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when I'm wide awake the timeline is all asleep or just barely waking up. aww can I tuck you in? can I bring you sleepytime tea? :blobcattea:

Reading an article in the Journal of Adhesion, and I don't know why but it really grabbed my attention

At the Canadian Potato Museum in O'Leary, Prince Edward Island, there's a fantastic exhibit of spuds that have succumbed to various pests and pathogens. At right, for example, is a depiction of blackleg, a type of bacterial infection. #potatoes #pei #farming #gardening #tuber #museum #agriculture #PrinceEdwardIsland

cryptocurrency is obviously bullshit, but, fortunately, the real working cryptographers seem to be basically completely disjoint from financial scam libertarians

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Pro tip for US folks, if a store is having a “columbus day sale,” it means you can walk in and just take whatever you want

Reminder: I am raising money for a Palestinian doctor from Gaza, currently in Cairo. He is hoping to get a visa to come to the United States. We are just 200 dollars short of our goal. Please share widely and give.

Making sure i add +1 and USA when i give my phone number and address to canadians.. many are calling me a shoo-in for next year’s nobel peace prize

Been seeing more and more uncritical mentions of the 988 mental health hotline lately. If you’re going to promote this, you ought to also include the risks, which are that they collaborate with police: by their own admission about 2% of calls end up with the counselor calling 911 on the person seeking help.

If you are going to reach out to 988, and you don’t want violent fucks with guns potentially showing up at your door, make sure you:
—Do not under any circumstances volunteer your location (988 claims to not use geolocation capability like 911 does)
—never admit to being at an imminent risk of harm to yourself or others, or in immediately unsafe surroundings. Remember that the counselor may have a lower threshold for defining this than you do!

I've been looking for this dumb sign for years and it finally reappeared on my Facebook feed. Behold, the Tingly Bridge Warning.

Did you know the Fediverse has its own Twitch-style streaming and chat platform? It's called OwnCast, and you can find out more at:

➡️ fedi.tips/owncast-live-streami

You can follow OwnCast stream accounts from Mastodon etc, they will post in your feed when they go live.

The official OwnCast site has lots more info:

➡️ owncast.online

...you can follow their official account at:

➡️ @owncast

There is a 24/7 demo at watch.owncast.online and a directory of streams at directory.owncast.online

Latest update on the DDOS attack from @brewsterkahle (Oct 11 @ 10:22am PT):

"The data is safe.

Services are offline as we examine and strengthen them. Sorry, but needed. @internetarchive staff is working hard.

Estimated Timeline: days, not weeks.

Thank you for the offers of pizza (we are set)."

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