szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

Setting up our new Telraam traffic monitor device, and boy those wacky Europeans, defaulting to 1.5m sidewalks, 4m wide roadways, and 20kph speed limits...

#excel spreadsheet disaster in NHS recruitment fiasco.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/12/excel_anesthetist_recruitment_blunder/
words fail me

@szescstopni I'm sure toilet makers have been toy toying with that idea

@SteveKelso I don't consider myself an expert in anything because there is plenty I don't know. However, when find out I am doing something wrong, I try to do better. Not everyone is receptive to unlearning stuff.

@debbiephilp @littlestbee My cabin is fairly remote and in a bear family’s active range. I recently came across an ornithologist, asked if she was looking for any specific bird and she said she was looking for bears (and bobcats). After several questions to her I determined she had no clue how to interact and had to explain all the nuances including her disposal of food scraps. That’s a typical encounter for me. She was completely unaware of the dangers to herself and to the bear. I suggested she visit BearWise.org

Widok wrony wzlatującej na dobre 20 metrów, zrzucającej orzech na chodnik, zlatującej lotem nurkowym i wygodnie rozdziobującej sobie popękaną już skorupę: 10/10. Jestem fanem krukowatych. <3

" 3 wood please..... no, Driver .... no, 1 Iron.." "Make your bloody mind up, you're starting to deliquesce"
#FungiFriday #Fungi #Northumberland

The next step of #enshittification will be toilets that stop working when they run out of yellow ink.

Hi #fediverse, I'm curious if it makes sense for organizations to run their own #Mastodon server for the purpose of 1) controlling their messaging out to the world, and 2) as a platform for internal communication in the organization. Are there any examples of this being done?

I love fall #running, and I'm grateful that I am able to get out there often. Life is a bit overwhelming at the moment and it feels good to be in my body to start the day.

This little midland painted #turtle is too cute not to share. His back end was injured by a car but he's healing well. I'm confident he will be released in the spring.

#runnersofmastodon #WildlifeRehabilitation #wildlife #adirondacks

TL/DR: Climate change and habitat loss are the big reasons birds are disappearing from my neck of the woods. A solution lies in wetlands, if we can keep them.

#climatechange #wildlife #birds #wetlands #habitatloss #ecology #adirondacks

https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/birds-visit-new-areas-or-vanish-from-the-adirondacks

Recently when I deleted my bird-site profile, I noticed that in the settings, it was recorded as "Gender - Male".

I never set my gender in such profiles - after all, my avatar is a coffee cup, coffee is surely gender-neutral.

So it makes me think the algorithm looked at posts re #coffee and #science and said -> male.

Problematic enough, but then it put the faulty logic straight into the settings. Yes I can correct it (if necessary) but that is not the point.
#WeaponsofMathDestruction

@futurebird @projectgus I once attended a workshop by M K McKusick one of the key architects of BSD Unix. He told a story about people pestering him to increase the limit on filename length. His reply was “once you have put 1024 characters into the filename, consider maybe putting some data in the FILE!”.

Once you have used every letter in six alphabets, consider maybe TWO LETTER VARIABLES!

Znalezione na dzisiejszym wypadzie do lasu.

#Las #lasy #JanPawełII #LasyPaństwowe #NadleśnictwoSzubin #wycinka

We have a problem with squirrels eating our jack o' lanterns, so I just work with them. I need an idea for this year! #halloween #pumpkins #squirrel

Would any academics who already have their PhD be willing to share their experiences with imposter syndrome in a couple of sentences? Either in a private mention or as a reply to this post?

Our EDI group is giving a seminar/discussion on imposter syndrome, but all of the resources out there are for PhD students. I want to show that it doesn't magically go away: that we're all struggling together.

All responses will be kept anonymous.

Please boost for visibility!

#academia #ImposterSyndrome

Muszę pochwalić, jak Android ucina powiadomenia.

"ALERT RCB

UWAGA! W niedziee wybory i referendum. Uwazaj"