Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

Apparently this has been around awhile, but it’s new to me: https://www.oldweather.org/

NOAA scientists are asking folks to transcribe old arctic and whaling logs that are difficult to OCR, in an effort to study climate change. There also appears to be a great deal of data that already exists that you can help archive.

I just finished Obra Dinn, which is basically this in game form. I think I might try transcribing a few pages later.

@zetasyanthis Thank you 💜

The crow committee is very pleased with our latest offering of birdseed, tree nuts, and almond slices. They’ve felt comfortable enough to show their individual personalities around the feeder, ambling about and playing in the rain, while still keeping a wary eye on the tricksy humans and their feline.

Also realizing that my one power fantasy is living in a world in which sociopaths and billionaires do not exist, because its extremely cool to enjoy life and build each other up without systemic oppression.

At this point, I feel like I’m just holding together while Rome burns.

I am good at working in the moment and making the most of stressful situations (it’s why I’m good with devops and security). But, I am wholly unequipped for the entire system being broken, while those in power seek to ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.

I’ve been doing my best to find meaning again (in art, mostly), and to do my best to make my voice heard by those that can fix this. It’s not much, but it helps.

@mawr Cloudflare also experienced another large outage, but traced it to a regular expression that had gone awry that started spiking CPU everywhere.

I’m willing to believe that Facebook being down is related to routing around CF as a DDoS provider, and the spillover effects from that continuing to knock stuff down. So not sure if attack mitigation.

Whatever is going on with the Pence recall, though, I have no idea.

@JulieSqveakaroo @mawr This.

One of the things that helped me was getting out of the conversation and scoping my involvement to things I can actually do to help. Constant shouting about the latest scandal and atrocities wasn’t it (in fact, it precludes other action); setting up regular calls to my representatives and donating to orgs better equipped for that conversation works better for me.

Our local corvids are pleased by our latest tribute of mixed nuts and seeds. I’ve also refilled our hummingbird feeder before it got too low, and also spied one of our woodpeckers picking through the underbrush this weekend.

Bird traffic here is definitely lower now that we’ve gone from Spring to Summer, but the locals seem quite happy.

@mawr Same. I expected she’d have a spine, but she’s letting herself get rolled to keep that sweet, sweet donor money flowing. And she knows exactly what she’s doing.

@Balinares No prob!

GDQ is making it much easier to handle the last bits of this headcold while the world is on fire.

I try to look for useful things I can do at times like these, and tonight's was sending a modest donation to RAICES. They can use it right about now.

@Balinares Tiny Echo was short, obscure, inexpensive, and lovely: https://store.steampowered.com/app/629770/Tiny_Echo/

Also, Wandersong, which made the rounds on Fedi before: https://store.steampowered.com/app/530320/Wandersong/

@JulieSqveakaroo Happy birthday!