@scott@carfree.cityThis car was reportedly going 80 to 100 mph. That shouldn't be possible on a (sub)urban street. Every other commonly used consumer product has basic safeguards: you can't accidentally set your toaster to 2,000°F. Speed limiters in all cars now!
https…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
@hikingdude@mastodon.social'Ein weiter Weg' #FotoVorschlag "a long way"
We walked along a small part of the #schwarzwald #westweg - a 285 km long-distance hiking trail.
I thought that fits…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThere are people committing, supporting, and defending genocide right now as well as people trying to stop it and help the victims and some fucking centrist somewhere is sipping their camomile tea while finger-pecking “why can’t we all just get along?” into a comment box.
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgMinor good news for libraries: "A Victory for IMLS as Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Dismantle Agency"
IMLS is the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which funds leadership training and R&D in libraries in the US. A small % of library funding but important.
but I believe everyone is gone and grants cancelled so not sure what happens if funding returns-- who gets employed?
@cdarwin@c.imEclipse preview for 2026.
Two lunar eclipses are on the way, along with a partial solar eclipse for much of Europe & North America.
And if you really like solar eclipses, you might want to relocate to Spain for the next couple years. 🧪🔭
Read about eclipses and more coming up in 2026 in Universe Today: www.universetoday.com
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialMilwaukee Friends, don’t worry, I just pulled the snowblower down from the garage attic along with three snow shovel and I got the salt bag ready so there is no way it will snow tomorrow. ❄️
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deblumenau_drug: Blumenau drug interactions (2019)
A network of drug-drug interactions, extracted from 18 months of electronic health records (EHRs) from the city of Blumenau in Southern Brazil. Nodes are annotated with drug information (separate file), and edges are weighted by the severity of the interaction, along with other information.
This network has 75 nodes and 181 edges.
Tags: Biological, Drug interactions, Weighted, Metadata
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA man named Bill DeBlasio, quoted in a Times story as ex-NYC mayor de Blasio, says he just played along in response to Times' email and used ChatGPT to respond (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/29/2025/british-newspaper-…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialWith the exception of the "passing the ball along the perimeter" trick (which isn't true as the inbounding team is restricted to the baseline)...
...these are fun little known rules about basketball!
▶️ This Layup Is 3 Points!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sy_0pFpdez
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialThere had been a patent on mask ROMs and it finally expired just a few months ago.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20050254280A1/en
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialI just noticed: after starting my little link "blog" or collection back on June 1st, as of today it has now grown to 150 links! 🔗
My reason for starting it was two-fold: I thought some folks could be interested in following along with what I read (that's why you can also subscribe via #rss). But, it's also a really useful archive for myself!
https://tzovar.as/links/
@cheryanne@aus.socialWe went for a walk. I saw a pelican gliding along on the lake. Wasn't fast enough to get close enough for a photo before he sailed around a corner. But took these on the way home. Just a short walk in suburbia. Canberra views really are delightful.
#LakeTuggeranong #Canberra
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterRE: https://techhub.social/@metoffice/115627270086250517
The phrasing "more organised band [of showers]" makes me think that the gods are whipping the rain clouds along using a firey chariot or something.
And actually, maybe they are!
@roland@devdilettante.comhey lance hedrick and other you tubers how about you pick random thumbnails and use functional titles instead of clickbait titles :-) in 2026 and beyond? I know the reason: it's because of the YT Algorithm. We obviously need something better than YT, Patreon, etc :-) and no I don't know the solution but I would guess that it's somewhere along the lines of doing it for ourselves cooperatively via coops and other non evil things?!?!?
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialAll I want is a new Cookie attribute added to the spec, so that when a website tries to set a cookie, along with the name and expiry date and domain and httponly flags, there is a "type".
Valid values for type are "preference", "storage", "login", "session", "analytics", "tracking" and "evil".
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL Week 9 injury report: Lamar Jackson good to go for Ravens, Bryce Young returns to practice
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-9-injury-report-lamar-jackson/
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialConcrete Jungle III 🏗️
水泥丛林 III 🏗️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@benb@osintua.eu
@hippyjo@c.imIn Ukraine, the war looks incredibly different than it is portrayed by western reporters writing from their armchairs far away.
Giorgio has been on the ground in the heat of things for almost 1400 days.
He knows all the roads along the front lines, but also the tunnels that many do not even know exist.
As Trump repeats the Kremlin's plan for subjugating Ukraine, finding the truth becomes harder and harder.
Giorgio shares the receipts, and he provides a glimpse of…
@dderigo@hostux.social1/
Based just on anecdotal evidence: it seems surprisingly common for scientists to be told by funders, managers, or policy people that mentioning #uncertainty or limitations “complicates” the message or weakens its impact [1]. (Days ago, yet another colleague shared a story on this, with other scientists nodding along, recalling similar moments happened to them)
But here's the …
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialAn #earworm popping up in my brain lately. A poem I was made to memorize when I was 14. It re-emerges every couple years, for no reason I can figure. tbh, I usually only remember verbatim the first few lines or so, and have to look it up again. It’s one of those things, like advertising jingles from many years ago, that have lodged in my memory. 🎶You’ll wonder where the yellow went when you brush y…
@coreyjrowe@detmi.socialOkay, that explains a LOT. Our poor Wolverine coaches were turning yellow 😭
https://www.trains.com/pro/passenger/intercity/amtraks-chicago-train-wash-open-for-business-other-locations-to-follow/
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSo yeah, per the OP, that person who always wanted to ship slop even before LLMs? Now the organizational checks and balances against that are removed — and along with them, away goes this terrible emotional experience.
Slop, they call it. But how can it be wrong when it •feels so good•?
/end
@cdarwin@c.imPoland plans to complete a new set of ⭐️anti-drone fortifications⭐️ along its eastern borders within two years, a top defence official has said,
after a massive incursion of unmanned Russian aerial combat vehicles into Polish airspace earlier this year.
“We expect to have the first capabilities of the system in roughly six months, perhaps even sooner. And the full system will take 24 months to complete,”
deputy defence minister, Cezary Tomczyk, told the Guardian in an interv…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz @hikingdude@mastodon.socialFor #MonochromeMonday and #Photomontag ... I visited this spot twice now and it looked SO different. Once with a lot of fog in the evening, the other time earlier with less fog.
Not just was it the fog that ws different. But once there were NO birds at all. And the other time it w…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineAm Frankfurter #Flughafen wurde eine 2,8 km lange #Photovoltaikanlage mit 37.000 vertikal montierten Modulen in Betrieb genommen.
Die 17,4 MW starke Anlage soll jährlich bis zu 17,4 Millionen kWh Strom für
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaOnce upon a time there were three brothers who were knights
in a certain kingdom. And, there was a Princess in a neighboring kingdom
who was of marriageable age. Well, one day, in full armour, their horses,
and their page, the three brothers set off to see if one of them could
win her hand. The road was long and there were many obstacles along the
way, robbers to be overcome, hard terrain to cross. As they coped with
each obstacle they became more and more d…
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoI've spent the past year learning Morse code, and it's ended up being a great deal of fun. I've had a lot of questions. I've tried to share what I've learned with others as I've gone along.
To celebrate the end of the year, I wrote a combination of information, story, and advice. How to get started, mobile apps and websites, books, getting on the air, learning to send, POTA, SST, keys and keyers. I'm not fluent or expert yet, but that means that I still remember what's hard!
@dichotomiker@dresden.network"Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. We sincerely regret this inconvenience." https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/
@pgogl@troet.cafeAttenhofen, Bavaria, Germany - along a hike at 25th Dez 25 🙂
#silentsunday #WinterPhotography
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialMAN Trucks and EDF in France have launched an electric truck package that guarantees price parity with the diesel equivalent. Smart charging plays a key role in reducing energy costs by 30–50%.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioMy big gripe with "AI" is that a big reason why it's sold as the second coming of Jesus is that most tech people fundamentally do not understand how it actually works.
Their reasoning goes something like, "It works sort of ok for code generation, and programming is the hardest possible thing in the world to do, every other human endeavor is trivial compared to writing code, therefore it must excel at anything else!".
So it ends up being pushed due to a mixture of ignorance and hubris; and especially being stuffed into things it should never be used for (usually when users don't have a say which software they need to use for work).
The finbros are happily along for the ride because they just need something that can be hyped to pump and dump.
@bici@mastodon.socialIn Concert with Paolo Pietropaolo
The 'best of the best' live classical music - that's the heart and soul of In Concert. Gorgeous chamber works, the world's finest orchestras, and intimate recitals featuring some of Canada's best young musicians on the brink of stardom. You'll hear a carefully curated blend of classical hits along with brand new discoveries presented with passion and rare insight by Paolo Pietropaolo.
@cdarwin@c.imRobert Reich here.
You asked us to stream
"The Last Class" film.
On Dec. 8, you can watch along with us!
Sign up: >> https://ineq.me/
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
CIEL:
🎵 Stay Along/Sail On
#CIEL
https://cielcielciel.bandcamp.com/track/stay-along-sail-on
https://open.spotify.com/track/2yfmXvB20fn0JgB5G2Q1qx
@adulau@infosec.exchangeMISP core format has been updated with a new field to track first-time publication, and a new IETF Internet-Draft has been published.
This minor, fully backward-compatible addition reinforces the long-term stability and extensibility of the MISP standard format.
#cti #opensource
@arXiv_mathRA_bot@mastoxiv.page$\chi$ -extending modular lattices
Jesus Adrian Celis-Gonz\'alez, Hugo Alberto Rinc\'on-Mej\'ia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22903 https://arxiv.…
@doktrock@toad.socialCrack along weld caused #NorthDakota Keystone oil pipeline spill in April, 2025
https://northdakotamonitor.com/briefs/crack-along-weld-caused…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotThe way you make an axe haft is you take a straight grained piece of hickory or ash, you split it along the grain with a froe, and then you use a drawknife to do final shaping (including for the eye). The reason you do this is that the shape then follows the natural cellulose fibres of the wood, which are very much stronger along their length than at even at a very slight angle.
(Yes, I'm sub-tooting someone on YouTube).
>>>
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeNooooo :(
Riding through the park along Elliott Bay for the first time in a while and there's lamp posts going up along what used to be an unlit bike path.
This used to be one of my favorite urban night rides: well paved, completely car free, great views of the distant city lights, but no lights in the park itself.
Now it's ruined.
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialWednesday, December 3, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Columbia Road, Adams Morgan
Carols & Cocoa
#DC
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys vs. Chiefs live updates: TV info, odds, prediction, how to watch Thanksgiving game https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/11/27/cowboys-chiefs-live-score-updates-thanksgiving/87476099007/
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialI don't think people fully understand what a disaster some kind of cease-fire and/or peacedeal along current frontlines would be for Putin. The occupied parts of Ukraine will become poor. While the part of Ukraine that is free will, with EU assistance ,be economically succesful and prosperous.
#putin #trump
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialOn the Side II 🆓
在边缘 II 🆓
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@scott@carfree.cityI smelled the sweet scent of woodchips around these newly planted shrubs and trees along car-free Overlook Dr in GGP. Looks like a toyon among others
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizzaSuppose its scraping the barrel a bit for #windowFriday
@nico@lepoulsdumonde.comJojakko ji temple Š Kyoto
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHow does this Roman torso get identified as #Apollo? Just look at his glutes!
#BumDayMonday
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngSonnenberg ridge entirely living up to its name...
(Made the most of the last warm weather yesterday afternoon to hike/climb along this beautiful long ridge with many cliffs, roped sections, some cute chamois and hardly any people — temporarily felt like late August, yet in two days supposedly snow starting...)
#SilentSunday
@primonatura@mstdn.social"‘Forever chemical’ contamination could undermine sea otters’ fragile recovery in Canada"
#Canada #PFAS #ForeverChemicals
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineI tried to reach the last owners of Versailles to see how having such an opulent palace while your people starve worked out… but they seem not to be able to reply.
https://apnews.com/article/east-wing-white-house-ballroom-demolition-b60f…
@aardrian@toot.cafeProbably the best thing I did this week was make the OpenAI anus / Atlass butt plug logo into a Goatse gag.
But then Microsoft comes along and outdoes me with this vitamin-yellow-tinted puddle of spunk and I am just… wow.
Well done, Microsoft.
@cosmicray@mastodon.socialA day (yesterday) at Santa Cruz Island. Not pictured: kayaking through caves and along cliffs, in the company of seals, sea lions, pelicans, and cormorants.
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.social‘94 @ Sue’s in Limehouse w/ Annie. She’s gone now, but she was a true Eastender, born & died. As a little girl during the Blitz, she (along w/ loads of other kids) had been put on a train out of London. The train would make rural stops & local folks could come take a child or 2 home to work on their farms. From her train, she was the last child chosen. She didn’t share that freely or easily, but she told me. I think about that little girl alone on that platform more often than you mi…
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza@… : Just a quick shoutout and thank you!
Your tutorial on setting up VoidLinux, on ZFS, with encrypted swap worked great. Followed all steps, and everything (including hibernate and restore) works exactly as expected.
Learned some things along the way (encryption, zfsbootmgr) and, most of all, had a lot of fun doing it ;-)
Tomorrow I'll be…
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialWoke up at 5am and got an idea to fix a 3D print that didn't quite fit. Started the printer and it might be done in time for when I have to leave the house. No, I'm not a addicted to tech nerdery #3Dprint #3Dprinting
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaThe Norwegian Syndicalist Federation (Norsk Syndikalistisk Forbund, @…) was founded in 1916 during a period of growing syndicalist influence in Norway.
From its beginnings, the NSF emphasized workers’ self-management, direct action, and federalist organization. It stood apart from party-aligned and bureaucratic unions, seeking instead a movement built on solida…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Twice as Perfect" by Louise Onomé. This is now the third novel I've read by her about a teenage Nigerian-Canadian second-generation immigrant, two of whom deal with some form of family estrangement ("Like Home" and "The Melancholy of Summer" are the other two). I checked it out because I liked her other novels and was not disappointed; in fact I feel like this is her best novel of the three. Dealing with cultural appropriation, both implicitly and explicitly, along with deep family trauma and a bit of romance, "Twice as Perfect" is suspenseful, wise, and heartfelt. It's got a thread of Nigerian Pidgin in it, which I thoroughly enjoyed although I didn't 100% understand, similar in some ways to the sprinkling of Spanish in "Each of Us a Desert", but with even less of an attempt to subtly explain each instance in English, which I don't mind at all.
The 2nd generation immigrant authors writing YA ~romances I've read recently have all been great, including Adiba Jaigirdar, Samira Ahmed, Sabina Khan, and Randa Abdel-Fattah (a slightly different era), and to a lesser extent Romina Garber (I didn't like "Lobizona" quite as much as stuff by these others). It's been super interesting to contrast their stories with those of people like Mark Oshiro, Angie Thomas, Randi Pink, and Angela Velez who talk about American racism from a non-immigrant perspective (perhaps Ahmed is in between the two groups).
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@matths@toot.community
@vosje62@mastodon.nl
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialJohn is blending the world of Godot and SwiftUI-style programming in SwiftGodotBuilder, it is crazy cool and he is writing a book/guide as he goes along:
https://swiftgodotbuilder.com/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deblumenau_drug: Blumenau drug interactions (2019)
A network of drug-drug interactions, extracted from 18 months of electronic health records (EHRs) from the city of Blumenau in Southern Brazil. Nodes are annotated with drug information (separate file), and edges are weighted by the severity of the interaction, along with other information.
This network has 75 nodes and 181 edges.
Tags: Biological, Drug interactions, Weighted, Metadata
@brian_gettler@mas.toI've been thinking a bit about historians' use of theory. I've decided it's often similar to a comment a cafeteria worker made to me decades ago. They were serving chili dogs and I asked if I could just have a bowl of chili instead. "Oh no, dear," she said, "this is chili dog chili, it's not for eating." I've long suspected that a good chunk of my field thinks of theory along these lines. We put it on the menu and let our students consume it, even …
@shriramk@mastodon.socialReally funny how CNN set up this very fun interactive site to show how ranked-choice voting works, with lots of flavors in the mix, and after all is said and done, the two final contenders are…chocolate (51.4%) and Vanilla (48.6%). Almost like Rs and Ds.
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2…
@sean@scoat.esFigured out why that Raspberry Pi is not responding.
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialI don't want to miss #mountainMonday !
Ahw I so want to go there again. That day I didn't even want to go that far - but the weather and all was just great so I went on to the next summit.
I just knew that I should hurry to get back before the sun moved too far. Becasue - well - autumn sun is nicely warm - but
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itWith bigger bikes, you can attach the front wheel to your rear rack (or "bag-and-drag", if you have an appropriately sized pannier https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClhV6OaMJEF/ ) and let the rear wheel roll along the ground. For smaller kid-sized bikes, that just doesn't work - there&…
@steve@s.yelvington.comDOGE was a head fake all along.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-doesnt-exist-with-eight-months-left-its-charter-2025-11-23/
@seeingwithsound@mas.toRevolutionizing brain‒computer interfaces: overcoming biocompatibility challenges in implantable neural interfaces https://jnanobiotechnology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12951-025-03573-x
@Dragofix@veganism.social
@simoncox@seocommunity.socialFavorite passtime:
Watching the transition clips on BBC Antiques Roadshow to spot tat that people have taken along with so much hope, only to be shot down in flames, with exclamations of “tat!”
@cdarwin@c.imAmazon Leo,
formerly Project Kuiper,
is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network,
aiming to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities beyond the reach of existing networks.
Our initial satellite constellation will include more than 3,000 spacecraft,
which we began deploying in April 2025 when we sent our first 27 satellites into space.
That mission was the first of more than 80 to deploy our constellation
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialUpdated my list what I moved away from BigTech. To be honest: when I started it, I didn't expect the amount of time & energy it takes to get out.
Therefore I regard it as crucial to just do it step by step. Otherwise you might get overwhelmed. And some nasty dependencies will just show up along the way ... but it's a nice hobby!
@NFL@darktundra.xyzFollow live: Aaron Rodgers takes on former team as Steelers host Packers https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46699956/green-bay-packers-pittsburgh-steelers-sunday-night-football-highlights
@cheryanne@aus.socialFor those following along at home*... I peeled all the prawns! Successfully!
First time in decades. Even I couldn't ruin that particular Christmas tradition.
*Husband (Official Prawn Peeler in Chief) had an operation on left hand 2 weeks ago and also (due to misadventure) now has the right wrist in plaster.
#Prawns
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys vs Broncos: Week 8 Live Updates https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/26/dallas-cowboys-vs-ashington-broncos-week-8-2025-live-updates/86918156007/
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"We are now at a critical juncture. We are at or very close to human caused environmental change that will fundamentally unpick the life-sustaining systems on Earth. These risk triggering feedback loops...
Ultimately that could cause the planet to drift away along the pathway to “hothouse Earth”, a scenario where even if emissions were reduced, self amplifying feedback loops would drive global temperature increases up to or even beyond 5°C"
@cdarwin@c.im @netzschleuder@social.skewed.deblumenau_drug: Blumenau drug interactions (2019)
A network of drug-drug interactions, extracted from 18 months of electronic health records (EHRs) from the city of Blumenau in Southern Brazil. Nodes are annotated with drug information (separate file), and edges are weighted by the severity of the interaction, along with other information.
This network has 75 nodes and 181 edges.
Tags: Biological, Drug interactions, Weighted, Metadata
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialMoody Urbanity - Metro Consistency 🗿
情绪化城市 - 都市质地 🗿
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSeveral replies think thoughts along the lines of this one from @…, and I strongly agree. The •most• neurodivergent who simply cannot conform to narrow, normative expectations are doing the hard work of creating flexibility for •everyone• (see “curb cut effect”).
https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/112199018896611847
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@kurtsh@mastodon.social @tiotasram@kolektiva.socialDay 29: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
I've been sitting on Simpson for a while because there's some overlap in her writing with Robin Wall Kimmerer, and I've had a lot of different genres/styles/subjects/media I've wanted to post at least one author from. But I've now hit repeats on at least YA romance and manga, and Simpson's writing is actually quite different from Kimmerer's in a lot of ways. While Kimmerer is a biologist by training and literally braids that knowledge together with her knowledge of Potawatomi cosmology and ethics, Simpson is an Anishinaabe philosopher and anarchist, and her position as a scholar of Indigenous philosophy adds a different depth to her work: she talks in more depth about knowledge relationships and her connections with specific elders, and she has more citations to other Indigenous theorists, which is the one criticism I've ever seen of Kimmerer's work. Rather than being Indigenous and a scientist, she's Indigenous and a scholar of indigenous studies.
I've only read "Theory of Water" by Simpson, but it was excellent, and especially inspiring to read as an anarchist. Simpson's explicit politics are another difference from Kimmerer's work, which is more implicitly than explicitly political. This allows Simpson to draw extremely interesting connections to other anarchist theorists and movements. "Theory of Water" is probably a bit less accessible than "Braiding Sweetgrass," but it's richer from a theory perspective as a result.
In any case, Simpson is a magnificent writer, sharing personal insights and stories along with (and inseparable from) her theoretical ideas.
#30AuthorsNoMen
@primonatura@mstdn.social"From concrete walls to living edges, here’s how riverside habitats are being restored along the Thames"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment
@Dragofix@veganism.socialWarmer weather is leading to vanishing winters in North America's Great Lakes #America
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialMy contribution to #footpathFriday , just fresh from the press ;-)
I went to the local hill / mountain today to escape the fog / clouds. Well and also to see whether the fog would create some nice mood to capture along the way that I'm walking rather often.
And indeed it was a very pleasant experience to walk into the fog and breaking through it to see some blue sky.
@scott@carfree.cityJoe Eskenazi's @… column today speculates that Connie Chan and allies will run a doomed prop to close Sunset Dunes park, just to turn out voters for Chan.
But a good chunk of No on K voters are in congressional district 15, outlined, and can't vote for Chan. #sfpol<…
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialMoody Urbanity - Stand 🧍♂️
情绪化城市 - 立 🧍♂️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialDay 28: Samira Ahmed
As foreshadowed, we're back to YA land, which represents a lot of what I've been enjoying from the library lately.
I've read "Hollow Fires", "This Book Won't Burn", and "Love, Hate, and other Filters" by Ahmed, along with "Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know" which is quite different. All four are teen ~romances with interesting things to say about racism & growing up as a South Asian Muslim, but whereas the first three are set in small-town Indiana, the third is set in France and includes a historical fiction angle involving Dumas and a hypothetical Muslim woman who was (in this telling) the inspiration for several Lord Byron poems.
Ahmed's novels all include a strong and overt theme of social justice, and it's refreshing to see an author not try to wade around the topic or ignore it. Her romances are complex, with imperfect protagonists and endings that aren't always "happily ever after" although they're satisfying and believable.
My library has a plethora of similar authors I've been enjoying, including Adiba Jaigirdar (who appeared earlier in this list), Sabaa Tahir ("All my Rage" is fantastic but I'm less of a fan of her fantasy stuff), Sabina Khan ("The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali"), and Randa Abdel-Fattah ("Does My Head Look Big In This?"; from an earlier era). Ahmed gets the spot here because I really like her politics and the way she works them into her writing. Her characters are unapologetic advocates against things like book bans, and Ahmed doesn't second-guess them or try to make things more palatable for those who want to ban books (or whatever). Her historical fiction in "Mad..." is also really cool in terms of "huh that could actually totally be true" and grappling with literary sexism from ages past.
#30AuthorsNoMen
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialMoody Urbanity - Metro Consistency 🪅
情绪化城市 - 都市质地 🪅
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Orwo Wolfen P400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deblumenau_drug: Blumenau drug interactions (2019)
A network of drug-drug interactions, extracted from 18 months of electronic health records (EHRs) from the city of Blumenau in Southern Brazil. Nodes are annotated with drug information (separate file), and edges are weighted by the severity of the interaction, along with other information.
This network has 75 nodes and 181 edges.
Tags: Biological, Drug interactions, Weighted, Metadata
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialJust a hut under a tree in the mist ...
I saw this when I was walking back from a location scouting. When I was back at the car, I turned around - already ready to drive away when I noticed this gnarly tree in the field.
The fog was just light enough to create an interesting mood I think.
#photography
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump unveiled a new class of so-called “battleships” on Monday,
but his plans are already hitting rough waters on social media.
In remarks from his Mar-a-Lago estate, the president claimed that the two “Trump Class” military vessels would be
the “fastest, the biggest and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built.”
Trump described himself as
a “very aesthetic person” while noting that he,
along with the U.S. Navy,
would wor…
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialMoody Urbanity - Past II 📴
情绪化城市 - 过去 II 📴
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialSome more #fog ? It was a bit chill but veeerry silent.
I liked the mood there and how the bushes & trees vanished in the fog. Especially the dead tree at the end that looks like reaching out into the water.
Enjoy the silence 🙂
#photography
@cdarwin@c.imThe Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 along party lines on Thursday
to scrap rules that required U.S. phone and internet giants to meet certain minimum cybersecurity requirements.
The FCC’s two Trump-appointed commissioners, chairman Brendan Carr and his Republican colleague Olivia Trusty,
voted to withdraw the rules that require telecommunications carriers to “secure their networks from unlawful access or interception of communications.”
The Biden administ…
