solilo guy @dirk@computerfairi.es

In case you have not yet picked up Kate Beaton's : Two Years in the Oil Sands and need convincing, the book just won two well-deserved Eisners. (Also, I've not been able to keep the book on my shelf because I keep lending it to people.) #comics @comics

Latest comic: Pick your social network!

#socialmedia #internet #tech #authoritarianism

I’m still Marveling that these two comics separately dealing with access to comics for blind readers came out within a week of each other! Pick up Fantastic Four 9 by Ryan North & co at your local comic shop & read AND listen to my colleague Emily Beitiks here
https://spinweaveandcut.com/mitcomic/

Here are the first spectacular images of the ongoing eruption in the #Fagradalsfjall area, in Iceland. According to aerial images, at least two distinct eruptive fractures a few hundred meters long appear to have opened. 📸 Jakob Vegerfors

Happy Enshitification Day! 💥

July 1, 2023: Reddit cuts off API access, Twitter requires login, Youtube may ban ab-blockers, Meta and Google block news in Canada...

A half-year since Cory Doctorow's seminal thesis on #enshitification, how corporate platforms die (https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys), and every corporate site seems hell bend on their own destruction.

Celebrate Enshitification Day by going to [instance address]/about, find the donations link, and make your contribution to open social media!

A great example of how to handle a trans character:

1. Deadname is left as jibberish to prevent its use by assholes

2. Deadname does not hold power over the character

I’m looking for a couch to crash on in Berlin, for myself and @mkf, from 24th (as in, Saturday of next week), for a few days - at most a week, possibly less if we decide to also visit a friend in München before the end of the month.

The main point of the trip is to visit the local queer nerd community, so obviously being hosted by those is preferred.

Boosts/mentions of locals who might be able to help appreciated.

We’ll definitely be visiting CCCB, c-base and AfRA, in case anyone wants to meet.

#Iceland suspends annual whale hunt in move that likely spells end to controversial practice - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/21/iceland-suspends-annual-whale-hunt-in-move-that-likely-spells-end-to-controversial-practice great news - well done, Icelandic government... #whaling

30 Queer Graphic Novels for Pride Month

https://www.comicsbeat.com/30-queer-graphic-novels-for-pride-month/

#comics #PrideMonth #LGBTQ

*That's pretty bad news

Illustrations of the “utsuro-bune” (hollow ship), complete with inhabitant, reported to have washed up on the coast of Japan in 1803. Was this a castaway from the West? An embellished folktale? Or even, as some suppose, an extraterrestrial visit? https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/utsuro-bune #ufo

Grundarfjörður ❤️