@katrani @himbovoorhees if you zoom in the pencil is lapis lazuli :)

NEW ARTICLE: How the AfD's New AI Propaganda Platform Recentralises Control over Grassroots Radicalization https://www.patreon.com/emmalbriant/posts/how-afds-new-ai-163544612?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

pete just wants his warriors to grow boobs like in fight club

Hot take: No social web server should have more than 1000 users. Probably even fewer.

We report: we wait and wait for the rain, and once we stop waiting and hoping, the rain comes. Immediately, with the sky heavy, and the air saturated with water, we feel lighter. It goes on like this for hours, and even when it stops, the sky remains overcast. We breathe easier.

Just another testimonial for how great the Corsi Rosenthal Box is for wildfire smoke and particulate pollution. I built one out of extremely silent PC fans and run it on extremely low all year, which generally keeps the AQI here below 5 AQI.

(except when someone makes bacon, in which case, we go into BACON AQI ALERT because the AQI goes up above 250, and either all the fans need to run at full for an hour or I have to vent the house.)

#aqi #airquality

@mastodonmigration

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows on her bid to replace Platner
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/13/nx-s1-5888574/maine-secretary-of-state-shenna-bellows-on-her-bid-to-replace-platner-in-senate-race?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

@brianb Sure, why not.

Glerp is now Plopsi.

"Instead of encouraging a complicated system of age checks, more monitoring, and more restrictions on access to information, Congress could finally pass a strong, comprehensive privacy law that benefits all users."

Contact your Senators.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/house-passed-kids-act-senate-should-reject-it

@personalescrito More projection from the true virus threatening civilized society! 😏

@evacide the Mozilla Foundation is not one of the places I would trust for this kind of info anymore.

Inktober52 2026 prompt “Elegant”

#Art
#Ink
#Inktober52

@pre
> Not really expecting anything different

Is that just disillusionment with Labour as a party though, or based on Burnham's background as a political operator?

@dirtwizard666 you could be the @buttplugio of body heat regulating technologies!

@mekkaokereke What a good man. While that didn't change the world for them, I imagine that the effect of having someone of stature do that and speak like that, humanizing them, will go deep for at least a few.

"Those little white flowers you see here are known as the Arctic mountain heather, and they are highly toxic to this little pika.
Collared pika create what we call haypiles under the rocks that will serve as food for the 9 months of winter they endure beneath the snow. That’s 9 months of dead rotting plants for fungi, bacteria, and other parasites to completely destroy. That is, unless the pika layers toxic species like this arctic heather through the haypile.
This particular species of flower releases its toxic brew of phenolic compounds into the the pika's cache of food as it begins to break down. Those very same toxins, it turns out, are a natural food preservative that kills the very fungi and bacteria that would otherwise ruin an entire winter’s worth of food for the pika. And amazingly, by the time the pika makes it down to these layers, those toxins are completely harmless to the little mammal.
None of this is by accident. Researchers have documented that not only are pika meticulous at how they layer toxic plants into their haypiles, they use different species, with differing levels of toxicity, at specific levels through the cache to ensure that their food is not only well preserved but also timed to be edible for themselves as they work their way through it.
This is the most sophisticated pharmacological knowledge and behavior ever documented outside of humans."
photo and text by jaredlloydphoto

#Photographie #Photography #Fotografie #Nature #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography

New in our shop: Negro Matapacos Corduroy Cap
https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/negro-matapacos-corduroy-cap?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky

@randahl They are very clever people (and nothing to do with #spacekaren) but also grifters.

My hope - possibly their hope too - is that, after The Great Correction comes across the USA, SpaceX will just be absorbed into NASA as a Quango.