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Cormacs Coast mastodon (AP)
A patch of fossilized communal Coral eroding out of the Burren limestone - visible traces of the tropical sea that covered this area over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com walking tours

#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #fossil #irishfossils #Coral #burrenandcliffsofmohergeopark #atlanticgeoparks #Ireland

pzmyers 🦑 mastodon (AP)
Vivian Wilson exposes Elon Musk's parental incompetence.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/26/vivian-wilson-strikes-back/
Vivian Wilson

Anna Kennard mastodon (AP)
"From the day failures in the 70s to get the Equal Rights Amendment passed to Trump's getting elected despite bragging about assaulting women to his corrupt illegitimate super-majority on the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, the GOP’s war on women and embrace of misogyny is hardly new. But the elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris to the top of the ticket has revealed a very simple and unsettling truth — Republican men are really bizarre when it comes to women."https://open.substack.com/pub/marytrump/p/a-feature-not-a-bug?r=1oktco&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

@mcSlibinas I know.
I was there...with the computers. Tandy CoCo's.
mcSlibinas mastodon (AP)
@fmhilton oh, our computers also better than 1984.
It's because our 1984 is better or it's unrelated fact? 🤔

Transgender World mastodon (AP)
Three French drag artists took the main stage ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics, making history as some of the first in drag to carry an Olympic torch.

https://glaad.org/french-drag-artists-made-history-as-first-in-drag-to-carry-the-olympic-torch/

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Bob Lai diaspora
There are other options, like designing and manufacturing an all new part and sending it up via supply run to be installed.

And we're back to 'user-serviceable' - if it were a valve or circuit board, sure, I could see it. A software patch, easy.

But this is something Boeing did not figure out during a month of delays prior to launch, and has not figured out since.
Adam Hunt diaspora
Nope they haven't, so let's see what the fix is. Regardless it will have to be fixed by those there at the ISS.

tomgrzybow diaspora

Latest on 2024 race as Harris kicks off campaign


https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/kamala-harris-biden-trump-election-07-23-24/index.html

Who is standing for the _poor?_
frater chaos diaspora
we don't really have separate elections for pres and veep. they are a team.

there are weird cases where it can happen, which is why you keep seeing this thing about the pres and the veep can't be from the same state. Technically, they can, but the electors can only vote for a single position from the state the elector is representing. So if Kamala chose Newsom, all the California electors would have to choose which of the two to vote for, and then their other vote would have to be for someone else from another state (and Cali has 49 electors, one of the biggest states as electors go)

It can literally lead to a situation where you have a pres from one party and a veep from the other. (not too likely though, because as far as I know, no pres has ever tried choosing a veep from the same state)
tomgrzybow diaspora
I'm glad I asked.

;-{

Mongabay mastodon (AP)
The Congo rainforest is home to one of Africa’s least-known and most threatened monkeys: the golden-bellied mangabey.

Golden-bellied mangabeys form extraordinarily large troops of dozens of individuals, and field observations reveal a complex social structure reminiscent of that of humans.

By Liz Kimbrough
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/drcs-golden-bellied-mangabeys-a-little-known-but-much-threatened-monkey/

#News #Conservation #Environment #Wildlife #Animals #EndangeredSpecies

unusual_whales mastodon (AP)
Business activity grew at its fastest pace in 27 months during July, according to the latest S&P Global flash US composite PMI.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

The Japan Times mastodon (AP)
As much as half of a town at the heart of Canada’s national park system has been destroyed by a pair of wildfires that roared in from two sides. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2024/07/26/canada-wildfire-tourist-spot/ #environment #canada #wildfires #jaspernationalpark #jasper #jasperwildfire #alberta

Ned Hamson mastodon (AP)
Kevin Roberts, architect of Project 2025, has close ties to radical Catholic group Opus Dei | US news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/26/kevin-roberts-project-2025-opus-dei


"Dann gibt es nur eins!" SAGT NEIN!- Wolfgang #Borchert
Klar ewig her ... 1947. wer kann sich an den alten Scheiß schon erinnern. Lieber all die Fehler nochmal machen....
#literatur #gedichte #krieg #verantwortung


ADHDean mastodon (AP)
Just got told I can no longer hang out at Lamaze classes selling shirts that say BIRTHWORMS


Kevin Leecaster mastodon (AP)
Do you want to know why someone would price their memoir at $150?

Because they know they're not going to sell many of the books so might as well try to make as much money as possible from each of the scores of sales.
https://www.threads.net/@gtconway3/post/C94eeC9ppDJ
Sasyecat mastodon (AP)
We'll get the real story when she's a widow, along with his offspring, except coked up Donnie and no brains Eric.
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Brian Jopek mastodon (AP)
Fucking vote is absolutely correct.
#FuckProject2025
#FuckTheHeritageFoundation
#VoteBlueGoddamit
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DEDGirl mastodon (AP)
@Nazani There are not enough “fit” families to adopt the children we have already. Again, that’s not reality. Even working husbands won’t be able to afford most rents on that 1 income, so who’s unfit? Are they going to take all the kids away from “nuclear” families that can’t afford to live on 1 income, ‘cause that’s millions of American families. 🤷‍♀️ Are they going to lower rents or raise wages so this can be their reality. No.
Nazani mastodon (AP)
@DEDGirl I would bet that some kind of Nazi-inspired collection into group homes for "suitable" children is what they want.


REPORTERRE // Larguer des lentilles d’eau, la nouvelle « ruse » pour saboter les mégabassines


Vendredi 19 juillet, des activistes ont lâché des lentilles d’eau dans une mégabassine, par la voie des airs. L’objectif ? Bloquer sa pompe et incarner « la revanche du vivant ».

#BassinesNonMerci


Steve Schwinghamer mastodon (AP)
"... the market alone couldn't assure a good life for everyone. Given its shortcomings, bureaucrats and politicians from across the political spectrum believed they were right to use the power of the state to improve the lives of all Canadians."

- Tina Loo, "Moved by the State, " p25

Like many things about modern governance, this sounds okay until it really doesn't. At least these 1940s-1970s folks weren't trusting matters of state to the stupid invisible hand.

#CdnHist

With new-to-me e-mail accounts I suffer from ADD — Attachment Deficit Disorder.

Our health care system is broken and you can tell how.
Infant mortality rose in 2022.
There is NO excuse for this, but the GOP thinks it's "every baby for itself' once it's born.
https://www.wmtw.com/article/us-infant-mortality-increased/61700447
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An FSF associate membership comes with tantalizing benefits such as a 20% discount on FSF merchandise and email forwarding. Learn more: https://www.fsf.org/associate/benefits #BecomeAnFSFAssociateMember

Please allow myself to introduce me. I'm a man of wealth or bad grammar.

glauber ribeiro mastodon (AP)
Wow! What did you eat?!!

Ash Doyle mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Wordle

Kevin C 🎬 mastodon (AP)
I'm just stunned people guessing the first letter of this word so quickly! 😄
Ash Doyle mastodon (AP)
@kcarr2015 I’ll never abandon this starter word! Gotta find those vowels.

Zelda 👑 mastodon (AP)
Here's the babies
#CatsOfMastodon #cats
Two kittens sharing a cat bed, one of them is falling out

Strypey mastodon (AP)
I just made a text-only white board for my desktop. I called it Anything.

Here's how I did it, in case you want to make one;

1) Install GNU/Linux (I used LMDE 6)
2) Open the GUI text editor
3) Save as "anything.txt"
4) Close the text editor
5) Open a terminal
6) Figure out a command to open that text editor, to that file
7) Go to the desktop settings and find the controls for managing StartUp Applications
8) Add a new one using "custom command", using the command from step 5

Done!

(1/?)
Strypey mastodon (AP)
I don't know if my Anything white board counts as programming or not, but it *definitely* counts as hacking (in the playful, constructive sense of the word).

I like the way that representing app creation as a program of steps to be followed by people, rather than the computer, demystifies what programming does.

I just made a repo for Anything, with a 'first patch idea' (self-erasing white board), and porting instructions for other OS;

https://codeberg.org/strypey/Anything-White_Board/src/branch/main/README.md

(2/2)

A local Maine coffee company is donating to the Harris campaign:
https://www.wmtw.com/article/maine-coffee-by-design-proceeds-kamala-harris-campaign/61697288
I bet Starbucks won't be..

How stars' magnetic fields could impact the chance for life on orbiting planets

How stars' magnetic fields could impact the chance for life on orbiting planets

Habitability depends on more than just a planet's distance from its host star. New research looks at the impact stellar magnetism has on exoplanets.
A large glowing orange sphere with green loops emerging from its poles. It is surrounded by smaller blue%2D grey and brown spheres


From Concordia to the Moon



Image/photo
Image:

Concordia is a research station in Antarctica that places you farther away from humankind than even the International Space Station. Every year, ESA sponsors a medical doctor to spend a year, or "winterover," at Concordia station. This year, our medical doctor is Jessica Kehala Studer, who is seen in this picture gazing at the Moon and the vast expanse of Antarctica. Around May, the Sun dips below the horizon for the last time, and the crew experiences four months of total darkness, with temperatures dropping to –80°C in winter.

The station serves as an analogue for space, mirroring the challenges and conditions faced by astronauts such as isolation, extreme cold and darkness, along with their impact on health. Concordia is a unique platform for research in human physiology and psychology, as well as astronomy, meteorology, glaciology and other fields.

Last Saturday, we celebrated Moon Day: 55 years ago on 20 July 1969, humankind stepped on the Moon for the first time during the Apollo 11 mission. Today, ESA is a key part of NASA's Artemis programme which aims to return humans to the Moon. The insights gained from ESA's experience in analogue facilities such as Concordia will be invaluable for this mission.

Find out more about Concordia on our blog.

McIntosh mastodon (AP)
Tagging the pc2.0 community that I know are here in Nashville. I would love to set a dinner or something. I loved the energy of the Lounge tonight but i couldnt hear much at all. Trying to carry on a convo was tough. @Meremortals and I did have a nice game of pool.

I’m flexible. Lunch or dinner-I know @dave has to record tomorrow afternoon so lunch tomorrow is probably out. I’m heading home Sat night. Food .. whatever. A quieter place please!

@ericpp still trying to catch up with you.
McIntosh mastodon (AP)
How could I forget @merryoscar and Nick ?? ( sorry I don’t know nicks handle on here… )

'Mr Pillow' :bc: mastodon (AP)
Godfather remake with Timothee Chalamee

"The Lighthouse" (2019, Robert Eggers) except it's just the lighthouse keepers from Chewin the Fat, in black and white
The Lighthouse (2019, Robert Eggers)
One of the lighthouse keepers from Chewing the Fat waking up to find the other keeper has pranked him by putting a seal in his bed. It's in black and white though.

Mike Kuketz 🛡 mastodon (AP)
Android RSS-Reader Tipp: Read You. 👇

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.ash.reader/

#rss #android #app
HomemadeAdvanced mastodon (AP)
funktionierte lediglich FreshRSS als App. (2)
jakob 🇦🇹 ✅ friendica (via ActivityPub)
@Mike Kuketz 🛡

Friendica mit der Webapp und Channels als PWA auf Android ist MEIN RSS-Reader.

Das hat den Vorteil, dass ich Artikel die mir gefallen ohne Umweg sofort im Fediverse teilen und mit Kommentar versehen kann...


Israel tried to frustrate US lawsuit over Pegasus spyware, leak suggests
The Israeli government took extraordinary measures to frustrate a high-stakes US lawsuit that threatened to reveal closely guarded secrets about one of the world’s most notorious hacking tools, leaked files suggest.

Israeli officials seized documents about Pegasus spyware from its manufacturer, NSO Group, in an effort to prevent the company from being able to comply with demands made by WhatsApp in a US court to hand over information about the invasive technology.

Documents suggest the seizures were part of an unusual legal manoeuvre created by Israel to block the disclosure of information about Pegasus, which the government believed would cause “serious diplomatic and security damage” to the country.

Pegasus allows NSO clients to infect smartphones with hidden software that can extract messages and photos, record calls and secretly activate microphones. NSO’s clients have included both authoritarian regimes and democratic countries and the technology has been linked to human rights abuses around the world.

Since late 2019, NSO has been battling a lawsuit in the US brought by WhatsApp, which has alleged the Israeli company used a vulnerability in the messaging service to target more than 1,400 of its users in 20 countries over a two-week period. NSO has denied the allegations.

The removal of files and computers from NSO’s offices in July 2020 – until now hidden from the public by a strict gag order issued by an Israeli court – casts new light on the close ties between Israel and NSO and the overlapping interests of the privately owned surveillance company and the country’s security establishment.

The July 2020 seizures were made after Israeli officials and the company appear to have discussed how to respond to WhatsApp’s requests for NSO to disclose internal files about its spyware, raising questions about whether they coordinated to conceal certain information from US legal proceedings.



Steve Herman mastodon (AP)
The Robert Menendez Elementary School will revert back to its original name: PS #3. https://newjerseyglobe.com/local/robert-menendez-elementary-school-will-get-a-name-change-mayor-says/
#3
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Dick Telder mastodon (AP)
My opinion; Should be a rule to not name any public property after a person while they are alive.

Steve Herman mastodon (AP)
Three men with ties to neo-Nazi groups were sentenced today for various conspiracy and firearms offenses in connection with a racially-motivated plot to take down the power grid in the northwestern US. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/defendants-ties-white-supremacy-sentenced-connection-plot-destroy-energy-facilities
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Jon McLeod mastodon (AP)
Funny it's never "radical socialists" doing this shit. Because they're the ones we're all supposed to fear, according to Trump.
Runyan50 mastodon (AP)
But Biden is old, right?

Shawn Webb mastodon (AP)
Looking for suggestions on 8TB+ hard drives that will be used in a busy NAS.

NAS specs:
  • 2x2.5gbps NICs
  • Eight 3.5" SATA hot swap bays
  • 64GB RAM
  • #HardenedBSD 14-STABLE with #ZFS
The first two drives will be mirrored for OS. That leaves six bays for data.

Budget: $2400 USD for ten drives. Not looking for top-of-the-line server drives, but rather best-bang-for-the-buck.

edit[0]: The storage will be accessed via iscsi and nfs by three servers in the same network with 2.5gbps NICs.

#selfhost #homelabs #storage
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viq mastodon (AP)
I've been using WD Red, but I'd need to check what the new models are like.
Might be worth having a look at backblaze blog for their harddrive stats they publish.
TomAoki mastodon (AP)
IIRC, at least some of WD Red are SMR and some are CMR.
And IIRC, Seagate IronWolf are (basically?) CMR.
I don't recommend SMR drives for busy NAS'es. The penalty of flash-like writes could be too huge, unless the NAS is not at all busy.
#NAS #SMR #CMR
#NAS #SMR #cmr

Kevin Leecaster mastodon (AP)
Do you know why Merrick Garland has had historic success towards holding leaders of the transnational organized criminal networks accountable?

It's because Joe Biden is so damn experienced in geopolitics that's why.
https://journa.host/@w7voa/112852256774808333

A week and a half after we published this text, the Democrats finally compelled Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race. But our argument stands—not just because it took almost a month for Biden to withdraw, and not only because he simply passed the torch to Kamala Harris, who represents the same policies and the same ossified bureaucracy as Biden, but because all the problems we face remain as intractable as they were before he dropped out.

If democracy is so fragile that it could be abolished as the consequence of a single election, then it was already bankrupt—it was never a means by which to secure and defend the self-determination that everyone deserves. We need something more ambitious and resilient. We need a movement capable of facing down fascism as well as forcing out anyone else who tries to rule over us. We need a set of values, organizing principles, and strategies that can keep us oriented through the nightmare that is undoubtedly ahead.

A real solution would not change who the Democratic candidate for president is—it would render it irrelevant.

https://crimethinc.com/BidenDoomed
This text:

Why Stop at Removing Biden?
The Center Cannot Hold

...over a picture of a sinking ship.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. mastodon (AP)
I'll go further: this original post is privileged as fuck, naive as fuck, AND stupid as fuck. It's basically every negative attribute in one puritarian pile of unicorn shit. Grow up.
Insult us now if you must, but if Trump takes office, you will have to choose between being Good Germans under his regime or working with us to resist in concrete ways. Hell, even if he doesn't take office, there are enough injustices already taking place that it's a damn shame you are slinging insults from your high horse at people who are trying to do something about them.
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