Neil Brown
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Chip Butty
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"Three hundred years ago on the planet Earth, workers who felt their livelihood threatened by AI, flung their plastic shoes, called 'crocs' into the computers to stop them. ...Hence the word 'crocotage'."
Every Friday Stretch - Episode 1 - Back with a twist
The Cat Motherships Arrive
@catsalad reminds me: https://youtu.be/5hjoDOnzr5s
Nepal's flood is a warning of the tragedies to come — climate change will ensure that there are more disasters like this and with increasing frequency. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2026/08/29/jt-editorial-nepal-flood/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #editorials
@thejapantimes
Hello travelers:
For the next 30 years, exercise caution when visiting places that are downstream from glaciers. In that time, most glaciers will vanish. But until they're gone they will be increasingly dangerous.
Dear tech oligarchs:
Use some of your trillions to assist people who live downhill from glaciers to relocate to safer homes.
You'll be appreciated much more for doing this than for bullshitting about colonizing Mars, degrading the atmosphere, and stroking your own ego at the expense of everyone else.
Jan Ulrich Hasecke
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Die GEW Sachsen-Anhalt hat eine „Überlebensfibel“ als Rechtsleitfaden für Lehrkräfte erstellt. Fragen, Antworten und Strategien rund um das Thema „Schule zeigt Haltung“.
https://www.gew-sachsenanhalt.net/aktuelles/detailseite/ueberlebensfibel
#FediLZ #GEW #Demokratie #Neutralitätsgebot #noAfD #AfD #SachsenAnhalt #Bildung
Out of my window, I can see the full moon.
It is, along with the sound of crickets, that I feel a deep sense of peace.
@stefano@bsd.cafe Nice. Cycling home from the restaurant yesterday evening I saw that same moon. In the Netherlands. Reminds me that we all share the same planet.
Forced birth control in Greenland violated women's rights but didn't constitute genocide, experts find https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/forced-birth-control-greenland-violated-womens-rights-didnt-constitute-genocide-2026-08-28/
Florian 'floe' Echtler
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💧 Munich proved that protecting water at the source can be far cheaper than cleaning it later.
Instead of building an expensive filtration plant, the city supported 185 farmers in its water catchment to convert to organic farming. 🌱
The result? Cleaner water, lower nitrate and pesticide pollution, healthier soils—and major savings.
Clean water starts in the field. Protecting nature is often the smartest investment. 🌍💧🌾
#WaterProtection #OrganicFarming #SoilHealth #NatureBasedSolutions
There's something strange in the Seto Inland Sea, off the coast of Takamatsu.
Do you have any idea what it could be?
https://davidbilla.net/theres-something-strange-in-the-seto-inland-sea/
Judge deals blow to Trump moves to deport pro-Palestinian activists https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/judge-deals-blow-trump-moves-deport-pro-palestinian-activists-2026-08-29/
what would an elephant do
snoot
Adrian
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@RecoveredExpert/117172494010089408
In den Staaten haben praktisch alle Medien darüber berichtet, dass dieses Drag-Verbot in Texas mit Verweis auf Dolly Parton gestoppt wurde. Von der Washington Post und New York Times über NBC, People's Magazine, Los Angeles Times, USA Today bis hin zu f*cking Fox News.
Bei uns nur 2 Websites aus der Queeren Community. Was sagt uns das?
Nein, das ist nicht nur für die USA relevant. In UK berichten u.a. der Guardian, Independent sowie Daily Mail. In Israel u.a. die Jerusalem Post.
Cumulonimbus
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«Карова белая» (да, именно через «а») — новый альбом Светы Бень и настоящее произведение искусства. Для тех, кто в последние годы «не вышел сухим из воды, а вышел мокрым до нитки»
14 августа белорусская поэтесса Света Бень (лидер группы «Серебряная свадьба») и музыкант Евгений Кучмейно, выступающий под псевдонимом tochka K, выпустили альбом «Карова белая». Предыдущая пластинка Бень, записанная в 2022 году с певицей Галей Чикис, стала одним из важных культурных событий первого военного года. Но если тогда авторы текстами и музыкой пытались передать состояние шока, то теперь Бень будто оглядывается вокруг — и пробует понять, как обжиться в новой реальности. Музыкальный критик Лев Ганкин подробно рассказывает об этой проникновенной работе.
Chip Butty
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A federal judge in California, in a damning 90-page decision, rules the government cannot revoke the F-1 visas of international student journalists because it doesn't like their reporting and such retaliation violates their First and Fifth Amendment rights. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.454120/gov.uscourts.cand.454120.108.0.pdf
One of my pet peeves about #ttrpg fandom is when people say:
"This RPG product is too expensive!"
No. The RPG industry has tiny, tiny margins, and only a minuscule portion of RPG authors are able to make a living from this - and only barely so, at that. In that context, I find the notion that they are somehow "price-gouging" to be borderline offensive.
Saying:
"I cannot afford this!"
or
"I cannot justify the expense!"
is entirely fine, however - what an RPG product is really worth to a reader is very subjective, after all.
Y’a @12train@mastodon.social qui est cassay (’fin plutôt la SNCF a priori 🤣) ? 🤔 cc @jeanbaptistemarie@mastodon.social
