I solved the filtering problem I wrote about yesterday by changing the channel and notifications settings in Friendica. I explained more n a reply to said post. Now, my timeline is filled with all sorts of lovely things. Since that post was so negative, I would like to thank those who write such wonderful and positive things. You are why I am remaining in the Fediverse. Your posts make me smile and/or think, and now I will be seeing more of them!
#friends #Friendica #posting #timeline #Tweesecake #TweeseCake
"It was only later that Benoit, an artist and documentary filmmaker, learned that the wolves she saw weren't grey wolves but rather rare eastern wolves." Global News: Conservationists eager to see plan to save rare eastern wolf found in Quebec, Ontario globalnews.ca/news/1091640... #conservation 🌎
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Conservationists eager to see plan to save rare eastern wolf found in Quebec, Ontario
Gisèle Benoit still gets goosebumps when she remembers the first time she saw a family of eastern wolves emerge from the forests of the Mauricie National Park.The Canadian Press (Global News)
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Senators blast carmakers over right-to-repair opposition
OEMs also called out for selling data they collect on drivers.
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Intel WildCat Lake processor details leaked, pointing to an upcoming budget processor for low-power devices, possibly set to replace Alder Lake-N with a new 6-core chip combining 2 P-cores and 4 LPE-cores. buff.ly/4gIlDQa #chips #leaks #IntelWildcatLake #WildcatLake
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FDA approves weight loss drug Zepbound to treat obstructive sleep apnea
The FDA said studies have shown that by aiding weight loss, Zepbound improves sleep apnea symptoms in some patients.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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In October 2023, Mongabay traveled to Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park.
While there, we heard allegations that Uganda Wildlife Authority rangers have carried out extrajudicial killings of suspected bushmeat poachers inside the park.
Two weeks before our visit, a man was shot to death inside the park; his relatives and local officials alleged he was killed by wildlife rangers while attempting to surrender.
By Ashoka Mukpo
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#Environment #News #Conservation
‘Killed while poaching’: When wildlife enforcement blurs into violence
KITABU, Uganda — It’s mid-afternoon in Kitabu, a small town nestled in the hills of western Uganda at the foot of the Rwenzori mountains. Neatly manicured plots of beans and cassava line the road that leads toward it.Terna Gyuse (Conservation news)
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May your festive season brim with Saturnalian delights and a good dose of fun and games. Let’s hope it doesn’t all take a turn like this riot in the amphitheatre at Pompeii which led to the closure of the amphitheatre in 59 CE!
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Big dreams: He's the founder of a leading African photobook library
Paul Ninson had an old-school, newfangled dream: a modern library devoted to photobooks showing life on the continent. He maxed out his credit cards, injured his back — and made it happen.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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#QuizOfTheDay: #Laughing #Gas (or happy gas) is a colorless, non-flammable gas.
Laughing gas is used in medicine, especially in dentistry and surgery, for its pain-reducing and anesthetic effects.
Which chemical compound is known as "Laughing gas"?
A. Nitrous oxide
B. Hydrogen sulfide
C. Trichloromethane
D. Hydrogen peroxide
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What It's Like to Run the Only Grocery Store in a Remote Mountain Town in Colorado laughingsquid.com/silverton-gr…
What It's Like to Run the Only Grocery Store in a Remote Mountain Town in Colorado
Rocky Mountain PBS visited Darlene and Mark Watson of Silverton Grocery to learn what it's like to run the only grocery store in town.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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Google and OpenAI blitz December with so many AI releases, it’s hard to keep up
Potentially groundbreaking AI releases have been coming in fast, sending experts' heads spinning.
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The AI war between Google and OpenAI has never been more heated
Potentially groundbreaking AI releases have been coming in fast, sending experts’ heads spinning.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
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The FDA restricts a psychoactive mushroom used in some edibles
The Food and Drug Administration has told food manufacturers the psychoactive mushroom Amanita muscaria isn't authorized for food, including edibles, because it doesn't meet safety standards.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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A pair of satellites will create artificial solar eclipses to study the sun
Astronomers hope the Proba-3 mission will help them get a better view of the corona, the sun's outer atmosphere, which is even hotter than the sun's surface.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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A Sombrero ground lizard. The species is endemic to Sombrero island, a tiny isle (just over a mile long) near Anguilla in the Caribbean. Its population has increased from fewer than 100 individuals in 2018 to more than 1,600 today, a new survey has revealed, thanks to conservation efforts.
Photograph: Farah Mukhida/Anguilla National Trust
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VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network
Big Mama VPN tied to network which offers access to residential IP addresses.
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Only 4000 connections for sale in the U.S., and 21000 connections in Saudi Arabia.
This seems to be a very niche usage.
It seems the point of the story is to use outliers (people with proxy connections using free VPN) to scare people away from using *all* free VPN's, without explaining how one knows that *paid* VPN's don't do the same thing.
A Sassy Corgi Husky Mix With a Napoleon Complex laughingsquid.com/luna-husky-c…
A Sassy Corgi Husky Mix With a Napoleon Complex
A sassy mixed-breed dog named Luna has the face, coat, and voice of a husky with the little legs and stubborn intelligence of a corgi.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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While users (at least on friendica.world) don't have advanced filtering options, I was able to solve myproblem. I went back to the Friendica site, and then to contacts. I clicked on each one, and in most cases, I changed the channel setting so that I would see all posts. for the ones that I really don't want to miss anything from, I changed the notification so that will be notified for each post the contact makes. On TweeseCake, this gives me three options. I could either read the Home timeline as always, switch to notifications, or switch to Mentions. I don't know why new posts are appearing in Mentions without anyone tagging me, but ah well. The last wo options will focus on the contacts whose posts I want to see the most. In all cases, but especially the second and third, I have eliminated the types of posts I don't wish to see from anyone. It took a long time, but my timeline is now clean and pleasant.
#Friendica #friends #posting #timeline #Tweesecake #TweeseCake
I hope you find a congenial community here! For the most part it’s a lovely place. I guess you’ve learned the follow-hashtags trick? [#]mosstodon is worth a peek, as is [#]bloomscrolling
Cheers—
Do you use the "Please Caption" bot to remind you to add descriptions? A couple of updates about this:
1) It has just changed servers, its new address is:
➡️ @PleaseCaptionBot
If your follow hasn't transferred automatically, follow it at the new address.
2) There was a problem transferring the bot's follows list. Even if you're following it at the new address, you should unfollow it and re-follow it in order to trigger the bot's follow back. Follow backs are needed for reminders to work.
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Yes, #NapoleonBonaparte had a #Math #Theorem! : Medium
Fat #Cells have a ‘#Memory’ of #Obesity — hinting at why it’s hard to keep weight off : Nature
#Historians Say They’ve Solved the #Mystery of a Curious 100-Year-Old #Contraption Discovered in Storage : Misc
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
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#Napoleon's #Theorem is a fascinating result in #Geometry that states - If #Equilateral #Triangles are constructed on each side of any triangle (either all outwards or all inwards), the centers of those equilateral triangles themselves form an equilateral triangle.
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Napoleon's Theorem
Napoleon's theorem is a fascinating result in geometry that states - If equilateral triangles are constructed on each side of any triangle (either all outwards or all inwards), the centers of those equilateral triangles themselves form an equilateral…Knowledge Zone
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“Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#quote #mindfulness #thisday #vongoethe
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#Environmentalism #Wildlife #EndangeredSpecies #Donations Save our forests from total destruction
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Save our forests from total destruction
We’re in the fight of our lives to save the planet.Corporate giants are burning, slashing, and poisoning precious forests from Brazil to Indonesia, for coffee, cocoa, palm oil and more.We HAVE to stopEkō
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#NewSpecies!
New carnivorous snail from #laos just bit us:
Sinoennea houaphanica
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/F1237A1…
Publication: doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.…
#tandfonline #SinoenneaHouaphanica
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #malacology #snails #carnivore #carnivoroussnails
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#NewSpecies!
New isopod from #brazil just came in:
Xangoniscus antiquus
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/1457552…
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.50.13…
#subtbiol #XangoniscusAntiquus
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arthropods #crustacea #isopods
Describing to preserve – three new species of Xangoniscus (Oniscidea, Styloniscidae) of unprotected caves in dry areas from Bahia state, northeastern Brazil
Three new troglobitic amphibious species of Xangoniscus (Styloniscidae) have been described from limestone caves of the Bambui Group semiarid ecosystems (Chacoan subregion) in the state of Bahia: Xangoniscus antiquus sp. nov., X. chaimowiczi sp. nov.Carlos Mario López-Orozco (Pensoft Publishers)
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#NewSpecies!
New freshwater goby from #vietnam just swam in:
Rhinogobius phuocbinhensis
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/03FD87E…
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5550.…
#Zootaxa #RhinogobiusPhuocbinhensis
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fish #TeamFish #fishofmastodon #fishfriday #ichthyology #goby #freshwater
A new freshwater goby of Rhinogobius Gill, 1859 (Teleostei, Gobiidae) from South Central Vietnam
A new species of freshwater gobiid fish of genus Rhinogobius Gill, 1859, was collected from the Cai Phan Rang River basin, South Central Vietnam. Rhinogobius phuocbinhensis n. sp.doi.org
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Stonehenge may have been erected to unite early British farming communities, research finds theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/d… #Archaeology #Stonehenge #Scotland #England
Stonehenge may have been erected to unite early British farming communities, research finds
The alter stone, which we now know is from Scotland, may have been a gift or marker of political allianceEsther Addley (The Guardian)
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#NewSpecies!
New moth from #china just landed:
Anorthoa wangi
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/B9BC013…
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e139425
#BioDataJournal #AnorthoaWangi
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #lepidoptera #moths #mothsmatter
A new species related to Anorthoa changi from Wuyishan National Park (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Hadeninae)
Anorthoa Berio, 1980 is a genus within the subfamily Hadeninae . This genus has a close relationship with the rama species complex of the genus Harutaeographa.Rui Xie (Pensoft Publishers)
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#NewSpecies
New skink from #australia just snuck in:
Liopholis purnululu
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/EC6387B…
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5551.…
#Zootaxa #LiopholisPurnululu
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #herpetology #herps #reptiles #skink
Molecular and morphological assessment of the Liopholis inornata (Rosén, 1905) species group (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae), with descriptions of two new species from northern Western Australia
Molecular genetic and morphological assessments were undertaken on the Liopholis inornata species group of skinks that occur on sandy soils in both mesic and arid regions of Australia.doi.org
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#PhotoOfTheDay: Orange #Lava, Blue #Lagoon
#Landsat 9 captured this image of lava coming from an eruptive fissure near Stóra Skógfell peak on Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula.
Lava from the eruption flowed across major roads and closed in on the Blue Lagoon, a popular tourist destination. This natural color scene is overlaid with an infrared signal to help distinguish the lava’s heat signature.
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Orange Lava, Blue Lagoon - NASA
Landsat 9 captured this image of lava coming from an eruptive fissure near Stóra Skógfell peak on Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula. Lava from the eruption flowed across major roads and closed in on the Blue Lagoon, a popular tourist destination.NASA
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Study shows climate change is hindering aspen tree maturity
Aspen #forests face complex challenges from #climatechange , not just rising temperatures but interactions with drought, fire, and browsing. A 42% aspen mortality rate highlights vulnerabilities, especially for young trees in dry, low-elevation areas. Adaptive management and collaborative strategies are vital to support regeneration and maintain biodiversity in these essential #ecosystems
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Study shows climate change is hindering aspen tree maturity - The Global Plant Council
Aspen forests face complex challenges from climate change, not just rising temperatures but interactions with drought, fire, and browsing. A 42% aspen mortality rate highlights vulnerabilities, especially for young trees in dry, low-elevation areas.Isabel (The Global Plant Council)
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Empower Inclusive Giving: Support Disability-Owned Businesses This Holiday Season With The Disability: IN Annual Holiday Gift Guide | DrKirkAdams.com
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Here, Dr. Adams highlights the importance of inclusive holiday shopping as a means to empower Disability-Owned Business Enterprises (DOBEs) and foster a culture of diversity and innovation.
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NPR's most-read stories of 2024 include a scam-fighter and zombie second mortgages
How can you outsmart scammers? What would you do if your friend was attacked by a wild cougar? NPR readers wanted to know the answers to those questions and more in 2024.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Hey Mastodon, I need to check something... you all know about Catford right??
It's a neighborhood in South London where they've leaned hard into the name.
They have the best shopping centre entrance ever.
Went through Catford the other day and even the town Christmas tree has a cat on the top in place of a star.
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Big Lots says it is having going-out-of-business sales as it seeks a new buyer
The national discount retailer says that a previously announced deal to sell itself to a private-equity group fell through.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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20 Maps That Changed the World
How we illustrate the world affects how we experience it.
By Lorna Wallace
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20 Maps That Changed the World
The Mercator Projection, Ptolemy’s ‘Geographia’, the Fra Mauro Map, and even Google Maps have all shaped how we experience the world around us.Kerry Wolfe (Mental Floss)
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CO2 emissions from new North Sea drilling sites would match 30 years’ worth from UK households | Environment | The Guardian…
Potential new North Sea oil and gas fields with early stage licences from the UK would emit as much carbon dioxide as British households produce in three decades. #climatechange #northsea #oilandgas #carbondioxide #environment
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CO2 emissions from new North Sea drilling sites would match 30 years’ worth from UK households | Environment | The Guardian…
Potential new North Sea oil and gas fields with early stage licences from the UK would emit as much carbon dioxide as British households produce in three decades.#climatechange #northsea #oilandgas…for much deliberation
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How Domestic Cats Originated From a Single Wildcat Species Over 10,000 Years Ago laughingsquid.com/history-of-c…
How Domestic Cats Originated From a Single Wildcat Species Over 10,000 Years Ago
Jackson Galaxy recounts the long history of domestic cats, noting that felines around the world originate from a single specia - the Near Eastern Wildcat.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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Sakhalin Leaf Warbler
Small songbird, virtually identical in plumage to Pale-legged Leaf Warbler, of which it was formerly considered a subspecies. Vertical tail pumping distinguishes this species from most others in its range except Pale-legged. Forages through the different layers of forest and like Pale-legged (and unlike most other leaf warblers) sometimes forages on the ground. Call note is a hard metallic “pit,” similar to Pale-legged, but marginally lower in frequency (visible on spectrogram); song a series of rhythmic whistles with clear distinctions between each note, very unlike the high, rapid trill of Pale-legged. Breeds in forest edges and clearings; can be found in a range of wooded habitats in migration and on wintering grounds.
Link: ebird.org/species/salwar1
Photo Location: China
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Technology Networks: Caltech Scientists Have Quantified the Speed of Human Thought…
Caltech researchers have quantified the speed of human thought: a rate of 10 bits per second. However, our bodies' sensory systems gather data about our environments at a rate of a billion bits per second, which is 100 million times faster than our thought processes... #brain #neuroscience #research #science
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Technology Networks: Caltech Scientists Have Quantified the Speed of Human Thought…
Caltech researchers have quantified the speed of human thought: a rate of 10 bits per second. However, our bodies’ sensory systems gather data about our environments at a rate of a billion bi…for much deliberation
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Simple Hacks For Keeping Shoelaces Tightly Tied laughingsquid.com/keeping-shoe…
Simple Hacks For Keeping Shoelaces Tightly Tied
Chris Notap shared simple but helpful hacks that keep shoelaces tightly tied no matter how much one's feet are put into use.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
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Anthropy
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