Today for #WildlifeWednesday we bring you a grey squirrel from Exeter in the UK.
Grey squirrels are famously an invasive species, pushing out the smaller native red squirrels. However, they are thought to be doing worse in some areas now due to a resurgence in pine marten populations: these predators will eat greys in preference to reds, because the larger, heavy grey squirrel has more food on it and is easier to catch. (bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-540603…)
When writing fiction and creating new settings, we often don't think about how these smaller elements and ways in which ecosystem elements balance against one another. Is there more we could do with that?
#Worldbuilding #Ecosystems #WritingCommunity #SFF
Israeli authorities shut the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron to Palestinian Muslims Wednesday for four days to allow illegal settlers to celebrate two Jewish holidays.
“Israeli occupation authorities closed the mosque on Wednesday to celebrate the Sukkot and Yom Kippur holidays," Director of the Ibrahimi Mosque, told Anadolu.
The site will be open to Israeli settlers to perform Talmudic rituals and organize celebrations.
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I am SO EXCITED about the new #Python 3.13 REPL. But I wonder if it wasn't a bit rushed...
There's no PEP, close to no docs, it's not intended-feature complete, it has surprising behavior and bugs. That's OK for new software, but is it for a major and mature project like Python?
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#linux #opensource #tecmint
Si jamais (par accident) vous passez par twitter, ne manquez pas ce fil de Nicolas Da Silva qui a lu le dernier rapport de la Cour des comptes.
Il explique comment la politique d'évitement du salaire vide les caisses de la Sécu:
Missing Thunderbirds footage found in British garden shed
5, 4, 3, 2, 1, new Supermarionation is GO!Iain Thomson (The Register)
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Time for the Python Developers Survey. Let's go team!
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Die Stadt Graz bietet ab jetzt wieder kombinierte Grippe und Covid Impftermine im Gesundheitsamt an. Unkompliziert mittels Online-Terminbuchung möglich.
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#Graz
Ich freue mich sehr über unsere neue Folge #DickeBretter
Diesmal sprechen Constanze und @eliza mit Simone Ruf über das Konzept Sachverständigen Anhörungen im Rahmen von Gesetzgebungsverfahren.
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Eine schriftliche Version findet ihr wie immer bei @netzpolitik_feed
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Großer Dank geht wie immer a die Chaosradio Crew!
US officials have said that there is a “growing distrust” between the Biden administration and the Netanyahu government over what the Israelis are telling the Americans about their military and political plans in the multi-front war it is waging, Walla reported on Tuesday.
The distrust is growing against the backdrop of the attack that Israel is planning against Iran, in response to the latter’s missile attack last week.
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Biden is so deluded that he probably thinks he will be celebrated as a hero in the history books. 🏴☠️
In a rematch, mama bear Grazer defeats rival that killed her cub to win Fat Bear Week
The annual Fat Bear Week honors bears that have sufficiently bulked up in the months before entering hibernation.
#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Smaller Sibling
Often overlooked due to its proximity to Goðafoss, this neighbouring cascade has the same volume but is much narrower, forming an interesting chute.
The geology around it is particularly beautiful too, with basalt formations and rock arches. In winter, we've seen ptarmigan in these caves, white plumage obvious against the brown rock.
Geitafoss on the Skjálfandafljót river in Þingeyjarsveit, NE #Iceland.
#WaterfallWednesday #DailyPhoto #LandscapePhotography
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Seaweed is devouring Aotea Great Barrier Island.
"To save the ocean we're going to have to kill the ocean"
"The former Federated Farmers president turned ACT MP is as fresh as can be. Elected in 2023, a month after becoming an MP he was Minister of Biosecurity."
#DanMoskovitz, 2024
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You what now? We've got Queen St Farmers into charge of f%&king biosecurity? The people who wanted to import an infectious disease to kill rabbits (and eventually did in violation of biosecurity rules)?!?
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Speaking of which, one thing I didn't notice was any discussion of what's *feeding* the algal bloom. FedFarmers types love to deflect from that question by babbling techno-solutionism at us. Just like the coal industry love to babble about carbon capture (a mythical technology right up there with zero-point energy).
Why? Because what's feeding the algae is most likely the same thing it usually is; nitrogen-overloaded farm runoff.
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I don't know enough about the ocean currents around Aotea to speculate on where that runoff might be coming from. But someone who does could tell you which major rivers feed into the waters around the island. I guarantee you that the industrial farms bordering those rivers are the true source of the algal problem.
So that's the supply side. So what kind of intervention might actually help, *without* killing the ocean to save the ocean?
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As the late, great Bill Mollison once quipped, "the problem is the solution". The example he gave was that a gardener doesn't have an oversupply of slugs, but a deficiency of ducks : P
I once heard another permaculturist, USAmerican David Blume, talking about using weighted nets to grow kelp in nitrogen-poisoned oceanic dead zones. Then harvesting it for food, salt, biofuel, whatever.
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Just as ducks turn slugs into eggs, the people of Aotea could be turning the poison feeding their algal problem into a fuel source.
If they can grow and harvest enough noninvasive algae, maybe they can get toasters? ; )
@sj_zero
> but given that the byproducts were to be disposed of likely by burning without doing anything productive with it, you're getting a lot more useful energy out of one unit of crude oil, making things much more efficient
Agreed. If you're going to kill the bison, use the whole bison.
Of course, with both fossil fuels and bison, you reach a point where you realise that in most cases you shouldn't be killing the bison at all. But as you say, that's a separate issue.
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J'offre en échange un lien vers le même contenu permettant de réduire la nuisance de l'Étron Musqué :
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Il faudrait que je regarde les ordres de grandeur
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"J'entends bien mais c'est une supposition : vous êtes sur Twitter.."
"NON, je ne suis pas sur Twitter, je viens de vous dire que je n'y mettais jamais les pieds sur Twitter. J'aime pas ça Twitter. Je hais Twitter. Twitter rien que de m'en causer ça me donne l'envie d'envoyer des mandales dans la tronche à tout ce qui remue."
#LoL
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