Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

Prompt 3: Stars

By far the cutest Hungarian origin story involving stars is from the Lake Balaton area:

They say a hedgehog wandered across the sky, accidentally poking holes in it, and that's how the Milky Way came to be.

🦔 🌟 🌟 🌟

#FolkloreWeek #FolkloreWeek2022 #folklore #folktales #hedgehog #stars

There's lots of great things about cycling as a #disabled person. For me: freedom, reduced pain physical activity & car-free independence.

But there are also lots of barriers.

One that I often face on cycle infrastructure is the beg button being close to the road. This means I either have to sacrifice Frida & the bucket to traffic or park further back & dismount. And not all disabled cyclists can dismount easily.

#CyclingDisabled #ActiveTravel #CargoBike #CargoTrike #ClimateaChange

Them: Faving posts on Mastodon is useless, only the OP sees it.

Me, when a post gets faved: awwww, little internet hug ✨

a sourdough starter is just an artisanal tamagotchi for millennials

Not all ant-butterfly associations are mutually beneficial. In the case of the Large Blue (Phengaris arion), this relationship has developed a sinister twist!

Large Blue caterpillars are adopted by red ants and carried back to the ants' nest. Once inside, however, the caterpillar turns parasite on its hosts and starts devouring ant larvae! 😱 Much like a Cuckoo, it fools the ants into thinking it is one of their own young, mimicking both their chemical scent and the calls made by a queen ant.

"Like many forms of pseudo archaeology, these claims act to reinforce white supremacist ideas, stripping Indigenous people of their rich heritage and instead giving credit to aliens or white people"

https://theconversation.com/with-netflixs-ancient-apocalypse-graham-hancock-has-declared-war-on-archaeologists-194881

Me: So you have to somehow pick a server?
Yep
Me:Then choose some software application to use it?
Yes
Me: Will I be able to contact people on other servers?
Probably
Me: How do I find them? And how do they find me?
Not quite sure.
Me: Will I lose everything if they stop supporting the server?
Errrr...probably not?

Me: Sorry, but this electronic mail thing is never gonna work.

@linuxfiend after watching him, no one should ever suffer from imposter syndrome again.

Twitter users are all like “I don’t know if I can trust a bunch of career sysadmins and network engineers to run their own Mastodon instances” — meanwhile Elon is just running around the Twitter data center going “what’s this button do?”

Did you know about the Global South Climate Database? It's a free searchable database of climate experts from the Global South to help elevate under-represented voices on #ClimateChange. Check it out!

https://www.carbonbrief.org/global-south-climate-database/

Lack of language-specific moderation has literally facilitated genocide.

The only responsible action would be to disable Twitter in these regions. If Twitter doesn’t do that, governments may.

Note too that it appears that the copyright strike system is down. People are posting (in 2-3min segments 😂) commercial movies to twitter.

https://twitter.com/aaschapiro/status/1594015149311946752?s=12&t=Lzhqzc_-SzMRovspN64tgA

Possibly the easiest leaf mine to identify in the #UK, the Holly Leaf Miner (Phytomyza ilicis). These mines are caused by the larvae of a small fly that tunnels through the inside of the leaf. Very obvious at this time of year, I seldom encounter #Holly without at least a couple of mines. In #Bath, #Somerset. #Nature #Wildlife #Flies #Entomology #BritishWildlife

There seems to be a lot of misconceptions about how to set up Mastodon.

1. You do not have to sacrifice a duck. Any waterfowl will do.
2. The bit about dancing around naked in a forest glade? While dancing is fun, you may just walk.
3. When the demon appears, you needn’t chant in Latin. It is fluent in all languages.

The rest of the guide is correct.

Thinking about the adaptability of #trees today. How ancient junipers like these have flowed so differently in their centuries of growth because of pressures faced long ago, from lightning strikes and buckling winds to storms lifting them partially out of the earth. The resilience needed to remake the arrangement, counterbalancing a suddenly altered centre of gravity or reshooting from a shattered, fire-scorched crown. The stories of endurance held by the heartwood.

As a blind individual, I have to say that #Caturday on #Mastodon is far far more enjoyable then at #Twitter, where the vast majority of cat photos are not described.

It is also been fascinating for me to hear descriptions written by those who sent the image, immediately followed by Apple image recognition’s attempts to describe the same image. Only rarely does that add anything to the ALT, & often directly contradicts it.

There is no auto magical solution to image description. It is something best done by a human, for only that human can explain the “why” of the image: the reason that image was chosen to speak so eloquently without words for those who can see it. ALT allows you to provide those words.

Casa Pueblo, out of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, is so much more than the solar-#microgrid power project or #resilience scheme you might be tempted to take it for. It’s a comprehensive “proyecto de #autogestión comunitaria,” or initiative in community #selfmanagement, developed under the dual pressures of acute vulnerability to Atlantic hurricanes and the malign neglect of the US federal government – and it’s one of the most inspiring things I’ve come across in my research. https://casapueblo.org/