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A young snapping turtle I met last spring. Look at that adorable beak!

#TurtleTuesday #turtle #reptiles #wildlife #nature

This ancient goat willow is half-tree, half-octopus!

It may have been broken by a Cumbrian storm, but is still very much alive - and supporting lots of other life too. One of my favourite trees 💚

#ThickTrunkTuesday #nature #woodland #environment #Mosstodon #Cumbria #LakeDistrict

Can you run windows ON a floppy? This is mostly for the lulz. I designed a snap fit case for adafruit’s pyportal dev board in the shape of a floppy disk 💾 #3dprinting #adafruit #circuitpython

I wrote a short text for a very large, UN-affiliated org.

In the cession of rights contract, they wanted me to "indemnify them and hold them harmless against all loss" that could have arisen from my contribution.

I told them to keep dreaming.

After 2-and-a-half month and several "our lawyers say it's necessary" emails, they dropped the clause.

Takeaway: Always set the terms when giving away content for free, the counterpart has no choice but to accept.

Hundreds of tons of #vinyl #chloride were released in this #Ohio #train #derailment. #Burning it produces more toxins. In addition the train was carrying #butyl #acrylate, #benzene, #ethylhexyl #acrylate, and #ethylene #glycol #monobutyl #ether.

This is an #environmental and #health #catastrophe of major proportions, and it can’t just get swept under the rug.

https://www.iflscience.com/what-is-vinyl-chloride-the-chemical-that-caused-ohio-s-immense-explosion-67510

This is how you review an antisemitic, transphobic, piece of shit video game: you roast it in the review and turn the buy link into a donation to Trans Lifeline.
https://www.wired.com/review/hogwarts-legacy-review/

although I appreciate that Google Docs has settings for British English and American English, I am once again begging for a Canadian English mode that lets me use 'labour', 'centre', 'organize' and 'analyze' in the same document without thinking I'm having some sort of transatlantic identity crisis

Anyone out there have experience eliminating a Glugea infection from a lab fish colony???

Oh no

Mind blown yesterday by George Sugihara, who explained that variables can causally influence one another but also be uncorrelated. It happens with a Lorenz attractor, where variables flip between correlated and anticorrelated (so no net correlation). Video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i57udsPKms

These types of mirage correlations that come and go also happens in the wild - such as in the factors that combine to form the red tide and in gene expression networks.

My favorite thing is engineers obsessing over shaving off 5kb from their bundle size when someone is just going to come along in a couple months and slap 200kb on top to load some third party analytics anyway

I got an email advertising a book fair and I got all excited until I remembered people won’t be wearing masks there. Womp womp. I miss going to events in meatspace. I’m glad there are still online ones, though these seem to be decreasing in number. Please don’t exclude people with disabilities. #MaskUp #ChronicIllness #WritingCommunity #accessibility #BookFair

Love is hunting gophers together.

Happy Valentines Day!

#coyotes #wildlife #wildlifephotography #urbanwildlife #sanfrancisco #photography #valentinesday

Best buddies #dogsOfMastodon

Na spotkaniu Rolnictwa Wspieranego przez Społeczność była też Marta z osady o nazwie Osadzenie - eko WIeska. 🌻 🌷 🌼 Jej mieszkańcy opuścili miasto i osiedlili się w małej wsi na Podlasiu. Teraz zajmują się permakulturą, chowają kury, budują osadę i dążą do samowystarczalności. WIęcej: https://osadzenie.pl

#SpotkanieRWS #Osadzenie #ekoWieska #permakultura #Podlasie #WieskaWieś #zMiastaNaWieś #osada

There is big conservation news coming out of Scotland today.

The government has adopted new planning rules, known as National Planning Framework 4, which will ensure that *NO* development will be supported if it impacts ancient woodland & ancient & veteran trees across the country.

The new rules have come into force with immediate effect.

These habitats are irreplaceable, so it's a landmark step in the fight against climate & nature emergencies.

#woodland #trees #photomonday #forest #art

Regular reminder: "bioplastics" are NOT better for the environment, and "biodegradable" plastics don't biodegrade unless they're in an industrial composter. The focus needs to be on reducing unnecessary plastic use, and closing the loop on everything else. Making plastic out of corn/bamboo instead really doesn't help. #Ocean #Pollution #Bioplastics See here for more:
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/dont-overestimate-bioplastics-benefits/?omhide=true&utm_source=Hakai+Magazine+Weekly&utm_campaign=18b87df7a5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_09_06_COPY_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0fc1967411-18b87df7a5-121628661