I don't know if it's the same in other countries, but in Canada it's the law to have an ‘unsubscribe' link at the bottom of marketing emails. It sure makes it easier to get rid of the spam and to achieve #InboxZero!
Every once in a while I take a day to go through my inbox and click the unsubscribe button.
The Ocean Cleanup’s System 03 Captures Record Amounts of #Plastic From the #Pacific
The #Ocean#Cleanup is currently testing System 03, a massive plastic #pollution collection device that captures tons of floating debris in the Great Pacific #Garbage Patch.
Over several months, @thenarwhal & The Globe and Mail have scoured publicly available records, reviewed financial data & interviewed experts about #BritishColumbia's mine reclamation plan & found that, in practice, BC was short $753-million of the estimated #cleanup cost in its last financial year & some of the best-capitalized companies have not yet paid for future #ReclamationCosts.
Thank you Kate & Braeden for organizing this cleanup of the York Rd sidewalk used by students at nearby John Muir ES!
-group selfie of the last 4 of us, but many more showed up to help; we arrived by foot, bike, car
-clearing blackberry bramble & overgrown ivy during/after
-clearing moss & invasive ivy around a stairway
-sidewalks now have more usable space #Seattle#Volunteer#Cleanup#BikeTooter#SEAbikes#PNW
The Dark Side of Ocean Cleanup Technology
Some marine biologists think the trash-collecting machines are harming more ocean organisms than they’re helping.
As usual, please read the migration notes carefully when upgrading to this version.
Thanks! Enjoy!
Highlights of this release:
Create, view, and vote in polls. It's been a while in the making but GoToSocial now has support for polls, aka Question activity types. You can create, view, and vote in polls using your client of choice.
Show unsupported media placeholders in incoming posts, where media could not be downloaded (temporarily or otherwise). No more dropped media on posts! You'll instead now get a link to the media on the originating instance, that you can click through in your (mobile) browser.
Mute threads that you're being overwhelmed by. Notifications for replies, likes, and boosts in that thread will no longer be generated.
Media cleanup scheduling. Previously media scheduling took place every night at 12am. With the new media scheduling settings in the config, you can customize the schedule to run it at different times and frequencies. https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/admin/media_caching/#cleanup
Support for language tags on posts. Language of posts is now correctly federated in and out of your instance. The language of posts is also shown on the web view of statuses and threads.
Gather and expose prometheus format metrics. You can now expose a /metrics endpoint to allow a Prometheus instance to scrape metrics about Go runtime memory usage, http request and database metrics, and more. https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/advanced/metrics/
As always, please read the migration notes carefully when updating. If you find any bugs in the release candidate, kindly let us know on Github!
Release highlights below the line.
Create, view, and vote in polls. It's been a while in the making but GoToSocial now has support for polls, aka Question activity types. You can create, view, and vote in polls using your client of choice.
Show unsupported media placeholders in incoming posts, where media could not be downloaded (temporarily or otherwise). No more dropped media on posts! You'll instead now get a link to the media on the originating instance, that you can click through in your (mobile) browser.
Mute threads that you're being overwhelmed by. Notifications for replies, likes, and boosts in that thread will no longer be generated.
Media cleanup scheduling. Previously media scheduling took place every night at 12am. With the new media scheduling settings in the config, you can customize the schedule to run it at different times and frequencies. https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/admin/media_caching/#cleanup
Support for language tags on posts. Language of posts is now correctly federated in and out of your instance. The language of posts is also shown on the web view of statuses and threads.
Gather and expose prometheus format metrics. You can now expose a /metrics endpoint to allow a Prometheus instance to scrape metrics about Go runtime memory usage, http request and database metrics, and more. https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/advanced/metrics/
"“A hustle in the oil patch”, a “dirty legacy”: These are just a couple of the ways that the escalating costs of abandoning and reclaiming non-producing oil wells in Canada have been described.
In a new paper, we look back over 40 years and identify three factors that have led to this unprecedented regulatory failure." #Alberta#OilPatch#Cleanup
The Dirty Deadly Front End of Nuclear Power — 15,000 Abandoned Uranium Mines (Pt. 1)
by Josh Cunnings, March 11, 2016
"The perplexing problem of these open, deadly, toxic messes was discussed between Emerson Urry and Arnie Gundersen.
"Urry: I want to go back for a minute to the uranium. We were talking about Fukushima and obviously the myriad isotopes that are put off as a byproduct of the nuclear fission that is happening in the reactor. It all starts there with the uranium, and there was quite a rush for that, and now we have all of these situations. To our understanding there are about 15,000 abandoned uranium mines that have been left in complete ruin with very little cleanup or remediation at all, just in the western United States. This has happened, by-and-large, because of an antiquated mining bill – the 1872 Mining Bill – still affecting these situations today – that kind of allowed miners to just walk away from these situations — but yet, they remain in the open leaching off tailings – blowing around #radioactive dust. I think there’s about 4,500 of these exposed mining sites just in #Navajo country – another 2,500 or so in #Wyoming. How do we deal with that situation? What does the future hold in those regards, and quite frankly, are we all being poisoned by these mines?
"Gundersen: I’ll give you another example of the same thing, and I would say 'yes' to everything you said is the quick answer. There is a mill-tailings site in Moab, #Utah. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission [#NRC] told the owner of the site that they needed to set aside six million dollars to clean it up. Well, the actual #cleanup is a billion dollars. What did the owner do? They declared #bankruptcy and walked away.
"Urry: And it wasn’t bonded? No bond?
"Gundersen: Right. It wasn’t bonded. You know, if you bonded uranium mining, you wouldn’t have uranium mining."
The River is low this week, so I noticed an old car tire half buried in the bank. On the theory that tires are pollution, I pulled it out to take it to the dump. But as I was knocking the mud out of it, a salamander and a crayfish fell out and glared at me in mute reproach.
Are tires wildlife habitat? Should I have left it there? #wildlife#river#cleanup#pollution
“Now is when these companies are still making massive, massive, massive #profits. And they must be forced to use the profits, to use the revenues, to clean up their mess now.”
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: This stretch of edge-land is bursting with cow parsley, brambles and buttercups that deserve to exist without our rubbish
Lemmy post just got taken down by bots... (lemmy.world)
Need people there to coordinate pixels...
Care is contagious – so I take my litter-picker to the old railway path (www.theguardian.com)
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: This stretch of edge-land is bursting with cow parsley, brambles and buttercups that deserve to exist without our rubbish