@scott@carfree.city2026-04-27 02:22:36
Instagram is a manipulative app bad for my mental health but one account I’ve been learning a lot from is oakland.bio, an educator who makes videos about native plants/ecology in Oakland.
One of his videos made me realize what now seems obvious—that “drought resistant” nonnative plants, far from being an eco-friendly choice, are some of the worst because their very drought resistance makes them best suited to spread invasively and outcompete natives in California’s dry-summer climate.
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-06-24 16:45:31
(mini review) Missing images: autobiographical memory in Aphantasia and blindness https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cognition/articles/10.3389/fcogn.2025.1644533/full Congenital
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-25 01:32:00
Watch: Moment quake shakes Venezuela, causing widespread damage and evacuations
Back-to-back magnitude 7 earthquakes struck the area of Montalbšn, Venezuela,
near the capital Caracas.
Video filmed by BBC reporters and contributors shows the moment the first quake hit, as well as the aftermath, with buildings collapsed.
Venezuela's interior minister Diosdado Cabello confirmed that buildings were down in Caracas while talking on State TV, Reuters reported.
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@jdrm@social.linux.pizza2026-07-20 11:45:12
Yo no vi la final del mundial. He odiado el futbol desde bien pequeño porque parecía que era el único deporte que se podía hacer, era a lo único a lo que se podía jugar en el colegio.... es el único deporte que sale en televisión. (reto a quien quiera a comparar el tiempo de emisión del mundial de futbol frente a los mundiales de Baloncesto o Balonmano, ni siquiera lo vamos a comparar con Rugby o pelota vasca).
Lo odio porque todo el negocio que hay montado en torno a él lo hace omnipr…
@dariaphoebe@mindly.social2026-05-19 12:48:31
This morning, corn cakes with egg bacon tea and coffee. Last night was dinner with friends; Tonight it will be The Mountain Goats in Boston! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/FP4gzmfvuuc8Wdkf9
@Jackobli@mastodon.social2026-06-20 06:26:02
Gestern Abend ein farbiges, üppiges, vielfältiges Nachtessen mit den Freunden im montliban-bern.ch genossen. Kann man sicher noch ein weiteres Mal da hin gehen. 👍
Mezzeh 1001 Nacht, plus Mixed Grill Spiesschen. Mehr als satt. 😋
Oder wie @… sagen würde, das Sauerbier zugedeckt. 😂
@krone@frawas.de2026-05-17 12:50:15
Showdown in Bundesliga - „Quasi Trotteln“: Rapid-Fans in im Mundl-Stil #News #Nachrichten
@bthalpin@mastodon.social2026-05-15 13:37:48
"If you want, I can also draft a full academic-style essay with references, formatted as a proper sociological analysis, including citations from studies on social media and mental health."
In the past, an offer like this would have been incitation to academic misconduct. Now it comes from software that the institution includes in the standard build for PCs.
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-06-10 16:16:06
Methodological foundations for locating the neural correlates of low-level visual experience https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1758591/full No mention of phosphenes, qualia, (mental) imagery; much about c…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-05-18 17:55:39
(LinkedIn) In a review of 55 cases of cortical blindness, vivid imagery was repeatedly preserved despite complete or near-complete bilateral V1 damage. When imagery was impaired, lesions extended beyond V1, often into ventral temporal cortex. https://www.
