Nentuaby🏳️‍🌈 @Nentuaby@wandering.shop

Pretty cool how we can’t eat indoors at food places right now, but years of anti-homeless urban design mean there’s almost nowhere comfortable to eat outdoors either.

--Matt Ford

Check out the architecture of the headquarters of the French Communist Party https://www.interiordesign.net/projects/17221-oscar-niemeyer-s-french-communist-party-headquarters-brings-a-sensual-brazilian-lilt-to-paris/

It looks like old sci-fi I love it

Registration #A27747 - 1948-11-17
Title: The pleasures of smoking, as expressed by those poets, wits and tellers of tales who have drawn their inspiration from the fragrant weed.
Author: WATKINS, SYLVESTRE CORNELIUS
Claimants: Henry Schuman, inc.
No renewal record found.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006942501

An opalescent sea slug, looking like nothing so much as an MMO endgame shoulder pauldron come to life, searches for food on the sea floor. ​

Fascinating concept, and it works: a tiny spacecraft that can dock with satellites that have reached the end of their operational life only through lack of fuel. It brings them from the higher "graveyard" back into geostationary orbit, where they can return to life, their host providing the necessary orbital stability.

And the headline has such aesthetics, too - who doesn't love zombie satellites?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/satellites/zombie-satellites-return-from-the-graveyard

Baby javelina time

Don’t state something as fact when you’re actually speculating. “I don’t know” is an honorable thing to say.

Don’t speak as though you know more than you do. “I’d guess that—” is a phrase that builds trust.

one of my potatoes hatched

If you’ve ever wondered why, whenever there’s some kind of disaster, the local Sikh community shows up with food… here you go.

(Also: they do the same thing during non-disasters, too. If you happen to, say, be hungry and skint in a major city.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/dining/free-food-sikh-gundwara-langar.html

The barricades aren’t going anywhere, but vacant buildings remain vacant even as folks camp on the sidewalk. There seems to be a lot of willingness to collaborate in the air — wandering around for an hour or so, even in the early afternoon, will find you large groups of people chatting about what they can do together.

So the situation on the ground in Capitol Hill is this: The City’s other departments are continuing to provision services as usual, respectful of protestors’ and campers’ wishes. Businesses continue to operate — some large chains are boarded up, but small restaurants are open. Local apartment residents come and go as they please. The only difference over any other part of Seattle: no cars, no cops.

I just emailed a bunch of people from the Mississippi government about changing the State flag

The current flag contains the Confederate battle flag, yes *that* one

There's some momentum for this to actually happen, and they already have a replacement flag designed with popular support

If you have any connection with the state of Mississippi and would like to help this happen, I can help you figure out who to email and what to say

@lastfuture It's not really Cyberpunk unless there's altoids tins.

When I was a student a car ran over my only optical mouse (don't ask). I made this cobbled together mess from the pieces and used it for quite some time afterwards because I couldn't afford a new one at the time

@Nentuaby @pea They missed out on calling it #HumanityAgainstCards