Jasper @jasper@mastodon.nl

WHY I SAY I WON'T PATENT MY DESIGNS: because it's too expensive to be practical
WHY I ACTUALLY WON'T PATENT MY DESIGNS: because I'm not part of the fucking problem

This dragonfly was roughly the size of my hand and just sat there, right next to me, for a couple of minutes.

Congrats @unfa for making the official #ardour videos from now on.
https://youtu.be/YpMP8uGGpzI

#baturday comes in all shapes and sizes

"Caribbean white tent-making bat" is maybe the best name

if you'd like to read my posts about developing things such as fedibooks and OCRbot, please follow @LynnearSoftware!

The forces of Turkey, illegally invading with declared intent to (also illegally) annex, held a military parade in Afrin, Northern Syria, while shouting nationalistic slogans in Turkish under Turkey's flag.

Neo-Nazi U.S. Coast Guard domestic terrorist lieutenant Christopher Hasson denied bail.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/21/christopher-hasson-terror-plot-coast-guard-officer-denied-bail

Meet 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘢 𝘚𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢, or Bahamian Gromia. It's a grape sized, (1.2 inch) single celled collusus of a protist that spends its days glacially slowly rolling across the ocean floor.

This gentle giant scoops up nutrients and other, smaller microbes by sending out pseudopods that also reach out in front of it and drag it along the seabed. They leave long trails behind them, and some fossilized remains of these trails go back nearly 1.2 billion years!

Gemeente Zaanstad moet per direct stoppen met Flextensie! Net zoals met alle andere vormen van rechteloze arbeid tussen vrijwilligerswerk en een baan in.

I just have no words for what happened with Radium Girls be prepared to see depths that Capitalism can go.

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Toxic black snow covers Siberian coalmining region Kuzbass.
"It’s harder to find white snow than black snow".
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/15/toxic-black-snow-covers-siberian-coalmining-region

How Jews Got to Europe (thread)

(1) our home was occupied by the Romans

(2) after two failed rebellions, our temple was destroyed and replaced with a temple to Jupiter

(3) after our third failed rebellion we were banned from Jerusalem and forbidden from practicing our religion in the land, and many of us were sold into slavery

(4) a mass exodus began at this point due to intolerable conditions as well as forced expulsions. a minority stayed in Galilee, but most were dispersed