szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

I went on the www.gov.uk site yesterday, for a boring car tax thing. The CSS failed to load but everything was still clear and usable. I didn't even feel the need to refresh. That's great design in my book.

#webdev #webdesign #css

Flint, MI is giving pregnant residents a “cash prescription” of $1500 during pregnancy and $500/mo for the 1st year of the baby’s life. “In Flint, the poorest city in [Michigan], we are on track to eliminating infant poverty.” https://www.michiganpublic.org/health/2024-07-11/every-new-mom-in-flint-is-getting-cash-aid-now-other-cities-want-to-try-it-too

Everybody in a UBI study could spend it all on drugs & I would still support UBI.

Stop asking virtue of the poor which you don’t of the rich.

Public libraries are where I learned to grow my own food, make my own compost, 3-D print replacement parts for broken household items, Zen Doodle, participate in Spanish language conversation groups to build skills, got help creating the resume & cover letter that got me my dream job, get free access to language learning apps, & more. Libraries are books, but they’re so much more than that. Librarians are under attack for a reason. They’re our accomplices. Seriously, get your library card.

I am informed that my photos of Odin are the only thing holding the internet together; hopefully this shot of him asleep on the balcony is enough to prevent another nine million bluescreens tonight

#dogs #dogsofmastodon

This is wild! "Dark" oxygen produced at the bottom of the ocean, possibly by natural electrolysis associated with the polymetallic nodules that are the major talked for deep sea mining.

So crazy that for years, the scientists who discovered this refused to believe their sensors were working properly.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/22/science/dark-oxygen-discovery-deep-sea-mining/index.html

#geology #DeepSeaMining

i think "it's my party and i'll cry if i want to" might be a good song choice for Harris to walk out to at the DNC jk

Women are consistently under-cited in neuroscience. Anne Churchland and Felicia Davatolhagh share tools that can help assess citation diversity.

https://www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/women-are-systematically-under-cited-in-neuroscience-new-tools-can-change-that/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20240722-women-under-cited

W książce Awantura o Basię na wolnych lekturach: https://wolnelektury.pl/katalog/lektura/makuszynski-awantura-o-basie/ brakuje sporego fragmentu pod koniec drugiego rozdziału. To jest dziwne, że zdarzają im się takie błędy.

@Watchdog_Polska
Ustawa przewiduje przy tym, że zwolnienie takie nastąpi w każdej sytuacji, niezależnie od stopnia oraz rodzaju naruszenia reguł dotyczących użycia broni palnej lub środków przymusu bezpośredniego.

Oznacza to np. brak odpowiedzialności karnej funkcjonariuszy państwa, którzy w okolicznościach wskazanych w ustawie użyją broni palnej i ranią śmiertelnie innych funkcjonariuszy. /2

Pluralistic: Unpersoned (22 Jul 2024)

about the implications of putting critical infrastructure into the private, unaccountable hands of tech giants:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/22/degoogled/

Wills du auf die Welttournee, fahr mit der Bahn im Schnee.

#Switzerland mandates #OpenSource software for all public software!

This makes perfect sense. Public software should be transparent. #India could have taken a lead on this, but our digital public infrastructure is mostly closed-source - with predictable consequences. 🙄

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/new-open-source-law-switzerland