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The first day of summer (of the meteorological kind).


Next week I return to the Kielderhead Wildwood, where I worked as an artist five years ago.

The wildwood is a large area at the Scottish-English border where 39,000 native trees were planted by the local community from 2017-2022, to make a future landscape where there once was once commercial forestry. I made work about the interconnections between humans, trees, fungi and technologies.

Trees that were up to my waist back in 2020 have grown taller than me. shanefinan.org/VAP/10_woodwide… #art #forest

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in reply to Fionnáin

It makes me think of a Diana Beresford Kroeger interview where she was asked whether we can do things that are quicker than tree planting to help the environment. She answered passionately and rapidly (I paraphrase): trees grow quickly. Just don't talk about it — put them in the ground and they'll grow.
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Humble Bundle have launched their 2025 Pride Month games bundle gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/humb…

#Gaming #GameBundle #Pride



Here's the most played Steam Deck games for May 2025 gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/here…

#SteamDeck #SteamOS #Gaming #Steam #PCGaming



I just discovered the superb powrss.com by @enocc - a site that aims to "make it easier to discover independent sites."

And thanks to it, I found this inspiring blog post by @sylvia: "Do Nothing" sylvia.studio/do-nothing/

Aw the magic of the internet (as it was originally intended) ✨

Wishing everyone a lovely Sunday! And fascinating, serendipitous discoveries on powrss.com 😊



I bet!

Grace is delighted to see the vet


"Grace the barking owl clearly isn’t a fan of visiting the doctor! 🦉 she was found sitting in a driveway, and was brought to us at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital. The vets discovered she had a fractured wing, and she went straight into surgery. She may look grumpy, but we’re sure she’s grateful… deep down! 💚"



Library?
Library!
idahobusinessreview.com/2017/0…

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

the spider is hogging the light because insects are attracted to it at night. This is a result of light pollution. Ad screens for example regularly have spiders building nets on them.



The puns are a bit extreme here:

Bee-ware: truck carrying 250m honeybees overturns by US-Canada border

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…




What in the cinnamon toast fuck?!

From a friend on Facebook:

Civics is now considered a sensitive subject

Civics


in reply to Jen Sorensen

Did you write this before Ernst said "you can all die for all I care get used to it" ?


"The good Earth — we could have saved it, but we were too damn cheap and lazy."

- Kurt Vonnegut, Man Without a Country, 2005

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

I think a lot about KV these days…
His work hits different..now!

We dismissed the messengers…
The arrogance of our ignorance & greed…
Closed our minds to consequences.




I'm up next for @fpg's Future Proof Plays stream! Today at 15:00 Eastern (in about 4 hours), I'll be playing Muse Game's #Wildmender. It looks like a cute desert farming game with some survival stuff, and I'm very interested to see what the balance on that is (i.e., how stressful it is 😅).

twitch.tv/averymd

#IndieGame

in reply to Melissa Avery-Weir

We're live with #Wildmender! Come and garden with us.

twitch.tv/averymd

Melissa Avery-Weir reshared this.



Goodbye, American science. It was nice knowing you.

freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngul…



Walt Whitman was born OTD in 1819. Song of Myself is a singularly Darwinian poem. The re-placing of natural theological tropes in a thoroughly naturalistic setting is characteristic of both. 🧪🦫🦋🐋🌱#HistSTM #BookSky


🌳🌱 Did you know woody plants can reshape soil health in #drylands? A study by Martha Mary Farella, David D. Breshears and Rachel Gallery shows that woody plant cover alone can predict nearly 50% of #soil function changes, including nutrient levels and microbial activity. Learn more from their dataset and article at doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.1227… and doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005838. Image: Stockcake
#OpenData #OpenScience #Drylands #Soilhealth #UniversityofArizona


"The Executive Order does not provide any standards for non-scientific information. As a consequence, this Executive Order is positioning policymaking to ignore scientific evidence by holding it to unachievable standards, and to use ideology and non-scientific information by holding it to no standards at all."
cos.io/about/news/cos-statemen…
via @CenterforOpenScience
#OpenScience @academicchatter


I just saw that #Metascience 2025 has John Ioannides as a featured speaker and I have to say I‘m surprised by that choice

metascience.info



World Order is at it again! This is pretty cool.

youtu.be/4FK6Tz2Rd2M?si=52nwCt…

@Christoph S



This mime artist is sooooo good!!!

youtu.be/cPnelq0GEZQ?si=H8VWfj…

in reply to Muse

Interestingly similar!
youtu.be/42Mm9SpMPTk?si=O5_cIX…



anti-trans stuff, restrooms

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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber

anti-trans stuff, restrooms

The last three paragraphs of this article are very important.

As I write this, I am in a hotel bed, in the middle of the country, on day two of a 1200 mile move from a "do not travel" state to a "blue state" (on Erin's map).

Existing (openly) as anything other than cis-gender in so much of America is too big of a threat to personal safety.

I just hope that the safety that "blue" states provide doesn't collapse on us.



Xiaoma in this video tries to communicate with Bonobo apes using their language. I was surprised that the researcher was interested he wasn't just wanting an ape to speak in a human or human contrived language. I would always start with speaking in their language. How better to bridge the communication gap?

youtu.be/drEfteACl-E?si=mbeiBO…



This vlogger does interesting videos about languages. Human languages. He's a lot of fun! And recently he decided he was going to try learning the language of dolphins and speak with them. This is the sweetest video!

youtu.be/TO_bsCgNeTM?si=Eu0LsI…

in reply to Muse

Geez, he gets started with the topic then quickly shifts to a nice long ad.



The top dogs of the week from We Rate Dogs are always fun! This week we have a particularly awesome painting of a dog that many of you may appreciate. @Janet Logan 🏳️‍⚧️

youtube.com/shorts/m3oHec0becU…



"16 Gram Moldavite - Besednice, Czech Republic - Studio Mineralia: The Earth Art Gallery"

youtube.com/watch?v=KsqSFZQkl-…

#moldavite #meteorite


in reply to Joseph Teller

That's a standard autocrat tactic, that way they know they're utterly dependent on staying on his good side because his whims are the only thing keeping them in the position.
in reply to Joseph Teller

Plus it keeps people talking about him and ignoring the orphan crushing machine being constructed.



URGENT fediblock, immediate full suspension, MAPS/CSAM

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What happens if you only use European and open-source software for one month? 🤔

TechAltar's recent video tests an alternative setup for laptop, mobile and cloud workspace to see how a month without US tech giants feels like.

@Techaltar

youtube.com/watch?v=7w8jmw96ry…

in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

must have been posted in a month after their experiment, with it being posted on youtube.


Join us on June 5 in Munich to explore powerful open source collaboration. Nextcloud Summit 2025 is just around the corner, and we’re ready! @nextcloud

🎥 Watch as Birthe Lindenthal, our Co-founder & CMO, shares key updates on the OpenProject + Nextcloud collaboration and how it empowers teams to work more efficiently together.

youtu.be/H90JsPKFtwM?si=MzMOqo…

Don’t miss this chance to dive into the future of open source project management and digital sovereignty!

#OpenSource


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in reply to It's FOSS

"APB: Reloaded" online video game & I miss playing it.
"EditPlus" text editor that I find useful.
As time has gone by I care less and less for apps made for windows as many of them suck.
Linux has most of what I need.
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Republicans Rewrite Infrastructure Broadband Grant Program To Give Elon Musk Billions & Delay Deployments For Years


More Grift Money To Musk Destroys the National Broadband Future

#TechDirt #Corruption #Grift #Musk #InfrastructureBroadbandGrants #SoDoomed #MuskStealsBillions



En el marco de #CIT2025, te invitamos al webinario “Derechos fundamentales para el trabajo en plataformas”.

🗓️ Martes 3 de junio
🕚 11:00 h EST
🖥️ Evento virtual con interpretación simultánea en español e inglés
📍 Inscríbete: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

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