THE DEPARTURE https://www.yellow5.com/pokey/

#NEWPOKEYCOMIC

Bob Ross art from his 1983-94 TV show will be auctioned to support PBS.

30 paintings will be sold. Two were auctioned earlier this year for a combined $210K.

"I can’t think of a more meaningful way to share his works of art than by supporting public television"

https://apnews.com/article/bob-ross-auction-public-television-1029c1e91ac55d8030e6847310cebc59

#PBS #1980s

Honestly I think it's really fucking awesome that more uni students are getting diagnosed and given accommodations and supports they need, because they deserve what I didn't get and will have a better post-secondary education for it. They will thrive more than I have and I want that for other people.

Doing an ##introduction post for our new fedi friends! Rainbow Rodeo is a #zine and #blog that is proud to feature #CountryMusic #Americana #FolkMusic and more by #lgbtq artists!

#music #FediMusic

Albanian leks per brain

@wyatt ok. I boosted it. I have some more experienced common lispers following me on this account

(setq alist '(( '(9 5) . "sirius")))
(assoc '(9 5) alist :test #'equal)

tech to help a bunch of small businesses in the same industry and geographic region collaborate (to an extent) to compete against big tech / big national chains

what exists?

what's needed?

wait, what

https://hackaday.com/2025/10/07/qualcomm-introduces-the-arduino-uno-q-linux-capable-sbc/

first off, notoriously open-hostile Qualcomm bought open-everything Arduino? that's not a good development

secondly, the Arduino Uno Q is a Linux board in an Arduino form factor, with 2GB RAM (and 16GB Flash, making it the memory equal of my Wyse 3040s) - for $44? is this good or bad... i honestly can't tell

#lispyGopherClimate
https://communitymedia.video/w/1iDniLCpYPSPjxFww6TzJ9
#climateCrisis #haiku by @kentpitman
Thinking about scarcity.
Interesting #IT notes from @AmenZwa recently
@jackdaniel 's #McCLIM #commonLisp multi-input ! (And moving towards #WECL for a few weeks)
https://functional.cafe/@jackdaniel/115334363009353916
- My #NicCLIM #gamedev and Dungeon Crawler Carl #bookReview (AMA in #lambdaMOO #live)
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/nicclim-alpha-part-iii-map-edit-macros

I'm sure there was another topic. I think now just ping me in the hour before the show if you would like to be a guest

I'm looking to build out the Free Fridge & Community Pantries in my town.

I'll continue to update this thread with my progress.

So, the idea is to have nodes throughout town that allow folks to "Give a Food, Take a Food". Similar to "Little Free Libraries" are to books. Folks who have extra food can drop it off there, folks who need food can grab it there.

The focus here is mutual aid, not charity. So, absolutely, if you are food insecure or hungry, utilize it, right. Beyond that though, this is a great piece of infrastructure to share extra food with your neighbors. I will go down to the free fridge we have in town, drop off some of my extra produce that I have grown, and then pick up a can of black beans if I need it for dinner that night. We're meant to contribute AND utilize the free fridge.

There are many ways to create and maintain free fridges, from something as simple as a small box or outdoor cabinet on up to full stand up refrigerators and freezers with an outdoor pantry.

In general, you want it to be a couple of things:
- Accessible to the public
- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Unmanned
- No restrictions on who can utilize it or take food from it - it should NOT employ any means-testing
- Receive shelf stable food and/or refrigerated food and/or frozen food

Further, you can break up the different groups that are involved in the free fridge:
- The Host
- The Maintainers
- The Community

The Host - provides a location for the fridge and pantry to be installed and accessed. They also provide electricity to power the fridge/freezer

The Maintainers - this would be my group. We source, install, maintain, repair, and clean the fridge, freezer, and pantry.

The Community - contributes food to and utilizes food from the fridge and pantry. This is important. While the host provides the site and the Maintainers keep it operational, neither one has to stock food or coordinate utilization. The community does it themselves.

Having it split up like this is nice. Can folks from the Host group maintain it? Certainly. But extrapolating it allows for ease of use.

So. Keeping it stocked is up to the community. I've seen it stocked by gardeners who have extra produce (Zucchini turns folks into socialists is the joke! You just grow sooooo much you end up LOSING FRIENDS when you try to push it off on others!). I've seen it stocked through Food Rescue efforts. Some families buy extra from the grocery store and this is a great place to drop it off. I've even seen the local Food Bank drop off extra food when they had left overs from a food distribution.

Keeping it utilized is also easy. You don't want the fridge to stay stocked, right. You want it to stay in the fridge for as short a period of time as possible before someone comes and grabs it. Heck! I've seen a food rescue of fresh produce from a farmer's market vendor be dropped off at a free fridge and then claimed by several families even before it had a chance to be placed physically into the fridge! This is ideal. One fridge and pantry needs to serve the local neighborhood. That's many many families. It can only do so if its filled up and then utilized multiple times a day.

Next post, I'll put some resources on starting your own in your town.

#freeFridge #foodScarcity #foodSecurity #postScarcity #solarPunk #mutualAid

I got a "little jewel" radio.

It's a Westinghouse, manufactured in 46.

My friend @jjb who is not active on Mastodon, made a cool tool to find PBS sites that need funding the most called Keep Media Public (https://keepmediapublic.org) 1/3
(Updated with current, active account)

Pac-Man World 2

🏢 Namco Hometek
📅 2002
🖥 Game Boy Advance, GameCube, PS2, Windows, Xbox

#videogames

woah #Arduino was just acquired by #Qualcomm
https://chaos.social/@ishotjr/115333160605070505