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ИИ помогает создавать лекарства, опираясь на белковые структуры




Giving Friendica another go, so here's a bit of an introl!


I was born in a city in Yorkshire, known by the name of the river that runs through it!
Not sure how long I lived there because (one of) my parents became homesick and the family returned to the Red Rose side o f the Pennines - Preston in Lancashire, so my first memories are of growing up in a new council house during the '50s. I have lived in and around Preston ever since.
Got married in the mid '70's and she has put up with me to this day.
After secondary school I had a few jobs then worked for a major employer in the Preston area for almost 40 years before taking early retirement. Have now been retired over 12 years.
I like reading, mostly scifi, listen to various genres of music (eclectic mix), enjoy walking in the local countryside.

#Introduction #Preston #Lancashire #UnitedKingdom #England #UK #LeftOfCentre



Как современные датчики анализируют жидкости организма







🍄🌞🦎


you wake up.

you're still a lizard sunning on a red rock. it was all a dream

the concept of selling "feet pics" to pay back "student loans" is already losing its meaning as you open and lick your own eyeballs to moisten them

time to eat a bug.



Hello New Site


I've been working on divorcing myself from FB and finally hit the point of Oh Fuck It. So now I'm here.

I'm a queer indie author (nonbinary aro/ace) who writes books (SF, Fantasy, Mystery, mostly) and does watercolor and sewing as hobbies.

To say that I'm avoiding looking at the news right now is putting it mildly.

You can find me on Dreamwidth, on Pillowfort and on Mastodon as well.

All my books are available DRM-free from most sites. Still working on getting my website set up for direct sales but hopefully I'll manage that this year. *knocks on wood*

Anyway, I'm hopeful that this won't be misery the way FB has been for literal years.

*waves*



First impressions


in reply to Ruud

So the bottleneck in the job processing queue is outside the server where you host the pixelfed code for pixelfed.social? Other than using mastodon and only doing light reading on the fediverse, I am completely new to the decentralized architecture

EDIT: my bad, I thought you (@rudd) were hosting pixelfed.social ... maybe I need to join your pixelfed.




Any chance they'll reduce the excise tax while they're at it?


I am new here on Friendica, as are many of you. But has anyone found a way to limit the content I see about fascist politics? I do want to keep informed, but I don't want to see a deluge of this stressful stuff. Where's the fun stuff?
in reply to Sheila DeBonis

Hi! I'm new here as well; I think the answer is making a channel from nice tags, like “Asstodon” and “Mondog” and viewing that instead of the raw, unfiltered sewa... feed. Another alternative is using saved searches.


Emigrating from facebook


Facebook has been an annoyance for quite some time. Though their recent censorship has gotten to extreme levels and I no longer feel I can be part of facebook or anything Meta. I am hoping to connect to friends here and make some new ones. I blogged on this topic earlier.

You can read the blog here if you want to: Censorship Gone Wild




The Instagram blocking of hashtags this morning was the last straw. I'm beginning my transition off of all centralized social media.

Hope I can get my friends to follow.



Jan 26
Boardagaming Meetup, Sunday January 26th, Skerries The Coast Inn
Sun 2:45 PM - 5:45 PM The Coast Inn pub, Skerries, Ireland
Boardgames Skerries, Balbriggan, Rush and Lusk
Upcoming boardgaming session at The Coast Inn in Skerries.
Beginners welcome, no entry fee. You do not need to bring any games but you are welcome to bring any if you want! 14 years and up, minors need to be accompanied by an adult.
Looking forward to seeing new people!
If you are interested in the session, you are also welcome to contact the organizer to be added to the Whatsapp group, where the event dates are first decided among members.

grazianodin attends.





Partner joined & followed me last week, nothing is showing up in her feed


#dev she is wyldwoodwitch@friendica.world and even though it says she is following me, when she goes to her profile everything is blank and her feed is empty except for her test post
#dev


First Post


Just joined, testing the waters... Please enjoy this picture of a cat.


Hello, Friendica


Hoping to replace Facebook with a viable alternative to keep me in touch with local events in Hereford, UK in particular, as well as other interests
in reply to Judith Sawyer

I'm also trying to find an alternative to Facebook. Just signed up from South Africa. I refuse to continue supporting billionaire social media, they're wrecking society and can't be a part of it anymore.
in reply to Judith Sawyer

Same but from Massachusetts. Planning on trying to bring a few people with me. Let's get that network effect rolling.




Little Drone, Big Damage - Drone that bent this wing weighed less than half a pound


Photos of the internal damage caused by a drone strike on the wing of a CL-415 waterbomber in California 10 days ago show that even tiny drones pack a punch. The drone, pieces of which were recovered from inside the wing, has been identified as weighing less than half a pound. The impact over Pacific Palisades bent the front of a rib and a horizontal leading edge member, and the water-scooping amphib required significant repairs.


#AVweb #news #CL-415 #California #Canada





Deactivate and uninstall


I don't trust #meta will delete my #facebook or #instagram or #threads data when I delete my accounts. Until i figure out what to do long term, these are the steps I've taken:

* uninstalled facebook, messenger, and threads apps (kept ig initially)
* made sure my meta account is not linked to fb or ig (I have an oculus quest that is useless without a meta account and I have not decided what I will do about that)
* changed my name to something ridiculous on facebook
* changed my username to someone else (breaks the url I was associated with)
* disconnected from all apps and cleared history and fucked with anything else I could in the facebook settings
* started manually deleting media, posts, and comments (not sure if i will continue this since it's probably pointless)
* disconnected from all apps and cleared history and fucked with anything else I could in the instagram settings and then deactivated it
* uninstalled instagram

What have you done so far and what else are you planning? There is lots more to do.

in reply to effariwhy

I think the big one is making sure any and all settings which disallow sharing between companies and across services are active. Facebook will hoard data anyway, but we do what we can... And I think it's more important not using Facebook than deleting the account; they live from ad impressions, not the sum of active and inactive users.
in reply to Lemmus

Meta is probably moving it's servers and all it's backups into the FBI data center or giving the a FBI a back door into them (if they don't already have one). Just kidding, well not really.



Friendica revisited 2025


in reply to Allan LEONARD

Hello from another Friendica newbie! For backup, it seems "Settings" → "Export personal data" is the way to go.


Einen wunderschönen Eichhörnchentag!

Happy #squirrelappreciationday 🥳
I think everybody loves squirrels, they are so cute 🐿️

#eichhoernchen #squirrel

kuriose-feiertage.de/squirrel-…




Today’s Chicago Weather


In case anyone was thinking this would be a good time of year to visit Chicago. Yes, that’s Fahrenheit. 🥶

in reply to Thomas

Yes, it had already been enabled, but we disabled it just to be sure it didn't cause the delays. Once everything is caught up, I'll re-enable it. (Probably this weekend)


Getting Through The Day


Despite my resolution to keep the bad stuff out of my head this time around, too much has already leaked in. Not so easy to see the end of all we worked, sacrificed and struggled to accomplish.

But life goes on. The fragrance of roasted millet. The sparkle of sun on the snow. The laughing, little girl, wielding a pink snow shovel, fighting back against efforts to clear the sidewalk.

#USPolitics #Personal



New page of Æthernaut, full comic at flintpunk.com