szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

Winged fire ant females scale vegetation prior to launching themselves on a late spring mating flight. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Austin, Texas.

#Ants #FireAnts #Insects #Nature

Periodic reminder that there's this article on microsoft's knowledge base:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/247804

Jest tu jakiś odpowiednik #legaltt?

"I want," the man said to the art robot, and then described an image in some detail.
"Certainly," said the art robot. A printout came out of its chest.
"Thank y- Hey! What's this?"
"A list of artists who make images of the kind you describe, and who are accepting commissions."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Wiadomość z dzisiaj, "usługodawca" z siedzibą na Malcie, domena zarejestrowana w lutym. Innymi słowy, uważajcie na wyłudzaczy i ostrzeżcie przed nimi mniej technicznych znajomych prowadzących własne firmy

#TIL that the third and fifth stanza of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" are about how humans used to use their night vision to get around before electric lighting was invented 🤩

Remember "#DeathPanels"? #SarahPalin promised us that #UniversalHealthcare was a prelude to a Stalinist nightmare in which unaccountable bureaucrats decided who lived or died based on a cost-benefit analysis of what it would cost to keep you alive versus how much your life was worth.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/26/death-panels/#what-the-heck-is-going-on-with-CMS

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Benzie and Penn & Teller had to break out their raincoats for our walk today

Ambulances can’t reach patients before they die. Fire trucks can’t get through and house fires blaze. Pedestrians trying to cut through trains have been disfigured, dismembered and killed; a Pennsylvania teenager lost her leg hopping between rail cars as she rushed home to get ready for prom.

In Hammond, the hulking trains of Norfolk Southern regularly force parents, kids and caretakers into an exhausting gamble: How much should they risk to get to school?

https://www.propublica.org/article/trains-crossing-blocked-kids-norfolk-southern

Poland’s government has approved measures requiring internet providers to offer free and easy tools for blocking pornographic content.

The aim is to protect children after a survey of school pupils found that almost a quarter regularly view online porn.

https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/04/26/polish-government-to-require-internet-provides-to-offer-free-online-porn-blocker/

@apukwa Nothing an afternoon at a bar with the minister can't solve. But eventually there has to be a paper trail on Industry Canada spectrum web site that shows usbordination of spectrum and alteration of conditions to allow satellite use. Also if the company,s base station is in USA. your communicatiosn will be internationsl (patriot act spying by NSA) and if they do phone, call would be made from that carrier in USA (so long distance charges apply as well as the US roaming fee Rogers charges

Resistance against trans genocide often looks and feels like this: one, lone trans woman, standing alone, with no allies around her, her voice silenced, her dead mic raised defiantly above her head, her terrified eyes begging someone to listen, to help, to stop this madness.

@pluralistic holy fucking shit Cory thank you for covering this

holy fucking shit

A journalist is writing a story about the trend I've talked about before -- defamation threats and lawsuits against women telling #metoo type stories of their experiences.

The journalist is interested in talking to people who've received such threats. If anyone is interested email me. I can put you together with the journalist. I've talked to her and she's serious about the story and has a good outlet for it.

If people are recommending that you rotate your credentials somewhere, it's legitimate to ask what's changed between when your creds were nominally compromised and now that would avoid them just immediately being compromised again

TIL I learned about PFAS in ski wax. Makes sense that something designed to be slippery would be attractive to skiers. But the impacts on local water supplies in communities near ski areas are a nasty side effect. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045653520322736