Had it about an hour ago: a sort of one-pot pasta and lentil stew thingy, made in our slow cooker. I wouldn't call it it a particular favourite of mine, but it has the advantage of being dead easy and surprisingly substantial.
Thanks for the update and for the work in building the new instance!
I'll be keeping my eyes open for further news.
Climate action in New Orleans has found support from faith leaders working across historic divides
It has been another catastrophic climate year: record-breaking wildfires across Canada scorched an area the size North Dakota, unprecedented rainfall in Libya left thousands dead and displaced, while heat deaths surged in Arizona and severe drought in the Amazon is threatening Indigenous communities and ecosystems.
The science is clear: we must phase out fossil fuels – fast. But time is running out, and as the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation worsen, there is mounting recognition that our political and industry leaders are failing us.
If the science isn’t enough, what role could – or should – faith leaders play in tackling the climate crisis? After all, it is also a spiritual and moral crisis that threatens God’s creation, according to many religious teachings.
Globally, 6 billion people – about 80% of the world’s population – identify with a faith or religion, while half of all schools and 40% of health facilities in some countries are owned or operated by faith groups. In addition, faith-related institutions own almost 8% of the total habitable land surface – and constitute the world’s third largest group of financial investors.
Scientists have been vollying the question back and forth for more than a century.
Neanderthals, which disappeared from the archaeological record roughly 40,000 years ago, have long been considered our closest evolutionary relatives. But almost since the first discovery of Neanderthal remains in the 1800s, scientists have been arguing over whether Neanderthals constitute their own species or if they're simply a subset of our own species, Homo sapiens, that has since gone extinct.
So what does the science say? In particular, what does the genetic evidence, which didn't exist back when many early hominins were first discovered, show?
Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry. Apparently not originally intended as a Christmas song anyway.
That good eh?
Hopefully the weekend will improve things.
I went out for a curry with some friends last night, have a fairly straightforward day at work today then a pizza this evening and have a day booked off on Monday: I have some DIY lined up over the weekend.
Should be a good showing of the Perseid meteor shower this weekend too. It peaks tomorrow, but it looks like it'll be cloudy. I might spend a bit of time in the garden this evening though, since it is supposed to be clear, and see if I can spot any.
With us, anything that is/would be smelly goes in some kind of container.
Cleaning - I would say once every 3-4 months or so in normal circumstances. Quite possibly longer.
I am not a dog lover. I find them needy, melodramatic and hierarchical: some of the features that I try to avoid in humans.
I work in an office around one day a week which often has more dogs than humans - since one of the regular staff has two dogs. In general, however, they aren't much of a problem. One frequently nudges people's elbows to get attention and howls whenever a phone rings. Another gets in the way of the door an awful lot - resulting in the owner installing a child gate at an inner doorway, and another has been traumatised in the past and needs to be taken out whenever a fire alarm test is due. However, this is not more that the needs and quirks of other people, really, and is fairly easy to work around.
I am glad that I do not have to work in that office all the time, but overall it is not a big deal.
I'm going through Robert Brightwell's Flashman tales: prequels to George MacDonald Frasier's Flashman book, featuring the original protagonist's uncle.
They are very well researched (as were GMF's) and generally engaging, but having just finished Flashman and Madison's War, I found it to be the waekest so far - lacking a strong narrative thread to tie the scattered, episodic historical events together. The next in the series is Flashman's Waterloo, which shouldn't have that problem.
I am very pleased to see how Brightwell has updated the original conceit - taking the bully from Tom Brown's Schooldays and using him as a mouthpiece to entertainingly deconstruct the Victorian boy's-own colonial genre - to fit a more modern audience, whilst retaining the spirit of the originals.
Slashdot -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy. I used to spend lot of time on TheEnvironmentSite.org some time before Slashdot, but I cant recall whether anything else came in between those two.
Working from home today - or supposed to be. I finished a couple of Big Things at the end of last week and am really struggling to get stuck into any one of the dozen other things that are on my list now.
I've deleted a lot of photos and sorted the recycling though. I'll be sharpening pencils soon...
I did get out and do a bat monitoring session last night - part of the national waterway survey in August each year - without getting wet. There were a few pipistrelles about and a couple of noctules and serotines passing by, but no Daubenton's which is what this particular survey is looking for.
Today will be getting the chores out of the way then - if the rain shows any chance of dying down - out to an open air Shakespeare this evening. It will be 'Exit pursued by a very damp bear.' I expect.
Tomorrow: third attempt to get these shelves up. It has been postponed twice so far.
They always say that you should stack up everything that you think you'll need and then put half of it back in the wardrobe. The problem is working out which half, of course.
Hope it all goes well anyway and that you have a good time.
Kickin' in the front seat or sittin' in the back seat: which is it today folks?
Workwise, it should be ok today, then - rain permitting - I have a bat monitoring session this evening. That might be pushed to next weekend though (I'd get to watch the Perseids at the same time, if it was, by the look of it).
And then out to an open air production of A Winter's Tale tomorrow night - also rain permitting and the forecast is currently saying it won't.
What have you got lined up?
you also haven’t addressed my reasons for doubt.
A) When did you ask me to?
B) By pointing out the cost/benefit to both sides, I would have said that I did anyway.
However, if you would like me to go into more detail: this is a property that was not occupied by the PM or his family - Greenpeace have stated that they were aware of this. The 'high security' was evidently provided by the police - who would also have been aware of this. Even at the best of times, given a little advance planning, avoiding a routine police cordon - routine being the key word - is not exactly difficult.
I struggle to see why Greenpeace would take the route that you are suggesting (a literal conspiracy theory) and decide to take the risk of losing credibility instead of doing as they have frequently, attestably, through court records, done and evade the existing security.
Relay (Pro) when using my phone although most of the time I was using RES on a laptop.
You haven't addressed the critical point:
What would be the consequences for both when the co-ordination was leaked/revealed?
Both would stand to lose vastly more in credibility than ever they might gain.
Whilst that might not matter to Sunak - a lost cause politically anyway, and clearly someone who values money highly - Greenpeace thrives on commitment to the cause.
It certainly seems to me a highly implausible scenario.
So, you're suggesting that this was co-ordinated by Greenpeace and ...the Prime Minister? To keep up whose appearances exactly?
What would both parties stand to gain from this?
What would be the consequences for both when the co-ordination was leaked/revealed?
You say that you found out that lemmy.world had disabled downvotes. Where did you you find that out? I'd certainly seen nothing myself here - I know that some instances have - and can certainly see and use the downvote arrows.
I'm on lemmy.world. This thread is on lemmy.world I have just downvoted you successfully as far as I can see.
I had a good Sunday lunch at the pub and a relaxed afternoon yesterday, have a relatively sane looking week lined up at work and then out for an outdoor Shakespeare play (rain permitting) on Friday.
I have seen them, but a while ago, whilst binging through all of the show to S11, which was airing at the time. I'd say, yes - go and watch them, but I don't recall them as particularly stand-out from the rest of the show.
Too early to say yet. The best part of the show is the Empire arc, IMHO. If you don't care for that in S1, I doubt that there is anything tp grab you so far in S2. Personally, I think that it has some interesting ideas and some good character beats. The rest is merely OK.
What's lined up for today - or for the weekend then?
For me, on the plus side: pizza tonight.
On the minus side, I just had to update an address, which ended up involving installing an app which PLAYED MUSIC at me in the play store before even installing it. When did that become a thing?? Needless to say, it did not go down well with the SO.
Indigenous people and experts say Moscow’s military push and increased shipping and mining will destroy Arctic environment
In the past six years, Russia has built 475 military sites along its northern border. The Kola peninsula and the archipelagos of the Barents Sea have seen dozens of new airstrips, bunkers and bases.
The unprecedented new military buildup has experts concerned about devastating results for these delicate Arctic ecosystems. It is already among the most polluted places on Earth. Currents that carry warm water from the Atlantic Ocean into the Barents Sea make it one of the world’s great marine garbage patches, while decades of Soviet nuclear tests, the dumping of radioactive waste, and industrial pollution have left many waterways highly toxic, contributing to elevated rates of disease among local people.
I am currently using Podcast Addict, but am not finding it at all intuitive.
On another - work - phone, with a very restricted range of approved apps, I was using Spotify, which worked a lot better for me, but I would like to go for a podcast-specific app given the choice, since I don't plan on using Spotify for actual music or anything, and it seems a bit overkill for podcasts alone.
Do you have any recommendations?
Or got any plans for the week?
It was my SO's birthday and she wanted to go to a local transport museum, which was actually great fun riding around the site on trains, trams and trolley buses. A couple of shots of some 1920s trams.
A task force launched by UK supermarkets to tackle the exploitation of farm workers has failed to complete audits months after the investigations were supposed to take place, leaving vulnerable migrants at risk.
Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives on Friday suffered two crushing UK parliamentary by-election defeats but averted a “3-0” drubbing by unexpectedly holding on to Boris Johnson’s old Uxbridge seat.
The grave problems facing the British prime minister were highlighted when the opposition Labour party secured its biggest-ever by-election win in the once-safe Tory seat of Selby and Ainsty in Yorkshire.
Earlier the centrist Liberal Democrats demolished a massive Tory majority to win the seat of Somerton and Frome, opening up a dangerous new front for Sunak in the Tory heartlands of England’s South West.
Swedish energy group Vattenfall on Thursday said it had suspended development of its 1.4GW Norfolk Boreas wind farm after costs on the project rose 40 per cent.
Vattenfall’s announcement is likely to heap pressure on the government, which is in the process of awarding the next round of fixed-price contracts. Developers have already warned that the maximum price of £44/MWh in 2012 prices is also too low.
Strict controls on nitrogen emissions in the Netherlands are undermining the EU’s efforts to fight climate change, said the outgoing chief executive of Europe’s biggest port.
Castelein said that with Prime Minister Mark Rutte running a caretaker administration after the collapse of his coalition government this month, parliament had to find a solution urgently. Plans to reduce nitrogen levels by buying out farmers and closing some industrial plants are unlikely to proceed until after elections in November.
Germany has cut greenhouse gas emissions faster than the UK since the 2015 Paris agreement to limit global warming, further undermining the Sunak government’s claim to global climate leadership.
Richard Black, senior associate at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit think-tank in London, said: “Despite some impressive rhetoric, the last few UK administrations have allowed the UK’s lead in the G7 table to slip".
On a field of blue, the flag displays a yellow emblem of a crown and crossed arrows. This is the emblem attributed to St Edmund, king of East Anglia, shot with arrows and decapitated Vikings in 869. A shrine and cult later developed in Bury St Edmunds, and the emblem gradually came to represent the county as a whole.
Earth Heritage is produced twice yearly to stimulate interest in geodiversity and a broad range of geological and landscape conservation issues within the UK and further afield. It is free in pdf format.
In this issue:
• Using drones to monitor geological sites • The Scottish Geology Trust's outreach initiatives • Geo trails in the Fens and the Peak District • New publications on river potholes in Wales, Hugh Miller and the Old Red Sandstone and Natural England's Geoconservation: Principles and Practice
News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication
Former environment minister Lord Zac Goldsmith and Green party MP Caroline Lucas are among at least 22 members of the Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, Green and Scottish National parties calling on Rishi Sunak to back a moratorium on mining in international waters.
The UK government sponsors two exploration contracts across 133,539 square kilometres in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Mexico for small lumps that sit on the seafloor and contain nickel, copper and cobalt. It has invested £6mn through the Natural Environment Research Council, according to the Natural History Museum, in a four-year research project involving trips to the area by scientists.
News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication
Former environment minister Lord Zac Goldsmith and Green party MP Caroline Lucas are among at least 22 members of the Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, Green and Scottish National parties calling on Rishi Sunak to back a moratorium on mining in international waters.
The UK government sponsors two exploration contracts across 133,539 square kilometres in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Mexico for small lumps that sit on the seafloor and contain nickel, copper and cobalt. It has invested £6mn through the Natural Environment Research Council, according to the Natural History Museum, in a four-year research project involving trips to the area by scientists.
I’m having a very laid back celebration today, and am going to see the 50th anniversary release of The Wicker Man on Friday. Is anyone else doing anything?
Happy Solstice to !paganism@lemmy.ml , !witches@lemmy.ml, !wicca@lemmy.world, !witchcraft@lemmy.ml & !witchesvspatriarchy@lemmy.world