rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org

These boxes are not moving. A mind-bending optical illusion by Japanese artist Jagarikin.

Something which has significantly improved everyone's lives, but is completely taken for granted or even reviled for some reason is the humble LED. Cheap, a fraction of the energy and heat, lasts for years and years. Marvellous.

Which one of you Fedi weirdos* was at the Edinburgh trans rights demo holding the sign saying:

private String gender
not
public const bool gender

* affectionate

Maths class should have fun stuff like English has creative writing and science has experiments. Show some practical side to it and quit boring the kids.

Being ultra rich is an illness. A deep, terrifying sickness. Once personal wealth surpasses a point at which you could lead a very comfortable life, the drive to amass and hoard more is an unnatural perversion. You aren't curing hunger. Or saving humanity. You're just unwell.

It would be great if you could spend time banking certain jobs. Free half hour on the weekend? Shave five times, so you can redeem that time during the week. Put the bins out 52 times in a day and don't do it for a whole year. Spare time often comes at the wrong time.

has anyone told Trump that the "great" in "great depression" didn't mean "good"

"Universal Basic Income would remove the incentive to work", say people with enough money to never have to work again but who mysteriously carry on.

It really is that simple.

American's have one thing right, they tax their citizens according to US tax laws no matter where they live. We should do the same. None of this buggering off to Dubai or Monaco as soon as you've earned a few quid to be a tax exile.

What date is 5/4/2025? No-one knows because it wasn't written in ISO 8601 format. Please, let's just make that the format we all use everywhere. Variations can be used as plot points in detective fiction or farces. They'll warn us against the dangers of ambiguous communication.

“In everyone’s pocket right now is a computer far more powerful than the one we flew on Voyager. I don’t mean your cell phone — I mean the key fob that unlocks your car.”

— Rich Terrile, JPL scientist and member of the Voyager imaging team

#space

Still time for this to catch on

Self-care basketry projects this weekend: one uh... birdhouse? (or maybe suet block holder?) and one partially finished basket.

I was looking at various willow artists' websites for inspiration and the pictures on this website are just gorgeous: https://www.blithfieldwillow.com/basket-gallery . Everything from wine stands to giant rabbits to coffins.

Everything is willow-able!!

(Where there's a willow, there's a way! Sorry I'm going outside now)

Program goes to Operating System, tears in eyes, says "my state, it is very bad"

Operating System says "is no problem, have good error reporting facility, detailed but concise report, contextual information included. you will submit bug there"

Program sobs loudly "but Operating System, I *am* error reporting facility"

I wonder what the person who took that famous photo of the Doge Shiba Inu makes of all this now?