The word "excellent" is derived from the Christian practice of giving up using Microsoft Excel for 40 days to commemorate Christ's sacrifice.

It is a period of great productivity.

The date of lent is calculated using an obscure Excel macro on a field that didn't originally have anything to do with dates, but Excel converted it to one anyway.

This week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching.

https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt

#meta

No need to clear new land for solar power. Panels can coexist with agriculture, and even help it since many crops thrive in partial shade and/or benefit from water retention under the panels.

“Maize is grown by about 50% of farmers in Tanzania. Maize is also a sun loving plant. So the fact that we had an 11% yield increase in maize [under solar panel arrays] is a phenomenal result,” he said.

#solar #renewables #agriculture https://apnews.com/article/climate-beer-solar-panels-hops-germany-ee3d00a1877837eb85053335e3b68a00

India 🇮🇳, the world’s biggest rice exporter (accounting for about 40% of global exports), is stopping rice exports.

The immediate ban was introduced after extreme weather hit the crops and raises fears of global food price inflation.

This is the climate crisis👇👇

Turkish garbage collectors open a library with all of the books citizens discard in their trash.

via Brian Roemmele from Twitter