2025-12-11 14:01:01
"From concrete walls to living edges, here’s how riverside habitats are being restored along the Thames"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment
"From concrete walls to living edges, here’s how riverside habitats are being restored along the Thames"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment
"Projects like the Living Village at YDS are not only possible now—they are better than conventional construction, healthier to be in, less expensive to operate, more beautiful to behold."
—Architecture visionary Jason F. McLennan writing in the new issue of the YDS journal, Reflections, focused this season on faith that builds hope for a living planet
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sade:
🎵 when am i going to make a living
#Sade
https://softnews.bandcamp.com/track/sades-when-am-i-going-to-make-a-living
https://open.spotify.com/track/5DYD5pUUnf3MT6LafqPqOt
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Mattafix:
🎵 Living Darfur
#NowPlaying #Mattafix
https://clainmusic.bandcamp.com/track/living-darfur-by-clain
https://open.spotify.com/track/50lgTEX4pqxDaGJt9o0Chf
'Cloudy Weather': Hassett Says Some Economic Data Was Never Collected During Shutdown (Tyler Spence/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/economy/kevin-hassett-economic-data-shutdown-bls-bureau-labor-statistics-jobs-report-cost-of-living
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p90#a251111p90
"...the number of stories in national newspapers about asylum seekers or small boats or refugees. They found 542 in just the past month. And how many on the cost of living or essentials or living standards? Just 45."
Worried about rising bills and getting by? Keir Starmer has the answer: try chewing a flag!
| Aditya Chakrabortty | The Guardian
“It rained heavily last night.
Our clothes, blankets, mattresses, everything got soaked.
We were freezing… truly freezing.
Living in a tent has become unbearable… feels like a disaster every day.
We try to protect ourselves from the rain, but we still end up sitting in water inside the tent.
We are a family of seven and the tent can’t hold us but we keep trying.
We keep holding on.
Please, we need your help to move somewhere safer.”
–
Here is some useful and wise advice for living in the 21st-century surveillance-state epoch: https://aphyr.com/posts/395-geoblocking-multiple-localities-with-nginx
Anarcho-syndicalist. non-binary person. they/them, also bisexual.
I took down one of my Moomin posters and hung up my two favorite flags in my living room instead. It feels good making my own place look like me.
I know my mom doesn’t like it, but this is my apartment and I’m not going to hide who I am just to make someone else comfortable.
:bisexual_pride: 🏳️⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️🌈
people call the UK "TERF island" and while not exactly _wrong_ this doesn't reflect my experience of the day to day reality of living here
in my experience, nobody 'on the ground' gives a shit. cops, landlords, nurses, doctors, all of these had plenty of opportunity to be transphobic or interphobic and if they actually did it was rather well concealed
it's true that it is systemically and politically transphobic and GRCs are awful, but as someone who doe…
Having a bit of a Daisy Ridley week. First, did Magpie a couple days ago, and now doing The Marsh King's Daughter, thanks to @…'s rec. 👊
https://boxd.it/u2Q8
a pypi release script of mine just failed because sphinx linkcheck failed because… wikipedia has to throw 403s after the first request
i hate living in the future
Hello there! Sorry I’ve been dumping annoying news things the last while here instead of chit chatting.
I really like it here and enjoy it, perhaps, most of any online text box.
But, regrettably, circumstances have conspired to require me to make a living. This takes up an inordinate amount of time. So, the best I have been able to manage is to drop newsy bits or Gist links.
I hope, like all of my vintage, that next month will quieten down a bit.
RE: #QuoteOfTheDay: "Not to be dramatic but we are living in societies with soul-shatteri…
Coming Wednesday: "Live from @SustainableBrands! It's ‘Living Between Worlds’!”
Join us for this conversation for possibility. https://www.bit.ly/LivingBetweenWorlds
Challenge: "Name 20 living female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 18: Kim Småge
Sorry, but you'll have to learn some Norwegian if you want to read this author, as she hasn't been translated into English yet - but that means you could read Ibsen too...
"Containerkvinnan" was a real knockout. The bodies of two women are found in a container in Trondheim's harbour, and from here proceeds the whodunnit. It's a whole series and I keep mean…
Ricardo Mendes, born and raised within the Buddhist cult-like community Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC), describes in his testimony how this community, initially founded on ideals of spirituality, communal living, and alternatives to Western society, gradually became a sectarian organization
Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -
Carlos was certainly living his best life there. #strictly
#ListeningClub Anyway, some good news… Roofers finished replacing the Spanish tiles over the living room and stairwell yesterday, just in time for expected rainstorms tomorrow.
Finished the DLC of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. What a great mystlike game. Don't let the boss battles and kicking the living sh!t out of Nazis and fascists deter you from having an excellent time going into every nook and cranny and soaking up the Indy experience. I've finished the game, and I haven't even halved the things you could see and collect in the Vatican level alone! A solid 9/10 only because it doesn't have a third-person view at least as an option.
…
🅿️ Denver study shows removing parking requirements results in more affordable housing being built
https://theconversation.com/denver-study-shows-removing-parking-requirements-results-in-more-affordable-housin…
sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
Two-dimensional semiconductor-based active array for high-fidelity spatiotemporal monitoring of neural activities (in mice) #BCI
Today was #satisfying:
- arranged a unique & "life changing" experience for someone
- watched someone vely change attitude toward me
- was in a meeting w awesome people
- saw someone one whose sight always makes me happy
All in, feels like the day was worth living for, whatever tomorrow brings. 🙇♂️
The Lego (building) table is finished. My son already has plans to move his in progress build to finish it.
#woodworking
#finished
So we've been using a Neato vacuum robot for years. It works and with cats having the main living areas vacuumed every day was great. Now the company who bought them no longer wants to run the backend cloud service that allows the robot to actually run on a schedule which is the point of the whole operation.
Vorwerk just created a whole lot of e-waste for shits and giggles.
Really the best?
There are over a million people living in the city of Prague. It’s one of the most touristy places in Europe and, in my eyes, probably the most beautiful place Europe has to offer.
But man! There’s something that bothers me more than a pimple on my ass: bike apps.
For context—Google Maps doesn’t offer bike navigation here, Apple Maps only added it in the last update, and Mapy (the Czech app) does a good job with hikes and all the rest—but not with bikes.
If you are wondering what it’s like in Minneapolis / St. Paul right now — •this• is it. This is what we’re living through. https://mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot/115692836095826980
This is a really really nice interview with Canadian Children's Book author Robert Munsch. It's his "last hurrah”. He's living with dementia and parkinson’s.
He's going to be leaving (MAID) at some point (not soon) but there are 50 more books that will be released after he has passed.
He just seems like a wonderful guy…
#Books #Munsch #CBC
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7009124
Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado
has won the Nobel peace prize
for her dogged struggle to rescue the South American country from its fate as
“a brutal, authoritarian state”.
Machado, 58, a conservative often described as Venezuela’s Iron Lady,
has spent the last year living in hiding
after her political movement was widely believed to have beaten the country’s president, Nicolšs Maduro,
in the July 2024 presidential election.
Trump Calls For Firing Fox News Booker After "Trump Hating Jerk Loser" Guest Notes Soaring Cost Of Living - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/trump-calls-for-firing-fox-news-booker-after-trump-hating-jerk-loser-guest-notes-soaring-cost-of-living/
"Wood-burning stoves face new restrictions in the U.K.—but a loophole from Britain's smog years is fueling the problem"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #WoodBurner
Living the life: #RaccoonLife
ReformUK and their ilk keep claiming it is easy for asylum seekers. Like if they eventually get settled status, the Home Office immediately makes them homeless. So easy for them, our beneficent welfare system. That's after living on a pittance while awaiting a decision, so no spare money to put down for a deposit.
Andy Burnham makes demand after claims government policies creating homelessness - Manchester Evening News
Finished "Lobizona" by Romina Garber. I have extremely mixed feelings about this book. It's a powerful depiction of the fear of living as an undocumented child/teen and it has interesting things to say about rejection, belonging, and the choice between seeking to be recognized for who you are and wanting you blend in enough to be accepted as normal. However, it's also an explicit homage to Harry Potter, and while it doesn't include antisemitic tropes or glorify slavery or even have any anti-trans sentiments I can detect, to me the magical school setup felt forced and I thought it would have been a better book had it not tried to fit that mould. Also, it would have been a super interesting situation to explore trans issues, and while it's definitely fine for it not to do that, the author's praise of Rowling's work has me wondering...
There's a sequel that I think could in theory be amazing, but given the execution of the first book, I think I'll wait a bit before checking it out. By putting her main character in opposition to both ICE in the human world and the magical authorities in the other world, Garber explicitly sets the stage for a revolution standing between her protagonist and any kind of lasting peace. But I'm not confident she's capable of writing that story without relying on some kind of supernatural deus ex machina, which would be disappointing to me, since "a better world if only possible through divine intervention" is an inherently regressive message.
Overall, #OwnVoices fantasy centering an undocumented immigrant is an excellent thing, and I've certainly got a lot of privilege that surely influences my criticism. However, #OwnVoices stuff has a range of levels of craft and political stances, and it can be excellent for some reasons and mediocre for others.
On that point, if anyone reading this has suggestions for fiction books grappling with borders and the carceral state, Is be happy to hear them.
#AmReading
Izzy loves to sit in the sunlight on these cooler fall days, as the sun finally is low enough in the sky to shine in appropriate locations in our living room. #DogsofMastodon
Inspiren, which provides AI-powered fall detection and other tech for senior living facilities, raised a $100M Series B, bringing its total funding to $155M (Kathleen Steele Gaivin/McKnight's Senior Living)
https://www.mcknightsseniorliving.c…
"I’m not talking about the sort of hope where you just sit on your hands and wait for God to do something at the end of time. We’re still obligated to do whatever we can, as a measure of our hope and reliance on God."
—Prof. Kathryn Tanner in an interview in the new issue of Reflections h…
The Living Bible of the Ethiopian Jews https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20134298/living-bible-ethiopian-jews
Eating a hair tie and then throwing it back up is a *choice*, you friggin' weirdo.
#CatsOfMastodon
On one hand, I feel that I should stay in the family house, because it'd be a waste to abandon it. On the other, living with neighbors regularly reminds me that I should live in the middle of a forest, separated from the nearest neighbor by at least 3 km of trees.
residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
"The website, called Fight Chat Control, was set up by Joachim, a 30-year-old software engineer living in Aalborg, Denmark. He made it after learning of a new attempt to approve a European Union proposal to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAM) — a bill seen by privacy activists as breaking encryption and leading to mass surveillance."
One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill
Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that
nobody else wants.
-- Andy Warhol
Event: Dec. 6 Book Response on Living Islam
Join us for an evening of conversation inspired by Living Islam: Muslim Expressions of Faith, the acclaimed book byProfessor Ali S. Asani, which invites readers to explore the many ways Muslims around the world understand and experience their faith through culture, art, and everyday life. The discussion, moderated by Alisha Kurji and featuring Dr. Alnoor Dhanani (Harvard University) and…
If you are free tonight, there are still some places open in the Our Brilliant Ruin One-Shot
#TerryCon
Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -
It's that time again! Tomorrow evening (Tue 9/12), 20:00 NZST is our monthly FOSS/Libre Tech catch up. Find us at https://meeting.iridescent.nz - all welcome! We'll be discussing relevant current events, sharing case studies, looking at new technologies, and how to make a living doing this stuff! Our mee…
How To Be Cute AND Annoying : Living Life Like A Cat
Tonight I woke up from a noise in the living room - I thought it sounded like the creepy whisper of a little girl 😱
It took me a few moments until I realised that the dog was snoring! 😴 #dogsofmastodon
The Lurie administration wants to slash #PotreroYard affordable housing because they "just can't find the money."
Our mayor is a billionaire. We have the third most billionaires living here of any city in the world. We can't accept these excuses.
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Fascinating bit of trivia about "My Sharona"
https://www.musicradar.com/artists/it-was-
Living in a snow globe
#dlws
übers Radfahren, v.a. in den Niederlanden.
“Think of it this way: Car drivers behave like a bunch of geese. They have the same distance from each other and fly at the same speed, and move almost in military formation. Cyclists move like a swarm of sparrows. There are thousands of them moving in chaos, but there are no collisions. They turn a little bit; they change their speed. You must do the same.”
‘Every inch full of intention’: Yale’s Living Village raises the bar for environmental stewardship
https://news.yale.edu/2025/10/08/every-inch-full-intention-yales-living-village-raises-bar-environmental-stewardship…
Living In Liquid
Join Jamie Mitchell, a relentless adventurer, as he traverses the vast, wondrous and mysterious world of water that embodies so much of our existence via the people whose lives revolve in, on, under and around it...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.co…
Elon Musk actually said this in an interview:
"These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
All governments in europe should leave X
😁 Disrupting bacterial 'chatter' could tip the balance for better oral health
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-disrupting-bacterial-chatter-oral-health.html
Assist-As-Needed: Adaptive Multimodal Robotic Assistance for Medication Management in Dementia Care
Kruthika Gangaraju, Tanmayi Inaparthy, Jiaqi Yang, Yihao Zheng, Fengpei Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06633
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
BBC Radiophonic Workshop:
🎵 The Frozen World (from The Living Planet original TV Soundtrack)
#BBCRadiophonicWorkshop
Mad science.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/10/04/0729235/scientists-grow-mini-human-brains-to-power-computers
>Scientists Grow Mini Human Brains To Power Computers
What's especially interesting, and dangerous to capitalism, is that there are a lot of opportunities that come out of this.
Corporations are destroying everything. We actually don't need them. We can build mutual aid networks, guerilla gardening, library socialism... When we stop with consumerism, we can find the joy in actually living, creating, being a creative human rather than simply a consumer. With a bit of momentum we can bend the system to our will. With enough momentum we can shatter it completely and free ourselves from this trap.
Things can go a lot of different ways. I'm excited to see how things go.
Edit:
I'm specifically excited about this...
https://www.blackoutthesystem.com/about-mutual-aid
This is cool. This is really fucking cool.
If we’d speak more ill of the dead, maybe it would remind the living not to be assholes.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Gorillaz:
🎵 Last Living Souls
#Gorillaz
https://moondoctor.bandcamp.com/track/gorillaz-last-living-souls-moondoctor-bootleg
https://open.spotify.com/track/7JzmCjvB6bk48JghLyrg8N
Impact of protein corona morphology on nanoparticle diffusion in biological fluids: insights from a mesoscale approach
Beatrice Cipriani, Hender Lopez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08340
Bridging integrated information theory and the free-energy principle in living neuronal networks
Teruki Mayama, Sota Shimizu, Yuki Takano, Dai Akita, Hirokazu Takahashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04084
you don't have to be healed to begin — https://www.brichapman.com/p/you-dont-have-to-be-healed-to-begin?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social
Raheem Mostert turns personal health scare into lifesaving advocacy for skin cancer screenings and early detection https://www.raiders.com/news/raheem-mostert-turns-personal-health-scare-into-lifesaving…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #BLOCKPARTYWithHueyMorgan
Samiyam:
🎵 Driving My Truck Through The Wall In Your Living Room
#Samiyam
Picture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/
It's cold in Washington DC, but warm in the patch of sunlight in our living room. Izzy is happy. #mondog #dogsofMastodon
residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
The labour and resource use requirements of a good life for all
#economy #environment
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Living Colour:
🎵 Solace Of You
#NowPlaying #LivingColour
https://open.spotify.com/track/1vSGsBEbcSS3EZKxTv6msz
The Living Bible of the Ethiopian Jews
https://ift.tt/h3dlpev
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://ift.tt/RMxCNZh
Q&A with former Xbox boss Peter Moore on the Xbox 360 launch, his new book Game Changer, competition with Sony, the origins of the modern console war, and more (Robert Purchese/Eurogamer.net)
https://www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-was-af
'Living off the land' allowed Russia-linked group to breach Ukrainian entities this summer https://therecord.media/russia-linked-breaches-ukraine-living-off-the-land
Tall Goldenrod — 100% living up to its name... Such a stunning sight in the November morning light! 😍
#NaturePhotography #Photography #MorningWalk
Raheem Mostert turns personal health scare into lifesaving advocacy for skin cancer screenings and early detection https://www.raiders.com/news/raheem-mostert-turns-personal-health-scare-into-lifesaving…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Kadavar:
🎵 Last Living Dinosaur
#Kadavar
https://kadavarberlin.bandcamp.com/track/last-living-dinosaur
https://open.spotify.com/track/5JWT9cWwbLttKe7zrfNnn7
Just released! The new issue of the Divinity School journal, Reflections. The theme is: "A Faith that Sustains: Building Hope for a Living Planet." #ecotheology #sustainability #creationcare
dolphins: Dolphin social network (1994-2001)
An undirected social network of frequent associations observed among 62 dolphins (Tursiops) in a community living off Doubtful Sound, New Zealand, from 1994-2001.
This network has 62 nodes and 159 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dolphins…
🩸 Blood tests show highest levels of forever chemicals in those living near New Mexico plume
#pfas
dolphins: Dolphin social network (1994-2001)
An undirected social network of frequent associations observed among 62 dolphins (Tursiops) in a community living off Doubtful Sound, New Zealand, from 1994-2001.
This network has 62 nodes and 159 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dolphins…
Yale University’s Bird-Friendly Building Initiative, a project that aims to accelerate the adoption of bird-friendly design in the built environment, has been recognized with a 2025 Excellence Award by the International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN).
https://
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Queens of the Stone Age:
🎵 Better Living Through Chemistry
#QueensoftheStoneAge
https://goodknightproductions1.bandcamp.com/track/better-living-through-the-chemistry
https://open.spotify.com/track/1wI3o34hijAIHpjrilLqaL
🥍 Are high school sports living up to their ideals?
#sports
residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
dolphins: Dolphin social network (1994-2001)
An undirected social network of frequent associations observed among 62 dolphins (Tursiops) in a community living off Doubtful Sound, New Zealand, from 1994-2001.
This network has 62 nodes and 159 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dolphins…