Nelson

He/him. Fighting for climate justice. Jawns.club admin

#cyclist #cyclejawns #Philly

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2025-07-11 19:38:53 UTC

Uhhh so there's a 911 outage statewide in #PA? I'm having trouble finding info online about it, but Maggie & I got the alert pushed to our phones. I'm not sure what phone number you're supposed to use when 911 is down in #Philly, is it just 311?
#Philadelphia #911outage
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2025-03-13 15:35:26 UTC

I can tell it's spring because the Unequal Cellophane Bees (Colletes inaequalis) are out and about in my neighbor's yard! Please enjoy this bee investigating a crocus. (Sadly these flowers are introduced and may not help this native bee, but this bee is determined to find out.)
If you're wondering why they're "Unequal", inaequalis in Latin apparently also means "impermanent"; they only emerge briefly.
:inaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/265105881
#bees #flowers #insects #bloomscrolling #iNaturalist
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2025-02-27 17:22:26 UTC

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One #RSS feed reader that fits my "no unread count" criteria is vore: https://vore.website/
Sadly it seems to be having trouble ingesting RSS subscriptions from a few websites, where the website seems to be online and I can access the feed through a browser. Example error:
400 bad request
reaper: can't fetch 'https://sixtysixwards.com/feed/' expected element type <feed> but have <head>
I wonder if it's hitting Cloudflare or some other anti-bot defense?
Otherwise, this is a great minimal reader.

2025-02-17 15:16:35 UTC

My Gmail is unusable. It's all marketing emails, donation asks, and possible scams. It's necessary to log in to endless accounts that I've built up over decades, but that's exactly the problem, every service I've ever signed up for wants to send me automated emails.
I kind of just want to delete it, but I'd lose access to most of my online life, and if I ever order anything online again, the process will just start over again.
If I ignore it, I might miss a crucial #email alert.
What to do?

2025-02-11 22:47:09 UTC

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This is a cool set of maps, but I'm really struggling to interpret the color key.
For example, let's look at Mertensia virginica (Viriginia Bluebells): https://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Mertensia%20virginica.png
Dark green is clear, "Species present in state and native". But I don't understand light green, "Species present and not rare", or yellow, "Species present and rare". How are light green counties different from dark green counties? These three color codes are all native, right?
http://www.bonap.org/MapKey.html

2025-02-04 00:22:52 UTC

Want to text someone across the room, without the Internet? Once upon a time, #Bonjour included a #chat feature based on #XMPP, where you could discover other people on your LAN and exchange text messages:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_(software)
It appears that #Pidgin still supports Bonjour chat, I'm running it right now:
https://pidgin.im/help/protocols/bonjour/
At least it does in version 2, version 3 will need a rewrite:
https://lobste.rs/s/xlxqgl/pidgin_3_0_0_experimental_1_announcement#c_zcxi0r
What other Bonjour chat clients still exist, aside from Pidgin?
#zeroconf

2025-01-05 22:09:57 UTC

OK nerds, what's the best email client on Linux?
I'm interested in both GUI and terminal email clients. I consider them to be in separate categories, not competing with one another.
Until recently I've just been using Gmail webmail + official clients because I'm a creature of habit, but I'm trying to transition away from Google. Currently experimenting with Migadu for email hosting.
#email #linux

2024-12-06 16:15:03 UTC

Today is Bandcamp Friday, where Bandcamp doesn't take a cut of sales.
If you want Bandcamp shopping recommendations, I'll mention my list of Philly music, although it could use expanding and updating: https://www.buymusic.club/list/skyfaller-philly-music
And you could browse my profile for more ideas: https://bandcamp.com/skyfaller
As you can tell, I've sunk a lot of money into Bandcamp over the years, but I've developed mixed feelings about it.

2024-11-19 17:25:21 UTC

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According to the Bluesky FAQ, images are deleted immediately but text is deleted whenever they get around to it:
"However, it takes a bit longer for the text content of a post to be fully deleted in storage. The text content is stored in a non-readable form, but it is possible to query the data via the API. We will periodically perform back-end deletes to entirely wipe this data."
https://bsky.social/about/blog/5-19-2023-user-faq
Thank you for raising this question before I activated the bridge for me :-)

2024-11-18 20:23:47 UTC

Most of the #goldfinches visiting our feeder in their winter plumage were chill and normal. But what's with that one bird in the back?
:inaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/251611144
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2024-10-31 16:17:53 UTC

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I'm following @npub1fr7…dssu but there's also [@MotherJones2021](https://flipboard.com/@MotherJones2021 ) apparently?
While the first is a bot that isn't official and won't interact, it's somehow a better experience than the apparently official Flipboard account that also won't interact (I suspect). I don't usually see Flipboard accounts engage with fedi, feels like there's room for improvement. But it may be more important that Flipboard accounts simply look worse aesthetically and in terms of info provided than RSS bots.

2024-10-21 13:17:07 UTC

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And to clarify, it's not the violence that drew my attention, although the details of vengeance make good stories.
What captivated me was the idea of a society that is actively hostile to the concentration of power, for good or for ill. So much of our modern problems seem intimately connected to concentration of power, and power has become so concentrated it seems impossible to undo, and so I value even a fatally flawed approach to preventing the creation of empires.

2024-09-23 12:23:15 UTC

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"Sign-in Required" for the whole thread. Could you please screenshot and/or summarize for those without Bluesky accounts?

2024-09-09 21:30:18 UTC

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I'm aware of two efforts to approach the Tumblr experience in the Fediverse, both in very early stages, neither anywhere near ready to handle an influx from Cohost (or Tumblr, if an exodus were to occur):
- Goblin by @npub10qn…kqvw - https://github.com/johnHackworth/goblin
- @npub123y…h4hn - https://codeberg.org/WammKD/Swanye

2024-09-04 03:05:16 UTC

Imagine you need to get in a spooky mood. Maybe you're attending a goth convention, maybe a very extra Halloween party, maybe you're not quite sure what the occasion is but your friend says you simply must attend and you need to be in a spooky state of mind.
You only have the time/space to read one mind-altering book on the way there. Which do you choose?
If you hate all the options, leave your better answer in the comments.

2024-07-31 14:50:48 UTC

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I've got to ask... What is a human superhero going to do with galls? Are they producing... human babies in galls? How many times are you going to use this superpower?

2023-06-02 23:56:49 UTC

What is the best #weather source that offers hourly #forecasts of #humidity? Given the increasing dangers to humans from high air temperatures in humid conditions, I want to keep an eye on wet bulb temperatures: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/humans-cant-endure-temperatures-and-humidities-high-previously-thought/
Apparently Apple weather offers this, but I don't have any working Apple devices these days. On my Android phone, neither Google Weather nor Carrot Weather seem to provide humidity predictions at adequate resolution for me.