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Sunday, February 2nd, 2025 03:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Skyview skyview.social lets you view and share Bluesky threads without needing an account. It offers a tree view, as well as an unrolled (all replies) and embed (haven’t tested it). Plus bots to save all of those; claims to track nothing.
I’d offer an example but even the briefest time on Bsky today has crashed my news wall like woe.
Excellent tool for managing time zone information https://dateful.com
The link you create a link automagically translates an event’s time to the user’s current time zone and day. When you create a free account, you can edit those links.
For example, a Media & Disability Communication Online Con
- 12 February 2025, 6PM to 9PM AEDT (UTC +11)
In my timezone
Seen on electric signboard on US Highway 12/18 E just south of Madison, 23 November 2024
Make it to deer camp safely buckle up
resonant revises John Henry for the modern day:
The Ballad of John Henry's CEO
You can't fight fate, gotta automate,
Keep the cost of production down, lord, lord,
The cost of production down.
First published in 2012, still relevant as fuck.
I’ve always known that the most stressful equipment failure is when something breaks on my powerchair.
Previously, I would have put computing equipment in second place, but today I learned a new contender: when my tea kettle won’t turn on! Thankfully MyGuy recognized I was in anxious mode, and the store had a replacement, and all is well.
Well, all is .... I have tea.
Re: YeS!
Date: 2025-02-03 07:47 pm (UTC)Re: YeS!
Date: 2025-02-03 09:46 pm (UTC)Blame it on the British Empire!
UTC -- Coordinated Universal Time -- began as "Greenwich Mean Time," the moment when noon crossed the Prime Meridian at the Royal Observatory in London. Sailing ships all over the world needed to adjust their watches to a single standard so they could navigate by the stars. So they could kidnap African people and force them to grow sugar cane in the Americas and put the sugar in their British tea.
Re: YeS!
Date: 2025-02-03 11:45 pm (UTC)