szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

This makes me very angry.

These are anti-homeless benches designed to look pleasing. It’s called hostile architecture. They’re meant to be uncomfortable to discourage sleeping on.

The people who designed these are assholes. They’re decorators, not designers.

A designer makes things to improve the world for everyone. A decorator takes otherwise unpalatable injustices and disguises them with aesthetics in an attempt to make them inoffensive or even desirable.

Be a designer, not a decorator.

Przypominam, że do tej pory w Polsce zawód psychologa nie doczekał się nadal uregulowań ustawowych. Oznacza to, że osoba nadal nie wie, czy psycholog jest nim naprawdę, a gdy zostanie potraktowany nieetycznie- nie ma dokąd pójść.
Projekt nowej ustawy powstał z dużym udziałem psychologów, w zespole parlamentarnym Agnieszki Dziemianowicz- Bąk, po uwzględnieniu uwag z procesu konsultacji. W kwietniu 2021 został mu nadany numer druku sejmowego 2113. Projekt nadal czeka na swoje pierwsze czytanie.

#Linux on the #desktop is becoming more #popular in my home town, but for the wrong reasons.

It's #poverty: many people have no money for a new #laptop or desktop. Their old #computers still work fine, but can't run the latest versions of #Windows.

We backup their data, install #LinuxMint, restore their data, install some extra programs, show them around and they're good to go.

Interestingly no one had problems making the switch so far. All quiet on the support front.

Meanwhile in Edinburgh

A friend of mine in Anchorage got really lucky today getting good shots of a moose munching tree limbs. 💗
#Alaska

@renordquist
Great! I had a similar association last januari.

The Bishop of Laon checking his mail. Tomb of st. Rémi, Basilica at Reims.

Apollo taking a selfie after defeating the serpant.

#louvremuseum #louvre #art #greekmyth #paris

With so much to learn and manage during your PhD it can become overwhelming.

In this blog we go over the benefits of having a 2nd brain and how that will help your PhD!

#academia #PhD #phdlife #science #xp @OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter #scicomm

https://thestrugglingscientists.com/phd-students-get-a-second-brain/

Went wandering in Monivea Woods today and came across an old ice house

#woods #walking #Galway #IceHouse

The wheels on the bus go meow meow meow

#caturday

Fossil fuel tycoon Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber has been appointed President of COP28 climate summit. As CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company he has overseen the expansion of oil production in the UAE. (1/3) #COP28 #UAE #fossilfuel #UnitedNations

It was "woke" people who ended slavery, ended Jim Crow, passed Constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote, passed both Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act plus championed marriage equality. Now you get why the GOP hates people who are woke.

Still moss life. Ivy, fern, leaf.

#Mosstodon

Her name is Tilde, spelt “~”.

#photography #caturday

Starting 2023, four universities are pausing or ending their Elsevier subscription due to exorbitant pricing.

Elsevier's subscription was costing them ~10% of their Libraries' entire budget.

"Elsevier’s prices have increased each year and have outpaced inflation"...this is despite Elsevier having the highest profit margins of virtually any other industry or publisher.

via https://www.dailyemerald.com/news/pressing-pause-on-elsevier-subscription/article_93c07dec-9120-11ed-8ce9-abbca97ab954.html
Figure via @MatteoCarandini
#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing #Science @academicchatter

NASA has a website dedicated to before-and-after images related to worldwide climate change. It's depressing to browse from one set of pictures to the next. This is how climate change looks like.

Bering Sea ice at record low, in just 5 years
https://climate.nasa.gov/images-of-change/?id=646#646-bering-sea-ice-at-record-low

Columbia Glacier melt, Alaska, in 28 years
https://climate.nasa.gov/images-of-change/?id=534#534-columbia-glacier-melt-alaska

Shrinking Mýrdalsjökull ice cap, Iceland, in 28 years
https://climate.nasa.gov/images-of-change/?id=535#535-shrinking-mrdalsj%C3%B6kull-ice-cap,-iceland

Pedersen Glacier melt, Alaska, in 65 years
https://climate.nasa.gov/images-of-change/?id=212#212-pedersen-glacier-melt-alaska