phenolology 🐢 @susannah@octodon.social

@clew I used to use it and liked it ok, but now it's 40% owned by Amazon. I don't know how long it'll be free of what's happening to Goodreads and I'd rather not give them my data anyway.

@Canageek @CobaltVelvet Oh, I guess that's true! Though I bet it doesn't work for the tiny amounts I often donate! There are a bunch of projects I donate like $1/week too and others I do a "symbolic" amount of just a few cents.

@Canageek @CobaltVelvet I think if you have a European bank you can do that with Liberapay, but not Canadian afaik

@Canageek @CobaltVelvet I like it! I had a little trouble because for some reason my (Canadian) credit cards won't let me transfer in more than a certain amount at once (maybe $50?) so I thought it was totally broken. But I really just have to top up my account more often than I'd like.

@Canageek @CobaltVelvet OK ONLY 5 MILES OF BIKE LANES.

Seriously though, that is shitty. I think it works better with Liberapay since you transfer bulk amounts in and then it gets disbursed weekly or monthly.

If every octodon user donated $1/mo to @CobaltVelvet, our instance mommy would make +$121,000/yr and her taxes alone would buy school lunches for a gazillion kids and paint 10 miles of bike lanes. Support society, make @CobaltVelvet rich.

Also feel free to gently remind me if I forget to cw food/diet/exercise stuff.

I'm going to ride my tricycle tonight.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Image caption: Screenshot of a tweetfrom Rob Rogers saying he got fired after 25 years as the editorial cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He was fired for a cartoon.

The cartoon that got him fired is of a yellow road sign that says "CAUTION" and has the silhouette of two adults running as Trump seizes a child running behind them. One of the adult's hands reaches toward the child and the child is reaching towards the adult.

https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/100211446967259373

If you like books, especially #sff, I recommend following @bridgebury for her lovely reviews #ff #books

You can also catch her posting regularly in #AmReading

Benefits of the library

1) free
2) lots of ebooks and audiobooks of higher quality than I might choose myself if exposed to the entire amazon/kobo catalog
3) getting actual books involves walking to the library, a very pleasant half hour round trip
4) I like seeing all the people at the library reading newspapers and learning how to use computers and wasting time and figuring out immigration and jobs and stuff
5) the library is near the corner produce stand that always has the best fruit

So I've been trying to move away from amazon stuff for my book shopping and organizing. It's not complete, but here are some things that are working for me:

* ebooks and real books from the library. VPL has an A+ online catalog and lets me put books on hold from online!
* My local bookshop, Pulpfiction
* ebooks via Weightless and Kobo
* keeping track of series with fictfact
* chatting in #books and #AmReading

I haven't really looked for a goodreads replacement yet and am open to recs.

If you like good fantasy stories with poly families, disabled and queer people, magic and complex narratives about colonization, Laurie J. Marks's Elemental Logic series might be for you!

http://smallbeerpress.com/books/2014/02/18/fire-logic/

#books #sff

Hey! Today I learned about Weightless Books and I am pretty excited. They sell drm-free ebooks for good prices and are partnered up with a bunch of cool small presses and have a decent scifi and fantasy selections. The website is delightfully not-bloated and feels like something wonderful from 2005. I just pre-ordered the last book in Laurie Marks's wonderful Elemental Logic series https://weightlessbooks.com/format/air-logic/

#books

@Mainebot

If you don't like my screaming and whining you're going to want to mute me now.

@Mainebot NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

@Mainebot WHO DOESN'T LIKE POTATO ROLLS? I'll fight them.

This is an interesting question about family tree software that isn't getting a lot of traction on ask.metafilter

"I have a sprawling Sudanese family, and I'm hoping to build a family tree that covers my relatives going back at least four or five generations... Sadly, I haven't had much luck with the software I've tried – everything out there seems to be really clunky and Western-oriented."

https://ask.metafilter.com/323334/Please-help-me-find-family-tree-software-that-doesnt-suck

Any #advice?

#arabic #geneology