Andrew @andrew907@librem.one

Who is Mary Peltola and why should all Alaskans vote for her on August 16? Find out here: https://www.alaskapublic.org/2022/06/30/peltolas-superpower-us-house-nominee-disarms-with-unexpected-niceness/

Reapplying John Bercow's words opposing the 45th US president's House of Commons visit to the upcoming rally of deplorables in my hometown: "as far as this place is concerned I feel very strongly that our opposition to racism and to sexism and our support for equality before the law and an independent judiciary are hugely important considerations"

**** D***** T****'s upcoming visit. Go back to Alligatorland where you belong!

For well-being:
- uncluttered and supportive environment
- good low-glycemic, low-sugar, low-salt food with nutrients and enough fiber
- time in nature
- drinking enough water
- restorative music
- taking sleep hygiene seriously

Again, Alaska faces the shameful prospect of sending its synonymous notorious politician to Washington. We need to move on from this era. We are better than this. #StandwithPeltola

And yes, they have a nice rain icon for today's forecast. I'll believe it when I see it.

Highs in the low to mid 20s, let alone the high 20s, are unacceptable. Even if they might seem like reasonable air temperatures in themselves, the intense sun makes the temperature someone actually perceives at least 10 degrees higher. After over three months of negligible precipitation we are in a serious drought and worsening fire risk. NWS reports 10.6 mm of rain for the whole of April and May, which is admittedly the dry season but on average would receive 28 mm of rain for the same period.

This is another reason why free software and cc0-licensed musical instruments are so critical. They allow us to take back public domain music that is normally locked up behind copyrighted performances. Want Bach's Art of Fugue? You can scour the internet and not find a public domain recording. Or feed it plus a cc0-licensed harpsichord into free software and get output that is not only free but better: better tuning, more accurate rhythm, less noise, no pesky ornamentation, not on a Steinway!

Big corporations want you to consume work that they purportedly own so you get emotionally attached to it, but not to remix or share because that would destroy the big corporations' monopoly. By boycotting copyrighted works where possible (e.g. almost all even free software is copyrighted) and developing uncopyrighted works instead, we are taking away just a bit of the oxygen from both prongs of the unjust monopoly. We do not need these goods whose price the corporations can set at infinity.

Copyright is theft. Theft by giant corporations of 95 years of culture (minus a modest number of works licensed under cc0) that belongs to the People. Copyright is the worst sort of time machine. What does a world look like where early Schönberg is now hot off the presses? That is now our new music! Worse yet, there is a late Liszt work that I cannot find in an uncopyrighted publication. Worse yet, there are Christian Bach symphonies that I want but publishers stole 270-year-old music from us.

I am all about holidays, but fireworks are never appropriate. We don't need the noise pollution or the fire hazard. Thankfully they are illegal but for some reason that doesn't practically matter.

Let's try another one of these maps but repurpose the colors to choose my favorites. Green, blue, white, yellow, red is the order from most to least favorite. Here goes! But there don't seem to be quite enough colors, there is not really a way to differentiate mixed feelings from neutral, and a state or province is a big, sometimes diverse land area to have feelings about!

For me, the problem was that most news outlets cover a wide swath of the world if not the whole world. I am only interested in regional news and news about certain topics. RSS to the rescue!

I am the last amateur semigeek to discover RSS. If you're tired of wading through news you're not interested in to stay on top of what you are interested in, install gnome-feeds and solve this problem forever.

Uninhabitable is the only word to describe an area where your car can double as your microwave. Phoenix's run of 40s is not projected to end till next weekend. Meanwhile, Death Valley is about to hit 48°. Onslow, West Australia's 50.7° from last January is getting a run for its money. https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/man-uses-car-to-grill-burgers-in-scorching-arizona-heat/1200541

I am tired of feeling bad. I am setting myself a six month challenge to keep up the #huel diet.

If a website asks me to disable my adblocker, I behave the same as if the website has a paywall: leave immediately. If they want me to leave their site to read one of the millions of websites instead that don't have a paywall, that's their choice.

We get to decide what to call Turkey in English, not the Turkish government. What's next, dropping the S sound from Paris or saying Athina for Athens?

I am as interested in the photos NASA gets back as the next person. But terraforming another planet when we should be allocating those resources to terraforming earth is insane.

It's exciting to hear that Gnome is working on mobile. Hopefully it will save the Purism folks a bunch of work. I would like to see the ability to put at least two apps side by side on a Gnome phone like on Android, if not the limitless (but for memory issues) multitasking I used to enjoy on Ubuntu Touch. Some of us crazy folks hook up bluetooth keyboards and get stuff done on those tiny screens on the go. https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2022/05/30/towards-gnome-shell-on-mobile/