Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

When we talk about the climate emergency, we focus in on CO2, a long-lived gas whose release will eventually roast our planet and boil us all in our own skin. But a potentially more important threat is methane, which 84 times more greenhouse-y than CO2.

Thankfully, methane's effects taper off quickly as the gas breaks down, which means that if we can get a handle on methane release, it will cease to be a threat in short order.

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Reuters has just published a first-of-its-kind analysis of a dataset of observed methane emissions from different oil and gas companies' facilities and wells, imaged by high-resolution satellite cameras.

https://www.reuters.com/article/emissions-methane-idUSMTZSPDEH8EU9J79K

The worst liars are Shell, Chevron, Conoco Phillips, Marathon Oil and Exxon Mobil. Contacted by Reuters, spokescriminals representing each of these companies defender corporate genocide with a string of lies, each more risible and ghastly than the last.

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Torbay Covid update 17/8/2021 https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/torbay-covid-update-17-8-2021

Here’s the first bike I fixed up this morning during my first shift as a volunteer mechanic with Free Bikes 4 Kids! They’re getting bikes in the hands of kids and essential workers this summer and you can help out even if you don’t know anything about wrenching on a bike - https://fb4kmn.org #Bikes #MastoBikes

One of the most frustrating aspect of working from home, is that some of the colleagues does not know how to communicate.

A Simple Way to Build Collaborative Web Apps
https://zjy.cloud/posts/collaborative-web-apps

(submitted by thezjy)

How Has Social Media Impacted Our Mental Health? https://gizmodo.com/how-has-social-media-impacted-our-mental-health-1847326546

Looking for people who want remote paid contract work including

- front-end web design (html, JavaScript)
- Someone with experience making charts in d3.js
- a sysadmin to do some light server maintenance type work (setup to make sure everything is running correctly, some nginx server setup, general make it not burn down stuff)
- Mechanical turk type work (this one only requires English fluency)

We can work in French if you have some English
Inexperienced/entry level people are fine

Debian celebrates our 28th Anniversary today on #DebianDay! https://bits.debian.org/2021/08/debianday-2021.html This was only made possible with the support of our Contributors, Developers, and Users. Thank you! Let's all enjoy some Debian! #DebianDay #debian (P.S. #ReleasingDebianBullseye) :)

Nerds Don't Respond to Marketing; Try Technical Documentation Instead
https://hackernoon.com/nerds-dont-respond-to-marketing-try-technical-documentation-instead

(submitted by mooreds)

♲ @muse@diaspora.glasswings.com:

They said they wanted cheeps!

Helio is an open-source, cross-platform, distraction-free music composition suite that runs on computers and on mobile devices (!).
if you have a phone or a tablet, but no computer - you can still make music with libre software!

Something tells me once can be incredibly productive with this...

https://helio.fm/

#FOSS #OpenSource #Libre #Music #MusicProduction #MIDI #Android #Linux

Cybersleuths find men who allegedly attacked officer during US Capitol riot https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/14/jeffrey-smith-us-capitol-attack-lawsuit-david-walls-kaufman