🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@qoto.org

Is this too much to ask? Evidently it is. 😕

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
#ClimateAction #WarOnCars #BanCars

sometimes you luck out and get a neighbor who texts you

"get your zoom lens and come out your side door very quietly"

#photography #mastoArt #birds #owls

Currently playing this weeks North American Online League #baduk match: https://online-go.com/game/53724180

It's a good one so far :)

💊 new episode!💊

Trans people are such a small part of the population that very few medical studies are done on us. As a result we end up learning more from each other than we do from our doctors. And that's MESSED UP. So let's talk about it.

Writer, director, & actor Ava Davis joins us to discuss jelly beans, and finally feeling at home in your own body. Also you can't surgery yourself so please don't try.

#trans #transgender #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tillys-trans-tuesdays/id1661980695

I did get out early this morning, and spent a couple of hours in the park before work. It was slow at first, despite the apparently heavy migration last night, but I wound up sitting for 40 minutes or so at Azalea Pond and the birds came out one by one; 11 warbler species including nice views of a Bay-breasted and a singing Tennessee Warbler.

I ended up with 40 species on the day, and one new species for the year, Lincoln's Sparrow.

#birding

Research Article
Knitted origami
Elizabeth L. Wilmer

"Techniques are presented for embedding horizontal, vertical, and45◦diagonal crease lines into garter stitch knitted fabric. While theseare mostly based on standard lace knitting stitches, the horizon-tal creases use double-cable-crossed elongated stitches in a non-standard way. This crease library suffices to knit a model of a squaretwist, a foundational origami tessellation unit."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/17513472.2023.2191572

sometimes i wake up in a cold sweat with the realization that generations after me will never experience the joy of degaussing their monitor :((((

This older comic is going around. Animals with misleading names! A gentle attempt to poke fun at English common names.

#SilentSunday

Costa Rica, 2003

Another fun fact:

The Hungarian version of "the tables have turned" is "visszanyal a fagyi"

Which literally translates into

"The ice cream licks back"

🍦

#languages #Hungary #Hungarian #linguistics

A new study proposes why there are so few insects in the ocean, relating back to the oxygen-centric mechanism they use to harden their exoskeletons!
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-explanation-insects-ocean.html

I recently received my annual letter from Elsevier for a book that I published 10 years ago <https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-007-7223-6>. Royalties were insufficient to write a check to me, but Elsevier still sells the book for 118 Euros, and includes it in their library book packages. Tell me again why I published it with a big publisher instead of posting it for free on the Internet so my colleagues could benefit from it?

For my chemistry friends out there - today's #t-shirt.

Hello everyone, let me give my #introduction . I'm a doctoral student from The Philippines, researching about #ClimateChange, #ClimateJustice, #Flooding and #MachineLearning and of course #OpenScience ! Hope I can get to connect with all of you!

Maryland Highway Administration quietly closed my service request from February to review a terrible intersection design. They did not realize that I have a Kanban board called "Local Government" with regular reminders to follow up on service requests I file.

This morning I escalated the close and extracted a promise of adding "guide marks" though the intersection.

Don't try to out-bureaucrat me, I've been forged and sharpened in the glowing furnace of federal contracting project management.