szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

Hey, in case you were wondering...

There is no logical argument that will make a fascist stop being a fascist. They don't care about your reasons, your emotions, or your solutions. Pointing out their hypocrisy will not sway their minds. Pointing out their cruelty will not stop them.

The cruelty is the point.

Authoritarianism doesn't have "logic" as its root. It has "authority."

"The psychological benefits of re-introducing work horses to cities"

Some French towns began using horse-drawn carts for garbage, and to bring kids to school

It was to lower the carbon footprint, but it turned out to have another, subtler benefit:

Psychological and emotional

Horses seemed to just *chill everyone out* a bunch

My blog post on it -- click here if you're a Medium subscriber: https://medium.com/@clivethompson/e-ink-playing-cards-steam-powered-spacecraft-and-pissing-off-canadian-geese-61857a149e6f

If you're not a Medium subscriber, here's a friend link https://clivethompson.medium.com/e-ink-playing-cards-steam-powered-spacecraft-and-pissing-off-canadian-geese-61857a149e6f?sk=b9d7847c3c1e9274e1395c87584874ee

'In a now famous ‘eureka’ moment, in 1974, Franco Bottazzo, a research fellow in Deborah Doniach’s laboratory in London, was the first to successfully visualize islet cell antibodies using indirect immunofluorescence, thereby confirming the presence of antibodies reactive to the islet. During experiments originally designed to support his thesis work on Addison’s disease, he observed that pancreatic islets “lit up” after incubation with sera from some patients with polyendocrine autoimmunity, most of whom had or would go on to develop #diabetes.'

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8802620/

It’s always pleasant to see that your choice for Canon equipment is appreciated... Here’s a #blackwingedkite carefully checking out my gear.
#birds #photography #birdsofthefediverse #nature #birdphotography

Do you recognize the feeling of relief and happiness... When you finally find something you’ve been searching for for so long? Well then you know how I felt when I, after a 2 year search, finally found this #BlackWoodpecker Yeeeej #DryocopusMartius
#Birds #birdsofthefediverse #birdphotography #nature #photography

#silentsunday

No playing D&D with the bears.

This handknit sock is 13 years old and many mended parts are mended again but still doing its sockyesque job in being a sock. #mending #VisibleMending #knitting

How the Northern Lights are created:

#RedSquirrel #warsaw

Students respond better to feedback when it's depersonalized.

Personal: Your wording here is unclear
Impersonal: The wording here is unclear.

Personal: Your organization is confusing.
Impersonal: The organization is confusing.

Personal: You made the opposite claim in the previous paragraph.
Impersonal: The previous paragraph made the opposite claim.

I've found that this makes a massive difference, giving students the detachment they need to focus on their writing.

#AcademicMastodon

Hello #writingcommunity

I'm excited, humbled, and super shy to share my latest published piece.
It's a nonfiction story of a Ukrainian refugee I became close with – Natalia, intertwined with plants & stories of migration that are close to my heart.
This is the most vulnerable I've ever been in writing and it feels strange to open up so much, but it's probably my favorite text to date.
It'd mean a lot to me if you gave it a read💙
https://www.triangle.house/migrating-gardens
#nonfiction
#creativenonfiction
#writing

Ein wenig Farbe, hier ist heute alles grau.

Rosa Rettichhelmling

#fotomontag #kazispilze #natur #pilze #herbst #kazisfotos

In order to accommodate nearly a million people escaping violence in Myammar back in 2017, Bangladesh cut down a big area of forest, but now the young people who live in the camp are now planting trees and encouraging their parents to look after the local environment. They have already reforested 600 hectares!

#trees #reforestation #refugees #climate #green #goodnews

https://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/2022/11/63720e304/young-rohingya-refugees-helping-turn-worlds-largest-camp-green.html

On the whole #selfhosting thing

This article is required reading.

As a result of my post about an hour ago, I'm now getting a lot of follows and links, so I'm about to learn something about how Mastodon scales!

https://ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fediverse-about-to-get-fryed-or-why-every-toot-is-also-a-potential-denial-of-service-attack/