@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-06-28 16:58:23
One of the reasons I appreciate walking, biking, and public transit so much (aside from just being a more joyful/connected way to travel, and better for our environment) is because they starve so many absolutely awful billionaires/corporations/oligarchs of profit. Oil companies, car manufacturers, large chain stores..
https://
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-06-26 18:35:23
Today I recalled an event from my youth.
One day, as I was walking home from school, a car driver stopped me. He asked if I'm from around here. Naturally, I found that quite inappropriate, since he has no business learning where do I live. But I answered. So he's asking me if I know where tire repair shop is. I answered that I don't. So he asked me again, "but are you from around here?" Well, that was too much, so he got a short explanation that just because I live here, that doesn't mean that I need to know every single company around here, and since I am not a driver (obviously — after all I was a school kid), I have never needed tire repair shop.
I suppose that worked quite well, since he drove away at this point. As he drove away, his car revealed a tire repair shop poster on the fence opposite.
The obvious lesson here is: if you need something, ask straight instead of going through silly helper questions.
@timfoster@mastodon.social2025-04-27 15:06:52
Two rather different implementations of a V10 engined car, today at the Down Royal Motor show.
There was a nice selection of cars on display, and as usual at these things, some gems in the visitor car park as well. https://timfoster.smugmug.com/Events/Down-Royal-Motor-Show-20…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-06-30 15:20:48
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq
Denzel Curry:
🎵 Walkin (Glastonbury 2025)
#DenzelCurry
https://denzelcurrymusic.bandcamp.com/album/walkin
https://open.spotify.com/track/1q8DwZtQen5fvyB7cKbShC
@pgogl@troet.cafe2025-06-26 04:24:32
Versprechen gebrochen: Regierung senkt Stromsteuer nicht für alle!
Es wurde von der Union im Wahlkampf versprochen und im Koalitionsvertrag festgeschrieben: Die Stromsteuer sollte für alle Verbraucher gesenkt werden. Dies passiert nun aber doch nicht, billiger wird es nur für Industrie und Landwirtschaft.
Und Gas macht man nicht billiger, ihr Dödel!
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-06-26 10:55:09
Good Morning #Canada
OTD in 1977, Tim Severin landed on Peckford Island, Newfoundland. Severin had set sail from Ireland on May 17th with a five-man crew in a boat built using only techniques and materials available in sixth-century Ireland. The arduous 7,300km journey was meant to prove that St. Brendon had discovered North America almost 1,000 years before Columbus. I'm sure we were polite and didn't smirk when we welcomed him to Canada.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Myth
https://lookingnorth.blog/2020/07/the-brendan-voyage/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-06-19 08:30:50
Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, still earns profits from Substack subscriptions despite ceding editorial control of the Huckabee Post to his son (Dave Levinthal/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/news/huckabee-substack
@arXiv_astrophEP_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-06-26 09:00:40
Measurements of three exo-planetesimal compositions: a planetary core, a chondritic body, and an icy Kuiper belt analogue
Jamie T. Williams, Boris T. G\"ansicke, Snehalata Sahu, David J. Wilson, Detlev Koester, Andrew M. Buchan, Odette Toloza, Yuqi Li, Jay Farihi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19931
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-20 04:39:36
Idaho pastor Douglas Wilson can be provocative.
He once wrote that “slavery produced in the South a genuine affection between the races.”
He’s said that “sodomy” is worse than “slavery”;
abortion, he’s written, is “as great an evil as slavery” due to what he sees as its ability to spark a civil war.
He told me last year that he regards the American state as the “biggest blasphemer” of them all.
But beneath the provocations is a vision of a remade
— and Chri…
@davej@dice.camp2025-06-21 13:53:04
