Barbara 🇺🇦 @babs_at_masto@qoto.org
Joined Nov 2022
Koshari is a really good dish I'd never tried before. It's apparently Egypt's national dish, and it's 100% vegan. Carb-heavy, with lentils, rice, pasta, and chick peas - plus some delicious crispy fried onions. Here's the recipe I used, mostly straightforwardly. There are others with different spices you can find online.
https://www.themediterraneandish.com/egyptian-koshari-recipe/
@trinsec He's a great YouTube follow! An osprey specialist, but films all kinds of birds.
Some amazing video here. He's always great.....
Here's the quote-tweet feature.
I agree with what @taylorlorenz is saying here. In order to best amplify voices, a quote feature is definitely needed. Part of what made #Twitter s...
But there is, isn't there? There's a "boost" button, like a retweet, and a "quotes" button also. At least on my server. I'll quote tweet this in a minute to demonstrate.
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Ok Google, where's my car?
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Twitter changed science — what happens now it’s in turmoil?
The microblogging platform has transformed research communication, but its future is in doubt.
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As the Colorado River dwindles, the seven states that share it "must finally face the consequential question of which regions will make their sacrifice first." Abrahm Lustgarten reports from #Colorado's Western Slope. https://www.propublica.org/article/colorado-river-water-uncompahgre-california-arizona
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Bison at 35 below zero. Yellowstone National Park, USA.
photograph by Tom Murphy Photography
The leak seems very bad. I hope news orgs will cut this out in the future.
Zelensky’s visit to the US was kept very quiet at his office’s request for security reasons. His team is not pleased that it has leaked. Neverthele...
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Open source methods are playing a crucial role in researching atrocity crimes, particularly in Ukraine.
Bellingcat's Hannah Bagdasar explains how we authenticate and analyse such information and its value for international criminal investigations at TEDx
https://youtu.be/sGj-JJq6SFI
This is good news:
"WASHINGTON (AP) — In one of the last acts of the Democratic-led Congress, the House and the Senate are set to pass an overhaul of the Electoral Count Act, the arcane election law that then-President Donald Trump tried to subvert after his 2020 election defeat.
The legislation, which Democrats and Republicans have been working on since the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, is the most significant policy response so far to the attack and Trump's aggressive efforts to upend the popular vote.
Led by Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, along with members of the House Jan. 6 panel, the bipartisan legislation was added to a massive year-end spending bill that was unveiled early Tuesday and will be voted on this week.
The bill would amend the 19th century law that governs, along with the U.S. Constitution, how states and Congress certify electors and declare presidential election winners, ensuring that the popular vote from each state is protected from manipulation and that Congress does not arbitrarily decide presidential elections when it meets to count the votes every four years."
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Huge news - Electoral Count Act reform is going into the omnibus bill and will be voted on this week https://twitter.com/Sen_JoeManchin/status/1605224042641899521?s=20&t=OJFldMb2hbgFvkdD50fT7g
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This morning we have two responses from our senior editors to the #January6thCommittee executive summary.
First, @qjurecic on what she calls a dangerous omission: https://www.lawfareblog.com/dangerous-omission-jan-6-committees-report-summary
Next, @benjaminwittes on the interview transcripts found in the report: https://www.lawfareblog.com/when-reading-jan-6-committees-summary-dont-skip-notes
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Executive summary of the January 6 committee report PDF
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23466412/the-summary-of-the-house-jan-6-panels-report.pdf
Musk lies about everything.
You’ll be unsurprised to learn that the incident with the supposed Musk stalker appears to have nothing to do with the jet tracking account. It oc...
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This is the first time in history that a congressional committee has recommended that the Justice Dept. launch a criminal investigation into a former U.S. president.
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“I must admit that I was afraid of being jailed before these executions, but now, I am thinking that I could tolerate it,” an Iranian man who supports the protests said. “There is no gray area left anymore.”
“Either you are with the people on the side of justice or against them on the side of cruelty.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/iran-executions-crush-anti-government-protests-rcna61411
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Great Barrier Reef coral is being frozen by scientists in a new experiment to later rewild climate change-damaged reefs.
Full story: ➡️ http://ow.ly/N4Wx50M7aPc
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#science #oceans #nature #climatecrisis #wildlife #environment #corals #animals #news #biodiversity
This is really good, if only as a first step benchmark! At least people are thinking this way now.
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"Nations have agreed to protect a third of the planet for nature by 2030 in a landmark deal aimed at safeguarding biodiversity.
There will also be targets for protecting vital ecosystems such as rainforests and wetlands and the rights of indigenous peoples.
The agreement at the COP15 UN biodiversity summit in Montreal, Canada, came early on Monday morning."
