Brent Williams @hbw@social.cleverlibre.org

Optimist: The glass is ½ full.
Pessimist: The glass is ½ empty.
Excel: The glass is January 2nd.

From a very brief London wander this week, an autumnal scene in Clerkenwell.

#photography #london #shotonpixel

I hope I'm stating the obvious here, but... yes, of course Mastodon had strong social norms that created a positive community that folks here really appreciated. Because until quite recently, this was a small, relatively homogeneous group of people. Once that is no longer the case, conflict and norm breakdowns are inevitable because different types of people and different communities do not have the same idea of what appropriate norms are.

Time to vaccine, by disease:
Scientists did an amazing job responding to COVID!
https://imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2021/12/Journey-covid-19-vaccine-Stanley.htm

Thought I’d share my favorite quote today. Cohen was a genius.

If Mariah Carey sees her shadow tomorrow that means 6 more weeks of Christmas music.

Just published
@ScienceMagazine

A universal influenza mRNA vaccine effective against all 20 lineages of influenza A and B, protective in experimental models
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0271

The turkeys can still be prosecuted at the state level.

#lawfedi #law @law

First light on Llyn Pardarn Nth Wales . U.K.

Lichens, fungi, and moss in a rainbow of colours on a small fir branch, maybe a cm across.
#lichen #LichenSubscribe #fungi #Mosstodon #macro

50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR TWITTER

You just pin your last tweet, Pete,
Request your archive, Clive,
You don’t need a blue tick, Vic,
Just get yourself free.

Hop on the tusk, Gus,
You don’t need to delete much,
Except your DMs, Jen,
And get yourself free.

Use Debirdify, Di,
Provide some alt tags, Mags,
Add a content warning, Tim,
To post sensitively.

Remember to boost, Ruth
You don't need to deny truth,
Just drop off the perch, Dirk,
And get yourself free.
#VerseThurday #TwitterMigration #FediTips

Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" was published #OTD in 1859.

Today is Thanksgiving in the US, so I hope everyone takes a moment to thank Darwin for spelling out the general process by which certain saurischian dinosaurs became, over many millions of years, delicious and small enough to fit on our plates.
🦖 → 🦃

Electronic mail is so confusing. Why do I need to choose a provider and how do I get even decide? And once I have an address, how do I find my friends’ addresses and send them letters? Will I only be able to send letters to people using the same provider?

Moving from Twitter is like growing up with two meth addicted circus performers for parents, only to find out later they actually abducted you as a child. You then find your real parents live on a small farm and so you move in with them and begin a harrowing journey of recovery and self discovery. #twittermigration #twitter #mastodon

Amazing. In an experiment, scientists observed a single-celled alga evolve into a multi-cell organism, in real time. They introduced a predator into the environment and the transition followed over the course of about a year.

https://nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39558-8 h/t Steve Stewart-Williams

Exploring the Mariner's Astrolabe https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p052bbq8 #video #history #medieval #science #sea #navigation

Source: https://twitter.com/WhippleMuseum/status/1595726230090907648?s=20&t=D66vXOeuuCwlUUkw6FsOwg

Kinder zeugen ist unethisch. Erklär mir warum, wenn du das nicht so siehst. # KlimaKatastrophe

Major tax filing services such as H&R Block, TaxAct, and TaxSlayer have been quietly transmitting sensitive financial information to Facebook when Americans file their taxes online, The Markup has learned. #Facebook #DataThieves #SoldOutAmerica - https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/22/23471842/facebook-hr-block-taxact-taxslayer-info-sharing

Are your streets for cars or for people? Just because the answer is cars right now, doesn’t mean you can’t change that if you really want to. This #TelAviv transformation before & after between 2016 and 2021 is well documented by #schlijper’s great photography. #StreetsForPeople #streetdesign #cities #urbandesign #urbanplanning #urbanism #peopleplaces #streets #people