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Plantwatch: Arctic microalgae perform photosynthesis in near darkness theguardian.com/science/2024/n… #Environment #Worldnews #Science #Plants #Arctic

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These are sand flowers, do not pick them, they retain the sand dunes #gironde #ocean #ecology #flowers #beach #seaside

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In case you're not clear on the effectiveness of #vaccines, here's a simple chart. Please share.
#PublicHealth

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🌳 Japan-style 'tiny forests' are taking root in British cities

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#uk #japan #forests #reforestation #cites #parks #trees #horticulture

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@iveyline a lot is written about that method; it's been oversold in the tropics but it works great in the places where it works (e.g. another temperate island where they like to drink tea)
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I guess it is the concept that I find interesting given the numbers of people now living in high density urban environments. Thanks for sharing

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I don't know about you, but I'm trying my best to curate my social feeds to be less about the impending doom all around us and more about the things I actually love: #books, #VideoGames, #humor, and #AnimalPictures

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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.

youtube.com/watch?v=SJZkoS5LCI…

#Hats #Video #Delight #Interesting #History #Learning #TIL #Fashion

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Google releases the First Developer Preview for Android 16

#android #google #preview

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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.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

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Chrome, a Palantir Technologies product (would the sale improve things?)
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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)

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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 on Mastodon

See hand-curated, topical, feeds no matter where you call home on the Fediverse. Just add to a list, exclude from your home feed, then dip in and out whenever you want.

We’re working hard to connect knowledge across the Fediverse.

#newsmast #newsmastfoundation #mastodon #feditips


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@The Newsmast Foundation I was using your website, not an app. The same was true the other day. It was from the communities page. Now, whenever I try to go to the main page, I'm greeted with the form.
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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)


Newsmast Community Feeds on Mastodon

See hand-curated, topical, feeds no matter where you call home on the Fediverse. Just add to a list, exclude from your home feed, then dip in and out whenever you want.

We’re working hard to connect knowledge across the Fediverse.

#newsmast #newsmastfoundation #mastodon #feditips


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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)



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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Peak District Lead Mining Museum in Matlock Bath, England

Explore the history of mining in this museum, or in a real mine from the 1920s.#history #museums #minerals #mine #mines #section-Atlas

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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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@Taweret

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!

in reply to Andy Lundell 🙄

Nope, it's all gone! *(Though it's my normal mode, I got my first license 50 years ago when 30 words per minute was required for Extra)
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@Taweret

QRZ practice tests are what my wife and oldest son used to pass their tests:

qrz.com/hamtest/?op=start&t=g2…


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I had a really lovely walk this afternoon. The kids were walking home from school. I saw a brother and sister pair, they were so little, they must have been first grade and kindergarten, walking holding hands. Another brother and sister pair, she was walking and he was riding his bike excruciatingly slowly to keep pace with her. They got to an intersection and hesitated to cross. The truck driver who was there waited patiently until I caught up and escorted them across.

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'Our worst fears': Parts of Great Barrier Reef record worst coral loss in 39 years, early AIMS survey results show
#nature #biodiversity
abc.net.au/news/2024-11-19/gre…

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Shoebills—which are very unique birds—are very docile with people. In fact, a shoebill named Sushi at the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre is very friendly. If visitors bow to him, he’ll bow too and let them pet him, similar to Buckbeak from Harry Potter!

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We humans could learn a thing or two from the Shoebills.
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ~ #RayBradbury #quotes #books #bookbanning

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We Tested the Best Proofing Baskets for the Perfect Homemade Loaf
https://www.thespruceeats.com/best-proofing-baskets-5086921?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into All Stories @all-stories-TheSpruceEats

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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?

nytimes.com/2024/11/15/t-magaz…

#food #Cookbooks

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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.

#newsmast

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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!

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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.

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"Why is the slender-billed curlew now officially declared extinct?" 🐦💔

#Conservation #Extinction #SlenderBilledCurlew #Wildlife #Nature

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How Holiday Cookie Cutters Are Made laughingsquid.com/cookie-cutte…

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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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To invent the wheel, did people first have to invent the spindle?
The physics of spinning objects may have seeded concepts key to the wheel.
arstechnica.com/science/2024/1…

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The Ancient Asian Origins of 'Rock, Paper, Scissors' laughingsquid.com/rock-paper-s…

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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

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The amorous adventures of earwigs
Elaborate courtship, devoted parenthood, gregarious nature (and occasional cannibalism)—earwigs have a lot going for them.
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Got a job at a bakery where I cut the front and back off of each loaf of bread and stick those two slices into a separate bag. It doesn’t pay much but it’s a good way to make ends meet.

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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…

#food #potatoes #video

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Organic carrots sold in Canada, U.S. recalled in deadly E.coli outbreak - National | Globalnews.ca


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#food

#food

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A Clover With 63 Leaves Sets Guinness World Record for Most Leaves on a Clover laughingsquid.com/63-leaf-clov…

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In 1914, Leonard R. Ingersoll invented the first device for measuring the glossiness of paper using a Nicol prism. #Poetry #Science #History #Optics #Glossiness #Ingersoll (sharpgiving.com/thebookofscien…)

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