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I've made some minor updates to guidetomastodon.com in the last week, since we have more people showing up. The biggest change was updating the PDF version; it had been a while since I'd done that. As always, please free to comment or submit a change yourself if there's something you'd like to see in the Guide that's not there already.

Hey folks, could you please CW for AI-generated images? I'm not the only person who gets slammed right in the uncanny valley by that sort of thing.

urgent aid request for my friends 

my friends cass and lynn are in a bit of uncertainty and potential crisis

I can't give a lot of details but they do not feel safe and they need to save up to find their own place

lynn's paypal is PayPal.me/revelynn

Lynn's venmo is @RevelinInEvelynn if that is preferential, and @birdlegscass is cass's

cass also made a really cute little game called Pyo and sales of that help too birdlegscass.itch.io/pyo

every six months white ppl are surprised that their leftie friends can and are racist

begpost; mutual aid; boosts please; :boost_ok: 

it's ya girl, me.

here I am begging if anybody could spare some money or attention.

I've barely been able to sleep due to anxiety caused by being unable to work and having no money on my account with the bills coming in fast.

I can do tarot readings, some pixel art commissions, spreadsheets and game design consultancy. You can hit me up and we can work anything out.

and of course each and every boost helps immensely so I can reach some more people.

please, I'm begging. help a trans black gal out >.<

once again thanks everybody for the donations and attention

ko-fi.com/ardydo/goal?g=1

#mutualAid #transCrowdfund #mutualAidRequest #begpost @mutualaid

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my Cicadian rhythm tells me when i should sleep, and when I should be awake and screaming constantly

While we're at it, here is more wide-angle Milky Way #astrophotography

(Nikon D3400, Nikkor AF-S 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5G DX ED at 10mm; 15-mm equiv.) ISO800, 9x 10s exposures, and 9x 20s exposures

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a lot of what i want is for open source to stop exploiting un or underpaid workers

Two days ago I took my camera on a spontaneous skywatching and made 9 exposures, 30s each. In hindsight, I should have used lower ISO and lower exposure time, and increased the number of shots significantly. Stacked the photos with Sequator; I also tried Siril, but that is a lot more complicated and I can't get much better results out of it, compared to Sequator. Also tried lining up the photo using a screenshot from Stellarium, but it is not quite there... lensfun might not compensate for all.

RT @tweetdkp
Turns out the OpenSSL advisory was more disruptive than the vulnerability.

@wxcafe@social.wxcafe.net @noracodes in the utility industry they frequently make the distinction between infrastructure that they own outright and shared infrastructure whose costs are "socialized" (industry term!)

@wxcafe@social.wxcafe.net i guess you just get to hear my mini-rant about what are effectively coops being faced with the choice to just become owners

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