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mem_somerville

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Scientist. Lacemaker. Special fan of Ipswich Lace.

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w7voa, to random
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Air National Guard member in , Jack Douglas Teixeira, 21, indicted today by a federal grand jury in Boston "for allegedly retaining and transmitting classified national defense information on a social media platform beginning in or around 2022 and continuing until his arrest in April." https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/air-national-guardsman-indicted-unlawful-disclosure-classified-national-defense-information

mem_somerville,
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@w7voa Too bad he doesn't own a golf club and hotel. He could just have gone back to his regular existence....

axz, to random
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Does anyone know about any research into bad faith reporting, eg, people using reporting systems to try to harass someone? Or anything that's publicly written about how platforms deal with bad faith reports?

mem_somerville,
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@axz Doctors have faced this with anti-vax trolls posting to their Yelp sites and things like that. I've seen media on it, but not formal studies.

I know of a crank author who silenced book reviews on Amazon, but me and the other reviewer got our reviews re-posted afterwards.

While anti-vax cranks constantly swarm Peter Hotez books.

It's a hot mess.

misc, (edited ) to random
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Do you have an internal monologue? https://mastodon.world/@exchgr/110457695737377282

mem_somerville,
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@misc Whaaaaa??? OMG. I had no idea, and now I'm spiraling on this too.

Whoa.

mem_somerville, to random
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So, those chargers on the that were broken/offline for the holiday weekend (6 of 7 chargers)?

reports that they aren't getting fixed. Just not coming back online.

I love my , I really do--but it is very hard to convince others that they are ready for prime time. Sigh.

https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2023/06/01/a-look-at-electric-vehicle-infrastructure-in-massachusetts

mem_somerville, to random
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: a 3-dimensional star (I hope). I'm mocking up the first attempt with a heavy cotton thread to understand the structure. Supposedly at the end you pull the center points together and it folds up to be the star on the book cover. We'll find out....

Book: Dreidimensionale Klöppelsterne by Rosemarie Schmuck, Anneliese Schröder

@bobbinlace

A bobbin lace project on a denim covered pillow. The lace is made with a sturdy cotton thread, with heavy gold thread on the outside edges. It looks flat now, almost like a drawing of stairs going up towards the working edge. It's about three quarters done at this point. When it's done, it is supposed to fold into a star shape that you could use as a Christmas ornament. At the end of the pillow is the book with the pattern I'm using, a German one called Dreidimensionale Klöppelsterne.

mem_somerville, to random
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I just saw that it is , so here is a Napoleon bee. Via the archives.

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_620299

mem_somerville, to random
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For those interested in , I have wrested control of the previously cancelled r/Lace subreddit and it's going to get better.

Open to adding some co-mods so it doesn't get lost again, too. If you are on reddit, come on by.

https://www.reddit.com/r/lace/


, , , @bobbinlace

misc, to random
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Is there a field of study dedicated to collective action problems and how to overcome them? Because it seems like every other field focused on the fate of our society comes up to these problems and is just like "well, fuck." Like, across domains, the word "doomer" is basically a short hand for "collective action problems, well, fuck."

mem_somerville,
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@TeamMidwest @misc @skyfaller I totally agree that phrase "Wicked Problems" is what I understand when I hear it.

But locally to Boston, "wicked" had another goofy meaning entirely and it's hard to use it here!

mem_somerville, to random
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I thought I knew labels--but today I found one I have never noticed before. USDA certified "bio-based".

Anyway, trying out these laundry detergent strips instead of buying my next massive plastic jug. Fingers crossed....

Anyone have good or bad experiences with these?

https://www.biopreferred.gov/BioPreferred/faces/Welcome.xhtml

mem_somerville,
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@Craigp I didn't get them from Target, I don't know.

Alas.

mem_somerville,
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@Craigp First load done. I would say they were perfectly adequate. Nothing stunning. But things seemed clean.

It wasn't a tough load with lots of sweaty workout clothes or anything though.

mem_somerville,
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@Craigp I was looking for reviews and they were recommended by this outfit that seemed to have tried a few.

https://www.thereducereport.com/home/zero-waste-laundry-detergent-roundup

misc, to random
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The Esplanade beer garden, this coming Sunday 5/14, at 5 pm. The first official ! (unless there’s another one I don’t know about, in which case I will edit this) RSVP at https://gath.io/1k98TsuZ5ruKkNPOvy91R, or follow @1k98TsuZ5ruKkNPOvy91R (the latter is wonky with mastodon.social but should work with most instances)

mem_somerville,
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@misc In case the RSVP didn't work, wanted to let you know I intend to be there.

Have to head out for a different thing now, but will get there, assuming works later today....

mem_somerville,
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@misc how to identify you?

mem_somerville,
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@misc I'm at the third table from the back on the water side. Denim duster.

mem_somerville, to random
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The grift out loud:

"I hate to say this but greed is good in this instance," said Mendenhall on a webinar promoting the event. "So if lawyers can see that they can get rich, and we're trying to prove that you can - we haven't yet, but we will - it'll bring lawyers in simply for the money."

Title: As the pandemic winds down, anti-vaccine activists are building a legal network

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173697394/as-the-pandemic-winds-down-anti-vaccine-activists-are-building-a-legal-network

mem_somerville, to art
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Oh, I lurve these "journal jackets". An artist, Laura Tandeske, takes Army Surplus jackets and a theme and runs with that.

Check these out. I've been thinking of something like this on my old denim jacket, but with

http://www.lauratandeskemosaic.com/art.html

helenczerski, (edited ) to climate
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In the late 1800s, when steam ships were replacing sailing cargo ships, one of the last roles for the sailing ships was to carry coal around the world to supply ports where steamships wanted to go. A clean technology was essential to enable the growth of a dirty technology. And even today, fossil fuels aren’t magically just everywhere. A gigantic *** 40% *** of global shipping is just moving fossil fuels. So eliminating fossil fuel also drastically cuts global shipping emissions.

mem_somerville,
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@helenczerski One of the incredibly galling things around New England recently was our attempt to get hydro from Canada.

But you know who worked against that? Sierra Club and other "environmentalists".

A lawsuit was won recently, though, that means it might happen still. In a decade probably.

stevesilberman, to politics
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Your daily reminder of the absolutely freakish horror that the voters in your family and your town have brought down on us. https://jezebel.com/woman-with-cancerous-pregnancy-was-told-to-wait-in-park-1850375358?fbclid=IwAR1e2ajbz1pe_yo9P1BGxK6vrY4PhqX5zTljzAf38XlTy8tg4c_7Fpr-168

mem_somerville,
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@stevesilberman I really think they were counting on women being too embarrassed to talk about pregnancies that do not succeed, or assaults, but that was a different day.

Sadly, these stories will be endless now, and some incredibly tragic.

But everyone is going to know the horror this time.

RollingStone, to random

Inside the fight against NSC-131, a self-avowed white nationalist organization seeking to terrorize marginalized communities in the northeast. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/task-force-butler-nsc-131-neo-nazis-exposed-new-england-1234723059/

mem_somerville,
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@RollingStone @universalhub Please alert the area neighbahs to our local Nazi problem.

I mean, I know we all know at this point, but this study of them is disturbing.

mem_somerville, to climate
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Attended the climate event tonight in with and .

Gotta say, the neighbors are not back in meeting form. Last Markey event I attended pre-pandemic was SRO.

Larry Yu, Sen. Ed Markey, and Mayor Katjana Ballantyne on the stage at Somerville High School for a conversation about the Green New Deal and how to implement it in cities like ours.

misc, to random
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Hey, in the early days of Twitter we had "tweetups" where enthusiasts with nothing else in common but their geography would just ... meet up somewhere. (I actually have been reunited here with several old friends I met in those days)

Covid complicates it somewhat but I think it might be just about time to try something like that for Mastodon. We have enough people - but not quite too many - for it to make sense. I'd be down to try!

mem_somerville,
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@wx1g @jeffluszcz @misc Sounds like there will be a chance in the future to catch up--I'm not worried! Nice to meet you all.

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