Kajo

Not much to complain about, we're having a nice September. /s

I just checked: there's absolutely no problem with this one. And even better: it produces a lot of nectar for the European bees.

They have 300 facial expressions for that.

It's quite common in the parks and gardens in the South of France, where it's nicknamed "rince-bouteille" (bottle rincer). I didn't know it came from Australia.

My niece, who disappeared months ago (she lives off grid, in an anarchist community), has reappeared. I'm going to spend the day with her.

Apart from that, I'm using my vacations to help my partner in her craft business to prepare a fan convention.

My partner is a craftswoman, and she'll soon be taking part in a fair. She does it 5-6 times a year, and during those times, I spend a lot of my free time assembling and sewing for her.

It's during these times that I watch to old series (actually, I'm more listening than watching). Right now, it's Supernatural. I didn't watch it with any regularity when it first came out.

As a user, I see federation as a system in which one login gives you access to several forums. A bit like Discord, except that Discord is more like chat rooms (the decentralized architecture is not my point).

For me this is a nice but useless feature. I don't mind having several accounts on several servers, I have a password manager.

And, actually, even in the fediverse, I have several accounts to limit the risk of doxing. I can talk about intimate stuff on beehaw (like being bisexual), because I'm someone else on other instance(s) when I talk about the subject of my PhD or my projects on GitHub.

Because they don't need to, as long as we keep believing their nice promises without looking if their old promises have been kept.

In a recent interview, Yara El-Ghadban (Palestinian-Canadian novelist, with a PhD in anthropology) made an interesting answer to this recurring question: by asking her "do you condemn Hamas?", the interviewer was questioning her humanity, and she didn't have to prove or justify her humanity.

I find this point of view interesting, because it turns the question on its head. Since the answer is obvious, what does it mean to ask this question, and why is it only asked of certain people?

I promise myself a reward, something a bit unusual that will directly activates the reward circuit, like a handcrafted pastry from a good bakery.

This news must be read in the French political context, where far-right ideas are corrupting the minds and islamophobia is the legal face of racism.

It's also a way for the government to divide the left, accusing it to promote islamist terrorism (which is obviously a fake).

I'm sorry to read that. I've seen in other posts you're jew, and living in Israel. I can't imagine how hard is it. I hope things will calm down and you'll find peace.