AmberWavesoFlame @AmberWavesofFlame@qoto.org

Frost seizes my #garden day after day, but nobody told these #periwinkle to pack it in for the year, so they’re my last flowers left. #januaryjoy #gardening

@interacter clover. Soft, resilient, self-spreading, 🐝 love it, and grows very well under the shade of trees. Nitrogen-fixing! Violets are another groundcover that thrive in shade, very low maintenance but you probably wouldn’t want it as your whole yard. Speedwell is currently blooming all over mine in a soft carpet while my neighbors grass lawns are brown for the winter. For warmer months, wood sorrel looks gorgeous. I suggest a mix of low growing wildflower “weeds.”

@mmasnick this seems legally actionable in a much more concrete way than most of his frauds.

@drewharwell you mean like when we get spoof robocalls that get people to say things like “Hello? Who is this?” or “Sorry, not interested, thanks.” Boom, mass collection of 3s snippets tied to a particular phone number.

@gavinwilde@mstdn.social I feel like the impact of “Obamacare” premiums spiking in October 2016 has been largely overlooked as a factor. Trump and the GOP had made repealing Obamacare a central pillar of their campaigns, and Hillary was identified w defending it. This has way more of a kitchen table impact on disengaged voters. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/average-premiums-for-popular-aca-plans-rising-25-percent/2016/10/24/3adbb734-9a12-11e6-b3c9-f662adaa0048_story.html

@TechNews last line needs to be its own article: “Out of that percentage, only 37 percent of the shrink was due to external theft, including organized retail crime.”

In other words: THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE. Y’all worked the country up about lawless gangs terrorizing the streets, turned out to be your own burned out employees. Maybe a little self-reflection why their morale is suffering so badly might be in order.

Narrator: Lol, no.

@gdiak yes. Our assumptions and methodology are always flawed, really. Discovery is a messy process.

@ScottSoCal @agbioworld they have a tendency to take anti-jab propaganda personally. 🐝

Via @agbioworld:

A #biotech company in Georgia has received conditional approval for the first #vaccine for honeybees, 🐝 could pave the way for controlling a range of viruses & pests that have decimated the global population. It is the first vaccine approved for any insect!

#bee #savethebees #science

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/01/07/us/honeybee-vaccine-usda-approval-scn-trnd/index.html

Ok, one nice perk of #Mastodon’s hashtag system is watching people still get a kick out of a #meme or article I posted a week or more ago, presumably because they were in the mood to browse that topic. That almost never happens on other social media sites, where yesterday’s thought quickly gets buried in sentiment sediment and you usually only see old posts emerge when posters are throwing someone’s words back in their faces, months or years later. But here, even quiet smiles are ageless.

@errantscience I keep a fuzzy blanket in my office. My jackets and such go straight onto a door hook and my blankie goes around me instead.

#Roman #construction is famous
for enduring for centuries, from architectural marvels to common roads. TIL that some of their #aquaducts are still in use today! And they used a mysterious #concrete formula that makes our modern efforts look like dried Play-Doh. But now scientists have demonstrated the secret the Romans perfected for #selfhealing concrete: #quicklime.

#engineering #materialscience #history #ancient #lime

https://news.mit.edu/2023/roman-concrete-durability-lime-casts-0106

@michaelwong @thetitanborn the rules seem to be:
Political, activism, part of an “agenda” = “I disagree with it, and so do my political heroes.”
Just science, history, social commentary, humor, culture, economic facts, life experience, etc = “I agree with it, or at least I feel comfortable considering it and/or trust the source.”

That’s it. Feminists had it figured out half a century ago; the dividing line between “political” and non is an illusion of the comfortable.