Pictures of the year: Landscapes
A drone view shows water from melting ice running down the side of the Turtmann glacier on a warm summer day, amid climate change, in Turtmann, #Switzerland, September 3. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
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Here's an updated view of the 12-month running mean global temperature, which is a simple metric that provides insight on climate change and climate variability.
+ Graphic from global climate change indicators: zacklabe.com/climate-change-in…
Climate change indicators
All data are referenced at My visualizations: Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness Arctic Temperatures Antarctic Se…Zachary Labe
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100 London advertising sites hacked to protest mass consumerism
Tax wealth — Created by anonymous artist network Brandalism, the action comes ahead of Black Friday, when UK shoppers are expected to spend £6.5 billion as brands run discounted sales of their products.TCO London Publishing
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Just after taking the previous photo, I incidentally moved my camera a bit and found this in the monitor.
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@Natanox Both Tipeee and Patreon have found that only 1% of their creators use the "per-creation" model. It seems they're streamlining their features to focus on more popular options.
Patreon initially planned to switch to the new model in Nov2025, but due to technical issues with a payment processor (Apple), they've postponed the deadline several times. Tipeee recently announced a Jan2026 deadline, so I've decided to move both platforms to the new monthly subscription model at the same time.
Thank you for your words and your support since the first episodes!As you can imagine, this change affects me so much... That's why I'm releasing three comic pages to talk about it. 😅
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🔗 The 'links :
- Patreon: patreon.com/c/davidrevoy
- Tipeee: en.tipeee.com/pepper-carrot/
- Liberapay: liberapay.com/davidrevoy/
- EveryLinks: davidrevoy.com/linktree/
And a quick FAQ on the blog: davidrevoy.com/article1106/fro…
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@WTL Good question 👍
The change will take effect on Patreon on 12 January. Until then, the page still shows 'per-content'.
This is because I have decided to give one month's notice to allow my patrons to adjust their budgets. (Don't worry though: I won't release the 'per-content' mechanism during this period.)
(To fund Liberapay, you have to support them... on Liberapay.)
And I can donate to them too, which is nice.
maybe I should just use liberapay instead like I do for my Fediverse instance.
Edit: I switched to Liberapay.
@Tywele Monthly or yearly? It certainly will depend on how much you pay in fees when you transfer money. If your bank charges high fees, it may be better to transfer money in one lump sum. If the fees are small or zero, monthly payments are great.
My preferred platform is Liberapay because the creator and admin are on Mastodon and the platform doesn't take 5%.
Thank you 💜
@Notus Thank you very much for your support! 💜
Liberapay always prefered (from the start) to not include a per-content system. So, since I have the account (back in 2017) I receive 'weekly' donation on it.
Liberapay allows me to download a table with the donation amount and date, and so, with a little table-math I can convert this into a monthly thing and merge the names on the credit ( I'm trying to standardize this to peppercarrot.com/ext/credits-a… )
I will probably move over to librepay since you are the only creator I support on Patreon. I also like the idea of you getting my full support instead of partial payment.
I'm surprised that you didn't do month to month sooner cause of your new web comic. It's always daunting having to go from freelance, to your own thing, but if you have to step away for a bit due to burnout, don't be afraid to take a break. I'll still support you regardless.
C'est corrigé !
Just signed up to support you via Tipeee but it sounds like Liberapay would be better so I'll change over to that.
The copies I ordered of The Potion of Flight and The Art of Pepper & Carrot are both fantastic, by the way!!!
I'm so happy to hear you say it worked!
To me, the monthly support just feels better even if it didn't make a difference financially. Instead of paying in return for something (which is a transaction), it feels like more like supporting the ongoing work and life of a great artist that has given so much to free/libre culture.
@oscherler You didn't invitent: mid 2024, after problem in the production (cancelling an episode almost done) and during a long period of personal struggle and feeling down, I announced the end on a blog post.
That was a mistake. I wish I never published that blog-post.
I retracted, but the idea circulated well, way faster than the other blog-posts saying I wanted to continue the series.
I'm continuing Pepper&Carrot series, I love it too much. I just had a very bad time. Sorry for that.
It’s so much of the money donated to you goes to the platform or to the platform. The app people donate through is installed on..
It would be nice to have a way where artists got the money without a digital bridge toll extracting their tribute
@GhostOnTheHalfShell Yes, both Patreon and Tipeee takes 5%.
The solution you mention about a bridge without this fee exists: liberapay.com/davidrevoy/
Merci!
(à 44 ans, je ne sais pas ce que c'est d'avoir un salaire, je suis Freelance depuis ... mes 18 ans. Alors voilà voilà, l'inconnu 😅 )
you might want to change the denomination of your membership options on patreon. I see 5€/month in the overview of all my memberships, but when looking at your membership options it still shows as "x€ / episode".
I really enjoy the short stories you post here. I hope(expect) you will beginn posting them on patreon too, once the switch to monthly is done?
Yes I saw it and I'm afraid I can't change it at the moment. Patreon will make the change on their side one month after I publicly announce it. It's all part of their policy for moving accounts around.
Just to let you know, I won't be posting the episode until the 12th of January. (the effective date for my first monthly) :)
I'll post something on Patreon to let my supporters know about it.
(edit: forgot to say, thank you )
I am not in a position right now to financially support you, but I will try to spread the word about your work since I do enjoy your comics.
I hope you have the best of luck.
@gws Ha ha, you mentioned something that made me struggle while drawing this announcement. At first, I drew a little guy with a two-day beard and a brown haircut, sitting at my desk in front of my monitors.
But I was worried it wouldn't be really iconic, so I decided to go with Pepper as my avatar. I was fine with it, as I often used her for various things, but maybe it's a bit awkward in the end. 😅
Imo per content model is dangerous anyway. It rewards churning out quantity rather than quality. It means that an artist might need to release unfinished stuff just for the sake of being able to pay their bills. And for the supporter it is unsafe because there is little control to how much you pay. If someone pays 5€ per creation, assuming 1 creation per month, and suddenly you turn in 1 creation per day or something this might be more than the person can or wants to afford.
So per month or something means stabilty for both artist and supporter, just extra effort is not awarded. Per creation creates pressure for the artist and exchanges uncertainty of delivery for uncertainty in when and how much you pay.
I'm a freelancer working 'per task' since I was 18. I only knew that: making the work, getting paid, and I'm 44 years old 😅 ... I really hope this change will be a good thing!
This is different to a typical artist thing. The difference here is that we are not paying for the result. We are paying for the process. For you keeping the project up and sharing the result with the world. And everyone of us will have different expectation. But I think most of us do not have a problem with you taking time. With you choosing to do some freelance project when you feel like it. With you taking a break when you need it. Don't feel indebted to us or that you need to meet certain performance goals here.
And sure, your Liberapay donations are not a major income. Still, guaranteed 400€ a month is not at all nothing. It is enough to afford food if everything else fails. If this change in Patreon goes well you will have a decent bit more monthly support. But still probably nothing in the range of full-time remuneration. So you should not treat this as a 100% job. Treat this as what it is: A small support from your community, to make sure you can continue doing what you do.
Language is said to be humankind's greatest accomplishment. But what is language actually good for? It performs poorly at representing reality. It is a constant source of distraction, misdirection, and overshadowing. In fact, N. J. Enfield notes, language is far better at persuasion than it is at objectively capturing the facts of experience. Language cannot create or change physical reality, but it can do the next best thing: reframe and invert our view of the world. In Language vs. Reality, Enfield explains why language is bad for scientists (who are bound by reality) but good for lawyers (who want to win their cases), why it can be dangerous when it falls into the wrong hands, and why it deserves our deepest respect. — mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548465…
Hardback already out, paperback comes in march 2024#books #language #science #semantics #media #literature #propaganda #publicrelations
#njenfield #enfield #languagevsrealityBook Details - MIT Press
MIT Press - Book DetailsThe MIT Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"The state we're all in is appalling," he said. "We're all too rich. We're consuming all these things in the world. And we can't. It's unsustainable."
Source : bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5m0m…
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Photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73
Parr rose to prominence in the mid 1980s, his colourful images capturing British life.Noor Nanji (BBC News)
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Thank you to those who are helping TROM monthly! Our first goal is to reach 100 monthly donors to kickstart a new video series for TROM, bring back TROMnews and provide 20GB storage space for our Nextcloud install (TROM Files) for everyone.
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Everything we do is trade-free. No bullshit.
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Meet the independent European Do It Together Linux phone.
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The independent European Do It Together (DIT) Linux phone, shaped by the people who use it.Jolla Shop
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Attached: 1 image 🐧 Jolla chystá svůj druhý mobil se Salifish OS postaveném na Linuxu https://infoek.infoek.cz :archlinux: (Mamutovo)
looks interesting, but 500€ for pre-orders and even 600€ - 700€ is quite expensive for me.
Longevity of my phones is determined by wear and tear, and accidents breaking the display. So, 350€ is my personal limit, with ideal around 200€ and less.
Wish there was a low-spec variant of Linux phone.
I need just calls, microSDXC storage, and good enough camera for documentation photos,... and performance, for non-demanding apps I use, is irrelevant.
God, didn't expect y'all to go from collecting suggestions to announcement this quickly hahaa
Bu nedenle almayı istesek de alamıyoruz.
the thing to worry about is that android support. I'm still pissed a little how it was done on the first jolla where the proprietary blobs that implement it or wtv stopped being updated for later android api versions because of their contracts or wtv it was about. And hopefully no more btrfs as the file system, that thing required me to manually fsck the system or wtv to reclaim space at the time.
Replaceable battery & expandable storage makes it better than most things in the market.
Really, European? That's cool!
Where is it made?
It's crazy that practically all phone manufacturing happens in Asia these days :(
People are sharing their "Spotify unwrapped" analyses of what they listened to on the streamer this year.
So here's mine.
Nothing. Zilch. Nada.
Give your money to the artists, not the megalomaniac billionaire techbros.
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On a more basic level, wtf does it even mean? "You know that music you've been listening to all year - this is it"
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mine ..
Serial killers podcast
That's it.
And now moved to another podcast app
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I would like to virtue signal the absence of music streaming apps in my life, but I'm sure that's in part my lousy rural internet.
At least virtue and practicality have coincided for the last decade 
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I steam because it is convenient and gives me more of a mix. I also purchased a good amount of songs this year. They aren't mutually exclusive. Plus doing both is technically even better for the artist, as they get the purchase and the click
Edit: I am also a student, so I don't have infinite amount of money every month. And I know a lot of people who are off worse to a point where even spending 1€ can be a big ask
One alternative would be to find songs with FreeTube/Invidious download with yt-dlp and convert the tracks into the format of your choice with ffmpeg.
Then you could put your music on to an mP3 player and listen in private.
Besides the initial downloads the techbros would not be able to gather any more useful data about you while you were listening. Nor push ads at you.
If you find something you really like then buy the album/track or, even better go to a live concert.
But I really dig my Cars CD anthology with rainbow flake glitter slipcover.
Never going to use Spotify ever again.
"So here's mine.
Nothing. Zilch. Nada."
Same here. I buy CDs, rip 'em, and listen to my MP3 collection with WinAmp.
@TonyPrintezis Seems like a good time to promote GetMusic - getmusic.fm/ - free BandCamp codes provided by artists to help new listeners discover them.
I've found some fantastic stuff this year using GM that I probably wouldn't have otherwise.
Today I learned that NASA has a collection of free ebooks that can be downloaded as pdfs or ebub format.
The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books!
science.nasa.gov/multimedia/sc…
Science e-Books
From Earth and the other planets in our solar system, to supermassive black holes and the distant galaxies that contain them, explore NASA science and imagery through our library of e-books.Colleen Kaiser (NASA Science)
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@angelthorns Thank you 💜 I try to record all of them, they take me two day (and long day, from morning to very late) to produce. Here is a small timelapse for this one: peppercarrot.com/0_sources/min…
I collect all of them here peppercarrot.com/0_sources/min… (but I need to make a better page for displaying them, of course! On my todo)
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To be honest, I'm surprised that the headmaster didn't ask the Avian Intelligence and *it* said that according to investors, the Avian Intelligence program represents the future of magic. Still, yes, pretty much!
I've had a thought - Familiars are meant to form a special bond with a magic user to help guide them along their own unique path. If they all have the same familiar then, even if it did work, that would really hurt their culture overall. It would become too homogeneous.
About the sources, I wrote something on this topic, maybe for next week. I see more and more LLMs trying to quote their sources; wikipedia article or webpage (eg. Mistral recently).
from the past of Magic:
gatherer.wizards.com/GU/en-us/…
SCNR 😇
Wing Snare MTG - Urza's Legacy #117 (English) | Magic: The Gathering
Official MTG details and rulings for Wing Snare, Sorcery from GU (117) (English). Read official rules and rulings directly from Magic: The Gathering.Magic: The Gathering Card Database
Under the hood, it runs on a Vibe Cast System. This keeps a history of summ-its, and allows anyone access to the source.
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/VCS
...over at our academy, anyway. Not sure these investors would allow that.
please let's just all go back to the original book of spells: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structur…
#SICP #lisp #scheme #programming
"In retrospective, this lead to what is now called the 'Great Chasm' in Revoy's work, exposing a large audience to the exploits of Eva Lu Ator and the horrors and wonders of Lisp..."
@wakame yes it's pretty expensive unfortunately
Btw the recordings of the original lectures are still available too. The most magical lecture is the one about the metacircular evaluator :)
ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-001-stru…
MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare is a web based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activityMIT OpenCourseWare
"Aivian inteligence will be the end of you elitist wizards and your controll over what you want to create!
Also do hou wanna buy me a golem? I kinda saving for my new sould core. Prices have skyrocket since this things came out.
Also can that fish listen to them? It's eye kinda moved to look at who is talking.
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They say, 'Do not idle the engine.' Oh, please—cancel all roadworks, make public transport free all day, and allow people to take paid days off work. You greedy, short-sighted bureaucrats have completely lost the plot—who you are, how you got here, and where you’re even headed.
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High pollution warning issued for London by City Hall
City Hall says strong sunshine and hot weather are expected to trigger high ozone levels.James W Kelly (BBC News)
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in reply to earthling • • •A woman walks her dog beneath dark skies on the beach as a storm named Bram approaches New Brighton, #Britain, December 9. REUTERS/Phil Noble
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in reply to earthling • • •Wild bluebells, which bloom around mid-April, turning the forest floor blue, form a carpet in the Hallerbos, also known as the 'Blue Forest', in Halle, near Brussels, #Belgium April 22. REUTERS/Yves Herman
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in reply to earthling • • •Burned trees are seen through morning mist, in the aftermath of a wildfire near Arganil, #Portugal, September 11. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes
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A mural in Gaza.
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