Incidentally, have only seen one other person (a nurse) beside myself in an N95 level mask. The rest (both staff and patients) are all in regular masks. #COVIDisAIRBONE #mask up!
I am in ER at Toronto Western waiting to see a doctor and there is a #COVID patient right here waiting too. Only separated by this screen with a sign about droplet precautions. smh. Someone should let the hospital know that #CovidisAirborne #CovidisnotOver #onpoli
"A 47-degree drop in Denver in 2 hours."
Roland Emmerich's THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW doesn't seem as silly anymore, does it? I mean, yes, it still is. But it's not as batshit crazy as it seemed at the time of its release. What have we done to our planet?
#climatechange #extremeweather #TheDayAfterTomorrow #RolandEmmerich
Any pundit who is criticizing Pres. Zelenskyy's attire is failing to read the room, but moreover, they're just completely missing the point.
A country and its leader under immediate and existential threats have no time for suits and neckties.
He has no visible rank or medals or nametapes or epaulets or brass buttons or starched creases. He's wearing what women and men who are fighting on the frontlines in Ukraine are wearing.
He's wearing the urgency of the moment.
That's the point.
Gotta love tech journalists who describe Mastodon as "that impossible-to-use website." First of all, it's an app. C'mon. Second of all, aren't these the same people who write breathless explainers about the wonder of cryptocurrencies, which are not only impossible to understand but literally built from bullshit?
LastPass has a lot to answer for. They haven’t handled this breach with the right level of transparency. https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/22/23523322/lastpass-data-breach-cloud-encrypted-password-vault-hackers #Lastpass #Breach
I have a fairly serious #solar setup on my roof. 20 Blue panels, 17 Black panels, 2 inverters, for a total of around 11.4KW, But because the blue panels are old, let's just call it 10KW.
Since both inverters are new from February, it has generated 11.5 MEGAWATTHOURS. It's not bad, and it has dramatically reduced my power bills, but it has not zeroed it. Mainly because I have an absurd amount of night usage, or because the wholesale feed in tariff is rubbish. (I'm with an energy wholesaler)
In the fourth image, you can see my blue night usage, and my yellow feed out to grid. I could probably eliminate my night usage if I could afford a battery to store my power to use at night, rather than feeding the excess out, but, I can't afford one of those for another 4 years, as that's when i will have finally paid off the financing on getting the panels.
What's your solar generation look like?
#Renewables #renewable #energy #electricity #power #green #Battery #solarBattery #Australia #NewSouthWales #carbon #co2 #climate #climatechange #globalwarming #PV #Solarpower #SolarPV
Florence + the Machine - Jenny of Oldstones
This song is the best thing about the final season of the Game of Thrones.
@anderspuck @73ms I just finished listening to the latest episode of this podcast. It's quite good. Thank you for the recommendation - I subscribed. I would note that it serves a different function from the one I recommended. The Telegraph podcast is basically a daily news summary of the #Ukraine related news with some commentary on its significance. The podcast with Michael Kofman is less frequent and gives analysis of the military situation and its prospects short to medium term. I always find it quite illuminating
@anderspuck haven't listened to that one.
A new episode of the podcast on the #Ukraine war with Michael Kofman. This is the best podcast on the war by a large margin that I have found. I wish Kofman was on Mastodon.
https://warontherocks.com/2022/12/localized-offensives-the-direction-of-the-conflict/
RT @JamesPoliti@twitter.com
One step closer to approving $45bn in Ukraine aid - with @felschwartz@twitter.com https://www.ft.com/content/0a7c53bf-bff3-4af1-9eba-e2b28fe339bc
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JamesPoliti/status/1606016078621970439
Great article about the fediverse and Mastodon (link below). One quote that really rang true for me: “On a personal level, Mastodon currently feels like Twitter around the year 2010, when it was… just fun?”
Should be a competitive Giro next year.
My **very** early money is on Remco.
#cycling
@mattblaze same. for news I partially solved this by following a number of news bots which mirror major news orgs from twitter. but it would certainly be better if those news orgs set up direct Mastodon presence. there are a few. @nbcnews is here and some WaPo reporters were saying that it is considering setting up an instance but that hasn't happened yet.
What news publications have you seen set up shop on Mastodon?
I've come across the following that are active & appear to be legit:
- LA Times @losangelestimes
- NBC News @nbcnews
- ProPublica @ProPublica
- VOA @VOANews
- The Intercept @theintercept
- The Conversation @TheConversationUS
- Meduza @meduza_en
- Global Voices @globalvoices
- Grist @grist
- Arctic Today @ArcticToday
- Die Tageszeitung (in German) @tazgetroete
- Le Monde diplomatique (in French)
@mdiplo
Refugee from twitter. I am into math, tech, clean energy, EVs, COVID info, books, movies, music.
Based in Toronto. Support Ukraine.
Boosts=endorsements twitter:https://twitter.com/heridfan