Monkinetic Weblog

I can't seem to find documentation on what content types #Mastodon supports in the actual "status" content. I've seen posts with inline links and basic formatting, but don't know how to post them.

When you've managed to make it too hot for cacti to survive, you've broken the desert #climatechange #cacti #heatwave

Cacti need to cool down at night or through rain and mist. If that does not happen they sustain internal damage. Plants now suffering from prolonged, excessive heat may take months or years to die, Hernandez said.

Discord #poetry

the joys of online chat the growing branching living conversations violently mulched and spread inches thin on line-ruled floor stacked and strung one by one a flowing river frozen into immobile ice

[Love love love these "ancient future"](https://www.karlaknight.org/33-spaceships-for-another-planet-2017-19-/1 #paintings by Karla Night, and I am so there for Jason Kottke's description:

Hilma af Klint as the production designer for Wes Anderson's Stargate

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via kottke

Probably not the new site logo and slogan, but you never know...

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This is a little picture of what #climatechange means: Sitting on my back porch in Arizona this morning at 5:45am, enjoying only the second summer monsoon rain this season. Sipping a coffee in a damp wind, with the temperature at 82ºF (28ºC).

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I realized that -- after nearly a month of temperatures over 110ºF (43ºC), a record-breaking length of time even in Arizona -- I had forgotten what 82º felt like. This is not typical, normal, or a cyclic phase.

This is a permanent, ongoing, man-made problem.

Fedi/Mastodon programmers... with the #MastodonAPI, and given a url to a post on any instance (assuming I have access to the toot from my account), how might I get my instance to fetch it and give me a "local" ID that is suitable for passing as the "inReplyToID" in a toot payload?

Wondering if I need to:

• perform a search (https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/search/)
• find the relevant status in the results
• use the ID for the status

Would that be the "local" ID #MastodonAPI #fediverse #programming #blogging #indieweb

Dammit I started a branch on Goldfrog to play with the #micropub api, and now that it's in pieces on the editor floor, I have 3 more features I want to add #indieweb #blogging

(One is adding the ability for a note or post here to be a reply to another post on Mastodon.)

Yehuda Rothschild republished (with permission) a presentation (Archive.org link) by Lara A Jacobs, Mvskoke citizen and Native scientist, on settler colonialism - what is it, what is colonization, what happened when settlers (in North America) arrived.

The whole thing is excellent, and I hope there's a video version, or one is done one day.

Some particular points I want to mention/synthesize:

Colonization is not a historical event, but a continuous process that requires ongoing support through social and legal systems and institutional violence.

Colonization doesn't just mean moving in and kicking out indiginous people, though it definitely means that. It's also continued occupation of their "lands, waters, and environments", the forced breakup of families and communities through unjust and cruel laws and foster systems, the intentional obliteration of native peoples' languages, cultural practices, and value systems (often through forced fostering and the original residential homes).

We (the White European Settlers) operated -- and still operate -- under a value system and ideologies that are manifestly destructive (the following is quoted):

• Conquer and defeat their surroundings
• Biases against undeveloped areas
• Associated uncivilized areas with evil
• Commodity-based utilitarianism (e.g., extractive practices)
• Extraction of 'natural resources' (e.g., forest products, marine fisheries, mining, etc.)
• Capitalism

All of these in direct opposition to the beliefs, ideologies, and practices of Native cultures and communities, which had been existing largely in balance with their environments for many thousands of years before settlers arrived.

There is much much more in the slides that were shared and I'm grateful to Lara and Yehuda both for making these available.

If I was going to work in #government and had my choice it would probably be at the US Digital Service.

We collaborate with public servants throughout the government to address some of the most critical needs and ultimately deliver a better government experience to people. We work across multiple agencies and bring best practices from our various disciplines.

Also found out they are now hiring #remotework employees, a few years ago they were DC-local only. 🤔

Nothing's wrong, GameRant.

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And it's your #tracking I'm blocking, not #advertising (well, ok, it's that too)

I recently learned about a small town in Alabama that has not held a public election for more than sixty years. The town is Newbern, Alabama. While nearly eighty-five percent of the town residents are Black, before 2020 the town never had a Black mayor.

An unbelievable and yet completely believable story of voter suppression in the deep south

Guy Nave, Jr gives a well-written and succint history of voting rights for former enslaved Black people in the south, then tells the story describing the incredible "hand-me-down" white mayorship in the majority-Black town.

"We've never had an election out here. We don't have ballots and machines to do it." Stokes became mayor in 2008, when he inherited the position from Haywood Stokes Jr. Their ancestor, Peter P. Stokes, served in the Confederate Army and “owned” enslaved Black people when Newbern was a cotton plantation town.

A tiny fediverse wishlist:

• Quote toots
• A real DM implementation w/ E2E encryption (black-box, ie. even the host cannot read them)

From the Black Voters Matter Fund mailing list (I can't find a web link for this on the website):

Georgia Voters, Your Voter Status Is At Risk

Hundreds of thousands of Georgians could see their registrations canceled, causing concerns among voting rights advocates. The Georgia Secretary of State plans to remove 191,473 inactive voters, citing outdated lists. While accuracy is essential, this will disenfranchise voters in the process. Protect your right to vote - check your status today at https://mvp.sos.ga.gov, and stay informed about these changes. Let your voice be heard in Georgia's elections!

It's a good reminder for all of us - especially anyone who believes in actual Democracy, justice, and law - that that the GOP's "best" chance these days is to repeatedly attack our voting rights, most particularly those of oppressed "minorities".

("People of the global majority" I saw someone brilliantly describe those we often call "people of color".)

Anyone got a recommendation for a good RSS reader for Android (like NetNewsWire on iOS)?

And now for something different from NovaColor: Understanding the Color Gray and Its Shades

I use NovaColor acrylics for my artwork, and love their occasional articles on the theory and history of pigments #art #painting #arthistory

Been wanting to re-focus on the ol' blog here, and a friend told me about https://shutupwrite.com/ -- there's a local event tomorrow night so going to go hang out and work on some longer posts with a bunch of other writers #writing #blogging #community

"[T]he problem is, if you let them get away with it, it gets worse and worse and worse."

Small town newpaper doing the good work in small town America.

Corporate media, please go back to #journalism 101.

Atopia

Archiving our anxious fears as precious artifact
We make a Story
Stripped to bare words encoding our natures faiths and selves
These and all in grit and grim warning 
Dystopia

Bleak grey hued rough hewn the view from future's window
Staring eyes in hope forlorn
Dust and ash the gifts our benefactors leave in progress' wake
Every memory and bright treasure stripped melted for coin

Mechanized servant eaters of all growing green feeling loving things
If not fled are fed
The shining things from heart head and gut once born now consumed
Our inner voice fed back become lies so sterile and ape'd

Semi-sentient vastly parasitic the collectives cancerous intent to only grow 
Choked full on us it is us in the mill in the dirty grist
The fluttering trembling lights only ours to give are drowned in grasping dark

In mirrored certainty the self-satisfied boast ignorance toast ignorance
Read our troubled Story and see
Utopia

Danah Boyd: What if failure is the plan?

Network effects intersect with perception to drive a sense of a site’s social relevance and interpersonal significance #twitter #failure #socialmedia