"Fairies in the machine room? Again?"

"The little blighters are attracted to the electrical wiring. They're not evolved to handle so much of it, they get addicted to the buzz"

"How did they get in?"

"Dead cabling, old coaxial ethernet from the 80s. It's gonna have to be all ripped out"

"Anything we can do in the short term?"

"Baits. Going to set up some old cathode-ray TVs in the break room, the fair folk go crazy for electron beams"

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

What moves locally: The latest version of #molo has gone online - our local news and event #platform (in German). You can now not only post in the app, but also create new distribution areas. The app can be found in the Apple and Google Store. #journalism #news #localjournalism #community

https://molo.news/

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument confirms general relativity
International collaboration of over 900 researchers from 70 institutions has mapped the clustering of nearly six million galaxies, and found it's consistent with Einstein’s theory of general relativity, validating our leading model of the universe. The study also provided new upper limits on the mass of neutrinos, the only fundamental particles whose masses haven't been precisely measured. https://buff.ly/4g0Qibe
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Here’s an interesting take from Globe & Mail columnist Andrew Coyne regarding the tariff threat and the reactions within Canada. Coyne has been a political opinion columnist for 30 years, of a right-neoliberal, but principled, lean.

It’s worth a read in its entirety. I appreciate that he’s one of the few writers, on either the news or opinion side in Canada, who has chosen to cite evidence on fentanyl border movements and extra legal border crossings of people in his analysis/report. (Spoiler - He doesn’t find it convincing.)

Gift article: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/efec553046b859909b9d5b075c858f1a77b766ef12c3d7cc904ed814a689c678/CY5V4EEZGVBE3J3D2TOXWLGYSQ

#CdnPoli #Tariffs

Louder, for the people in the back:

I don't fight because I'm sure I'm going to win. I do it because I know that a world in which I don't fight will be worse.

@grimalkina *Nothing* encouraging to say?! Please know that it simply cannot be true that there is nothing encouraging about them. I do not believe it in the slightest and neither should you. 😤

Kanji: 編

compilation, knit, plait, braid, twist, editing, completed poem, part of a book

ヘン
あ.む　-あ.み

続編 (ぞくへん) — continuation
編集 (へんしゅう) — editing
編集部 (へんしゅうぶ) — editorial department
編成 (へんせい) — composition
再編 (さいへん) — reorganization
本編 (ほんぺん) — original story (as opposed to a sequel, spin-off, etc.)
前編 (ぜんぺん) — first part
編集長 (へんしゅうちょう) — editor-in-chief
後編 (こうへん) — latter part (of book, etc.)
予算編成 (よさんへんせい) — budget compilation (by the Cabinet)

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#kanji #japanese

Move steadily and improve things.

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@RuthMalan @trondhjort @dahukanna So helpful, thank you both! 🙏😁

@RuthMalan @dahukanna @trondhjort This is such a fascinating and interesting set of quotes: would you happen to know which Pava/author this particular set of quotes are from?

Thank you for sharing this conversation!

I think it is useful to frame conversations as deliberations — which brings in @dahukanna’s deliberate deliberately and @trondhjort quoting:

"If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit." -- Banksy

The realities of evil academia

Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort

Egypt has been certified malaria-free by the World Health Organization (WHO) - an achievement hailed by the UN public health agency as "truly historic".

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2yl8pjgn2o?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=user/BBCNews

«It's a weird kind of paradox: the less you think about posterity, the more you can create something that actually helps to shape the future. And, you know, I can't trust anybody who's too desperate to be taken seriously.» 💖

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US Forest Service wins the arborist lottery
The Inflation Reduction Act, contains a little known provision of $1.5 billion for the US Forest Service to plant and maintain trees across American cities, principally in underserved areas. This is 40 times bigger than the agency's typical annual urban tree budget. Grist
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Here's my latest book review column for @washingtonpost! I utterly adored all four of these books, which feature strange transformations and complex relationships. I highly recommend reading all four of them IMMEDIATELY.

Gift link: https://wapo.st/4eRbNdZ