maia sauren

06.07.2025 16:08 — 👍 91    🔁 7    💬 6    📌 0

Little Red Songbook - Wikipedia

Joe Hill, considered a Wobbly martyr, wrote new lyrics for popular hymns, so that when the Salvation Army band would strike up to drown out protesters, the protesters could use the music to sing their message, as well. Many of these are recorded in The Little Red Songbook.

05.05.2025 20:08 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

So yesterday we went to the May Day parade in South Minneapolis, and took some people who were new to town.

I ended up explaining the concept of May Day as a labor solidarity holiday, because it turns out that not everyone's grandad was 3/4 Wobbly.

05.05.2025 20:08 — 👍 26    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 4

nothing like trying to claim company credit to highlight malicious system design

24.02.2025 02:05 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

[googles] omg so they do! this one musta had its outside glass broken, you can see the edges inside the screwcap

31.01.2025 01:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

halogen, not LED. oops.

31.01.2025 01:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

close-up of wires twisted around each other at the junction between a small halogen globe and the innards of an older style light globe. the parts are held together with a copper clip

sadly the wire connections broke while trying to get the thing out of the light fitting so it will have to live on as memento only

31.01.2025 01:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

an LED globe connected to the inner stand of a screw globe using a copper clip. the bayonets of the LED are twisted into the powered wires of the screw globe. the screw part of the old globe is held in someone's hand

an LED globe connected to the inner stand of a screw globe using a copper clip. the bayonets of the LED are twisted into the powered wires of the screw globe. the screw part of the old globe is held in someone's hand

please enjoy this bizarre frankenglobe

someone broke the outside glass of edison screw, removed the filament, twisted the bayonets of an LED globe into its exposed the power wires, and connected the LED globe to the stand of the old globe using some kind of copper clip

effective but...why

31.01.2025 01:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

flashback to @yaakov.online's backward-running clock at his pyconAU talk that gave @nextdayvideo.bsky.social a heart attack until they figured out the recording wasn't accidentally mirroring www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWc2...

11.01.2025 06:02 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

a cream-coloured circular wall clock that's a mirror image of normal clocks, with a picture of the mad hatter on it

"you know how all the words on cars are just stuck on, like the brand name? have you considered sticking them on backwards?...not sure about the license plates tho"
"cops pull you over and you talk backwards at them"
"you'd have to explain you haven't committed the crime yet"

11.01.2025 05:56 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

pantone colour of the year 2024 is... millenial greige? www.pantone.com/color-of-the...

06.12.2024 02:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Loved 🥰 my first ever experience at #PyConAU. Sharing slides and code from @ned.sh and my talk ... "Serpents and Ducks: wrangling data with #Python and #DuckDB!"

🔗 github.com/ned2/duckdb-...

What an amazing collection of tasks. Definitely coming next year!

#DataBS #PyConAU #DuckDB #python

23.11.2024 06:37 — 👍 28    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

bit devastated to hear of richie poulton's death. he was the gentlest soul.

02.10.2023 13:15 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I used to work in a hospital and had more than one patient claiming it was against HIPAA to ask about their vaccination status. Were they American? No. Was the hospital? Even more no.

If you’re an NZ conspiracy theorist, you need to be misunderstanding the Privacy Act, not HIPAA. Show some pride.

29.09.2023 04:17 — 👍 88    🔁 12    💬 4    📌 1