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We don't know much about how people dealt with their periods in the past, because due to taboos, it often wasn't written down. This means one of the most direct accounts of dealing with periods in the 18th century comes from... a murder trial. Let's explore, was Sarah Malcolm a murderer, or just on her period?

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My first contribution to #FossilFriday in the fossil-named social network.

Cross section of a Cyathealean tree-fern (probably a Cibotiaceae) from the Aptian (Early Cretaceous) of Livingston Island, Antarctica.

#Cretaceous #Fossil

#skull #bones 

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One aspect one should be mindful of is that in the transience towards a #solarpunk future (both real as well as fictional), a lot of it will be made from scrap and junk and waste.
This means the age old saying of Reuse, Repurpose, Reclaim, Repair, Recycle (and a couple of other Re's).
Bicycles salvaged, and franksteined cars. Homes built from the demolished material of another. Abandoned malls converted to indoor farming or libraries.
We have SO MUCH already, it's just sitting there, waiting.

Linguistically I find debirdify fascinating: we've taken a noun that represents a brand name, added -ify to the end to turn it into an action, added de- to the beginning to make it the opposite, and we all automatically know what it means

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"the secret scientists don't want you to know!!" Dude have you ever met a single scientist? My scientist friends are desperate for me to know about the changing mating habits of Brown marmorated stink bugs. They're screaming at the top of their lungs to tell you EVERYTHING.

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My grandmother began sewing ribbon skirts as part of her healing from the trauma of residential schools.
She and my mother have always been fantastic seamstresses, frequently making my Halloween costumes.

She's now moved on to making regalia, and this is her first Plains-style regalia dress.

#NativeAmerican #Regalia #Indigenous

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Jumping off what @blaine is saying here:

mastodon.social/@blaine/109400

I work in professional fact-checking and content moderation for my day job at meedan.com and I have begun conversations about ways to do content moderation as a federated service that admins can pay to subscribe to (where moderators are paid a living wage, maybe in worker owned coops even, as opposed to big social media companies using basically sweatshop moderation labor)

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My wife saves every sea creature she finds stranded on the beach, knowing that most won’t survive

Had me thinking about horseshoe crabs, bled for research then released. How many survive that?

Something like 4-30% of bled crabs die in the process. How many make it alive into the ocean and stay alive?

This long-term survival study is surprisingly encouraging— bled crabs survive better than unbled crabs, perhaps because that acute mortality culls less-healthy ones!

frontiersin.org/articles/10.33

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#ThrowbackThursday
Kipper-the-cat in a tree in Portugal, probably winter 2007. She travelled across France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Czech Republic, England, Scotland and Wales with us. She was buried in Yorkshire in 2016 at a grand old age.
Probably needs a #CatsOfMastodon hashtag too.

@Cassana that's awesome and really helpful thank you! I'll update this evening or tomorrow. I really appreciate your time.

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Switching flights to night trains could cut 3% of total EU climate heating emissions, according to @BackOnTrackEU@twitter.com.
👀▶️ back-on-track.eu/the-global-wa
#3percentOverNight

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One question is: how to detoxify spaces without putting the load on people affected to make it right? We all have a shared responsibility for that -- but it involves letting go of privilege.

I *think* the first steps are listening well, amplifying critiques, looking for practical routes to change. But also, if you're coming at this from an engineering mindset - then chill out with that and defer those with lived and learnt experience of building inclusive social spaces

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I've seen a few folks join Mastodon and complain that it's too difficult to follow people on other servers, with the cutting and pasting and whatnot. But @bramus has now created a neat Chrome extension (or bookmarklet, if you prefer to go that route) that let's you avoid all that hassle.

I just tested it out... by following @bramus with it!

chrome.google.com/webstore/det

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Unlike worker bumblebees, the males don't return to the nest once they've left and often gather together to spend the night on flowers.

This is group of male Buff-tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) on a passion flower 💚

One to watch out for in 2023 bumblebee season!

📷 Gaynor Griffiths

#BeeTheChange #Bumblebee #Wildlife #Nature

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The view over the Somerset Levels this morning just before sunrise. Taken from Glastonbury Tor.

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Elon's take over of Twitter has set a lot of things into motion in the digital world :amaze:

Tumblr and now also Flickr are thinking about intergrating ActivityPub so it will be able to connect to the Fediverse! :fediverse:

A lot of lay offs in the mainstream social media but the Fediverse is only growing!

The world is waking up :blobcheerwitch: Social media can be fun but also privacy friendly at the same time, you got the proof now!❤️

No billioaires needed ✅

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