🌈 Bacteria spin rainbow-colored, sustainable textiles
#bacteria

Bacteria spin rainbow-colored, sustainable textiles
In the future, clothes might come from vats of living microbes. Reporting in the journal Trends in Biotechnology, researchers demonstrate that bacteria can both create fabric and dye it in every color of the rainbow—all in one pot. The approach offers a sustainable alternative to the chemical-heavy practices used in today's textile industry.

Masto Admin Tip

Every masto admin surely knows to regularly clean up cached media from remote servers with the command
But do they also know that this doesn't include remote profile images from users who mostly probably haven't even logged in at home for years?
So likely admins should also run
To remove remote profiles that haven't been needed in a month?
I only discovered this last night, and running it examined nearly 400,000 accounts and removed 86Gb, or 70% of the media storage space!
Now instead of being 100% full, our media drive is 29% full.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Beastie Boys Bar-Kays:
🎵 Shake Your Rump
#BeastieBoysBarKays
https://therealdjbacon.bandcamp.com/track/beastie-boys-bar-kays-shake-your-rump-to-the-funk-7-version-disco-remix-clean
https://open.spotify.com/track/2qq0RYYIuQxXcOxQKN0drC

Democrat Christian Menefee won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election Saturday
that will narrow Republicans’ already-slim majority, telling Donald Trump that the Democratic district “topples corrupt presidencies.”
Menefee, the Harris County attorney, prevailed in a runoff against Amanda Edwards, a former Houston City Council member.
He will replace the late Rep. Sylvester Turner, a former Houston mayor, who died in March 2025.
The seat representing the heavily …

Democrat Christian Menefee wins House seat for Houston in special election
Democrat Christian Menefee has won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election that will narrow Republicans’ already-slim majority. Menefee, the Harris County attorney, prevailed Saturday in a runoff against Amanda Edwards, a former Houston City Council member. He will replace the late Rep. Sylvester Turner, a former Houston mayor, who died in March 2025. The seat representing the heavily Democratic Houston-based district has been vacant for nearly a year. Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott didn’…

"Europe to Ramp Up Offshore Wind in Push for Energy Independence"
#Europe #Energy #Renewables

Europe to Ramp Up Offshore Wind in Push for Energy Independence

The Goal Must Be Removal (Brian Beutler/Off Message)
https://www.offmessage.net/p/the-goal-must-be-remove-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p64#a260202p64

Every time I try to use Obsidian I just dont understand how anyone can use this fucking editor?
Who thinks opening a quote with ``` should then visually start a quote block and put the ``` inside the text of the quote block? And then when you remove the ``` it removes the quote block?
Or when you make a "*" bullet list it visually makes a bullet list but then also put your bullet in the bullet list which you then have to remove?
And that's in "source"…

exactly the post-jazz age/pre-WWII romp i needed. #books

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it.
Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
-- Perlis's Programming Proverb #58, SIGPLAN Notices, Sept. 1982

Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins solidly red Texas Senate seat in stunning special election upset (Alejandro Serrano/The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/30/texas-senate-district-9-runoff-rehmet-wambsganss-special-election/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260201/p3#a260201p3