szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

I rarely do April Fool's pranks but my best was when Canada was going metric.

We got a memo from head office explaining the process for changing.

I inserted an extra page about new clocks and calendars for metric time.

Some people got really mad at the government.

I'm somehow still verified on Twitter. I just want to assure everyone this is somehow a technical glitch, not something I paid for.

1 April 1942 | 10,629 men were counted in the morning at #Auschwitz.

On that day:
91 prisoners died (incl. Tadeusz Mruk, no. 228)
48 prisoners were released (incl. Roman Trojanowski - no. 44 & Kazimierz Dutka - no. 246).

[prisoners of the 1st transports of Poles to Auschwitz]

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The podcast about the process which led to the creation of Auschwitz & about its first prisoners.
https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-1-The-beginnings-of-Auschwitz-e1161cf/a-a5k4gp7

Online lesson about the first few weeks of the camp operation: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_17_deportacje/

Resting above the chaos (my doggo) below. #squirrel #nature #naturephoto #yeg #StAlbert #tree #photography

A List of Things People Blamed on Bicycles

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A striking visualisation of #climatechange: the date of Kyoto cherry blossoms' reaching full bloom, plotted over the past 1000 years.

Thanks to the cultural significance of cherry blossoms in Japan, we have data on the specific day of the year when a very particular species of cherry blossom (P. jamasakura) reached "full-flowering" (満開) in a specific area on the outskirts of Kyoto (Arashiyama), all the way back to 800 AD.

The trend of the past 50 years is hard to miss…

Hey! Looking for jobs seriously again; if you have any connections or know of any positions, please let me know. Trying to save up to move out of texas.

I've got a lot of experience with web development, back end and front end, database management, general programming stuff and good old fashioned data entry/tech support. Looking for any position from developer to mindless data entry at this point.

Any advice on how to search would also be appreciated, haven't done this in a while

Powerful evidence for the need for a new brain hub driving innovation for impact 👇👇! a k a @IFP.
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RT @calebwatney
I love my UK friends, but imagine living in a country that still has separate hot and cold water taps at the sink to wash your hand.

This is the actual advice to cope with a lack of simple temperature controls!
https://twitter.com/calebwatney/status/1639999262372110340

The editors asked me to rewrite the chapter, making it clear that #solarpunk promises that we can avoid the trauma, or at least diminish it.

The problem is: I said no such thing.

I wrote that we need to acknowledge that we will be hurt, we need to stop escaping from this thought, stop romanticizing it - and only then we will be able to see some authentic, practical #hope which can give us strength to carry on.

Today my #solarpunk essay was to be published in a Polish literary magazine, but I decided not to authorize the changes from the editors.

One of the most important parts of my 10-page essay was a chapter on the importance of acknowledging the upcoming #climateTrauma in culture. They decided it sounds "too much like a manifesto" - and cut it out completely.

I think it's a very important sign: talking about climate trauma is just too alien for us.

#writing #trauma #climatechange

(Yes, yes, I know this is not how any of this works)

Awfully brave of whoever backdoored 3CX to do it via FFMPEG, an LGPLed codebase, giving them the choice of either providing the source code to their implant on request or also be subject to potential copyright lawsuits

My daughter’s 11 grade lit class is reading Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale right now. We were discussing how it is a dystopian book that has parallels to current events. She said her classmates were comparing the things happening today compared to the book as well. Thank goodness WA state education authorities are still allowing them to read and openly discuss this important topic. #Bookbans #Books

Current pocket rock - wee piece of carboniferous limestone full of crinoids and bryozoans 🖤 #ScottishFossils

The spam I get is now mostly back to being for viagra, no longer crypto.
Nature is healing.

I love how Barnes & Noble specifically promoted some of these "banned" books. Every library and bookstore should do this.

#fascism #books #ChildrensBooks #BookBanning #FightFascism

Sorry all, I'm calling in sick today.

After reading a vendor whitepaper where they refer to cloud storage as a "virtual air gap" I haven't been able to stop throwing up in my mouth...

My niece has taken the greatest horse photo of all time. Fight me.

#LoboWeek begins today! 🐺

This week marks the 25th anniversary of the Mexican gray wolf's return to the wild!

Missing from the landscape for more than 30 years, the howl of the rarest & most unique subspecies of gray wolf was once again greeted by the mountains of the southwest.

Celebrate this exciting milestone for Lobos & wildlife conservation by joining the LoboWeek movement (Mar 26 - Apr 1)

For more info & photos
→ https://nywolf.org/loboweek-2023/

#Wolf #WolvesOfMastodon #MexicanGrayWolf #Lobo