Christine Malec / is on Nostr

Musician, space geek, interviewer, intellectual busybody, lowkey agitator

Last Notes

2024-06-20 00:42:06

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@npub1lv4…ru5g Fantastic alt text! Thanks! Bugs are so weird seeming/sounding. As a blind person I appreciate the little editorial bits that help me contextualize...

2024-04-12 17:56:37

This NASA documentary about sonifications has had a shocking number of views, second only to the eclipse last week. Astronomical sonifications map data to sound. All the people love them, but they’re especially valuable for blind and low vision folk. I’m so chuffed to be a part of the whole thing. https://plus.nasa.gov/video/listen-to-the-universe/

2024-02-17 04:24:38

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@npub18r2…px49 A public on line talk? ...curious ...

2024-01-30 05:27:57

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@npub1lv4…ru5g Lovely alt text: thanks!

2024-01-09 02:13:56

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@npub1waj…c4zf Will you be providing Aramaic translation?

2023-12-20 04:44:02

I know I'm not the first to ask this question, but what do low-income parents say to their kids who believe in Santa, about why kids with rich parents get better gifts? I grew up pretty middle class so I never thought about it. Serious question, as I'm not a parent.

2023-12-07 03:50:18

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@npub18lj…80hq Toward the end of packing for a tramatic move, aren't they all? I was getting tired of waiting for my water bed to drain, so, knowing full well that there were mettle brackets sticking up from the base, I yanked as hard as I could on the water bag thinking to drag it into the bathroom to pour directly into the bathtub. Part of me knew what would happen but I was so over rot that I did it anyway. It ended the only way it could.

2023-10-06 01:02:19

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@npub145u…hq7w This sounds like the beginning of a movie where a porthole is about to open up in your front hall. Be careful on your adventure brave wayfarer.

2023-10-04 00:53:51

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 The archeologist and writer Ronald Right, in his 2004 Massey Lectures described our technology and the resources used to create it as, "like climbing a ladder while kicking the rungs out under us as we go." I think about that a lot, and whether it's possible to build a comfortable efficient technology that doesn't do this. Steam punk?

2023-09-11 04:20:33

Off to a rental cottage on Lake Huron for a week tomorrow. Though I will have to do some work, the tiny amount of existential angst this will generate will be easily drowned in the hot tub, or the lake, depending on the temperature and time of day.

2023-08-28 03:27:32

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@npub189n…satx Up against the wall I say. They knew what they were doing.

2023-08-24 01:51:01

Oh Mastodonian alt text writers, I salute you one and all! I love it here! birds, insects, cityscapes, funny memes, I can finally enjoy them!

2023-08-16 01:55:14

I'll say it again, summer music festivals are fucking awesome! Shanty festival in New Bronswick, friendly people, well organized, excellent musicians, people bursting out into song everywhere! Met a second cousin who's a fantastic fiddler, sang along to so many favourites! #MyHappyPlace

2023-08-02 17:23:16

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@npub1cz0…wk5s Hmm, Boudica springs to mind but I'm sure you've already got that one.

2023-07-27 05:48:50

As a blind Mastodonian who is made happy by alt text every day, I'd like to request anyone who feels inclined or able, to post and describe insects. I've really enjoyed the occasional alt text describing flying and crawling things.

2023-07-12 02:29:01

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@npub1qzc…yetl I hear this so clearly, and yet, as much as I think about these things I don't know how to prepare for famine. Hens? A worm farm? Or when things get that bad do I really want a survival strategy?

2023-05-31 03:37:47

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@npub1gr8…c639 I'm so sorry, wordless compassion.