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clew

@clew@ecoevo.social

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#Soil, ecology, low-input #MarketGardening, women's history, material history, math, programming, literature of the long nineteenth, #waltz, #polka, leavened bread. Mostly around the Salish Sea.

Moved over from octodon.social as that delightful venue closed.

Profile image looks grayscale but is a color photo; a gull on a gray day here is just that gray. Header, for contrast, is an edible-flower harvest, punnets of brilliant oranges and purply-blues and pinks, on a scrubbed washpack table.

clew 8h ago

Moby Dick 9h ago

There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair.

clew 8h ago

todd ellis 9h ago

Facing an...unusual...review for my PhD dissertation, I re-created their strangest argument nearly word for word and in the same order with my first one-sentence prompt to Copilot.

Head exploding.

clew 10h ago

bri 18h ago

big thanks to @MxSadie for putting me on to this book by @loriemerson… i’m about 30 pages, 15 networks in and it’s the sort of examination of technology and communication that fuels my optimism that we will continue to find ways to get our message out there even as the futures of our best-known communications infrastructures feel increasingly grim.

https://shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898-lori-emerson-other-networks-a-radical-technology-sourcebook

clew 10h ago

Chuck Smith 11h ago

Anybody ever looked into replacing the ECU on a mid-2000s Saab 9-3? It's accessible, programmable, etc. Given how easy the access to the part is, I think I could try this? What are the risks I make stuff worse?

clew 10h ago

Jen Kramer 19h ago

I have a low-vision student who is learning to code JavaScript. She needs a better code editor to work with, and/or some plugins to make it work better with her screen readers. What do the accessible developers recommend? **#accessibility** **#screenreader #javascript**

clew 10h ago

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Alissa Azar 13h ago

I just unpacked my bag and I am so mad

Of course the usual slip of paper that’s like “for your own safety and protection we have completely violated your privacy and decided to be fucking pervs” blah blah blah…

First thing I notice is some stockings completely unfolded and placed centrally, they were in a much more discreet place before and folded up very small. I had multiple bras stacked on one another in a way that wouldn’t fuck with the wire… those bras are no longer wearable and were also placed in a much more visible spot along with my underwear. As I was unpacking the central compartment the more stuff I took out the more weird debris (?) kept falling onto the floor. Was so confused until I got to the very bottom and realized they even went into the interior of my suitcase and that debris I was seeing was padding that they shredded up. I also just went to put my moisturizer on my face and it was emptied??

clew 10h ago

Miakoda 12h ago

A/C tip - A method to fix smushed condenser fins 🧵 - Get yourself a PLASTIC razor blade (often used to scrape 3D print beds). It's helpful to get a bright color you personally see well, contrast to your workspace (ie - don't get green if you're doing this outside).

The AC needs to have been off a while and the condenser completely cooled down.

Take a close look - the smushed fins overlap each other. You want to start on the side with the top most fold over.

[continues]

clew 10h ago

Lili Saintcrow 16h ago

"But nitrate levels in the Raccoon River kept on rising."
https://lithub.com/how-agricultural-runoff-contaminated-one-of-iowas-main-water-sources/

How Agricultural Runoff Contaminated One of Iowa’s Main Water Sources

The Raccoon River makes a lazy entrance into Des Moines, completing its journey from northwest Iowa in a series of graceful switchbacks through an urban park, its olive surface shaded by locust tre…

Literary Hub

clew 10h ago

Jessica

🇺🇦 🇵🇸 ✡️11h ago

Anyone have recs for an engaging history of #China published fairly recently?

#bookstodon #history

clew 13h ago

nullagent 14h ago

King County's warehouse of COVID supplies is getting close to expiration dates and they have pallets of supplies to give away to anyone who can pickup whole cases of supplies all the way up to pallets.

Location: King County Fire Station 20 - Skyway

12417 76th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98178

#Skyway #Seattle #PNW #MutualAid #covid #ppe #stillmasking

CosmicRami 2d ago

Incredible new #JWST deep field (120 hours!) released by folks from ESA/NASA Webb teams.

Not only is nearly everything in this image a galaxy (the two spiky stars are not), but those curved arcs are images of galaxies beyond this cluster, which are projected and warped into our view thanks to the power of gravity!

It's called a gravitational lens. To visualise what's happening, take a look at this diagram.

There are distant galaxies that we can't normally see. There's also a galaxies between them and us, with lots of mass.

This mass warps space-time and bends the distant galaxy light towards us so we see them.

I am amazed. You should be amazed. This is a really epic image.

Galaxy image and alt-text credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Atek, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)

Diagram credit: NASA, ESA & L. Calçada

#Galaxies #GravitationalLensing #GalaxyCluster #Astrodon

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CosmicRami 2d ago

Here's the original link if anyone wants to grab it from the ESA site as well: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/05/Webb_glimpses_the_distant_past

Webb glimpses the distant past

A glimpse of the distant past by Webb

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Petra van Cronenburg 2d ago

@CosmicRami Do you have a link to the original?

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CosmicRami 2d ago

@NatureMC sure thing, here you go: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/05/Webb_glimpses_the_distant_past

Webb glimpses the distant past

A glimpse of the distant past by Webb

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Petra van Cronenburg 2d ago

@CosmicRami Thank you very much!

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Bob Tregilus 2d ago

@CosmicRami Spectacular!

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🌼 Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 🌼2d ago

@CosmicRami
Okay, I'm amazed!

And there I was, staring at the image and then reading 'the eye is first drawn to' while I had in fact been fascinated by all the streaks of light instead! 😀

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