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@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot
2025-12-09 13:11:30

I can only dream of identifying something as big as a tree. I'm on the microscopes today trying to tell the differences betwenlen lots of tiny snails that all look the same 😶‍🌫️😵‍💫
Back to their roots: a brief history of trees – in pictures | Photography | The Guardian

@paulbusch@mstdn.ca
2025-12-08 12:36:16

Good Morning #Canada
December 8th, 1869, Timothy Eaton opened a small dry-goods and haberdashery business at 178 Yonge Street in the city of Toronto. From that humble start grew a national retail chain that eventually would bring Christmas Window Displays that attracted crowds for 100 years, and the tradition continues today. The heyday for the window displays was the 1940s to 1980s when Eatons and Simpsons competed for children's noses pressed up against their windows. But every store, large or small, had their own creative display in December. In the 1990s retail chains started to falter and disappear and some displays, like those from Woodwards and Ogilvys, were preserved by museums. I remember our annual visit to Eatons and Simpsons on Yonge Street in the early 60s, when Mom and Dad would load up the car with 7 kids and we'd tour the Christmas displays.
#CanadaIsAwesome #HappyHolidays
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@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2025-11-29 12:42:03

from my link log —
A brief history of NSA backdoors. (2013)
ethanheilman.com/x/12/index.ht
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@mapto@qoto.org
2025-10-06 05:36:44

A brief explainer of how chief justice John Roberts became the main actor in dismantling US democracy
motherjones.com/politics/2025/

@david@boles.xyz
2025-10-22 18:31:45

Here's my latest Human Meme podcast episode explaining the history and following of a "Boodle Boy" also found online the Dot Com!
humanmeme.com/boodle-boy-a-bri

@tempus_fuckit@toot.cat
2025-10-06 12:48:22

"Look again at this small world. This is home. The only home we’ve ever known.
Every person who has ever lived. Every story ever told. Every love, every war, every sacrifice – it has all happened here on this tiny, drifting world.
And yet, we act as if there is another waiting for us. We carve borders into the land and fight over them. We build towers of wealth while others are left to starve.
We poison the water we drink, scorch the air we breathe and tear apart the very foundation of life, driven by the hunger for more, by the illusion of control.
We hold power over each other but not over the forces that could erase us in an instant. A rock adrift in space could end it all. A wave of fire from deep within the earth could rewrite the world in a single eruption. A burst of radiation from a distant sun could silence everything we’ve built.
In the face of the universe we are fragile beyond measure. Mere passengers on a planet that owes us nothing. And yet, we fight, we kill, we burn our home as if it were replaceable.
We act as though our time here is infinite. Though history has shown us otherwise. But for now this is all we have. Out there among the countless stars, there may be other worlds. Planets where life has taken root. Where others look up and wonder if they too are alone. But they are distant beyond our reach, beyond our time.
For the foreseeable future there is no second earth, no distant rescue. This is where we stand. This is where we make our living. What happens here, what we choose to destroy, what we choose to protect will echo long after we’re gone.
Think again how small we are. how brief our time is, how easily we could vanish. A fraction of a second in the lifespan of the universe, a blink in the endless dark. And yet in this fleeting moment we are here.
We love, we create, we shape the world around us. What we do with our time matters. Because in the end everything we leave behind is what we chose to built and who we chose to be. But for now we stand together on a mote of dust."
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