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In times of stress I like thinking about ginkgo trees and looking at their leaves. I have so many trinkets with them as a motif because of how weird and pretty they are, and how very very long they've survived as a living fossil of sorts.

#Photography #Bloomscrolling

An artistic and nearly abstracted photo of leaves of Ginkgo Biloba, an ancient prehistoric plant that's still just around. The leaves fan out in myriad little fine pleats and tiny ruffles, and here they are cast in lights of different colours - blue cool shadow of a canopy of other trees, the crisp white of winter sunlight through the greenhouse glass, and the yellowish plant lights illuminating the myriad little droplets of water suspended on the textured surface of the leaves. The leaves are delicate, beautiful and nearly unchanged from what they were like 170 million years ago.

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Hi, if you speak any of the following languages, I could really use your help translating a few words for https://jointhefediverse.net.

فارسی,العربية,Bahasa Indonesia, Български, Català, Čeština, 简体中文, 繁體中文, Deutsch (DE), Español (ES), Esperanto, Euskara, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Polski, Português (BR), Русский, Slovenčina, Suomi, 臺灣正體中文

- https://github.com/jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net/issues/118
- https://github.com/jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net/issues/138
- https://github.com/jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net/issues/137

#translation #localization #opensource #HelpWanted #fediverse #JoinTheFediverse

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I assume that when you stare in to THIS void, there's audio description.

A metal hatch closed by a zillion rusty bolts has a label on it that reads "accessible void"

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'Ten messages for a man who thinks children should stay off the roads and stick to the park'

From my Diagram Club newsletter, to which I post lots more things like this: https://open.substack.com/pub/diagramclub

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Oh the humanity…

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Does anyone have any suggestions on Android compatible tracker tag things? Thinking of this for checked luggage, primarily, but I've no idea of the state of the art.

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🚀 Debian's tag2upload service finally moving forward! After 5 YEARS of progress, compromise reached!

✨ Dev experience revolution?! Just sign & push git tags → packages automatically flow to mirrors

🔧 No more manual .dsc creation/upload hassles

🔐 Better security & code integrity than current methods

📈 Quality improvements across the board

https://lwn.net/Articles/978324/

Git-native workflow FTW! 🎉 #Debian #DevOps #Git @jzb

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Wikipedians can have a day off, as a treat

Here's the #ShowYourStripes graph for Cambridge, showing how the temperature has changed since 1850...

https://showyourstripes.info/c/europe/unitedkingdom/cambridge

A graph of temperature change in Cambridge since 1850, showing a distinct rise over particularly the last 25 or so years.

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Support brands that are on #Mastodon

Marketing 101 tells us to join all the social networks, even those owned by selfish billionaires who would happily see your remaining rights get taken if it = profit. You're not even a number to them, you are a lumped into a numbered demographic with an action plan on "how to extract maximum value".

Marketing 101 then says pay an influencer £200 and you'll get £1k in return. Easy.

We've given up over 100k of followers to get away from these social networks. We spent our resources (mostly time, sometimes advertising) with them but it was unethical.

So if you see a brand doing what you wished all brands should do, choosing ethics over profit go out of your way to support them.

Obvs, this is a shameless plug for us roastinghouse.co.uk but goes for anyone you see here. A £10 order may make a difference to them and in return you usually get something nice.

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#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/786875161337053184
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are sitting, facing each other, looking exhausted. Green: It's too hot to cook dinner. Blue: Can you go get me a bag of frozen veggies? Green looks on, curious, as Blue places the frozen bag on top of his head. Green's curiosity turns to surprise as Blue, meditates all of his excessive body heat to concentrate on his head, and the bag of frozen vegetables begins to glow faintly, and hissing softly as it melts and begins to steam. Green watches, now calm but speechless, as Blue ceases glowing. Blue: We are having steamed peas for dinner.

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"A cyclist can go 3 or 4 times faster than a pedestrian, but uses 5 times less energy. The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match metabolic energy to impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips efficiency of not only all machines, but all other animals as well."
—Ivan Illich, 1974.

In London with a little time to take in the views.

The river Thames, looking back towards Blackfriars Bridge. The dome of St Paul's is prominent on the skyline.

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"To our untrained eye, a corn field looks more “natural” than arrays of solar panels. But that field is a biological desert .. sprayed with pest- and herbicides. Put up some solar panels, and add plants that only need to be mowed once a year (sometimes with sheep) and you see an explosion of life."

Ausschnitt aus dem Text: it’s not just larks who appreciate this. Right at the entrance to the solar park, a small bird, a wheatear, which is threatened with extinction in Germany, is bobbing on the edge of a module. During his monitoring two years ago, Stoefer discovered only one breeding pair. This year, he doesn’t have to search far.

I'm on a #train for work. I don't miss doing this every day, but it will be nice to meet some colleagues (and the big boss) in London later...

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My little fundraising print project for Pride:

Sending these worldwide, with no extra postage charge, and a clonking donation to LGBTQ+ charities: they’re fab, only 30 like this will ever exist, get yours now! (£20+)

(Please share!)

https://ko-fi.com/s/62262ca3d7

Ombre letterpress art prints with the quote "Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself."

Work in progress photo on the vintage Adana press.

@jon @acb sad times :(

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This may be a profoundly silly question because I might have missed something terribly obvious in the past 30ish years, but we don't really have a standardised API for enabling vacation responders for email, do we?

As in, something you could use to write a thing that automagically turns on your vacation responder whenever there's a statutory holiday in your country in the middle of the week?

(I know that Gmail has an API for that, but I'm looking for something generic and open.)

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@cthos a bit of hard data from a point of view AI companies don't want to talk about: @iocaine

Daily stats from my crawler defense system, showing 7-8 million requests a day, against the very small and niche sites I host.

98% of my traffic is crawlers. It is their cost, which they try to push onto others. It's completely ridiculuous.

Even if the energy use of training and generating would be zero, the crawling cost, paid by literally everyone else, is not. This cost is easily demonstratable.

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