Dieser 🧵 ist für all jene die meinen: Klimabewegung ja, aber doch nicht so... der lästige Protest in Museen, auf Straßen, inmitten der Gesellschaft schadet der Sache usw. Ich habe da tolle Evidenz für Euch, damit ihr das anders sehen könnt! 1/

A physics student and an artist at work

How popular are fireworks in the Netherlands for the New Year? It’s only Friday but it is every 5 minutes that I hear explosions and it is really triggering. I guess it is uncomfortable for all Ukrainians here.

"Happy New Year, friends!" Soviet Ukrainian greeting card, 1968.

Fiber diet 👍

Really into the dystopian vibe of this package. The name, the cold utilitarian minimalism, the suggestion that now you can feed this to your cannibal chickens as an ethical alternative to their own processed flesh and they won’t know the difference? Idunno but 11/10, no notes

A Walrus getting lost, ending up in Scarborough and then masturbating IN PUBLIC then having a sleep and then Scarborough Council cancelling the NYE fireworks display in case it woke him is the denouement of 2022.

My favourite new factoid is that they hit dead popes on the head three times with a special dead-pope hammer. Just to ensure they are, in fact, dead

Interview with a JavaScript Engineer in 2023:

Moderne is driven by a north star metric of engineering work accomplished through remediation. If you have SAST, security scanner, or code search you should consider Moderne. These tools produce reports in the hope that somebody will take action. Hope isn’t a course of action.

I just read -- in the book SEE WHAT YOU MADE ME DO by Jess Hill -- about the incident in Stockholm for which Stockholm Syndrome is named, and I am royally pissed off on behalf of all women, buckle up.

Picking a date on Safari iOS

It’s been a mystery why Roman concrete often lasted thousands of years, but ours decays in mere decades. Turns out they incorporated chemicals in a process that induces self-healing; scientists at MIT just figured this all out - in 2022. Extraordinary. news.mit.edu/2023/roman-con…