Iuckyduck @Iuckyduck@octodon.social

Work bake off

If you're in the Northern Hemisphere and it's going to be very hot where you are today and this weekend, try setting your weather app location to Vostok Station in Antarctica.

More people have walked on the Moon than have visited the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

More robots have crawled across the face of Mars than have explored our deepest oceans.

It's #FollowFriday! Here are some #alternatives to follow:

@cloutstream CloutStream: An open source federated alternative to LinkedIn, just launched its new website

@Chocobozzz Chocobozzz: Lead developer of #PeerTube, the ethical alternative to YouTube

@Purism Purism: Makers of privacy-oriented computers and the upcoming Librem5 smartphone

@fdroidorg F-Droid: The open source alternative to Google Play

@krita Krita: Open source painting software aimed at artists and illustrators

#FF #FFed

kesha's "tik tok" has the lyric "the party don't start til i walk in" which implies that the protagonist of the song lacks object permanence. from this we can determine that the protagonist of kesha's "tik tok" is the coolest baby in existence

The Council of Elders beckons you.

"I’m not here to take drugs, or get drunk, I’m not really looking to hook up; in fact, once I get in, if you dance too close to me I’ll probably move. I’m here as a 45-year-old woman, to be on my own, surrounded by techno music played on one of the best sound systems in the world, the harder and louder the better." http://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/really-techno/ This is so delicious. #technoqueers #techno

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BBC releases its complete computer history archive to view #BBC https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk

I have actually done this

“The secret to getting off of calls you don't want to be on is to hang up in the middle of your own sentence. Only a maniac would hang up on themselves, so you must have gotten disconnected.”

Hey, fediverse (and bsd.network!)
I want to hear about your formative tech years!

What did you love in years past? What made you think "if we have something like *this* today, the future is certain to be amazing?"

found on grubhub

"starvin marvin pizza & subs"

"An Indigenous opera singer is bringing back his community's traditions and songs...

The classically-trained tenor used wax cylinder recordings of his ancestors singing in the early 1900s, which had been locked away in the national archive for decades.

Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa — translated as "Songs of the River People" — is sung entirely in Wolastoqey, a language fewer than 100 people speak."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/polaris-prize-indigenous-1.4722297