Started reading: The Alchemy of Air by Thomas Hager 📚 #amReading #booksky

Wow! Talk about lifelong learning 💪👴🏻👏

an online course registration form showing the age restriction as 13-150!

Happy Setsubun 👹

It’s that time of year to eat a big sushi roll 🍣 in the 西南西やや西 direction and watch preschool kids be traumatized! 😊

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Plate of various items to put into sushi: kamaboko, egg, natto, raw tuna, etc

All the different bilinguals in my home

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So much #FOSDEM FOMO … just look at all those stickers!!

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What a day… what a week… time for a nice Ethiopian coffee break ☕️

Small double walled glass tumbler with a glass Hario serving pot in the background, both vessels full of the clear brown liquid bean juice, sitting atop of a wooden tray. It is meditation time!

4 o’clock in the morn… up making tea, hot compresses, and decongesting the kid who can’t sleep. 💤

Happy Lunar New Year! 🌕 🧧 🐍

A box of Taiwanese rice cake with Asian pears in the background Pot of Taiwanese tea, slices of Asian pear, and a slice of fried rice cake

stuck deep in the walled gardens of our various web apps, none of which talk to each other. We have to log into things twenty times a day. Everything is a subscription, or selling our data for ads. Nothing “just works”.

@ruperts.world from Unternet has an idea of where we go from here.

Organizing Community Thriving

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Very much enjoyed my time at UBC today. Just caught the sunset on the drive home. The edge of Canada!

Dusk. From a high cliff the shallow waters of the ocean. In the far distance is Vancouver Island, above which the sky is orange from sunset. Above the sky turns dark blue of evening

Lovely sunny day at the University of British Columbia where I am touring the new Emerging Media Lab. I graduated from UBC in 2001 and things are quite different. I love the energy on campus! This is part of that ✨✌️#VancouverEnergy ✌️⚡️

The classic stone front of the old Main Library. It has been massively renovated and updated and is a lot bigger on the inside.

This new stage of “post”-capitalism does not look emancipatory, but more like techno-capitalist authoritarianism.

🗣 “For the tech elite, politics offers what overtapped markets can no longer guarantee: new returns.”

🗣 “Rather than prognosticate, now is the time to prepare our collective response.”

Current status: up past midnight helping daughter study for math final

Oh this looks like some interesting reading from @zelf@sunbeam.city

(h/t @aynish@merveilles.town)

#OpenSource #P2P #LocalFirstSoftware

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Not really a milestone, but a good round number 🧘 #meditation

Screenshot from insight timer showing 300 consecutive days of meditation

Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I’ll never reach it. So what’s the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.

— Eduardo Galeano

#quotes

My lovely wife 💞 flew to Kelowna today for a Kelowna Japanese Language Society event. She sent some pics of the Rockies mountains 🏔️ and Okanagan Lake 🛶 for you all

Photo from airplane showing the wing and rugged snow capped mountains belowPhoto from airplane window showing airplane wing and a large lake below

Okay. Back home. Tucked in. It’s 2:30am. Time to go to sleep finally. 💤