The Trump administration must obey the law. Federal judges have been clear: release the contingency funds NOW. Do not allow 42 million Americans to go hungry while billionaires get tax breaks.

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Our theme, Seed & Signal 🌱 and the camp program are up! Two more weeks until #dwebcampcascadia! dwebyvr.org/dweb-camp-ca... #seedandsignal

DWeb Camp is coming to the Pacific North West this summer! Aug 8-10 Salt Spring Island, BC, 🇨🇦 dwebyvr.org/camp/

Eeee getting excited for #dwebcampcascadia!! One thing I'm looking forward to is setting up a hyperlocal #meshtastic network. Join us? This first year is a wicked deal!

This is happening tonight in Seattle! #dweb lu.ma/wfoprjy7

Wowww it has been so fun pre-camping with some of the team this weekend! This announcement post for #dwebcampcascadia was made in front of an epic view of Saanich Inlet with Salt Spring on the horizon. Blessed to be working with these people, in this place 💞

👀 eerily understandable dyst/utopian short fiction on bluesky? Yes please 👏

I am most definitely pro research on stingrays performing arithmetic. For the record. Also, bumblebees using tools. #philsci strikes a chord again. I love bluesky.

To kick off the Websummit week, we're hosting a free Open Source Hack Day on Sunday, May 25th: lu.ma/qdq6e11e

There was a huge X-class solar flare yesterday on the Sun! You can see it on the right-hand limb in these SDO images. I find it so neat that we live next to, and can study, a star. We take it for granted that it's "the Sun" and it's always in the sky, but there is a star and it is RIGHT THERE. 🔭

Really enjoying this article, glad you wrote it @dasniel.com. I'm particularly taking away The Lost Cause principle as a tool for comprehending and adjusting to the emergent nature of reality. Already translating this to broad swaths of life!

*Word I Learned Today* hopepunk - a subgenre of speculative fiction, conceived of as the opposite of 'grimdark'. Works in hopepunk include characters working for positive change, radical kindness, and communal responses to challenges.

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

If you often say "wow I relate to developers" then I have the perfect job for you Developer Relations role just listed! There's also a bunch of other recent additions on the jobs page bsky.social/about/join

So good to get DWeb folk out and getting our hands dirty together. Collaboratively managing a shared urban food and flower garden aligns with several of the @getdweb.net principles. A thought provoking potluck to close the day seals it.

My spare copies of #hospicingmodernity have arrived! I'm starting a reading group to work through it together. This book is an invitation to different ways of thinking, feeling, and ultimately being, in the face of the decline of how-things-have-been.

Wow, Hackenschmidt's take on the tyranny of memory and virtue of forgetfulness SO aligns and expands on with my own XP and theories of life derived from Vipassana meditation, Buddhist philosophied writ large, psychedelics, etc. Recommended read! Thank you @sarahrobins.bsky.social for reposting it

An exciting post on George Hackenschmidt's philosophy of memory (and more), authored by Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University). open.substack.com/pub/thememor...

Happy #WorldWildlifeDay. A friendly reminder that livestock cannot replace native biodiversity, despite what you may have heard.

A magnificent upgrade to the fungal canopy on this nurse log at the #cofoodyvr garden Anyone up to ID it? 🤔 my PictureThis app doesn't do fungi #fungifriends #gardenersofthegalaxy

I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism

'Tis the season for budwatching in Vancouver! Our garden has been waking up since early Feb, but it's just this week that the green dots along our bush and tree stalks and branches are really standing out #cofoodyvr

#fungistories about #mushroomswearinghats might be my new favourite fiction subgenre!!

In celebration of Bluesky increasing the allowed size of videos, here is what an effusive volcanic eruption looks and sounds like from just ~300 meters away, close enough to feel the intense heat of the Earth creating itself. Sound on! 🔊

This is such a cool event, I'm sad to miss it! Who doesn't want to self-host their AI?! For only $15 and a half day of informed hacking, this is a wicked learning opp. Are you in Vancouver? Please go, and tell me what you glean 🤗🫠

Cool! A private company threw a machine at the moon, and it didn't totally crash. That's a first. Bluesky's astronomy feed is fun.

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With all of these recent felt #earthquakes, many people are asking "does this mean the big one is coming?". These earthquakes are not connected - some are shallow, some deep, all are on different faults and even different tectonic plates. They are far from the locked subduction fault. So no... ⚒️🧪

📡 at very long last, today is the big day! my beloved book, OTHER NETWORKS: A RADICAL TECHNOLOGY SOURCEBOOK, is officially available for pre-order! 1/5 #othernetworks shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...

Looking forward to this workshop on March 27! Come join me and @rachaelashe.com and bring a friend!

Reality has gotten so bizarre that it’s tough to even be mad at it anymore. It’s like being upset with a kaleidoscope 🍭

Our friends in Seattle are doing a hybrid in person + virtual event. You can attend via video by registering here: lu.ma/op4fc8ac

Open thread for two more wishes 🐾🤍

From Rainbow Brainskull: Now, we are entering an era where realistic photos can be generated instantly. So the era of photographs being accepted as reality was a short ~100 years. How wild is it that we were around to catch the short special era where a photograph meant something was REAL.

If you see this, quote post with a photo of a beach from your gallery. I like reflecting on how distant lands are connected through water.

Roundup post, talk videos and demo links from the @dwebyvr.org #localfirst weekend earlier this month are up: dwebyvr.org/dweb-local-f... #lofiwkndyvr

When's the last time you did a 'magic eye'? Check out this Jupiter stereogram. I enjoy how it leaps off the screen. First time I think I've done this on a mobile phone 🤔

This is a fun list. What would be your walk up song, whether for work or another area of life?

Guess where open-source matters beyond software? Science. This Sunday, online, I'm presenting the results of 10 years testing compostable product breakdown at compost facilities, among speakers incl. the Canada Plastics Pact, Recycle BC, all on Tackling Plastic Waste trellis.org/masterrecycl...

🥳 And we're off! #lofiwkndyvr Really looking forward to these local-first talks and hack time Nice work putting it on 💪 @daffl.me @bmann.ca @chadkoh.com @jonny.z-space.ca

And now ✨ in January 2025 ✨ we are bringing the LoFi energy to Vancouver, BC 🌊⛰️ DWebYVR is hosting #LoFiWKND, two days of talks and hacking, as presented by feathers.cloud, @hypha.coop and @inkandswitch.com Hope to see you there in the new year! 🎊 🥂 5/5 lu.ma/2ul5uwdl

Thank you to @hypha.coop @inkandswitch.com and @feathers.cloud for supporting this community event. Join us this weekend at #LoFiWKND and take one these home! bsky.app/profile/daff...

Vancouverites into local-first tech, come learn, hack and grow community this weekend! #lofiwkndyvr

How many earthquakes occurred within 100 km of your Canadian community in 2024? Here is a partial list - ranging from 0 #earthquakes near Winnipeg to 938 near Daajing Giids, Haida Gwaii. The "top 3" are the same order as 2023. Search the database here earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/stndon/NEDB-... ⚒️🧪