Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@qoto.org

Anyone remember the old monster movie from the 1950s called The Crawling Eye- this close up of mt eclipse photo reminds me of it

Church break-ins lead to damage, theft of community kitchen food in Grand Falls-Windsor

Freezer items, like turkeys and other food to aid the needy, were stolen from a church in Grand Falls-Windsor this week.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/church-thefts-gfw-apr-11-1.7171067?cmp=rss
#News #Canada #NfldLabrador

Good! It's about time...

A special prosecutor has been assigned to look into whether Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones should face criminal charges over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state. https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/04/11/lt-gov-burt-jones-being-investigated-by-state-prosecutor/

The Fairphone Fairbuds are the world’s most repairable earbuds — and they might be the last pair you ever buy
https://www.tomsguide.com/audio/headphones/the-fairphone-fairbuds-are-the-worlds-most-repairable-earbuds-and-they-might-be-the-last-pair-you-ever-buy
Throwing broken earbuds away will be a thing of the past

Best. Wife. Evaaaaar!

Victoria Sponge. Made from scratch. For me. For my 21st x 2.66666666667 Birthday. 🎂🍰

Altitude Chamber Gets Upgrade for Artemis II, Spacecraft Testing Begins https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/kennedy/altitude-chamber-gets-upgrade-for-artemis-ii-spacecraft-testing-begins/ #NASA #KennedySpaceCenter #OrionMultiPurposeCrewVehicle #OrionProgram

India Has 2nd Most Hepatitis B and C Cases in the World, Says WHO Report: ‘Need to Increase Awareness’, Say Experts

https://www.thequint.com/fit/india-2nd-highest-hepatitis-cases-in-the-world-who-report-experts

"Nowhere to go": Experts say Judge Cannon reversed herself because Smith had her "dead to rights" | Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2024/04/10/nowhere-to-go-experts-say-cannon-reversed-herself-because-smith-had-her-dead-to-rights/

Russian hacker group known as Midnight Blizzard has stolen emails between federal agencies and Microsoft and potentially collected login credentials during a recent breach.

https://t.co/k7sSSPwUWG

The wordless feature film, "Sasquatch Sunset," explores, with poignancy and lowbrow humor, the relationships of a Sasquatch family played by Jesse Eisenberg, Riley Keough, Christophe Zajac-Denek, and Nathan Zellner. @IndieWire talks to co-directors Zellner and his brother David about how they made the movie — including "Sasquatch camp" with a Marcel Marceau-trained coach, prosthetic makeup, and natural lighting.

https://flip.it/WCcwrP

#Film #Movies #SasquatchSunset #Bigfoot #Cinema #Entertainment

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I've been watching the Folding Ideas series about web3 and I still stand in awe that someone thought the concept of an NFT sounded like a good one, let alone as many people as bought into them.

Then this showed up on Ars. It's fun to watch people roast "Web3" bullshit:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/04/no-one-needs-this-cryptocurrency-powered-steam-deck-competitor/

I've been contacted by a university from the UK, asking me to act as an external expert to assess an application for promotion to professor

Is this usual?

For context:
- I'm not from the UK
- It's not sure how close the applicant's area will be to mine
- Perhaps they are looking for my namesake
- I'm overcommitted
- I'm not sure there's anything for me

#UK #TEF

Please boost if you have followers who might know this

If you're hoping Rishi Sunak might call an early election, you haven't fully understood the Tories end-game.

Right now they are looking to:

create as many problems as possible for the next Govt. by conducting a scorched earth strategy;

while continuing to enrich themselves & their chums (until the last moment).

They know they're going to lose but they're going to try to make the next five years hellish, so they can ride in to save us in 2029 (or before if Starmer's Govt. collapses).

#Tories

Trump Says All Presidents Must Have ‘Total Immunity’ from Crimes – Except for President Biden

Next week jury selection will begin for the first criminal trial of Donald Trump. In fact, it's the first criminal trial of any former American president. Trump is outraged because, as he incessantly whines, "Nothing like this has ever happened before." But that's only because there hasn't been any other persistently profligate perpetrator of crimes like Trump before. Click…

https://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=60966

I see Swifts visiting the nest above our front door, but haven't gotten up on a ladder to see if there are any younguns in there. I won't clean out the nests in the rafters until all the little ones have flown. :)

This is very interesting. Acoustic detection of bird populations in the vicinity of (mostly houses) in the UK and Ireland.

https://app.birdweather.com/

#birds #ornithology

Through gardens, these Native communities are cultivating a solution to climate change
https://botany.fyi/rVqQZ2

As he peels back the husk of corn grown in his garden, Miko Brandon reveals deep red kernels hiding underneath. Brandon knows that unlike yellow and white varieties, this Chickasaw red corn will have a sweet but nutty flavor to it when cooked or made into cornmeal or bread.
#Botany