@smellsofbikes Lmao
Americans can now order four more free COVID tests through the mail, starting today. Here's how.
https://n.pr/3iVZuFm
@mayaisloading Yes, this is really quite a powerful thing that most English speakers take for granted. That is until you learn a language like Spanish where this is not allowed.
The tools for inventing new words exist in Spanish but you're not allowed to use them. But I use them anyway, which creates much laughter and mirth for the listener.
German and English both allow the creation of new words for new things, on the fly, the use of nouns to create new verbs, and so forth. This is why both languages are the world's languages of science and technology where new words must be created constantly.
Languages like Spanish that are strictly governed by an elite group of scholars are hopelessly hobbled in the modern world of science and technology. And so Spaniards use English because Spanish is too limiting.
Rapid disappearance of forests🌲creates major threats
#Copernicus🇪🇺🛰️ supports innovative #EO-based solutions, thanks to the high spatial & temporal resolution of our Sentinel satellites
Deforested areas in #Brasil are visible when comparing #Sentinel2 images of ↙️2021 & ↘️2022
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1603042023858405377
@karlauerbach @black_intellect Ahh, yes. Overdecorates. I know who you're referring to.
@karlauerbach @black_intellect We'll have to make sure that never happens.
Maybe we should create a Traitors Park where we can have statues of people like Alito, Robert E. Lee, Benedict Arnold, Klaus Fuchs, and others of that ilk.
Elmo cashes out another $3.6 billion in stock.
@pbump This is not Tucker Carlson's takeaway. It's what he knows will excite his listeners and bring them to the edge of their seats.
It's wise to always be clear on what people like Carlson are doing and that pointing the finger at him is meaningless. We have no idea what he thinks. The finger must point at his listeners, who are many, and who are the real problem.
I love this. Apparently, the oldest existing cat flap.
Exeter Cathedral has a 14th century door that is mentioned as an entrance for cats. From 1305 cathedral accounts show an allowance for quarterly payments of 13 pence “to the custors and the cats” (custoribus et cato, if you’re doing it in Latin). They kept the rats and mice down following a recorded incidence of mice eating a robe believed to have belonged to Joseph of Aramathea. Photo by Jeff Treadwell
It recently struck me that 27 years ago there was a movie with Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguizamo playing drag queens,and if it came out today, someone would firebomb the theaters it was in. I'm not putting a sensitive warning on this picture because it's not fucking sensitive. its a movie that came out in 1995. things have moved backwards in a terrifying way.
For those that joined #Mastodon and grabbed the first server they could find, but would prefer to #migrate to a different one, I created a short guide on how to do this quickly and easily.
It also allows you to easily move any followers across to your new profile and leaves a redirection on your old profile for those that find it to help them get to your new one. 😁👍
I'd love if you could share it among your networks to help those that will invariably need it later on.
https://youtu.be/BpI-SplOXVE
@onlymeindc At least your mom didn't make you take it down entirely. :-)
In 1941, Nazis asked the city of Amsterdam to make this map of Jews in the city. Each dot equalled 10 Jews.
In 2022, TX AG @KenPaxtonTX sought data from driver's licenses on #transgender Texans.
But don't worry. History never repeats itself. #LGBTQ+
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/14/texas-transgender-data-paxton/
@joncounts No particular order? Shocking.
Heaven forbid the garden might attract humans, too. Eww!
79 year-old hiker in New Hampshire, lost and with a dead phone, rescued because he was a ham and had his radio with him.
#hamradio #rescue #hiking
The Laconia Daily Sun: Ham radio repeater connects lost hiker with help.
https://www.laconiadailysun.com/news/local/ham-radio-repeater-connects-lost-hiker-with-help/article_ee26f808-7b2a-11ed-9c25-4ff20590aa2f.html
Newly obtained records show how Leonard Leo, an architect of the right-wing takeover of the courts, has been funding groups pushing to change #elections and anti-discrimination laws.
Flush with money after receiving the largest-known political advocacy donation in U.S. history, #conservative activist Leo & his associates are spending millions of dollars to #influence some of the most consequential recent #SupremeCourt cases.
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