@DevWouter #Canada 🇨🇦 take notice!
The Canadian 🇨🇦 Government should embrace open standards and platformsand, and not depend on private US companies to communicate and engage with their citizens.
The target of keeping long-term global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) is moving out of reach, climate experts say, with nations failing to set more ambitious goals.
please post any subsequent updates here unless they're huge happenings. i just woke up and half our news front page is updates which is nice but also A Lot and most of these don't have to be their own thread
One of the hallmarks of light here at certain times of of the year is the entire horizon is rimed with pink. Three days until the Sun returns. #Nunavut#Arctic
@NunavutBirder@sjuvonen Feeling kinda dumb here 🤭 , but I have not the in depth knowledge to explain the physics behind that. Guessing atmospheric reflection due to the angle of the sun to earth enables some spectral filter, but that is just a wild guess in deed.
The New York Times reports the tech has mistakenly identified people as connected to Hamas. Israel has deployed a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip, creating a database of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent, The New York Times reports. The program, which was created after the October 7th attacks,...
I reassure you that you can follow accounts on #EUVoicehttps://social.network.europa.eu without having an account on the same instance. That's what everyone does because EUVoice does not accept citizen accounts. If you describe your problem, people may be able to help you. :)
So, this was released today. My third stamp with Canada Post. Qarlinngua (The pants). And technically my second stamp with a family member in it, as the tiny figure in it is my son Travis. Now for one with Hilary in it.
I’ve very proud of all of these, beyond the cache. They are about my home, and family. And also my family has a long history with the Post Office, 101 years. My grandfather, father, and brother were all postmasters in Roblin. #Nunavut#Arctic#Stamps#philately#CanadaPost
hariette@tech.lgbt - #kbin + #lemmy app is coming along. Here's a preview of the upcoming beta. This is less than a week’s worth of work, so it’s only up from here 😉...
I often say that Antarctica is really big - and one of the reasons that it's quite hard to work out what is going on is the sheer size as well as lack of observations.
We would not expect the same weather and climate across the US, and #Antarctica is almost 1.5 times bigger than the USA...
The Israel Antiquities Authority believes that a set of ancient ceramic oil lamps missing for more than three years are at Mar-a-Lago, the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump, according to Haaretz.
It was a brave, if perhaps scientifically obvious, experiment – to convey messages about the unfolding climate crisis via the regular local TV weather forecasts seen by viewers in the conservative heartland of Iowa. It culminated in the meteorologist involved receiving death threats and exiting the state.
Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury on four criminal counts in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election leading up to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol....
Social networks in Iran have been flooded with compromising footage featuring several known ultra-conservative officials engaging in homosexual activities. While homosexuality is punishable by death in Iran, the Iranian regime has attempted to deny the videos and cover up the scandals. We spoke to a former religious authority...
David Vitter is a lobbyist for Oleg Deripaska. Oleg Deripaska is part of the Voloshin clan. The Voloshin clan control American Ethane. Kyle Ruckert was David Vitter's chief of staff.
Russian intelligence services threatened to harm the families of Wagner leaders before Yevgeny Prigozhin called off his advance on Moscow, according to UK security sources.
Unicef Spokesperson James Elder calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Israel-Palestine war. “Gaza must be opened for the safe, sustained and unimpeded access of humanitarian aid, including water, food, medical supplies, and fuel,” he says.
