Notices by Infoseepage (infoseepage@mastodon.social)

I am somehow getting eaten alive by midges (I presume) without ever being cognizant of being bitten. Sneaky little buggers.

I would be really ironic if Trump died by getting hit by a taco truck. Just saying, that would be a great ending.

@dlakelan I use this a lot. Web based remote access to a variety of client platforms.

https://www.dwservice.net

@plaguepoems I appreciate the sentiment, but flu doesn't entirely disappear in summer. For instance, in my home county (King County, WA), there were 123 Covid ER visits last week, but there were still 108 Flu visits too. It's basically an even toss whether you're there for Flu or Covid right now.

@JMarkOckerbloom What do you want to bet they used an LLM to draft the report and it hallucinated a bunch of nonsense?

@MalcolmNance There is no degree of flattery or appeasement of this man that will get him to act in a predictable way in your favor. He is a frothing dog. Do not try and pet him!

@LordWoolamaloo Saw it the other day when it was moored in Oban and then again when it was under way off Mull near Duart Castle.

There is a more intact Broch on an island in a lake in North Uist called Dun Torcuill. It seems like such structures were common around these parts.

https://www.visitouterhebrides.co.uk/see-and-do/uist-unearthed-location-d-dun-torcuill-p585421

Anybody know? It's this one just to the SSW of Daliburgh.

Most interesting thing from yesterday was this mysterious structure on an island in a nearby lake. It's possibly a broch, a dun or something more modern. It looks like there is the remains of a path which can be seen on satellite imagery, but it's currently below the water line. There's some other structure in the loch too with what might be the remains of walls or a fish trap surrounding some central structure.

Some birds from the area.

@krypt3ia 590 million is a cheap hedge against what could be a disastrously high consequence event. We spend over 800 billion a year on the military. This is a far cheaper and more bang for your buck effective way of protecting the people of the US from a very real threat.

@krypt3ia The Spanish Flu reached it's month of highest mortality around seven months after it was recognized to be spreading. We need a vaccine technology that can get a vaccine into people's arms inside of that time frame. mRNA can do that. The others cannot, afaik.

@krypt3ia This is so, so stupid. H5N1 could yield a high consequence human pandemic and mRNA vaccines offer the best shot at getting something strongly immunogenic out there to a large percentage of the population quickly. The existing egg based production lines simply couldn't handle the high demand such a pandemic would cause, nor would it be quick out the gate, which means more months of transmission and death.

There is a sort of blackhouse museum on Lewis that is worth seeing, where you can go into a fully thatched reconstructed one and see what life was like in such a dwelling.

https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/the-blackhouse-arnol/

I've walked and driven by a ton of blackhouses in the last few days and there must be a good dozen of them in my immediate vicinity. This chonky boy was close enough to the roadside for me to get a good look at it. This one is constructed of very large stones and it must have been quite the job to get them in place and fitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackhouse

@piggo Not sure. There is a non-profit community organization that maintains the grave yard. The place is fully walled with iron gates, though there are rabbits warrens inside. Didn't see any evidence of sheep (poop). Maybe they mow it?

@christineburns Our clean energy future...

There is one corner of the burial yard which I'm a bit curious about. It's on a little mound of it's own and appears to be older than the rest. A lot of the markers there are crude stone, without inscription, often a sign of really old markers. There also appears to be a richly carved cross slab, which would likely be medieval.

Maybe Cladh Hallan Cememtery is a mostly modern cemetary, but the site was chosen at least in part because of the even older small burial yard there?

There are few large monuments here and little evidence of social division, just a few enclosed Iron fences that seem mostly for the burials of priests and ministers. Other than that, you are buried as equals with the rest of the Christian community.