szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

@drskyskull I'm curious who has actually read The Invisible Man. Likewise for War of the Worlds, and The Time Machine.

#HGWells #Invisbility #ScienceFiction

About 10 million years ago, Platybelodon, this delightfully ridiculous ancestor of the elephant, roamed Africa, Asia, Europe & North America. https://www.wired.com/2013/10/absurd-creature-of-the-week-spork-elephant/ #Art by Tomasz Jedrzejowski #science

Hausbesetzung…😉😁
#insekten

W przecudnych "okolicznościach przyrody" jeziorowej stoi sobie dąb, o uroczej nazwie Dziaduś😍 Trochę trafić było trudno, bo okoliczni nie wiedzą. Jakiś przemiły pan w mijanym domu coś tam marudził, a właściwie robił wszystko, żebyśmy posiedzieli z nim przy piwie🤔 , ale drogę wskazał. Tak mniej więcej. Potem w lesie spotkaliśmy rowerzystę z żoną. Z daleka było słychać jak na niego wrzeszczy że jest nienormalny🙃 Okazało się, że pan jest synem dawnego leśniczego, ale o drzewie nie słyszał🤦‍♂️ Tym samym musiałem rację przyznać żonie, na co ona się ucieszyła, a on zmarkotniał. W końcu dąb się znalazł. Bardzo ładny. Stoi w towarzystwie "onej drugiej przybłędy" która nie dość że mniejsza (660cm obwodu), to jeszcze natura nie pokochała, i biedak dostał strzał z liścia. Znaczy z pioruna. Ale żyje.
Idzie się do nich przyjemnie i grzybów można nazbierać, więc jak będziecie w okolicy, to już wiecie...

Obwód 817cm 520 lat
obok 660cm
Namiar: 52.162992, 17.134620

#Drzewa #Pomnikiprzyrody

Fuck child labor

This. I've been translating for 20 years, and I've been complaining about British English removal of Polish diacritics for longer than that.

Follow the Path?

#woodland #trees #log #naturephotography #sunlight #greenspaces #summer #undergrowth #nature #moss #naturephotography #cumbria #lakedistrict #forestry #forest #stone #roots #branches #pathways

The WSJ is vying for the Worst Op-ed Prize against the WAPo this week.
These kinds of nonsensical gibberish promoted by media is why it’s harder to have meaningful efficacious climate action.
And it’s climate, not weather, you ignoramus author. At least get the terminology right.🤦🏽‍♀️

#climatechange #climatecrisis #wallstreetjournal

American banks in a nutshell...

In the meantime, I need to provide 17 DNA samples and have to write and send 4 essays on online fraud to a bank employee in the EU every time I have a new client sending me money... because anti-money laundering rules.

https://piotrmierzejewski.com/p/card-networks-exploitation

I would personally really like it if the word "app" could go back to just applying to smartphone applications. Websites are not apps, desktop software is not apps. Words have meaning and this is the most important thing in the world to be mad about

First time seeing such a clear statement against #NativeSpeakerism in #AcademicWriting 👏 Thank you, European Journal of Applied Linguistics!

https://www-degruyter-com.ezproxy.leidenuniv.nl/journal/key/eujal/html#submit

Altenbeken. Spiritual home of the German Railway Usenet.

My charity is attempting to buy a piece of woodland in east Bristol and I need you all to come out in support. It’s tiny. We all see stories of 200 acres or 2000 acres of community buyout, but this is in the middle of a major city, and it’s just as important as something far bigger out in the countryside. Please read this description, and help me save a tiny important fragment of amazing woodland. #BiodiversityCrisis #WoodlandProtection #Rewilding #TreeProtection https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-blackswarth-road-wood-crews-hole/comments#start

When you're getting stabbed but you're in Minneapolis so you don't call the police because whatever the guy stabbing you does is still a hundred times better than what the MPD would do to ya

Regular reminder: if your site or app doesn’t work in Firefox, it’s broken.

I lived through the “this site requires and/or is best in IE” era, and I’d rather burn it all down than return to that.

Pro-tip: Firefox does most things better anyway. Give it a spin and enjoy a less-tracked web.

I didn’t intentionally plant the giant sunflowers as supports for the runner beans, it was just a happy accident. Next year though, I think I’ll do a long row of both together as the sunflowers are proving to be much more sturdy than the bamboo canes #gardening

Watching the scramble to figure out if LK-99 is an Actual Thing™ is fun, but I'm hearing comments like "If it's real it'll mean high-speed trains everywhere!"

My dude, we could ALREADY have high-speed trains everywhere. The resistance in the wires isn't the thing that's blocking it from happening.

Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it: "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" by @pluralistic

Always get Cory's books. Always.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation