Michael Porter @MichaelPorter@qoto.org

According to this @globeandmail@twitter.com article, a donor to the Ford government borrowed $100 million at a TWENTY-ONE PERCENT interest rate in order to buy up Greenbelt land that, in less than a year, was magically open to development. (1/x)

#Greenbelt #Bill23

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-sales-of-greenbelt-land-raise-questions-for-ford/

This is a great resource, if anyone asks about the science behind masks and their use - thanks for compiling it, @Billius27@twitter.com. It won’t sway people who are vehemently against the idea that we #BringBackMasks, but it will help people who want to learn more. https://billius27.substack.com/p/masks-evidence-and-use

When people tell me I'm overreacting to the threat posed by our lack of regulations on motor vehicle size

North Lake Tahoe looking south (2020).

#astrophotography #photography #laketahoe #lake #astrophoto #astronomy #milkyway

The Pacific Ocean
... is larger than all the land in the world combined!
... has about twice as much water as the Atlantic Ocean!
... has more than half of the Earth's open water supply!
... contains its own antipode (the Gulf of Tonkin and a spot off the coast of Chile, both in Pacific waters, are diametrically opposite on the Earth's surface)!

Some stellar detective work here.

So is twitter surviving its EM pulse?

Meet Fanny, the First Female Rock Band to Top the Charts: "They Were Just Colossal and Wonderful, and Nobody’s Ever Mentioned Them"

https://www.openculture.com/2019/09/meet-fanny-the-first-female-rock-band-to-top-the-charts.html

can be seen in real life for example in this video of someone synchronizing a hydro plant to the grid

https://youtu.be/xGQxSJmadm0

One of my biggest surprises when I delved a bit into how the #electricity grid works was how conventional power plants actually put #energy into the grid.
The true mechanism was *exactly the opposite* of how I naively thought it worked (and I had admittedly never thought very deeply about it). Maybe you have thought about it more deeply and this is trivial to you, but I'm still fascinated by it.

So, imagine you are a generator, and the grid is already there with say 3x 230V and 50 Hz ...

It's wild to me how you don't see the number of replies to a toot. It's like, "Well do you want to engage with it or not? Don't let other people influence that decision."

VERY good read about the path Twitter is now on. It's not "our" favorite bar anymore.

Highly recommended:

https://tracks.ranea.org/post/701656528790470656/twitter-failure-modes-and-your-favorite-bar

The Brooklyn Public Library Gives Every Teenager in the U.S. Free Access to Books Getting Censored by American Schools

#bannedbooks #censorship

https://www.openculture.com/2022/08/the-brooklyn-public-library-gives-every-teenager-in-the-u-s-free-access-to-books-getting-censored-by-american-schools.html

Made an iOS Shortcut to let you follow someone from a different Mastodon instance without the copy/paste hoop-jumping.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e109c8e6b8c0420c902134049b13c064

Once added to your Shortcuts app, you can share a Profile (or webpage or text that contains a profile link or username) to this Shortcut to be taken to the Follow confirmation page without ever copying or pasting anything.

Let me know if you find it helpful or run into any issues.

#iOS #Shortcuts #Projects

The beds on these two #pickup #trucks are roughly the same size.

My most well known photo from the field, and well timed being very nearly the anniversary of the 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake sequence. This is the "Wall of Waiau" on the Leader fault. This scarp is actually a bit of a quirk of nature, no prior rupture here and effective localised normal movement due to topography on an oblique thrust and right lateral fault.
#geology #fault #earthquake #photography #EarthScience #nz