I kept hearing about the Olympic uniforms for Team Mongolia. Here they are! WOW!
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I kept hearing about the Olympic uniforms for Team Mongolia. Here they are! WOW!
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Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race
He struggled to recover from a disastrous debate and Democrats' doubts.Alexandra Hutzler (ABC News)
Humble #potato is a miraculous vegetable, but #Americans are eating less of them than ever before and have ditched fresh potatoes for frozen. Time to rebrand the spud?
Once this miraculous nutrient-dense vegetable was the fuel of human civilization. Now the spud is become synonymous with a garbage, industrialized food system that pours profits into a handful of companies at the expense of people’s health.
wired.com/story/potatoes-are-t…
Subsidiaries of Indonesia’s second-biggest palm oil company, PT Astra Agro Lestari (AAL), are running illegal plantations, grabbing community land, and intimidating critics, according to a new report by NGOs.
The report is a follow-up to a 2022 report by Friends of the Earth, and identifies at least 1,100 hectares(2,718 acres) of concessions that lie inside forest areas that should be off-limits to plantation activity.
by Hans Nicholas Jong
Allegations widen against Indonesian palm oil giant Astra Agro Lestari
JAKARTA — Allegations of illegal activity and land-grabbing against Indonesia’s second-largest palm oil company continue to mount as a new report reveals the firm’s violations appear to be more extensive than initially documented.hayat (Conservation news)
#WestPapua: #NeoColonialism is going on and on, it seems. Now the Permanent People’s Tribunal on West Papua, held in London on 27-29 June, once more brought the #oppression of the West Papua people, the #destruction of #biosphere|s on the table, calling on the UN to help end the crimes, committed by international #corporations with support from the #Indonesian state (or is it the other way round?):
braveneweurope.com/ben-wray-we…
#BP #Unilever #PalmOil #LandGrabbing #extractivism
Ben Wray - Western corporations and states are complicit in West Papua's "human and environmental catastrophe" - Brave New Europe
A report from the Permanent People’s Tribunal on West Papua, held in London on 27-29 June, which heard direct from West Papuans about the disastrous effects of Indonesian rule on their lives and land. Ben [...]Ben Wray (Brave New Europe)
@palmoildetectives #PalmOil #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #PalmOilKILLS #Conflictpalmoil
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@palmoildetectives #PalmOil #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #PalmOilKILLS #Conflictpalmoil
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The immune modules conserved across the tree of life: Towards a definition of ancestral immunity
A subset of prokaryotic antiviral systems are conserved in eukaryotes and have crucial roles in immune pathways.journals.plos.org
Oh @earendil and @Bob Lai, you might enjoy this article!
Bananas Don’t Taste Like They Used To. Here’s Why
a history of the Gros Michel Banana
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King of Wings Hoodoo under the Milky Way
Image Credit & Copyright: Wayne Pinkston (LightCrafter Photography)
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240721.ht… #APOD
APOD: 2024 July 21 – King of Wings Hoodoo under the Milky Way
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
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"Temu," she says? Ah, you get what you paid for!
Woman Orders Coloring Book Online, Art Gets Increasingly Weird
Woman Orders Coloring Book Online, Art Gets Increasingly Weird
"I started flipping through and saw how crazy they all were," the prospective filler-in told Newsweek.Rachael O'Connor (Newsweek)
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at the bottom of the article:
To read how Newsweek uses AI as a newsroom tool, Click here.
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Northwest Africa (NWA) 4560 Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR Pathscan Enabler.
Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2hWdGMj
NWA 4560 Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR
LL3.2 Pathscan Enabler 5 GIMP Photomatix Pro Zoomable panorama link coming soon!Flickr
So many nerdy memories!
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"Leo Cluster or Leo Group."
Carsten Frenzl, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2pyU75a
LeoTriplett
Leo Cluster or Leo Group Distance 35 Mly Equipment: TS 10" f/4 ONTC Newton 1000mm f4 ZWO ASI 1600mmc Astrodon LRGB Losmandy G11/LFE Photo Guding: Lodestar on TS Optics - ultra short 9mm Off Axis Guider PHD2 M65 M66: 70x120 Lum RGB 3x12x120s RGB t…Flickr
"M31 widefield ultra-deep."
Giuseppe Donatiello, Public Domain via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2nTzewZ Color edit.
M31 widefield ultra-deep
M31 widefield ultra-deep Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello This image is part of a mosaic of greater extension, obtained with captures performed with a 135mm telephoto lenses and DSLRs. The average exposure on the square degree amounts to about 4 hours.Flickr
Talbachat n'aït Isfoul Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR Pathscan Enabler.
Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2hnbzrx
Talbachat n'aït Isfoul Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR
LL3.7 Pathscan Enabler 5 GIMP Photomatix ProFlickr
"M45, the Pleaides cluster."
Manolo Gómez, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2pwqGH7
M45, the Pleaides cluster
Finally, a decent Pleiades picture. Details: Gain 125 Lights: 60x180s, 10x300s, 1x600s + Darks Equipment: William Optics Redcat51 ASI533MCPro SkyWatcher EQ5Pro Goto ASIAirPro Pixinsight + Topaz DeNoiseAI + Luminar Annotated version: nova.Flickr
"Reflection Canyon Under MilkyWay Arch."
Jay Huang, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/RKnaF8
Reflection Canyon Under MilkyWay Arch
Here is my version of milky way arch over the famous Reflection Canyon. I tried to process this image based on what I had seen in my own eyes during the dark night, so I reduced the canyon colors.Flickr
"Messier 8 - The lagoon nebula in SHO."
Carsten Frenzl from Deutschland, CC BY 2.0, via Flick: flic.kr/p/2pUmxBw
Messier 8 - The lagoon nebula in SHO
SHO and RGB Stars 26x180s h-alpha 20x180s SII 25x180s OIII total 3,55 hour Equipment: Epsilon 130D dual rig QHY268m + CFW3M TS2600MP (Touptek IMX571) + ZWO EFW Astronomik DeepSky RGB Astronomik MaxFR Pegasus NYX-101 August 2023 Location: french al…Flickr
Updates to the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Roster
The GNOME Foundation Board voted to remove Sonny Piers as a member of the Board of Directors for cause, at a Special Meeting on May 17th, 2024, following the procedure outlined in the GNOME Bylaws, and remove him from all committees.GNOME Discourse
The thumbnail is probably too small for any text to be readable when viewed on small screens, like on phones. And I can't see any thumbnail at all when using the official Mastodon Android app. All that is shown instead of your video thumbnail is a placeholder icon that looks like the icon for a text document similar to this: 📄.
Maybe that's just a bug in the app. Nevertheless it would be more useful if people would write something like "The Linux distro [name] attempts...".
Andamos en un momento muy delicado, necesitamos pediros vuestra ayuda y colaboración, mantener FediverseTV nos cuesta anualmente 1400 .- € aprox. por eso nos vemos obligadas a estar constantemente solicitando donaciones que indudablemente agradecemos de corazón pero que habitualmente son insuficientes. Prácticamente todos los meses andamos preocupados de si tendremos para cubrir gastos o no.
Latest comic: Lowering the temperature
#uspol #cartoon #2024election #authoritarianism #fascism #media #politics
I moved Matilda from her usual spot on the worktop, because I'm roasting a chicken in the slow cooker, and it seemed tactless. She seems to have settled down to some web browsing.
#EmotionalSupportChicken @eschicken #ESChicken #Knitting @knitting
Elusive and stunning Wallace's Flying #Frogs are able to take flight and glide through the #forest like a dancer. A major threat is #palmoil #deforestation. Help them to survive and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife in the supermarket @palmoildetect
palmoildetectives.com/2024/07/…
Wallace’s Flying Frog Rhacophorus nigropalmatus
The elusive and visually stunning Wallace’s Flying Frog are known for their mysterious nature and their ability to take flight and glide through the air like dancers. They reveal themselves o…Palm Oil Detectives
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