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@amcewen I saw this last weekend, and thought you might find it interesting! https://youtu.be/vm6FnjL3STw Looking forward to an analogue...

@amcewen I saw this last weekend, and thought you might find it interesting! https://youtu.be/vm6FnjL3STw Looking forward to an analogue @museuminabox for the hipster market.

Letters of Note is a fairly hit and miss subscription, but yesterday’s edition, with two letters from Jackie Kennedy in the days after her...

Letters of Note is a fairly hit and miss subscription, but yesterday’s edition, with two letters from Jackie Kennedy in the days after her husband was killed (60 years ago yesterday) was really touching as I read it over my morning coffee: https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/thank-you-mr-president

“What Happened to Hackerspaces?” – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37981294 – I’d be interested to hear what the...

“What Happened to Hackerspaces?” – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37981294 – I’d be interested to hear what the @DoESLiverpool members and organisers make of this thread from Hacker News. It’s certainly not an easy model to make work, but has it got harder over time? #weeknotes

Love this rolling footbridge mechanism at Cody Dock, East London. Designed by architect Thomas Randall-Page 😍...

Love this rolling footbridge mechanism at Cody Dock, East London. Designed by architect Thomas Randall-Page 😍 https://kottke.org/23/10/the-cody-dock-rolling-bridge found via @kottke

Any #bandcamp customers (like me) may want to preemptively download and backup #FLAC copies of their purchased music, because fuck knows...

Any #bandcamp customers (like me) may want to preemptively download and backup #FLAC copies of their purchased music, because fuck knows whether the new owners will keep it accessible forever.

There are some scripts out there to download your whole library in one go, eg: https://github.com/RyanBluth/Bandcamp-Greasy (greasemonkey), https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader (python)

#Epic Games sells #Bandcamp barely 18 months after buying it – to #Songtradr, a B2B marketing company. #enshitification here we come....

#Epic Games sells #Bandcamp barely 18 months after buying it – to #Songtradr, a B2B marketing company. #enshitification here we come. It’s mad that Bandcamp isn’t already a worker-owned #coop. https://thequietus.com/articles/33440-epic-games-sells-bandcamp-to-songtradr

One for the @DoESLiverpool #weeknotes audience – our own JR, photographing a half a million year old wooden “structure” (shelter?...

One for the @DoESLiverpool #weeknotes audience – our own JR, photographing a half a million year old wooden “structure” (shelter? walkway? prehistoric park bench?) to get a 3D model for analysis.

From: @frabcus
https://mastodon.social/@frabcus/111099881584948717

What is this fever dream… @amcewen @defnetmedia and Kirsty bringing #igniteliv to a close with impromptu Queen karaoke!? #weeknotes...

What is this fever dream… @amcewen @defnetmedia and Kirsty bringing #igniteliv to a close with impromptu Queen karaoke!? #weeknotes @DoESLiverpool

Want to protect the #environment? Reduce #plastic #waste? Melt things with #lasers? ⚠️ The amazing @plastacs are running a £25 workshop...

Want to protect the #environment? Reduce #plastic #waste? Melt things with #lasers? ⚠️ The amazing @plastacs are running a £25 workshop on turning bottle tops into gorgeous notebook covers – lots of hands on training and advice, for you to do all sorts of awesome stuff with waste plastic in the future. Saturday 7th October at @DoESLiverpool 👉 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/702453416077 #weeknotes #reuse #recycle

Wow, could this be the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen come off a @DoESLiverpool laser cutter!? #weeknotesFrom:...

Wow, could this be the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen come off a @DoESLiverpool laser cutter!? #weeknotes

From: @DoESLiverpool
https://does.social/@DoESLiverpool/111081378179913556

Great episode of On The Media #podcast with @doctorow discussing the enshittification of the internet and the devices we use every day....

Great episode of On The Media #podcast with @doctorow discussing the enshittification of the internet and the devices we use every day. Walks through some great examples, like Amazon, Facebook, and Spotify. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-how-big-tech-went-to-shh #recommending

Super useful list of #iOS #Mastodon apps. FWIW I’ve only tried @mammoth so far, but it seems great! Very intuitive and very...

Super useful list of #iOS #Mastodon apps. FWIW I’ve only tried @mammoth so far, but it seems great! Very intuitive and very customisable.

From: @technicat
https://universeodon.com/@technicat/109944559898393821

#introductionI’m Zarino, a #design and #tech person based in #Liverpool, UK. I currently lead the Climate Programme at the #democracy...

#introduction

I’m Zarino, a #design and #tech person based in #Liverpool, UK. I currently lead the Climate Programme at the #democracy charity #mySociety.

In my spare time, I run the Liverpool chapter of the #AwesomeFoundation, I’m a board member for a CIC improving quality of life for Liverpool residents, and I’m a semi-organiser at my local co-working/makerspace, @DoESLiverpool.

Interests include: #accessibility #humanrights #lego #linux #macos #opensource #parkitect #transrights #ux