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floating, 1 month ago to random

What’s the longest it’s ever taken you to read a book? I’ve been working on this one for at least six months and I’m only about 1/4 way through. I have about an hour a week to devote to it. It’s not easy reading for me and I have to be in the right headspace and be able to really slow down and focus. I’ll get to the end eventually.

floating, 1 month ago to science

Interesting study investigating cell-membrane ion gradients as a "nongenomic information system" informing cellular decision making.

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-cells-hidden-communication.html

#science #biology

ai6yr, 1 month ago to random

Heard the next door neighbor demanding the pest control service douse her house with more pesticidea because of "spiders leaving cobwebs on the outside".

floating, 1 month ago to Cats

Morning yoga

#Cats

floating, 1 month ago to random

Dear Mastodoners,
The term Semitic refers to languages, not people. The term antisemitism was coined in Europe for anti-Jewish political purposes and refers to Jews only. The racists make the rules. Learn things from legitimate sources and then you can open your mouth.
Love, Sick of This Shit

floating, 1 month ago to random

floating, 1 month ago to Podcast

This interview is a real gut punch.

"I didn't realize until years later, thinking back about that, was I was three years old. I lived with my birth mother, and then I didn't anymore.

And I was a three year old. I was talking to her. I forgot over [00:27:00] a while, over time what I was doing. And in the book I talk about it that way. I forgot what I was doing, but I kept doing it. And in, the way that I forgot my name, I had no idea what my name was and I had to find it."

#adoptees #podcast #identity #adoption

https://www.adopteeson.com/listen/277

floating, 1 month ago to random

Strict new EPA rules would force coal-fired power plants to capture emissions or shut down

#Biden EPA, that is.

https://apnews.com/article/5c96ca146e7f70b47806beb4bc3713e6

fraying, 1 month ago to random

One of my least favorite reply guys on social media is the “you’re just noticing this NOW?!” guy.

Yeah, man! We notice things when we notice them. If you agree, welcome me to the fucking club.

Are you the punch-clock of timely awareness or a builder of solidarity? You want a prize for noticing it first, or do you want to actually change it?

Pointing out that someone is late to the party is not what good hosts do, and just makes people less likely to try and help in the future.

floating, 1 month ago to tv

Someone please make a #TV set with 1970's era functionality for my mom. 🙄​

#technology #tech

floating, 1 month ago to random

Lots of changes in voting laws for 2024, especially in swing states. Don't assume voting will work the same way as last time. Find out what's changed in your state.

#uspol #voting #trump #biden #vote

gift link

https://wapo.st/4aivFol

floating, 1 month ago to random

Ashager Ararao, from the community of Beta Israel aka Ethiopian Jews, tells the dramatic story of her family's migration to Israel.

https://castbox.fm/episode/Episode-16%3A-An-Ethiopian-Jewish-story-id5650111-id689763955

mrundkvist, 1 month ago to Stockholm

Liverwort #spring #botany #stockholm

floating, 1 month ago to Cats

This friendly cat wanted all the pets

#walking #caturday #cats

floating, 1 month ago to random

A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It's finally changing https://apnews.com/article/d4fabf2f3a47aab2fe8e18b2a5432135

floating, 2 months ago to climate

James Hansen: "Accelerated global warming is the first significant change of global warming rate since 1970. It is important because it confirms the futility of 'net zero' hopium that serves as present
energy policy and because we are running short of time to avoid passing the point of no return."

#GlobalWarming #Climate #ClimateCrisis #hopium #NetZero #Energy #policy

https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2024/Hopium.MarchEmail.2024.03.29.pdf

Global Warming Acceleration: Hope vs Hopium 29 March 2024 James Hansen, Makiko Sato, Pushker Kharecha Accumulating evidence supports the interpretation in our Pipeline paper: decreasing human-made aerosols increased Earth’s energy imbalance and accelerated global warming in the past decade. Climate sensitivity and aerosol forcing, physically independent quantities, were tied together by United Nations IPCC climate assessments that rely excessively on global climate models (GCMs) and fail to measure climate forcing by aerosols. IPCC’s best estimates for climate sensitivity and aerosol forcing both understate reality. Preservation of global shorelines and global climate patterns — the world humanity is adapted to — likely will require at least partly reversing global warming. Required actions and time scale are undefined. A bright future for today’s young people is still possible, but its attainment is hampered by precatory (wishful thinking) policies that do not realistically account for global energy needs and aspirations of nations with emerging economies. An alternative is needed to the GCM-dominated perspective on climate science. We will bear a heavy burden if we stand silent or meek as the world continues on its present course.

floating, 2 months ago to random

Look it’s turkeys

floating, 2 months ago to Texas

Please share this terrifying development.

#abortion #Texas #MAGA #Republicans #IVF #DeathPenalty #USPOL

https://www.texasdemocrats.org/media/leaked-video-texas-republicans-attended-meeting-with-group-that-suggested-violence-and-jail-for-women-who-have-abortions-and-use-ivf

floating, 2 months ago to random

Helluva rainbow 🌈

Two pots of gold

A rainbow with clear bright colors in a cloudy sky above residential houses with trees and a fence in the foreground.

floating, 2 months ago to jazz

Listening to the new Alice Coltrane album, The Carnegie Hall Concert (Live). It was recorded in 1971 as part of a benefit concert for the Integral Yoga Institute, but never released. It's nice.

Lineup:
Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp on sax, Jimmy Garrison and Cecil McBee on bass, Ed Blackwell and Clifford Jarvis on drums, Tusli Sen Gupta on tamboura, Kumar Kramer on harmonium.

Tracks:
Journey to Satchinanda
Shiva-Loka
Africa
Leo

#jazz #SpiritualJazz #Listening #music

https://glidemagazine.com/300104/never-released-alice-coltrane-1971-carnegie-hall-concert-w-pharoah-sanders-archie-shepp-gets-long-over-due-release-album-review/

floating, 2 months ago to climate

On "weaning ourselves from the teat of industrialism"

#agriculture #industry #climate #ClimateCrisis

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-03-20/crazy-town-episode-80-escaping-industrialism/

TonyStark, 2 months ago to random

This story demonstrates why the right wing’s mantra of ever “smaller government” is lethal. It’s the role of government to make sure products and services are safe.

When the Trump administration came into power, it shrunk the EPA.

Both parties are not the same, nor are they only marginally different or whatever nonsense some enjoy spouting out. #ElectDemocrats

EPA bans asbestos, a deadly carcinogen still in use decades after a partial ban was enacted-
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/epa-bans-asbestos-deadly-carcinogen-decades-after-partial-108245355

floating, 2 months ago to climate

We are still walking the red line

#ClimateCrisis #StateOfTheClimate #Climate

floating, 2 months ago to random

This conversation is an excellent intro to Magda Teter’s book on Christian supremacy and the origins of antisemitism and racism.

From: @MagdaTeter
https://hcommons.social/@MagdaTeter@hcommons.social/111885883812782409