Simon Brooke @simon_brooke@social.yyy.scot
Definitely mad, possibly bad, but not particularly dangerous to know.
OK, friends, this is social.yyy.scot, social media for folk in Scotland. It will run until the 30th June, and then the folk who use it will have a vote on whether it's worth keeping.
Oh, bother. :refer :all doesn't work in ClojureScript. Took me an hour to track that down.
@priryo @thinkMoult @simon_brooke
Hmm, it is depressing how far back the disposable culture goes. That said I'm a fan of Bakelite, though it isn't recyclable ,it tended to be used for long-use products.
The main problem is that we don't measure the true cost of plastic, only the manfacturing cost.
@fitheach @thinkMoult @simon_brooke
This podcast had interesting stuff about the introduction of "disposable" plastic:
http://longnow.org/seminars/02012/may/22/eternal-plastic-toxic-love-story/
Includes: Advertising campaigns were needed to persuade people to not reuse polystyrene cups at water fountains.
And not quite amphorae but chai sellers in #India used to use unglazed clay pots to sell the tea in. Drink, throw away, it turns to dust. That may be gone now in favour of plastic cups.
@priryo @fitheach @simon_brooke absolutely. We used to have a culture of reuse and repair, but sometime between the grandparents and the children nowadays it was lost.
Another movement which is gaining momentum is zero waste. Australia now has a successful franchise called "The Source" inspired by Bea Johnson which sells zero waste ethical food - no packaging, no receipts, pay per weight, bring your own container.
NHS at 70: We depend on EU nationals – that’s why Scotland must set its own immigration policy
"Scotland cannot mitigate every cut and cost thrown at us by Westminster, but I would urge Nicola Sturgeon to stay true to her promise last year to pay for the settled status of every EU national working in our public services – to do so makes an important and bold statement about the welcoming and inclusive country we aspire to be."
@thinkMoult @simon_brooke
The change of approach re plastic bags seems to be gathering momentum, worldwide. Good! In Scotland they aren't banned, but there is a charge for them. This has changed attitudes and usage.
Disposable blades were an early introduction; wine & spirit bottles even earlier. Not sure if amphorae were returnable 😉
Obviously, it's designed to be used on mobile phones, but a stylus is needed for the signature widget.
Click on one of the flags on the map; from that point on, it's all SUPPOSED to be intuitive. Let me know if it works for you!
A second prototype of the #ProjectHope #youyesyet #indyref2 canvasser app is now up for comments. At present it works on Chrome and Android, doesn't work on Firefox, isn't tested on iPhone. Comments and feedback welcome.
@fitheach @simon_brooke as of first July, the major supermarkets in Sydney stop using one time use plastic bags.
I also heard somewhere that Gillette may have introduced the disposable culture with their razors. Other companies followed when they found how profitable it was.
We can't acknowledge North Korea because we can't give legitimacy to a regime that conducts such horrible human rights abuses!
*looks looks away as Saudi Arabia's religious police lock a bunch of schoolgirls in a burning building because they're trying to escape without putting on their hijabs*
*ignores the largest prison population in human history within its own borders*
Here's a wee tool which might be useful
http://clojure-goes-fast.com/blog/latency-tool-jvm-hiccup-meter/
#Clojure
"Choosing proprietary tools and services for your free software project ultimately sends a message to downstream developers and users of your project that freedom of all users—developers included—is not a priority."
— Matt Lee on #GitHub vs. #GitLab in Linux Journal, July 2018
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/git-your-july-2018-issue-linux-journal-now-available
One of the issues with the #ProjectHope canvassing app has been what to do about #GDPR. Here's an experimental solution which is working now.
Comments?
@simon_brooke yeah that's a handy pattern, I ended up doing something similar here ;)
https://github.com/yogthos/memory-hole/blob/master/src/clj/memory_hole/routes/services/common.clj
I am struggling with a weird problem - re-frame app, it's definitely recompiling because I see changes I make, but it's showing one panel that definitely doesn't exist any more anywhere in the codebase. WTF?
@jd Continue!
I am lucky to have mostly escaped traditional "work", so am not annoyed as often on Mondays... but happy to join in anyway!
Should I revive this #MondayAnarchy mastodon effort, or not? Many months ago I initiated this to start a conversation around anarchism or socialism etc starting every monday (when people are annoyed with going to work).
Continue? What should be the next question? theme? or issue?
a #Clojure library for generative coding or glitching
https://github.com/Clojure2D/clojure2d
@simon_brooke
I'll be loving it, right up to the point where we run out of water (we have our own water supply).
When you do a lot of work outside, in a place with changeable conditions, the weather forecast is important.
However, we have had weeks of dry, sunny weather and, consequently, I hardly bother looking at the forecast.
Is this, what it is like to live in California?