ABrockwell @aebrockwell@social.cleverlibre.org

2 January 1924 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Marie de Vries was born in Amsterdam. A nurse.

She worked in a Jewish mental hospital in Apeldoorn.

She was deported together with the patients to Auschwitz on 22 January 1943. She did not survive.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #nurse #Amsterdam #Netherlands #woman #hospital

This will become a mega-thread. I will introduce one arctic-alpine plant species every day this year (or until my private photo archive runs out…).

These species are small and beautiful, fragile but hardy. Many are already endangered, and many will be losers in a warming world. Each one has earned our attention.

#ArcticAlpinePlants #Arctic #Alpine #Tundra #Wildflowers #Plants #biodiversity

You don’t become cooler with age, but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way of being cool. This is called the Geezer’s Paradox

"...Elon Musk issued an edict to the journalism community. Obey me ... or you will be banned from posting on Twitter."

"This should have been a pivotal moment in media history — an inflection point when journalists realized how dangerous it is to put their fates in the hands of people who claim to revere free speech but use their power to control it...thanks to a combination of journalistic cowardice, inertia and calculation, business as usual prevailed." --@dangillmor
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/04/journalists-and-others-should-leave-twitter-heres-how-they-can-get-started/

People say caffeine causes a crash, but that’s only for the idiots who don’t realize you can avoid the crash if you simply keep drinking caffeine

Many ask why I am so vocal about politics, so passionate about anti facism and the rise of right wing groups and propaganda.
Whether it be in western countries, or the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.

This week is the 75th anniversary of the bombing of my hometown Nürnberg on the 2nd January 1945.

My family had to live in the ruins of this city, seeking shelter of what was left - for years.
This is what right wing ideology, facism, racism and hate did.

Later my - then to be - uncle and his unit liberated the city as part of the US army.

We need to stay vigilant. Our freedom and democracies are not for granted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Nuremberg_in_World_War_II

#Nuremberg #Germany #WWII #WW2 #RAF #Army #Military #Ukraine #Russia #GOP #RightWing #Facism #Racism #Democracy #Nürnberg #Hitler

@aebrockwell @adde Aside from leafleting or standing on a soapbox, they could only rely on a diluted retelling.
Now, bs peddlers can spread the same lies but they are no longer limited to a regional or national audience. They now have a global one and their bs now has a limitless 'shelf-life'. It can be repeated, reworded, rebranded and re-consumed indefinitely, by an audience, ill-equipped and unprepared to be able to discern lies from truths. 2/2

I meant to get this to a fellow Minecraft user. It is the basic layout of what we call "The Borehole" on our server. Unfortunately, I was unable to find the original discussion thread. I'll post it here and hopefully the person intended will see it. I welcome discussion on this particular concept.

I'm standing on a ladder looking down. The ladder is necessary because "stuff happens" and the vines could catastrophically break from a water incident, or lava burning them up.

Iron bars at the center and the two opposing corners hold in the water elevator on the side opposite the ladder. One may fall straight down into water at the -59 level. The water brings people back up "not quite as quickly, but still faster than climbing." Vines, not needing support like a ladder, allow one to easily break while descending to climb back up a missed stop. This is lit by torches at every stop. The walls are solid except at each stop, which has a gap 3 high making it easy to enter and leave The Borehole.

If the intent is to "strip-mine," I have found this way to get between stops really does the trick.

If there is interest, I am happy to share screen captures of the stops and how I have those laid out to make strip-mining a breeze. Note, "Strip mining" in Minecraft is different from "real world" strip mining. In Minecraft, it refers to making a single straight shaft, often 1 wide, 2 tall in a pattern to most efficiently encounter an ore cluster without having to waste time and effort to mine out each and every single block.

#Minecraft

This is a well made point! Need to first accept and acknowledged the problem before being able to fix it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sshm8coyoOA

#brexit #england #news #politics #uk

While I’d like to wish a simple “happy new year, all my friends,” it doesn’t seem appropriate with the strikes occurring in Ukraine.

I can’t help hoping for an absolutely horrible 2023 for Putin and all those who execute these crimes against Ukraine & humanity.

Carl Sagan passed away #OTD in 1996. In his final interviews he left us with two messages that are even more relevant today: one emphasizing the importance of a science literate public, the other a warning about how hard it is to extract ourselves when we’ve been conned.

Do you agree if every university should establish each own Mastodon instance?

For example, #MIT in the US, #Cambridge in the UK, and #TUM in Germany has their own Mastodon instances and are federated to each other.

So students at MIT would have their own Mastodon account officially from MIT, they can communicate with students at Cambridge, TUM, and so on.

Please share your opinion. Boost is very appreciated.

#Education #School #Mastodon #Twitter

David Bowie on Creativity and His Advice to Artists

Every creator’s creations are their coping mechanism for life — for the loneliness of being, for the longing for connection, for the dazzling incomprehension of what it all means. What we call art is simply a gesture aimed at the elemental truths of being alive, animated by a craving for beauty, haunted by the need to find a way of bearing our mortality.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/24/david-bowie-creativity-advice

#creativity #art #Bowie #DavidBowie #artists #expression

I love atheists because they choose to be good not out of fear of hell but because it’s the right thing to do.