#sharing-information — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sharing-information, aggregated by home.social.
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#AucklandNZ - #BalconyGarden Social Club
Sunday, June 28, 2026
And the last Sunday of each month.#CentralCityLibrary
46 Lorne Street
#44 Auckland, Auckland 1010Join other central city gardeners & share knowledge, learn, make friends and swap resources to help your balcony garden thrive!
Join other central city gardeners & share knowledge, learn, make friends and swap resources to help your balcony garden thrive!
🪴 Drop in anytime between 10 AM–12 PM
📍 Makerspace, Central City Library
🧺 Bring your own seeds or supplies to swap!
Recurring, last Sunday of every month."
https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/balcony-garden-social-club-tickets-1979273535425?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
#SolarPunkSunday #SeedSwaps #SharingInformation #BuildingCommunity #ContainerGardening #CityGardeners
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#AucklandNZ - #BalconyGarden Social Club
Sunday, June 28, 2026
And the last Sunday of each month.#CentralCityLibrary
46 Lorne Street
#44 Auckland, Auckland 1010Join other central city gardeners & share knowledge, learn, make friends and swap resources to help your balcony garden thrive!
Join other central city gardeners & share knowledge, learn, make friends and swap resources to help your balcony garden thrive!
🪴 Drop in anytime between 10 AM–12 PM
📍 Makerspace, Central City Library
🧺 Bring your own seeds or supplies to swap!
Recurring, last Sunday of every month."
https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/balcony-garden-social-club-tickets-1979273535425?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
#SolarPunkSunday #SeedSwaps #SharingInformation #BuildingCommunity #ContainerGardening #CityGardeners
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June 30 @ 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
#RockportPublicLibrary
1 Limerock Street
Rockport, ME 04856-0008"Do you knit, spin, crochet, embroider, felt, or practice other types of fiber arts? Would you like to work on your projects alongside other like-minded enthusiasts? This lively group is a great place to ask questions, share tips, and enjoy the company of other fiber artists. Meets on 1st, 3rd, and 5th Tuesdays (when there is a 5th Tuesday!) at 3:00 p.m. in the library’s lower level. New members are always welcome."
FMI:
https://www.rockportlibrary.net/event/fiber-arts-2/2026-06-30/#SolarPunkSunday #BuildingCommunity #MaineEvents #MaineLibraries #FiberArtsMeetups #SharingInformation #LibrariesRule!
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June 30 @ 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
#RockportPublicLibrary
1 Limerock Street
Rockport, ME 04856-0008"Do you knit, spin, crochet, embroider, felt, or practice other types of fiber arts? Would you like to work on your projects alongside other like-minded enthusiasts? This lively group is a great place to ask questions, share tips, and enjoy the company of other fiber artists. Meets on 1st, 3rd, and 5th Tuesdays (when there is a 5th Tuesday!) at 3:00 p.m. in the library’s lower level. New members are always welcome."
FMI:
https://www.rockportlibrary.net/event/fiber-arts-2/2026-06-30/#SolarPunkSunday #BuildingCommunity #MaineEvents #MaineLibraries #FiberArtsMeetups #SharingInformation #LibrariesRule!
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#NashvilleTN - #SummerPlantSwap
#NashvillePublicLibrary #SeedExchange
When: Thursday, June 18, 2026 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Where: Inglewood Branch
4312 Gallatin Pike
Nashville, TN 37216Description: "Come connect with your fellow #gardeners! Share your extra #cuttings, #seeds, knowledge, and expertise in this bring what you have, take what you need event.
No registration required. Light refreshments will be provided."
#SolarPunkSunday #LibrariesRule
#GrowYourOwn #BuildingCommunity #Gardening #NPLSeedExchange #TheSeedExchange #SeedSwap #PlantSwap #SharingInformation -
#NashvilleTN - #SummerPlantSwap
#NashvillePublicLibrary #SeedExchange
When: Thursday, June 18, 2026 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Where: Inglewood Branch
4312 Gallatin Pike
Nashville, TN 37216Description: "Come connect with your fellow #gardeners! Share your extra #cuttings, #seeds, knowledge, and expertise in this bring what you have, take what you need event.
No registration required. Light refreshments will be provided."
#SolarPunkSunday #LibrariesRule
#GrowYourOwn #BuildingCommunity #Gardening #NPLSeedExchange #TheSeedExchange #SeedSwap #PlantSwap #SharingInformation -
#LibraryOfThings Use Videos
by #LOTMutualAidA playlist of 92 videos showing how folks use items borrowed from #LibrariesOfThings!
"A community playlist of use videos for LOT items. What do you use your LOT tools to accomplish. Share your favorite #HowTo videos here."
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT9EqhRjOxQ-VqH3rvMs1uOyOGoK4SseI
#SolarPunkSunday #FoodPreservation #Fermenting #DIY #GardenHoops #BikeMaintenance #FenceStretchers #Recipes #HomeRepairs #Basketmaking #Crafts #LibrariesRule! #SharingInformation
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#LibraryOfThings Use Videos
by #LOTMutualAidA playlist of 92 videos showing how folks use items borrowed from #LibrariesOfThings!
"A community playlist of use videos for LOT items. What do you use your LOT tools to accomplish. Share your favorite #HowTo videos here."
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT9EqhRjOxQ-VqH3rvMs1uOyOGoK4SseI
#SolarPunkSunday #FoodPreservation #Fermenting #DIY #GardenHoops #BikeMaintenance #FenceStretchers #Recipes #HomeRepairs #Basketmaking #Crafts #LibrariesRule! #SharingInformation
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Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone
#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
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Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone
#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
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Free Open Afternoon at #LeedsHackspace
This Saturday, June 13th!
Tuesdays at 7pm till 9pm, (except Christmas & New Years Eve)
Also the 2nd Saturday each month from 12pm till 4pm approx."Who Exactly Are We?
Leeds Hackspace is a workshop space for people who like making things, are curious about how stuff works, or would like to learn new skills.
No, we won’t help you break the law, but we’ll happily help you solve a problem
Membership is open to all and we are a not-for-profit organisation entirely run by its community.
We are interested in technology (both new and old) but are also a social group of people who enjoy talking and bouncing ideas/questions off of one another.
We are entirely membership run and funded.
This means that all members typically pay a fee and that includes the Directors.
Leeds Hackspace is ran as a not-for-profit company by practice, so every penny made from donations and membership fees goes into providing services and facilities that are decided by its members with Directors taking part to help it stay together.
This means Leeds Hackspace can have amazing tools such as a LaserCutter, #MetalLathe, computer systems, various saws, a #3DPrinter or two, a vinyl cutter and a silly amount of electronics, with some quad copters thrown in. Some are owned by Leeds Hackspace bought from membership funds, others are on loan from members and stored at the Hackspace for members to use.
Join in with what members have been getting up to on the blog. You can also read how to become a member. Or catch up with others on the mailing list or on Slack."
FMI: https://leedshackspace.org.uk/
Find them on Mastodon at @lhs
#SolarPunkSunday #BuildingCommunity #Makerspace #WorkshopSpace #SharingKnowledge #SharingInformation #Makers #ToolLibraries
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Free Open Afternoon at #LeedsHackspace
This Saturday, June 13th!
Tuesdays at 7pm till 9pm, (except Christmas & New Years Eve)
Also the 2nd Saturday each month from 12pm till 4pm approx."Who Exactly Are We?
Leeds Hackspace is a workshop space for people who like making things, are curious about how stuff works, or would like to learn new skills.
No, we won’t help you break the law, but we’ll happily help you solve a problem
Membership is open to all and we are a not-for-profit organisation entirely run by its community.
We are interested in technology (both new and old) but are also a social group of people who enjoy talking and bouncing ideas/questions off of one another.
We are entirely membership run and funded.
This means that all members typically pay a fee and that includes the Directors.
Leeds Hackspace is ran as a not-for-profit company by practice, so every penny made from donations and membership fees goes into providing services and facilities that are decided by its members with Directors taking part to help it stay together.
This means Leeds Hackspace can have amazing tools such as a LaserCutter, #MetalLathe, computer systems, various saws, a #3DPrinter or two, a vinyl cutter and a silly amount of electronics, with some quad copters thrown in. Some are owned by Leeds Hackspace bought from membership funds, others are on loan from members and stored at the Hackspace for members to use.
Join in with what members have been getting up to on the blog. You can also read how to become a member. Or catch up with others on the mailing list or on Slack."
FMI: https://leedshackspace.org.uk/
Find them on Mastodon at @lhs
#SolarPunkSunday #BuildingCommunity #Makerspace #WorkshopSpace #SharingKnowledge #SharingInformation #Makers #ToolLibraries
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More of this, please...!
New #OpenAccess #Journal to Launch Following Resignation of Editorial Team from #NaturalLanguageSemantics
Posted by Professor Caroline Edwards on 2 June 2026
"The #OpenLibraryOfHumanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new diamond open access journal in linguistics, following the resignation of the editorial team of Natural Language Semantics (#NLS) from #SpringerNature. The editors are launching a new journal, Semantics of Natural Languages , with the Open Library of Humanities.
"The editorial team’s resignation follows ongoing concerns about Springer Nature putting pressure on editors to accept and publish more articles. Commercial publishers like Springer Nature are increasingly using this tactic to grow the revenue they receive for open access publishing via Article Processing Charges. The resigning editors have the support of the editorial board of Natural Language Semantics, including the original founders of that journal, which was established in 1993 and has long been recognised as one of the leading journals in formal semantics and theoretical linguistics.
"Semantics of Natural Languages is launched at OLH as the intellectual heir to Natural Language Semantics, which was originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers before its acquisition by Springer in 2003. Semantics of Natural Languages is a linguistics journal dedicated to the study of meaning in natural languages, with a particular focus on the relation between meaning and linguistic structure. While the journal is firmly grounded in semantics, it welcomes contributions that draw on insights from related fields such as #logic, #PhilosophyOfLanguage, #psycholinguistics and cognition, #typology and the core domains of #linguistics — provided the work is specifically directed toward linguists and advances our understanding of semantics.
"OLH’s Executive Director, Professor Caroline Edwards, said of the move: 'It’s fantastic to be supporting another research community to regain editorial control of its journal and leave Springer Nature. At OLH, we’re seeing a growing number of furious academics ready to withdraw their labour from unscrupulous commercial publishers like Springer Nature. We’re excited to work with the editors and authors at Semantics of Natural Languages and give the journal a positive future.'
"The editors of Semantics of Natural Languages commented: 'We’re grateful to be able to work with the OLH to make our journal accessible for free to all $authors and $readers. #AcademicJournals should serve academics, #NotForProfitPublishers, and we consider the #DiamondOpenAccess model the future of academic publishing. We are proud to join this movement and help to expand its presence in semantics and linguistics more generally.'
"The Open Library of Humanities is proud to provide the long-term funding and support needed to bring this journal into diamond open access. This support is made possible by the university libraries, funding councils, and library consortia that collectively support the OLH.
"About #OLH: The Open Library of Humanities is an award-winning, academic-led publisher of 36 diamond open access journals based at #Birkbeck, #UniversityOfLondon. With initial funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and subsequent support from Arcadia, a charitable fund, the platform covers its costs by payments from an international library consortium rather than any author fee. This funding mechanism enables equitable open access in the #humanities disciplines, with charges neither to readers nor authors."
Source:
https://www.openlibhums.org/news/943/Visit the new journal here: https://snl-journal.org/
#SolarPunkSunday #SharingInformation #OpenAccessJournals #OpenLibraries #SharingKnowledge #OpenAccess
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More of this, please...!
New #OpenAccess #Journal to Launch Following Resignation of Editorial Team from #NaturalLanguageSemantics
Posted by Professor Caroline Edwards on 2 June 2026
"The #OpenLibraryOfHumanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new diamond open access journal in linguistics, following the resignation of the editorial team of Natural Language Semantics (#NLS) from #SpringerNature. The editors are launching a new journal, Semantics of Natural Languages , with the Open Library of Humanities.
"The editorial team’s resignation follows ongoing concerns about Springer Nature putting pressure on editors to accept and publish more articles. Commercial publishers like Springer Nature are increasingly using this tactic to grow the revenue they receive for open access publishing via Article Processing Charges. The resigning editors have the support of the editorial board of Natural Language Semantics, including the original founders of that journal, which was established in 1993 and has long been recognised as one of the leading journals in formal semantics and theoretical linguistics.
"Semantics of Natural Languages is launched at OLH as the intellectual heir to Natural Language Semantics, which was originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers before its acquisition by Springer in 2003. Semantics of Natural Languages is a linguistics journal dedicated to the study of meaning in natural languages, with a particular focus on the relation between meaning and linguistic structure. While the journal is firmly grounded in semantics, it welcomes contributions that draw on insights from related fields such as #logic, #PhilosophyOfLanguage, #psycholinguistics and cognition, #typology and the core domains of #linguistics — provided the work is specifically directed toward linguists and advances our understanding of semantics.
"OLH’s Executive Director, Professor Caroline Edwards, said of the move: 'It’s fantastic to be supporting another research community to regain editorial control of its journal and leave Springer Nature. At OLH, we’re seeing a growing number of furious academics ready to withdraw their labour from unscrupulous commercial publishers like Springer Nature. We’re excited to work with the editors and authors at Semantics of Natural Languages and give the journal a positive future.'
"The editors of Semantics of Natural Languages commented: 'We’re grateful to be able to work with the OLH to make our journal accessible for free to all $authors and $readers. #AcademicJournals should serve academics, #NotForProfitPublishers, and we consider the #DiamondOpenAccess model the future of academic publishing. We are proud to join this movement and help to expand its presence in semantics and linguistics more generally.'
"The Open Library of Humanities is proud to provide the long-term funding and support needed to bring this journal into diamond open access. This support is made possible by the university libraries, funding councils, and library consortia that collectively support the OLH.
"About #OLH: The Open Library of Humanities is an award-winning, academic-led publisher of 36 diamond open access journals based at #Birkbeck, #UniversityOfLondon. With initial funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and subsequent support from Arcadia, a charitable fund, the platform covers its costs by payments from an international library consortium rather than any author fee. This funding mechanism enables equitable open access in the #humanities disciplines, with charges neither to readers nor authors."
Source:
https://www.openlibhums.org/news/943/Visit the new journal here: https://snl-journal.org/
#SolarPunkSunday #SharingInformation #OpenAccessJournals #OpenLibraries #SharingKnowledge #OpenAccess
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Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone
#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
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Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone
#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
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Re-connected with a dear friend (who is like a younger sister to me) tonight. We will be doing genealogy research on our #NativeAmerican ancestors, sharing #NativeAmericanFoods and recipes, and re-learning and learning new dances for upcoming #Powwows! To reconnecting with #Sisters!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbrvwaVXJ48
#Halluci_Nation #ATribeCalledRed #NativeAmericans #Indigiqueer #SharingInformation #SharingKnowledge #Connection #CommunityFirst
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Re-connected with a dear friend (who is like a younger sister to me) tonight. We will be doing genealogy research on our #NativeAmerican ancestors, sharing #NativeAmericanFoods and recipes, and re-learning and learning new dances for upcoming #Powwows! To reconnecting with #Sisters!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbrvwaVXJ48
#Halluci_Nation #ATribeCalledRed #NativeAmericans #Indigiqueer #SharingInformation #SharingKnowledge #Connection #CommunityFirst
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Leaving you all with this essay about the #ExistentialDread a lot of us are experiencing, and how one person found hope through #SolarPunk! (And I am another one of those people!)
It's been a record-breaking #SolarPunkSunday, and a great way to celebrate a year of #Resiliency, #SharingInformation, #Rewilding, #Mending, #Gardening, and building the foundation for the future we all need! I'll re-post a few articles from yesterday, and then will call it a Solar Punk day! ! A special thanks to @BrambleBearGrrrauwling and @MaQuest !
A Future Dream - How solarpunk helped alleviate my existential dread.
Solarpunk pushes against the bleak Blade Runner future of cyberpunk that centers urban dystopias dominated by corporations and technology. Solarpunk imagines an #inclusive, #sustainable, possible future, where #renewable #technology meets #ecological #enlightenment.
by Sage Agee, Art by Yuumei, Spring 2023
"LIKE MANY OF MY GENERATION, I have known dread nearly my entire life. In fifth grade, I was assigned a research paper on the topic of my choice. I had begun to spend my weekends with my dad, hanging out at coffee shops in downtown Salem, Oregon, and chatting with adults about the news. We had just witnessed the 9/11 attacks, and the adults in my life seemed to be waking up to global issues, their fear palpable even to a young child.
"This was not long after the release of #AnInconvenientTruth, and I decided to interview my dad’s friends about #ClimateChange and their predictions for the future. When I turned in the finished paper, which detailed mass extinctions and natural disasters, my teacher, Mrs. Stark, wouldn’t accept it. She didn’t believe in climate change, she said, and I needed to study a different topic.
"After that, I felt myself slipping from endless curiosity about the world into a mindset where I had to prepare for the worst, and trust no one. This helped me create the shield I needed to get through adolescence. By then, I knew that my gender and sexuality didn’t align with typical gender roles, but I kept that secret close to my tape-bound chest.
"Solarpunk represents a movement from today’s reality toward a gritty, pragmatic, better future.
"Before my parents divorced, we went to an Evangelical church every Sunday, and I learned to pray each night before bed. These prayers became a place for me to put every bad thought I would have during the day, to pass them along to God. I had already developed a deep shame for my thoughts of being more boyish, and I prayed for these thoughts to end, just as I prayed for an end to natural disasters. I prayed for a better girl-mask. I prayed for a better world. My compulsive thinking followed me into my teenage years. In the ninth grade, I started an environmental justice group, hosting letter-writing parties and taking part in local protests at the Oregon Capitol, but when anti-green legislation passed into law, or when images emerged detailing islands of garbage in the ocean, I blamed myself for not doing more.
"This kind of thinking kept me from coming out as transgender. Every time I had an intrusive thought about growing facial hair and passing as a boy, my self-blame returned. Maybe I wasn’t trying hard enough to be a girl; maybe I just needed to date boys and straighten my hair and shave my legs and wear makeup; maybe too, I needed to do more about the environment, protest more, organize more, do something more. I kept making up versions of myself. I only talked about environmental justice around my dad’s liberal friends. I only downplayed my femininity around my queer friends.
artwork depicting someone reading in a futuristic setting"The one place where I escaped from this constant masking and shifting was in the books I consumed. At 17, I read #UrsulaLeGuin’s series of novels, the #HainishCycle, for the first time. I was instantly drawn into the worlds she created, where gender was fluid, as in #TheLeftHandOfDarkness, where some worlds grappled with climate disaster just as some had overcome it, as in #TheDispossessed. The way she experimented with the utopian, which always included queerness and dissolved gender roles, was like nothing I had read or experienced.
"When I allowed myself to fall into these fictions, my dread would turn over into an almost hopeful outlook. I understood this as fantasy, though, and never considered taking what I had read in LeGuin into my real life. Instead, I spent years dreaming of alternate realities, where I hadn’t been born into a doomed world. To cope with the real world, I would make lists of everything I would need to survive a catastrophe, and I taught myself #SurvivalSkills, like how to build a friction fire in the backyard."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/PHXNH#SolarPunkSunday #Earth4All #HopePunk #BuildingCommunity #Resiliency
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Leaving you all with this essay about the #ExistentialDread a lot of us are experiencing, and how one person found hope through #SolarPunk! (And I am another one of those people!)
It's been a record-breaking #SolarPunkSunday, and a great way to celebrate a year of #Resiliency, #SharingInformation, #Rewilding, #Mending, #Gardening, and building the foundation for the future we all need! I'll re-post a few articles from yesterday, and then will call it a Solar Punk day! ! A special thanks to @BrambleBearGrrrauwling and @MaQuest !
A Future Dream - How solarpunk helped alleviate my existential dread.
Solarpunk pushes against the bleak Blade Runner future of cyberpunk that centers urban dystopias dominated by corporations and technology. Solarpunk imagines an #inclusive, #sustainable, possible future, where #renewable #technology meets #ecological #enlightenment.
by Sage Agee, Art by Yuumei, Spring 2023
"LIKE MANY OF MY GENERATION, I have known dread nearly my entire life. In fifth grade, I was assigned a research paper on the topic of my choice. I had begun to spend my weekends with my dad, hanging out at coffee shops in downtown Salem, Oregon, and chatting with adults about the news. We had just witnessed the 9/11 attacks, and the adults in my life seemed to be waking up to global issues, their fear palpable even to a young child.
"This was not long after the release of #AnInconvenientTruth, and I decided to interview my dad’s friends about #ClimateChange and their predictions for the future. When I turned in the finished paper, which detailed mass extinctions and natural disasters, my teacher, Mrs. Stark, wouldn’t accept it. She didn’t believe in climate change, she said, and I needed to study a different topic.
"After that, I felt myself slipping from endless curiosity about the world into a mindset where I had to prepare for the worst, and trust no one. This helped me create the shield I needed to get through adolescence. By then, I knew that my gender and sexuality didn’t align with typical gender roles, but I kept that secret close to my tape-bound chest.
"Solarpunk represents a movement from today’s reality toward a gritty, pragmatic, better future.
"Before my parents divorced, we went to an Evangelical church every Sunday, and I learned to pray each night before bed. These prayers became a place for me to put every bad thought I would have during the day, to pass them along to God. I had already developed a deep shame for my thoughts of being more boyish, and I prayed for these thoughts to end, just as I prayed for an end to natural disasters. I prayed for a better girl-mask. I prayed for a better world. My compulsive thinking followed me into my teenage years. In the ninth grade, I started an environmental justice group, hosting letter-writing parties and taking part in local protests at the Oregon Capitol, but when anti-green legislation passed into law, or when images emerged detailing islands of garbage in the ocean, I blamed myself for not doing more.
"This kind of thinking kept me from coming out as transgender. Every time I had an intrusive thought about growing facial hair and passing as a boy, my self-blame returned. Maybe I wasn’t trying hard enough to be a girl; maybe I just needed to date boys and straighten my hair and shave my legs and wear makeup; maybe too, I needed to do more about the environment, protest more, organize more, do something more. I kept making up versions of myself. I only talked about environmental justice around my dad’s liberal friends. I only downplayed my femininity around my queer friends.
artwork depicting someone reading in a futuristic setting"The one place where I escaped from this constant masking and shifting was in the books I consumed. At 17, I read #UrsulaLeGuin’s series of novels, the #HainishCycle, for the first time. I was instantly drawn into the worlds she created, where gender was fluid, as in #TheLeftHandOfDarkness, where some worlds grappled with climate disaster just as some had overcome it, as in #TheDispossessed. The way she experimented with the utopian, which always included queerness and dissolved gender roles, was like nothing I had read or experienced.
"When I allowed myself to fall into these fictions, my dread would turn over into an almost hopeful outlook. I understood this as fantasy, though, and never considered taking what I had read in LeGuin into my real life. Instead, I spent years dreaming of alternate realities, where I hadn’t been born into a doomed world. To cope with the real world, I would make lists of everything I would need to survive a catastrophe, and I taught myself #SurvivalSkills, like how to build a friction fire in the backyard."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/PHXNH#SolarPunkSunday #Earth4All #HopePunk #BuildingCommunity #Resiliency
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In less than half an hour, I shared a lot of news here, and much of it was good news.
If you are not already following me here, I invite you to do so.
#SharingInformation #socialMedia #BetterTogether -
In less than half an hour, I shared a lot of news here, and much of it was good news.
If you are not already following me here, I invite you to do so.
#SharingInformation #socialMedia #BetterTogether -
Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone
#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
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Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone
#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
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Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone
#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
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Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone
#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
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RSS: The Forgotten Technology That Gave Us Control Over the Web
The Death of RSS Was the Death of the Real Internet
By Sydney Butler, Published 20 hours ago
RSS might not be dead in the strict sense of the word. After all, we still have the How-To Geek RSS feed and people still use it. It’s just that RSS has sharply declined to almost nothing, and it’s simply not how people get their content pushed to them anymore.
Which is a real shame, because RSS represents the best parts of the web and the internet as a whole that we’ve largely lost.
The Golden Age of RSS
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) was invented by three smart folks at Netscape. You remember Netscape, right? Ironically, Netscape would pretty much leave RSS to the rest of the web community to develop, and develop it they did. RSS was pretty quickly embraced by online publishers as an easy way to push their latest content to readers.
RSS was beautifully simple. Any website could publish a feed, and any user could subscribe to it with a reader. No algorithms. No gatekeepers.
Why RSS Mattered
The brilliance of RSS was how it leveled the playing field. A major publication with thousands of staff writers and a small hobbyist blog with a single post every few weeks looked exactly the same in your feed.
You are the curator of your feed, and have ultimate control of what ends up in your RSS reader of choice. RSS also solved a problem we’ve never really fixed since: discovery and distribution without middlemen.
In those early days of the web, if you wanted to know the latest stuff, you physically had to hit that refresh button manually. Sure, you could subscribe to an email newsletter, but that meant receiving your headlines at set intervals rather than as they were published.
RSS is a simple technology that lets us change the web from a passive resource to an active, relevant flow of information that we control. I remember back in the early 2000s when I was still messing around with Rainmeter, I always had an RSS widget that kept me in the loop on topics relevant to my interests or my studies.
The Decline of RSS
The biggest sign that RSS wasn’t really used much anymore came when browsers started dropping RSS support. Google Chrome scrapped RSS features in 2013 and a few years later Firefox followed suit in 2018. With built-in RSS reader functionality dropped, most people using these browsers wouldn’t even know it was an option, and are less likely to jump through hoops to set up a dedicated reader, even if it is easy.
Though I’m not blaming the browser developers. They wouldn’t have dropped RSS features if lots of people were using them. It’s a death spiral where usage declined beyond the point it was worth maintaining the feature, and without the feature usage is unlikely to recover.
Why did RSS use decline so much? Probably several reasons. Some sites stopped running their feeds, we moved over to apps that have push notifications, and websites can now also send push notifications through your browsers—something they ask for every time you visit unless you disable that feature.
We have plenty of solutions to getting instant updates from the web that don’t require a manual setup, and often don’t even wait for us to ask, but get in your face.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: RSS: The Forgotten Technology That Gave Us Control Over the Web
#2025 #America #Blogging #Blogs #History #Libraries #Library #Reading #ReallySimpleSyndication #RSS #Science #SharingInformation #Technology #UnitedStates #WebTechnology #Writing
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RSS: The Forgotten Technology That Gave Us Control Over the Web
The Death of RSS Was the Death of the Real Internet
By Sydney Butler, Published 20 hours ago
RSS might not be dead in the strict sense of the word. After all, we still have the How-To Geek RSS feed and people still use it. It’s just that RSS has sharply declined to almost nothing, and it’s simply not how people get their content pushed to them anymore.
Which is a real shame, because RSS represents the best parts of the web and the internet as a whole that we’ve largely lost.
The Golden Age of RSS
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) was invented by three smart folks at Netscape. You remember Netscape, right? Ironically, Netscape would pretty much leave RSS to the rest of the web community to develop, and develop it they did. RSS was pretty quickly embraced by online publishers as an easy way to push their latest content to readers.
RSS was beautifully simple. Any website could publish a feed, and any user could subscribe to it with a reader. No algorithms. No gatekeepers.
Why RSS Mattered
The brilliance of RSS was how it leveled the playing field. A major publication with thousands of staff writers and a small hobbyist blog with a single post every few weeks looked exactly the same in your feed.
You are the curator of your feed, and have ultimate control of what ends up in your RSS reader of choice. RSS also solved a problem we’ve never really fixed since: discovery and distribution without middlemen.
In those early days of the web, if you wanted to know the latest stuff, you physically had to hit that refresh button manually. Sure, you could subscribe to an email newsletter, but that meant receiving your headlines at set intervals rather than as they were published.
RSS is a simple technology that lets us change the web from a passive resource to an active, relevant flow of information that we control. I remember back in the early 2000s when I was still messing around with Rainmeter, I always had an RSS widget that kept me in the loop on topics relevant to my interests or my studies.
The Decline of RSS
The biggest sign that RSS wasn’t really used much anymore came when browsers started dropping RSS support. Google Chrome scrapped RSS features in 2013 and a few years later Firefox followed suit in 2018. With built-in RSS reader functionality dropped, most people using these browsers wouldn’t even know it was an option, and are less likely to jump through hoops to set up a dedicated reader, even if it is easy.
Though I’m not blaming the browser developers. They wouldn’t have dropped RSS features if lots of people were using them. It’s a death spiral where usage declined beyond the point it was worth maintaining the feature, and without the feature usage is unlikely to recover.
Why did RSS use decline so much? Probably several reasons. Some sites stopped running their feeds, we moved over to apps that have push notifications, and websites can now also send push notifications through your browsers—something they ask for every time you visit unless you disable that feature.
We have plenty of solutions to getting instant updates from the web that don’t require a manual setup, and often don’t even wait for us to ask, but get in your face.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: RSS: The Forgotten Technology That Gave Us Control Over the Web
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Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone
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So, any #HPAI information I come across will have the hashtag #HPAINews. I hope others will use that hashtag for local reports, as well as information from the CDC and state and local public health sources. #WeAreTheMediaNow #BirdFlu #SharingInformation #PublicHealth
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Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone
#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
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Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone
#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
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Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone
#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
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Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone
#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
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Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone
#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
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Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone
#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
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Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone
#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
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Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone
#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
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Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone
#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
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Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone
#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
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Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone
#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
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Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone
#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
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Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone
#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
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Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone
#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
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PR Newswire: New MIT Sloan research measures exposure to misinformation from political elites on Twitter (PRESS RELEASE)