Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

"Global economic losses could reach $5 trillion under a "plausible increase" in extreme weather events linked to climate change that cause crop failures and food and water shortages, insurance marketplace Lloyd's of London said on Wednesday... #climate #weather #ExtremeWeather #insurance

Tried to deactivate my X account and I keep getting an error that say “oops, try again later”. 🙄

Louisiana public school punishes 17-year-old for dancing at a party - https://boingboing.net/2023/10/10/louisiana-public-school-punishes-17-year-old-for-dancing-at-a-party.html "told by the school's principlal, Jason St. Pierre, that she wasn't "living in the Lord's way." " sounds pretty boring, this Lord person...

You all probably know the iconic red track point of IBM Thinkpads. Here is the story of its invention. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTCXyjapwXA #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

@Nonilex

This whole article is nauseating. Any newspaper that would legitimize RFK Jr.'s batshit crazy racist conspiracy theories as "skepticism about the scientific and political establishment" must not collect any subscription revenue from anybody.

I'm begging everyone out there who still has a New York Times subscription to please cancel it immediately.

#Democrat
#politics

Seems like the purity scolders here on Mastodon have moved on from policing CWs to replies complaining about cross-posting and references to social media posts from other platforms.

Let's explore why this is really annoying. When you hijack a thread to scold the poster not only is it rude, you take the thread off in another direction. This is not cool. If you want to discuss something like cross-posting you are free to make your own post on the subject. Don't be a threadjacker.

#threadjacking

Officially unplugged from the bird site. Excited to continue to expand those I follow here in #pediatrics #Science #politics #democracy #baking #nature and just life in general

Just deleted/deactivated my Twit/Xitter account. Gonna miss all those aviation peeps, but it had to be done.

Any #avgeek #aviation peeps here on the elephant, give me a follow - will follow back!

Black employees at Tesla who took part in the lawsuit "described the prevalence of racist imagery as 'frequent,' 'constant,' 'a regular thing,' and occurring 'too many times to count," the federal filing claims. https://t.co/O2Q0LbCiFZ

A word

Hi mappy folks 👋
I just moved here from Twitter, let's connect and see you soon in the #30DayMapChallenge 😄
#gischat #map #maps #cartography

I find this weirdly fascinating. Some #ants and some #termites have created a demilitarised zone of sorts.

Workers are moving down lines and guards from each group are standing face to face.

#nature

@charliejane I'm glad your blinders came off. Warren has been a bigot and racist for decades. Remember that university chair she occupied by pretending to be Native American? She kept the money she stole using that ruse. Never apologized, never refunded the money, never abdicated the prestige.

A Ukrainian flag keeps waving proudly in the building Russia destroyed in Kharkiv today.

Ukraine will stand.
Ukraine will stand tomorrow.
Ukraine will stand in the future!
#AureFreePress #Ukraine️ #Russia

The anti-science movement is "organized, it’s well-financed, and it’s politically motivated. It’s doing a lot of damage to the country and to American science and scientists. And now it’s become a lethal force." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vaccine-scientist-warns-antiscience-conspiracies-have-become-a-deadly-organized-movement/