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Well played, Time, well played.
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Well played, Time, well played.
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New Time Magazine cover just dropped. (Yes, it’s real.)
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This is pretty incredible. In the bowels of the UT Insect Collection we’ve found some Chagas bugs collected and identified by Carlos Chagas himself!
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Is there a dominant or distinct odor associated with these individual specimens or with open collection boxes or in the areas where the collections are stored?
Can you smell all those dead bugs?
What's it like?
Somehow, looking at these pictures, it seems to me like you might, and it might not be good...
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I'm using facebook for one more month. Facebook simply will not show you the things the people you follow post. For example, an old school friend posted a photo of a frog on his front door. Just what I want to see on social media! "look at this frog!" perfect content A++
Facebook hid it. My feed is full of other random stuff.
So, now I just click on "friends" and look individually at what everyone has posted. Much more enjoyable. If I were going to stay I'd write a script to automate this.
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There used to be a way to do this, but I left so long ago I don't remember what it was. Mark everybody as "family" and then see a list of just "family" - or something like that? They probably turned it off…
Musk shields his finances as he hoards private data of millions of Americans
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Musk shields his finances as he hoards private data of millions of Americans: report
Elon Musk vowed "maximum transparency" in his government work but won't even share his financial disclosures, according to a new report.Travis Gettys (Raw Story)
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BUT at least she's blonde!
Trump’s new 'White House Faith Office' pick claimed 'demonic' forces stole 2020 election
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Trump’s new 'White House Faith Office' pick claimed 'demonic' forces stole 2020 election
When President Donald Trump spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday morning, February 6, he attacked Democrats as anti-religion — claiming, "They oppose religion, they oppose God.Alex Henderson (Alternet.org)
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One of the world's eeriest war memorials has to be the Ossuary of Douaumont, Verdun, northern France. A large, oblong building holds the remains of 130,000 unidentified World War I soldiers. It is possible to look through small openings in the base and see masses of bones and skulls. Above the skeleton-filled basement is a cloister with a long hall with inscriptions on the walls. In the centre is a 150-foot tower, in which a rotating red-and-white 'lantern of the dead' shines its beacon over the surrounding former battlefields at night. The tower also contains a 2-tonne bronze 'death bell', which is rung on official occasions. In front of the ossuary stretches a vast cemetery of white crosses. #graveyard #war #peace #gothic #history #architecture #death
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Der Absatz von #Tesla bricht im Januar im Vergleich zum Vorjahresmonat europaweit dramatisch ein. Eine falsche Modellpolitik und die extremistischen Ausfälle von Elon Musk vergraulen immer mehr Käufer:innen.
Dazu auch mein Video: youtu.be/8Wt4LXBFVFA
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Dazu auch mein Video: youtu.be/8Wt4LXBFVFA
electrek.co/2025/02/05/tesla-s…
Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany
Tesla’s sales have dropped nearly 60% in January in Germany compared to the same period last year. The same thing...Fred Lambert (Electrek)
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Die spannenden Fragen sind: Wie sahen die Verkäufe der Konkurrenz im gleichen Zeitraum aus? Welche Rolle spielt der Wunsch, beim Autokauf keinen Extremisten zu unterstützen? Und wen unterstützt man, wenn man statt eines #Tesla einen #VW oder #BYD kauft?
(Spoiler: Bei #Volkswagen profitiert unter anderem die Folterdiktatur #Katar als drittgrößter Anteilseigner, bei BYD sind es u.a. Warren Buffett, #BlackRock und der nicht gerade menschenrechtsfreundliche chinesische Staat.)
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Chicago Theater side view (2025)
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#Mastodon and #Bluesky also appeals to two substantially different groups of people:
- People who hate Twitter but want a microblogging service use Mastodon. They love Mastodon because it’s specifically not Twitter.
- People who love Twitter but hate what it’s become under Elon Musk use #Bluesky. They love Bluesky because it’s specifically like Twitter.
A Twitter alternative cannot be a true Twitter alternative if the appeal is that it’s not Twitter.
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How about people who just hate corporate social media, in general? I'm not being force fed opinions like TikTok or Meta.
@Sibshops Do you mean Big Social, or do you generally mean corporate? Because there are lots of corporate-run Fediverse servers in operation. In fact, the biggest servers are run by corporations.
Happy birthday to civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who was born on this day in 1913 ✊
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#RosaParks #CivilRights #OTD #OnThisDay #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth
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that picture actually makes her look a little like AOC. The jaw and smile is similar.
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At first, I thought Trump's new Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs could not possibly have said what was being attributed to him.
Then I found his actual tweet. It's true.
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"Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work."
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I think they really want us to go back to the days before women and men who weren’t white had the right to vote and many other rights 🥺
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Still, the Bluesky thing is a shame. Hopefully more users will realise switching to just another big company is not viable in the long run.
Signal seems more okay, it being a charity and all. Though I hope that's enough of a motivation to do right in the long run.
Well, there’s a few ways to approach the question of Bluesky.
First off, there’s no question that Bluesky has a more inviting UI/UX to people migrating away from Twitter. This can’t be helped since Bluesky is more Twitter-like than Mastodon.
But it also didn’t help that several marginalized groups, including Black folk, found a hostile environment here when they attempted to migrate in November 2022.
And while we can point at the tech here on Mastodon and say, “More decentralized!” the other fact is that Bluesky has tools to make life slightly more easier for some marginalized groups. For example, Bluesky has comment controls whereas Mastodon does not.
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@bammerlaan The messenger app #Signal is not run by a non-profit organisation or a charity.
Instead the service is provided by a for-profit company: Signal Messenger LLC
signal.org/legal
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It is similar in structure to #Mozilla, where they also mix the non-profit and the for-profit organisations together on their websites. This confuses users in my opinion.
Accordingly #Firefox is developed by the Mozilla Corporation, not by the Mozilla Foundation.
@fosstastic @bammerlaan In both cases, I believe, the for-profit company is owned entirely by the non-profit. This structure is often in place because it lets you take donations easily as well as money for specific tasks. Donations, to be tax exempt, must not come with any specific return to the donor (the enforcement of this is, uh, somewhat variable). The Signal Corporation can, for example, provide consulting for integrating secure E2EE into other platforms and take money for this, which can go towards improving and maintaining Signal. The Signal Foundation could not. As with any corporation, the Signal LLC is accountable to its owner. The Signal Foundation is the owner and must justify that all of their activities are in pursuit of their stated objectives to maintain their non-profit status.
The problems with Mozilla have nothing to do with this structure and everything to do with the people in charge.
I love living in Norway. That's it. That's the toot.
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I may need this on my bumper.
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Trump Taps ‘Sharpiegate’ Scientist to Lead US Weather Agency
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Trump Taps ‘Sharpiegate’ Scientist Neil Jacobs to Lead US Weather Agency
The Trump administration has tapped Neil Jacobs, a scientist cited for misconduct related to the “Sharpiegate” hurricane forecasting controversy, to lead the agency that oversees US government weather predictions and climate research.Lauren Rosenthal (Bloomberg)
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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons,
Map updated with 05/2025
More overlap than I wished for because of private properties but still another nice brush stroke in Sintra.
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Igår var det lite ljust.
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A town of shining cherry blossoms overflowing with gentleness.
#photography #nature #art #写真 #日本 #japan #beautiful #beauty #landscape #scenery #ファンタジー #fantasy #oldlens #filmlike #classical #retro #healing #calm #春 #spring #桜 #cherryblossom #cherryblossoms #town #country #pink #shine #shining
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“I have never seen the level of retribution and anger expressed towards career prosecutors and staff who are basically doing their job. It is stunning, the level of retribution. What is ironic is that President Trump talked about witch hunts. What we are now experiencing is his answer to the witch hunt, which is much worse.”
-- Gene Rossi, who previously worked as a prosecutor, represented the first Oath Keeper to enter the Capitol.
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That's what fascists do. They accuse others of the atrocities they want to commit. Was the same with Hitlers NSDAP and nowadays with the AfD.
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A View on Hampstead Heath, Early Morning by John Constable RA 1821
Oil on Canvas
(Yale Center for British Art - not on view}
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You know what’s foolish about these tariffs?
Before this ridiculousness, it was a near certainty that Pierre Poilievre was going to be Prime Minister of Canada and that the Liberals were on their way out. Now I’m not so sure.
So if Trump just left things alone for a year, he would have had a guaranteed yes-man in Canada. But now even the yes-man doesn’t want to present himself as a yes-man.
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@Christopher Really, it almost begs the question as to whether Trudeau could re-run in the Liberal Leadership Race, and in the election campaign.
(Probably not, but arguably he could go the "Look; you can trust that I won't capitulate to Trump on our sovereignty, and I can fight back with tariffs too; I just think tariffs in a Free Trade Agreement is a unwise decision.")
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@AT1ST @Christopher God, I hope he doesn’t re-run. He’s good when it comes to responding to crises but he’s terrible when it comes to the economy.
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Trump stans like Tim Pool have no bloody clue about Canada.
We’d rather burn the economy to the ground then live under the thumb of the USA. If you want to go to war, we will go to war.
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I used to work for some very wealthy Americans when I was a designer. One day, one of their trophy wives made a realization about Canadians and it was spot on. She said, I think I've realized that the difference between Canada and the US is that everyone has their price in the States, it's just a matter of finding out what it is, but you Canadians are really different. If you don't wanna do something, you just won't do it. It doesn't matter what you get offered.
I don't think she was wrong
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I think the biggest difference between the USA and Canada is that Canadians believe in a common good.
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Seems like they do not have any clue about how their own system works either.
Crap like that happens on a platform without moderators and fact checkers.
Reality:
DJT needs 2/3 votes in the Senate before he can invade another country.
There are 53 GOP Senators and 45 Dems + 2 Indi.
I hope that no more than 53 Senators would vote to invade.
Elon Musk Creates Confusion About Direct File, the IRS’ Free Tax-Prep Program
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Elon Musk Creates Confusion About Direct File, the IRS’ Free Tax-Prep Program
Though the billionaire presidential adviser created confusion when he said he’d “deleted” the agency behind it, the free filing program is still available—at least for the coming tax season.Fatima Hussein and Barbara Ortutay / AP (Time)
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Edward R. Martin, Jr. is a freak and a traitor to the United States.
New top prosecutor for DC advocated for Jan. 6 rioters and echoed Trump's false 2020 election claims | AP News
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New top prosecutor for DC advocated for Jan. 6 rioters and echoed Trump's false 2020 election claims
The top federal prosecutor for Washington is a conservative activist who promoted Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories about a stolen election, railed against the prosecution of the rioters who stormed the Capitol and represented some in court.ALANNA DURKIN RICHER (AP News)
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In feudal times, the rich didn’t pay taxes and the peasants worked until they died. Now, the rich don’t pay taxes and the peasants work until they die—but at least you have Netflix!
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Why the Data Ocean Is Being Sectioned Off
Bigger is better approaches in AI create an inexhaustible appetite for users’ data, leading to a rise in user data expropriation, sectioning off of the internet, and “data feudalism.”Default
Hmm... setting up ActivityPub to federate what are essentially blog posts is interesting.
Permissions issue right now that should be sorted soon, and then I can describe what's what.
cc @elzbethmrgn @futzle
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💌THE LOVE LETTER SALE❤️🔥
At Suga-jinja (須賀神社 - twinned with Kōtsū-jinja) a rather different sort of event takes place at Setsubun (and the day before).
There are no oni, but there are 'Kesōbumi-uri' (懸想文売), 'vendors of love letters', with their faces carefully hidden.
#京都 #Kyoto #loveletters #Japan
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Naturally there is a special sweet for the occasion😉...
Setsubun is the only time it is possible to purchase Aoimochi's (葵餅) 'suga-tamochi' (須賀多餅).
The plum-flavored mochi is branded with a love letter, and the yuzu-flavoured mochi with a gohei (御幣).
2025's official slogan is "It gets worse."
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Good Day!
A Frosty Morning by Frederick William Newton Whitehead 1890
Oil on Canvas
(Dudley Museums Service)
Winter has its beauty.
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Frosty Morning by Elioth Gruner 1932
Oil on Canvas on Board
(Private Collection)
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So #PeerTube has the 3rd highest MAUs on the #Fediverse.
But who are these users, and what servers are they on? Here’s the top five servers by MAUs:
- phijkchu.com - 6,284
- wirtube.de - 4,998
- peertube600.pocketnet.app - 4,642
- gegenstimme.tv - 4,519
- swebbtv.se - 4,052
Four of the top five servers are located in Europe, and the bulk of their videos directly serve a specific language (German, Russian, Swedish, etc.)
The lone English language server is phijkchu, and it seems to be run by an indie game developer named Robert Moran. I have no idea who he is but he seems to be a big deal.
By the way, the bulk of Peertube users seem completely unaware they’re on the Fediverse and just see their server as a self-contained site.
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I use PeerTube every time I get annoyed by YouTube's broken algorithm, which is about every second day. I just wish I had more than ~2 creators that interest me there.
I think @peertube needs a campaign to get open source conferences like @fosdem to upload to the network. They don't even need to run a full-fledged instance, just some sort of ActivityPub connector. Maybe I should attempt that.
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wirtube -> instant block
gegenstimme too.
pitty that for the peertube project.
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Sonnet 029 - XXIX
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
bot by @davidaugust
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Billionaires don't know the price of eggs, but they do know how much it costs to buy a president.
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The current price of eggs in an upper-class grocery store in Ottawa, Canada. No sales tax.
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Spring Time in Devon by Elioth Gruner 1924
Oil on Canvas
I am forever interested in how artists manage the painting of trees. This is a very effective skeleton treatment, which he has used throughout his oeuvre.
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Covering FISA in my surveillance course this week and going over the history (Watergate, COINTELPRO, etc). It all seems so quaint and innocent now.
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Ants — yes, ants — could protect apples, nuts, cocoa, and other beloved crops from disease and climate change.
Not expected to be surprised:
@futurebird
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Many plants recruit ants. The assumed reasons for this are primarily that ants will drive out and eat many herbivorous insects (and even deter some larger vertebrate herbivores) After that possibly pollination?
But this notion that ants may prevent fungi, and other problems (due to the fastidious cleaning habits they have cultivated for millions of years to survive in dense colonies without disease) may help explain just how many plants seem to be "ant seekers."
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Some plants roll out a velvet carpet for ants. They have "extra floral nectaries" which are like little juice stations where the ants can drink sweet nectar. Carnivorous plants have been known to host more insect prey so the ants can find the protein they need. And many plants have hollow structures that make perfect humidity regulated nesting places for ants.
We ought to sit up and take notice and learn a thing or two from the plants.
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please yes, contemporary society does NOT have enough extra floral nectaries along active transportation corridors.
@datum These are the posts that keep me coming to mastodon 😀 I'm glad I clicked through to see the thread that led to this after envisioning floral nectaries on my bus route...
this reminds me that there are effectively two examples of herbivory among spiders (often thought to be "enirely obligate carnivores", but no). One is pollen; just about all spiders that build webs can digest pollen, and the other is spiders that live on ant-acacias; ant-acacias grow "treats" to attract ants that protect them from other herbivores. But along comes some canny spiders that have evolved to eat the treats grown for the ants.
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And AFAIK the one with the highest percentage of plant material in its diet is bagheera kiplingi, so it's named after a black panther, and that amuses me greatly.
(There was a married couple of jumping spider enthusiast who were also fans of Kipling and named at least 3 species after characters from his works. )
And AFAIK the one with the highest percentage of plant material in its diet is bagheera kiplingi, so it's named after a black panther, and that amuses me greatly.
(There was a married couple of jumping spider enthusiast who were also fans of Kipling and named at least 3 species after characters from his works. )
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imagine the spider: "because I have vowed to eat only pollen, I've cut five flies and a beetle out of my web today, and I felt so bad the flies were so terribly injured and I don't even if know if they'll live, while the beetle was super rude and huffy for having merely been inconvenienced by my web ... "
imagine the spider: "because I have vowed to eat only pollen, I've cut five flies and a beetle out of my web today, and I felt so bad the flies were so terribly injured and I don't even if know if they'll live, while the beetle was super rude and huffy for having merely been inconvenienced by my web ... "
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