2026-11-01T04:44:16Z https://nostr.now Jonathan T https://nostr.now/npub1x6xkper0x6xxxydaghl5tt23u0avyjhy60jq4q5ps74wepj9zvnsqzvq4x https://mastodon.me.uk/system/accounts/avatars/109/290/549/780/086/461/original/a24cac3406d745f8.jpeg https://mastodon.me.uk/system/accounts/avatars/109/290/549/780/086/461/original/a24cac3406d745f8.jpeg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxufd666sq5ahv5x3rgyhmfj95f73yq7l4hjkgvfc4jeslg25grnszyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwgjsfua In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs90w6r2uxnemf7jjyg3q2wrjjj9pm62ay247ywa9sr6n8y4gzxv4qww6xnu'>nevent1q…6xnu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Renting is a Hobson&#39;s choice. Private landlord - most likely ripping you off and will do fuck all for you. Letting agent - all but certainly ripping you off while also ripping off the landlord at the same time. Will still do fuck all for you, or the landlord.<br/><br/>Landlords justifiably have a bad reputation. Letting agents are much, much worse. 2026-05-01T15:01:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9rs5msyaqv0f0dts8hwrdlzk0gquq5ny8t5jk67eywdyzy9ljzmszyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwy6fjgj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp7mzc3yy63mgrmyhzxpf07zwt28gkllzymrmtf3xlk3nfl67vl5cs40fa3'>nevent1q…0fa3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Buses. 2026-01-27T17:13:34Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswtzrmdrfkcpryaytv5hmrjnau35q3sqxd8sj9s67zj0n8s34vq2gzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwpzswa4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgdkkwym70lkd9qkpdfkdhhyzf888jpe4mj725d2ev40m6kzghphsaux2y9'>nevent1q…x2y9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The UK already has concentration camps for immigrants and has had them for years. And violent raids on people and houses by the police and border patrol. We don&#39;t need to wait for Reform to get elected, it&#39;s already happening; it&#39;d just get worse with Reform. The question isn&#39;t what would we do under Reform, the question is what are we doing now. And the answer for the vast majority of us is, &#34;Fuck all&#34;. 2026-01-19T10:24:36Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs02zeft2cfkrx42qm7c4zt7c8sdpaeel8drzgkvjr5vp8q5e6ss5szyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjw4mrt89 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxm7h7ju62ku9wa0m0eqpy6ejq0xstzn05yxmvsj7xxnma65jvp3cysv5ah'>nevent1q…v5ah</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;Informal essay and travel writing was another highlight. Xu Xiake (1587–1641), a travel literature author, published his Travel Diaries in 404,000 written characters, with information on everything from local geography to mineralogy.[143][144] The first reference to the publishing of private newspapers in Beijing was in 1582; by 1638 the Peking Gazette switched from using woodblock print to movable type printing.[145] (2/3) 2025-12-23T09:51:14Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9hxgt349fmwvkteq4pkcck4mklxx5eqdrsrjmc2va88z8r72ja3qzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwzv3qge In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs02zeft2cfkrx42qm7c4zt7c8sdpaeel8drzgkvjr5vp8q5e6ss5sz5neyw'>nevent1q…neyw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The new literary field of the moral guide to business ethics was developed during the late Ming period, for the readership of the merchant class.[146]<br/><br/><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_dynasty?wprov=sfti1#Literature_and_arts">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_dynasty?wprov=sfti1#Literature_and_arts</a> (3/3) 2025-12-23T09:51:14Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxm7h7ju62ku9wa0m0eqpy6ejq0xstzn05yxmvsj7xxnma65jvp3czyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwfqr3wp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst8vpn57mt7xmsry596qa3le9qagz5t0ev82qpprundjunhndgvhq8vf794'>nevent1q…f794</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Don&#39;t know if this will help but from Wikipedia covering a similar timeframe (though closer to 400 years than 500). The first example in particular could be a literary tool you could use (the discovery of your astronomer&#39;s travel diaries or fragments thereof): (1/3) 2025-12-23T09:51:13Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsg707a7dnwcdqyp53kkapvvyq0qe050c83xpmy3xcs0fznqqgwr6qzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwemm45u In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz4dskkm67ry684xs2g5xg6mva93emqnx9cnvl2jgmjesgqnctrtsqtrl73'>nevent1q…rl73</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If you really want to throw them, say Zeppo is your favourite. 2025-12-20T16:31:42Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs05s5gtlkwr084s4v6zqdql0pgyhl6dce6wql5ejyev8j93g4nehczyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwgvt5dr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp6qd0xy8wqym9eehdqjufgs6kq4vpnxdens0hds7wh8xdwlex5kq48cdg0'>nevent1q…cdg0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What do we want AI to do? Something that&#39;s actually useful. <br/>What does AI do? Nothing that&#39;s actually useful. <br/><br/>Slight hyperbole for sure but it isn&#39;t far off being true. 2025-08-13T07:30:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqxt606l2emnkxcp7teky2cwy22s80llv2chx2whvg4t8k699g8rszyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjw3jus76 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfmrefx4adl9rth2w84xmz90pfdksrk8p9ka6axnapx0lwrpglstcvrvglh'>nevent1q…vglh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Isn&#39;t some of the best Sci-Fi always grounded in some reality, though? It either has to be an idea so fantastical that it&#39;s impossible (shields in Star Trek, etc) or something close to some reality that it becomes a real thing 20 to 30 years down the line (cf Asimov versus Arthur C. Clarke). 2025-08-09T15:48:33Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs885llfzr65x308ypmy7f6had0wjhvvfcm6256lwqppm2qx7kq6xczyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwcqk475 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst52hnhnsxzfau9xem2v2hp7jc9pdm4k0fc3egy4j4ell6jyjnpzcetjken'>nevent1q…jken</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It is very difficult not to interpret that quote by the police at the end as, &#34;it is terrorism if you ever carry a Palestine flag&#34;. 2025-07-17T10:55:56Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqst9mcdmysqg8xsh6kvnp0kykfsw88vq6k0fhe9j420anmldjsap6gzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwqngmwh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdaamj5s9mqwxy8jpgwpvkhmemugdmfvr54e8h6utapkwl6u27g0cgfsel9'>nevent1q…sel9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. 2025-07-16T19:52:34Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9m9q0nv37pvkr8hnt2uhrpkmlwjq7ch5f4kfghgkhy2qptalvluszyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwjp6239 The Angel of the North. <br/>December 2012, Northumberland, UK.<br/><br/>#SilentSunday #Sculpture<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/114/489/627/155/484/265/original/42f171b847294f2d.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-05-11T14:17:50Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8zxms5ucdxmrwwzes66znk94kk08nh80c2syd2v69s6m4yzt7v4szyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjw7j2rtl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqrcja4ayes4eeyphly2gz5wzfejnhyflve5s57cdq97h9hz78acq90tpxx'>nevent1q…tpxx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Priceless, isn&#39;t it. 2025-05-01T19:48:17Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs20u3ysuq8kv9nw4hum08se3szpc822c6m76h0dfhvzdjtyhmw8wczyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwn9gcn9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsycvx7adk25d02m66zm002uveqcplew6tulemsphje7lzc3syth8cxsu7cz'>nevent1q…u7cz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>When it comes to interviewing &#34;random person who you should know is famous&#34; incidents, it&#39;s tough to beat this one <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-31188264">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-31188264</a> 2025-05-01T19:44:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxr3rq572pwrw79frx6umyq7tavvqpmkemz6v3a02jyqjvccg56fqzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwllp2wm North Devon, March 2025. <br/><br/>#SilentSunday<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/114/248/468/506/124/239/original/9b1a16a5c45b84bc.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-03-30T14:05:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszdvkfajr79xa6ejrz507eugjsm8ey3r4e6eactunzl488gf5qcugzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwhfgcul Portrait of the photographer. Barbican, London, March 2025. <br/><br/>#SilentSunday #Art #ArtGallery #Gallery<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/114/132/844/949/158/579/original/eaf8153d155db111.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-03-09T14:03:26Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs095xhgfstfr83jahs0pspvt3vrur0gmpwn6xv90mf33sh3w5fycszyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwxswh5h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfkhz5g72a7en5wtwecap6vvc63ldqdfxfsvjvwd0xkueszd76caqu9594j'>nevent1q…594j</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The Xenogenesis trilogy by Octavia E Butler.<br/><br/>Edit: I should have done a Load from remote Server first. Lots of people have already recommended entries from these three books.<br/><br/>Another instead: Out of the Silent Planet by CS Lewis. 2025-01-16T15:48:18Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9amf6gjn73cqrvrp20jr38fdccx4kwgtvkf4et06ptm3zsz5uwvszyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwl3tjtf It depresses me that calling yourself an advocate for free speech in this day and age has been so perverted by the far right that you are basically flagging yourself as being an apologist for and proponent of hate speech.<br/><br/>None of these people running businesses are pro free speech, they&#39;re pro hate speech. You can see it the moment anyone dares criticise them directly. Free speech goes straight out the window. <br/><br/>#Meta #FreeSpeech #HateSpeech #Zuckerberg 2025-01-07T17:21:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0sffu5j57d99s5jc6ktz9jhqm9ath2ct3tzcnf9am2cekw3fu6rszyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwfrpas4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqeng3ggdpt5jfqwrw5fuf6j7h5hm0yq7vzys3u30ztdxtcrfvp7c0s4dd2'>nevent1q…4dd2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Of course, most of this was happening when virtually no one had more than one monitor and when apps on Windows were most likely displayed full screen whereas they couldn&#39;t be on the Mac. There was always greater risk of destructive click through under the latter model of operation. (3/3) 2024-11-19T18:04:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspq5d8jwhgn5wsgvw3cjxqs9vyegt2h0r4wvnrn0jsgmm5xejlwwszyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjw3gp9h2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgdq2rxp2rzds4l8ud2q4fuh428qmkfzs2ffjvsysewet9yyzpalc0sl86t'>nevent1q…l86t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There are significant differences to the way Mac and Windows have developed over time. Putting it in very simplistically, Mac OSes developed as a system where you launched single instances of an application with the potential for multiple windows and Windows as a system where you launched multiple instances of an app each with a single window. (1/3) 2024-11-19T18:04:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqeng3ggdpt5jfqwrw5fuf6j7h5hm0yq7vzys3u30ztdxtcrfvp7czyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwjscvjj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspq5d8jwhgn5wsgvw3cjxqs9vyegt2h0r4wvnrn0jsgmm5xejlwws2j7v2g'>nevent1q…7v2g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Window focus operates in a fundamentally different manner between the two paradigms, and those differences have stuck.<br/><br/>I once used to know the rationale for why Mac doesn&#39;t autofocus on the window below the mouse but there was one and it wasn&#39;t just some arbitrary choice (but it&#39;s lost to time for me). (2/3) 2024-11-19T18:04:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8mqy8zd8ydzplfk20tkr5m66jf2k7vpnw9wc0h9vj769uhrpzn0qzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwrw9y2h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxnwerz3dfuqghhyzagc0wt2gzt54kmyxlcgj92yj8pz48t3rkrxs6urwmk'>nevent1q…rwmk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m not at my Mac but try doing a Command-click or Option-click on the object in the background window to see if that works.<br/><br/>The difference is that you are being prevented from doing something potentially destructive. An accidental mouse click (or Return/Enter key press) isn&#39;t going to steal focus from your active window and activate something in the background instead just because you moved your mouse offscreen or onto another window unintentionally. 2024-11-19T17:30:30Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsf2895zlec0g6kkmkfgdl37m6hckmw5uszmav5a9rsv8gnq2mchzgzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwst8srh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9wrrphf3wr4mmz2easmevknjhmzw5w9egd2ud0czp0rsfy4ewcpqvtgm8x'>nevent1q…gm8x</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Can&#39;t think of such a mechanism (and it would introduce a whole host of problems to the use of the OS if you ask me) but if it does exist, it&#39;ll likely be a Settings &gt; Accessibility feature. 2024-11-19T17:14:09Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2cnr5rwz6jc307fhkectg5gpl5475hn0rl97ycax2xl8xgz8lnuszyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwz77y4v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9jdh4939wg4g53equrrdp9yl65jqc4zqhqpjrcn36pds69dpx7ace4fdug'>nevent1q…fdug</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The alcohol. Too drunk. If I remember right (it is about 40 years ago), the people involved in the cases that were floating around at the time - photos of just a charred stump left in a boot, half the body gone in a charred armchair, etc - were all found to be alcoholics who drank extremely heavily. Of the bottles of whisky in one go kind. 2024-11-15T22:08:26Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxmjfas3trp952evqa7475wx3278wkpzsc3l363edgjhavq86nd4qzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwetcmf7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsreh3rlv9mr6qkpvv967yvvxl2h7argfksss459dplsvpj4lcv4pcjwywrn'>nevent1q…ywrn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It explained why the victims seemingly burn while everything else not in contact with them in the room remained virtually unscathed. It wasn&#39;t rapid enough to ignite everything around the person but it was intense enough to reduce much or all of their body to ash.<br/><br/>(This is one of those things that has clearly stuck at the back of my mind without ever thinking or reading about it since. A bit like being shown how a magic trick is achieved.) 2024-11-15T22:01:39Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdz3ec27f2g6dcr6jvx0lakjuj6yz00v6a7zun5x9s40vnfsqagggzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjw8m3678 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsydva3zzy2cc77g8l92pjyuldvxj5t40fjn6ltcgkk8drt2lxwcvsvm833j'>nevent1q…833j</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>In other words, not spontaneous but avoidable, accidental death. 2024-11-15T21:50:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsydva3zzy2cc77g8l92pjyuldvxj5t40fjn6ltcgkk8drt2lxwcvszyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwg8dknn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2e29pst6gaja39n5plwcyqq73r2myu0w657fnzvz4eecsdfwdydqr84yq4'>nevent1q…4yq4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There was a - maybe Horizon - TV programme about it in the 80s (hence my memory of the Bleak House dramatisation because that scene was featured) that postulated it was due to (a) smoking (b) obesity and (c) alcohol. The people it had occurred to had most likely passed out from excessive drinking, dropped their cigarette on themselves, which caused body fat to slowly combust and act like a wick. Result: gradual, slow burning like a candle. 2024-11-15T21:49:23Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs87w8l5pfv26gdpyklux6j4992gh3c8awhqzhl8pgjq7eww9z08qczyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjw2s37le In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyr5dudxrpa3duqg2rvz68j0gvn2yzqnjmukw5s4s4r7zntcq0g2ss0watd'>nevent1q…watd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Well I never, a far-right demagogue&#39;s government was full of shit. This has never happened before and there is no precedent for such an event. Colour me stupid for believing such obvious fucking bullshit. I had no idea of the possibility that a fucking resolute liar and outright fucking fraud would ever lie to *me*. 2024-11-08T23:54:45Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsze4tcl9x00spgtgcu48cx44x7dgx028zhre0ddhwqmhgpdst5k2gzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjw2hf9zl Could there be a worse time for the UK to be at its weakest in decades and outside of the EU? <br/><br/>With a Prime Minister in place who has done nothing but doff his cap and bend the knee in appeasement in the face of rising fascism?<br/><br/>The only plus to all this is at least it isn&#39;t the Tories who already were and would be significantly worse if they were in power. But... Starmer, Reeves, Streeting. Ugh. This is not good. Not good at all.<br/><br/>#UKPol #UKPolitics #USPol #USPolitics 2024-11-06T10:58:39Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs89e66ntnn9kxceav9vnj4kjvufy77s9wkqklacrc8m48tr7tlvmgzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwpug9jp Are Americans not allowed to take dogs to polling stations?<br/><br/>Not a single sausage (dog) on the #DogsAtPollingStations tag as far as I can tell.<br/><br/>#USPolitics #USPol #USElection 2024-11-05T22:37:50Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9flkjdgrrdt9c8cwqz4mul8hnzdk5kwvlrhcxrpxxkl9tcrwudzszyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjw44kmxr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst8g5j4tllcukeefva0cp3f60ws4wtnv4yr8239slw7ealpgj8djc8t5k42'>nevent1q…5k42</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Comment not aimed at you Clive but this is really getting my goat at the moment:<br/><br/>Journalists stop being shit with language - words are meant to be your damned profession - challenge: it isn&#39;t &#34;scientific racism&#34;, it&#39;s *racist pseudoscience*. Calling it the former makes it sound like it is a science and legitimises it. 2024-10-25T15:47:36Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxyu735x3p959rgm92ym3n952j6scdnghuw7y6pz3uu04uwvc24sczyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjw6msyrk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfq73tqrcjhu8whjfj2xsx0k2rv9d9vgryhgf0ek53vzde5lcullgaljzp7'>nevent1q…jzp7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Scrolls a bit tonight and, lo and behold, this pops up:<br/><br/><a href="https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/113358069014203444">https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/113358069014203444</a> 2024-10-23T21:54:25Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfq73tqrcjhu8whjfj2xsx0k2rv9d9vgryhgf0ek53vzde5lcullgzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjw25eadx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqf20nlh79qdl6lhvr5ddr99c3gw5k3l60w5atxt3duaegfrdjpyccld8s6'>nevent1q…d8s6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Even if this were true, a bad waiting time versus a &#39;you are literally going to suffer horribly and die because, fuck you and your lack of money, you too poor or middle-class person to have insurance that maybe would cover your health issue if we could be bothered - especially when we&#39;ll do everything we can to make sure it doesn&#39;t no matter how much you&#39;re paying for it&#39; is still infinitely more preferable. 2024-10-23T20:48:40Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsg8m28yvwjtwgxtptsn35smg67u885szd4gychkuygdclr0su9ytszyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjw45snqp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvqwqjk722ya3c5xdfgr5556pgka8nvxt3tg2u9r590qhfce3g37cuylchx'>nevent1q…lchx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Definitely that one (nb it doesn&#39;t mean the lesser version of that hash can&#39;t also appear). 2024-10-22T18:57:39Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspxcpwhmpgsykvft8nf8p4g8ua7kpck34e0409cvpz26zty9kkc7qzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwr3v2kp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgqck7xwdj4lrsjavvdg6z904n6k67w3y2uwxg07d2r22gdzgxmxc4ax5l5'>nevent1q…x5l5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The problem with that metaphor is that it isn&#39;t as persuasive as some people seem to think.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve been getting &#39;on the train&#39; the vast majority of my voting life. And I&#39;ve never been further from my destination than I am today. Every time I&#39;ve taken the least-worst train, it&#39;s stopped a longer distance away from where I wanted to be than when I first started. (1/2) 2024-10-21T16:30:13Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqfvjt4cxrfr6ftlcmrvj7czpptmyq9j4ff0lt35wzm7qfqm4vj4szyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjw3lcngv Lisbon Castle, Portugal, April 2013. <br/><br/>#SilentSunday<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/113/220/551/236/595/929/original/607ecfdb9b5b5fa9.jpeg"> <br/> 2024-09-29T11:05:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2m09az25gkmq7cf225q4j9pjmvvmn5k06ly8t8xkah3u5842w33qzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjw02esae In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0hlusqxg3zulfu60qcg2hrnyqztrpdpvx3295rlm5prd4ja0zjjc9grxwe'>nevent1q…rxwe</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>iOS and it&#39;s an in-built feature. 2024-09-22T15:37:27Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqpxyvcgnf2m9h2h098hfq6vf9hurw8vfcnr8j6jdll5avpdz7e7gzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwtng5yq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9hsj4ly9jk29cu0ln62q2dzte2czxkda4rchla0fzh2reuml0dwqfdw4xc'>nevent1q…w4xc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Mine is set to change every time my phone wakes from sleep, so it&#39;s several times per day from a selection of 50 photos. 2024-09-22T15:34:48Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs03a7uhlh8qpj5tmzza3rayxymncuytcf3zjpd2tt9ffv7jsp8prczyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjw5gux8v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswfmy4xcd2nmhpfwlgccz7unjucmqq4c3letkx4tcrkl4d54cq9tq8dc0jl'>nevent1q…c0jl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Oh, for sure. They&#39;re pest control wherever you are (and trying to get rid of spiders in your home is a pointlessly futile exercise anyway, because you&#39;re only ever seeing a tiny fraction of the ones that are there). <br/><br/>Just highlighting the parallel that by getting rid of some species of spider - if that&#39;s your thing/phobia - people could be making things worse rather than better for themselves. 2024-09-02T15:15:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspeu0xh3sxh86tay5whqkq6we34pnf83js7f760dnm89n5hq8y02gzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwt0y4gz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvk0ncjcucgzqee9kstt9advmyvh7c2zqcg8x9n0vys5usrhne2jqgfsaj8'>nevent1q…saj8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The same goes for some species of spider - they actually predate other spiders (among other insects) so getting rid of them is counterproductive if you want fewer spiders in your home. <br/><br/>Eg. <a href="https://www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/identify-nature/spiders-in-your-home/daddy-long-legs-spider.html">https://www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/identify-nature/spiders-in-your-home/daddy-long-legs-spider.html</a> 2024-09-02T14:24:46Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsykk9q2umm4tss4d9zvd6pr5tyrppznsntq7fm9at6ftmenvh484qzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwfzlpkm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszezfguh2fy7ltph52c5m3n28xq7nu7d0qu6fsvt9s5uazxcls7kc4jw2jm'>nevent1q…w2jm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>More gnomic signage in Kyoto. <br/><br/>Kyoto, Japan, 2012. <br/><br/>#SilentSunday #Signage #Japan #JapaneseSigns<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/112/939/409/965/378/709/original/73798618edf2ce56.jpeg"> <br/> 2024-08-11T11:15:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvnc9z6z7n4p27zy9dv0sgcujw7amlgk3c3uk8cj7tr6un5xwcgzgzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjw8fwt8p In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrna0zesu4r7w4k2gpwq3jy87cwtyd5kj8ngs4hcg5ctpulqm2trcsmarna'>nevent1q…arna</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There are countless examples of two-tier policing that they could use as examples. Only that would involve believing what black Londoners say and experience. So they won&#39;t. 2024-08-08T12:26:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvhcy4jrrwlfntd8eyueucwtg46mdl6jd55lf08sl5nt0qkpaczhqzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwnhtzvz The stupidest lawsuit in history?<br/><br/>All the advertisers will have to do is show a series of Musk&#39;s own tweets to demonstrate the validity of the removal of their ads from the platform due to unfettered hate speech running wild. <br/><br/>They won&#39;t even have to show all the tweets from the other Nazis that he&#39;s let back on. <br/><br/>#ElonMusk #Twitter<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/112/916/700/040/364/926/original/b49bc9d2fb179df6.png"> <br/> 2024-08-06T19:21:47Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszezfguh2fy7ltph52c5m3n28xq7nu7d0qu6fsvt9s5uazxcls7kczyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwsjj6ak One of the many things I like about Japan is the gnomic mistranslations into English of the signage. <br/><br/>Kyoto, Japan, 2012. <br/><br/>#SilentSunday #Signage #Japan #JapaneseSigns<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/112/666/180/503/096/501/original/2e8fe4236134708b.jpeg"> <br/> 2024-06-23T13:23:34Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsw8mcsvsp52llgqpv6zh09jl08553f925q448ncld3g94urwvtfsszyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwmcmfsa In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqnkye6jvuh20k2rvcvhjf9hjtjx3dma8stqlfy6cm97cp0vff34s25r72w'>nevent1q…r72w</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I knew I had my own photos... I was privileged enough to take these at a special event many years ago at the #NHMLondon: this is the real deal, the fossilised lower jaw of a Mastodon americanus - not a cast - purchased in 1844 and originally excavated in Missouri, USA. The teeth are what give Mastodon its name - mastos from breast and odous from tooth - and, no, I&#39;m still not seeing the resemblance to breasts. Look closely and the teeth in this fossil are fantastically opalescent. #FossilFriday<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/111/071/311/125/133/707/original/3b3e4d08fae192d6.jpeg"> <br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/111/071/311/215/380/622/original/dde5e8c95e05a882.jpeg"> <br/> 2023-09-15T21:35:09Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdftwjul9j0nu5yct29782vy7k708m44jmd8zzegfjdag3xtcn9uqzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwt84xga <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1lm9vupc3wp3mggma3mex6px4afmy9aakzc9k0kmvc2dkuxujulqqvqcrh5" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Ken Tindell</span> (<span class="italic">npub1lm9…crh5</span>)</a></span> It is not hyperbole to say that by the middle of the next century, Rupert Murdoch and his offspring will have had a very significant hand in the deaths of more people than every murderous despot of the 20th century combined. The blood on his hands and those of his fellow travellers is going to be totalled in the billions. 2023-09-12T14:38:24Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqnkye6jvuh20k2rvcvhjf9hjtjx3dma8stqlfy6cm97cp0vff34szyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwwxhw2r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0gw20gm67kvnqcldt36v204sy0kmq37lsvkcfxcsccn44h2elxngxgq5sv'>nevent1q…q5sv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The name Mastodon, by the way, is derived from the shape of the animal&#39;s teeth: mastos meaning breast and odous meaning tooth. So, welcome to the breast-tooth platform that is Mastodon.<br/><br/>Image courtesy of Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons: <img src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mastodon_tooth_from_Mattapoisett_River_-_Robbins_Museum_-_Middleborough,_Massachusetts_-_DSC03767.jpg"> <br/><br/>(5/5)<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/110/672/934/453/807/869/original/c55ef70b768e20f0.jpeg"> <br/> 2023-07-07T13:02:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0gw20gm67kvnqcldt36v204sy0kmq37lsvkcfxcsccn44h2elxngzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwk8rvvx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxu8ylsfqyqhs2zvdqpmvpzh467ee9a6ltjk4uu0w78ysfjhysqjsa0tf67'>nevent1q…tf67</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Owen was already in the process of developing and contributing to the science of comparative anatomy, a field in which he was particularly adept. And it was he who set about reconstructing a physiologically accurate #Mastodon americanum from Koch&#39;s Leviathan.<br/><br/>The resulting animal is not as grandiose as the Leviathan, and Mastodon as a species are now known to have been marginally smaller animals than their pachyderm relatives of today, the elephant.<br/><br/>(4/5)<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/110/672/930/732/507/738/original/d12e64f43c8d2e3d.jpeg"> <br/> 2023-07-07T13:01:45Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxu8ylsfqyqhs2zvdqpmvpzh467ee9a6ltjk4uu0w78ysfjhysqjszyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjw3vc2wp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspeqn42gzj74fzxfknnmafpehtzdc7c0vmc7kkyzuh88wpvv3357g0sl2aj'>nevent1q…l2aj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Koch&#39;s exhibition in London led to the purchase by the British Museum of his Leviathan for the princely sum of £1,300, and at this juncture, we meet Richard Owen who would go on to found what is now known as the Natural History Museum in London. <br/><br/>Owen is probably most famous for the &#39;terrible lizard&#39; moniker he later gave to a subset of fossilised land animals - the &#39;Dinosauria&#39; - but already by the 1840s he was a scientist with an interest in anatomy.<br/><br/>(3/5) 2023-07-07T13:00:59Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspeqn42gzj74fzxfknnmafpehtzdc7c0vmc7kkyzuh88wpvv3357gzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwyhksdd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrvgwjwpdy4664ygke4sx0s05c4rd9s963algyz9hmj7jhl5q5xfqx8jtxx'>nevent1q…jtxx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Koch gave us the &#39;Missouri Leviathan&#39;, comprising the fossilised bones of more than one animal to create something much bigger and much more imposing than what we now know the Mastodon to have been. <br/><br/>The colourised lithograph depicted here shows how Koch pitched his Leviathan to a European and London audience, with an excessive number of vertebrae and ribs, and the tusks splayed to the side of the head like a grappling hook.<br/><br/>(2/5)<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/110/672/926/892/140/398/original/03bc7908ed020341.jpeg"> <br/> 2023-07-07T13:00:46Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrvgwjwpdy4664ygke4sx0s05c4rd9s963algyz9hmj7jhl5q5xfqzyqmg6c8ydumgccc3h4zl73dd283l4sj2unf7gz5zsxr64myxg5fjwg30gez This is a reproduction of one of my earliest #FossilFriday posts on this platform (foolishly, I let them all auto-delete). It&#39;s the Missouri Leviathan. Aka the American Mastodon. <br/><br/>Now housed in the central hall of #NHMLondon, this fossil was unearthed as part of a &#39;graveyard&#39; of #Mastodon fossils by Albert Koch in 1840. <br/><br/>It&#39;s fair to say that Koch, being a showman interested in making money, took some liberties with his reconstruction of the fossilised animals he had found...<br/><br/>(1/5)<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/110/672/924/477/919/410/original/8df8900e0318d48b.jpeg"> <br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/110/672/924/553/790/972/original/ce7d47cd4fc3a963.jpeg"> <br/> 2023-07-07T13:00:10Z