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Neues Seeadlerpaar mit Nachwuchs in NRW


In Nordrhein-Westfalen ist erneut ein sehr seltener #Greifvogel heimisch geworden. Ein #Seeadlerpaar hat laut Angaben des Kreises Lippe zwischen Weser und Teutoburger Wald in diesem Jahr drei #Jungvögel großgezogen. Zum Schutz der Tiere nennt der Kreis keinen genauen Ort. Die sensiblen Tiere seien sehr störungsempfindlich, besonders in der ersten Phase der Ansiedlung, teilte eine Sprecherin mit.

🔗 zeit.de/news/2024-10/09/neues-…
#Umwelt #Natur #Seeadler








Tonight, the White House announced an excellent new use of short message sending (SMS),
building on good work during the pandemic with vaccines.gov.

As POTUS tweeted, Americans can now 👉find a FEMA shelter nearby by ❇️texting SHELTER + their ZIP code to 43362.

That’s an innovative form of 21st century infrastructure that will endure after the hurricane passes.

civic-texts.ghost.io/as-a-hurr…

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43362 provides a few different services:

"To search for shelters near you, text **SHELTER **and your **ZIP code** to **43362**

To search for Disaster Recovery Center locations near you, text **DRC **and your** ZIP code **to **43362**

To receive general information about how to prepare for any type of disaster, text **PREPARE **to **43362**"

fema.gov/about/news-multimedia…

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This'd be a great opportunity for the whitehouse to ask private companies: meta, twitter, verizon, att, tmobile, etc form a coalition and solve "personal safety notifications" so that in any disaster (earthquake, tornado, fire, war, terrorist, hurricane, mudslide) a person could give updates to family members and friends from a central location. No more "mom worrying" situations. It'd be pennies in those companies' budgets, and a good public service.


Hi, @renchap and @Gargron

The new UI looks fantastic. Well done by your team. Two pieces of feedback from me, though. For free.

1. The contrast between icon/background in the lists modal is inaccessible. It fails WCAG guidelines. I mentioned this back in February (mas.to/@markwyner/111931171140…).

2. The failed icon/label alignment and gap. Here's simple CSS that can fix it. This also saves lots of space for long lists.

I hope this helps.

#Mastodon #Redesign #UI #Design #Accessibility #A11y #CSS

in reply to Mark Wyner :vm:

Thanks, we missed those. Can you tell me where those screens are in the app? I am not sure where we have list like those
in reply to Renaud Chaput

This is the lists modal, where you add/remove people you follow from your own lists.

@Gargron






Grave cleaning videos are going viral on TikTok. Are they honouring the dead, or exploiting them?

Cleaning the graves of strangers is the latest content trend taking over TikTok. But as millions tune in to watch the videos, it’s becoming clear not all of them are created equal. Two grave-cleaning creators in particular seem to reside at opposite ends of the trend.

One of the first accounts to gain popularity for grave cleaning was @ladytaphos. This account is run by Alicia Williams, a Virginia resident who treats the graves with great dignity. Williams will often share the story of the person residing within, and acts with grace and kindness as she restores beauty to the graves.

On the other end of the spectrum is Kaeli Mae McEwen, or @the_clean_girl, who leans into more clickbait-y tactics. McEwen is known for throwing a pink spiky ball through a graveyard and cleaning the grave it lands on. She also uses her videos to promote her own pink foamy cleaner (which at one point could be purchased via a link in her bio).



The #LoyalMountaineers of #EastTennessee keep faith with the Republic and Union of States.

You don’t need to get excited about it, but the Southern Appalachians are going to be a humanitarian disaster in a matter of days.

#RockyTopEngineer #Helene #StateofFranklin #WesternNC #solidarity




Canada: Wet’suwet’en Chief Dsta’hyl declared first Amnesty International prisoner of conscience held in Canada

amnesty.org/en/latest/news/202…



I don't know if this will be appreciated or obnoxious but here's the #Bash script I used to #toot a LOT of things in a single thread.

The script can do listed or unlisted replies, with or without content warnings.

But does require the #toot #Python package from #pip

Any suggestions or improvements are welcome.

gist.github.com/iaintshootinmi…



. @ThePSF #python shit show continues:

discuss.python.org/t/shedding-…

- at least two persons banned
- a bunch of postings flagged and hidden
- suppression of opinions
- moderators hiding behind the CoC
- moderators hiding behind the Discuss system
- the CoC committee is hiding, as always
- the typical "either you are with us or you are our enemy" attitude
- no further communication in Tim Peter's case

As said: the SC and CoC committee have to step back. Their attitude sucks, their behavior sucks.



There are no participation ribbons for voting. There is only winning and losing. And the only thing worse than losing is knowing you could have changed the outcome if you hadn’t stayed home on election day.

#vote #voteblue #KamalaHarris #election2024 #democrats #democracy




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in reply to Dan Gillmor

This is brilliant! And perhaps too much work for "low-information" voters. But what a payoff!


W4 introduces W4 consoles, a subscription-paid service to port (in one-click, apparently) Godot 4.3+ games to consoles (including Switch and PS5 at the moment). More details here: w4games.com/blog/w4-games-news… #godot #w4 #w4consoles #linuxgaming #linux #gamedev

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The one-click deployment requires first to subscribe to a one-year subscription which is initiated by filling a multiple clicks form.
w4games.com/request-quote-w4co…