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Palm Oil Plantations are Killing Baby Monkeys #environment #wildlife #monkeys #deforestation #PalmOil onegreenplanet.org/animals/pal…



Weird UNIX World Of Whacky Wheel Wars #YouTube #Linux youtu.be/1wjcanxI04Y


Excited for #KDE Plasma 6.0 next month? If you're artist, you might be even more excited for 6.1 🖊

UI not final of course, but here's a sneak peek of what I've been working on in January! More details in my usual end of the month post.

(If you don't know what's changed, see the alt text 😉)

#KDE
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Two #TenureTrackJob openings at the #Leibniz Institute for #Baltic Sea #Research #Warnemünde (#IOW), North Germany 🇩🇪
🌅 🌊 🖥️ 📈 📝

Postdoc position (tenure track) in the department of physical #oceanography and instrumentation (PHY 01/2024)
io-warnemuende.de/files/news/s…

Junior Research Group Leader Optical Remote Sensing (DIR 01/2024)
io-warnemuende.de/files/news/s…



"Getting something into a Gram-negative bacterium isn’t easy. Though the sum total of its boundary layers is thinner than for a Gram-positive, the outer and inner membranes are separated by a no-man’s land known as the periplasmic space (which contains the thinner peptidoglycan wall). The arrangement makes the cell much less permeable, apart from small water channels. Antibiotics that can get into and kill Gram-negative bacteria are therefore often small molecules, around a hundredth the size of a typical protein."

lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/january/li…



"This review provides an overview of how coronaviruses control viral and host translation during different stages of infection and compares these strategies to those of other RNA viruses. We focus on how Nsp1 from β-CoV hijacks the translation machinery and describe viral RNA features that promote viral evasion and programmed ribosomal frameshifting (PRF) in infected cells. Furthermore, we discuss other unique features of viral RNA and various stress response mechanisms triggered by coronaviral infection."

embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038…



Aerial image of lava flowing towards the town of Grindavik in Iceland


This is from The Rainbow Goblins by Ul de Rico. I collected many of his books. I was so excited when he was the artistic director for the first Neverending Story movie! I had just started university, but I wasn't going to miss seeing something with his aesthetic touches in it!



french toasted marshmallow // jar of synth jam


i made french toast this morning and my friend's cat marshmallow is featured as the rotating feline.

quick little jam with the keystep. used plaits as a high hat which was nice. bass voice is castor and pollux

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During U.S. cold snaps, I often see posts on social media mocking #ClimateChange & this #comic always comes to mind.
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

These cold blasts are just what you'd get if a fire melted the door to the walk-in freezer. They're not an argument against climate change, but a dire warning.
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

I guarantee it is only a few years before every Red State will be looking for some huge hand out to combat climate change. I think Florida wanting trillions of dollars to build sea defenses will be among the first.


If you're a TTRPG fan check out this Call of Cthulhu RPG bundle humblebundle.com/books/call-ct… (partner link)
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

With the humble bundle, do you get the latest PDF as they release or just the current? I know some update their main texts at times while others just release an errata.

I have wanted to try Call of Cthulhu for some time.



On this date 10 years ago we were coming towards the end of a few days surveying and collecting sediment cores in a cross-shelf trough west of the #Antarctic Peninsula that was carved by a past ice stream. On the final day of work we were treated to glorious weather with fantastic views of Anvers and Brabant islands.
1/n
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Took the kids to Melbourne Museum today to see 'Relics', a temporary exhibition depicting a post-apocalyptic world where LEGO minifigs have risen from the debris to craft new civilisations in discarded human artefacts.

I have to say that this repurposed old Space Invaders cab certainly caught my eye.

#lego #retrogaming #videogames #arcadegames #museum #melbourne



in reply to Paul G's Photos

Ah, so that’s how it looks in the snow. I was on that exact spot a couple of months back.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

@Gargron this was taken early December (I think). The whole of the South Lakes had got really heavy snowfall. People were abandoning cars and staying overnight in pubs, church halls etc.

We went out to the Lakes not realising how bad it'd been. Couldn't get to Elterwater so had a walk around Ambleside so the day wasn't wasted



"The Panspermia Hypothesis: Could life have 'self-generated' on Earth?"

youtube.com/watch?v=Z47eMif2aO…

in reply to Solar Anamnesis

I'll look later, sounds like an interesting article. Have a good week. Later Dave


Something about this shot appeals to me. From my trip to Cumbria last autumn.

Canon AE-1 Program
Kodak Portra 400
Helios 44M 58mm/2

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

in reply to Eugen Rochko

A train station? It's interesting to see that there's a clock. There once was another on the left?
in reply to Eugen Rochko

All the equilateral triangles maybe, 60 degree angles; 6:06 on the clock...just that random weirdness


"Caldwell 68 Corona Australis Dark Molecular Cloud."

Dylan O'Donnell, deography.com, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#astrophotography

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"Death From Space - The Black Cloud."

youtube.com/watch?v=MPPCyRSlqR…



in reply to Muse

Great photo. Despite tearing up our bird feeders I still find them cute.
in reply to Muse

Do they go, "cheep cheep!" while tearing up the feeders? Maybe they were just birds preparing for this winter!



"Wolf's Cave Nebula lbn 528."

Gianni.lacroce, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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in reply to Muse

Hahaha.
Over here we say "I'll just nip out to the store for some more gruyere"
"In this blizzard?"
"Did I mention, it's for gruyere?"
in reply to Muse

At Sur la Table, Kerrygold was one of our sponsors - so we'd get monthly shipments of Kerrygold Butter and several bricks of their Dubliner white cheddar. Yum.

One time, they sent us a wheel of their beer cheese. Sooooo delicious.

(Thing is, all of it was for classes and/or hospitality plates offered to classes.)



"Life in Space, Sir Fred Hoyle, and Panspermia | Chandra Wickramasinghe Cosmic Summit 2023."

youtube.com/watch?v=s-A6leCFco…



"Reflection Nebula Bernes 149 in Dark Cloud Lupus 3."

CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA/ T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab) Image Processing: D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.


in reply to sam henri gold

That’s a depressing thought. I’m going to go hug my hifi sound system.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

@Gargron i forget who but $famous_producer_in_70s was well known for mixing the sound for… 8 tracks in car stereos since that’s how most people would be listening to it!


My wife @sabcatsilver, a psychology student, created a card game that helps therapists (and people) talk about grief, end of life care, and perspectives on life.

I am soooooo proud of her!! Currently it’s a prototype for class, but she may publish it in the future. Thanks to folks who helped on Mastodon! We got it printed on GameCrafter

#cardgames #gamedev




Shimmering and transparent Green Dragontails are forest-dwelling butterflies of SE Asia, fighting to survive due to #palmoil #deforestation, help them and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife in the supermarket palmoildetectives.com/2024/01/… via @palmoildetectives


Ubuntu Linux Source Code ISOs are Going Away #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/j2RVv2phAKk
in reply to Brodie Robertson

While there are Mirror services that cover the cdimage site, such as the School of Computing at Kent University: mirrorservice.org/sites/

It's a decent mirror for a range of projects.

I notice that even they don't appear to replicate the source directories.

As for the apparent duplication in the directory structure, yes it's confusing and I've always assumed they're symlinks rather than copies, perhaps for tracking point releases (inc. beta) while retaining the initial release.

in reply to Brodie Robertson

I’m starting to think that what I had predicted for Ubuntu is happening now.

I predicted that with all of the enterprise stuff they have been doing and pushing along with the Ubuntu Pro subscriptions is that they would do what Red Hat did and stop providing desktop releases, go enterprise only and stop openly providing source code making it proprietary without paying a load of money to use it.

This is starting to worry me if Canonical do what I predicted.



This phrase generator is good fun! I'm particularly enjoying the Shakespeare phrases!

phrasegenerator.com/shakespear…

in reply to Muse

I kinda like the originals, like when Touchtone, in As You Like It says:

A poor virgin, sir, an ill-favored thing, sir, but mine own. A poor humor of mine, sir, to take that that no man else will.


❝ SoundCloud boasts more than 320 million songs, many of them the work of weekend noodlers. These people may never realize that their work has been grabbed and renamed and is siphoning money from the royalty pool. ❞ → nytimes.com/2024/01/13/busines… (gift link)

some thoughts to follow …

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Agrenon (ἀγρηνόν) = "Net-like woollen robe worn by Bacchanals and soothsayers." This is the name of what's on top of the Omphalos (also, γάγγαμον). https://lsj.gr/wiki/ἀγρηνόν

Black Fury painter's Orestes crater. Karl Bötticher (1806–89), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Two eagles on the omphalos. ArchaiOptix, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Apollo and Omphalos. ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ar…

Archaeological museum of Delphi. ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ar…

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I'm live on twitch! Come hang out with me while I play Venba: twitch.tv/averymd #magic


Ice keeps falling from the sky, so I'm staying in today. I wish I had a shell bed to curl up in like Lycos does.

#cats #catsofmastodon #catstodon #caturday #cat #cutecats




Thinking about the coat of arms of Hensbroek, North Holland

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