Tom @tomupom@merveilles.town

I’ve only just realised that I forgot to do a proper #introduction when I first joined this instance, so here goes!
I’m Tom! I am originally from Japan, and come from a visual arts and performance background. I’m currently teaching as a high school teacher in Aotearoa, NZ.

Lately I have found a lot of inspiration from people involved in communities such as this one, and have been working on small web projects in my spare time. Thank you for having me!

The GNOME Foundation has nearly reached their goal of $120,000 in legal fees to take a patent troll to court. I hope that they are successful and make an example out of these complete arsewipes

I feel as though this is of great importance, particularly in my position as a schoolteacher in a country as multicultural as New Zealand. I want to dedicate my future projects to work towards this vision

A community made up of Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia and Central Asia holds great possibilities!!

I felt as though the foundation had a beautifully + positive vision for an Asian Community of the future. There would be a lot of faith involved in such a project, but it’s certainly an exciting one

Today my partner received a scholarship from the One Asia Foundation for an essay she wrote on the Korean Comfort Women Issue. It was such a happy moment and one that I’m going to remember forever ^^

Recently hopped back onto vanilla Ubuntu again. Some immediate thoughts:
- it's really, really fast
- things "just work" (as opposed to Void, which would break things all the time)
- ZFS support, despite it being experimental, is surprisingly stable
- Gnome isn't actually that bad to use

I miss i3 and might replace Gnome in due time, but otherwise think it's a fantastic release ^^

Susan Sontag - The Aesthetics of Silence http://www.ubu.com/aspen/aspen5and6/threeEssays.html#sontag #theLibrary

As far as platforms/services go, this one as well as are.na are the ones I love the most and am more than happy to pay for ^^