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Neal Romanek  

I've been #drawing #ants. Slowly, steadily, one by one...ants.

Here's Lasius niger, your common black garden #ant.

#InverteFest

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Zack Whittaker  

It's not the breach that customers remember, it's how a company responds.

With that in mind, @carlypage and I look back at the most badly handled data breaches of 2022, featuring DoorDash, Samsung, LastPass, Revolut, and Rackspace, to name a few.

More: techcrunch.com/2022/12/27/badl

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Matt Hodgkinson  

@afewbugs Even trendier pursuits like gig going suffer from this. Support acts, set times, curfew? Only on social media.

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Jennie Blake  

@afewbugs it is so frustrating! I can see why some may think editing a webpage is too much faff, but surely they need to make sure the info is out there more easily? I hate having to go to Facebook!

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llewelly  

@afewbugs
really, the dissolution of twitter ought to be a stern lesson in what a horrid idea it is for organizations to only do updates to social media.

But I don't expect many to recognize it.

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Dutch Barracuda🏳️‍🌈🛠☢️🌎♻️  

@afewbugs My pet peeve has been Discord.
Don't get me wrong, it's a great tool, the servers are feature rich, the bots useful, integration with other services like OBS and Twitch and games an absolute masterpiece.
But it is synchronous, rolling and constant. It's not like a forum or a page, so don't put stable and important information on it and expect it to be a file server or bulletin board or about page!

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Jules  

Also desperately trying to justify my grumpiness in terms of wider social needs, but surely putting the information as text on the website is more accessible than in a Canva picture of a Christmas tree? Particularly unimpressed with you, Library

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Jules  

Is this a millennial thing, to expect there to be useful information on the website? Do gen Z just go straight to social media? Do I have to admit that I'm finally old? Should I have come to terms with that when I was planning a trip to a garden centre?

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Something that makes me very "get off my lawn" in my old age is the way organisations and companies don't seem to update their websites anymore, they use social media instead. I've had to check for holiday opening hours on the pages for my local library, climbing gym, wholefood shop and garden centre, and only the garden centre had them, I had to go to Facebook or Instagram for the others.

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Jules  

Surgery, diet culture 

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I wonder why 🦆aka Ducky🦆  

Altruism in birds?

When we attached tiny, backpack-like tracking devices to five Australian magpies for a pilot study, we didn’t expect to discover an entirely new social behaviour rarely seen in birds.

Our goal was to learn more about the movement and social dynamics of these highly intelligent birds, and to test these new, durable and reusable devices.
Instead, the birds outsmarted us.

As our new research paper explains, the magpies began showing evidence of cooperative “rescue” behaviour to help each other remove the tracker.

theconversation.com/altruism-i

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Jules  

Surgery, diet culture 

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Surgery, diet culture 

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Michael Warhurst  

“Wood smoke is astonishingly harmful. Though only 8% of households in the UK (mostly wealthy ones) have a wood-burning stove, they release more small particulates (the most dangerous pollutants) than all the vehicles on the road. Even a modern, approved, “eco-friendly” wood burner produces 750 times as many fine particulates as a heavy goods vehicle.”

#AirPollution #ClimateChange #Energy #Wood
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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Ed Bott  

Our mistake was turning them back on.

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Dave nλ=2dsinθ  

UK Covid modelling data to stop being published so government can continue to pretend they did a great job.
#COVID #UKNews
bbc.co.uk/news/health-64093155

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Jules  

@Ruth_Mottram @sarahtaber selv tak!

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@Ruth_Mottram @sarahtaber Repair What You Wear has some good free tutorials repairwhatyouwear.com/mending-

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@sarahtaber I finally got around to darning a pair of hiking socks this Christmas. They were admittedly expensive socks in the first place, costing about £15, but I estimate it took me about four hours in all. Minimum wage in the UK is £9.50 an hour, and I earn more than minimum wage. Economically it would make far more sense to buy new socks, and honestly it's only the fact I enjoy darning as a restful activity that makes it make sense for me

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Sarah Taber  

Spending 10+ hrs this weekend mending clothes that I couldn't get around to for over a decade thanks to serious overwork

and sitting with how this sweater got into this condition because its first owner couldn't keep up with high-maintenance clothing as her body deteriorated

has really been an exercise in thinking about how time is the only thing we have.

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