Notices by Paul Houle (up8@mastodon.social)

I still have event photos to post but I am running some older ones and flowers: despite a packed schedule next week which will have me back in New Hampshire I am going to try to get the Rhododendron Knoll with the 9mm this year

#photo #photography #flowers #azalea #bloomscrolling

Double-blossomed cherry flowers

#photo #photography #bloomscrolling #sakura #flowers #cherry #rosacea #plants #horticulture #trees

Delicate Rose Flowers on Rose-Family Flowering Tree

#photo #photography #bloomscrolling #trees #flowers #spring #rose #rosacea #plants #horticulture #ithaca

‘No Kings Act’ sails through House despite Republican pushback

https://marylandmatters.org/2026/04/10/no-kings-act-sails-through-house-despite-republican-pushback/

#politics #maryland #nokings #uspol #protest #immigration #rights

🍊 How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find

https://www.sciencealert.com/how-12-000-tonnes-of-dumped-orange-peel-produced-something-nobody-imagined

#costarica #environment #ecology #climatechange #remediation #waste #circulareconomy #centralamerica

I think a Winterberry Holly surrounded by a few falling snow flakes

#photo #photography #berries #red #snow #winter #ithaca #cornell #bloomscrolling #plants

When other people were stressin' it in the blizzard this weekend I stayed by the wood stove and popped my head out just to take this picture

#photo #photography #landscape #snow #winter #tree #barn #472central #caroline

𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑝𝑠𝑖𝑠 flowers down by the creek in Monkey Run: back then I was hiking up the creek with two cameras in my backpack, one with the the 70-200mm lens I took this with and the 9mm wide angle

#photo #photography #ithaca #monkeyrun #flowers #bloomscrolling #daises #heliopsis

🌍 East African Rift study uncovers why breaking up is hard for some continents

https://phys.org/news/2025-11-east-african-rift-uncovers-hard.html

#geology #tectonic #africa #continents

🪤 'Corporate capture' strategies harming environmental protection efforts, warn scientists

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-corporate-capture-strategies-environmental-efforts.html

#politics #corporations #environment #politicalscience #regulation

🫧 Mexican cartels’ new money laundering businesses: Cryptocurrencies, concerts and timeshares

https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-30/mexican-cartels-new-money-laundering-businesses-cryptocurrencies-concerts-and-timeshares.html

#crime #fraud #money #cartel #mexico #crypto #cryptocurrency #timeshares #music #finance

🏄 Experiment will attempt to counter climate change by altering ocean

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/experiment-will-attempt-to-counter-climate-change-by-altering-ocean/

#oceans #environment #climatechange #carboncapture #ocean

@fesshole you got off cheap ⇾ https://www.aaha.org/trends-magazine/publications/corporate-consolidation-and-the-rise-of-private-equity/

🛣️ Albuquerque’s Route 66 Motels Are Turning Into Affordable Housing

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/albuquerque-motels-affordable-housing/

#housing #newmexico #albuquerque #route66

💸 Under shadow of Trump warning, Africa pioneers non-dollar payment systems

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/24/markets/trump-africa-non-dollar-payments/

🆓 https://archive.ph/9BXjD

#money #payments #africa #politics #usd #finance #business

🍫 Colombian coffee farmers make switch to cacao as climate warms and prices soar

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/colombian-coffee-farmers-make-switch-to-cacao-as-climate-warms-and-prices-soar/

#agriculture #globalsouth #cacao #coffee #food #climatechange #colombia #latinamerica

@coreyspowell I thought they discovered plutonium in New Hampshire pitchblende because of U238 getting the occasional neutron; did they see Pu in the spectrum of some astrophysical object? I can't see very much getting here from a neutron star collision

🌱 Tiny plants reveal big potential for boosting crop efficiency

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-tiny-reveal-big-potential-boosting.html

#plants #biotech #agriculture #co2

🏣 Brutal beauty worth saving from the wrecking ball

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/11/16/books/brutalism-architecture/

#japan #architecture #brutalism #concrete #buildings #books #bookstodon #review

I've had minicomputers on my mind lately, particularly the old PDP-11. I just came across a special issue of the Bell System Technical Journal about a minicomputer Bell Labs built to shoot down nuclear warheads

https://srmsc.org/ref1040.html

#computers #retrocomputing #missiles #abm #military #minicomputer #technology