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steve, 1 month ago to random

Next Tuesday, I'll be at the Hart House Debates and Dialogue, with a talk entitled "We're in a Climate Emergency. Why are we not acting like it?"
Come and join us!
https://harthouse.ca/events/were-in-a-climate-emergency/

becha, 1 month ago to random

Spring flowers & leaves & bugs, oh my!

Maple leaves
Ladybug on the daffodil
More blue flowers

becha, 1 month ago to animals

Day & night with my cat… he’s either murdering my toe or curling into my palm… #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Black cat sleeping , with his head in my palm

grimalkina, 1 month ago to random

Reading about this xz backdoor story from the outside as a person who is still learning much about the technical ins and outs, but as a psychologist it is just overwhelming to imagine a maintainer in this position and all of the feelings of pressure and skill based identity and social isolation that must be involved.

Imho psychology has a duty to show up for technology practitioners and work for them just like we see and work for the well-being of emergency workers, healthcare providers.

becha, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

This is true inspiration& I will never feel guilty again for not joining an event, since Pope can skip Good Friday event to preserve health https://flipboard.com/@euronews/europe-vn516gnfz/-/a-O5w46mT2QgmzoEvF6PW3rw%3Aa%3A89340020-%2F0

quixoticgeek, 1 month ago to random

Why are we building chip fabrication facilities in water stressed areas? Worlds biggest fabs are on Taiwan. A small island with very precarious water supplys.

US chips actually is finding new dabs in the US... In Arizona... In Texas... Seriously?!? You have states like Washington where it basically never stops raining, and you want to build a heavy water using industry in a fucking desert?!?!?

The EU is building a big facility in Magdeburg Germany, which is marginally better.

becha, 1 month ago to random

https://berjon.com/internet-transition/ “Computer people may be surprised by this statement because of the common belief that improvements in information-processing capabilities is the exclusive province of (digital) technology — but it isn’t. Technology& institutions are certainly intermeshed, notably in that some institutional forms are impossible or at least implausibly daunting without some specific technologies (eg. writing or money),& it can be hard to tease out if one created the other.”

becha, 1 month ago to mentalhealth

#Mentalhealth tip: get yourself an Art #Therapist from Croatia & do online sessions: shorter waiting time, less costly, great skills! Highly recommended ! https://www.harterapija.com/team-3

becha, 1 month ago to animals

Morning tea with a cat : PoV #CatsOfMastodon #tea #morning

becha, 1 month ago to random

🦝 “De enige wasbeer die vannacht niet ontsnapte uit de dierentuin:” = photo of the only raccoon that did NOT escape from the zoo in Friesland :) https://nos.nl/artikel/2514280-wasberen-op-eerste-dag-in-dierentuin-leeuwarden-ontsnapt :-D 🦝

becha, 1 month ago to sustainability

Calling all those interested both in #RIPE and #sustainability / #inclusion / #decentralisation: host or join a Local Hub, instead of traveling to Krakow for #RIPE88 ;-)

The draft agenda is published, as well as "meeting plan" : choose which Working Groups you like, and apply for hosting a Local Hub :

https://ripe88.ripe.net/attend/call-for-local-hubs/

becha, 1 month ago to random

Theatre makers for children in Gaza: video https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4-L7DmB2Kx/?igsh=MXBxY21jM3pnMW5uMQ== & link for giving donations https://donate.stripe.com/8wMg0U4vPcIX1GwdQQ

becha, 1 month ago to random

Direct train Amsterdam-Prague https://www.at5.nl/artikelen/225789/vanaf-vandaag-kun-je-rechtstreeks-met-de-trein-naar-praag

becha, 1 month ago to random

Spring in Haarlem (with Danijela, Nana & Emile)

windmill
Selfie at train station
Selfie with beers

FrankPasquale, 2 months ago to random

“The perfect postapocalyptic vehicle isn't a big ugly truck. It's a bicycle — light, reliable, easy to fix and scavenge parts for, able to move cargo, doesn't need any power except you and calories. And the thing that will actually get us through an apocalypse — or, preferably, prevent one — isn't driving a steel-plated War Rig. It's working together.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-cybertruck-apocalypse-inequality-2023-12

becha, 2 months ago to random

Ups & downs of The Cat…🐈‍⬛ : Cat on a Shed & Cat in a Cupboard

Cat in a Cupboard

rra, 2 months ago to Netherlands

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/03/15/poetin-komt-tanken-bij-vlissingen-a4193179

Last week the NRC reported about a little-known refueling (bunkering) point in the south-west of the #Netherlands, at the entrance of the Schelde near #vlissingen. The newspaper uncovered that it is being used by a #shadow #fleet of often badly maintained and very old tanker vessels which play a pivotal role in turning sanctioned Russian #oil in to not sanctioned oil. The vessels make their way from Baltic ports along the North Sea, either to India or Turkey. The newspaper called this bunkering point "Putin's petrol station", because on the way back the sanctioned vessels stock up on fuel. The ships all fly under several different "flags of convenience" and as their companies get put on sanction lists, the ships move to other owners.

It is not often that international politics, global capital, supply chains, the news and infrastructure congeal the way it does at Putin's Pitstop so I had to go take a look #infrastructours.

infra thread!

bkardell, 2 months ago to random

I need a good new podcast. Preferably one that is web related, but really pretty open. I had a nice, maybe overly full one developing during football season, but now I am feeling the emptiness... Suggestions?