szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

Both parties have held the debt ceiling hostage as a political tool. For example, in 2011, the Republicans did it. But in 2013, the Republicans did it. On the other hand, this year it is the Republicans who are doing it.

Gdzieś mniej więcej 2,3 miliardy lat po Wielkim Wybuchu mnóstwo było takich obszarów, dlatego są tak ekscytujące. To laboratorium, w którym można podejrzeć wszechświat, gdy był młodym i prężnym. :-)

"Europe’s full storage tanks have barely been drawn down and can carry over into next winter. In January, German storage tanks were a record 91 percent full, up from 54 percent last year, meaning that Europe will need to buy significantly less gas in 2023 than in 2022. The implications are tremendous. Europe is now assured sufficient energy supply well into 2024."

Bonus 🧵: Gas futures market is now pricing gas to be cheaper than prewar https://mastodon.world/@decodingtrolls/109739815884391215

@SLICEOFHOME Pretty sure smoking a doob has never led to the slaughter of entire peoples in the name of God.

HUGE VICTORY for freedom of expression - for authors' rights, children's rights, #LGBTQ+ rights, everyone - in the European Court of Human Rights today.

please share widely!

#Lithuania first banned & then imposed a warning label of a book of fairy tales that, among other things, depicted same sex relationships in a positive light. The Court today found that violated European guarantees of freedom of expression. details here: https://www.article19.org/resources/lithuania-free-expression-lgbtqi/

An inspiration to countless girls, Dr. Kalpana Chawla was the first woman of Indian descent to go to space, a pilot, and an aerospace engineer. Chawla is pictured here on STS-107 in January 2003, two weeks before she and her crewmates perished during re-entry. #NASARemembers
#NASAhistory

Factcheck (true): Mining causes environmental problems

Amazing murmuration the other evening. Especially the formation of a ‘bird of prey’ shape
#starlings #murmuration #Yorkshire #naturephotography #Birds #nature #rspb #winterwatch

Bad hair day?? 😂 This red-breasted Merganser was photographed in Homer Harbor by Pops Weisser

A powerful lesson - source unknown.
A teacher tells her students, "I'm going to come around and whisper to each of you whether you're a witch or a regular person. Your goal is to build the largest group possible that does NOT have a witch in it. At the end, any group found to include a witch gets a failing grade."
The teens dove into grilling each other. One fairly large group formed, but most of the students broke into small, exclusive groups, turning away anyone they thought guilty.
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Will they teach Orwell's 1984 in these classrooms?

Mississippi Bill Would Mandate Cameras in Public Educational Institutions

https://reason.com/2023/01/19/mississippi-bill-would-mandate-surveillance-cameras-in-schools-and-colleges/

I started using FireFox since before 1.0 because I hated browser monoculture, IE at the time. I now am adamant about using it still for the exact same reason with the new browser monoculture of Chrome. I do wish that FireFox performed better against Chrome than it did. It's essentially half as performant. It's still more than enough performant for almost anyone's needs, pretty much dead heat with WASM, and slightly better with HTML5 Canvas. So I still recommend it to anyone even if I have strong ideological reasons for my adamant usage. #firefox #chrome #browsers #benchmark #phoronix www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-…

Not the best image but is was very foggy this morning. but as this is the first owl I have ever photographed in the wild so I'm going to share it.
It's a 'Little Owl' 🦉

#nature #NaturePhotography #birds #Wildlife #naturecommunity #photography #BirdsOfMastodon #birdphotography

I dreamt I was learning a language with two important words, wimak and mak. You used ‘mak’ in factual sentences where the basis for your assertion was anything you could touch (including taste) and ‘wimak’ if what you knew came from dreams, communication with ghosts, or intuition. Stuff you saw or heard was an unmarked case. People argued about whether tv or internet was wimak or not. #linguistdreams

I'm new to Mastodon and looking for #microbiologists to follow. #microbiology #science

I just migrated to this server, still figuring it all out!

I would argue that this footnote by @pluralistic is the best footnote ever written

You can find it in its natural habitat here: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys