Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek@v.st

Just discovered via @jon & @giulio_mattioli: Banning super short-haul flights, while politically attractive, does less than I expected to save aviation fuel and carbon emissions. Food for thought on a Sunday morning :) #transport #TransportPolicy

Study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0966692322001806

Summarising Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/giulio_mattioli/status/1576864921413091329

When we started the #treebybike campaign way back in 2014, it was to prove to naysayers that their lack of imagination shouldn’t result in a lack of action.

Since then, it has become a cherished annual tradition for our family, marking the official start of the Christmas season.

"London tattoo studio offers to remove Kanye West tattoos for free"

https://www.nme.com/news/music/london-tattoo-studio-offers-to-remove-kanye-west-tattoos-for-free-3349551

I recently found this picture, taken in the 1930s at Le Monocle, one of the lesbian nightclubs in Paris at the time.

It's a great picture, with a lot of different people, absorbed in their own merriment, and at the center, my new reference for the concept of badass.

I don't know who she is, but she deserves a long, adventurous backstory -- maybe involving mutiny aboard an airship, spies, and broken hearts.

She's the only one looking at the camera, so the story is definitely about her.

This international train has absolutely no room for baggage. The overhead racks are so small I struggled to fit my jacket on it.

I heard this today, and it will stick with me for a long time. During a discussion about the sort of online tech that collects information about you in order to give you a better service, someone said this: "There's a fine line between a butler and a stalker". That is EXACTLY the problem.

You may not like it, but this is what peak Tooting performance looks like

Nevar forget the Quadro Tracker, the device sold to police agencies allegedly able to track anything, which instead of a circuitboard was revealed to just have ants glued to paper with epoxy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadro_Tracker

We need to defeat Putin, the fossil fuel complex, the car industry and work on both climate change and climate justice. That is the task for us and the next generation. We have no choice!

He’s right. I was there, I remember!!

There used to be a good bit of protected cycle lane past the junction with Grove Street, but somehow during the delivery of a cycle crossing of all things, it's been replaced with a right filter and straight ahead lane for cars? WTF 🧵

why call it bird site when ‘the fowl place’ is right there and a much better pun

All I can say about this is that archaeologists of the future are going to have their work cut out for them. Because memes don't fossilize.

(Image from: Rage Against the Geek)

For thousands of years, native peoples of the southeastern US harvested mollusks, depositing shells in midden mounds that grew to be literal islands above the surrounding marshland. Many of these mounds now host "hammocks", or groves of trees ecologically distinct from neighboring biomes. In Florida, many endangered tropical plant species are only found in these small handful of shell hammocks. Another way that native people enrich the environment through traditional practices. #ClamFacts

Announcement: Macstodon 0.3 is here! 🥳​

Macstodon is a Mastodon client for 68k Macintosh computers! With it, you can post plain-text toots, view your home and local timelines, and view your notifications!

System Requirements:
- A 68020/68030/68040 Macintosh
- System 7.1 through 8.1
- At least 1.5 MB of free memory
- 32-bit addressing enabled
- Internet Config installed
- an SSL-stripping proxy running on another machine

You can download the latest release from GitHub: https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon
(but please read the Read Me, I worked hard on it!)

And with that, I'm going to take a break from this project for a few days! But do let me know if you've successfully used it!

#RetroComputing #RetroProgramming #VintageMac #68K #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac

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