@ZachWeinersmith#ALT4you: Single-panel cartoon showing two people standing outside next to a vaguely cone-shaped stone monolith with the face of Albert Einstein at the top. One says: “Don’t get it. Why do liberal arts people have a tall statue of a famous physicist, carved from a single rock?” The other replies: “Then you are not welcome inside.” The caption reads: “Anyone who does not appreciate the one-stone Einstein monolith is not allowed in Etymology Club.”
@Larchmutz Bonjour, est-ce que tu pourrais mettre un alt text pour rendre le toot accessible à tout le monde ? Par exemple :
Mème de Tintin et du capitaine Haddock. Haddock est penché sur le bastingage d'un bateau, et hurle à pleins poumons "Tu bosses toute ta vie pour payer ta pierre tombale !". Tintin, impressionné, lui dit "Capitaine vous perdez votre sang froid !"
The laughable assertion from the Tories that "Britain is the Second Most Powerful Country in the World," (backed up by an article in the Daily Express, FFS) reminds me of this from Professor Nicholas Boyle, University of Cambridge. https://archive.is/6NC4N
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The English have been unable to recognise how much of their society and its norms was constructed during the imperial period and in order to sustain empire, and have therefore been unable to mourn the empire's passing or to escape from the compulsion to recreate it. Over three centuries the needs of empire shaped England's systems of government, national and local, its Church, its schools and universities, the traditions of its armed and police forces, its youth movements, its sports, its BBC, its literature, and its cuisine.
The end of empire meant the end of all this. And because England has been unable to acknowledge that loss, it has also been unable to acknowledge the end of English exceptionalism, the end of the characterlessness the English had enjoyed as rulers of the world - with no need of distinct features to mark them off from their equals since they had no equals, embodying, as they did, the decency, reasonableness and good sense by which they assumed the rest of the world privately measured its lesser achievements and to which they assumed it aspired. The trauma of lost exceptionalism, the psychic legacy of empire, haunts the English to the present day, in the illusion that their country needs to find itself a global role.
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Of course it IS an illusion: do roughly comparable countries such as Germany or Italy or Japan have such a need? The psychosis, the willed triumph of illusion over reality revealed by the [Brexit] referendum result, is most damagingly still at work in the determination of the English to cling on to their old exceptional status as anonymous masters of the United Kingdom and of the other nations with which they have to share the Atlantic Archipelago.
For the English, the United Kingdom occupies the psychic space once filled by the empire: it is the last guarantor of their characterlessness, it is the phantom which in the English mind substitutes for the England which the English will not acknowledge is their only home. They will not acknowledge it lest they become just another nation like everybody else, with a specific, limited identity, a specific history, neither specially honourable nor specially dishonourable, with limited weight, limited resources, and limited importance in the world now that their empire is no more.
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@pinskal#ALT4you
Painted in the side of a highrise, 6 stories high, street art of a black kid shading his eyes from the sun with a raised hand, palm outwards. It looks a little like a salute, but his hand is away from his face. He is topless with blue cargo trousers and bare feet. He holds a catapult hanging from his left hand down by his side. He has a serious expression and is looking into the distance to the centre left.
An angry man says to a skeptical woman: “We need to elect Republicans to keep our daughters safe from pervert men wearing wigs barging into women's restrooms.”
Behind them, Donald Trump, with his unnatural hair and pursed lips, walks into a room marked "Miss Teen USA dressing room.”
@JaneImber#ALT4you a lakota_man social media post saying:
LOOK, I understand checking out of politics because you have your own problems going on, but when one candidate is quoting Hitler, and saying he'll be a dictator, and his entire party supports that....maybe it's time you check the fuck back in, huh?
While walking on the Santa Cruz board walk, I noticed this inquisitive Harbor Seal checking out what the kid was doing on the beach collecting water in their plastic beach bucket. Santa Cruz, California, April 2024
Winter: leave dead flower stalks intact over winter.
Spring: cut back dead flower stalks, leaving stem stubble of varying height (20 to 60 cm, or 8 to 24 inches) to provide nest cavities. Female bees find cut or naturally occurring open stems, start a nest, then lay an egg on the pollen balls. Larvae eat the pollen.
Summer: new growth of the perennial hides the stem stubble. Bee larvae develop in cut dead stems during the growing season.
Fall and winter: bees hibernate in stems during the winter.
Spring: cut back dead flower stalks. Old stem stubble will naturally decompose. Adult bees emerge and start nests in newly cut dead stems or naturally occurring open stems.
November 12, 1916. San Francisco, California. International Mass Meeting in Commemoration of the 29th Anniversary of the Martyrdom of the Chicago Anarchists. Speakers included Enrique Flores Magón, Alexander Berkman, Luigi Galleani (if he made it to the coast in time), and other international anarchists and socialists.
A giant cat is sitting at the end of an aircraft carrier, looking down at an aircraft that appears to be falling into the sea. Caption: Why cats aren't allowed on aircraft carriers.
A busy day at all British henge sites, as staff work to move the stones forward an hour. Twice a year the stones at Avebury are moved for Daylight Saving Time.
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A black work truck with a National Trust logo is towing a utility trailer containing a trailer-sized grey boulder past several widely spaced large stones, each of which is about twice as high as the truck. There are no roads or other rocks in sight, just the standing stones on a plane of bright green grass, looming out of the fog.
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A black work truck with a National Trust logo towing a utility trailer, which due to position and perspective creates the illusion it is carrying a trailer-sized grey stone past several widely spaced standing stones, each about twice as high as the truck. Only the truck, trailer and standing stones on bright green grass are visible, looming out of thick fog. #Alt4You@TiciaVerveer
@w7voa#ALT4you (1 of 2) PORT UPDATE
We appreciate everyone's patience as we continue to work through this unimaginable situation.
We remind everyone to keep their thoughts on the families that have suffered unreplaceable losses.
As you know, vessel traffic into and out of the Port of Baltimore remains suspended. Trucks however are still being processed inside our marine terminals.
@w7voa#ALT4you (2 of 2) PORT UPDATE
There is a lot of speculation as to when the channel will be reopened. The fact of the matter is we do not know.
Please understand that we are working minute by minute with our federal, state, and local partners to make that happen as quickly as possible.
We thank you for your support during this incredibly difficult time and we will continue to update you when we have further information.
Hi Joey,
Thank you for the work you have done and still do making things that take into account the real-world constraints of ordinary people outside the cosmopole — and for being an example through your blog of work-life balance.
I've used wikis for nearly 20 years, and branchable is my favorite implementation on the web. It fixed the pain-points of self-hosting and of wiki farms like wikia and wikidot. I'm not a technical person, I have to look up git commands for basic workflow, but being able to work offline and collaboratively with other nontechnical people using 15 to 20 year old computers is really nice.
Anna
With all of the horrible things happening in the world, it’s nice to find the wins. Especially in the area of our environment. A group called Coral Guardian is restoring coral reefs, and it’s quite magnificent.
These photos represent 7 years of work on the Indonesia’s Hatamin Island. In this they have increased the fish population by 5x with 53k corals restored.