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"‘Brownfields can be rich habitats’: the abandoned oil refinery where wildlife now thrives"
#Wildlife #Environment

Enough is enough, Jerry: How the Cowboys’ soap opera is embarrassing their fans https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/enough-enough-jerry-how-cowboys-soap-opera-embarrassing-their-…

"The cult of goal-setting thrives in this illusion. It converts uncertainty into an illusion of progress. It demands specificity in exchange for comfort. And it replaces self-trust with the performance of future-planning."
(Original title: Smart People Don't Chase Goals; They Create Limits)

Smart People Don't Chase Goals; They Create Limits
A few years ago, I sat across from a friend at a late dinner. He was telling me about his new promotion, the big title, the bonus, the corner office. I remember watching his face as he described it. He looked like someone describing a story he’d once believed

A profile of Nigerian fintech PalmPay, which raised $140M from Transsion and other Chinese firms, says it has 35M registered users, and aims to be "super app" (Aanu Adeoye/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f9b54a77-3565-4c0a-91f1-d78fc63659ae

Nigeria’s PalmPay thrives on ‘ultimate competition’ of cash
Chinese-backed payment app has focused on customers excluded by traditional banks, growing to 35mn users

I reject Nazis and fascism in all their forms. As an autistic person, I know firsthand how dangerous and dehumanizing their propaganda can be. I am worthy of dignity, life, and respect. No one has the right to threaten my existence or the existence of anyone else with violence, sterilization, or genocide.
Fascism thrives on hate, lies, and the oppression of marginalized people. I am committed to fighting against it, educating myself, and resisting its influence. If I ever repeat or int…

TIL that the UK won the 2023 SpoGomi world cup. (and that "SpoGomi" is competitive litter picking.)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/26/japanese-competitive-litter-picking-spogomi-sport-thrives-in-u…

Boundless, which bought crowdfunding publisher Unbound in March, tells authors that royalties accrued before March won't be paid until Boundless is cash stable (The Bookseller)
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/unbound…

Unbound authors will not receive unpaid royalty payments until new publisher Boundless 'is cash stable'
As founder John Mitchinson leaves, Unbound authors learn they will not receive historic royalty payments for sales of their books unless Boundless "survives and thrives".

Meanwhile, free speech thrives on #Bluesky. 🙄
That post has the same content as the Mastodon post here (minus the edit note):
https://hachyderm.io/@smurthys/114593880388311757

The Origin of Structure in the Auroral Ionosphere
Magnus F Ivarsen, Kaili Song, Luca Spogli, Jean-Pierre St-Maurice, Brian Pitzel, Saif Marei, Devin R Huyghebaert, Satoshi Kasahara, Kunihiro Keika, Yoshizumi Miyoshi, Yoichi Kazama, Shiang-Yu Wang, Ayako Matsuoka, Iku Shinohara, Shoichiro Yokota, P. T. Jayachandran, Glenn C Hussey
https://

The Origin of Structure in the Auroral Ionosphere
The auroral ionosphere presents a paradox: turbulence often thrives in a conductive layer that should suppress the growth rates of plasma instabilities. Using a novel composite power spectrum from coherent radar and GPS data, we show that turbulence on a wide range of scales stem not from local instabilities. Instead, its spectrum is a structural imprint of field-aligned electrical currents, and its dissipative character is governed by the flux of precipitating particles. Our measurements provi…