Another solar power + plant conservation project for the win:
earth.com/news/plant-species-t…
#SolarpunkSunday #plants #Ecovoltaics #solarpunk
Plant species near extinction mysteriously rebounded and is now thriving after a solar power project was installed
A plant called threecorner milkvetch, nearly extinct, has grown eightfold thanks to solar panels, surprising scientists and conservationists.Raquel Brandao (Earth.com)
If a Klein bottle could wear pants, would it be like this or like this?
#mathstodon #math #maths #shitpost
This teddy bear waved to me this afternoon, as I passed its barge while walking along the tow path. No really. The owner has a rope set up that runs from the arm of the teddy bear at the bow to the stern where he was stood steering. It was kinda lovely and heartwarming 🙂💕
Having one of those days where I've done a few reasonably energetic things, such as unload/load the dishwasher, swapped the TV onto a new cabinet, and tidied up a little bit, and now I'm completely and utterly wiped. Zero spoons.
Going to try heading out into the timid afternoon sunshine we've got here. We're going to visit one of the two ruined abbeys that are within a twenty minute drive. Take some photos and see how the rest of the afternoon goes.
Well, the sunshine ended up being not that timid.
I've lived across the river from Netley Abbey for half my life, but never visited it until today. It's really cool. Saw a buzzard too, but didn't get a photo.
Lynnesbian :bune_ylw: (@lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space)
Attached: 1 image good news for people like me: outlook has an email react feature. bad news: they only allow you to choose from six emojis. microsoft, PLEASE allow arbitrary emoji reactions.Lynnesbian :bune_ylw: (Lynnestodon)
this morning my friend texted me saying she dreamed of me and said ex, giggling and getting drunk together in a McMansion they lived in.
this is a man i have not seen or talked to in years. i did not particularly like or dislike him. weird world……
#Snail on a pavement
#photo #photography
#spring #outdoors
#city #nature
#darktable
#creativecommons #ccbysa
Incase anyone is interested in the Biochar burn I did the other day here’s how it worked for me (I was not sure what to expect- so feel like it might help others)
I used a biochar kiln, with an inner & outer sleeve. The inner sleeve has holes at the bottom and very top only.
The fuel was riddled woodchip (to stop too small particles blocking airflow)
1 You can see the gasses coming through the top airholes & burning off.
2 flames go pale/invisible
3 quenched char
The biochar will help aerate the soil, add microbiology help with water retention and make a long term store of inert carbon.
The biochar burn stores more carbon than is burnt off, making it a net carbon store despite the fire.
We get woodchip as a waste product from the local tree surgeon.
I also managed to get some willow offcuts from a local basket weaver’s class & will try those next. They will also try making biochar with the rest of their offcuts.
#Uxntal has changed a little bit this week, macros can now be called using local scope bindings, think obj.macro_name()
It's a bit hard to explain in non-uxn terms, but it's as if an object's member could point to a macro that will be inlined where it's called. It's a little convenience, but it's comfy as hell, and I can't say I've ever came across this in the wild.
lists.sr.ht/~rabbits/uxn/%3C44…
❝ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone.❞
Read that. Reread that. Internalize it. Map that back to every story you’ve heard of ICE agents going off the rails, every random kidnapping, every brutal and stupid ICE story.
❝“Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that.”❞
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f…
‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’Jenny Kleeman (The Guardian)
You know the classic story of the foolish employer who paid software developers per bug fixed? If you haven’t, you can guess the outcome: program called off when one developer “fixed“ hundreds of bugs in a single day (that they’d intentionally introduced).
This is just like that, except not like it at all: the “fake bugs” — ICE agents abducting random people to make a buck — are the •intended• effect.
Sumatran Tiger Panthera tigris sondaica
The Sumatran tiger Panthera tigris sondaica is a critically endangered big cat, with less than 600 of their species alive in the wild today. Once living in Java and Bali, they are now only found in…Palm Oil Detectives
Just ran into this this spread in my pocket notebook while transcribing. Always fun to get a surprise like this from my past self.
#penDrawing #gelInk #notebook #doodle #birds
I just posted a new blog from amazing Hanoi & beyond - northern Vietnam has so much to offer, I really had to cut down and still ended up with 100 photos haha!
Check it here: theflore.com/blog-posts/2026/0…
#photography #vietnam #travel #blog
Hanoi & the Many Faces of Northern Vietnam
Vietnam’s beautiful capital and a glimpse at its mountainous and coastal landscapes.Florian Kriechbaumer
New worst person just dropped
The billionaire philanthropist making hundreds of Londoners homeless
londoncentric.media/p/asif-azi…
The billionaire philanthropist making hundreds of Londoners homeless
He's the London philanthropist who says he's committed to solving homelessness. So why is Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital rushing to make hundreds of Londoners homeless in the coming weeks?Polly Smythe (London Centric)
Critical EU Deforestation Law Delay Exposes Policy Failure
The EU deforestation law regulation faces another delay in 2026, raising concerns over political will, supply chains, and global forest protection.Anthony Harwood (Brussels Morning Newspaper)
How far back in time can you understand English?
It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post.
"... as his post goes on, his language gets older. A hundred years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words, and his attitude gets older too, as the blogger’s voice is replaced by that of a Georgian diarist, an Elizabethan pamphleteer, a medieval chronicler."
deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-…
How far back in time can you understand English?
An experiment in language changeColin Gorrie (Dead Language Society)
You have antagonized an evil spirit and it's giving you the following choices as to how your family will be punished.
what do you chose?
A. Three of your family members will be picked at random to develop a terminal illness that will kill them in the next three years. All family members other than you will be given fully paid time off to spend with them until they pass. You will be unable to contact any member of your family until the final member you cursed dies.
B. You and one other member of your family picked at random will take the terminal illness instead but the two of you will only have each other for company until you pass.
C. You refuse to make a choice your entire family is scattered and isolated then given the same terminal illness.
- A (28%, 2 votes)
- B (57%, 4 votes)
- C (14%, 1 vote)
There's been little acknowledgement but Susan George (political scientist as Wikipedia have it, or political economist, as I would prefer) passed on 14th February. I've seen no obituaries, but here is her Wikipedia entry which included the long list of her excellent & insightful books... many of which were always on my reading lists
I'm sure the lack of obits has nothing to do with her being a women or a critique of global capitalism. /s
h/t @AnnPettifor
The Human is the Floppy Disk | ENTREPRECARIAT
Everyone is an entrepreneur. Nobody is safe.networkcultures.org
Johnson & Johnson
Global mega-brand Johnson & Johnson have issued a position statement on palm oil in 2020. ‘At Johnson & Johnson, we are committed to doing our part to address the unsustainable rate o…Palm Oil Detectives
15 co-op titles every Linux gamer should try.
itsfoss.com/co-op-games-linux/
15 Co-Op Games for Linux Steam Gamers in 2025
Squad up with your friends in these awesome co-op games!Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
What does #VisibleMending look like for #software?
Sunflowers may be the future of "vegan meat"
A collaboration between Brazilian and German researchers has led to a sunflower-based meat substitute that’s high in protein and minerals. The new ingredient, made from refined sunflower flour, delivers excellent nutritional value and a mild flavor.ScienceDaily
Annual hard rubbish week in Healesville. We just dragged out two decrepit bookshelves, close to a dozen broken plastic storage boxes, and a whole bunch of cardboard boxes--IN THE RAIN! Yes, I am wet!
Not our rubbish, but could be.
like this
Kashmir’s Lotus Stems Rise Again
The return of the essential crop is preserving an age-old way of life as farmers learn to work with water rather than force it away.Safina Nabi (Reasons to be Cheerful)
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Muse reshared this.
On our last trip to Sabah (Northern Borneo), despite extensive traveling done throughout about a month of time, I did not see one single rice paddy.
It’s all palm oil now.
More people are using window tiling to keep their screens organized and focused:
itsfoss.com/rise-of-window-til…
Why is Everyone Talking About Window Tiling in 2026?
The Linux desktop has been perfecting window tiling while everyone else forgot about it until recently.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
At the strange little ice cream shop down the street.
"Do you have birthday cake ice cream?"
"No! It's winter."
"???"
"We only have that one in the summer, you know, birthday season."
Birthday Season?
Has anyone ever heard of this?
I was reading some of these colorful yellow and blue Penguin classics from the 60s, and I realized that I had a hard time putting events in relation to each other in my head(how much time passed between the Muqaddimah and the Prince? for example, is what brought that question)
I made myself a personal historical timeline of sort.
* I know it's an extremely narrow version of history, don't @ me X)
EUROVISION 2026 is coming! And already the competitors are lining up! This song may not be to everyone's taste, but it is hilarious! It reminds me of something out of The Phantom of the Paradise!
like this
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