Eloísa & them Seagulls @eloisa@masto.pt

Attention #anthropology folks! If you do #ethnography, we would appreciate it if you could fill out this survey on the impact of ethnographic field work on #mentalhealth - it's a very important topic that we hope to write about, but we need your help! https://tinyurl.com/yb8h66cv #archaeology #ethnographer #survey

Good morning! Good morning rain! Good morning stinkbug! Good morning sleeping family! Good morning imposter syndrome! Good morning everybody!

are you a robot or otherwise synthetic intelligence? do you love your friends? do you want a single emoji to express both of those things simultaneously?

These are all open source Fediverse projects that need help with localisation:

Friendica
https://www.transifex.com/Friendica/friendica/

FunkWhale
https://docs.funkwhale.audio/translators.html

Mastodon
https://weblate.joinmastodon.org/projects/mastodon/

PeerTube
https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/doc/translation.md

Halcyon (Twitter-like client for Mastodon/Pleroma)
https://translate.zanata.org/project/view/halcyon

Mastalab (Mastodon app)
https://crowdin.com/project/mastalab

Trunk (opt-in people to follow on Fediverse)
https://octodon.social/@kensanata/100986318207250337

Reply if there are others!

The Gendersec Curricula is a resource that introduces a holistic, feminist perspective to privacy and digital security trainings

https://en.gendersec.train.tacticaltech.org
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It will be so satisfying to merge #547 and close dozens of issues!

Shoutout to @trwnh for organizing this master post of issues.

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/73

three months of mastodon

Me: Haha, I'm going to post a male chicken under a CW that means something very different. TO THE GOOGLE MACHINE!
Duck Duck Go:
Me: This has backfired spectacularly.

I'm still looking for 1-2 more folks interested in a paid contract to build a small platformer game prototype for a research study. If you're interested or know someone who might be, please contact me!

Recent events in my Google+ timeline have reminded me once more that the most important rule in communication is the principle of charity: interpreting a speaker's statements in the most rational way possible and, in the case of any argument, considering its best, strongest possible interpretation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
Condemnations come easy. But it's easier to tear things down than to build them up. It's easier to wage war than build peace, to sow mistrust than to make friends. Be good. ❤️

The Federated Warning Service has issued a Flash Cute Warning for every instance

Precautionary/Preparedness Actions:

- Do not scroll through the timeline
- Caution is urged when unhiding any hidden media marked “selfie”
- Follow the Federated Warning Service for all the latest cute forecasts

Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong on my profile? I have two fields set, Blog and Contact, and on both pages I link back to my Mastodon profile, and yet there's no indication that Mastodon recognises this.

BANNER SAGA is looking for story submissions for an anthology of in-world stories. Seems like a pretty cool opportunity.

And they just extended the deadline to December 16th, 2018.

https://bannersaga.com/2018/10/16/banner-saga-call-for-story-submissions/

thinking about how the Starbucks mermaid is slowly, but surely, getting closer, and we cannot stop her

@eloisa Our articles section tends to be mostly focused on hints, tips, inspiration, etc - we do have other parts of the site for posting poems/creative work and getting feedback - but we will happily look at and consider creative submissions like poems too :)

The submission notes are here:
https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=5373.msg116062#msg116062

https://soundcloud.com/xlr8r/curses-shadows-rising

#latenightjams

#music