szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

I put the water out to heat for dishes at 7:15 am before I went to drop the car off at the mech's. The sun is very low in the sky at that hour so I angled the sun oven to catch as much as possible. It was at 100F when I got home and 200F not too long after that. It hasn't reached boiling yet, but it's close to it and I'm doing dishes. #SolarCooking

Beaututiful cheetah mother with four cubs in Masai Mara Reserve, Kenya

https://goo.gl/maps/bwp8itzLv1dov7RL7

The Endangered Species Act enlists the cheetah as Endangered.

#cats #catsofmastodon #Endangered #bigcats #cat

Jak randkuję to widzę mnóstwo osób, które wierzą w znaki zodiaku. "Ze skorpionem nigdy bym się nie umówił" itp itp.

Nie myślałem, że to może być przez covid 🤔

https://archive.ph/Qzsf5

"I'm afraid I can't let you do that Dave."

#WebEnvironmentIntegrity #FuckGoogle

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“Is mastodon like twitter?”

“No, not at all. Mastodon is still a thing.”

I understood corruption a lot better once I realized many people engaging in it don't see it that way. They see themselves as generously helping out their friends and family, when they have access to the resources to do so.

This is especially true in systems where corruption is rife, and everyone is doing it, so your own theft of public resources doesn't stand out.

I keep a curated list of #ScientificWriting resources - books, blogs, tools, podcasts, you name it. Every now and again I broadcast the link to it, and today feels like "every now and then"! https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/writing-resources/

This is fantastic. "That's Life" in the 70s doing a vox pop on crisp flavours.

So many reasons for forbidding deep sea mining, but I think one of the biggest is also least discussed: accountability. Yes, some mines on land are bad, but we can look, check, demand explanations. In the deep sea, it’s incredibly hard to track actions/impacts. If miners behave badly when seen, how badly will they behave when invisible? #ocean https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/27/james-cameron-supports-deep-sea-mining-activists-say-its-a-disaster-whos-right?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Every company should carefully consider this when deciding where to invest in Europe.

#energydon

I think it’s difficult for us in North America to appreciate how shocking, rebellious, and frankly prophetic Sinéad O’Connor was in an Irish context. I lived there briefly in 1985 and it was a bit of a shock.

I was 19 and not in school. I got a work permit and flew over to Dublin. I only spoke English at the time so it was kind of a toss up between London and Dublin. I didn’t think there’d be much of a difference it was all “Western Europe” as far as I was concerned — Denmark, France, Ireland, … all pretty similar right? Hahahaha.

Unlike today, Ireland in 1985 was a poor country. Deprivation had forced generations of people to emigrate to have a better life. There were 4 million people in the Republic, but in 1845 there had been 8 million. The only country in Europe whose population declined over that period. 1995 was the first time in 300 years Ireland did not have negative net migration.

And it was pious. There were no state schools. All education was in the hands of religious schools — overwhelmingly Catholic. Two years before, in 1983, the Republic had put a ban on abortion into their constitution. Condoms were illegal when I got there. In 1980 Bob Geldof had summed up his home town as “police and priests”.

It seemed a bit more patriarchal than the US in the Reagan years. But I didn’t know the half of it. It wasn’t until years later that I learned about the Magdalene Laundries where “troubled” girls were imprisoned in workhouses operated by orders of nuns, the Mother and Baby homes where women who were pregnant out of wedlock were kept out of sight to have their babies in secret, who were then taken from them and sold to American Catholic couples. And underneath it all the decades-long, quietly suppressed crime of the clergy sexually abusing boys and girls.

This stuff was not talked about in 1980s Ireland. But Sinéad did. She would not shut up. She would not stay in her place. She made original, passionate music. But if you think she caused an uproar in the US when she tore up a photo of the Pope on SNL … well, in Ireland in 1992 it was incendiary.

It was only later, in the late 1990 and 2000s that the scandals broke, and everyone could see that the crazy woman who would not shut up was right. She had been right all along.

The 2022 biographical film Nothing Compares is good. If you want to get the flavor of what she means to people in Ireland, go scroll through the expressions of grief pouring out on mastodon.ie

The woman was a giant.

Today, I am working on some legal issues to do with a .onion site, which everyone else is referring to as "the dark web".

I think someone may have misheard and called it "the dork web", which made me (a nerd with .onion sites) smile.

I now have a room of people who started the day thinking that The Dark Web required advanced tech knowledge and a computer obtained from a shadowy person in a dark alley, saying "oh, so you just install Tor Browser".

They look disappointed.

#lawfedi

Vuko attempting to connect to the Internet, where no one will know who he really is.

#IdąPsięta #DogsOfMastodon

A big old Common Lime standing on front of two big old Beech trees in the woods astride the old drovers way on Rimside Moor, Northumberland

#Tree #Wood #Photography #Northumberland

Photo taken in Berlin just after the end of WWII

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"Think they've gotten it all out of their system, Schatzi?"
"Gee I hope so, Mieze! I don't like the loud noises. Not one bit!"
"The loud noises are the least of what they've done."
"Well what else did they do?"
".... let's not talk about it."
"OK!"
"You know what I don't like? I don't like that we keep needing to find a new butler."
"What's a butler? Is that like a master?"
"Yeah. Yeah. Something like that."
"It's too bad about the last guy."
"It is. Well, let's get searching."

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Będąc w rządzie prawo aborcyjne złagodzimy, a pomocnictwo przy przerwaniu ciąży zdekryminalizujemy. Za poronienie nikt nie będzie ścigał i żaden lekarz nie będzie mógł zasłonić się klauzulą sumienia i relikwiami papieża Polaka. A jeśli przyjdzie głosowanie nad Trybunałem Stanu dla nich, to ręka nam nie zadrży.

“What is the function of Species X?” Is a question I hear often from non-biologists.

But it’s hard to answer. Species don’t exist to serve a function. They exist because they can. Everything is just trying to find a way to be.

Seems a good time to introduce/remind folks of the Barbie Liberation Organization from early 1980s that hacked the media by switching out the computer chips between Barbie and GI Joe dolls, so that Barbie got to say Vengeance is Mine, while GI Joe dolls said stuff like Math is Hard

https://youtu.be/eMHMf9y-27w

#barbie

Kupiłem audiofilski odkurzacz. Będę na nim słuchał jazzu.