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Rebel Optimism: How We Thrive in a Broken World

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A good read for the Christmas
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To Stop Climate Change, We Have To…Burn MORE Fossil Fuels?

If the only way to stop climate change is to burn more fossil fuels in the short run, then we're already doomed.
Alan Urban (Collapse Musings)
#climate #christmas #society #trade #holiday #civilizasion #colapse
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Is your hobby actually the hobby or is it buying stuff for the hobby?

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Merry christmas #keistamintis #hertaburbe #comicsstrip #caricature
https://hertaburbe.com/2024/12/25/merry-christmas/
#caricature #hertaburbe #keistamintis #ComicsStrip

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Festive Swamp Wednesday! 🎉🎄

I'm super happy with this: this xmas day marks a full year of a couple 100 sqm of our woodland being submerged!

Our little anaerobic wetland is an area that -until it was planted with spruce in the 1950s- for many years was some type of peat bog nestled in the sandy expanse of jutland. I hope it's capable of restoring itself without too much help from us.

#woodland #nature #christmas

Photo of a small bit. Standing water slowly being overtaken by a diverse collection of adapted plants. The water is not truly "standing" but actually very slowly draining (below the surface) into a system that eventually drains into the waddensea near Esbjerg. We're not influencing it too strongly. Mainly I make sure any aspiring conifers go the way of the christmas tree..
#nature #christmas #woodland

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As requested some more photos. Phone died when I was out there so no overview shot.

It's mostly around 15 cm of "clean" water and then a wet peaty / soggy grass layer of varied thickness.

This type of nature isn't necessarily beautiful or awe inspiring. It's pretty cool to see it progress though. And the species variety during the year (both in plants and critters like dragonflies) is nice to see.

Shallow area
A more open area with water and little heaps where tree trunks stand, rotting away.
Another open area
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Figured nature can do with a bit of optimization, and I with a bit of exercise.

So instead of "letting nature be" my inner Dutchman* decided we need to have a proper dike. It'll be a 40 to 50 meter long structure on the lower, draining, side of the bog. This afternoon I did the first 15 meter.

As I am not sure yet how exactly this area retains water I'll take winter and spring to monitor.

*what I really crave for is a little polder.

#forthechildren #nature #woodland #SwampSunday

Water on the left, dryland on the right. A dike to divide them.
#nature #forthechildren #woodland #swampsunday
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A #MerryChristmas and #HappyHolidays to all of @Mastodon world! Have a great day! ❄️☃️

Today's RadarSat 2 SAR satellite image close to the North Pole (showing sea ice): polarview.aq/arctic

SAR Satellite image via Radarsat 2 from the Canadian Space Agency for 25 December 2024, which shows sea ice close to the North Pole.
#merrychristmas #happyholidays @Mastodon

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🎄 New comic! "The magic of Christmas " A short tale for the holidays, I hope you'll like it! 🎁
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#webcomic #krita #ArtWithOpensource #CreativeCommons

Painterly comic panel: On the porch of a house, under a snowy night, a little girl sits curled up in a blanket. Near her, a postman is talking to her.
#krita #webcomic #creativecommons #artwithopensource

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The magic of Christmas

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When people believe that their feelings define reality, they’re incredibly easy to manipulate.

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Manipulating people who want to feel superior over any other people of difference is how this works. Lyndon Johnson said this about racism, clearly today it covers bigots, misogynists, xenophobes and anyone who does not agree.
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It’s not just TikTok or Meta though. It’s us.

We tell ourselves we’re above it, that we want “real content,” but our clicking and sharing habits tell a different story. The platforms might be dealing the cards, but we’re the ones choosing to play hand after hand, shoveling this shit down our own throats and asking for seconds.

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A very simmilar story in 1000 pages trom book- the origin of the most problems. The same ironic story about music industry - you can find at tromsite books - which are trade-free for everyone.
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The ice at Santa's workshop is thinning away... #NorthPole 🎁🧑‍🎄

Check out my blog from November 2022 for more on this graphic: zacklabe.com/blog-archive-2022…

#northpole

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Unfortunate yet completely expected. At some point the north pole narrative, created as a distraction to hide the true location, won't work any more...

No wait ignore what I just said!

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soon no the northwest passage shipping lane will be reality all year round and Russia will take advantage of it 😐 🚢🛢️
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⚪ Mehr... Lieblingsfotos?
🟤 More... Favorite photos?
📷 by Artist: #KarunchaiTreetrong 🇹🇭 in Loc.: #QuarryBay / Yick Fat Building, 1048-1056 King's Rd/ #Hongkong 🇭🇰 2024 - Title: untitled - #Art #Streetart #PhotoArt #Artist #Fotografie #Architecture #Travel #Photography ➡️ #APhotoLove
Photography. A color photo of an eighteen-story skyscraper with a red double-decker bus in Hong Kong. The photo shows the lower part of a huge skyscraper with countless windows, most of which have small metal boxes for air conditioning. In front of it is a red double-decker bus with advertising (for Toshiba) and next to it a train. The wooded mountain behind the building marks a straight green line in the photo, which makes the photo special. Both fill the entire picture. On the left is the ugly gray concrete wall with countless tiny windows that form a straight cut to the impressive green of the trees on the right. The train forms a straight bottom line and the red bus stands exactly between the building and the mountain. A photo with several levels and a great view of the photographer. Info: The Yick Fat Building, also known as the Monster Building, was built in the 1960s. It consists of several five buildings that merge into a huge architectural complex and are all connected by a very narrow inner courtyard. It is therefore one of Hong Kong's most famous photo motifs on Instagram. Visitors call it the "Monster Building" because the buildings resemble a Transformers-like monster. It consists of 2,243 units that are 18 storeys high. Currently, 10,000 people live in the complex.
#Fotografie #art #Photography #HongKong #travel #artist #architecture #StreetArt #photoart #aphotolove #quarrybay #karunchaitreetrong

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@Atomic_Samson @Vo @sj_zero
I concepted this smartypotty a long time ago as a joke, and then it actually became a thing. 💩 cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/V…
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The extent of #Arctic sea ice is still a record low and is currently more than 400,000 square kilometers less than the prior record for today's date. This previous record was set in 2016. The data here is from JAXA's Arctic Data archive System.
Line graph time series of 2024's daily Arctic sea ice extent relative to the record low for each day. All days in 2024 were above the previous record until mid December.
#arctic

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Our lack of critical thinking explains so many complex societal threads — technology, media, economics, education, demographics, and culture.

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Nice it touches the origin of the most problems - trade. I could be added in 1000 pages book "The origin of the most problems" tromsite.com/trombooks/#flipbo…
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I don’t know if anyone else has noticed but there are some real cunts on this here World Wide Web
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Good morning. ☕☕☕

14 December 2024

I recall times many years ago when I would get up to go to work on a winter morning and it would be so cold that I could not stop shivering. I would light the oven to warm up and watch some local country variety show on TV because it was the only channel that I got ... I read a lot more books. That was the norm for me way back when. Now-a-days though it's all about central heat and air. 250+ TV channels, and streaming. Of course, back in the day, we didn't have home computers, internet, cable, satellite TV, or cellphones. Hmmm ... I did have a digital watch and thought it was fancy.

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." - Carl Sagan

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #nature #morning #technology #landscape #RedRiver

"The image shows a scenic view of the Red River near Pineville, Louisiana. The foreground features a variety of grasses and reeds growing along the riverbank. The middle ground includes a section of the river with lily pads and other aquatic plants floating on the water's surface. Several trees are growing along the riverbank, providing a natural border between the water and the land. In the background, there is more greenery, including a grassy area and additional trees. The overall scene is lush and vibrant, showcasing the natural beauty of the river and its surroundings, highlighting the rich biodiversity and tranquil environment." - Copilot
#Photographer #Photography #Photo #technology #nature #landscape #morning #photographylovers #redriver

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@Beasley

Today's young people will probably reminisce in the future about the days when people had to actually have something in their hand to make a phone call or look up something on the internet.

@R.Marx

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Enshittocene
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#Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
#enchittocene
#newscientist
#news
#2024

From enshittocene to virome, science and technology's words of 2024

Here are 10 words that entered our vocabulary this year, capturing discoveries at the cutting edge of science, elusive emotions and the various ways technology is changing our lives
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#News #newscientist #cory #2024 #enchittocene

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spent 6 hours in walmart challenging random shoppers to duels with pool noodles until security removed me. the spirit of combat is dead in this country

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Pool noodles are underrated. When social distancing was a thing, I thought about strapping on a couple of them pointing out from me, like sea urchin quills. Didn’t do it because that would have meant leaving my house which was not happening. How many social dilemmas could we solve with pool noodles? I’m guessing quite a few. Your pool noodle dueling at Walmart is inspired!
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By any metric, we're the most documented civilization ever. Future historians should have an unprecedented window into our daily lives, thoughts, and experiences.

Right?

Right??

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entropy wins all the cookies. Wrote about this here monkeynoodle.org/2024/01/20/no… which will disappear if I stop blogging…
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will there be historians of this civilization a few hundred years from now? Probably some other species million years later digging up the Earth's crust and calling us the plasticzoic era.
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