Koos 🆗 @koos@octodon.social
I like making things. I live in Berlin. I work as a designer. I'm married. We have a little son and a little daughter.
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@jalefkowit to serve the bacteria in your gut, as I understood it
@jalefkowit I finally read the whole thing and found there were much more important things in it! Thanks for the click baity toot though :-)
Crazy how early the 1830s are technologically more like Middle Ages than like today, although the way western society is set up today is pretty much like what the French came up with at that time.
I discovered another history podcast : Revolutions! Some of the recent newjoiners here may like it just because of the title 😋
I'm listening to the series about the French July Revolution, starting with E 6.01. I listened Listen to E 3.54 first to freshen up what I new about the fall of Napoleon, that preceded it and reintroduced the monarchy.
Googling "flickr change order of photos in album" since 2004.
@miramarco yeah I'd much rather have a way to pay podcasters directly instead.
Amazing ideas for Lego sets on this Lego set kickstarter:
https://ideas.lego.com/dashboard
https://octodon.social/media/F5-Sw-OJu3Ii-DqHOF4
@sixohsix Norwegian cake often needs cardamom. Apple pie, raisin rolls, those are the best! Don't have a specific recipe though.
@TheRealMe it creeps me out that I thought this was standard procedure, but apparently this is the first time an arrest was made that way in the UK.
@michael_stuhr wusste nicht, dass g+ noch existierte 😄na ja nicht lange mehr, wenn es so weiter geht.
@Yunlunuae have fun
@22 well you could become a designer and have virtually no free and open tools 🙀
This is what we get when we let a monopolistic advertisement company take over the one tool everyone use to access the web:
"So this is a way for Google to crush its few remaining competitors by pre-installing an ad zapper that it controls to the most common web browser. That’s a great way for a monopoly to remain a monopoly."
And even more shit. Read this:
'The minimum wage machine'
by Blake Fall-Conroy
'The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 4.00 seconds, for $9.00 an hour, or NY state minimum wage (2016). If the participant stops turning the crank, they stop receiving money..'
http://www.blakefallconroy.com/18.html
#economy #unemployment #art #artist #artwork #contemporaryart https://octodon.social/media/5uTgxuQ5otrvUlSeGl8 https://octodon.social/media/D9VoSLN-SyjjYjQVDxA
This toot by @Gogogadgetpants reminded me that BookCrossing exists.
The BookCrossing site won’t load for me, but I wonder if it provides a way for people to get in touch and talk about the notes they’ve left. Hmmm.
The things I and my friends occasionally post on Facebook are buried by all the newsy stuff and likes. Stuff that surfaces is just superficial (selfies, landscapes, food).
I think this is only partly due to FB's timeline ranking. Posts there potentially go to everyone you've ever met, so you're not likely to show yourself as vulnerable/too weird. Maintaining groups for close friends and family feels weird too and like a lot of work.
I guess it's back to email.
Maybe it is okay that there is no one social network anymore. I (can) use WhatsApp and iMessage to stay in touch with friends. Mastodon et al for microblogging design stuff many of my friends don't find interesting anyway. But where do I send my private life updates?
Facebook: brands and people manipulator for hire
Twitter: Influencers, brands, cynicism and anger
Instagram: selfies, food and brands
Snapchat: ...
Mastodon: strangers discussing strange things
None of these offer what social networks promised: staying in touch with friends.
