szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

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Not completely new to the #fediverse, but newly moved to this server: Here is the founding initiative for a @digitalcourage student chapter in #leipzig. If you also believe that #digitalautonomy and #privacy is not achieved through waiting and watching, then follow this account and stay in touch. So that we can hopefully meet in person soon and make #digitalpolitics.

#introduction

Say hi to my first “search engine.”

Our #Uvalde locks feature is prompting some of the liveliest debate we've seen in our mentions since joining Mastodon, but we appreciate reading everyone's feedback ... and that the discussion tends to remain polite around here, even on heated issues. https://www.texasobserver.org/uvalde-locks-security-missing-keys/

#guns #news #Politics #MassShooting

As usual, she does not mince words...
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg said in an op-ed published Monday that the world’s leaders are not even “moving in the right direction” on addressing the growing climate crisis.

Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Thunberg, 20, said that financial resources need to be aggressively poured into “solutions, adaptations, and restorations” to address climate change, but that the funds are currently “going elsewhere.”

“The often-used argument that ‘we don’t have enough money’ has been disproven so many times,” Thunberg wrote. “According to the International Monetary Fund, the production and burning of coal, oil and fossil gas was subsidized by $5.9 trillion in 2020 alone. That is $11 million every minute, earmarked for planetary destruction.”

“During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world launched unprecedented financial rescue packages. These recovery plans were seen as a huge opportunity to set humanity on a brand-new course for a more sustainable economic paradigm. They were called ‘our last chance to avert a climate disaster,’ as the enormous size of the investments would make it impossible for us to undo their consequences in the future if we got that funding even slightly wrong,” she said.

But, according to the International Energy Agency, only 2 percent of those massive financial aid packages went toward green energy, Thunberg said

“Our leaders completely failed,” she wrote.

“And they continue to fail; despite all the beautiful words and pledges, they are not moving in the right direction. In fact, we are still expanding fossil fuel infrastructure all over the world. In many cases, we are even speeding up the process. China is planning to build 43 new coal power plants on top of the 1,000 plants already in operation. In the U.S., approvals for companies to drill for oil and fossil methane gas are on schedule to reach their highest level since the presidency of George W. Bush,” she wrote.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3856605-greta-thunberg-says-world-leaders-not-even-moving-in-the-right-direction-on-climate/

#GreenWashing #ClimateCrisis #KeepItInTheGround #GretaThunberg

W razie wątpliwości skonsultuj się psychiatrą lub terapeutą :)

Walentynki od XR Kraków 1/6

Walentynki dla drzew od XR Opole

I have made myself promise to stay out of US politics on Twitter, but as someone close to this topic, I am going to hop in once to say it is unbelievably fucked up that someone would have to go through a mass shooting twice in a decade just because she wants an education.
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RT @shannonrwatts
A survivor of the Sandy Hook School mass shooting in 2012 is a student at Michigan State University: “I am 21-years-old and this is the second…
https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1625500964429123584

A young snapping turtle I met last spring. Look at that adorable beak!

#TurtleTuesday #turtle #reptiles #wildlife #nature

#ThickTrunkTuesday This tree is valiantly trying to grow in Los Angeles. Trunk so thick, it is oozing onto the sidewalk. Husband is for scale.

This ancient goat willow is half-tree, half-octopus!

It may have been broken by a Cumbrian storm, but is still very much alive - and supporting lots of other life too. One of my favourite trees 💚

#ThickTrunkTuesday #nature #woodland #environment #Mosstodon #Cumbria #LakeDistrict

Can you run windows ON a floppy? This is mostly for the lulz. I designed a snap fit case for adafruit’s pyportal dev board in the shape of a floppy disk 💾 #3dprinting #adafruit #circuitpython

I wrote a short text for a very large, UN-affiliated org.

In the cession of rights contract, they wanted me to "indemnify them and hold them harmless against all loss" that could have arisen from my contribution.

I told them to keep dreaming.

After 2-and-a-half month and several "our lawyers say it's necessary" emails, they dropped the clause.

Takeaway: Always set the terms when giving away content for free, the counterpart has no choice but to accept.

Hundreds of tons of #vinyl #chloride were released in this #Ohio #train #derailment. #Burning it produces more toxins. In addition the train was carrying #butyl #acrylate, #benzene, #ethylhexyl #acrylate, and #ethylene #glycol #monobutyl #ether.

This is an #environmental and #health #catastrophe of major proportions, and it can’t just get swept under the rug.

https://www.iflscience.com/what-is-vinyl-chloride-the-chemical-that-caused-ohio-s-immense-explosion-67510

This is how you review an antisemitic, transphobic, piece of shit video game: you roast it in the review and turn the buy link into a donation to Trans Lifeline.
https://www.wired.com/review/hogwarts-legacy-review/

although I appreciate that Google Docs has settings for British English and American English, I am once again begging for a Canadian English mode that lets me use 'labour', 'centre', 'organize' and 'analyze' in the same document without thinking I'm having some sort of transatlantic identity crisis

Anyone out there have experience eliminating a Glugea infection from a lab fish colony???

Oh no

Mind blown yesterday by George Sugihara, who explained that variables can causally influence one another but also be uncorrelated. It happens with a Lorenz attractor, where variables flip between correlated and anticorrelated (so no net correlation). Video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i57udsPKms

These types of mirage correlations that come and go also happens in the wild - such as in the factors that combine to form the red tide and in gene expression networks.