Configures @Configures@penguicon.social

Then at 10 the amazing, long-awaited FINALE - with dragons and promises of 🔥flaming arrows🔥 of Community D&D: Dragon of Icespire Peak. This is a very fun group, #DnD at it's very best - with friends, fun, and silliness. #TTRPG #RPG

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Hermes likes to join us for cribbage.

#Caturday Cameron (Cammie, Cameo, Camalam, etc.) hasn’t been able to see for several months now but he still demands food, petting, the good things in life. Here he comes!

Here’s why politicians around the world should be watching Paris:

When she first started challenging car dominance, Mayor Anne Hidalgo was ridiculed, threatened and sued.

But these measures are working, and proving incredibly popular, as she was comfortably re-elected in 2020.

All clothing is unisex.

#Unisex #lgbt #wearwhatyouwant

I love clever uses of incentives and tech: Cities are using traffic lights near schools that start red and turn green if an approaching car isn't speeding.

If you're good, you get to keep driving. If you're bad, you have to stop and wait for the light to turn green.

The average speed on the road almost immediately dropped to the speed limit as people learned the rules.

Instead of punishing people with tickets after the fact, it creates the behavior the city wants.

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/05/05/steal-this-idea-in-quebec-a-new-traffic-light-only-turns-green-for-safe-drivers/

Nation's largest publisher files lawsuit challenging Florida county's book bans - UPI.com https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/05/17/penguin-random-house-pen-america-florida-book-bans/8841684348620/

Free-speech group PEN America and publisher Penguin Random House filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in federal court, challenging book bans...

...lawsuit alleges that...Florida's Escambia County School District have violated the First and 14th amendments...say the books that are being banned are "disproportionately books by non-white and/or LGBTQ+ authors."

I updated my blog to list some recent activities: A discussion of Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October; S&F Clacks #2, discussing topical genre issues; a discussion of the movie Timeline; and the resumption of a Dungeons & Dragons campaign on Twitch: https://whatsthewordnow.blogspot.com/2023/04/audiovideogaming-roundup.html

Noyb win: € 1.2B fine against Meta over EU-US data transfers

Link: https://noyb.eu/en/edpb-decision-facebooks-eu-us-data-transfers-stop-transfers-fine-and-repatriation
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36029050

A Parliament of Owls: linocut for #printdayinmay2023!

I love the whimsical terms of venery for groups of animals and have an ongoing series of #linocut #termsOfVenery prints. For my parliament of owls I made two columns of local owls - you can decide for yourself which are the government an which the loyal opposition in this parliament! Specifically chose some gothic #lettering and Owl with 👁 and 🪶

#MastoArt #owls #printmaking #linocut

I felt like I needed some kind of background sound or music to write to but everything was too overstimulating.

The baby birds nesting in the wall next to my desk however have charmingly obliged. I could listen to them all day (and I have no choice, so I certainly will)! :D

A little Tuesday cuteness 🐑
#lamb #nature #sheep

Morning gravel bike ride
#biking #nature #photography

The character of the light made it possible to get the texture and color in the feathers.

@lilithsaintcrow @Princejvstin Saw this #Mosstodon on the edge of a retaining wall while walking through #Manayunk back in 2018 - looked so much like a tiny little hillside that I had to grab a photo.

For #InternationalBiodiversityDay I'll look beyond the soil, and showcase the amazing water-living springtail Podura aquatica.

Their adaptations for a life on the water surface include a flattened jumping organ, hydrophobic cuticle, and depositing their spermatophores and eggs on water!

#Collembola #Springtail #Mesofauna #Macrophotography #Biodiversity #SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #SoilEcology