Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@social.cleverlibre.org

Turns out if you start KDE Plasma in Arabic, the entire user interface flips horizontally (presumably to work better with right-to-left text).

This is blowing my mind. 🤯

#linux #ubuntu #kde #plasma #arabic #localization

Taylor Swift responds to private plane pollution allegations by launching herself from Tokyo to Las Vegas by trebuchet for the super bowl.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tzUOVedIwRo&si=69UTm4OoNChzii9y
⚡️🇦🇿Russian soldiers say snipers from Moscow threatening to shoot deserters (Kanal 13 - Azeri News in English VIDEO) #Ukraine #Azerbaijan #Press #News #russia #russiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #BoycottMusk #AxisOfEvil
#NoEUPrezForHungary
#NoUSRepublicans2024 #BetterOldThanSeditious

Donny Frump has said he would "encourage" Russia to attack any Nato member that fails to pay its bills as part of the Western military alliance.
(From a man who always pays his bills;-)

#BirdsOfMastodon
#BirdPhotography
#NaturePhotography
#OxleyNatureCenter
#RedBelliedWoodpecker

One of the many woodpeckers that call the woods home. From the tiny Downy to the large Pileated, we see these forms year round. This is a Red-bellied Woodpecker that gave an nice pose but a challenge with the backlighting. Exposed at +3EV to correct for the backlight.

#500mm

Union, university administration hold talks in bid to avert Mount Saint Vincent strike

Mount Saint Vincent University administration and the union representing full-time faculty, librarians and lab instructors met Sunday in a last-minute effort to avert a strike planned for Monday.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/mount-saint-vincent-university-strike-faculty-1.7112043?cmp=rss
#News #Canada #NovaScotia

Fujitsu bosses have been paid £37m since it won Post Office contract https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/11/fujitsu-bosses-have-been-paid-37m-since-it-won-post-office-contract

Sunflower Safecracker

In this photograph there is a Carolina chickadee in the process of getting into a sunflower seed. I you look between the little bird's feet you can see that it is holding a sunflower seed and has pecked a whole into the seed. I suppose that the bird can't just crack it in half like a finch or a carinal would do.

You know, the photographs that I post here are not quite a vivid as the same photographs that I post at my pixel's gallery, because here, I reduce the size of the photos and usually make a slight reduction in the quality of the photos to make them easier to load.

Take a look:
https://swede1952-photographs.pixels.com
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #CarolinaChickadee

A lovely review of a illustrated book of a piece that #RachelCarson wrote for a television show. (Free link.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/books/review/rachel-carson-nikki-mcclure-something-about-the-sky.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Uk0.DUeL.c99a7pqfBEhX&smid=url-share

#NYT #environment #environmentalism #envhist

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3M3qKmBYVQg&si=is_R_onPWT41HYrc
⚡️🇦🇿Achilles' heel in Russian drone production is revealed (Kanal 13 - Azeri News in English VIDEO) #Ukraine #Azerbaijan #Press #News #russia #russiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #BoycottMusk #AxisOfEvil
#NoEUPrezForHungary
#NoUSRepublicans2024 #BetterOldThanSeditious

Readout of President Biden's Call with Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel (The White House)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/02/11/readout-of-president-bidens-call-with-prime-minister-netanyahu-of-israel-11/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240211/p31#a240211p31

Can't get one past the internet.

Follow the white zipper road
Follow the white zipper road
Follow, follow, follow
Follow the white zipper road!

IOW, #Trump says America is a #shithole country...

Trump touts defeating immigration deal — says America has fallen into ‘cesspool of ruin’ - Alternet.org

https://www.alternet.org/trumps-immigration-bill/

TIL the U.K. Royal Mint sells ancient coins from its huge collection

https://www.royalmint.com/shop/ancient-historic/medieval/1362-72-Edward-the-Black-Prince-Noble-Gold-Coin-Guyennois-a-la-E-or-Pavillon-DOr-Second-Issue/
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1aofxa3/til_the_uk_royal_mint_sells_ancient_coins_from/

👇Today!

February 11 is the #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience
an opportunity to promote full and equal access and participation in science for women and girls

And recognize their important contributions to science and society
https://www.un.org/en/observances/women-and-girls-in-science-day/

Remember, Mastodon's crap reply visibility (only the original poster sees all the replies) is perfect for plausible deniability. 😁

"No, obviously when I said that the thread was getting garbage replies, I didn't mean your reply. I meant those other replies only I can see because of how Mastodon works! The replies go to school in Canada. You wouldn't know them." 😝

Today in 1916, 108 years ago: in the United States the police arrest the Lithuanian anarchist Emma Goldman for giving a lecture in favor of birth control.

#OnThisDay

Caitlin Clark is on national TV right now with a chance to break the women’s ncaa basketball scoring record