Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org

Zoom in as far as you can. Then zoom in as far as you can... #zoom #animation #digital #art

Terminator 2 in the style of ecclesiastical stained glass
As requested by Kath Oparka

$200 million superyacht of Viktor Medvedchuk, pro-Russian Ukrainian operative + Putin pal who served as Kuchma's gray cardinal + was recently swapped in POW exchange with Moscow, is to be sold at auction after Croatia seized it, with proceeds going to Kyiv https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/02/oligarch-viktor-medvedchuk-superyacht-to-be-sold-at-auction-to-benefit-ukraine

My partner surprised me with an advent calendar and I can't stop laughing 😂

🇪🇺 Official #instance on #Mastodon for #EU institutions, bodies and agencies.

https://social.network.europa.eu/about

I know some people say "just keep tweeting away, don't let him win."

But the fact is: Twitter's a shop, Elon's the shopkeeper. If you go in there, you're buying from him.

And if you actively try to build engagement, you're encouraging others to shop with him.

There's no workaround. You just have to shop elsewhere.

European World Translator

Enter the word in English to see its translation into different European languages on the map.

http://ukdataexplorer.com/european-translator

I've collected some #Mastodon 🦣 #instances to help with the #TwitterMigration focused in #inclusion, #accesibility and #minorities. They look like safe spaces for most of us. I'd appreciate the boost and new recommendations to add to the list:

🔗🇬🇧 https://ableism.rip/about - space to fight ableism
🔗🇬🇧 https://disabled.social/about - for disabled people
🔗🇬🇧 https://neurodifferent.me/about - neurodiversity and neurominorities
🔗🇬🇧 https://iaccessibility.social/about - interest in assistive technology
🔗🇬🇧 https://blacktwitter.io/about - history and voices for black people
🔗🇬🇧 https://lgbt.io/about - for LGBT+ and allies
🔗🇬🇧 http://queer.party/about - queer-oriented instance
🔗🇬🇧 https://tech.lgbt/about - for tech workers, academics, students, and others interested in tech who are LGBTQIA+ or Allies

Please boost to reach more people!

When we first aquired a #shippingcontainer it was for a mega daft project in 2014 called March of the Robots.
It was a Roving Robot Lab. With a STEAM PUNK time travelling artist/maker in residence - Stephen Reid (Minecraft/3D Printing)
We travelled to places in Leeds, with the RobotLab, visiting people, hearing their stories about where they lived and what used to be made there. We collected parts for a giant 'Iron Man' Style Robot to be made on Light Night with artist Mark Haig.

Normalize Black people coming to this app being safe to speak their minds. What we bring up might abut internal discomfort and biases that you might hold. That is not the minoritized person’s responsibility, though, to educate you, coddle you, to do the work for you. It is your responsibility to not create yet another space where Black people are marginalized or silenced.
I’ve been calculated about bringing this up and now is the time.💖✊🏽
#Black #BlackPride #Minoritized #Responsibility #unity

Too foot-weary to pedal that last hill home?

Load your bike on the Zahnradbahn.

In #Germany, the #Stuttgart to Degerloch open bike-car has been taking bike-commuters up and down hill since 1983.

Alex Scott. A woman who’s just come out, now in a country where loving who she loves and being part of that community is against the law. Wearing her armband with pride.

No content warning on this because Alex Scott is a hero.

Nostalgic for the days before Elon when I wrote about the risks of left and anti-fascist voices getting banned from social media and I could only come up with two examples