map witch ebel ⛧ 🧙‍♀️🗺️🌍 @ebel@moytura.org

#HelpTshedyMap
Long time, and super active mapper Tshedy will spend next Friday on a 24 hr one woman #OpenStreetMap mapathon, to bring the map of #Lesotho to the next level of completeness.
An hour of your time mapping, or cheering on, can help.
#MapLesetho
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/tshedy/diary/48385

malcolm x was a fucking hero. rest in power.

"What you appear to be saying is that #OpenStreetMap doesn’t provide motorist-centric features like “real-time traffic maps”. As someone who thinks the world would be a whole bunch better if there were fewer cars, I’m good with that. "
👍👍🤣🤣
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19697531

Someone removed the burnded building:part's of #NotreDame in #OpenStreetMap
https://osmbuildings.org/?lat=48.85351&lon=2.34845&tilt=45&zoom=18.2&rotation=-21

I want to see a captcha where people have to type the text they see in images, but it's text like "Immigrants are human beings just like me", "The color of my skin does not make me better than other people", "LGBTQ+ people deserve all the rights that I have", etc.

Guys: “Well you know, there were many people working on those algorithms, it’s not only Katie Bouman work but rather a team effort.”

Also guys: “Elon Musk is sending rockets on Mars, he makes electric cars, he invented tunnels, he’s such a genius, I love him.”

RT @openstreetmap
State of the Map 2020: The call for venues is now open! Assemble your team and propose your city as host for the next OpenStreetMap conference! https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2019/04/16/state-of-the-map-2020-call-for-venues-open/

Some words for sexual orientations:

* sexual orientation = drawing or faining (fain is an archaic English word for desire; see https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fain )
* #asexual = undrawn or unfaining
* bisexual = twain-drawn or twain-fain
* gay (in the sense of homosexual) = same-drawn or same-fain
* gay (strictly in the sense of men loving men) = wer-drawn or wer-fain (wer or were is an archaic English word for a specifically male human, whereas "man" was a gender-neutral word for a human; see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wer#English )
* heterosexual = other-fain, else-fain, or else-drawn
* lesbian = lass-fain, lass-drawn, lady-fain, lady-drawn, or wif-fain (wif is a Middle English word for woman; see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wif#Middle_English )

Some words about gender:

* gender = kind
* assigned gender = allotted kind
* gender dysphoria = kind-woe
* #transgender = cross-kind
* transition = crossing
* cisgender = same-side-kind or stay-kind

Some words about nonbinary gender:

* gender binary = kind twofoldness
* binary genders = twain kinds
* #nonbinary = untwain
* genderfluid = kind-flow
* genderqueer = kind-queer
agender or genderless = kindless
* bigender = twi-kind
* neutral gender = fair-kind
* neutrois = fair-three

Building words from Germanic English roots is a fun linguistic experiment that is helpful when you find yourself overwhelmed with what we think of as "long words," which are of Greek or Latin origin. Wikipedia gives several examples of writings that attempted to do that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_purism_in_English
The #Anglish wiki has a lot of resources for if you want to try it too:
https://anglish.fandom.com/wiki/Main_leaf

tired: LUG meeting full of old white men who hate everything

wired: LUG meeting full of queer trans folk who hate everything but in a gay way

With VMware finally announcing its plans to remove the non-complying #GPL code, Hellwig decides not to appeal. The VMware case wraps up:
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/apr/02/vmware-no-appeal/