Invention idea for an anti-paparazzi jacket that is covered in QR codes so that, whenever anybody tries to photograph you, it keeps trying to pull up the Applebee's menu.
#primeribdipper #littlepinkoralottapink #eatingoodintheneighborhood #tmz
Kenya is among a number of African states reportedly looking to introduce sweeping anti-homosexuality laws, with politician Mohamed Ali saying he wanted to “kick LGBT people out of Kenya completely”.
#Kenya seeking to pass law to 'kick #LGBT people out of the country' https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/23/kenya-tanzania-south-sudan-anti-homosexuality-laws-uganda/
I've been a PayPal user for 20 years. It used to be that cash transfers from you bank account into PayPal were instant. This made sense because ACH transfers are instant. But nowadays, the ACH transfer takes place immediately but PayPal holds onto the cash for two weeks before releasing it into your account.
Doing this with checks is a crime called check kiting. This allows the recipient to make use of the time-value of money for free, without paying interest. But it's legal in this setting simply because there's no law against it.
Hello #Mastodon! This is my very first post. I'm still a little confused on how this all works, but as Reddit continues to destroy itself I'm finding a new home 🏡
I love it. Russia's prospects just got worse thanks to a Pentagon accounting error that results in a $6 billion defense boost for Ukraine.
#SCOTUS Justice Samuel Alito took a luxury fishing vacation to #Alaska with a hedge fund billionaire who later had at least 10 cases before the court. https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court
I though I’d learn #Morse code and #AVR programming at the same time. I started with an ATmega48P gating a 555 generating a tone. But that’s boring. So, I extended my code to generate #MIDI messages toggling D#6 on and off. #hamradio #electronics (This was originally posted July 24, 2022 on my now-defunct twitter account.)
The USSR sprinkled more than 2,500 RTGs (small highly-radioactive generators) across the Arctic and in remote mountain locations. They are unsupervised and unmaintained, stolen and scrapped by metal dealers who sometimes die of radiation poisoning.
The bird population in the U.S. is down about 3 billion breeding birds since 1970. Around a billion birds are killed in the U.S. each year by flying into windows. Around 2.5 billion birds are killed by feral cats. Learn what you can do to help birds.
https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/seven-simple-actions-to-help-birds/
#birds #birding #ornithology #environment #OrganicFoods #pesticides
@1finekitty Picture this - direct auto sales are illegal in Florida, but direct gun sales are absolutely okay...🙄
Fossil fuels companies hold us hostage, worldwide.
https://shuttersparks.net/fossil-fuel-companies-hold-us-hostage/
#oil #petroleum #energy #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #FossilFuel #CO2 #politics #economics
Republican billionaire donors are funding legalized public corruption of the Supreme Court.
The SEO arms race has left #Google and the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other - https://www.theverge.com/23753963/google-seo-shopify-small-business-ai
A Montana man who fired an AK-style rifle at the home of a lesbian woman and said he wanted to “get rid of” gay people in his small town has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-wanted-kill-gay-people-opened-fire-montana-town-sentenced-18-years-rcna89408
This is the exposé I wrote for The Guardian that killed off “Reverend” Pat Robertson’s billion-dollar financial scams parading under the banner of The Christian Coalition.
Note: The juiciest parts I got from Robertson himself, recorded on a miniature tape recorder hidden inside a fake cigarette lighter. No one asked why I had a lighter — but no cigarettes. The story won The Guardian a nomination for Britain’s Business Story of the Year.
▶️ https://www.gregpalast.com/rev-pat-robertson-diamonds-for-the-anti-christ/
#EngineeringProfessorQuiz @BlkInEngineerng @BlackInRobotics @NoireSTEMinist #MySTEMIsForTheStreets
My robot wheel spins at 6.28 rad/s that means it makes one full revolution every #BlackSTEM #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFediverse #NoireSTEMinist
So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software since 1968, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, scary fast Python jockey, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
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#eBird
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"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
"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