Musicians in #nizwa Fort, #oman #Photography #Travel

OH: > Ours is not to reason why, > Ours is but to code and cry.

mastodon should fix the bug where typos are invisible in the editing box but obvious on the timeline

It’s not just about what you remove (cars, noise, dirty air). It’s about what you add (people walking, a lot of bike parking, trees, outdoor dining, and room for kids to play safely). Amsterdam: 1986 and today. Streets for people. HT @hackneycyclist.bsky.social for the great before-and-after

Paleontologists discover first-ever fossilized sound. Preserved "Rock-Cast" contains voice of Roganopteryx dismissing claims of incoming meteor as "woke bullshit"

Scientists have discovered that it is possible to just do something, without making a podcast about it

@ash put me on to Hardcover yesterday as a replacement for Goodreads and I think it's pretty great https://hardcover.app

One of the under-appreciated benefits of #Photography as a hobby is how it makes #woodworking look like a bargain in comparison

It's still so weird to me that the idea of universal healthcare is so political here. It's a given in so many other places, and I miss it. And people don't realize how good it is for innovation. You can take so many more risks when your health and well-being aren't tied to a salaried employer.

Remember kids: "Passive income" is a term used to describe wealth handed out to people by society, through our economic system, without doing any work. Many people receiving a "passive income" are intergenerationally wealthy, as opposed to the working class and long-term unemployed people who […]

#sheikhzyedgrandmosque, #abudhabi #Photography #Travel

I spent a (very) hot October afternoon at #qasralhosni in #abudhabi #Photography #Travel

A quotation from **Bertrand Russell** > The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has, and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another. Life is too short to be interested in everything, but it is good to be […]

#bioinformatics Q: I am working on my first #minion metabarcoding run. I've got a library of dual-indexed amplicons (ITS2). Ran it through the Minion, base called, and now I'm working on demultiplexing. I have discovered that some of my reads contain multiple amplicons. i.e., a single line in […]

Saw this on #linkedin

draw me like one of your french dogs

Is the covert #foreigninterference we get from China worse than the overt interference we get from the USA? #canada

It turns out i have taken a lot of sedge pictures in the digital era. Prepping for a talk, and I was fretting that all my images were on 35mm slides. #botany #Photography

I don't know what this is, but I'm going to boost it anyways. It seems like the right thing to do.

Every time a government in Canada uses the Notwithstanding Clause it is thumbing its nose at democracy, our constitution, and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. #fascism https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-teachers-back-to-work-bill-9.6955558

Highest Canadian nerd achievement UNLOCKED I'M SO EXCITED!!!! QUIRKS AND QUARKS!!!!!!!! And that was all because of Mastodon, thanks all! (Especially @mayintoronto whose comment got a Quirks and Quarks producer to get in touch with me via BlueSky-Fedi bridge. Wild. WILD.)

The Python Software Foundation just had to pass on a US$1.5M grant from the National Science Foundation for PyPI maintenance. One condition of the funding was that the PSF drop any DEI efforts, and if this condition is violated, they can claw back the money. (As if security would be a broad […]

Saw this yesterday: https://youtu.be/lyd6Lxy1IuE and today I found myself needing to figure out the time of a webinar being held in Denmark next March. Easy: ``` date -d "25 March 2026 13:30 CET" > Wed 25 Mar 2026 08:30:00 AM EDT ``` #linux #timezones #coreutils #gnu

One of the highlights from our trip to #oman: the #nizwa souq. #Photography #Travel

Asking about incremental backup systems on a FOSS software forum. Looking for a simple system for unencrypted, password free storage of files on a local external hard drive or three. First reply is a snarky statement suggesting, without actually providing any actionable information, that my […]

"B.C. is unique among Canadian provinces in that more than 90 per cent of the landmass is potentially subject to unextinguished Aboriginal title, because of the absence of treaties. So Ottawa and Victoria pass the ball back and forth, and when the game gets rough they kick the can down the road […]

Because of the cooler temperature, the lake was pretty foggy, making the dawn look mystical. The autumn foliage is still at this level... 📍 George H. Sparks Reservoir, GA #photography #fujifilm #lake #autumn #boat #fisherman #sunrise

#aircanada has a bold new approach to baggage handling

Seems a lot of "podcasters" release their shows primarily through #youtube. Is this just because it's easier to monetize that way, rather than selling ads on an audio #podcast feed? Or is there just that many more people who will listen to a YouTube show compared to subscribe to a podcast?

Just one of the many @sarahtaber #agriculture videos I've been bingeing. This one explaining how subsidies don't create monocultures, it's actually the monocultures that lead to subsidies. Despite what Michael Pollan told us in his wonderfully-written, poorly-researched books […]

Ah, the value of being part of a social network that is decentralized...from Techdirt's Karl Bode: "Last week, Indiana University administrators fired the school newspaper’s (Indiana Daily Student) advisor and ordered students to stop printing the paper." "The student journalists say that […]

Thanks @billmckibben.bsky.social for your take on our new book, "Life After Cars." www.lifeaftercars.com

Writing into the quiet from @sacha https://sachachua.com/blog/2025/09/writing-into-the-quiet/ #blogging

I have a bazillion new German followers (hello!), and I'm getting interviewed for German public radio in an hour about "sunlight as a service", and I don't speak any German and I've never been to Germany. The Fediverse is a truly magical place!

#rto update. Only a few hundred people work in our building, where "room temperature" is currently 12C

This anecdote about Karina Gould is awful. To use one of Carney's beloved hockey analogies, crosschecking a promising young female politician -- a colleague -- is very troubling. This man is a C-suite executive, with all the arrogance & nastiness that too often brings.

Hey there! I'm one of the blind folks who read alt text on here. I'd like to say thank you for adding that so that I can also enjoy images of cartoon animals. A little effort from you means a world of difference for people like me #accessibility #alttext #blind

I brought this up to the Mastodon team (no response yet), but I wonder if the solution, at least a temporary one, to the problem where people get harassed with followers-only posts that @ mention them, thus hiding these posts from public view and […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]

Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.

running docker on a raspberry pi

Because this has shown up trending every couple of days for the last week or so, these are not clowns from #Portland. These are clowns from Germany in 2007. #PDX has it's own creative resistence. Let's celebrate the real things they're doing right now. I'm […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

Speaking of image alt text, as a photographer who tries to put care into this, I would really love it if there were a single standard EXIF field in which alt text could be embedded and from which the text was reliably extracted when the image was uploaded. It would be much easier to write a […]

Today's #linux #bash trivial enhancement: alias pwdh='echo "${PWD#"$HOME"/}"' Returns the current directory relative to your home directory. Which is something I often want when copying the path to remote files to my local machine to use with rsync. Trivial, because the absolute path returned […]

Apparently theres a new wave of people joining mastodon, and with them a new wave of self-appointed cops "welcoming" them with long lists of mostly fictitious "rules" they need to follow. This is a social media platform, with many of different ways to use it. It's fine. Mostly, just try to be […]

@sarahtaber on slavery in American farming: https://youtu.be/J8zit-g86v8 #agriculture #Labour #immigrants