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.
@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)
@iveyline I am spoiled living near a small city that's had a forester for long time, got interns to make a database of every street tree in the city, and consults with a top professor at my Uni on top of the hill.
We were early adopters of the Ginkgo before this problem was understood
Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) trees also known as Maidenhair trees are slow-growing, relatively pest-free, wind-polinated trees that can be found in all fifty of the contiguous United States.
I am lucky as I live in an area with a lot of trees and recovering indigenous forests around our village in the Far North of New Zealand. It makes you really appreciate how important natural diversity is
I guess I am lucky to live in a small community that has many trees and volunteer supported initiatives to enhance natural generation of indigenous forests.
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
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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As expected, Google is releasing the first developer preview for Android 16 today. This is much earlier than usual. However, Google has already confirmed
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…
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.
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.
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
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)
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.
@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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
according to the internet, the main uses for tumbled rocks are making jewelry or just putting them in decorative bowls so unless you want to do those things you probably don't need one
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
📢 “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.
That’s why you’ll have seen us boosting your posts. You’ve probably used a hashtag our human curators think suits the conversations in a Community, or our curators have followed you from a Community because you're a leading voice posting regularly on a topic. Your post is then boosted into an organised space that people can see, if they choose to.
When you post with a hashtag, your post is pulled into a feed with all the other posts on that hashtag. What we do is keep it safe and on topic by adding extra layers of curation - all done by real people, not AI. We add carefully researched accounts which post regularly on topic, but usually don’t use any hashtags. Finally, we cut out a lot of irrelevant content which comes through using filters and mutes.
For every 10 hashtags we might bring together, we’ll often have 50 or more filters in place, and a lot of mutes. Our human moderators constantly update and edit these filters too, to stay on top of the conversations. If you want to join our volunteer moderation team, let us know!
The end result is timely, informative content - including your post.
We wanted to make our communities accessible to everyone in the Fediverse, without the need to use a dedicated app. We’d love to have the ready-made ability to create Community Feeds, but Mastodon and the Fediverse don’t have the built in tools to do this. So, we’ve adapted existing technologies to make things work.
We’ve used customised accounts to create the communities, and automated accounts to boost them around the Fediverse so everyone can be a part of it. Unfortunately, notifications are a side effect which we can’t turn off due to the limits of Mastodon’s capability. The good news is that you can turn them off yourself. If you don’t want to follow a feed, and would like to stop seeing notifications: just mute the relevant Feed account. You’ll find them all at newsmast.community.
If you have any questions, want to know more, or simply want to remove your content from Community Feeds just let us know by private messaging us or emailing support@newsmast.org.
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…
The amorous adventures of earwigs Elaborate courtship, devoted parenthood, gregarious nature (and occasional cannibalism)—earwigs have a lot going for them. arstechnica.com/science/2024/1…
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.
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!
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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.
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On the top of the pedestal reads "MOZART HÄRFENNEN," which could be interpreted as a misspelling for "Mozart Erdenkranz" (the Earth's Crown), referencing Mozart's association with Viennese culture. The statue appears to represent Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, wearing classical attire and holding what looks like sheet music or documents in his hand.
Surrounding the central figure are multiple smaller sculptures of cherubs interacting around musical instruments such as a flute and violin. These add an artistic flair but do not convey historical accuracy regarding Mozart's life.
The backdrop features a building facade with windows, shutters, and red-striped awnings that resemble those found in European cities during this period. The overall color scheme is sepia-toned, suggesting the image could be based on or created as part of early photochrom printing techniques used to reproduce images from postcards for mass consumption.
There's no visible indication of a photographer like Loener; however, given the reference context provided—Mozart Monument, Vienna—with an approximate date range (ca. 1890 - ca. 1900), this image likely dates within that timeframe and is part of a collection or series documenting cultural sites across Austro-Hungary. [...]](https://friendica.world/photo/preview/640/666116 "The image depicts a statue, possibly from an early 19th-century publication or postcard. The central figure is a male standing on a pedestal with inscriptions and sculptural embellishments.
On the top of the pedestal reads \"MOZART HÄRFENNEN,\" which could be interpreted as a misspelling for \"Mozart Erdenkranz\" (the Earth's Crown), referencing Mozart's association with Viennese culture. The statue appears to represent Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, wearing classical attire and holding what looks like sheet music or documents in his hand.
Surrounding the central figure are multiple smaller sculptures of cherubs interacting around musical instruments such as a flute and violin. These add an artistic flair but do not convey historical accuracy regarding Mozart's life.
The backdrop features a building facade with windows, shutters, and red-striped awnings that resemble those found in European cities during this period. The overall color scheme is sepia-toned, suggesting the image could be based on or created as part of early photochrom printing techniques used to reproduce images from postcards for mass consumption.
There's no visible indication of a photographer like Loener; however, given the reference context provided—Mozart Monument, Vienna—with an approximate date range (ca. 1890 - ca. 1900), this image likely dates within that timeframe and is part of a collection or series documenting cultural sites across Austro-Hungary. [...]")
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We were early adopters of the Ginkgo before this problem was understood
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so our (used to be) black neighborhood has excellent shade but an offensive odor at certain times of the year.
Ginkgo Stinkgo! Are Boys Better Than Girls? | Purdue Extension Forestry & Natural Resources
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