"Bristol Bay is a extremely special place. It has all the different types of terrain in all of Alaska, in one place. Where I live, at the mouth of the Nushagak and Wood River, we have everything from tundra and wetlands to mountains, freshwater lakes, freshwater rivers, the muddy waters of Nushagak Bay, the beautiful, crystal clear ocean waters as you go west towards Togiak and Twin Hills. It's really untouched, pristine beauty."

https://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=26-P13-00018&segmentID=4

New Netflix documentary reexamines Winnie Mandela's divisive legacy
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/02/nx-s1-5800681/netflix-winnie-mandela?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Arts & Life @arts-life-npr

Wow, I've just discovered Flying Lotus.

Definitely he doesn't need to leverage his uncle John Coltrane's heritage to stand out musically. Such an impressive fusion of genres and textures and feelings.

There I go into yet another rabbit hole.

https://flyinglotus.bandcamp.com/album/big-mama

#music #electronic #NowPlaying #jazz

Ah tiens le titre a été modifié, de :

« Mesh Network », un autre réseau de communication en cas d’« apocalypse »

il est passé à  :

Les réseaux « mesh », un mode de communication décentralisé et résilient en cas de « black-out » mondial

Et j’en ai profité pour mettre à jour mon dernier article de notes d’exploration. Sur ce, je retourne au ménage 🫧 🧽

I was going to leave feedback to the tune of "TLScontact and its ilk are the way in which the Home Office privatizes cruelty. The fact that you happened to treat me well on the surface does not justify your organization's existence." but I guess I'll have to pick a different chance

I've never seen The Traitors but Bella Ramsey is doing it next season so now I must watch it to support my autistic queen 👸

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yx5w43jzko

Show HN: SimDrive – a browser racing game with your phone as the controller:D
L: https://simdrive.xyz/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47954074
posted on 2026.04.29 at 16:24:49 (c=1, p=3)

How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?
L: https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/02/how-fast-is-a-macos-vm-and-how-small-could-it-be/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984852
posted on 2026.05.02 at 05:30:49 (c=0, p=4)

A mining frenzy is gripping the world, often in the last remains of Wild Nature and on Indigenous lands

“Protecting water means protecting life itself,” Rise and Repair Co-Facilitator Leanna Goose said. “In this moment, there are so many threats to our water that it’s important that we all stand together and protect it for future generations.”

“All of these areas where these mines are proposed, they’re in treaty territory,” Goose said.

https://mndaily.com/city/boundary-waters-mining-could-wreak-havoc-on-indigenous-land/05/01/2026/eicmndaily-com/

I want Jewish people to feel safe and to be safe. But Jewish people in the UK live under a governance and a broad cultural consensus that cannot confront that Israel’s governance has gone mad.

And it seems to me that this endangers people of the Jewish faith and ultimately those of every other faith and no faith

This week's #NewBooks at the library: Another three books from our January clearance sale, some of which have been review candidates for some time now.

- Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything – and Endangered the World, a shocking and eye-opening reportage written by Jocelyn C. Zuckerman and published by Hurst Publishers.

- Making Faces: The Evolutionary Origins of the Human Face, written by Adam S. Wilkins, published by Belknap Press. Not one I was planning to review, but I find it very hard to pass up a bargain on an interesting book on human evolution and physical anthropology.

- Unfit for Purpose: When Human Evolution Collides with the Modern World, written by Adam Hart, published by Bloomsbury Sigma. One of several books that explores the mismatch between our evolutionary legacy and the modern world we have created for ourselves. I expect them to be amusing reads all!

#Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #EnvironmentalIssues #PalmOil #PlantationForestry #FoodAdditives #Evolution #HumanEvolution #PhysicalAnthropology #Anatomy #PopularScience @bookstodon

shot/chaser

Of course we choose to perch in the dead tree.
Got to match the colors! 😁

I generally think it’s just not on to comment about other people’s physical appearance, but I’m gonna break my own rule and say that just about everyone who’s had one of these procedures looks terrible. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/plastic-surgery-rich-face.html

Having a hot chocolate after scanning lots of barcodes. Didn’t get to scan Dame Kelly’s one but did get pictures with her!

13 Tote bei der Nordsee im Südlibanon

Historic EU–Armenia summit to launch new security, connectivity partnership

The first-ever EU–Armenia Summit will be held in Yerevan on 4–5 May, the European Commission said.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/eu-affairs/2108359/historic-eu-armenia-summit-to-launch-new-security-connectivity-partnership/

The early warning system didn't work for this quake. Our smartphone apps didn't start going off until after the shaking had stopped. But info about the extent of the quake came almost instantly. The epicenter (Wakayama?) experienced shindo 4, which is alarming but rarely deadly. We experienced shindo 3, which is worrying. And since the epicenter was not in the ocean, there's no chance of tsunamis.

…In poorer countries, generally closer to the equator than G7 nations and the EU, oil is used much more for cooking than heating. And they will have a lot less of it

https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116504381011167049

#WritersCoffeeClub 02 April: Have you ever written a character making one decision, only to later revise them choosing otherwise?

Obviously—but you wouldn't know it from the as-published final draft!

(I'm currently grappling with one of those situations right now: wrote myself into an unexpected situation last night, slept on it, trying to decide how to revise/reframe yesterday's work and continue the story today.)