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[ID: A tweet from Elon Musk’s official Twitter account that says, “To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits: - Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day - Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day - New unverified accounts to 300/day”. End ID.]
Already made a post about this but there’s a good chance Elon’s lying and the servers are just completely unstable because he refused to pay a contract with Google
I love this question but it’s so hard to pick an answer! But I love photos of queer people all throughout history just living their lives. Here’s a selection:
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Crow batée Ohchiish (Osh-Tisch) left and unknown Crow individual, from Will Roscoe’s Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America
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Freddie Mercury and his partner Jim Hutton
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Finnish writer and artist Tove Jansson (right) and her partner Tuulikki “Tooti” Pietilä
People are mocking this one but tbh it might legitimately be an improvement on sails, wind speed generally increases as you go up so being able to pull your boat with wind significantly higher up could be a huge benefit and if you do it right you can run multiple kites off one line so you get the added surface area of multiple sails without being limited in how many by the height of the mast.
It sounds like ‘haha they’re just reinventing sails’ but it’s actually a really cool idea.
“some of you really need to grow up already and stop *trait usually shared by people with disabilities* by doing *thing that is harder to do for people with disabilities* already and start being normal you freaks 🙄”
It’s that time of year again, when millions of Americans celebrate our country’s independence by buying tons of fireworks to blow up over a period of several days. Admittedly I loved setting off firecrackers and M-60s when I was a kid, but no one had taken the time to explain to me the damage these explosives could do, other than warnings about not blowing off my fingers. And while I dutifully went out and swept up the debris afterward, I didn’t understand fully how fireworks harm nature.
Had I known then what I know now, I might not have been so enthusiastic about fireworks. I’ve always been a nature nerd, even at a very young age, but I didn’t always know how to connect everyday activities to their impact on the natural world. Environmental topics were always presented to me as something that happened elsewhere, like trying to keep giant pandas from going extinct, or saving the rainforests of the Amazon. That, of course, served to keep anyone from questioning what was happening right here at home.
Now that I am older and wiser, I have a much better understanding of how everything is connected, and how everything we do has some impact for good or ill. Let’s dig deeper into how the fireworks that will be detonated this year can affect the nature around them.
i’m not usually one to tag a bunch of people but srsly this is important
ID: The Destiel news meme. Dean is saying “Lorie Smith, the Colorado web designer who filed a court case that went to SCOTUS after saying she was being forced to make a website for a gay couple, lied. about everything.” end ID.
reading creationist articles about evolution out of some terrible urge of morbid curiosity and it makes me sad about general scientific literacy and the pop science idea of evolution
like creationists really emphasize how the “Darwinistic worldview” is driven by competition and only the strong survive etc. and there’s no reason for anything except for ensuring survival, so there is no reason for moral behavior or altruism and it’s SO FRUSTRATING because people like Richard Dawkins really promote that
But it’s not accurate! A lot of scientists now believe that cooperation is a fundamental driving force of evolution. the fact that we cooperate and take care of each other is a major reason why humans are such a successful species. Auuuugggghhhh
Yeah, “fitness” and “strength” was really a poor choice of terminology, it has lead to so much misunderstanding. Definitely should have gone with “best adapted” or something. Social cooperation, language(especially written language), empathy, and community are all incredible adaptations that are almost universal in their ability to help a species survive.
There’s also the conflation of “successful” with morally good that the social darwinists use which is its own can of worms.
Evolution is just constantly misunderstood all the time, even by average people who don’t have an agenda to push which doesn’t help in the slightest.
aka how to support libraries and get books and audiobooks for free without pirating them.
disclaimer: this is so easy. it is also really fun.
one: download the libby app. you’ll open it and it’ll ask you to add a library.
two: get a library card. don’t have one? good news, it’s really easy and i am saying this as the laziest person on earth. it varies what you need to have to get a card library to library but almost all libraries will let you get one online. i have a card for my home town and for the town i moved to. sometimes you only need an email address, sometimes you need an area code. to get mine it took me about 5 minutes of lying on the couch aimlessly tapping on my phone. follow your heart. you can get cards for places you don’t currently live. i will leave the ethics of that up to you but it’s probably better than pirating and either way you’re creating traffic for libraries which is what they need to exist.
three: add your card. you can add multiple cards for multiple libraries. you need the number. i have never had libby fail to recognize a valid account.
four: search for your book! some will be ready to borrow right away. others have an estimated delivery time. libby will always pick the one that’s the fastest from the options available at all the libraries you have cards at. you can borrow audiobooks and ebooks. libby will send you a notification when you’re book is ready to borrow. in my experience it’s a lot faster than the estimate. if you aren’t ready to read it, you can ask to be skipped over in line so you keep your place at the front but let someone else read it first.
five: read it!!! kindle is the most common way to do this. you can go to your loan and click read with kindle. it’ll download it to all your devices where you have kindle. as long as you have the loan, it’ll act like your book. when the loan ends, if the device is connected to the internet, it’ll automatically be returned. it will save all your notes and highlights. (if you disconnect your device from the internet, it won’t return the book. weewoo.)
anyway in case anyone else has been wondering about it, i really love it. is a nice surprise to see what i’m going to get and it’s cut my reading costs down big time! it’s also neat because i get to synch my books between devices unlike downloading books through cough cough other means. good luck!
Reblogging again to say that you do not need Kindle, the app or the device, to read ebooks on Libby!! You can read any book you borrow WITHIN the Libby app, and you can change the font and dark/light mode for accessibility too.
please be aware the libby app does NOT let you read or listen offline so the app itself is unusable for me for actual reading unfortunately! you guys who have access to the internet steadily can use it but be aware. you can’t use it on a plane, for example, but if you download to kindle you can.
You should actually be able to use libby app offline (for those allergic to kindle like I am lmao). You just have to change your download permissions in settings. The web browser version of libby is online only though.
Go to Settings > Change Download Rules > toggle to “Everything” (and recommended to “Download only on Wi-fi” if you are worried about your data)
Then Settings > Read Books With… > Libby, so that it downloads to the correct app. You should be able to change your preferences on the main page by clicking the cloud icon to see where you’ve downloaded it too.
Libby also has a feature called Notify Me–if you search for a book and Libby can find it in their database but it’s not available to borrow from your library, hit Notify Me. Not only will you be notified if the book becomes available, but your library will be notified that there is A Reader who is looking for this book, so that they can buy it if that’s possible for them–without you having to make a direct request!
You can also change your preferences so you only see results in the medium you want so you only see audiobooks if that is what you use Libby for (like me) or to exclude audio if you only want eBooks
audiobooks are SO expensive, and i listen to them almost every night. libby has saved me thousands of dollars by now, no joke. support your local library. if you’re not american, you can still try to apply for a library card at the brooklyn library!
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People are mocking this one but tbh it might legitimately be an improvement on sails, wind speed generally increases as you go up so being able to pull your boat with wind significantly higher up could be a huge benefit and if you do it right you can run multiple kites off one line so you get the added surface area of multiple sails without being limited in how many by the height of the mast.
It sounds like ‘haha they’re just reinventing sails’ but it’s actually a really cool idea.
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