He talked about how France is the only country in Europe that has gotten less light polluted in recent years. Most cities and towns turn off their streetlights at night. (Part of the reason for this is because of energy prices increasing due to Russia invading Ukraine) Notes that traffic […]

I just was on a panel for DarkSky International's Under One Sky conference. The panel was about novel and emerging sources of light pollution, I was there to yell a lot about Reflect Orbital. One of the other panelists was Jolyon Troscianko, who studies animal vision at night (how totally […]

Het racisme van Trump wordt zelfs op een begraafplaats in Nederland doorgedrukt. 'Op de Amerikaanse begraafplaats in Margraten is het opeens stil geworden rond de zwarte Amerikanen die hielpen Nederland bevrijden. Twee panelen die hun bijdrage herdachten – én wezen op hun strijd tegen racisme […]

Behold the zipper’s first upgrade in over a century. YKK, the Japanese company that makes about half the world’s zippers, has created a zipper that removes the traditional fabric tape, creating a lighter, more flexible, lower-impact closure that sits flush with garments. It requires new […]

Discovered a nice new channel where two of my interests come together: cooking and history 🤓 https://youtu.be/_FA7Rekqu94 #recipe #recept

I'm about to give a conference presentation on bilingual fediverse projects with a focus on toot wales. I'm going to use today's trending tags to demonstrate one tag in two languages being used today. #dydddefaidodon #defaidodonday

Mijn badkamer 😬. De komende 10 werkdagen werklui via de woningbouw over de vloer wegens hardnekkige vocht- en schimmelproblemen. Ik zit er qua energie meteen om 9:30 alweer doorheen, dus ff afzien komende tijd. Gelukkig is het sloopwerk nu gedaan en wordt de herrie minder.

Morning Twters, and happy #defaidodonday #dydddefaidodon! It's a great excuse to share this absolute gem again!

📷 Cosy Sheep 🚩 Wassenaar, Nederland #Defaidodon #defaidodonday #dydddefaidodon #SheepOfMastodon #sheep #photography

#defaidodonday Sheep! Grazing on a hill, wool caught on barbed wire, to sheep with big curly horns looking at me

I'm on the night train from Kolari to Helsinki, returning from a work gig. I've always wanted to take one of these trains, as most of the train is sleeper cabins. Check out mine! #train #trains #finland

Heeft iemand ervaring met een #wildcamera of met een ander #cameraatje waar we de #vogels#cameraatje#Wildcameraie bij onze boom zaadjes komen halen uit de voerbak kunnen streamen? ( ik bedoel geen voederhuisje met ingebouwde camera)

Het nadeel van dat ik mijn column vorige week later heb geschreven (na het stemmen tellen) is dat ik vandaag alweer een column moet schrijven 😬 Heeft een van jullie nog een leuke actuele vraag/tip? (Liever niet over restzetels, of iets anders met politiek.)

📢 We've sat down with our artist @dopatwo and created a sticker pack for @signalapp. Now you can send cute elephants to your friends, and promote the #fediverse at the same time. We ❤️ Signal, too! […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Reverse Trick Or Treating (aka the Greatest Halloween Costume Ever). https://docpop.org/2009/11/the-greatest-halloween-costume-ever/ #halloween

Usha Vance didn’t like her husband suggesting she needed to be fixed. She made him sleep on the couch but for some reason that didn’t work.

@JessTheUnstill I wonder about this all the time. Like, every day. Starlink effectively controls orbit. Every single satellite that goes to a higher orbit than Starlink has to ask permission, because it's so dense with satellites. And the collision avoidance maneuvers are every 2 min on average […]

#foothpathfriday In 2018, we walked the first part of the Nakahechi route of the Kumano Kodo in Wakayama, Japan. The path winds over the hills through the forest and gives you occasional glimpses of the surrounding area. There was a light drizzle which made small […] [Original post on mastodon.nl]

By the time I'm done with #pennepals (my 'talk to anyone!' social experiment) I will have talked to 50 people across the world, for 45 minutes each. I find people fascinating and I love listening to everyone. I've had deep conversations with random strangers about immigrant life and identity […]

The proper way to drink whiskey - and live.

I'm now running 60 automated fediverse accounts, packaged in an award-winning project that once got mentioned in the Rolling Stone magazine. "...offering up everything from a constantly-updated view of the weather at the South Pole to one that posts excerpts from the City of New York's archives […]

Voor wie vrijdag een leuke avond wil: eerst naar de Vespers in de Augustinus, dan lekker frietje halen of zo en je kunt zo oversteken naar TivoliVredenburg voor een boeiend college over long covid (en iets met iets literairs) https://www.sg.uu.nl/agenda/2025/wat-je-moet-weten-over-post-covid

Jonge chronisch zieken willen toekomst. Natuurlijk heb ik ook ondertekend. https://www.petities.nl/petitions/bied-jongeren-met-long-covid-een-toekomst #LongCovid @longcovid

[Okay here is the explanation of the joke] Pinball machines have a bunch of switches in them and if a single one fails then the game can get way less fun. Example, hit a particular ramp to get a jackpot during multiball, ramp switch breaks, now there's way less point in getting the multiball […]

#footpathfriday on a november morning in 2022. It started out misty but cleared up later. In the UK, Northumberland, along Hadrian’s Wall. I walked from the Roman fort in Housesteads to Steel Rigg, passing Crag Lough and the Sycamore Gap, and had lunch at The Sill in Once Brewed

Ooooo Klokhuis, wat zijn jullie toch geweldig! https://youtu.be/IiFNxziXjX8?si=GvQNyAKHgJmYgkh6 AI? Nee, dat is niet meer dan een computer die woorden kan voorspellen. #hetklokhuis #altijdsterk #ai #llm

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the #allotment... @allotments

Als een imam zoiets zegt, is hij een haatbaard. Als Henri uit Rotterdam het zegt, is het fatsoen. nos.nl/nieuwsuur/co...

My son let the land shark out while I was using the dremel, and now I am being punished for a safety violation. #dog #landshark

And on the third day after the move all was right in the world because I found the box with the coffee gear in it. ☕ 😋

Peperplanten verhuisd van de volkstuin naar huis. Het wordt nu echt te fris. Zomers zijn te koel/kort hier voor de meeste pepers die ik wil groeien. Ze rijpen meestal niet en geven per plant hoogstens 3 pepers. Maar als de plant de winter binnen overleeft, lukt […] [Original post on mastodon.nl]

Shout out to people who love ebooks but hate Amazon: Bookshop.org has started doing eBooks! They have an app! They have classics for free! They have daily 99p deals! Much excite! #books #bookstodon

@thebeeguy I am living in coastal southern Greece and trying to identify a bee. It's about 1 cm long, looks like a honey bee with a small abdomen, grey like cigarette ash, maybe slightly bluish, striped, high pitch hum like a mosquito, habit of hovering before flowers before diving in […]

Stem Kathmann, lijst 2 nr 32, als je een mobiele telefoon hebt!

Voordat ik de wekelijkse Trump spotprenten bij elkaar zet, nog even een trotsmomentje, dahlia’s uit eigen tuin. #bloomscrolling #terschelling #landje

I stumbled across this while going through old sceenshots. Some Lesser-Known Collective Nouns by @brianbilston

Much like nobody on fedi has a normal relationship with technology, nobody here has a normal amount of money either. Fedi is either stripeysocked people who don't have two pennies to rub together because they'll give their last fiver to a starving artist and forget "oh shit wait I'M a starving […]

I made a thing called Wellness Ping because someone I care about went silent and it took too long for anyone to notice. You get regular check-ins via email. If you don't respond, your emergency contacts get notified. Built it for anyone who might go missing and needs someone to notice […]

En daar is de politieke LongCovid (en andere post acute infectieziekten) podcast. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2GTzNvwYo4FkO7BQZshxdz Politieke partijen bekeken op 1. Wat ze in hun programma hebben staan. 2. Hoe ze afgelopen regeerperiode op aantal […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Oogst uit mijn volkstuin deze week #allotment #moestuin

“In my day the computers would scream and scream when we connected them to the internet… but did we listen? No. We did not listen…”

every 3-4 years when they are cleaning it the authorities allow visitors into the #lodz waterworks. They are pretty fussy about security (I guess rightly so) but they do allow pictures. #pictures #water

Because some were interested: more images of my students drawing music by Steve Reich. We began the semester by translating sensory perceptions into images. #stevereich #hshannover

Mijn eerste column in Volkskrant als vaste columnist, vanaf nu schrijf ik iedere tweede vrijdag van de maand een stuk! Het was niet fijn om te schrijven, maar het moet gezegd: de logica van extreem rechts is de logica van wit mannelijk superioriteitsdenken.

Driemaal Japan door andere ogen: https://blog.frankmeeuwsen.com/2025/10/09/driemaal-japan-door-andere-ogen.html

Exclusive: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement. [non-Substack link in comments] […]

Just got my official letter for the fellowship to New Zealand! And I have a possible lead on a local farm sitter, but nothing is set yet. So I'm just going to put this out onto the Fediverse again, in case someone who knows how take care of goats in Real Canadian Winter (down to -40C temps) […]

Alright, Windows 10 is dying in a couple of weeks. I'm tiptoeing around Linux, but it'll take some time before I make the full jump. Desktops have become crazy expensive since the last time I bought one (probably because of the yen having become worthless in the meantime). However, I recently […]

Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.