Plantwatch: Arctic microalgae perform photosynthesis in near darkness
Unlocking secrets of how the algae survive could help extend growing seasons for crop plants at high latitudesPaul Simons (The Guardian)
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🌳 Japan-style 'tiny forests' are taking root in British cities
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Japan-style ‘tiny forests’ are taking root in British cities
Interviews with tree experts reveal that while half of them supported the Miyawake method, especially in specific urban areas, concerns remained about tree mortality and high costs.The Conversation
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Lament the demise of our hat-wearing society? Today's delight is a video that explains why hats fell out of favor through the 20th century. You'll also learn about hats from a contemporary hat maker, who offers hope for those who want to include hats in their wardrobe.
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#Hats #Video #Delight #Interesting #History #Learning #TIL #Fashion
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Google releases the First Developer Preview for Android 16
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Google releases the First Developer Preview for Android 16
As expected, Google is releasing the first developer preview for Android 16 today. This is much earlier than usual. However, Google has already confirmedAlexander Maxham (Android Headlines)
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Cutting off Google's control of the world's most popular browser may be necessary.
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Report: DOJ wants to force Google Chrome sale, Android de-bundling
Cutting off Google’s control of the world’s most popular browser may be necessary.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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i'm more worried about android itself, including android open source project. as a worldwide basis, android essentially has a worldwide monopoly.
alphabet inc may steer android into less open direction favoring or forcing google components. in that point android practically is not open anymore.
Georgie's Anecdotes
Normally, I cook for myself. But when my parents have something interesting, they offer it to me.
Me. "I think I'll finish those egg noodles. They should still be good, right? When did you give them to me?"
Mom. "Two days ago. You don't remember."
"No. I don't remember the days of food, just that it was good." (starts singing, parodying The Twelve Days of Christmas) "On the first day of November, my mother fed to me... I don't remember, but I know it was very good."
Both of us laugh.
Me. "I've been watching too much theatre."
Mom praised me, but I forget her exact words.
#Georgie'sAnecdotes
There really must be a way to filter posts and ignore conversations here and/or via Tweesecake. I honestly don't care who uses what platform. If Mastodon, Blue Sky, Twitter, Facebook, Friendica, or some yet unknown service works for you, use it. Why should it even matter, other than to help new users who are transitioning to these sorts of sites? I certainly received wonderful help when I first came to Friendica last month from Facebook. But I wouldn't put anyone down for using some other site. It's just great that those of us in the Fediverse can all communicate with each other. AT least, those on Friendica can do so across many platforms. I'm not sure how it works with the others. In my case, I moved from Facebook due to their eliminating their Basic Mobile site (not app), and I found some lovely people here.
#BlueSky #Facebook #filteringposts #Friendica #friends #Mastodon #needlessarguments #Tweesecake #Twitter
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Note: Despite this negative post, the people at Newsmast do take accessibility seriously and have said they would fix the issues that I mentioned earlier. So please don't let this reflect on them. I only told them about these a few days ago. Today, I found the new ones. Maybe, their site is simply not working properly for anyone at the moment.
I found yet more inaccessibility with newsmast. I went there using Supermium, and hit all the "button" links until I found the one that was for communities. I tried to follow one by entering my Friendica.world information, and told it to authorise the interaction, which is all normal and is how I joined the others when I found myself tagged in them. Then, I was sent to a page that asked me about my birthday, location, etc. I had never seen this when joining a Newsmast page, but I began doing it. There was an edit box for country, but regardless of what I typed, it kept telling me that I needed to select a country. But there was no combobox to do so, just an edit box for typing. I closed the window and tried to return to the communities page, but it kept returning me to the form where I had to enter my location, even when I specifically removed that part of the url. I'm going to try it with Firefox, which is a bit more accessible with the site (it shows some links not all unlabelled buttons), but this shouldn't be happening. I also need to figure out how to delete the cookie from Supermium so that I can visit the site without the prompt.
Update. I just went there with Firefox. I was able to find and follow a community. Again, it sent me to the location page, even when I closed the initial one that opened. Now, whenever I go there, it does the same. I guess I have to use a different browser or virtual machine every time I want to join a community, or just type a large number of tags into one post, hoping that some are communities, so that they will boost my meaningless post, just so that I might be lucky enough to land on their follow page and not the location one again. Yes, that was sarcasm. In reality, I'll just go back to my other pages that list various tags and communities to join because they work.
#accessibility #blind #blindness #Newsmast #firefox #NVDA #Supermium #Windows @newsmast.org @newsmast
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Hi Georgiana, thanks again for your helpful feedback.
It sounds like you're trying to follow Communities using the Newsmast app which will ask for you to create an account.
As we spoke about the other day, we know there's issues here that we need to fix and hopefully will be able to soon!
If you want to follow our Community Feeds on vanilla Mastodon, you can do so by follow them directly from your current friendica[dot]world account. (1/2)
There's a list of Community Feed accounts available here: newsmast.community/about
Or you can see them in a post here: newsmast.social/@newsmast/1118… (2/2)
Newsmast Community Feeds
Welcome to Newsmast Community Feeds. Easy-to-follow curated feeds of posts from all over the Fediverse, organised into knowledge-sharing communities.Mastodon hosted on newsmast.community
We have apps on iOS, Android and on the web.
newsmast.org is a our web app which has a number of accessibility issues and bugs which we'll work on soon. For now, our Newsmast app has been placed to the side until we finish our Channel.org service (which we hope will bring in more funding).
To visit the Community Feeds on a plain Mastodon UI or through whichever application best suits you, you can access and follow them from this thread of posts: newsmast.social/@newsmast/1118… (1/2)
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To visit our website which explores our mission as a charity, you can visit our site here: newsmastfoundation.org/
The site is currently under a bit of maintenance so if you spot any accessibility bugs (or otherwise) please let us know! (2/2)
The Newsmast Foundation - Newsmast
A social media charity The Newsmast Foundation is an educational charity, supporting the use of social media for good. We’re at the forefront of new, open social media.Newsmast
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Dear Idiots Outside,
When I say drag is interesting, I'm not talking about drag racing down a residential street at almost midnight!
Yours in annoyance,
Georgiana
Just for context, some people do this all of the time around here, and it's ridiculous! I don't even live in a big city, and yet, they race down the street as if their lives depended on it, sometimes much later than this, at three or four in the morning! It sounds as if they're on motorbikes, not in cars.
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The Glorious World of Sweet Holiday Salads
Cool Whip and Jell-O for everyone!Anne Ewbank (Atlas Obscura)
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For some reason, every time I see mention of rock tumblers, I'm tempted to buy one.
I don't really have any use or desire for smooth rocks, but somehow that's not even the point.
I think "I've got some rocks, why aren't I tumbling them? I could be tumbling those rocks right now!"
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Nope, code is gone, just the theory test and a few more rules to learn but even my wife got her General and then Extra, and she's not a technical person at all!
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QRZ practice tests are what my wife and oldest son used to pass their tests:
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Practice Amateur Radio Exams by QRZ Ham Radio
World's leading amateur radio web site with news, technical articles, discussions, practice exams and more.www.qrz.com
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#nature #biodiversity
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Parts of Great Barrier Reef record worst coral loss in 39 years, early AIMS survey results show
Large sections of the Great Barrier Reef appear to have been smashed by climate change and cyclones this year, with one reef near Lizard Island losing nearly three quarters of its coral cover since the beginning of the year.Michael Slezak (ABC News)
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We Tested the Best Proofing Baskets for the Perfect Homemade Loaf
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We Tested the Best Proofing Baskets for the Perfect Homemade Loaf
Bread bannetons are an integral part of proofing in the bread-making process. We researched and tested the best proofing baskets for baking homemade bread.Jenny Kellerhals (The Spruce Eats)
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Occasionally, on Facebook, I would write funny things under the title Georgie's Anecdotes. So why not continue the tradition here?
Georgie's Anecdotes
My parents have been together for thirty-five years. They had a civil union in 2007 and were finally able to marry in 2013. Both times, my own excitement was contagious, to the point that they wondered if they or I were more excited! Today, both made me laugh. I wished Mom a happy wedding anniversary. She said she had forgotten and asked "how did you remember that?" I said "I always remember important things. Later, she spoke with Joanie, and she didn't even know today's date! Usually, she's the one to say it to Mom first. This year, I beat both of them!
#anniversary #gayrights #Georgie'sAnecdotes #lesbians #Ilovemyparents #marriage
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Very US-centric, but interesting. The 25 most influential cookbooks of the last hundred years. How many have you come across?
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📢 “What are Community Feeds? Why has my post been boosted?”
You make a post, add a hashtag, and it’s immediately boosted by one of our Community Feeds - plus you get a notification. What’s going on?
We’re Newsmast and we’re all about knowledge sharing. We’ve built topical Communities, spaces that anyone can dip in and out of to get involved in the things they care about. Communities combine and curate posts from all over the Fediverse into an easy to access single source.
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Hi, you have now been suspended by the newsmast.community instance so your content will no longer appear there and will be deleted.
Hope that helps!
please purge me as well. I don't appreciate being opted into things like this without my consent.
I won't see your reply, as I'm shortly muting your domain.
Mozart Monument, Vienna, Austro-Hungary between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Views of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
#MozartMonument #Vienna #Austro #MOZARTHÄRFENNEN #MozartErdenkranz #Earth #Mozart #Viennese #European #Loener #Austro-Hungary #photography #historicalPhotos
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From the Archives:
PAT MORITA
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Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee for THE KARATE KID
#movies #films #cinema #cinemastodon #film #movie #hollywood #ClassicMovies #actor
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"Why is the slender-billed curlew now officially declared extinct?" 🐦💔
#Conservation #Extinction #SlenderBilledCurlew #Wildlife #Nature
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Slender-billed curlew is officially extinct
The species, with a vast range, has been officially declared extinct by Slender-billed curlew is officially extinctLorenzo Ciotti (Rapusia Blog)
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How Holiday Cookie Cutters Are Made
Ann Clark Ltd. in Rutland, Vermont shared a number of super satisfying videos that show how they make their seasonal cookie cutters.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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We make #coffee & #tea that funds the arts! 🎭
Join our Coffee Club or check out our new Coffee Bundles for gift ideas this holiday season!
☕️ www.CoffeeForTheArts.com 🎨
#CoffeeClub #CoffeeForTheArts #Art #Arts #Artist
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The physics of spinning objects may have seeded concepts key to the wheel.
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To invent the wheel, did people first have to invent the spindle?
The tools used to make threads could have seeded concepts that eventually led to the wheel.Kiona N. Smith (Ars Technica)
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The Ancient Asian Origins of 'Rock, Paper, Scissors'
The History Guy explained the ancient origins behind the zero-sum hand game "Rock, Paper, Scissors", noting how it first started in China.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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Oz Plaza in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
Life-size statues of characters from 39;The Wizard of Oz39; stand at the one of the early screening sites for the 1939 movie.#murals #midwest #statues #film #movies #section-Atlas
Oz Plaza
Life-size statues of characters from 'The Wizard of Oz' stand at the one of the early screening sites for the 1939 movie.ugc (Atlas Obscura)
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The World's Largest Coral, a Single Organism, Can Be Seen From Space
Recently discovered in the Solomon Islands, the mega coral is likely centuries old.#climatechange #oceans #environment #marine #worldslargest #coralreefs #climatedeskinternal #section-Articles
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Elaborate courtship, devoted parenthood, gregarious nature (and occasional cannibalism)—earwigs have a lot going for them.
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According to Wikipedia there are now over 5,000 different varieties of potatoes. However, here in the USA, we only see a half dozen or so. And they are still different in the way they are best prepared!
> What is best Potato for Frying, Roasting, Mashing, and Baking? youtube.com/watch?v=JhVvsftbtU…
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Organic carrots sold in Canada, U.S. recalled in deadly E.coli outbreak - National | Globalnews.ca
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Organic carrots sold in Canada, U.S. recalled in deadly E.coli outbreak
The FDA and CDC say public health officials are investigating an E. coli outbreak linked to several brands of recalled organic whole-bagged carrots and baby carrots.Katie Dangerfield (Global News)
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A Clover With 63 Leaves Sets Guinness World Record for Most Leaves on a Clover
A clover with 63 leaves grown by Yoshiharu Watanabe of Japan broke the Guinness World Record for "Most Leaves on a Clover".Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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