marnanel @marnanel@queer.party

So apparently some of you have not seen the Durex cucumber sandwiches advert

https://youtu.be/xIXX0c01kCA

Unexpected trans hazards: I now have very manly spectacles

(Yes, obvious joke is obvious)

@garbados @June @vector re IWW developer organising: are youse in the US or UK or where?

Software project needs contributors! How do you go about finding them?

kepi is an ActivityPub library for Django, and a daemon based on it. It lets you do e.g.

$ kepi post "Hello world"

and to assign hook scripts for things like "item liked" or "new follower".

I would rather like not to be the only one working on this :)

https://gitlab.com/marnanel/kepi

I am rather amused to discover that Facebook serves JS which uses the identifier "__SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED".

I highly recommend "My Friend Mr Leakey", and there's a complete copy online here.

It's not long, and funny and charming, and surprisingly progressive for 1937. The author was an English communist atheist genetics professor who later became an Indian citizen.

There's even a brief trans moment.

http://jbshaldane.org/books/1937-My-Friend-Mr%20Leakey/haldane-1937-my-friend-mr-leakey.html

Photo of Donna Gottschalk in 1970, holding a placard saying "I am your worst fear. I am your best fantasy." False colour by me.

We blundered down the High Street
We stumbled through the park
With a treasure chest at midnight
Buried treasure in the dark
But our buckets and our shovels
Were too dark to meet the eye
If a man should kick the bucket
Well, that man should surely die
So we found a supermarket
Where some buckets were on sale
And we asked them most politely

For a whiter

Shade of pail.

From Twitter:

Just passed the masonic hall in Manchester, which has had the word "masonic" removed from its front, so it now just says "Manchester Hall". But the front space is occupied by a cafe, which is called "Mason's".