I have never used SNS at all, but I check artists I like on Nitter from time to time. Bluesky’s site is poorly designed: like many 2020s site, it refuses to display anything at all unless JavaScript is enabled. There is no Nitter equivalent for Bluesky, meaning that I cannot access Bluesky tweets at ...

This is true in general. Green plants are incapable of fixing nitrogen themselves, but depend on lightning or bacteria hosted in the root to fix it or them. Among others, the bacilli which cause tetanus and botulism ( Clostridium spp) are at home in the soil, fixing nitrogen for themselves. Some ...

‘Turns out, plants really like sunshine. Who knew?’
If I ever were to take up gardening, I would need to grow mushrooms. Sunlight irritates my skin (I use a parasol when I go out) and I darken my rooms with thick curtains, so I need plants which do not mind that. ;)
The gymnosperms and cryptogams ...

I am categorically against I have variously heard described as a compost heap of linear algebra, a very lucky paper shredder or, most recently, a ‘recycled mashup of Reddit threads and Hallmark leftovers’. The privacy implications are obvious; how they plagiarise in mass and launder social biases is ...

In my opinion, Minetest v4 suffices already. It resembles Minecraft Classic, which I am old enough to remember. There is no need for mobs (I always played in Peaceful mode) or whatever has accreted onto Minecraft in the years since 2010. This is a sandbox. The player has blocks and can play as he ...

Cameron’s hoard of clip art is a delight. Both as a child and now, I love these. I can, without exaggeration, spend hours combing through these short loops, enthralled. :mrgreen:
Praising ‘under construction’ signs made me smile; I remember when these were considered bad etiquette.

Hearing Discord ...

For example, I tried moving most of my text communications to Signal. That didn't go very far. So then I tried getting everyone to use WhatsApp since there was a high likelihood most of my contacts use that. WhatsApp has worked out where I can actually get a response from folks.
This is curious ...

Ha, I downloaded Minetest again just yesterday to occupy myself while at the hotel for the night. My repository offers v0·4·17·1. Unfortunately for me, my exploring was dampened by the facts that it is too dark to see anything at night, I cannot make charcoal for torches in the familiar way and ...

This reel is weakened by so many concessions to disturbing practises, eg asserting that facial recognition software is legitimate to ‘detect shoplifters’ or offer targeted discounts, until the cat is let out of the bag about 7′50″. I will not turn this post into a political discussion, but it ...

My father went on business trips to the USA often when I was a child, affording me access to much of the early merchandise which has been forgotten or neglected in later years. I do not think any jokes break when we recall the characters diagenetically speak Chinese with one another: any puns in the ...