szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

this aged surprisingly well

Okay, our little Winter glitch is leaving the country again and as of tomorrow it’s just rain..... being our regular share of winter... Better for all birds and other animals of course, but I love pictures like this one of a #CommonRedpoll all fluffy and fully protected to the cold.
#birds #birdphotography #birdsofthefediverse #nature #wildlife #AcanthisFlammea

Happy Hanukkah to those who celebrate! 🕎

These depictions of menorahs are from Chersonesos in the Crimean peninsula. They date back nearly 2000 years

no URLs. no usernames without the URL. no bypassing restrictions on URLs (like writing example dot com). no posting images with usernames in them.

free speech!

Y'all do realize that poor people pay more for slower Internet service than those in wealthy neighborhoods

One recent study found that poor, mostly black and brown neighborhoods in LA County pay anywhere from $10 to $40 more per month than mostly white, higher-income neighborhoods for the exact same service

Wrote a story about it. Wanna read it, here it go

https://muninetworks.org/content/study-low-income-la-county-neighborhoods-pay-more-internet-service-wealthier-neighborhoods

Some people like Inkscape. It has a graphical user interface, but also allows you to enter precise coordinates if you want (and it's scriptable). There is even a plug-in that allows you to enter LaTeX directly (for labels and such). For example, for his honors thesis, a recent IWU Physics major found an Inkscape component library for optics to be useful. — However, on my Mac laptop, I've made from scratch all of the components contained in my own version of this open-source library of optical components, which I've posted to https://stenciltown.omnigroup.com/users/MQMLab/ . My version is for use with an application called OmniGraffle, which I've used to make all of the optical schematics you'll see in my lab procedurals — and in the example schematic shown below (which I made by following a similar example provided by Henning Vahlbruch).

Happy Hannukah

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Every year our card contains a picture that aims at inspiring moral reflection about the world we all share.

The photo by Metin Aktaş was taken during exhumation of bodies of civilians killed by the Russian army in Izium (#Ukraine).

#Hannukah #Izium #Russia #war #wishes

#Photo: Metin Aktaş/#Anadolu Agency/#Getty Images

The Dept. of Biological Sciences at NC State has a tenure-track faculty position opening in Paleobiology. Candidates pursuing research in any quantitative area of paleobiology are encouraged to apply. Candidates who study biomechanics/biophysical modeling at macro and micro (histological) scales are encouraged to apply. https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/176184

Where are the bird owners at? I see tons of cat and dog toots, which I adore. But I am also the proud owner of 2 budgies, and I would love to see those on my timeline too 💙 #budgies #birds #BirdsOfMastodon #Parrots

It was a dark and stormy night. #snowstorm

Reminder: your last day to visit the Vagina Museum this year is 23rd December. Our front of house team will be taking a well-deserved break, and we'll be reopening on 4th January https://www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/visit

And you should understand why most of the car break-in crews aren't Black. I get pulled over too much in SF. A Black crew would be randomly stopped too much.

San Francisco had a DA that said:
* Stop abusing Black people
* Make the cops do their job
* Stop criminalizing poverty
* Let's go after these professional break-in crews.

And we recalled him for one that said:
* Abuse more Black folk
* Reduce police accountability
* Arrest the homeless
* Break-ins and lawlessness are caused by evil poors

Your kid craves colouring stuff? Go to openclipart.org, play a little with @inkscape (together with your kid of course) and print it out. It's amazing how their eyes shine

I've gotten a lot of responses to that Substack piece about leaving Twitter. Many are positive but some are negative. A few are saying "oh so you think free speech is nasty?"

What kind of stupid question is that? Of course I do. The Nazis marching at Skokie were nasty. All sorts of speech is nasty. Supporting free speech doesn't mean reserving judgment about it, you imbecile. It means not using the state to suppress it.

‘Eat local’ is a common recommendation to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet.

But transportation makes up a very small amount of the greenhouse gas emissions from food.

*What* you eat is far more important than *where* your food traveled from.

https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local

The guy who wants to put neurolinks in our heads worries about people knowing where he is.

It's actually Joan Mastodon. And she's black.

How can you tell a legal librarian's cat from other feline? Spends a lot of time in front of closed libraries trying to get in. #library #mastocats