Product review: Bent Spoke "Frenzy" raspberry beer
Once, many years ago, my brother and I had a couple of nice Belgian framboise (raspberry) beers at a Christmas catch-up. They were great. Delicate, highly aromatic, barely sweet, etc etc. This is nothing like that. It's arguably not even true beer, but a "sour". Its worse than kombucha. This is what nostalgia brings you. [opens another]
#beer
The brilliant Sarah Schwartz gives white supremacists, including pro-Israel groups and the Murdoch media a well-deserved serve at the Bell Commission. https://michaelwest.com.au/hitlers-jew-judenrat-kapo-the-cost-of-speaking-out-against-israel/ #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacy #auspol #Israel #IsraelFascism #Palestine
The staff volunteering to manage shelters for survivors of twin earthquakes that struck last week in Venezuela are members of the youth wing of Venezuela's socialist party and are mostly homeless after the disaster. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/02/world/survivors-venezuela-quakes-shelters/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #venezuela #earthquakes
Percy Bysse Shelley anticipates some of the crappier aspects of pop music:
"A hater he came and sat by a ditch,
And he took an old cracked lute;
And he sang a song which was more of a screech
'Gainst a woman that was a brute"
--A hate-song, 1817
#poetry
Native grass pasture in winter colours. Grasses are a mix of Poa sp & Themeda triandra mostly, with patches of Imperata cylindrica (blady grass) and various forbs throughout
#wildoz #grasslands #naturepics
Good morning everyone (it's good here)
#naturepics #landscape #farmlife
I NEED TO EXPRESS MYSELF BUT I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO FIND A ROCKET LAUNCHER.
Most of the arguments against remote work apply equally well or better as reasons for not watching sport on TV - you don’t contribute to team culture
- you miss the chance for serendipitous encounters with other fans
- local businesses near the stadium depend on your attendance
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wtf is all this shit about geese all over my feed, what did I miss
Lots of regrettable silliness here: two papers by Max Planck (!) have been retracted, probably by some automated process that based the decision on the same material appearing in another journal (which was far more common at the time, and even Einstein did it) and a rebuttal to a work being published under the same title (but not author) as the thing being rebutted.
But the funniest line in the article is:
“Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95.”
Australians! There is a senate inquiry into AI Data Centres, please have your say!
@beatricejess @pvonhellermannn
What this unbearable weather shows is something else, that IPCC has been saying since 2001 : not only the normal temperature will get hotter, but exceptional phenomenon will be rather regular, hotter, dryer, longer and bound to happen during a bigger chunk of the year.
And France (as everywhere else) is prepared for neither :
- not for the base temperature rise
- not for the exceptional weather
This is why over 5000 people die of heat each year in France
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Peoples struggling with hot buildings overnight, evaporation takes energy and will cool your building, even a light spray of water on your exterior (especially concrete/paving patios) will help cool you down overnight #BuildingScience
Met Office forecasters have issued a rare red weather warning for Wednesday and Thursday in the face of extreme heat and humidity, while a red heat health alert has been issued in England indicating “a risk to life for even the healthy population”.
#ClimateDiary “Above is a fictional weather forecast for August 18, 2050, broadcast by French television in 2014, intended to warn against the disastrous consequences of global warming.
Below is the weather forecast for June 22, 2026.”
(By @jakubwiech on unmentionable)
This brings out super starkly how #ClimateChange has accelerated so much more quickly than we thought even just 12 years ago.
Dunno where or when but hey
#Elbit #genocide #subvertising #UKPolitics
If this review of the AI industry's downsides is long, that's because there are so many of them.
https://psyll.com/articles/technology/ai-machine-learning/the-real-cost-of-ai-human-and-environmental-harm
I have read all of these points elsewhere, but the article does bring them all together fairly effectively. What I haven't read is the alternative we wish to see for the internet. Or ideas on how to get there. Some nostalgia for Web 1.0, some calls for a moratorium on new data centres (which will just get built elsewhere). If the "information superhighway" is a dystopia, what is the bicycle and public transport equivalent in this analogy?
We need an alternative program, but its not easy because it requires defeating some of the biggest monopolies in the capitalist world. But we can do it. As always, capital can't function without the global working class.
#AI
A cloud (of smog) over the "information superhighway" (which is becoming gridlocked)