Laura J. Wilkinson @ljw@qoto.org

Today is St Catherine’s Day, the patron saint of lacemakers. Today marked the first day that they were allowed to use candles to assist them in their work. The feast day was also a holiday for these workers & was celebrated with games, a hot pot (eggnog made from rum, eggs & beer) & Cattern Cakes, spiced with cinnamon, lightly fruited & flavoured with caraway seeds. The dough was originally yeasted. They’re supposedly round to honour the wheel on which the saint was martyred
@folklore #Folklore

If you have responsability for any scientific institutions or projects with social media presence, are they still active on Twitter/X? #MastodonScience

I drew this in 2020, posted it on the birdsite, and it went viral (at least by my standards!), earning me 250 new followers.

It shows how much battery various stars would have left if they had battery indicators like phones do. #MastoArt

here are some photos of all the zines and stickers you can order! (the 13-pack comes with a bunch of bonus stickers)

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print zines are 30% off with the discount code WIZARDPRINT

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trickle down lickonomics

#Caturday

The university of Brussels closes its Twitter accounts. Part of the exodus under way.

L'ULB annonce la suspension de ses activités sur le réseau social X - rtbf.be
https://www.rtbf.be/article/l-ulb-annonce-la-suspension-de-ses-activites-sur-le-reseau-social-x-11290112

Thought-provoking piece from @deevybee on fraud and junk science. Including a proposal for an MSc in Defence Against The Dark Arts to train scientists to spot fraud.

http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2023/11/defence-against-dark-arts-proposal-for.html

Signal is a nonprofit. But what does this mean in practice? Today we do something most tech co’s avoid: talk money. What does it cost for Signal to play in a lane dominated by billion $ corporations, while rejecting the surveillance business model?

https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

Here’s a poem called ‘The Caveman’s Lament’, believed to have been written around 1.5 million years ago by one of our earliest ancestors, homo unrequitus.

It is considered to be the world’s oldest surviving love poem.

Wholesome hashtags on the Fediverse:

#BreadPosting - Baked things

#TootFic - Small stories

#AskFedi - Random questions

#Introduction - New people

#Florespondence - Flowers

#FediDogs - Doggos

#Caturday - Cats

#Mosstodon - Moss

#LichenSubscribe - Lichen

#Sporespondence - Fungi

#SportsBall - Sport

#MastoArt - Art

#NP & #NowPlaying - Music

#AmReading - Currently reading

#SFFBookClub - Sci-fi & fantasy books

#VendrediLecture - French-language books

#MastoRadio - Italian music chat

Remember when browsers used to display an RSS icon in the URL bar when feeds were available on that website?

After the lost decade in social media, can we please bringt that back now?

#Firefox #Browser #IndieWeb #RSS