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My reaction to the little snippets I caught is similar to @…’s, and of course this is the whole point:
Fascist movements have always, always rested on insecure, mediocre men who feel like the world owes them something and it’s slipping away, who will do •anything• and believe •anything• as an alternative to the nagging feeling that actually they just kind of suck.
1/ https://climatejustice.social/@Brad_Rosenheim/115293541723826815

"I ... think the odds of #Bluesky following #Twitter’s path is (sic) very high, given the structural similarities. Bluesky is a for-profit group still in the venture-capital honeymoon phase where it doesn’t need major revenue" — @…

A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe
The Mastodon migration from Twitter in 2022 was massive for the non-commercial community network: The number of accounts swelled with more than…

Denkt dran: Wenn ihr in einem katholischen Gebiet wohnt, ist heute Feiertag.
Der Himmelszauberer hat den Zimmermann-Zombie-Mod aktiviert, um die Menschen vom Fluch des Apfels zu befreien.
#Allerheiligen ist der Tag, an dem derer gedacht werden soll, welche von seinem Fan-Club als Super-Fans ausgezeichnet wurden.
Aber ich werde ausgelacht, wenn ich sage, dass ich ans FSM gla…

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
ULTRA 1: We have collected a great deal of information about earth and its dominant species, with one important omission. We intend to rectify that deficiency.
DAYNA: And if we agree?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/505 B7B5

GRB 250702B: Discovery of a Gamma-Ray Burst from a Black Hole Falling into a Star
Eliza Neights, Eric Burns, Chris L. Fryer, Dmitry Svinkin, Suman Bala, Rachel Hamburg, Ramandeep Gill, Michela Negro, Megan Masterson, James DeLaunay, David J. Lawrence, Sophie E. D. Abrahams, Yuta Kawakubo, Paz Beniamini, Christian Aa. Diget, Dmitry Frederiks, John Goldsten, Adam Goldstein, Alexander D. Hall-Smith, Erin Kara, Alison M. Laird, Gavin P. Lamb, Oliver J. Roberts, Ryan Seeb, V. Ashley Villar,…

GRB 250702B: Discovery of a Gamma-Ray Burst from a Black Hole Falling into a Star
Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous electromagnetic events in the universe. Their prompt gamma-ray emission has typical durations between a fraction of a second and several minutes. A rare subset of these events have durations in excess of a thousand seconds, referred to as ultra-long gamma-ray bursts. Here, we report the discovery of the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen with a ~25,000 s gamma-ray duration, GRB 250702B, and characterize this event using data from four instruments in the Int…

Human vs. AI Safety Perception? Decoding Human Safety Perception with Eye-Tracking Systems, Street View Images, and Explainable AI
Yuhao Kang, Junda Chen, Liu Liu, Kshitij Sharmad, Martina Mazzarello, Simone Mora, Fabio Duarte, Carlo Ratti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25457

Human vs. AI Safety Perception? Decoding Human Safety Perception with Eye-Tracking Systems, Street View Images, and Explainable AI
The way residents perceive safety plays an important role in how they use public spaces. Studies have combined large-scale street view images and advanced computer vision techniques to measure the perception of safety of urban environments. Despite their success, such studies have often overlooked the specific environmental visual factors that draw human attention and trigger people's feelings of safety perceptions. In this study, we introduce a computational framework that enriches the existin…

🌳 Mit ihrem langen Schwanz, der fast so lang ist wie ihr Körper, und ihren beeindruckenden Kletter- und Sprungfähigkeiten sind #Eichhörnchen faszinierend zu beobachten. Sie ernähren sich von Samen, Früchten und gelegentlich von Eiern und Jungvögeln. Welche Gefahren lauern auf sie in der Natur? Mehr über das Leben dieser flinken Nager im Artikel. 🐿️🍂

Eichhörnchen: Flinke Akrobaten der Wälder und Parks
Erfahre mehr über das Leben der Eichhörnchen in Deutschland, ihre Nahrungsgewohnheiten, natürliche Feinde und wie sie sich auf den Winter vorbereiten.

One of my favorite mastodon features is the time-based muting. Someone's posting through (suffering, lol) a football game, and I have less than zero interest in sportsball? But I generally enjoy following them? Mute them for 1 hour (or 6 hours), and my screen is no longer littered with crap about touchzonegoalruns.
Or maybe you don't want to see my stupid replies to a dumb horror movie from 40 years ago? Mute me for an hour or two, and voila!

Turbulence and dust fragility in protoplanetary discs
Simin Tong, Richard Alexander, Giovanni Rosotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24818 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Turbulence and dust fragility in protoplanetary discs
Dust growth from micron- to planet-size in protoplanetary discs involves multiple physical processes, including dust growth and fragmentation, the streaming instability, and pebble accretion. Disc turbulence and dust fragility matter at almost every stage. Previous studies typically vary one of them while fixing the other, failing to provide a complete picture. Here, we use analytical models and numerical dust evolution models DustPy to study the combinations of gas turbulence and dust fragilit…

I'm sitting at Zurich Airport waiting to pick someone up. Next to me sits a German person who has propped up their iPad on their suitcase. They are in a video conference with several people from banks and legal, discussing tax "optimization" from Germany by buying real estate in different US states and pretending to live elsewhere. On loudspeaker.
"Don't make a bank account, don't change your drivers license. We have checklists we can provide you."