Dimestorehalo @Dimestorehalo@qoto.org

If you’re having a bad day, here’s a Hedgehog on a camping trip to cheer you up.

'he Japanese Daisugi technique for growing trees started in the 14th century and have been producing wood for 700 years without cutting down trees. Trees are pruned similar to a bonsai tree and the wood is cut as uniform, straight and without knots.'

https://thoughtmight.com/nature/daisugi/

Speaking of the ancient and honorable tradition of drag, please enjoy Tom Holland doing “Umbrella" by Rihanna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJIB1f7jk

So folks, don't forget to check if your Ikea chair is compatible with your screen. I'm not kidding. A thread 🧵.

I've had the problem with my new screen for several weeks now, that every now and then the screen goes black for a few seconds.

Today I had enough and wanted to investigate the problem. So I started changing all the cables, plugging the screen into a different socket, and and and. Nothing helped.

Over-50 gamers feel overlooked, AARP finds

Yeah, gaming companies. I game every single day. I've been gaming longer than my favorite streamers on Twitch have been alive. Give me games I'd be willing to pay for. I am definitely not alone in this. Puzzles, resource management that doesn't have constant combat, relaxing, and that doesn't take a state of the art desktop to be able to play are things I'm always looking for. FYI!

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/20/over-50-gamers-study-aarp

A nice demonstration of how #geology underlies #ecology - different #lichen communities growing on Lewisian gneiss and a basalt dyke within it. #Raasay, #Scotland.

Hi mastodon! I have a jewelry store at https://www.nora.jewelry/!

I'd really appreciate shares on this post, the Twitter exodus is killing my reach and sales have been low. Thanks!

Another photo of the satellite exhaust spiral happening in the middle of the Northern Lights in Delta, #Alaska in the wee hours on April 15.
Photo by Todd Salat, Aurora Hunter
#NorthernLightsPlus

Okay serious toot for a moment.
Missing protestor and if you can share this image please I'd really appreciate it. Amy hasn't been seen since 16th March.

#missing #woman #trans #Scotland #lgbtqia #UK #SOS

Fun fact: during early development the gonads of the human fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female.

- So, if biological sex can't be changed,
- And if life starts at conception,
- Then all men are trans.

Sorry, Republican men. You made the rules.

It's no UFO... but always amazing to see. Early yesterday morning, the all-sky camera at Poker Flats, Alaska caught something strange along with the usual green bands of aurora - an expanding blue spiral: https://vimeo.com/818040730 - The culprit: a SpaceX Falcon-9 launch from Vandenberg three hours earlier, with the Transporter-7 rideshare launch. The spiral was the fuel vent from the discarded second stage booster, spinning and creating an ephemeral 'galaxy' in the Sun overhead.

Clearing

Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.

Instead, create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is your life
falls into your own cupped hands
and you recognize and greet it.

Only then will you know
how to give yourself
to this world
so worthy of rescue.

— Martha Postlethwaite

#poetry #NationalPoetryMonth #poetrycommunity #poetrymonth #SilentSunday #Sunday

This breaks my heart 😥 I hope David is found, may someone recognize him
---
RT @Dantethecomic
There is a #homeless man that I am friends with named David. He's lived in my neighborhood for over 12 years. He's not violent or dirty. He doesn't do drugs. He has a mental illness that makes him talk nonsense. He is #missing. Probably near Hollywood Presbyterian in LA. HELP US!
https://twitter.com/Dantethecomic/status/1638282502661111809

When Women Speak, Listen

Had people simply LISTENED to these two women — Anita Hill and Hillary Clinton — and TRUSTED them, our democracy and its judicial system wouldn’t be the shit shows that they are today, in great part, due to the self-serving misdeeds of morally bankrupt Clarence Thomas and Donald J. Trump.
#ClarenceTrump #AnitaHill #DonaldTrump #HillaryClinton #WhenWomenSpeakListen

Help me find new friends! I’m an artist based in the southwest of Britain. Are you into:
• art 🎨
• folklore 🌞
• traditions and folk culture 🪬
• rambling 🥾
• muddy fields 🐂
• archaeology 🏺
• prehistory 🛖
• the medieval 🏹
• the ancient landscape 🌳

If so, say hi (please)!

#medieval #prehistory #landscape #nature #folklore #rambling #history #art #tradition @folklore @history @rambling @art

I hate peddling my own wares but I'm a stubborn fool who decided to make my career in the arts because I probably wasn't good for much else. Unfortunately, this makes wares-peddling kind of unavoidable. So, if you like abandoned places, I have signed copies of my first book, "Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences" on sale with a free 5x7 print. There are 30-odd chapters of photos of some of my favorite abandoned places in it, so, idk, if that's your thing here you go
https://www.dismantlingthedream.com/product-page/signed-copy-of-abandoned-america-the-age-of-consequences

Lasers were a huge scientific breakthrough and now we use them to play with cats. Computers were also a huge scientific breakthrough and now we use them to look at pictures of cats. In other words, science was made for cats.