herid @herid@qoto.org
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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
Joined Nov 2022
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It turns out cannabis gives worms the munchies
“Science’s favourite lab worm — Caenorhabditis elegans — gets the ‘munchies’ when it’s exposed to cannabis… The fact that worms share this ‘hedonic feeding’ response with mammals, including rats and humans, points to the deep evolutionary origin of cannabinoid receptors and behaviours influenced by the molecules.”
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Forster's Tern, a species that is migrating through here right now.
#Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #photography #nature #wildlife #FlyoverCountry
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Visibility filtering rules that had been in place for foreign propaganda accounts removed by #Twitter (apparently on the order of Elon Musk), including those of government agencies and officials of #China, #Iran and #Russia, reports NPR. https://www.npr.org/2023/04/21/1171193551/twitter-once-muzzled-russian-and-chinese-state-propaganda-thats-over-now
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Filtering online product reviews to only show posts from before the public release of chatGPT like im scavenging shipwrecks for pre-1945 steel
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Some people only come into your life for a brief moment in time and thank fuck for that.
day 5
A Little Wordy #5 🤡🎨✅ 83% https://theoatmeal.com/wordy?date=04-21-23
unlike yesterday, today's visual clue was excellent. I am still chuckling about it.
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it turns out #musk just got rid of the state affiliated labels **altogether**. they are now gone from **everybody**. RT, Novosti, Xinhua, IRNA and every other state propagandist. they are also gone from public broadcasters like NPR and CBC but that's hardly a comfort. I wonder if this was his plan all along and that's why he went after NPR first. so that he could look even handed now and say "no labels", see, isn't that better?
#twitter
@ed_hawkins really cool! but it only does the province for me, not the city. I am in Toronto.
#climatechange
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What is the nearest big city to where you live? How has the climate already changed there?
You can now explore and download Warming Stripes graphics for over 450 cities around the world. They show how temperatures have already changed over the last 100+ years.
And, all the warming stripes have been updated to include 2022, with many extended back further in time.
www.ShowYourStripes.info
Here is Simonyan crowing about it and thanking Elon for his "brotherly action". She is Putin's Goebbels btw. one of the most odious and enthusiastic cheerleaders of the genocide of Ukraine.
I am only surprised he didn't pay for her verification from his pocket. since this is apparently a thing now, what's another 8 bucks among friends, eh Elon?
Just when you think he can't do any worse he does. #Musk has removed "state affiliated" labels from RT and other Kremlin propagandists. now CBC and NPR have labels but RT does not.
#Russia #Ukraine #twitter #StandWithUkraine
@c_9 is this online? can you post a link please?
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@tchambers @georgetakei It's George Takei's birthday??!!
Happy birthday, Mr. Takei!!!
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Elon Musk: "I can be very, very persuasive..."
*cocks gun*
Later that night:
Elon Musk: "Come on, buy Twitter Blue!"
Lebron James: "No."
Elon Musk: "Ohh i'll be your friend?"
Lebron James: "No."
Elon Musk: "Ohh you're mean! Here’s your complementary subscription!"
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The right-wing Republican “Montana Freedom Caucus” is seeking censure of their transgender colleague who spoke about the life-destroying consequences that will follow from anti-transgender legislation these Republican state legislators support. Their objection to what she said? Basically, “how dare she make us feel bad about our wanting to do something awful.” https://apnews.com/article/transgender-lawmaker-silenced-montana-censure-ee3e30ee6a1cd7c0faa8fd072d580a94
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The official Mastodon app is doing something new which is potentially very dangerous to the existence of Mastodon and the Fediverse.
The official Mastodon app now prompts users to join mastodon.social by default, when previously it prompted them to pick a server. If you're new this may sound harmless, but let me explain.
The entire point of this place is to be a social network spread out on as many servers as possible (the reasons are here: https://fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse-on-so-many-separate-servers/).
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@lexfri he definitely knows it was a huge mistake financially. he knew that already when he was trying to back out of the deal. But he is a narcissist on a scale to rival Trump and he is absolutely addicted to twitter for that reason. hard to quantify how much that is worth to him.
@daringfireball that is pretty cool.
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"Pierre #Poilievre gets up in a government-funded home, so that his government-funded driver can take him to his government-funded office so he can launch attacks against Canadian institutions.
Canadians deserve better than a lifelong politician trying to divide them at every turn."
from a speech in the House by MP Mark Holland
#conservatives #cdnpoli #Ottawa
via 🐦 @chrisbittle
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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
Joined Nov 2022
