Mastodon is the only site where some user is guaranteed to gripe about a paywalled NYT article every time. Folks, ads are dead. Subscriptions are what feed our families. I give away a lot of free links. You can get free links with an email (regi-walk is not paywall, so read closely). Paywall is easy to get around with research. You do you. Just don’t reply with a complaint. It’s kind of rude. Read something else. It’s a big old internet.
Slugs mating slime
Did you ever watch #slugs mating? Here: the European Red #Slug Arion rufus. Slugs are one of the best examples that #nature is by no means limited to binary gender.
Slugs are #hermaphrodites. They find their partners by smell, one follows the other nibbling their tail if they want sex. Nature's fantasy is great: Some slugs use harpoon-like love darts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_dart , some dance and they can intertwine their penises.😎 The whole love story: https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/insects-invertebrates/how-do-slugs-mate
CEO of ISP Quickline Warns Rural Areas to Wither and Die Without Fast Broadband https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2023/10/ceo-of-isp-quickline-warns-rural-areas-to-wither-and-die-without-fast-broadband.html
The responses from these companies really are dreadful… although I guess there are people who fall for it.
I've spent the last couple of days dealing with a mouse invasion of my basement and furnace vents. Blocking the intake and exhaust vents was easy (see pics). Cleaning up all the mouse poop is still in progress. (No, I didn't negligently let it accumulate. If your basement was down the Stairs of Doom, you wouldn't visit it often either.) The cats are now getting to go into the basement pretty much any time they like.
@rjay @PragmaticAndy A profoundly important lesson that’s easy to forget in all sorts of contexts:
Ask people what they need, don’t give them what you think they should have.
Anyone can walk into Get Your Drugs Tested at 880 E. Hastings St., hand over a sample of their drugs and get informed on what’s in their substances — sometimes in as little as 10 minutes.
B.C. needs more of these stations, says an advocate. Here’s why.
@eaton For those who aren't aware
Drogie, drodzy, jest prośba ❤️
Pewnie wiecie o projekcie generatora napisów i transkrypcji z podkastów i wideosków? NapGenPL?
Robi go fundacja @ftdl czyli ci, co prowadzą m. in. #PolSocial.
Oprócz oczywistego wykorzystania napisów i tekstów podkastów przez osoby niewidome i niedowidzące, jest też możliwość zbudowania przeszukiwalnego indeksu podkastów i filmów po wypowiadanych słowach.
Nie tylko po tytułach i opisach.
Ale do tego potrzeba trochę sprzętu dokupić, a fundacja ma ograniczony budżet.
Więc jeśli możecie, to wrzućcie tego linka w swoje sociale.
W szczytnym celu nawet w te big sociale 😉
Z góry dziękuję ❤️
A osoby influencerskie proszę o podbicie 🚀
This is a particularly funny, subtle bit of cyberactivism in opposition to a hard-right takeover of a rural school district west of Colorado Springs.
Woodland Park is a model for how reactionaries can sabotage a #SchoolBoard and a cautionary tale.
Someone has linked Google Maps searches for "Woodland Park School District RE-2" (the district's official name in state records) to a photograph showing a burned out forest.
Brilliant! And a completely valid description of the way that board has decimated their public education system.
We must never let this happen #BVSD.
https://www.advocate.com/politics/colorado-school-right-wingers
🇩🇪 network operators have requested the national regulator Bundesnetzagentur to start procedures to exclude #RouterFreedom from fiber networks.
In a consultation, we picks apart the telcos’ arguments and calls on the regulator to respect consumer rights
https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20230915-01.html
I took this picture of a squirrel in the Boston Common sneaking up to get a drink from this man's cup. He gave me permission to post the pic.
#photo #nature #squirrels #photography #foto #fotografie #humor
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.