szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

PSA: I don’t boost missing persons posts unless someone I know who knows them personally can assure me they are NOT running from abuse.

me: pick up your toys

daughter: okay *hiccup*

me: aw look, you have the pickup hiccups

daughter: daddy, you made a joke, and now you can put it on your phone

A poll taken in September 1974 shows that the American people wanted a trial for the criminal president Nixon. We may say "Trump is no Nixon, at least Nixon resigned..." but at the same time?

Not letting this end with a pardon will mean that we have done a better job IMO.

The pardon for Nixon was a huge mistake.

This is fine.

#bees #insects #megachile #thisisfine

Wearing a mask while being trans in public is so nice because you can just assume all the weird looks you get are because you’re wearing a mask and reminding them that life is fragile and their government has abandoned them to probable disability and economic precarity.

On some level, I find it fascinating that a species aware of what may cause their own extinction, will do nothing about it.

#FotoFail time.

But also a success. I had heard rumours that there was at least one platypus in our local creek and this evening, armed with the wrong lens for the conditions, I confirmed it.

Alas, 1/50th sec @ ISO 12,800 is too slow for a speedy platypus.

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #Monotreme #Marsupial #Platypus

Elon Musk blames the Anti-Defamation League for the catastrophic decline of the platform formerly known as Twitter, but the fault is entirely his own for willfully flooding it with Nazis. Billionaires like him promote anti-Semitism in hopes of distracting angry people from their true enemies—the ruling class itself and the capitalist system that gives a few people so much power.

https://crimethinc.com/TwitterCanary

It has been nice to see activity picking up on other platforms this past week. What we knew as Twitter is unsalvagable. Let it die.

A wow prescient quote from 1865 that will resonate with my anti-reductionist friends

“Physiologist and physicians must never forget that a living being is an organism with its own individuality. Since physicists and chemists cannot take their stand outside the universe, they study bodies and phenomena in themselves and separately, without necessarily having to connect them with nature as whole. But physiologists, finding themselves, on the contrary, outside the animal organism which they see as a whole, must take account of the harmony of the whole, even while trying to get inside, so as to understand the mechanism of its every part. The result is that physicists and chemists can reject all idea of the final causes for the facts that they observe; while physiologists are inclined to acknowledge a harmonious and pre-established unity in an organized body, all of whose partial actions are interdependent and mutually generative. We really must learn, then, that if we break up a living organism by isolating its different parts, it is only for the sake of ease in experimental analysis, and by no means in order to conceive them separately. Indeed, when we wish to ascribe to a physiological quality its value and true significance, we must always refer to this whole, and draw conclusions only to its effects in the whole.”

Stumbled upon via this excellent take about homestasis (and how it's anti-reductionistic)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7076167/pdf/fphys-11-00200.pdf

Claude Bernard, 1865

Pedra after a 10 km run...

she's sleeping so deeply now 😄

"Its estimated that spam consumes more than 33 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity every year, the same amount as 2.4 million homes. It also produces the same amount of green house gas(GHG) emissions as 3.1 million passenger cars."
https://www.techbusinessnews.com.au/does-email-spam-affect-the-enviroment/

pomidory w zalewie, pulpety w sosie, zatwierdzenie w rybie.

#literówka #litrówka #SłowaNaOpak

Thinking about the wallet company that announced that "at least 30% of our products are bought as gifts." they got this number by assuming that all customers with feminine names were women buying the wallet for a husband, boyfriend or father.

They were totally unaware of their female customers and somehow actively invested in not discovering those customers existed.

A thought for #solarpunk #ttrpg / #rpg #gameDesign :

If you want to tell stories of a world where violence isn't a default conflict resolution option, don't reward it.

Don't make extra mechanics for combat, use the same kind of conflict resolution as for political debates or fighting forest fires.

If someone chooses violence, they could feel empty, feeling that they failed to find another way.

#ironsworn #starforged does this well: no XP for combat, only for quests, exploration and bonds.