🐧‘To make the #WeddellSea a protected marine area, we need to demonstrate that what the area has to offer is of great value to humans.’
On 15 December, Oceanographer Jacqueline Stefels and marine biologist Maria van Leeuwe (UG) boarded the icebreaker #Polarstern of @awi for an expedition to Antarctica.❄️
Jacqueline Stefels en Maria van Leeuwe, onderzoekers van de RUG, vertrokken op 15 december expeditie naar Antarctica aan boord van de ijsbreker Polarstern....
“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.” ― John Lennon Plan To Be Nonviolent Resistor Vic youtu.be/aRI7MSXrmOU
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The Minnesota walkout scheduled for tomorrow is growing. All major Minneapolis art museums will be closed. https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426
If you use uxn32 and open left.rom then file open potato.rom you get the resolution of left for potato!! High res potato! I am hacking uxn apparently. #uxn #uxn32
Soon after the emergence of COVID-19, the International Committee of the Fourth International made the correct analysis that the pandemic had to be understood as a trigger event in world history. It did not create a crisis in public health, but rather exposed and accelerated longstanding processes: the erosion of life expectancy, the dismantling of scientific institutions, and the subordination of human life to the profit requirements and military-strategic interests of the financial oligarchy.
The world has now entered the seventh year of the COVID pandemic, with the United States facing the 12th major wave of infections. Conservative estimates place cumulative COVID deaths in the United States at over 1.2 million, while excess-mortality analyses indicate a substantially higher toll. Globally, excess-mortality modeling places the true pandemic death toll in the tens of millions, with c
Soon after the emergence of COVID-19, the International Committee of the Fourth International made the correct analysis that the pandemic had to be understood as a trigger event in world history. It did not create a crisis in public health, but rather exposed and accelerated longstanding processes: the erosion of life expectancy, the dismantling of scientific institutions, and the subordination of human life to the profit requirements and military-strategic interests of the financial oligarchy.
The world has now entered the seventh year of the COVID pandemic, with the United States facing the 12th major wave of infections. Conservative estimates place cumulative COVID deaths in the United States at over 1.2 million, while excess-mortality analyses indicate a substantially higher toll. Globally, excess-mortality modeling places the true pandemic death toll in the tens of millions, with central estimates near 27 million worldwide, far exceeding official counts. Transmission continues at high rates—presently at roughly 1 million infections per day, with more than 240 million infections recorded in 2025 alone. Reinfections are widespread, and Long COVID remains a mass disabling condition affecting millions.
What has ended is not the pandemic, but any acknowledgement by the political and media establishment that COVID-19 remains a major threat. There is zero political commitment to even the meager combination of mitigation, surveillance and data-gathering. This was not and is not an oversight. It is a decision to conceal the ongoing harm that is affecting the entire global population.
The systematic dismantling of public health services in the United States, including childhood vaccinations that have saved millions of lives, is a historic crime committed by the US ruling elite.
Almost all the masks I see are properly worn by people who either: Don't want to give you whatever disease they have. Who absolutely can't have whatever disease you might be carrying.
Oh gee. No wonder the fascists want to murder all us Minnesotans. ;P
I have worn a kn95 style mask since the beginning and so far, never knowingly caught covid. I also have yearly fit testing for hazmat respirators, so I know how to wear a mask like my life depends on it. After being in immediately lethal environments a few times, you become very aware masks save lives in total comfort.
Same @diana 🏳️⚧️🦋. I used to do fit testing so I'm well awareb of masking.
I think the whole respiratory protection thing was fumbled along with physical distancing. Instead of videos on wiping groceries there should have been shorts on masks and how to demonstrate effectiveness to yourself. And KN95 should have been the norm rather than the surgical style. No one wants something randomly touching your lips.
Distributing whistles and protest materials, as well as taking to the streets: how indie bookstores in the Twin Cities are standing up to ICE. lithub.com/in-the-twin-cities-…
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Just some little woodsy things from the north coast. One of the reasons I like that area so much is just how much growth there is everywhere – fungus popping out of everything, trees growing improbably, little happy bugs and such (and, conversely, how hard it was to keep my walls mold-free when I lived there). A nice change from the Central Valley sometimes. #california #nature
This bizarre, hurried cut-and-paste Bluesky clone called "W" (wsocial.eu) says it will fill this huge gap in Europe where no social media platforms exist.
A curated selection of well-moderated Open Social providers that are are open for registration and serving specific countries, regions or cities.
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Easily track event attendance with Nextcloud Attendance: real-time check-ins, reminders, and a dashboard widget. Find out more about the app here! 👉apps.nextcloud.com/apps/attend…
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When does @nextcloud finally improves this toolbar on iOS?! These small icons are horrifying and sometimes even not touchable as they often stuck in the rounded corners of the device. #Nextcloud
It is built with the Oscean static site engine written in Uxn by @neauoire, who along with @prahou and their respective websites, have inspired me to develop my own.
I have set a goal to write a long form essay once a month with my first being “The Stars in Your Eyes Are Stolen: Æon Flux and Decentralized Power Systems” found here: https://ominous.net/Æon_Flux.html
I hope folks enjoy my little corner of the internet. I intend to expand it often.
I have to write a separate block of code for the parser for each rss feed because they all look different. If you think you can automatize it, more power to you.
@aleph I really love that you included links to the other galleries.
I was considering adding this as a feature to my gallery tool, but then I thought it might be even cooler to have a public list hosted somewhere in a repo where people could add their gallery links via pull requests. I would add an option to the generator that pulls the list and adds it to the gallery every time a picture is added. This way, the list would automatically stay updated. Any thoughts?
Basically I need to pull out two things, a direct link to image/thumbnail, and date.
in the ideal world, the filenames would be in unix-epoch so I could only look for a single line per post. But I know this isn't ideal - I don't like it either, some people use semantic file names, or tags, which makes more sense for accessibility.
But! As long as the feed has <link>direct://url.to.image and <pubDate>(that's rss valid) That's fine.
Also if pubDate was in UTC-0, I wouldn't have to do magemathical formulas :')
@tml This is not my own writing, and I doubt this is what C. H. Ting is suggesting either(that was written prior to openfirmware), but keep pulling on that thread and it may lead to why this language was chosen as a front-end for users to interface with.
No, no, this book is like a .. early "Learning X for idiots", the author says you don't need to rely on a language's high priests to learn how to do any one thing, the language will enable the average cretin to get where they want to go.
@lritter Relative to 1984 it might be accurate, however. Like BASIC is not really that easy. It's easy to learn but that's not the same as it being easy to do things in.
@mcc the key is datalog. i saw an inkscape in there, a game engine, a database system, the important bit is flattened composition, and a visualizable approach. hard to explain. i go entirely by intuition.
I have both, but I meant to share this segment when the guest says none of the standard programming languages are appropriate for the end user, not even BASIC.
forth shares a weird attribute I also see in scheme: It allows for neat high level DSLs and very abstract code and it's clear that's the intention of the language, but the fundamentals are in some ways even lower level than C
it has "spatiality" which fires a part of my brain that only some 2D cellular automata do, which I find quite interesting from a UX perspective since it's usually not something that we content with in most programming languages.
⏰ If you’re heading to #FOSDEM2026 and feel like ending the day with good conversations and Belgian beer 🍻, we’re getting close to closing registrations.
Together with @nextcloud @openproject and @passbolt we’re hosting an informal evening in Brussels. No talks, no pitches — just people from the open-source ecosystem catching up after a long conference day.
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While compatibility isn't perfect, it's sufficient for getting a feel of the program (if that's your desire) and even potentially for using it to do real work.
In 2020, global retail giant Unilever unveiled a deforestation-free supply chain promise. By 2023 they would be deforestation free. This has been and gone and they are still causing deforestation. …
Starship is the minimal, blazing fast, and extremely customizable prompt for any shell! Shows the information you need, while staying sleek and minimal.
A hands-on review of the Elecrow CrowPanel Rotary Display, exploring its hardware quality, DIY setup, and real-world use with Home Assistant and smart devices.
@dianawastaken @rspfau "I’ve decided to push back on the pressure to publish by making a rule for myself: I will no longer publish more than seven papers per year." LOL
It's a bit strange to talk about, because so many scientists work their butt off to publish maybe few papers a year. But hyper-publication in a relatively small number of labs skews standards and expectations for everyone else. And, depending on the scale, it compromises the integrity of the whole peer review process, without necessarily producing any meaningful products.
@dodecadron @rspfau I genuinely gagged when I read that. Silly me, thinking I could pursue research without publishing over 20 articles per year on the regular
I put together a playlist of some of my favourite songs. Feel free to shuffle, they're in no particular order. Let me know if you discover something you like through it 👍
![A cluster of mushrooms grows on a log. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1401960 "A cluster of mushrooms grows on a log. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]")
![The gills of a little mushroom lit by the sun. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1401962 "The gills of a little mushroom lit by the sun. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]")
![The sun shines through trees and a ferny forest. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1401964 "The sun shines through trees and a ferny forest. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]")
![Moss covers a fallen branch. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1401966 "Moss covers a fallen branch. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]")
![Ferns lit by the sun amidst greenery. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1401968 "Ferns lit by the sun amidst greenery. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]")
![Brown grasses stand in front of the sea. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1401970 "Brown grasses stand in front of the sea. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]")
![Little fungi grow under a green leaf. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1401972 "Little fungi grow under a green leaf. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]")
Did you consider to change your music provider to an European solution?
Triddle
in reply to It's FOSS • • •don't really care. I prefer to log in to a shell, then run startx if I want KDE.
For those wanting boot to GUI there are alternatives such as SDDM.
FreeBSD 15 installed KDE without startx, had to install xinit to fix that. Happy now 😁
Nick Bergen Computer Quest
in reply to It's FOSS • • •Fortunately, many #FreeBSD users have the skills to know how to switch login managers.
And if they don’t, someone in the community can help them.
Paul Wilde
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