szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

Happy International Women's Day! Just a reminder that Margaret Hamilton is a total badass and early innovator in the field of Software Engineering. Her pioneering work in task prioritization allowed the Apollo 11 moon landing to proceed even when the onboard computer became overwhelmed with too many tasks at a critical point in the mission. The software she wrote was flexible enough to ignore low priority tasks so that the computer could focus only on the tasks necessary for landing the LEM safely on the moon. Without her task prioritization routines in place, it's likely that the landing would have had to have been aborted.

For International Women's Day I feel it is my responsibility to make sure you are aware of the giants of #SpeculativeFiction #UrsulaLeguin and #OctaviaButler

I'm a voracious reader and I know exactly why I barely/never heard about them until I was nearly 50 - it rhymes with matriarchy.

Welcome to the new digital world

"When it comes to making money from a downed tree there aren’t many options: you can slice it into boards, burn it for heat, or mash it into paper. That’s about it. Or so I thought, and you probably did too...." https://granitegeek.concordmonitor.com/2023/03/07/our-forests-need-us-to-figure-out-new-stuff-to-do-with-them/

My wife got me this t-shirt 🤣

#humor #humour

My ginger sheep has been out in the falling snow.

On this #TrailCamTuesday, here's one of my favourite clips captured to date. Can't wait to get back and see who has passed through this winter. #wildlife

Me: "I guess I should play this piece a little slower..."

Guitar instructor: "I don't ever want to hear you say that again."

There be dragons

#birds #photograph #nature #wildlife

Kiedyś przy okazji odbierania jakiejś nagrody jako pierwsza uhonorowana czarna kobieta, amerykańska producentka telewizyjna Shonda Rhimes powiedziała, że nie jest zadowolona z tego, że przebija szklany sufit. I że w ogóle nie lubi tego powiedzenia, bo wie, że żeby ona mogła ten sufit przebić, to tysiące kobiet przed nią musiało w niego uderzyć i się roztrzaskać.

Więc ja bym chciała, żebyście sobie dzisiaj przy 8 marca pomyśleli o tych kobietach, które się roztrzaskały i nikt o nich nie pamięta.

happy gender pay gap bot day to all who celebrate

#internationalwomensday #IWD2023

(To mark this March 8th, we're turning over our social media to some of the brave women in Ukraine, fighting against the Russian invasion & attempted genocide)

"I remember I was making a card for my mom for 8 March in second grade. The number 8 was made of dry beans glued to cardboard… I can’t imagine anything more kitschy, anything that devalues and distorts this day more than turning it into a “day of spring and beauty,” and all these endless awkward cards, tulips, shampoo sets, and drunk parties to celebrate the “decoration of the office team” once a year.

So I can understand the part of our society who advocate for canceling this holiday as one of the last remnants of the Soviet Union. Generally, it would be logical to send the “day of girls” after the “day of boys” (23 February) to follow the course of the Russian warship. But there’s a “but,” and not just one. Around the world, 8 March is not a day of spring and beauty, it is a day of struggle for women’s rights. And this is still relevant, given the problems faced by countless women everywhere and in Ukraine in particular. It is especially relevant during the war, when the level of poverty, unemployment, violence and discrimination goes off the charts, and women are the first to suffer from it. So as long as the problems of the struggle for women’s rights are relevant, this day remains relevant as well.

I am at the front now. Just like over 5,000 other women who fight and 60,000 who serve, I am also fighting the russian aggressor. I want us to defeat this empire of evil as soon as possible, so that our only enemy after the victory is the patriarchy. Which will be defeated, too.

Death to the empire! Death to the patriarchy!"

-Chimera, paramedic
SUPPORT CHIMERA: fnd.us/blueskies

Can't argue with this.

Before assisting with the #rescue & #release of a #Kingfisher, these were the #highlights from my visit to #WWTCastleEspie on Friday:
One of the many #Teal around the #MainLake and a surprise #Wigeon on the #WaderMarsh 🦆🦆

#nature #NaturePhotography #wildlife #bird #birds #waterbird #duck #wetlands #WetlandsConservation #WWT #wildfowl #countydown #northernireland @RSPB

A group of over 200 scientists, nonprofit organizations and advocates are asking President Biden to issue an executive order protecting beavers on US federal lands.

My first piece for the Oregon Capital Chronicle:
https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2023/03/01/advocates-urge-biden-to-protect-oregons-state-animal-beavers/

#beavers #wildlife #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #wetlands #drought