ubi

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People can't tell me that it's not possible to make the world accessible for disabled people, after the whole world has been made accessible to cars.

This is the ship we get around in. It's a bit special and very comfy. I'm used to smaller ships so the scale of it can be a little daunting. For sure it's a nice place to come home to after a few hours of walking about the rocks and avoiding crocs on shore.

#KimberleyCoast #Photography #HeritageExpeditions #Lumix

Lunch! ... While I wait for government office ppl to also get back from lunch (more household admin things)

#Food #MakanApaToday

Biodiversity Heritage Library hit by AI crawlers

https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/07/bhl-traffic-challenges.html

BHL Traffic Challenges

In the past several weeks, we’ve seen a large, disruptive increase in traffic to the BHL main website. This blog post is meant to summarize the event, the effect on BHL and its servers, our r…

Biodiversity Heritage Library
LLMs are responsible for a lot of sins but let us not forget the harm it has caused the em-dash enthusiast community, of whom i consider myself a fellow

OK, big thread time. It will seem a little bit meandery, but I promise it all comes together in the end.

The topic is, as is increasingly usual for my rants, the #disingenuous #western #press and its service of #narrative over information. The seeds of this rant were planted when @architecture posted a link to this story:

https://www.domusweb.it/en/news/2025/07/07/in-china-an-inflatable-dome-reduces-construction-dust-and-noise.html

I urge you to read both the headline and the article before continuing. But I'll be starting with the headline.

Obliquely.

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Why China built a 50-million-dollar inflatable dome over a construction site

<span>A lightweight, modular, and digitally controlled engineering solution, part of China’s broader objective to reduce the environmental impact of construction sites in densely populated urban areas.</span>

Domusweb

"Decades ago, public service announcements asked parents, “It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?”

But a recent campaign to fight online misinformation about climate change turned that script on its head by asking young people, “It’s 10 p.m. Do you know what your parents are scrolling?”"

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/07/new-campaign-asks-young-people-to-help-their-parents-recognize-misinformation/

New campaign asks young people to help their parents recognize misinformation

False claims about climate change are rampant on social media.

Yale Climate Connections
Nasi Lemak and Kopi Yuzu

At Laoban Yogyakarta
https://maps.app.goo.gl/t6HNGvzNERFYfVLa8

#MakanApaToday
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Was home alone today… so I made Nasi Goreng for the first time. I made do with what I had which was janky as hell, but it was edible… I think 🤠 #MakanApaToday
@irfan@pixelfed.social 10/10 would dig no cap
that's awfully kind n generous of u xD