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meena

@meena@glitch.social

expert cat lady. amateur dog lady. transparent. biwitched. the 💜 life of https://cathode.church/@meena

"The blood of the coven is thicker than the water of the womb."

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jon, to random
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Welcome to today's thread -
South East Europe Day 00 28 May 2024 - Arrival of night ferry, Turku - Kupittaa - Helsinki

Crossing these borders:
Only sea borders

These borders on the borders map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#7/59.781/21.973

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#7/59.781/21.973

meena,
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@jon except for the French bits. which now makes me wonder which languages you speak

kdnyhan, to random
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Wow. A microbiology lab at Texas A&M accepted purchased raw milk samples from NPR for H5N1 testing, then contacted the milk producers to seek permission. When the producers said, "don't test our milk," the lab not only declined to carry out the tests but also refused to send the samples on to another lab.

meena,
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@kdnyhan probably, but that's a very different concern then. abd likely an individual issue, that would take time and resources to develop into a class act…

meena, to random
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TIL: "A hunting boomerang is delicately balanced and much harder to make than a returning one. The curving flight characteristic of returning boomerangs was probably first noticed by early hunters trying to "tune" their throwing sticks to fly straight." — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang

i thought it'd be the other way around…

annika, to random
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Good drying today. Too nice to be indoors

meena,
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@feld @annika i wish we could put our washing machine (and optionally, a dryer) into our shed, but our shed looks like a haunted house, crawling with plants, rats, insects and ghouls and ghosts (and our bikes). But we did finally manage to get a dishwasher into the house:

annika, to random
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Oh, Dublin. "A case of a vanishing bus stop that Dublin Bus investigation found is being 'removed by a local resident on a regular basis' has been reported to Gardaí." https://irishcycle.com/2024/05/03/vanishing-bus-stop-removed-by-a-local-resident-on-a-regular-basis-reported-to-gardai/

meena,
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@annika wtf, why

eniko, to random
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the difference between dogs and cats is that cats know what crimes are but commit them anyway

meena,
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@deshipu @eniko house cats are social animals

i don't think humans have domesticated any animal that's not social.

goes to learn about silk spiders and engraver whether they are social

jon, to random
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Dear North Macedonian Railways

What is “Dragging on Trains”? 🤔

meena,
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@jon i don't speak Macedonian or Bulgarian, but some other south Slavic language, so… what's it on the original?

meena,
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@jon i found the website, and I'm in pain. not because of the text, but
like, look at that, https://mzt.mk/registratsija/

why is this linked? why is it accessible? https://mzt.mk/sledenje-vagoni/

why is this empty https://mzt.mk/%d0%b2%d0%bd%d0%b0%d1%82%d1%80%d0%b5%d1%88%d0%b5%d0%bd-%d1%81%d0%be%d0%be%d0%b1%d1%80%d0%b0%d1%9c%d0%b0%d1%98/

what happened with the style here https://mzt.mk/%d1%82%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%bd%d1%81%d0%bf%d0%be%d1%80%d1%82%d0%bd%d0%b8-%d1%83%d1%81%d0%bb%d1%83%d0%b3%d0%b8/ ?

every link is like that

meena, to random
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someone set the alarm clock in kiddo's room for (a sensible time, tho not necessarily sensible for a Sunday). so naturally, I'm the only one in the house who's woken up by that.

meena,
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it's been over half an hour, and no one else has woken up from the noise. maybe it's time i get up and turn it off…

meena,
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@annika gets up to do all the house work she was too tired to do yesterday night

i don't know what you mean.

kevinrns, to climate
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Canada's early climate collapse alarm has gone off.
30 billion trees burned in one "fire season" and it has not gone out.
30 billion trees is more than the entire history of logging in Canada.
30 billion trees is an area larger than Ireland lost, twice.

Twice.

Not Ireland's forests. Ireland's forests would have burned in before the season started. ALL OF Ireland, from shoreline to rocky coast was burned into the roots.

That is the alarm. Carbon fuel is a murderous serial killer.

meena,
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@kevinrns Ireland's forests are lost to colonialism, doubly so, as it was first logged to route out guerilla, and then to build ships for England.

and their regrowth is sacrificed to the economy… that relies on sheep and cattle.

meena, to random
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explained to my elderly neighbour that moss and lichen eat rock and shit earth, so putting weed killer on it is kinda counter productive in a place where you can hardly dig five centimeters before hitting rock

notjustbikes, to Wikipedia
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I mentioned in my latest video that the English-language version of the Wikipedia article for Berlagebrug was woefully inadequate compared to the Dutch-language version, and immediately several people rushed to update it.

meena,
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@notjustbikes somewhat relatedly: how hard have you been finding it to learn Dutch?

(it strikes me as quite easy, coming from German & English, and also as really hard, given that everyone, especially in big cities, speaks excellent English in the Netherlands)

meena, to random
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there's one lesson that every immigrant kid learns from their parents as soon as they're old enough to be sent to buy bread. It's the same lesson no matter what their skin colour, creed, or even relationship to their parents is, and it's the opposite lesson that most non immigrant kids learn:

don't trust the police.

meena,
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how old were you when your parents sent you to go shopping for the first time?

mina, to random German
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Wenn ich sehe, mit welcher Freude die deutsche Politik und Gesellschaft im Moment Gemeinheiten gegen Geflüchtete und Arme zelebriert (Keine Sorge, ihr mit Behinderungen und chronischen Erkrankungen: Ihr kommt auch bald dran), verstehe ich immer besser, wieso das früher mit den Hexenverbrennungen¹ und später mit dem Judenhass so gut funktioniert hat.

¹eigentlich falsches Wort: Es wurden ja keine Hexen, sondern Frauen verbrannt.

meena,
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@mina re¹: und Juden. Ganz viele Juden.

mina, (edited ) to firefox German
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Does anybody know how to switch to "readers view" on mobile ?

Edit: it is, where it is supposed to be (in the address bar). Apparently it was just deactivated on this extremely annoying website, I had just opened.

So forget about this.

meena,
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@mina some pages just don't allow it.
It used to be that you could just prepend about:reader?url= to the URL and it would give you the reader, but that's gone, replaced with some bizarro URL, that looks like it's become an integrated extension
(and that URL might very well be dynamic, at least from release to release)

meena,
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@mina looks like adding reader.parse-on-load.force-enabled=true does the trick.

notjustbikes, (edited ) to random
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I was just talking to an American friend about Canadian housing prices, and he shared this graph with me. 😬

Further proof that the Canadian housing crisis really has been insane for over 20 years, with apparently no end in sight.

(FYI: this data is not the whole country, but major metros in each)

meena,
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@UrbanEdm @notjustbikes if only cities are getting more expensive you should see a trend of city folks fleeing to the suburbs, and/or the country side.

(We have this here in Ireland, where most teachers and nurses can't afford to actually live where they are needed to work… which is… you know… bad.)

jdm2, to random
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This is just sad. It feels like a real time POV into a dying marriage. Despite all the facts she’s mentally stuck on “wanting her life back”.

“Wrestling with my husband's fear of getting COVID again”

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/11/1236975472/wrestling-with-my-husbands-fear-of-getting-covid-again

meena,
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@jdm2

"He is terrified that if he gets COVID again, it will be as harrowing as the first time."

i had COVID 3 times, and the first was the worst.
The second was pretty bad, and the third was just like a bad cold.

The first took longest to recover from, and each subsequent one took less long to get back to an acceptable state.

meena,
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@jdm2 But… the truth is: I haven't recovered, and I probably never will. My brain isn't the same, and neither is my body. I'm afraid to put any strain on it, because that could mean a week or two of fatigue. I'm afraid of having fun, of "living", because it might cripple me. Heck, sometimes thinking too hard means I'll pass out from tiredness in the early afternoon.

meena,
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@jdm2 oh, and, btw, while passing out from tiredness at home might make you feel useless, if you're "on the road" it can also be quite dangerous, especially if your only transport option is a car.

meena,
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@jdm2 i can't believe that they're not getting any longterm effects from covid, or do they really think that tiredness and that brain fog is just normal?

is it only the paranoid people who get stuck with long covid symptoms?

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to climate
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If you care about the planet, please make sure you sit down before you start reading this post about ExxonMobil.

So.

The CEO of ExxonMobil just said this in an interview: "We’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions."

https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/

Who's the most influential voice on climate change? Who's to blame for inaction on climate change?

According to the CEO of ExxonMobil, it's environmental activists.

No, really:

"Frankly, society, and the activist—the dominant voice in this discussion—has tried to exclude the industry that has the most capacity and the highest potential for helping with some of the technologies."

Oh, and the CEO of ExxonMobil also apparently thinks consumers are to blame for climate inaction:

"Today we have opportunities to make fuels with lower carbon, but people aren’t willing to spend the money to do that."

Gets better.

He thinks unnamed 'people who generate emissions' should pay for it. (Rather than, say, major transnational oil companies.)

"People who are generating the emissions need to be aware of [it] and pay the price. That’s ultimately how you solve the problem."

https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/

Worth including a quick reminder here that Exxon-Mobil made a US$36 billion profit in 2023: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-beats-estimates-ends-2023-with-36-billion-profit-2024-02-02/#:~:text=HOUSTON%2C%20Feb%202%20(Reuters),higher%20oil%20and%20gas%20production.

Not gross revenue.

Profit.

So, remind me again. Who knew about climate change before most of the public?

"Exxon was aware of climate change, as early as 1977, 11 years before it became a public issue... This knowledge did not prevent the company (now ExxonMobil and the world’s largest oil and gas company) from spending decades refusing to publicly acknowledge climate change and even promoting climate misinformation."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/

And just who, exactly, stood in the way reducing emissions all these years?

"ExxonMobil executives privately sought to undermine climate science even after the oil and gas giant publicly acknowledged the link between fossil fuel emissions and climate change, according to previously unreported documents...

"The new revelations are based on previously unreported documents subpoenaed by New York’s attorney general as part of an investigation into the company announced in 2015. They add to a slew of documents that record a decades-long misinformation campaign waged by Exxon, which are cited in a growing number of state and municipal lawsuits against big oil."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/14/exxonmobil-documents-wall-street-journal-climate-science

@fuck_cars

meena,
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@fluids_guru @SNerd @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars the problem is that what scientist think of as conservative, and what politicians think of as conservative does not mash in this particular scenario.

the whole institution of science has been put into a corner where it's not their job to speak up, and if individual scientists do, this can have dramatic repercussions for their career. you'd need the entirety of climate science standing behind those crazy "activists" (scientists who are speaking out)

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