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Interesting: From Becky Ferreira for @… :
https://www.404media.co/new-deep-sea-creatures-challenge-current-m…

New Deep Sea Creatures ‘Challenge Current Models of Life,’ Scientists Say
Scientists have discovered chemosynthetic animals, which don’t rely on the Sun to live, nearly six miles under the ocean surface—deeper than any found to date.

A detainee at the Florida immigration detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz
has been on hunger strike for at least nine days,
the latest in a string of detainees to allege being mistreated at the prison in the Everglades.
“Since my life no longer belongs to me, it’s up to them to decide whether I live or die,”
detainee Pedro Lorenzo Concepción, 44, told El País from inside the facility.
On July 22, he went on hunger strike and has collapsed multiple times …

Hunger strike at Alligator Alcatraz reaches Day 9 as inmate protests conditions
Detainees say they’ve faced unsanitary conditions inside hastily built facility in Florida Everglades

👋 Hello! I’m Łukasz. Thirty-something, living in Warsaw, Poland. On fedi since 2021 or so. Right now, I'm merging my two accounts into one and giving this profile a fresh new start.
I live a few parallel lives.
Most of the time I’m a web developer. I work with TypeScript, React and all that jazz. But I still enjoy static site generators and good ol’ HTML/CSS.
In another life, I’m a documentary photographer and photojournalist. I’m interested in activism, art and culture, politics, and pretty much anything interesting happening on city streets. A big part of my photography journey involves documenting protests and demonstrations in Poland, especially those related to human rights and social issues. I’m also drawn to street art, particularly when it carries strong messages.
I occasionally blog and translate. Many years ago I wrote two books about WordPress. However, these days I’m more likely to go outside and touch grass than spend even more time in front of a screen.
Outside of that, expect me to post about mental health and politics. I promise to use CWs when appropriate.
I post in both English and Polish, depending on the topic.
Aaaand that’s it. Nice to meet you! ☺️
#introduction

Sonnet 081 - LXXXI
Or I shall live your epitaph to make,
Or you survive when I in earth am rotten,
From hence your memory death cannot take,
Although in me each part will be forgotten.
Your name from hence immortal life shall have,
Though I, once gone, to all the world must die:
The earth can yield me but a common grave,
When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie.
Your monument shall be my gentle verse,
Which eyes not yet created…

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Some like city life. Some don't. Let's play!
#CityPerksSongsOrPoems

“In 2012, archaeologists discovered in Southern Turkey a well-preserved mosaic featuring a skeleton savoring a loaf of bread and a pitcher of wine, surrounded by the Greek words ‘Be cheerful and live your life.’” Via https://www.openculture.com/2025/07/archae

Shame about the appalling ‘fearless motivation’ background music, but if you can get past that, Tim Minchin’s 9 life lessons are goodies.
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147M views · 363K likes | Tim Minchin - Live To Learn | These 9 life lessons from comedian Tim Minchin will make you laugh -- and learn! Source: The University of Western Australia | By RISE | Facebook
These 9 life lessons from comedian Tim Minchin will make you laugh -- and learn! Source: The University of Western Australia

Aktueller Titel: The Breath Of Life – Nasty Cloud
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Just got back home from the show tonight, brought up the Zohran primary win with my friend and his dad just blurted out the Trump socialist communist (because those can be a thing at the same time) claim line like a sleeper agent, mentioned some "anti-white tax" that doesn't exist and honestly the situation just had the same effect of someone randomly bringing up that they have 30 days to live. Maaaan, this might be the end of my social life lmao

How popular media gets love wrong
Now a bit of background about why I have this "engineered" model of love:
First, I'm a white straight cis man. I've got a few traits that might work against my relationship chances (e.g., neurodivergence; I generally fit pretty well into the "weird geek" stereotype), but as I was recently reminded, it's possible my experience derives more from luck than other factors, and since things are tilted more in my favor than most people on the planet, my advice could be worse than useless if it leads people towards strategies that would only have worked for someone like me. I don't *think* that's the case, but it's worth mentioning explicitly.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
I'm lucky in that I had some mixed-gender social circles already like intramural soccer and a graduate-student housing potluck. Graduate school makes a *lot* more of these social spaces accessible, so I recognize that those not in school of some sort have a harder time of things, especially if like me they don't feel like they fit in in typical adult social spaces like bars.
However, at one point I just decided that my desire for a relationship would need action on my part and so I'd try to build a relationship and see what happened. I worked up my courage and asked one of the people in my potluck if she'd like to go for a hike (pretty much clearly a date but not explicitly one; in retrospect not the best first-date modality in a lot of ways, but it made a little more sense in our setting where we could go for a hike from our front door). To emphasize this point: I was not in love with (or even infatuated with) my now-wife at that point. I made a decision to be open to building a relationship, but didn't follow the typical romance story formula beyond that. Now of course, in real life as opposed to popular media, this isn't anything special. People ask each other out all the time just because they're lonely, and some of those relationships turn out fine (although many do not).
I was lucky in that some aspects of who I am and what I do happened to be naturally comforting to my wife (natural advantage in the "appeal" model of love) but of course there are some aspects of me that annoy my wife, and we negotiate that. In the other direction, there's some things I instantly liked about my wife, and other things that still annoy me. We've figured out how to accept a little, change a little, and overall be happy with each other (though we do still have arguments; it's not like the operation/construction/maintenance of the "love mechanism" is always perfectly smooth). In particular though, I approached the relationship with the attitude of "I want to try to build a relationship with this person," at first just because of my own desires for *any* relationship, and then gradually more and more through my desire to build *this specific* relationship as I enjoyed the rewards of companionship.
So for example, while I think my wife is objectively beautiful, she's also *subjectively* very beautiful *to me* because having decided to build a relationship with her, I actively tried to see her as beautiful, rather than trying to judge whether I wanted a relationship with her based on her beauty. In other words, our relationship is more causative of her beauty-to-me than her beauty-to-me is causative of our relationship. This is the biggest way I think the "engineered" model of love differs from the "fire" and "appeal" models: you can just decide to build love independent of factors we typically think of as engendering love (NOT independent of your partner's willingness to participate, of course), and then all of those things like "thinking your partner is beautiful" can be a result of the relationship you're building. For sure those factors might affect who is willing to try building a relationship with you in the first place, but if more people were willing to jump into relationship building (not necessarily with full commitment from the start) without worrying about those other factors, they might find that those factors can come out of the relationship instead of being prerequisites for it. I think this is the biggest failure of the "appeal" model in particular: yes you *do* need to do things that appeal to your partner, but it's not just "make myself lovable" it's also: is your partner putting in the effort to see the ways that you are beautiful/lovable/etc., or are they just expecting you to become exactly some perfect person they've imagined (and/or been told to desire by society)? The former is perfectly possible, and no less satisfying than the latter.
To cut off my rambling a bit here, I'll just add that in our progress from dating through marriage through staying-married, my wife and I have both talked at times explicitly about commitment, and especially when deciding to get married, I told her that I knew I couldn't live up to the perfect model of a husband that I'd want to be, but that if she wanted to deepen our commitment, I was happy to do that, and so we did. I also rearranged my priorities at that point, deciding that I knew I wanted to prioritize this relationship above things like my career or my research interests, and while I've not always been perfect at that in my little decisions, I've been good at holding to that in my big decisions at least. In the end, *once we had built a somewhat-committed relationship*, we had something that we both recognized was worth more than most other things in life, and that let us commit even more, thus getting even more out of it in the long term. Obviously you can't start the first date with an expectation of life-long commitment, and you need to synchronize your increasing commitment to a relationship so that it doesn't become lopsided, which is hard. But if you take the commitment as an active decision and as the *precursor* to things like infatuation, attraction, etc., you can build up to something that's incredibly strong and rewarding.
I'll follow this up with one more post trying to distill some advice from my ramblings.
#relationships #love

I live a life of danger.

New Deep Sea Creatures ‘Challenge Current Models of Life,’ Scientists Say https://www.404media.co/new-deep-sea-creatures-challenge-current-models-of-life-scientists-say/

Scientists discover a whole new type of ecosystem 30,000 feet deep
For decades, scientists have studied organisms that thrive around hydrothermal vents, fissures spewing superheated fluids.
But the creatures that live around cold seeps
— places where gases such as methane and hydrogen sulfide ooze from the seafloor at near-freezing temperatures,
often where tectonic plates meet
— have been understudied.

So, to investigate, an expedition to the northwest P…

Scientists discover a whole new type of ecosystem 30,000 feet deep
In Pacific Ocean trenches, scientists found creatures that expand the limits of where we know life can live on Earth.

Do I give a flying glittery fuck about your opinions? Hell no! This queer, bi, fabulous life is mine to slay, not yours! Love loud, live proud, and keep your shade to yourself! 🌈💖✨

Which part of this does not exactly hold for Katz and his involvement in bombing hospitals in Gaza?
Certainly that in the civilised world due process is part of life.
Context:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Björk:
🎵 There’s More to Life Than This (recorded live at the Milk Bar toilets)
#Björk
https://bjork.bandcamp.com/track/theres-more-to-life-than-this-recorded-live-at-the-milk-bar-toilets
https://open.spotify.com/track/2runFrIwOg5p2HZo1oymEL

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
SELMA: Thank you.
RO: You saved my life. While I live, you'll be welcome on Horizon.
BLAKE: Still Horizon?
RO: You can't return to the past.
BLAKE: [Into bracelet] Liberator, teleport now. [To Ro and Selma] Good-bye.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/633

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But that’s kinda how I got here. https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/114886743752674598

Wrote a blog post on installing Linux native on a MacBook. So I could remember what I did 🙂
#Apple

in the 18th century, some wealthy landowners hired ornamental hermits to reside on their estates. they'd sometimes be asked to make themselves available to guests, answering questions, providing guidance, or intrigue alone. but in some cases, the hermit would not communicate with visitors at all, functioning instead like a perpetual stage play or live diorama. life lived as background dressing to another, in exchange for just enough to keep it going.

Madleen Gaza flotilla live tracker: Greta Thunberg, crew near Gaza | Gaza News | Al Jazeera
https://aje.io/p6b8m7?update=3762371
UN rights expert says Israeli speedboats surrounding Madleen
(Via @…

https://www.wionews.com/world/israeli-hackers-breach-iranian-tv-urging-iranians-to-rise-up-in-protest-1750304429134
“The visuals displayed were of women tearing off their hijab and cutting their hair in defiance,…

Israeli hackers breach Iranian TV, urging Iranians to rise up in protest
During a live broadcast, footage from the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests, women cutting their hair in defiance, flashed across screens in Iran state TV (IRIB)

Can relate...

"What drove me to give voice to this dream, to step in front of the camera again not knowing what the outcome was going to be, was…fear of regret. I don’t want to live my life with regrets."
—Ke Huy Quan
#acting #coaching

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
SELMA: Thank you.
RO: You saved my life. While I live, you'll be welcome on Horizon.
BLAKE: Still Horizon?
RO: You can't return to the past.
BLAKE: [Into bracelet] Liberator, teleport now. [To Ro and Selma] Good-bye.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/633

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Diego Maradona - Live Is Life 1989 (HD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU2J4057cZw

Aktueller Titel: Evanescence – Bring Me To Life
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When he left the Soviet Union for a new life in America, the novelist never imagined he would live under another authoritarian regime.
Then Trump got back into power
... Is it time to move again?
https://www.

Healing is not a prerequisite for participating in life but a process we undertake as we live, work, love, and play. full article @ https://www.brichapman.com/p/you-dont-have-to-be-healed-to-begin

you don't have to be healed to begin
a love letter to the unfinished and still becoming

Sonnet 068 - LXVIII
Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,
When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,
Before these bastard signs of fair were born,
Or durst inhabit on a living brow;
Before the golden tresses of the dead,
The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,
To live a second life on second head;
Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay:
In him those holy antique hours are seen,
Without all ornament, itself and true,…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Show Dem Camp:
🎵 Live Life
#ShowDemCamp
https://open.spotify.com/track/4pKxSb1G8lArMWLqFCSPUz

Life cycle assessment tools for road design: analysing linearity assumptions
Nikolaos Kalyviotis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13896 https://

Life cycle assessment tools for road design: analysing linearity assumptions
Road infrastructure significantly impacts how people move and live and the emissions associated with travel behaviour. The design of roads is crucial in mitigating emissions. This paper reviews existing transport life cycle assessment tools that have been developed by various entities and can be used for roads. The review focuses on data sources used in the analysis, methods of estimating carbon dioxide emissions, the underlying software that is used to make the estimates, and any limitations o…

Writers for The Atlantic like to open Twitter and frown at it. Imagine having to live your life so performatively. Sounds exhausting.

"#Permaculture: how do we live in place, sustainably, in time?"
Yes, actually, that IS my project: what I'm doing with my life, right now. Building community with the people around me, to build resilience in the face of #ClimateEmergency
Planet: Critical: Resilien…

Skriv ubder för att stödja att israel släpper in mjölk till spädbarn https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/let_milk_into_gaza_loc/?copy&utm_source=copy&utm_medium=social_s…

Listen to Dr. Laurie Santos as she explains how to help youth incorporate #wellness activities into their own lives, which is especially important to those who are #depressed at

The Science of Well-Being — Yale Youth Ministry Institute
The most popular course in the more than three-century history of Yale, “The Science of Well-Being” highlights research that reveals misconceptions about what makes us happy — and the concrete steps we can take to live a more fulfilling life. Yale Professor Laurie Santos has taken this course and created a new version specifically for high school aged youth. Hear the conversation about how youth (and youth workers) can improve their mental and physical health.

Turns out life doesn’t just imitate art
— sometimes it borrows the script, reboots it with National Guard checkpoints and streams it live from Los Angeles.
Case in point:
A Day Without a Mexican,
the cheeky 2004 sci-fi satire from Mexican filmmakers Sergio Arau and Yareli Arizmendi,
in which California wakes up to find every person of Latino descent has vanished into a mysterious haze,
leaving Angelenos panicking over who’s going to mow the lawns and run …

The Outrageous 20-Year-Old Movie That Predicted Trump’s America
In 2004 ‘A Day Without a Mexican’ was intended to be a political satire. In 2025 it seems all too real. Plus, Joel Grey auctions off his old lederhosen (and some nudes!) TikTok star Khaby Lame demands $1.2 million to talk, and Chet Hanks is a no-show at his book reading.

"What drove me to give voice to this dream, to step in front of the camera again not knowing what the outcome was going to be, was…fear of regret. I don’t want to live my life with regrets."
—Ke Huy Quan
#acting #coaching

Sonnet 068 - LXVIII
Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,
When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,
Before these bastard signs of fair were born,
Or durst inhabit on a living brow;
Before the golden tresses of the dead,
The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,
To live a second life on second head;
Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay:
In him those holy antique hours are seen,
Without all ornament, itself and true,…

Look, I give a fuck, because freedom isn't some abstract idea or lip service paid to "choice" while real decisions are made over your head.
Freedom is collective, it's when everyone gets to shape the community together, no more of this top-down bullshit where rules drop from above and you’re told to accept it or leave. Anarcho-syndicalism is not theory to me, it’s my fucking life story now, because I want to actually live this principle where people, not bosses, run t…

As Canada Day approaches, this story of a Mom finding her Canadian identity through helping Syrian refugees settle here after 2015 is poignant.
"In 2025, being a Canadian woman to me means looking out for our neighbours, leaning into differences in culture, religious practices and learning how to help others in need. Because we are not different at all. We are all just looking for safety and peace. It's our Canadian values of equality, respect and freedom in action.
It is the singular privilege of my life to walk alongside these families from Cape Breton and those who are newcomers to Canada. It's changed how I live, and I intend to do this work as long as I am able. I learn from them grace, service, faith and hope. They taught me how to be a Canadian.”
#Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Refugees #Immigration #Syria #AlanKurdi
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/first-person-cape-breton-welcomes-syrian-refugees-1.7559341

I’m not your go-to for deep economic theory. I'm just your regular Fediverse baby anarchist, who has a huge crush on Rudolf Rocker's syndicalist takes!
But what I do know is that I don’t need bosses or rulers telling me how to live my life. We’re all capable of working together, making decisions as equals, and building something better without anyone lording over us.
I believe in solidarity and collective action. We deserve workplaces and communities where everyone has a …

Day 4
TL;DR: Full Swagger docs JWT auth with registration and login are live.
Today’s work focused on two key improvements.
1. Swagger documentation was extended across all API layers. DTOs, entities, and controllers were enriched with `@ApiTags`, `@ApiOperation`, `@ApiResponse`, and detailed `@ApiBody` annotations — including real-life examples for request bodies.
2. JWT-based authentication was implemented. A secure registration flow was added, with password hashi…

when it comes to #psychology and #mentalhealth I've read a decent number of #books on the topic.
I think the best I've read are:
- David D. Burns' Feeling Good (CBT generally including anxiety, depression)
- Sue Johnson's Hold Me Tight (romantic/marital relationships)
- Peter Kramer's Against Depression (on why depression is not a creative gift or sign of moral incompetence, biological underpinnings)
Peter Rutter's Sex in the Forbidden Zone has also been instrumental in forming my understanding of the unhealthy ways romantic interest manifests.
Anne Wilson Schaef's Co-Dependence: Misunderstood--Mistreated is the best I've read explaining how "being good" can oftentimes actually be bad.
The latter two are both more things I extract from the books rather than the books themselves and both are couched in ways that make them not ideally suited to the topic...but still the best I've found.
In addition one might include Joel Fuhrman's Eat for Life (I'm reading it now, I originally read Eat to Live) for nutritional health (which affects psychological) and David Allen's Getting Things Done (still one of the most influential books I've read on productivity).
My #question is, are there books you've read that you'd considered "must reads" on psychological / mental health? Not just mental illness, but mental health?

If the goal truly is to
“make America healthy,”
why are HHS life-saving programs for babies and young children being eliminated?
Here are just two examples,
of small and inexpensive live-saving programs being cut or gutted.
⭐️At a time when sudden unexpected infant deaths are on the rise,
the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has quietly pulled funding for the "Safe to Sleep" campaign,
a program that cut deaths from Sudden Infant Death S…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Expansions
Studio:
🎵 Life's a Beach! (Todd Terje Beach House mix)
#Studio
https://adambay.bandcamp.com/track/lifes-a-beach-live-in-woodshop-studio
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Fdc0inCTLzcCZzXmL6sW4
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