Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

@incurablehippie Oh my, it gets better… this is the response the big man managed to muster 🤣

If you pay attention to how people who either have questions about or openly oppose trans people/trans rights/trans medical care, you'll notice that they always talk about abstractions and unknowns.

What "How do you define the word woman?" has in common with "More research is needed." has in common with "Trans women could dominate women's sports." is that none of these have to do with anything concretely happening, now, in the real world.

@bethsawin If someone pitched libraries today, it would be a startup hawking a monthly subscription model with different tiers and cheaper plans where you don't have access to new books. It would be valued gazillions thanks to proprietary partnership with publishers.
Free public libraries is such a revolutionary concept.

@bethsawin @KLB See also the #origami nail clipper.

Yes, it's done from a single piece of paper. There are videos of the designer folding one.

I have noticed a lot of my friends from Twitter have adopted adding alt text since moving here. You don't get an award or anything, but *I* noticed the change and I think more highly of you. I will kiss you with tongue

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

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

#InverteFest

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: https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/27/badly-handled-data-breaches-2022/

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

@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!

@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.

@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!

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.

https://theconversation.com/altruism-in-birds-magpies-have-outwitted-scientists-by-helping-each-other-remove-tracking-devices-175246?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton

“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
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/27/wood-burning-stove-environment-home-toxins