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My name is Dee, I hope you like me, if you don’t the block button is free.
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(They/Any)
My name is Dee, I hope you like me, if you don’t the block button is free.
This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.
Random Euphoric Moment
This evening I was walking my dogs outside and a little kid was out with his mom. He was about eight years old I’d guess. The kid came up and asked me if he could pet my dog and I said sure, then as he’s petting the Corgi he looks up at me and asks:...
Lunc Comb Rule (beehaw.org)
Lunc 🪮
Inside the Secretive World of Penile Enlargement (www.propublica.org)
Do articles about medicine go in the Science community? Seemed like the best place for what I thought was a really well written article about this niche subject matter....
DOT Researchers Suggested a Way to Make Big Trucks Safer. After Meeting With Lobbyists, Agency Officials Rejected the Idea. (www.propublica.org)
When the researchers drafted their report, they included a key suggestion: The DOT should craft federal regulations requiring side guards....
Supreme Court Keeps Navajo Nation Waiting for Water (www.propublica.org)
More than 150 years after the Navajo Nation signed treaties with the United States establishing its reservation and recognizing its sovereignty, the country’s largest tribe still struggles to secure the water guaranteed by those agreements....
What makes a social studies textbook "woke" in Ron DeSantis' Florida (popular.info)
In April 2022, for example, DeSantis explicitly claimed that publishers of math textbooks were targeting elementary school students with Critical Race Theory, which DeSantis sometimes calls "race essentialism"...
How Africans are bridging the language digital divide (globalvoices.org)
Main points of how they're moving forward on these language barriers for an incredibly culturally diverse area....
[History] Cynethryth: Mercia's Forgotten Queen? (florencehrs.substack.com)
A fun read about a prominent medieval woman that you've probably never heard of:...
Isopod Rule (beehaw.org)
Koala Cat Hat (beehaw.org)
Her name is Lola and she is quite tolerant of shenanigans.
Sri Lanka's LGBTQ+ community holds Pride events demanding an end to discrimination (globalvoices.org)
Founded in 2004 by Sri Lankan gay rights activist Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, Equal Ground has dedicated over 15 years to conducting groundwork in 50 cities across Sri Lanka. Their efforts have aimed to sensitise and educate people, fostering better understanding and acceptance of the Queer community. In an interview with Give Out,...
Hong Kong security law Article 23 will ‘definitely’ be enacted this year or next, leader John Lee says (hongkongfp.com)
Article 23 of the city’s mini-constitution, the Basic Law, stipulates that Hong Kong shall enact its own laws to prohibit seven types of offences: treason, secession, sedition, subversion against the central government, theft of state secrets, foreign bodies’ conducting political activities in the city, and local bodies...
Blog Hosting Suggestions
So I've been wanting to find a good place to have a blog, and was wondering what others used or preferred....
Car Rule (beehaw.org)
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 - OpenRCT2 Project (openrct2.org)
"OpenRCT2 is an open-source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 (RCT2), expanding the game with new features, fixing bugs and raising game limits."...
If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system (joshworth.com)
“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” ― Douglas Adams
CS50's Introduction to Programming with Python (cs50.harvard.edu)
For anybody that might not have heard, Harvard University launched Intro to Programming with Python last year, which is a free 9-week course for complete beginners and includes a free certificate of completion at the end....
[History] ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World (orbis.stanford.edu)
Stanford has a tool to calculate travel times in the Roman Empire. A great resource to get a better perspective of the world they lived in. I like to use it for writing stories in settings with similar technology levels, to get an idea of how quickly people should be able to travel.
The "Both Sides" Argument (web.archive.org)
"When someone says both sides, its obvious they have not been watching the actions of the political parties. Lets look how they vote." - /u/armored_cat...
Onshore algae farms could feed the world sustainably (news.cornell.edu)
I'd be down for some algae burgers if it helps the planet 🌿🍔
[Philosophy] Are There Limits to Human Stupidity? (iai.tv)
Good read on the attainment of perfection and accepting our flaws.
Saruman the Stupid (youtu.be)
"Pro writers with adhd what are your tips to get to work?" [Reddit Archive Snapshot] (web.archive.org)
I think this is the best place to post this, but I was going through my saved posts before deleting my Reddit account and thought that a lot of writers on Lemmy/Fediverse might be able to enjoy this one....
Traveler Map - A site to explore US and World National Parks (travelermap.net)
A really cool site I ran across while going through my saved Reddit posts before deleting my account that I thought this community would enjoy 😄
The beautiful Empusa Pennata praying mantis (i.imgur.com)
Empusa pennata, or the conehead mantis, is a species of praying mantis in genus Empusa native to the Mediterranean Region....