@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-02-09 16:00:45
"Feeling chirpy: how listening to birdsong can boost your wellbeing"
#Birds #Nature #Environment
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-02-09 16:00:45
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-03-06 23:27:35
Good luck neighbours! It looks like basement flooding season will start with a bang over the next few hours.
#dlws
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-02-06 22:34:09
Feeling chirpy: how listening to birdsong can boost your wellbeing https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/04/feeling-chirpy-how-listening-to-birdsong-can-boost-your-wellbeing
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-03-21 12:05:22
I walked into this nice house yesterday, marched the family living there out at gunpoint, murdered all the neighbours, and took the whole block for myself.
Calm down, calm down, my name’s Israel.
Ah, right, no worries, you don’t have to apologise. I can see why you were confused and thought you might have had to get angry at me before you realised who I was. It was a silly mistake, think nothing of it. We both know you’d never criticise anything I do… you’re not antisemitic.
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2026-02-27 15:58:45
Even after so many policy changes on housing, that this kind of shit can still happen is very discouraging.
From the article:
Members said they found Malhotra’s plan both inappropriate and undesirable — too tall for the street at six storeys, even while they acknowledged its height would be within regulations under a new law and therefore not subject to their approval.
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-02-23 08:51:08
Ex-presidents and prime ministers of Barbados (Freundel Stuart), Dominica (Edison James), Grenada (Tillman Thomas), Guyana (Donald Ramotar), Jamaica (Bruce Golding and PJ Patterson) St. Lucia (Kenny Anthony) and Trinidad & Tobago (Keith Rowley) praised Cuba’s long-standing commitment to their Caribbean neighbours through medical brigades, educational scholarships and and disaster relief.
Blockade of Cuba is now putting lives at risk. | Morning Star
@knurd42@social.linux.pizza2026-02-17 08:29:42
""From my home office, running Bluehood in passive mode (just listening, never connecting), I could detect:
* When delivery vehicles arrived, and whether it was the same driver each time
* The daily patterns of my neighbours based on their phones and wearables
* Which devices consistently appeared together (someone’s phone and smartwatch, for instance)
* The exact times certain people were home, at work, or elsewhere
None of this required any …
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-02-23 16:45:46
I recently chatted with Tabitha Fritz of the Canadian Business History Association about my research on the wealth management strategies of the Wendat couple and snowshoe and moccasin manufacturers Marguerite Vincent La8inonkie (1783-1865) and Paul Picard Honda8onhont (1788-1871).
From the 1830s, they shift from investment in land to investment in mortgages, whereby they provided capital to their French-Canadian neighbours in exchange for annual interest payments.
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2026-03-08 18:25:36
Just returned from a short walk and experiencing our first snow melt around the new neighbourhood. At our house inspection last April the 2 sump pumps in the basement were running constantly due to a heavy rain outside. The ditches were full of fast flowing water and since we were so close to the lake I asked our agent to check into any flooding problems. We were told that there were no issues at our end of the small community but a little further south was designated a flood zone. Our new neighbours confirmed that there has been no flooding on our street in 30 years.
These photos were taken 2 streets south of us, perhaps a metre difference in elevation. Town of Innisfil crews were out blocking streets with cones and keeping culverts free of ice and debris. I now understand why almost no houses/cottages in this area have basements.
#Spring2026
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-01-18 17:45:26
With minimal support from the city (it's supplying water), some neighbours have built a small skating rink in the park. It's at once modest and fantastic.
@pre@boing.world2026-03-02 00:39:38
Content warning: #war #iran
It is such a mystery, why do American presidents start patriotic wars far from home when they are unpopular and the mid-terms are coming up and there's incriminating evidence against them in the news every day. 🧐 🤔
Nothing like this has ever happened before.
Some say he's doing what he promised and ending the forever wars!... By winning them!
Israel thinks that having the country next door fall to chaos and civil war makes them less of a threat. I don't think that's right, but I think that's what motivates them. Those in charge of it's military want that Greater Israel with bigger borders and smaller neighbours.
Trump thinks he can go down in history as the saviour of the world and if he just chops off the head of the regime the people will rise up and be a liberal democracy. I don't think that's right either. He thinks similarly about Venusualia.
The US administration aim to take control of the global oil supply for private American and multinational owned corporations. Their power is rooted in control of the literal power supply. Oil. Distributed clean energy is a threat to their power. They want to stop all this solar windmill crap and go back to good old fashioned tax and control of centralized oil distribution hubs.
Starmer just thinks he has no choice and he has to do what America says and can't risk the Telegraph and the Mail calling him antisemitic. He falsely accused thousands of not-terrorists of terrorism and is putting them through courts as terrorists for the same reason.
@buercher@tooting.ch2026-02-27 20:36:48
Hannah the plumber
Spencer spoke of her pride in being a working-class woman from the constituency. That she understood how hard the cost of living crisis was for everyone. How she valued the way neighbours still looked out for one another. Multiculturalism had defeated the toxic politics of the right.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/27/hannah-spencer-speech-gorton-denton-byelection-sketch?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2026-01-25 14:52:09
Good Morning #Canada
Tod Maffin, former #CBC Broadcaster, is now referred to as an expert on Canadian culture and Identity, and a viral content creator. If you have followed Tod over the past few years you have seen a progression from explaining Canadians to our southern neighbours to becoming politely militant in the face of an increasingly hostile U.S. government. His latest contribution deserves the Order of Canada and a superhero cape. He launched a social media campaign to attract American #Healthcare workers to his community and from there the Healthcare Infusion Organization was born. There are now 20 chapters across Canada focused on recruiting and supporting doctors, nurses, and healthcare professionals in local communities facing staff shortages. He has done more to improve Canadian Healthcare than any level of government in this country.
Follow him at @…
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://youtube.com/shorts/K6HOJyoHrpo