been following you for a long time. Very disappointed at this ignorant shit you’re posting. You ARE aware of the “Degenerate Art” argument of the Fascists, right? Knowing history is your thing, right?
The Sidewalk Fruit Vendor Who Sold a $6.2 Million Banana for 25 Cents.
A 74-year-old immigrant who works outside Sotheby’s shares a basement in the Bronx and works 12-hour shifts. He was stunned to hear what his banana went for at auction.
And when he was told the sale price, he began to cry.
“I am a poor man,” Mr. Alam, 74, said, his voice breaking. “I have never had this kind of money; I have never seen this kind of money.”
There are special kinds of accounts on the Fediverse called groups, which work like superpowered hashtags:
1. People follow groups they're interested in 2. People post to a group by mentioning it in their post 3. When a group is mentioned, it boosts the post to all its followers
It's similar to following hashtags but a lot more powerful, because a group actively pushes all its posts to every server that has at least one group follower. More info at:
@lalah WTF is a list? And the problem with groups is that the owners subscribe the to hashtags scraping your posts and spraying them out to people you have blocked.
290 Approx. You're welcome. Taking the 6 pads as being indicative of 6 transports at once, with a conservative estimate leaving one pad free for safety, with limited information available, it is safe to assume this math is correct. You could push it to 350.
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🔋 At COP29, six countries pledged to 6x their energy storage by 2030, while in the U.S., battery capacity has grown to the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors in just four years.
😡 COP29 has at least 1,770 fossil fuel lobbyists in attendance, 123 with badges from the host country.
💡 Where you bank matters. $1000 in a fossil-fuel-investing bank can have the same carbon impact as a cross-country flight—every year.
From Badvertising: Polluting our minds and fueling climate chaos:
The only provably legitimate offset [for carbon emissions from a flight] would be an engineered solution that removed a measurable amount of carbon directly from the atmosphere on roughly the same timeframe as the plane exhaust put it there, and indeed this option is now available for purchase from a company called Climeworks - at a price of around $1,000 per ton. This is approximately 100 times the price of an equivalent offset from a low-cost carrier like Ryanair; readers can no doubt draw their own conclusions.
Climeworks “is the first direct air capture company worldwide to achieve certification of its carbon dioxide removal activities…”.
From what I’ve read, it is the real deal. It's not just for businesses, but for individuals too. Use them to do your own offsetting.
Cycle 200+ miles on the longest Saturday of the year, Coast to Coast, East to West, Chase The Sun. Now departing at sunrise's across England, Scotland, Ireland and Italy.
Today we rented a car and drove to Southampton to see their Christmas market. From there, we went to Portsmouth and spent the afternoon in their historic dockyard district. As a fan of Patrick O’Brian and his naval novels, I loved it. There was just too much to see and do for one afternoon. I believe another trip is required.
Here’s Ellen in front of part of Southampton’s medieval city wall.
They call them “Dutch pancakes,” but in Dutch they are “poffertjes” and I have wonderful memories of buying them from street vendors in Amsterdam while visiting my dad’s side of the family in the ‘70s. So of course we had to buy some. Hopefully we will get to
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Today we rented a car and drove to Southampton to see their Christmas market. From there, we went to Portsmouth and spent the afternoon in their historic dockyard district. As a fan of Patrick O’Brian and his naval novels, I loved it. There was just too much to see and do for one afternoon. I believe another trip is required.
Here’s Ellen in front of part of Southampton’s medieval city wall.
They call them “Dutch pancakes,” but in Dutch they are “poffertjes” and I have wonderful memories of buying them from street vendors in Amsterdam while visiting my dad’s side of the family in the ‘70s. So of course we had to buy some. Hopefully we will get to Amsterdam and buy the real thing sometime soon.
HMS Warrior, at one time the biggest warship in the world. Launched in 1861 (I believe), it was probably one of the Royal Navy’s last wooden warships.
The Mary Rose, Henry VIII’s favorite warship. Sunk around 1545, raised in 1982. Thousands of items were found with the wreck, making it the largest source of Tudor items in existence. Things like tools, weapons, personal items, etc. It was preserved in the mud off the coast of Portsmouth. It is cool to look at a leather boot and picture it on the owner as he carried out his duties, probably thinking about his wife or sweetheart back home.
I biked to Saint Albans today, and went through Varulamium Park, as I have before. But today I made a point of seeing more of the remains of the Roman walls that once were around the town of Varulamium, which was the third largest city in Roman Britain. I’m a history nut so I found it especially interesting. Enjoy the photos!
Hi !Friendica Support, I'm looking for something like the Facebook group Muldoon Area Trail Photos and Videos on Friendica, or in the Fediverse. (More info here.) I haven't had any success searching, but maybe I'm doing it wrong. Any advice? Thank you!
@Dirk Go to global directory and click on groups and scroll through. The search feature is a bit buggy but there is only 212 groups at the moment. If there isn't one you can always start one.
Hi !Friendica Support, I took a lot of photos and videos on a bike trip I recently went on. I'd like to share these photos and videos with the other participants of the trip on a platform that also gives them the ability to upload photos and videos for sharing. These participants are not (yet) users of Friendica. I'd also like to be able to limit this group sharing to just the participants of the trip -- in other words, I want to control access to the photos and videos. I've looked at the different kinds of account types (personal, organization, news, community group, etc) but if I understand them correctly, not one of them meets my requirements. Any thoughts? Thank you!
@Dirk Before you upload a large amount of image material to the instance, you should check with the admin whether this is ok.
With Friendica you can restrict access to the images... i.e. also to a certain group of people (the tour participants). This also makes it impossible for them to share the pictures directly with others.
However, as far as I know, uploading by others is not possible.
Even if this is the Friendica support forum... Hubzilla allows you to do exactly what you want. There you can create a non-public private community forum as a channel and allow members (who you allow to join) to upload. Sharing outside the forum is not possible there either.[footer]--- Sent by a #Hubzilla instance to the #Fediverse[/footer]
@Der Pepe (Hubzilla) ⁂ ⚝ Where can I get answers to questions about Hubzilla? I created an account, and the documentation describes a feature, guest tokens, that I want to use, but I can't find it in the software. Thanks!
Thank you @hoergen (Ai) and @Der Pepe (Hubzilla) ⁂ ⚝. I want to steer traffic toward the fediverse, and will take a look at both Nextcloud and Hubzilla.
@Dirk Hi, there is an article in my Hubzilla KnowledgeDB that describes the use of guest access tokens. Unfortunately only in German at the moment. However, I'll be working on the translation during the day so that an English version will be available today.
@Dirk BTW: The help is currently being revised. You can find the current status here (this is an external link that I provide so that users can find errors and report them to me):
A trade-free video hosting platform for science/technology/nature videos in the English language. You do not have to trade your currency, data, attention, freedom or anything else, in order to use it.
The bike trip ended this morning when we were dropped off in Oban. I plan on posting a lot more photos and videos in the weeks to come. For now, here's a group photo, taken in a Tesco parking lot in Oban this morning:
I'm in the front and Kathleen is in the back. In between, from L to R: Ed, Ellen, Pat, Heidi, Mary Ann, Bruce, Graham (guide) and Finlay (guide).
We learned at dinner last night that Ed blogged about having breakfast in 48 states, at Breakfast Across America. He and Pat, his wife -- called the "Healthy One" in the blog, made 5 car trips around the US to hit the 48 contiguous states and have breakfast in each one. The blog is a lot of fun. Charles Kuralt, the CBS newsman of "On the Road" fame, made a list of 12 locations to visit in the US, one for each month of the year. Ed's new pro
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The bike trip ended this morning when we were dropped off in Oban. I plan on posting a lot more photos and videos in the weeks to come. For now, here's a group photo, taken in a Tesco parking lot in Oban this morning:
I'm in the front and Kathleen is in the back. In between, from L to R: Ed, Ellen, Pat, Heidi, Mary Ann, Bruce, Graham (guide) and Finlay (guide).
We learned at dinner last night that Ed blogged about having breakfast in 48 states, at Breakfast Across America. He and Pat, his wife -- called the "Healthy One" in the blog, made 5 car trips around the US to hit the 48 contiguous states and have breakfast in each one. The blog is a lot of fun. Charles Kuralt, the CBS newsman of "On the Road" fame, made a list of 12 locations to visit in the US, one for each month of the year. Ed's new project is do so. I think he said that he only has one left -- Ely, Minnesota in July. I look forward to reading that blog!
After saying goodbye to everyone, Ellen and I went to Flit Self Drive to pick up our rental car, a tiny, 4-door Kia Picanto. After not driving a manual for 6 years or so, and never driving on the left side of the road, I'm doing it now. I'm grateful that the weather is great and that Ellen is navigating!
We did a little shopping (chocolates and clothes), got lunch at a fish & chips shop (their front window said that National Geographic rated them the 3rd-best chippy in the UK; I didn't know that Nat Geo was in the ratings business!), and then hit the road for Oban. Driving the narrow, twisty roads was an adventure. Ellen was able to appreciate the beautiful scenery a lot more than I was.
We're now in Aberfeldy, doing some laundry at an outdoor(!) laundromat. When the clothes are done, we'll check into our AirBnb nearby in Weem.
In the morning we'll finish the drive to Braemar, and watch the Highland Games!
This launderette is wild! I could see something like this in a tropical setting, but in wet and chilly Scotland?! Someone's definitely thinking creatively!
@Lany The countryside is very scenic. I've got loads of video that I hope to edit and post in the next few weeks.
There was a supply of snacks in the van and occasionally we would meet the van to get snacks and hot drinks. We stopped at cafés and restaurants for lunch, or ate on a ferry.
You guys are covering some ground! (And water, I guess! 😊) Will you be coming back to the same hotel every evening? Or moving to accommodations on another island? You're going to be in such great biking shape by the end of this trip! I know that e-bikes fill a valuable role, such as in place of cars for commuting, but you and that third guy must feel a real sense of accomplishment at the end of each foot pedal-powered ride.
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