I think instawin? I can't remember either lol
Starcraft (original): black sheep wall
Reveals the whole map by removing fog of war.
2025-02-05: NC 50501 protest noon in Raleigh
If you're close to your capital, it's time people saw that not everyone is OK with the crazy that is happening. Noon Feb 5th.
Thanks for links to 2028 info! I only posted this here because it felt like a tiny cathartic thing to do in the moment. I appreciate your thoughtful response.
The General strike -the people united shall never be stopped. If we strike together we can make true real change. Sign the strike card today.
A general strike may be what it takes.
Because "Git" is the technology. GitHub is just one site that works with it.
Solid advice 👍
Sounds like the other commenter got it. I'm commenting because the only time I've ever posted about a book o couldn't remember was "The Dark Lord of Derkholm" also by Diana Wynn Jones! Great book of you haven't read it. She wrote Howell's Moving Castle too.
an estimated 476 million Indigenous peoples dwell on lands that are home to 80 percent of the world’s biodiversity.
This seems important. This is a number not often talked about in aggregate, at least that I've seen. Recognizing my own dis-ease at feeling like I would have way underestimated that figure before reading.
Drink more water! Whenever I find myself grumpy, the culprit is usually dehydration... It makes everything harder IMO. Ymmv etc etc anecdata
I second this. I have one small cup of strong black coffee in the morning since that's all I can take, and then I switch to a thermos of hot loose leaf mint tea -- probably 4 cups a day or more. It's just so much more interesting than water, and helps keep things settled
I agree -- I particularly liked that they call out corporate governance structure in the FAQ.
Payment processing for a service that helps renters by paying their full rent upfront and then letting the resident pay back in smaller payments. There's a lot of similar infra (aws, plaid/mx, soft credit checks) and processes (payment aggregation & sending outgoing funds)
I just read the FAQ, seems well designed. I work in the same space and their descriptions of how it will work makes a lot of sense. The system balances itself and can be super transparent, we'll see how it goes
Third for canna 👍 enjoy!
Mark your calendar to swap out the tubes for new ones in early summer to help prevent disease and parasites (it sounds like you're aware of this, but leaving the comment just in case): https://news.vt.edu/articles/2020/03/ext-entomologists-tips-for-installing-and-maintaining-native-bee-houses.html
I immediately knew this was STS. Well done! Ironically my first response was to think you should tweet it at the devs... Maybe they have a mastodon account?
https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/back-end-development-and-apis/
This is probably more up to date than that blog post.
loitering teenage Spotted salamanders
It's been very overcast and drizzling the last few days and these little 'manders absolutely love it at night. Pic taken this morning around 12:30am est.
These salamanders were laid in January and are getting pretty close to being fully grown - 20 to 60 days in egg + 60 to 90 days to develop into adult form.
View from Elk Knob trail, NC Appalachian Mountains
This was a mile into the 19 mile elk knob summit trail.
Simple Living Beyond the Thrift Store - Philip Harden, Friends Journal, 2018
Finding a balance between personal and political strategies for simple living.
This is an incisive look at simple living beyond the self from a quaker point of view.
> When we practice simple living, we collectively say a resounding no to the consumerism, materialism, and waste of modern industrial society.
> But how often do we ask ourselves whether our simple living actually does enable other people to live?
If Earth were a penny, Antares would be the length of a basketball court!
Meet Antares, a red supergiant that — like Betelgeuse — will one day go supernova. Summer evenings are a good time to view this star.
We noticed a bright twinkling red star around 10:15 pm GMT-4 about 20° (complete estimate) above the horizon to the SE as seen from east coast USA. I googled it and matched up the rest of Scorpio that was visible, and thought I'd share some cool facts about Antares :)
Yarrow Carolina mantis
Was just hanging out around dusk this evening. The yarrow has been shooting up flower stalks for a few weeks now and is just about to open up. Exciting!
My wildlife pond, site of the 2023 salamander congress
Lots of frogs and salamanders. Pond is under the drip line of two 80 foot white oaks. In the fall I'm going to cover with brush to help keep acorns out: They dye the water brown with tannins.
That being said, this past winter, very early January, I drained the pond to clean out the acorns and the refilled it (well water) and within two weeks spotted salamanders had started laying eggs!