Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #Mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I intend to stay on and continue to advise the new leadership and contribute, because Mastodon—and the fediverse—is one of the very few beacons of hope for a better web.
Holy crap, Alien: Earth goes HARD.
This is one hell of a fun (and gory) ride so far. And it's GREAT Sci-Fi.
Also, the sets for Episodes 1 & 2 are superb!
Found a big spider in the mailbox, I think I'm moving to a different country. I hear Iceland is nice. This is also why I could never live in Australia.
You know how politicians often end up in high paying roles at private companies after they leave politics?
Sadly that also does happen in Iceland.
However the nation's previous President decided that he would rather go and work as a national park ranger this summer (during winter time he is a professor of history at the national university).
A bald man wearing a green outdoor jacket stands facing the camera. In the background is a paved surface and a flag pole with the Icelandic flag drawn. Further in the distance is the silhouette of the mountainous landscape.
To the surprise of no one a new investigation shows that carbon air capture company Climeworks is unable to offset even its own operations, let alone their clients.
And mind you that this is in Iceland, where these plants run on 100% renewable electricity.
A tall orange building stands under a heavy, foreboding sky. The upper part of the sky is a heavy brownish gray; towards the horizon is a reddish glow. The building stands on the right side of the painting. It's not modern architecture, and looks more like an old fortress: heavy walls, very few windows. It is orange, and almost seems to glow in the dark surroundings, as though it's lit by sunlight filtering through somewhere. The only sign that it's inhabited is a small window on the right side of the building, which is in shadow. That window glows an eerie green, casting a dull glow on the ground beneath it. A thin, winding trail leads away from the building towards the viewer. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
@csilverman This was taken in Iceland in the ~1920ish. It's the former home and workshop of artist Einar Jónsson who, in 1909, offered to give the nation all of his works on the condition that a home and a workshop would be built for him and his wife.
Parliament agreed and so this castle-like structure was built on top of a hill next to the town. It stood quite outside the town at the time, but is considered to be downtown today.
