2025-11-14 06:05:46
😅 When indoor plants go overboard: Too much greenery can raise stress levels, research finds
#stress
😅 When indoor plants go overboard: Too much greenery can raise stress levels, research finds
#stress
A new 'hypertropical' climate is emerging in the Amazon, exposing trees to deadly stress https://phys.org/news/2025-12-hypertropical-climate-emerging-amazon-exposing.html
"Surely the average neurotypical straight White people at least know the basics of stereotype threat, passing privilege, and minority stress, right?"
"And quartz, of course"
"Of course"
https://xkcd.com/2501/
It's been quite a day today. Quite ... challenging. But with a good end.
The mood of this photo is now exactly what I needed: a calm, chill hike in low hanging clouds. Just a few people - no stress, no expectations, no talking, no phone ...
#landscape #photo
Anxiety and insomnia linked to sharp drops in key immune cells #health
Sources: Samsung raised the prices of some memory chips by 30%- 60% compared to September, amid shortages, adding to stress for companies building data centers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/samsung-hikes-m…
Check out my latest article - "there's more to life than constant stability"
https://www.brichapman.com/p/theres-more-to-life-than-constant?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn
My brilliant (almost) 13-year-old is learning about verbal nouns and adjectives in his language studies class
This morning I discovered that he pronounces "gerund" with the stress pattern of "Gerard"* not "Jared"
And now I'm doubting *my own* pronunciation of that word
* His choice is almost certainly influenced by his current favorite rocker Gerard Way
The Resource
The podcast is diving deeper into money stress, mindset shifts, relationships, and the stories we tell ourselves...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-resource/
😧 Astringent, sharper mind: Flavanols can trigger brain activity for memory and stress response
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-astringent-sharper-mind-flavanols-trigger.html
Very bummed to hear the news that friend John Collier is dealing with prostate cancer, and about to undergo radiation treatments. Great guy and sitting on an absolute wealth of musical knowledge. Radiation is a rough road for anyone, but John could really use some funding to get through copays and car repair, to support him through the treatment process. Hang in there John, you got this.
Webland: Störung bei Schweizer Webhoster seit zwei Wochen
Der Ausfall eines großen Webhosters seit über zwei Wochen bringt vielen Unternehmen und Privatpersonen Hektik, Stress und Verdienstausfall.
https://www.
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Series D, Episode 02 - Power
VILA: Not too close. The gap is all connected with the thickness of the door. So what's the difference between Seskas and Hommiks?
PELLA: How do you know how thick it is?
VILA: By the stress pattern.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/132 B7B4
#Steady-#Klimacrew
Im #Nachrichtengeschäft nimmt die Menge an medialen Inhalten exponentiell zu, und damit auch die Häufigkeit potenziell verstörender und traumatisierender
Stress in pre-modern times was a “biological superpower”
that helped humans hunt for food and survive in harsh environments and situations.
But our bodies can’t easily tell the difference between the stress of encountering a lion in the jungle and a worrying email from your boss
https://
It's always lovely to have the doubters get their asses academically kicked when it comes to Ada Lovelace's actual mathematical capabilities, but at the same time, I am so, so, so tired. Just so very tired. From an open access 2017 Historia Mathematica article debunking the idea that Lovelace was not a competent mathematician.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Vacuous:
🎵 Stress Positions
#Vacuous
https://vacuousdeath.bandcamp.com/track/stress-positions
https://open.spotify.com/track/1jrHe6rA4OX5GuWeHoCh6v
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6G4PaS9BNkIuGqMo44rbfZ
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg
Life hack*: Put dentist or scary doctor's appointments on the same day as important and also scary work commitments (talks, deadlines) - then the stress at work won't leave time to worry about the other thing 🙃
* In a few weeks I'll report back whether this works or was just a colossally stupid idea leading to failure in both work and life appointment 🙈
Som Fru Dörr sjöng:
När man ska spara pengar
Så får man krama ur dem
Ur våra slitna ryggar
Ur våra trötta ben
https://mastodon.nu/@gufo/115886179825076010
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115521925373470883
I can't stress this enough, please call. Ideally multiple times a day. If they go through with this, IT WILL LITERALLY KILL PEOPLE because they can't afford health insurance anymore.
I’m somewhat annoyed by big parts of the “AI” discourse (“it’s useless” is patently wrong/wishful thinking and “it’s morally wrong” won’t convince anyone) so this banger by Cory Doctorow was godsend:
> [S]ome people will be on the workers' side because of politics or aesthetics. […] But if you want to win over all the people who benefit from your labor, you need to understand and stress how the products of the AI will be substandard.
Civilians at the Pentagon continue missing paychecks while working alongside troops getting paid (Haley Britzky/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/05/politics/pentagon-civilians-pay-stress
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p146#a251105p146
Da in manchen vielleicht ja milde Weihnachtstorschlusspanik herrscht mag ich anmerken, dass alles, was bei mir im Shop in dieser Rubrik hier #artShop #artForSale
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I cannot stress enough how effective economic attacks have been as a tool throughout US history. They're basically *the thing that works* historically.
Edit:
Someone else pointed out that the American Revolution started with a big economic blockade. The Civil Rights movement involved a boycott of Woolworths and there was the bus boycott. Yeah... lots of examples, and a lot of them ended with their demands being met.
Oura launches a redesigned app with a new metric to show a weekly overview of stress management and says it is working with the US FDA on a blood pressure study (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/802527/oura-ring-stress-blood-pres…
Packers' Matt LaFleur won't stress significance of facing Aaron Rodgers ahead of Week 8 showdown vs. Steelers
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/p…
New dietary guidelines delayed again
as RFK Jr. plans to reject expert panel's recommendations
Kennedy wants to stress saturated fats and discourage ultraprocessed foods.
The administration will miss its legal deadline to release the update.
> This mod adds mainly one thing with vast ramifications: a system for calculating the stress-strain curve of metals in the game. If you arent familiar with stress-strain curves consider getting a Materials Science Engineering degree or looking at this wikipedia article (whichever one is cheaper and less soul draining).
i love vintage story mods
Du bist schon soweit?
Ja, lieber wir gehen etwas früher. Ich will kein Stress.
(Aber genau das stresst mich... Der Zug fährt erst in 45 min.)
Good piece on SolarWinds' Tim Brown that illustrates the emotional damage cyber incidents pose to defenders.
‘I lost 25 pounds in 20 days’: what it’s like to be on the frontline of a global cyber-attack
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
Nachrichtenkonsum killt uns: "Als es 2013 einen Anschlag auf den Boston Marathon gab, waren zum Beispiel diejenigen, die den Anschlag im Fernsehen verfolgt hatten, gestresster als die Personen, die live vor Ort dabei waren."
Via @…
The takeaway sentence here: “[T]wo-thirds of new data centers built or in development [in the US] since 2022 are in places already gripped by high levels of water stress.”
This is particularly pertinent here in #Australia, where already, once-plentiful artesian water’s dwindling, nitrogen- and phosphorus-rich runoff chokes waterways with algae and destroys coral reefs, and
Financial stress from AI infrastructure spending, overhiring, and recession fears, rather than AI adoption, is likely driving layoffs in the tech sector (Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91435192/chatgpt-llm-openai-jobs-amazon
"How climate change can make people more likely to get into violent conflict"
#Climate #ClimateChange
…
Krisenchat für Kinder: Anfragen wegen Konflikten steigen an den Feiertagen
Für viele junge Menschen bedeuten die Feiertage rund um Weihnachten Stress. Krisenchat stockt aufgrund der steigenden Nachfrage seine Kapazitäten auf.
Guten Morgen
11/12 von 2025 haben wir hinter uns. Wir haben es bis in den Kongressmonat geschafft! Die wenigen Tage bis dahin mit Jahresend-Stress auf der Arbeit, Geschenke-Kauf und Familien-Problemen stehen wir auch noch durch!
#39c3
Let's stress test the Fediverse on new year's.
Let's all make a nice "happy new year!" post (add media for bonus) and see if our beautiful decentralised network can handle it.
Boost for increased load. 😎
#Fediverse #Mastodon
#cycling to work is great for science if it can be done without stress 🚲. I must have written some good chunks of my papers in my head while cycling to work. I come up with and flesh out the ideas while cycling, then just need to write them down when arriving - perfect! (It helps that my research is *about* cycling 😬)
This seems like it might be helpful.
#selfHelp #selfCare
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/27/nx-…
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BOFH excuse #32:
techtonic stress
We are told that, under stress, the humanities must be sacrificed
-- of what use are literature, philosophy, and history when we have problems to solve right now?
And yet colleagues meeting in wartime Kyiv have a clearer sense of purpose, more esprit de corps, , and a better instinct for the essential.
And soldiers on the front (as they tell me) want to talk about history and culture.
In traumatic conditions, people think about where they stand amidst larger force…
Der diesjährige Mineralcup mag entschieden sein. Dafür gibt's nun das Gemüseturnier.
Endlich wieder für die Favoriten mitfiebern.
Ob die Verlierer zu Julienne verarbeitet werden, weiß ich allerdings nicht.
https://fnordon.de/@Gemueseturnir/115419582382298568
In ant colonies infected by a tapeworm parasite, uninfected workers show signs of stress-related gene activity, in part because they're caring for infected nestmates (Photo by Matt Hamer, via AntWiki)
Parasite prevalence in a social host has colony-wide impacts on transcriptional activity and survival
https://doi.org/10.1093/ev…
Wüsste gern, ob da die Kosten eingerechnet sind, die entstehen, weil Leute ihre Wohnungen verlieren, dem Stress nicht standhalten und krank werden, deren Kindern die Unterstützung fehlt, die sie brauchen, um durch das kaputte Bildungssystem zu kommen. Und so weiter.
Fucking Pseudopolitik.
"Keine "nennenswerten Einsparungen" durch Bürgergeld-Reform"
Six years after I flamed out, reading a few pars of this burped my glands of enough cortisol & adrenalin to induce a twinge of nostalgic queasiness. There but for the grace of god, etc, etc.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
For my linked dipole, I came up with using high-shrink (I use 4:1) marine (lined with heat-activated glue) heat shrink tubing and dacron line for making neat links that wind nicely and avoid putting stress on the wire.
Today I realized that I could use the same technique to put loops at the ends of my end-fed antenna and …
Newsletter #Pflege - genau mein Humor =)
Insbesondere, wenn man nach einem Dienst sogar zu fertig ist, um noch die Überlastungsanzeige zu schreiben.
#Altenpflege #Pflegenotstand
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Apprendre Š jouer Š Bolt Action - Episode 3 : Tir et Stress - YouTube
#boltaction
Antarctica’s collapse may already be unstoppable, scientists warn https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251106003941.htm
9,000-year-old ice melt shows how fast Antarctica can fall apart
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JamzSupernova
Annahstasia:
🎵 Stress Test (6 Music Session, 26 Nov 2025)
#Annahstasia
https://annahstasia.bandcamp.com/track/stress-test
https://open.spotify.com/track/0UehMLxaN4JAEhldH8VUFY
shoutout to Muni operators keeping their buses and the city moving under chaotic conditions with a lot of signals out 🫡
I was on a 22 passing 16th & Bryant and wondered why it was taking so long. the signal was out at that ridiculous intersection!
the professionalism and focus under stress of Muni’s well-trained union operators is an inspiration every day
"les différences entre générations sont statistiquement insignifiantes sur tous les indicateurs clés du monde du travail : satisfaction, engagement, motivation, valeurs, équilibre entre la vie professionnelle et personnelle, stress, intention de quitter son emploi."
https://
:heart_trans: I can't stress this enough, #TransRightsAreHumanRights :heart_trans:
Colts teammates praise Daniel Jones for playing through pain https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47204700/indianapolis-colts-daniel-jones-plays-pain
'The stress is just always there,' as thousands of FAA workers go without paycheck (Alexandra Skores/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/us/faa-workers-without-paycheck
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p123#a251030p123
Yes, forest trees die of old age. But the warming climate is killing them faster #environment
EU leaders welcome
‘new momentum’ in Ukraine peace talks
but stress red lines on territory
Swedish PM says Russia
‘must be forced to the negotiating table’
as European leaders meet in Angola to discuss Geneva talks
US and Ukraine promise ‘updated’ peace framework
after criticism of pro-Russian points in original plan
🥴 Cops on ketamine? Largely unregulated mental health treatment faces hurdles
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-cops-ketamine-largely-unregulated-mental.html
Hui, das wird zukünftig aber leicht für die invasiven Arten. 🤪
Und dann rennen hier überall Leoparden rum und so. Voll der Stress.
https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/115441513714801574
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Okay, my saga today...
Part 1
My cunning plan of postponing my boob squeeze appointment until late October when it would be warmer was a bust because Canberra's weather today did not cooperate.
But...
because I watched my bus speed past me 3 minutes early while I was attempting to cross the road in front of it, I panicked and caught a bus going in the opposite direction in the hope I could catch a fast bus from the interchange in the right direction. Stress clock wa…
NFL power rankers are getting a stress test this season, and loving it https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6741802/2025/10/23/nfl-power-rankings-headache-fun-parity/
Do you feel that you are too dependent on Big Tech and overwhelmed by the number of services you use?
Are you afraid of the amount of work it takes to get out? - I totally feel you!
But the best is to just start. Start with one service at a time.
Don't overthink it too much.
Don't stress yourself.
Just do the first step. And do the second when you're ready.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JamzSupernova
Annahstasia:
🎵 Stress Test (6 Music Session, 26 Nov 2025)
#Annahstasia
https://annahstasia.bandcamp.com/track/stress-test
https://open.spotify.com/track/0UehMLxaN4JAEhldH8VUFY
Any sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.
Nifty preprint with an experiment coevolving Brassica rapa with pollinating, herbivorous butterflies. With bumblebee co-pollinators or heat stress added, the plants evolved stronger anti-herbivore defense; with both bees and heat, they evolved... to attract butterflies?
https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.06.686
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👁️ Natural brain opioids help us 'see the bigger picture' after rewards
#bran
Longi just hit a major breakthrough in flexible solar tech: 33.35% efficiency for a perovskite-silicon tandem cell.
That's certified by NREL and represents a huge leap forward. The cell uses a clever dual-buffer layer design for better durability—it kept over 97% efficiency after bending and heat stress tests.
This could unlock solar panels that bend and flex for new applications.
MIT study shows high-fat diets give liver cancer a dangerous head start #nutrition
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DreamTime
Annahstasia:
🎵 Stress Test (Live at Maida Vale)
#Annahstasia
https://annahstasia.bandcamp.com/track/stress-test
https://open.spotify.com/track/0UehMLxaN4JAEhldH8VUFY
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Animals are developing the same chronic diseases as humans #animals