

* Adapting the engine to a (relatively slowly) changing environment

* Occasionally recognizing that an entire multi-component part of your engine needs to be replaced. You'd want to cannibalize what you can to both avoid the expense of buying new things and the cost of disposing of waste; limited space means you do have to get rid of your waste.

Thoughts? Does it already exist?

#GameDesign #mend #mending #repair