Posts by yetiinabox@todon.nl
(DIR) Post #AJXr3jjvFCi5Dxxb84 by yetiinabox@todon.nl
2022-05-17T13:37:56Z
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@workingclasshistory"As one of its members, Eglan Shepherd, an anarchist baker, wrote in Commonweal for June 20th of that year:"I am SO happy to know that once upon a time there were anarchist butteries. That just makes my whole week.@fitheach @athairbirb
(DIR) Post #AKNVqTYt8XhlWNBuuu by yetiinabox@todon.nl
2022-06-11T11:59:30Z
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@fitheach I had a look at Windy and realised you folk up there were really getting it quite sharply. I recalled a passage in _Ring of Bright Water_ where Gavin Maxwell describes a summer spent reading London newspapers complaining about roads jammed with cars headed to the beach (already in the 1950s, when the rail was still working!) while he, and his otters and geese, endured storm after storm after....
(DIR) Post #AKcXHb78VUomF02D7A by yetiinabox@todon.nl
2022-06-18T07:37:59Z
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When I was small, and first heard about the UN, I wanted it to be like this.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/17/fossil-fuel-firms-un-head-antonio-guterres-blistering-attack
(DIR) Post #AM13Y2m2Nku3mz4n7Q by yetiinabox@todon.nl
2022-07-30T07:57:04Z
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Down to Edinburgh yesterday -- #plasticGrass everywhere. Hot, smelly, and poisonous for wildlife. I have no idea what twisted marketing scheme is encouraging all the outdoor venues to smear astroturf all over the city. You couldn't ask for a better symbol of mindless capitalist short-term selfishness as a direct cause of planetary catastrophe.
(DIR) Post #AM16I7YV8UjJqeqNX6 by yetiinabox@todon.nl
2022-07-30T12:14:08Z
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@fitheach In the cafes and restaurants around Southside we saw it as floor covering, bench covering, fake wee garden patches - I think it might be Festival tat of some kind.
(DIR) Post #APSMzPdkTv8OWlEvRI by yetiinabox@todon.nl
2022-11-10T09:34:45Z
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@fitheachThey *hear* it reverberating in ways we can't, and it carries new smells. Windy storms have always agitated the dogs I know. Hope you're okay---it was blowy enough here on the E side of the country.
(DIR) Post #APlmcdVp1ozvhbZRvk by yetiinabox@todon.nl
2022-11-19T17:51:41Z
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Downloaded my archive from birdsite. The consulting business is more recent, as is the Autistic Cyclists' project...but my own account goes back to 2008. That's not as long as we've been married, but it's a long time.
(DIR) Post #APlmceFCJ7IHyKngem by yetiinabox@todon.nl
2022-11-19T18:05:43Z
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Mind you, I have usenet archives going back to 1984 at least....on floppies....
(DIR) Post #AQsNGEXm3Mx1rzljqy by yetiinabox@todon.nl
2022-12-22T20:15:58Z
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In Spain - yaaay!:https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2022/12/22/les-deputes-espagnols-adoptent-une-loi-autorisant-le-choix-du-genre-des-16-ans_6155414_3210.htmlIn Scotland - yaaay!:https://www.thenational.scot/news/23208757.gender-reform-bill-finally-passes-scottish-parliament/In England - oh no, trans people someplace else! :https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2022/dec/22/brexit-uk-economy-politics-conservatives-latest-news-updates?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with:block-63a489b78f08c23d9f5d6320#block-63a489b78f08c23d9f5d6320Can we please be our own country in Europe now?
(DIR) Post #ATfneWbG1PWUnRQOp6 by yetiinabox@todon.nl
2023-03-15T06:50:46Z
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@SwiftOnSecurity@Ruth_Mottram "Between the fall of the Soviet Union and 2006, the IAEA had recovered some 300 orphan sources in Georgia, many lost from former industrial and military sites abandoned in the economic collapse after the Soviet breakup."
(DIR) Post #AXOGXdzTfESSVnBDWq by yetiinabox@todon.nl
2023-07-05T16:53:12Z
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@sindastra Dokuwiki
(DIR) Post #AXx5Rre5GnOVrKWn7g by yetiinabox@todon.nl
2023-07-22T08:34:23Z
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Just a few long-range thoughts on the technical protocols underlying the Fedi, and how particular hosting servers (Akkoma, Bonfire, Mastodon, etc...) implement them.1) We don't have continuously accessible internet everywhere, and the places that lack it (Manipur, Sudan, etc..) are the most marginalised and also most colonized by FB, WeChat, etc. . Wars and infrastructure collapse aren't someone else's problem, and they are used ---created--- by disaster capitalists to extend oppressive communications technologies. Solidarity requires that we stop assuming continuous connectivity and neutral carriers. 2) The politics of any one country should inform the process of improving standards and implementations, but not determine them. 3) What we build now has to empower and connect all those excluded, oppressed communities now, and into the future as climate disasters, famine, migration, and conflict spread to affect everyone. All of us. Otherwise it's a rich person's hobby at an awkward moment.
(DIR) Post #AYpo2FwIKr6YUjP2wa by yetiinabox@todon.nl
2023-08-17T20:46:43Z
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After getting a working breadboard and code for the ESP32 overkill yoghurt maker last weekend, I spent all day soldering, testing, and slowly assembling the parts. It needs a front door now, but otherwise the first version is done. The cabinet is made from a recycled file drawer (a beautifully dovetailed remnant from at least 50 years ago, judging by the wood and jointing) and the circuitry is housed in a recycled tiffin box fixed on top.Next step is to actually use the fun bits of the ESP32 and sort out a pointlessly informative web interface - at the moment it can tell you how long it's been running and the temperature inside the cabinet.
(DIR) Post #AZonj5TsI46oYEKy6S by yetiinabox@todon.nl
2023-09-16T07:19:44Z
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A quick note on planned obsolescence - turns out quite a few steel electric kettles of a generally upright shape have the spout glued on. Of course, the glue fails, and I don't fancy trying to find a glue which is (1) heat-resistant to >100° (2) binds steel to steel and (3) nontoxic. Neither did the manufacturer.
(DIR) Post #Abqae9ZWXzThKtFd6u by yetiinabox@todon.nl
2023-11-12T08:44:41Z
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Unsurprisingly, _Science_ published an attack on academic unions. It portrays successful struggles to improve pay and conditions for PhD and postdocs as anti-individualist (!) and an attack on innocent research group leaders. https://www.science.org/content/article/student-and-postdoc-unions-proliferate-academia-scrambling-adaptAmong other gems:'Individual faculty members, who support grad student researchers and postdocs out of their own grants, are having to take a careful look at their budgets as well. “Every lab is in many ways its own little microbusiness,” says Lisa García Bedolla, vice provost for graduate studies and dean of the graduate division at UC Berkeley. 'and'“less research is going to be produced per dollar of [grant] money,” Nestler says. "This is the way the … research enterprise will have to change.”'
(DIR) Post #AbqaeBs209TESrvREe by yetiinabox@todon.nl
2023-11-12T10:56:16Z
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Just a bit of further commentary - given that universities take away a huge percentage of any research grant that academics win in order to pay the salary of managers, it's an unsubtle bit of bullying for one of those managers to talk about PIs losing funding.
(DIR) Post #Ai3F2REzWoatn3H6m0 by yetiinabox@todon.nl
2024-05-06T09:33:56Z
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One small positive result in the survey of aviation emissions <https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad3a7d> is that they find a negative relationship at a global scale, comparing per-country using linear regression, between air traffic emissions and number of railway passengers. Otherwise grim, if very useful, research.
(DIR) Post #Ake9K2aRldRuTXyHya by yetiinabox@todon.nl
2024-08-04T21:18:01Z
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Just so folks outside the UK understand: the fascists are rioting in England and Northern Ireland. There are no riots in Scotland.#NewScots #RefugeesWelcomeHere #Scotland
(DIR) Post #AuNnkbw4jYRNXZAiDg by yetiinabox@todon.nl
2025-05-23T09:31:53Z
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Sometimes it helps to see things from a different perspective.
(DIR) Post #B1JnV1T5Q9WoZurt0i by yetiinabox@todon.nl
2025-12-15T19:22:49Z
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I have a new hobby. You see, our local Lidl is where a lot of the refugees in "temporary asylum accommodation" shop. And they are trying to get food that feels like actual food, in a place where there have been some really nasty xenophobic protests.The other day it was two guys from South Sudan, and I have never seen two such tall, fine people try so hard to be invisible. But they were staring at the.tomatoes and about to buy the big, pretty, tasteless ones. Very carefully I stood next to them and picked up the small, tasty, same-price-or-cheaper ones and said, "these ones taste better." They heard me, but they weren't going to risk a conversation. So I said, to them, "These small tomatoes taste much better." Now they knew I was definitely talking to them, and having a normal market conversation."Better?""Yes, better, and not expensive. Sudan?""Yes! South Sudan." (Guarded smile)"Welcome! I'm glad you're here. The fruit is better in South Sudan, isn't it?" (Other people are listening now, and see that these two men are far from home and miss home food, and how can someone like that be scary?)Now we kept talking around the shop. And they straightened up and stood comfortably, and got better, cheaper food.So that's my new hobby. Being friendly to refugees buying fruit.