szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

I know I’m always on about this when cops or other folks kill some agitated person, but for real y’all — we in the ER see people who are angry, threatening, violent, and scary EVERY shift, and we kill zero of them. We don’t shoot them. We don’t choke them to death. Most of the time we talk them down and that’s it. Sometimes we restrain them, but we do it safely.

I have very scary people blow up at me. Often I literally pull up a chair and we talk it out. Please, we can be better.

Over 60 years of life, if you keep your smartphone for an average of two years, then you'll need 30 devices. If you keep your phone for five years, then you'll need 12 devices. The European Environmental Bureau has stated that extending the lifespan of smartphones and other electronics by just one year would save the EU as much carbon emissions as taking two million cars off the roads annually.
https://gerrymcgovern.com/tips-for-more-sustainable-smartphone-use/

Ok we all wanna bring back mammoths with cloning, but there are some weirdos I think we should also consider.

PROCOPTODON: giant pug-faced kangaroo with forward-facing eyes. We think it walked instead of hopping. Early Australians met it & I want to feel what they felt

mods are asleep post weird extinct megafauna

I saw the first unofficial bird of Alaska yesterday! Time to get out the bug dope!
#Alaska #BugDope

REMINDER: If you see abuse, don’t boost it. Report it instead.

Boosting creates more reach for the initial abuse, which makes it all the more worse.

Also, please give moderators a chance to respond to reports. During times your active on the Fediverse, some of us are literally sleeping 😴

Today in my newsletter (now on substack), i'm going to try to persuade you to eat our way out of the latest invasive species menace: THE PORG

Save the galaxy. Eat a porg. https://teamtrash.substack.com/p/save-the-galaxy-eat-a-porg

“Shitposting is an anagram of Top Insights.”

Ah things I learn on the Fediverse

Lmao I just watched a cop car cut off a tram to do a 3 point turn.

[extremely Malcolm Turnbull voice] “the law of conservation of momentum is very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia”

I don't think people are realising the danger the Fediverse is in.

The only thing stopping corporations and VCs taking over this place is that the Fediverse is spread out on many different servers, which makes it very difficult to purchase.

If most of the Fediverse ends up on mastodon.social, which is now a strong possibility, there will be nothing to stop most of it being sold to Musk or Zuckerberg or whoever.

The bigger mastodon.social becomes, the more likely a buyout is to happen.

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Genuinely impressed with the range of modern camera sensors.

(Second photo shows the context.)

fav to stop me from buying this grey alien garden statue, boost to encourage purchase

Yesterday afternoon, I was walking outside on streets.

I just saw this adorable smol baby snapping turtle size of pebble. Sitting on road wanting to go across toward wetland. (Good thing I looked down!)

I picked them up gently and move to the other side of road closer to wetland. c:

7 people dead in Texas. And I'm not talking about the shooting -- this is something new! They were run over by a car this morning.

Perfect timing to shift the conversation away from guns. Fucking monsters.

https://www.valleycentral.com/news/local-news/brownsville-police-investigating-major-accident/

I made a fun discovery the other day when I googled how to reorder columns in #ggplot2 . My blog post on the topic is number two in the search results!

If you want to take a look yourself link here: https://link.medium.com/qy1vCjZUBzb

And yes, I googled it because I forgot I'd written a post about it...

#rstats

Doctor's voices:

"COVID is NOT a respiratory virus.

It is transmitted via the respiratory system, but it is a vascular virus. Equating #COVID to the flu is ignorant. This is not a new concept. For example – Tuberculosis is spread through aerosols but affects the ENTIRE body.
Population immunity: Where's the evidence? Spoiler: There is none.
Appropriate measures: Clean air anyone?"

- Dr. Sandjiv Ghandi, Vancouver, BC

#Canada #PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver