Notices by Cavyherd (cavyherd@wandering.shop)

Dropping this in as a statement of principle:

From @Fragglemuppet
@RickiTarr Right. I mean after all, people say they want fair treatment for everyone. How's that, you want everyone to be fairly miserable? That's not the way! My desire is not that no one should have the good things I enjoy, but that everyone should. What are we fighting for, anyway?
https://fandom.ink/@Fragglemuppet/114793184639309169
#TheWorldIWantToLiveIn

"[I]t was the government’s job to foster innovation and to create an environment where genuinely smart people could do great things without external pressure." —ht/ @cstross #TheWorldIWantToLiveIn
https://manganiello.social/notice/AukwkbWFAQDB0uXM80

"When you're in times of crisis, you can either try to appeal to people by using fear and blame. Or you can tackle the issues that are genuinely affecting people's lives, and you can do it with a people-centered approach that has kindness and empathy and strength and courage and reslilience as well."

#JacindaArdern
#TheWorldIWantToLiveIn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABz_n-25UZw&t=341s

https://mastodon.social/@townhallcitizen/114679141296540705

I would add:

11. Fully protected voting rights

#TheWorldIWantToLiveIn #NoKings

The Liberal Consensus

The government should:
Regulate business
Provide a basic social safety net
Promoting infrastructure
Protect civil rights

"What do we •want• to fund?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8i1b1HDJ4w

#TheWorldIWantToLiveIn #USpol #HeatherCoxRichardson

"If all billionaires and mega corps paid the same amount of taxes that I pay -- a retired person living on a very small pension and it's about 22% to Federal taxes -- we could have universal healthcare, universal secondary and post-secondary education, accommodations and some sort of UBI for homeless people, and universal daycare and elder care."
—@Nonya_Bidniss

https://infosec.exchange/@Nonya_Bidniss/114746825386501248

#TheWorldIWantToLiveIn #USpol

From @Mikal:

• Western hemisphere-wide open borders
• Guaranteed housing, food & jobs
• Free healthcare, free education & free childcare
• Free mass transit
• Rapid phase-down of all fossil fuels; massive subsidies for renewables
• Free rooftop solar

• Dismantle the electoral college
• Strict rules against monopolies & money in politics
• Reverse Citizens United
• Eliminate qualified immunity for cops.

(Please forgive trimming for space)

https://sfba.social/@Mikal/114793159297692207

#TheWorldIWantToLiveIn

@leroimiracle @volpeon

Yes, pretty sure that's a peregrin.

@leroimiracle

Which makes the bird's struggles all the funnier/more ironic. I mean, peregrins are •built• to slice through 200mph winds (that's the speeds they can reach in a power dive), so it seems odd that figuring this out while stationary wouldn't be, like, automatic.

@volpeon

For someone whose whole JOB is aerodynamics, it seems to take her a bit to figure out to face into the wind. Poor baby!

Does anybody know if the @indivisibleteam "Know Your Rights" training will be recorded?

I'm not in love with dishing out my contact info to Zoom to attend this.

#Indivisible #NoKings #KnowYourRights

Hey, Braintrust, I have a scripting question:

We have a number of Excel spreadsheets we post on a recurring basis, and we've managed to automate some of the accessibility functions, like formatting tables & whatnot. We're currently using R sitting on top of SQL queries to generate these spreadsheets. But we haven't figured out how to automate adding alt text, & I'm wondering if anybody else has had occasion to do something like this?

#Rscript #Excel #Scripting

I think maybe it's time to start a thread for "The World I Want To Live In."

1st up: shift from "Purchase New" to "Sturdy & Repairable:"

https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/114529458048424861

(I'll word better later after caffeine.)

#TheWorldIWantToLiveIn #RightToRepair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVW9VER8eoo

#TheWorldIWantToLiveIn #RobinWallKimmerer #Serviceberry

https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/114557266107534936

#TheWorldIWantToLiveIn

@uint8_t @slyka @miunau

Yeah, that was what I was thinking: A side for digial, B side for analog. I mean, aside from the whole diameter thing, of course.

Flip-side (heh): haven't they also come up with optical readers for vinyl? Expensive af, iirc, but it's a thing?

@Jaden3

Which is why it would be REALLY FUCKING GREAT if white people worried about autocracy paid more attention to the experience of marginalized voices....

What we're going through isn't new. It's just new to the people in privilege.

Edit: typo

@inthehands

Oh! Right, the thread—

SQUIRREL!

@inthehands

Right. Yes. Thank you.

🤦

@inthehands

Also: thank you for the gentle response. I think I can legitimately claim a not-entirely-gibbering response to this whole shitshow. But that doesn't mean I'm responding particularly rationally, either.