Greening the trackbeds of urban transit isn't just about optics.
A carpet of grass or sedum on 2 kms of track creates 1.5 football fields' worth of green space, reducing air pollution and the urban heat island effect.
Discussing the threat posed by Meta #P92/#Barcelona joining the #Fediverse with some tech enthusiasts feels more and more like debating #ClimateChange with a denier.
«Look at all the data indicating that this will be a disaster. It has even happened twice already!»
Responses: «It won't happen this time» «It won't be that bad» «It's actually good if that happens» and «we can't do anything about it anyway»
Well at least now they are starting to say the quiet part loud, and unsurprisingly it's the fact that they don't actually care about open protocols and federation, and are perfectly fine with the genocidal corporate silos:
About the question of "Meta forcing their moderation rules" onto the fediverse. (which would imply no NSFW). This is not an argument to defederate from them prehentively.
(this is speculation we DO NOT KNOW what meta is planning)
My advice would be: DO NOT change your moderation rules. If meta cannot block posts that are explicitly marked as NSFW that’s THEIR fault.
And if they block you, let them block you. It tells a VERY different story to the press and observers if Meta blocks half of the fediverse because of NSFW content VS Half of the fediverse blocking Meta for no apparent reasons. (I now your reasons, but the journalists don’t)
Never stop posting NSFW. That’s one of the things that make us better than scared-of-a-single-nipple-on-artistic-photography instagram.
Imagine the story from the viewpoint of instagram users: "So you mean that there is NSFW stuff out there and meta is blocking it from me? Then I can just create a mastodon account and enjoy NSFW stuff there". VS "what a bunch of unwelcoming folks blocking Threads before it even launch"
About convincing your friend to get on the fediverse, "we have porn" is very often a pretty good argument. And if they don’t care about porn, maybe they’ll at least care about not banning every single appearance of a nipple in art.
Today I am hosting an introduction to PyFedi and a small hands-on workshop on translation in open source at the #Barcelona fediverse meetup #fediquedada
We will make a start with translating the software to castellano and catalan
Despite tough competition from the spring weather, it was really fun.
Long discussion on various aspects of translation, contexts, untranslatable sayings and deep scrutiny of the UI to make sense of it all. At the end of the session we reached 2% completion in Catalan and 1% completion Castellano. Still some work to do.
Much thanks to @spectrumgirl@t3rr0rz0n3 and @OpenForFuture for organizing the meetups.
Give them a follow to keep up to date with their activities!
Jeden z najbardziej znanych murali Barcelony, znajdujący się na skrzyżowaniu Carrer del Santuari i Carrer de la Gran Vista w dzielnicy El Carmel, w pobliżu słynnego Parku Güell. Został namalowany przez włoskiego artystę Blu w ramach streetartowego festiwalu The Influencers w 2009 r. Pierwotny projekt przedstawiał gigantycznego rekina z banknotów i nawiązywał do trwającego wówczas kryzysu finansowego. W 2021 r. mural został - rzekomo przez pomyłkę - usunięty, co oburzyło lokalną społeczność. W zeszłym roku Blu wraz z mieszkańcami dzielnicy odtworzyli i poszerzyli wcześniejsze malowidło - pierwszy rekin ucieka teraz przed większym, symbolizującym wojnę, za którym goni orka reprezentująca zmiany klimatyczne. Fot. Joanna Klima
In #Barcelona soll bis 2030 jede dritte Straße für Autos gesperrt werden. Studien zeigen, dass die Leute trotzdem und vermehrt in den Läden dort einkaufen und die Lebensqualität massiv steigt.
Wir bauen hingegen "Klimaautobahnen", erhöhen sogar das Tempo (#Berlin), sparen Alternativen kaputt, verhindern #Radwege. Wie so die Bekloppten.
Bald kostet uns diese konservative Kurzsicht massive Strafzahlungen - mehr dazu:
“The name [Bradford] is derived from 'broad ford' because of the river crossing here, which was wide and convenient for dumping stolen Escorts. Originally a small Saxon village, little of the original settlement survives, apart from a fine 15th century cathedral, which took 194 years to complete. A construction period of nearly two centuries may seem ridiculous to us, but of course builders were a lot quicker in those days.”