LB: https://artisans.coop is a new Etsy alternative that's cooperatively owned by the sellers, and they're (we're? I bought a founding share, and have been advising a bit) launching today.

I'm really glad to see more businesses like this, and seeing co-op-style businesses helping each other out. Etsy is way down the enshittification route already, and small creators need better places to support them without defaulting to wealth extraction.

the fucking Salvation Army sent us paper mail asking for donations

a lot of people don't realize that it is a religious organization (it's right there in the name) with a strong anti-queer agenda. we have friends who've been personally affected by the discriminatory manner in which they provide services and by the hateful conduct of their staff.

donate to local food banks and shelters, not to the Salvation Army. thank you.

i've been playing a ton of Objects in Space lately. (i'm not very good at it yet!) i've been really wanting to play something with a lot of Interface? i want to putter around my little spaceship and read status reports from my hundreds of monitors

it's witch season

23,000 lines of code and 49,000 written words later... Swords of Freeport is live on itch for macOS, Linux and Windows!

Do you want a game styled after ‘90s BBS doors, that even lets you play social multiplayer on linux machines and tilde clubs? Then give this a look.

#GameDev #IndieDev #BBS #TildeClub #SwordsOfFreeport

https://expectproblems.itch.io/swords-of-freeport

There's now a grocery price tracking tool for Australia based on my little thing. Created by @flozza

https://hotprices.org/

Expand your Latin

Programmers fallacies about postcodes:
- A postcode covers a small geographic area
- A postcode is good enough to locate an end user for generating location suggestions
- A postcode will be in a single timezone
- A postcode only has a single state
- A postcode has no exclaves/enclaves

I would like you to meet 0872. Australia's largest postcode (I think), covers 3 states, has two cut outs (Warbuton and Alice Springs), and even still some mail outside of this area is routed via 0872

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PSA: Please avoid using fake spiderwebs for Halloween decorations! Artificial webs are strong enough to snag birds as large as owls and are deadly to insects like butterflies and bees

Wow. That’s a shitty move.

“Say you search for ‘children’s clothing.’ Google converts it, without your knowledge, to a search for ‘NIKOLAI-brand kidswear,’ making a behind-the-scenes substitution of your actual query with a different query that just happens to generate more money for the company.”

Ka-ching!

https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/

i want to live up to being a force of nature
but some days the force of nature i need to be is the dripping water that wears down a rock

It's hard for people to visualize removing tons or billions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂). I propose we talk about CO₂ removal (#CDR) like a time machine (e.g., this machine will take us back 5 minutes). For example:

Q: How far back in time does planting 100 million trees take us?

A: If one mature tree takes up an average of 25 kg of CO₂ per year, then 100 million trees will take up 2.5 MtCO₂. That's a time machine that takes us back 33 minutes and 6 seconds in a year. It's not a lot.

Sleep well tonight, with your eyes closed as tight as can be. The chariot of bones rides through the sky above, dragging the woes of the dead into our world, and its rider abhors witnesses.

"c++ is hard, let's use blueprints."
The blueprint: 🙃

https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/

The boys are back in town, but it’s deserted. All the houses are empty. In the distance, they hear sinister laughter

what if we formed like a "citizens union" where we like ALL became part of a sort of I dunno, like a national union of some kind, and then we could collectively bargain for like... I dunno Big Rules that apply to all corporations??? and like elect people to design Big Rules??

My grown daughter today:

"Being an adult is whispering 'f&ck this' while doing it anyway."

She has arrived.