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Wanting to read a number of the books from @caitelatte@cloudisland.nz's really good talk "tips to build and repair empathy at other teams" at #EverythingOpen 2025
Slides/lists at docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fEugeFGxT7u6nl69FiUmYApezeaBETt2uEuzj4Jp2VA/mobilepresent#slide=id.g3277e8b9ec6_0_30
It's a good time to get in touch if you'd like to help PyConAU 2025, in Naarm Melbourne! Call for specialist track organisers is (somewhat) currently open for folks who can gather about a day's worth of talks on a specific topic 💖💪
2025 website doesn't quite work but 2024 website still works 💖
#PyConAU #PyConAU2025 #EverythingOpen #EO2025
Thanks to all the vollies and organisers of #EverythingOpen! These conferences are a massive effort! Amazing work!
And thank you to the few of you were masking this week! I really appreciate your efforts towards inclusion! 💜😷
Nodding along to Sam Bishop's #EverythingOpen lightning talk, "A quick reminder about gender", trying to cram a lot of nuance into 3 minutes about gender, sex, pronouns, and other! I recommend the Gender Unicorn over the Genderbread Person, however. https://transstudent.org/gender/
“Uh hi, I’m looking for a book on sharks, by, uh, B L a’Haj”
The librarian smiled, “do you know what country it was published in, was it Canada?”
“Australia, i-I think” the visitor stammered, hefting their backpack and looking about.
The librarian interacted with their console. “Ah yes, here it is. It’s in our archival collection, quite a way back in the shelves.” The console spat out a card. Here is a map to the shelf location.
Book lovers know that if you go deep enough into the stacks of a good library you could end up anywhere. The corridors of L-space join all libraries everywhere, every when.
In the State Library of South Australia, a door opened an a teenager with a backpack emerged. “Hello”, a librarian
smiled. “did you find your book?”
“Uh yes!”, they held up a tome.
“Good, good. It will tell you everything you …
“Uh hi, I’m looking for a book on sharks, by, uh, B L a’Haj”
The librarian smiled, “do you know what country it was published in, was it Canada?”
“Australia, i-I think” the visitor stammered, hefting their backpack and looking about.
The librarian interacted with their console. “Ah yes, here it is. It’s in our archival collection, quite a way back in the shelves.” The console spat out a card. Here is a map to the shelf location.
Book lovers know that if you go deep enough into the stacks of a good library you could end up anywhere. The corridors of L-space join all libraries everywhere, every when.
In the State Library of South Australia, a door opened an a teenager with a backpack emerged. “Hello”, a librarian
smiled. “did you find your book?”
“Uh yes!”, they held up a tome.
“Good, good. It will tell you everything you need to know, welcome to Adelaide!”
"We don't have SAML support and we probably never will because SAML is a remote exploit that happens to sign you into web services" -- @firstyear on kanidm #EverythingOpen
@mattcen @itgrrl it’s also COMPLETELY APT that the MPAA did not license the music used in their iconic “you wouldn’t download a car” ad, and later faced legal action from the creator. #everythingopen
ETA: damn TIL that’s an urban legend https://torrentfreak.com/sorry-the-you-wouldnt-steal-a-car-anti-piracy-ad-wasnt-pirated-170625/
"You wouldn't download a car", ads shown by the MPAA in 2004 in cinemas and as unskippable sections of DVDs, recalled by @itgrrl . I also recall with glee that the *pirated* versions of these DVDS made those ads skippable.#EverythingOpen #EverythingOpenAllAtOnce
Day 2 of #EverythingOpen with @itgrrl talking Everything Open All At Once and relating everything open to the cultural phenomenon of EEAAO - and "what ifs".
In @KathyReid's talk, she primes the audience with the phrase "A long time ago …", and the audience completes "in a galaxy far, far away". It would have been cool to see what happened if she also primed with "a long, *long* time ago …" ("I can still remember …"). #EverythingOpen
The pilot was watching the mass gauges with one eye. “Hmmm, something has come adrift in cargo 2, I think”, she looked over to the flight engineer. “Can you check that for me, Span?”
Engineer McSwain unbuckled and floated free, “Onnit boss”.
Pilot officer Piper, having delegated, put the problem out of her mind and resumed monitoring the time until next main engine burn. Spanners would sort any problem.
The “problem” was about one twenty cm tall, soot stained, and wriggling.
“What” piper demanded as McSwain held the unexpected cargo by the collar in the door of the control cabin “are you doing on my ship?!”
“Solar Scout Janet McGee, capn!” replied the gangly teen, I hope you don’t mind but I’m checking off “Stow away to Mars” on my Astroletrics skill tree.
#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #everythingopen #eo2025
I referenced 4 kinds of hope yesterday when talking about hopepunk and bias for action. I found out about this from @susankayequinn’s newsletter https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/ep-18-the-power-of-hope
Give it a look if you’d like to get in deeper and understand why some kinds of hope are just throwing wishes into the air, while others are all about inspiring others and building excitement and community!
#EverythingOpen badge hacks! Write your name larger in Sharpie because the default font is unreadable at a distance! Also tie a small double-knot at the bottom of one side of the lanyard so it's not so ridiculously long! Find me for a Sharpie!
Huge issue I’m really noticing today at #EverythingOpen is a disregard for open source social tools.
MC said find us on fb and twitter. The talk I’m in now is pointing folk to Slack. A whole bunch of the speakers don’t seem to have bothered to setup any open source social media profiles.
If we don’t stand up for open source tools ourselves in our own open communities, we’re not very well placed to criticise the state of open software.
I’d love to see many more folk on mastodon, matrix etc
Cyber ratings by @daedalus
https://cybersecure.eigenmagic.com/
#EverythingOpen
