I am shocked — shocked! — to hear that the thing that people had initially warned would happen and Be Very Bad, and the company responsible for the thing had dismissed at the time, as it obviously took every precaution and Treats the Risks Seriously, just happened and turned out to Be Very Bad. 🙄
Huh? What DNA data? I am talking about the huge farmed salmon escape from off-shore salmon farms in #Iceland, currently completely screwing up the local salmon population and the river ecosystems. 👀
Many of you already follow this creature, but I want to give him a shout-out because he does awesome work here.
@WahFo posts daily (or almost-daily) photos of animals with some cool facts about them. Many of the animals are lesser-known, many of them are well-loved favorites.
He gives proper credit to the photographers, sometimes going through rabbit holes of internet searches to find the correct name to credit.
He also writes detailed alt-text to describe the photos he picks. He cares deeply about accessibility and helping others learn about cool animals!!
Go give him a follow if you're not already!!
💙💙💙
Zapraszamy na ul. Prusa 3 w Poznaniu, sprzedajemy ubrania, biżuterię oraz aparaty do godziny 14:00 :)
@pluralistic we Italians take cultural heritage very seriously
Early start this morning - the forecast promised blue skies and sunshine from dawn to dusk so I was chasing a pretty sunrise. May I present dawn on the hill…
Oh and there’s the prerequisite four games of ‘Spot the Dog’ to entertain.
Ringo Mühlmann ist unzufrieden. Im Thüringer Landtag hat die AfD beim Innenministerium nachgefragt, ob in der Landeshauptstadt Erfurt Räume dauerhaft von Extremist*innen genutzt werden. Und Innenminister Maier (SPD) hat geantwortet: Ja, die AfD-Geschäftsstelle. Tja, Ringo, Eigentor. #fckafd
In hotels I often make up my name, adress and birthdate when they ask for it. Because I don’t trust their IT security.
Some people laugh at me for that - they think it's paranoia. But a few days ago 6 TB of data from the big European hotel chain #MotelOne was leaked by a ransomware group - including millions of customer names and dates. So maybe it’s not paranoia not to give your real data to hotels. (The same counts for online shops, gyms and many other institutions of course)
#cybersecurity
Having lost my mother recently, and my father some years back, I feel I have kind of lost my childhood too.
I can no longer ask them about things relating to my childhood.
Details of a particular house, or why an uncle did or said something that confused me all my life.
I did at least keep a list of questions to ask her each time I saw her, and wrote her answers down next to them for reference.
I highly recommend asking questions and making notes about them.
When your parents are gone, the answers you never asked for are gone forever too...
I am sending this toot using WiFi from an LTE router running from a 12V battery. Soon there will be detailed build steps on my blog. #offgridpower
The eternal puppy had to go to the vet this week -- I dropped her off in the morning and picked her up in the afternoon. She was a star! The staff said I could bring her back whenever I wanted, and that the pup had gotten lots of belly rubs and pets during the day. Here, she is grazing on the lawn as usual.
#DogsOfMastodon
I just discovered that ISPreview.co.uk has an account here. My main source for UK ISP news: @ispreview
Dear software people,
Unicode is older now than ASCII was when Unicode was introduced. It’s not a weird new fad.
It’s complicated but so is the domain it represents. We recognize that we have to think about time zones and leap days and seconds, for instance. And it’s a cleaner abstraction when you aren’t halfhearted about it.
Sincerely,
Charlie
@futurebird
Our cat gets to sniff all the food we make, but is like:
Why did you ruin this meat with all the weird stinky plants? And why are you eating...what is this, damp wood?
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.