Sarah Calvert

Politics - rejoiner, tennis, art, archaeology, literature and music. Blocks racists et al.

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2024-10-05

@alan_matts Oh thank you! The next book will be out in June I think but the title may differ from "Supporting Your Autistic Social Self"... That is the current working title...

I am glad you found it helpful. It is lovely when families start recognising the autism throughout the generations, and suddenly everything starts making sense.

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Fife4Europe #FBPEFife4Europe@mastodon.scot
2023-07-03

Banksy is back with a new exhibition at GOMA, Glasgow. Don't miss his powerful artworks on police brutality, Brexit and climate crisis. Read our review here: artlyst.com/reviews/banksy-dec

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Chris D Wells Onlinechrisdwells
2023-07-03

But I now realise it was obviously naive of me to expect to last forever… and I feel frustrated at myself for having invested in a community for 15 years that collapsed so quickly. I’m going to commit to Mastodon & now. Let’s make certain that the online communities we build in future look like what we thought Twitter could be; what many of us were dreaming of back in the 00s.

2023-07-03

@CharlesTannock Oh no - I was still using Dove solid bars...

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2023-07-03

Re @PolitlcsUK @DailyMirror So having stopped FOM by Brexit of EU workers doing these vital jobs they now want to stop those prepared to do this hard & unpopular work from the rest of the world. How will they convince Brits to do it? Or do they not care if UK elderly & vulnerable go without needed support?

🐦🔗: n.respublicae.eu/CharlesTannoc

Sarah Calvert boosted:
2023-07-02
SICILIA DI UN TEMPO: LA SMALLATURA MANUALE DELLE MANDORLE
Dopo la raccolta delle mandorle, si procedeva alle "scrucchiulatura"(asportazione del mallo secco) e alla "scacciatura": un gruppo di donne si portavano da casa una pietra d'appoggio (la balata) e la "giaca" (grosso pezzo di ghiaia liscio) per picchiare le mandorle con abilità e velocità notevoli, anche a due-tre alla volta (le donne avendo le dita fasciate come i giocatori di pallavolo a scanso di dolori); il guscio cadeva a terra, il frutto nel grembo della schiacciatrice.
Donne e bambini di casa partecipavano con varie mansioni a tutte queste fasi, che si svolgevano fra giaculatorie, canti tradizionali, prese in giro e scherzi innocenti; si partecipava anche ai pasti collettivi (che erano a carico del proprietario), a base di pentoloni di pasta, di minestroni, di melanzane "aquagliu" (cucinate con pomodori, aglio e aromi vari) sarde salate, pane e vino.
Il lavoro veniva pagato in denaro, ma anche con prodotti agricoli (prime ovviamente le mandorle stesse).

Fonte: Lumie di Sicilia di Enzo Motta

#palermo #sicilia #sicily #sicilyfood #sicilyphotos #photography
La smallatura manuale delle mandorle in una Sicilia di tanto tempo fa
Sarah Calvert boosted:
2023-07-02

This walk to Preston, Redmire and Grinton Moors provides great views of #Wensleydale and #Swaledale, with a little industrial archaeology thrown in. For details, see bit.ly/3V55hYo

#YorkshireDales #NorthYorkshire #Walking #Moorland

Looking over Wensleydale to hills in the background. A large tree is to the left and rocks protrude at the right. Fluffy clouds across the sky.The town of Reeth sits in a hollow between hills in the background and bleak moorland in the foreground.A view of Wensleydale from the top of Preston Scar. A large tree is to the left of centre and a small cluster of trees ate to the right. Verdant green fields bounded by stone walls cross the centre of the picture. A few grey rocks litter the bottom right of the picture.
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Jungle George 🌴🌳🌲🍃JungleGeorge24@mastodon.online
2023-07-02

Woodland Trust has announced plans to plant 50,000 trees in the Yorkshire Dales in England. This will help to create new habitats for wildlife and improve air quality, it'll also be England’s largest native woodland🌳🍃💨

#YorkshireDales #WoodlandTrust #ClimateChange #Trees

independent.co.uk/climate-chan

Sarah Calvert boosted:
2023-07-02
Sarah Calvert boosted:
2023-07-02

Without Musk, I'm pretty sure SpaceX would have built a free-to-use, carbon-neutral, solid gold space elevator to Mars by now. And it would have fucking awesome lift music too.

Sarah Calvert boosted:
2023-07-02

How to be An Genius:

1. Pay $44bn for a site worth 1/2 that
2. Sack everyone who knows how it works
3. Release far-right troll army
4. Turn genuine validation into a badge of idiocy
5. Kill most of your ad revenue
6. Inflate API price to recoup money
7. Everyone stops using API and scrapes site instead
8. Massively limit the service to end scraping
9. Service is now unusable
10. Remaining advertising value destroyed
11. Kill a cornerstone of the internet
12. Lose $44bn

2023-07-02

@DebsMadrid It's for my book club as well. We are all obviously behind the curve!

Sarah Calvert boosted:
2023-07-02

Dear Twitter people. Lots of us were once Twitter people too. This place will not spoon-feed you. Passive participation doesn’t work here. This is a very active and buzzing place, but unless you FOLLOW people and INTERACT, it will pass you by.

Follow people. Lots of them. You can always remove them later. But really, follow early, follow often.

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Ben Buchanan200ok
2023-07-02

A few thoughts for people who are new due to

Currently mastodon feels like early Twitter: growing fast, rough edges, evolving norms, not everyone is here yet.

Don't instantly give up because it's different. Give it time.

Your follow(ing/er) count is not a scoreboard.

Chances are you've gone from a fire hose to a trickle, but is that actually bad? You don't have to frantically recreate your old feed. Maybe just slowly add content that makes you happy.

2023-07-01

What exactly is "data scraping"?

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