"If it took almost 100 years before anyone reported on the remarkable marauding behavior of an extremely common spider, how many other intriguing but as yet undescribed ecological interactions are just waiting for a curious observer to take the time to record them?"
Fascinating paper by Catherine E. Scott and Sean McCann:
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/ZNU54XANWFJCFJMDEFJ7?target=10.1002/ecy.4025
#spider #ecology #predation #MacroPhotography #NaturalHistory
Outrageous story about New York City dismantling low cost community broadband in order to bring in big cable companies. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/new-york-city-dismantling-low-cost-community-broadband-2
One of the parties in Poland’s ruling coalition has proposed an “anti-bug law” that would require food products containing insects to be labelled with a special warning.
"We, as conservatives, as Poles, definitely prefer normal Polish food, Polish meat."
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Unrestricted monitoring and storage of video of public spaces in Germany is highly illegal. Dashcams are only legal-ish if run in a loop, but you can't just record public space permanently and store this. So how are Teslas even legal in Germany? Someone should ask the courts.
I just want to say that if I ever get on the Supreme Court I am going to be reasonable. I will not require you to ply me with private jets and yachts to private estates and exclusive famous resorts and $5k bottles of wine.
Business class (or even economy plus) to an AirBnB in Maui and six or seven boxes of those Cutwater Mai Tais would totally do the trick. Then I will TOTALLY stop deferring to Chevron. I will not defer to ANY gas stations.
I am a man of the people.
Living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (also spelled #Polesie) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #bogs and #forests, trying not to fuck up surrounding nature too much.
Taking care of a small pack of #dogs – #IdąPsięta.
Luddite working with hi-tech.
#RuralBroadband provider by accident. Starting a small LoRaWAN project to monitor our wetlands. Coding in #Python. Dealing with dirty data, cleaning them when time allows.
#Atheist. I don't *believe* in #science – science is the *only* thing that protects us from belief.
Fuck nazis.
My account on Twitter is still up, for good reasons. https://twitter.com/szescstopni
I check facts before I toot.
I sometimes toot in Polish.
Zdolny, ale leniwy.