Jacques is now 14 years old.
Close-Up of a Cat's Eye
The image captures an extreme close-up view of the eye and surrounding fur on a light-colored cat, with its pupil dilated as if looking directly at something. The focus is sharp around the eye while the background appears blurred.
#catsofmastodonfeature #catsofmastodon #cat #cats #caturday #catsdaily #catcontent
Review: Shock Values
An economic history of the United States, considering the various means used to stabilize prices and control inflation.
bobonbooks.com/2025/03/13/revi…
Review: Shock Values - Bob on Books
Shock Values. An economic history of the United States, considering the various means used to stabilize prices and control inflation.rtrube54 (Bob on Books)
Apple Store、Herschelのウエストポーチ「Herschel Settlement Hip Pack - スヌーピーチェリーブロッサム」を販売開始 | アクセサリ | Mac OTAKARA
Apple Storeが、Herschelのウエストポーチ「Herschel Settlement Hip Pack - スヌーピーチェリーブロッサム」を各8,800円で販売開始しています。 チャールズ・M・シュルツ氏の象徴的なコミック「ピーナッツ」の75...Mac OTAKARA
Appleを見たら敵と思え、とよく艦長が言ってます
iPhone 17 Pro Machined Parts Leak Reflects Camera Redesign Rumors macrumors.com/2025/03/13/iphon…
iPhone 17 Pro Machined Parts Leak Reflects Camera Redesign Rumors
Apple's upcoming iPhone 17 Pro models are expected to feature a significant design overhaul, and a new image apparently taken on an assembly line...Tim Hardwick (MacRumors.com)
🎵 Cities
There seems to be a strong theme emerging from some of my latest songs. I was born and raised in cities, and while I lived in them for most of my adult life, I knew I would be more than fine living in the middle of nowhere (having tested that assumption on occasion).
So when the opportunity arose a few years back, I jumped ship.
If you listen to Entangled, Let Me Off, Bercée d’illusions (in French) and to some extent Living The Dream, it’s pretty easy to figure out that my apparent fixation on cities stems from both personal and philosophical/political/environmental considerations.
Regardless, I hope you’ll enjoy this new chapter in what is maybe shaping up to be a concept album, and which you’ll find on these fine, non-corporate sites:
(Still debating whether I should keep posting on bandcamp. In the meantime, if you want to pay for Cities, you can do so on Mirlo).
Appliqued embroideries for sale on street in front of ten cent store. Saturday afternoon. Siler City, North Carolina
#SilerCity #NorthCarolina #Rosie #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
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There's just nothing better than coming back from a trip to my room of #ShittyGear, listening to the brilliant makertube.net/w/k1CsnE3ABr3txv… by @bgm and scheming how to make best use of it.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Shitty Gear
Well it’s me playing various lower quality instruments in an effort to demonstrate that you can make okay music with inferior equipment. Don’t know if I demonstrated that successfully but there you go. Done for a Jamuary challenge a few years ago.
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actuaries.org.uk/planetary-sol…
Le rapport «Planetary Solvency» indique que si on continue à ignorer le climat et les limites planétaires, on fonce vers un réchauffement moyen de 3°C, chute de 50% du PIB mondial, chute de 50% de la population mondiale et un tas d'autres problèmes politique et sociaux... Tout ça avant la fin du siècle.
#PlanetarySolvency #écologie #climat #limitesPlanétaires
Planetary Solvency – finding our balance with nature | Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
Current climate policies risk catastrophic societal and economic impacts.Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
Au passage je tombe sur ces rapports qui analysent la situation belge : cerac.be/fr/publications/2024-…
Le résumé est assez clair : «L'analyse a révélé que la plupart des limites planétaires ont été franchies à l'échelle belge (…)»
#PlanetarySolvency #écologie #climat #limitesPlanétaires #SolvabilitéPlanétaire #Belgique
La Belgique vit-elle dans les limites planétaires ?
Le premier projet du Cerac consiste à adapter le framework global des limites planétaires au niveau belge et à évaluer l'impact social du franchissement de ces limites.CERAC
Et il faut pas paniquer surtout...😵💫
#meStillDoingMySillyLittleCraftToStaySan #meme #theWorldRightNow #MySillyLittleCraft
A song about (and made with) #ShittyGear
makertube.net/w/k1CsnE3ABr3txv…
Shitty Gear
Well it’s me playing various lower quality instruments in an effort to demonstrate that you can make okay music with inferior equipment. Don’t know if I demonstrated that successfully but there you go. Done for a Jamuary challenge a few years ago.
#EPA administrator announces huge rollback of #environmental regulations
Promising to drive “a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion,” Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin outlined plans for an aggressive rollback of #environmentalregulations.
Zeldin announced that he intends to reconsider more than a dozen core EPA rules and regulations.
nbcnews.com/science/environmen…
EPA administrator announces huge rollback of environmental regulations
Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin on Wednesday outlined plans for an aggressive rollback of environmental regulations.Evan Bush (NBC News)
Gaaah, what did I get myself into here with this 46 kg monstrosity…?! I can hardly lift it myself. This will be interesting to get through the bandsaw.
I really gotta learn to say no to such things 🫣 But it's one nice long cherry log…
(Oops, did I say one? I meant three – the other ones are hiding out of frame. Luckily they're a bit lighter!)
#woodworking
Two logs and another broken screw extraction later. One log to go. 😤
Somehow my body aches a lot today. I can only imagine how people must have felt after sawing logs to boards 100 years ago. 😫
Hard work, for sure! None the less I still have the wish, to try out a whale saw one day, in my mind.
youtube.com/watch?v=bcNPutBjQO…
The next Monster “Maebiki Oga” large saw with a blade about 60cm long and 40cm wide
The next Monster “Maebiki Oga” large saw with a blade about 60cm long and 40cm wide前挽大鋸 - Maebiki OgaA large ripsaw with a blade about 60cm long and 40cm wid...YouTube
#OnThisDay, 13 Mar 1990, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot became the provisional president of Haiti. She was the first woman to hold the role.
She stabilised the country for long enough for it to hold a free and fair election.
“I accepted the position in the name of Haitian women. I did it as a service to my country. I did it with love and determination.”
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #CaribbeanHistory #Histodons
Brenari Ensign: "You're wrong, Admiral. I do know you. Back when you commanded Voyager, you lied to the Devore people when they were searching for illegal refugees onboard"
Admiral Janeway: "Yes. The refugees were innocent and unarmed. That was a long time ago"
Brenari Ensign: "Not to me. I know you don't recognize me. I was much smaller then. But I was one of those Brenari refugees you helped escape through the wormhole. I'm alive because of you"
Admiral Janeway: "I'm so glad to have met you. Again"
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In the category: how to make the #Fediverse and #Mastodon better, step by step... 🌱
The University of Twente (@utwente) has made it possible to enter and verify a Mastodon account on the personal profile page at the university! 🔒
The green checkmark, also on places that are important in the #academic ecosystem! ✅📚
🎩 H/T @OpenSciTwente & @SchuberthF
EPA targets dozens of regulations. And, 'stranded' astronauts may return to Earth
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/g-s1-53473/up-first-newsletter-epa-russia-ukraine-ceasefire-iss-astronauts-spacex?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World News @world-news-npr
*Meta/Facebook really, really doesn't want you to read this tell-all book from their own former director of global policy
nytimes.com/2025/03/10/books/r…
Book Review: ‘Careless People,’ by Sarah Wynn-Williams
“Careless People,” a memoir by a former Facebook executive, portrays feckless company leaders cozying up to authoritarian regimes.Jennifer Szalai (The New York Times)
Am in the only one who cringes at install instructions that require piping some curl output into bash?
curl https://some-url | sh
I see this all over the place nowadays, even in communities that, I would think, should be security conscious. How is that safe? What's stopping the downloaded script from wiping my home directory? If you use this, how can you feel comfortable?
I understand that we have the same problems with the installed application, even if it was downloaded and installed manually. But I feel the bar for making a mistake in a shell script is much lower than in whatever language the main application is written. Don't we have something better than "sh" for this? Something with less power to do harm?
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