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So this morning I was booked to go and train a bunch of young people (14-15yrs) who without any prompting have set up a company, called Tec Tarw, #recycling computers. They wanted to learn @inkscape to vinyl cut to apply their logo onto their machines/products. I walk in and they are all using @iFixit tools and talking about #repair .. an absolute honour to meet them. #thekidsarealright I'll post their website when they go live etc.

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Kleine Wiesenvögelchen

#Naturfotografie #NaturePhotography #Falter #Schmetterlinge #Butterflies #Insects #Insekten

Zwischen Gräsern fliegen zwei kleine orange-graue Schmetterlinge

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#fotografie #nature #photography

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"A sense of the public good still thrives, and millions of people strive to keep the achievements of Western Civilization from the clutches of fascism, xenophobia, know-nothingism, and conspiracy-mongering."

#Europe #democracy #Trump #travel #xenophobia #fascism
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Jennifer Rubin reflects on lessons she learned traveling recently and Europe:

"First and foremost: Other countries, much older than the United States, have gone through grim, even disastrous years, decades, or centuries. And yet in Europe, the spirit of liberal democracy (however imperfect) remains alive and well."

#Europe #democracy #Trump #travel #xenophobia #fascism
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/reflections-on-travels

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Fun with alliteration

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeirUTzisL0

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DOGE is not unstoppable. The courts stand in the breach.

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Townsend's Chipmunk (Neotamias townsendii).
Look at this little cutie eating breakfast in the forest of Discovery Park in Seattle! All the trail runners and dog walkers missed this, so here you go - I got it for you.
#chipmunk #Seattle #PNW #WildlifePhotography

A small brown chipmunk with pale stripes is perched on a twig and eating a green berry out of its paws. The background is lush green forest foliage.

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Woah! Really cool new videos from the Goode Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory show timelapse adaptive optics views of the Sun's corona. This one is of a solar prominence being shaped by the Sun’s magnetism.

I like the choice to color hydrogen-alpha light pink.

You should check out all of the videos (the Sun is so fluffy!):
https://nso.edu/press-release/new-adaptive-optics-shows-stunning-details-of-our-stars-atmosphere/

#Space #Astronomy #SolarObserving

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I fits...

Photo of a cat with its two front paws sitting in a tiny box that is only big enough for two paws.

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@augieray “As new pre-clinical results obtained with the Delta variant this winter demonstrate …”

Nobody reads more than the headline. 🤣

Copied from Jess? 😜

What you want to read: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-025-01123-y

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Some pictures just take your breath away...

From Ente - @ente via
@TheEdinburghBookshop

Eruption on Mount Etna (Sicily) giving the illusion of a Phoenix in the sky.

A night-time picture of glowing lava on Mt. Etna giving the appearance of a fiery flying bird. In the foreground a floodlit church stands out against the lights of buildings in the middle distance and the inky black of the volcano itself.

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A fabulous hat was requested for Ginger Cat by @charism8 on account of great bravery at the vets and general adorableness. I think we can all agree on the latter.

#sillySummerHatting

Original text: A large ginger cat sitting down and looking slightly up. He's sitting on some dryish grass and behind is a blurred garden.

My addition: he is now wearing a wide brimmed straw sunhat with white flower and feather decoration.

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Weird catcretion disk

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Happy Birthday to Rachel Carson, marine biologist, author and environmentalist extraordinaire, who was born on this day on May 27, 1907, in Springdale, PA. Her book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with igniting the global environmental movement. Shining a light on the dangers of chemical pesticides, the book led to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides and ultimately led to the creation of the EPA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson
Photo: CBS via Getty Images//Getty Images
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Pic of Rachel Carson with pen, pad and microscope on table to her right
https://goldenglobes.com/articles/trigger-environmental-conscience-rachel-carsons-book-silent-spring/

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Read this.

Seriously. Quit scrolling, shut the hell up, and read this.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr-who-thinks-my-daughter-is-a-tragedy

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The perfect metaphor for the fediverse doesn't exis...

(From faculty slack)

Particpant 1: So the greatest conference experience happened to me last week. They were holding our conference at the same venue as an anime convention. This meant that interspersed with all the stodgy roboticists were a ton of people in awesome costumes! The whimsy was incredible. All conferences should be this way, it was way more fun.

A photo follows of three roboticists taking a selfie with a person in a cosplay constume

Participant 2 (me): This is exactly what Mastodon is like

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DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE:
1. Chickenpox
2. Diphtheria
3. Measles
4. Pertussis
5. Pneumococcal Infection
6. Polio
7. Tetanus
8. Typhoid
9. Yellow Fever
10. Smallpox

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Now, Gembo, along with the 1,000 other homeowners and businesses in Zawaciki, gets his power from an interconnected solar minigrid. “Before we had this minigrid, we suffered in our work given the quality of the light,” he says.
https://rmi.org/powering-a-brighter-future-for-nigeria/

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#Israel is committing #genocide in #Gaza, with relentless bombing and starvation of nearly 2 million civilians, and has begun moving its population into concentration camps.

#KierStarmer's government lawyers argued that sending weapons to help Israel commit further terrorist atrocities and mass murder of civilians, is more important to the UK than standing against a genocide.

#UKLabour #ICC

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