Ukraine is the first step. If Putin is not stopped, Russia will devour many smaller countries. If Republicans win, if Trump is president again, we will end up with a totalitarian mafia empire https://www.bettedangerous.com/p/war-and-peace-a-byline-supplement
Apparently some guy running for Mayor of Toronto is using #AI generated art for their campaign materials (per Ben Spurr of the Toronto Star). Obviously #Midjourney. The lady there might want to see a doctor about that extra arm. 😬 https://nitter.net/BenSpurr/status/1668356551864733698
Any knowledgable birders out there? I've dabbled at birding for decades but have only recently gotten serious about it.
I have a question to which I can't find the answer by searching. I've read many presentations and references about mockingbirds but none mention whether mockingbirds ever gather in a flock and fly around. Do they ever engage in flocking behavior?
My guess is no, but today I observed a flock of about a dozen birds that flew quite close to me several times and they looked like mockingbirds. Obviously, I could be mistaken. Haha.
(Many of) Our Favorite Things are Aldehydes
https://shuttersparks.net/our-favorite-things-are-aldehydes/
#Food #History #Home #Health #aldehydes #allergies #almond
#banned #benzaldehyde #cinnamon #citrus #lemon #lily #vanilla #vanillin
Lithium batteries are more dangerous than you might think.
Elon musk wants to get rid of the block button so that people will be forced to read his unfunny posts
And so they can't block advertisers
Hail the one true #FloridaMan who posed as a psychic and tricked one of the richest and most powerful men on earth’s assistant into FedEx’ing him over $90 million in jewelry for an ‘aura cleanse.’ Ignore all the lesser Florida men legal news today. https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kk3y/psychic-diamond-heist-john-lee-hamad-bin-jassim-bin-jaber-al-thani
Pat Robertson, who helped redefine how tall you could stack shit and still call it a human being, has decided to contradict his own teachings and aborted his own life, instead of letting it reach full term. He will share a room in hell with Rush Limbaugh, where both of them will spend their days mostly going AAAAAAUGH FUCK IT BURNS AAAAAUGH WHY AM I IN SO MUCH PAIN AAAAAUGH
Drought Affects the Whole Country
https://shuttersparks.net/drought-affects-whole-country/
The world just became a better place: https://apnews.com/article/pat-robertson-dead-christian-broadcasting-700-club-91299d0953c014ca6860fe545cac793e
On Monday, I wrote an essay about climate and biodiversity for Scientific American. I tracked proportional engagement, calculated as (likes + shares + comments)/followers, over six social media platforms.
The winner? MASTODON, by a landslide.
Second place? INSTAGRAM. It's harder to share posts on IG, but lot of people like things there!
The loser? FACEBOOK, also by a landslide. On Facebook, I've been shadow-banned since August 2018 when they listed clean energy and climate as "socially sensitive topics" so my page there stopped growing 6 years ago and now only about 1% of my followers there ever see my posts. It's actually too bad, because that's the platform where I reach the most conservative audiences through their connections to friends and family. So even though it's dead last, I still persist.
Six(!) more people in my circle of friends came down with Covid this weekend.
It’s still with us, folks.
@skry @Green_Footballs @morgfair
I don't have a link but I read last week that levels are pretty high in NYC wastewater right now. Because folks with positive tests aren't reporting if they're not so sick they're in the hospital, waste water is our only good measure of infection levels.
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"I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous amount of fumes and everything." --Donald Trump