Notices by 🍵 holly (holly@social.v.st)

Just saw a reference to the former Ok glacier in Iceland, which a few years ago shrunk so much that it stopped being a glacier. Please read this plaque they put up next to it.

@danielgibert @quixoticgeek This is awesome! I often have to explain European signs to American visitors who want to bike around Amsterdam so now I’m going to be showing them this.

I always think of the blue circle as “only”, as in “You can only eat a banana”. But I’m not originally from here so I don’t have enough example to hand to tell which works best for the most things.

What happens to medications that say they’re supposed to be stored under 23 degrees (which I think is all of them) when it’s over 30?

RE: https://sunny.garden/@moonrabbit/116728111618193147

Their stuff is adorable, based in the EU, can ship to the US, and their website is here: https://www.driftingspirits.art/ (if this post makes you also want to support independent artists while sticking it to American surveillance collaborators)

Dear #knitting lazy web: does anyone know of any patterns for socks with thick bottoms? I bought some socks in Scotland that are thick, warm, and squooshy on the bottom and they are my new best friends. I want to make more! Searching on ravelry was not productive, but it's a difficult thing to search for. I can't figure out a way to do it on my own without knitting flat and seaming.

Truth, from Stenen Hoofd

Eidfjord, Norway is a very mossy place.

#mosstodon

Ok Germany, this is the first song this year that’s going in my running mix!

#eurovision

Heh. Spotted at the #autism center in Amsterdam.

@BeAware I love that "All the Single Ladies" is in there -- reflects the constant, unwanted, soundtrack running in the background of my head 24/7. Just one more annoyance on top of all the other mess.

The expat store in Amsterdam, 2 days before Thanksgiving

@alexander @quinn The ones who are trying to leave are the ones who are so disgusted with America, or so threatened by the hate, that they are willing to leave their homes, friends, families, and jobs to move somewhere where they will have to live life on hard mode while trying to integrate, to get away from it. They are not the sowers.

What?! This is both unspeakably evil and extremely stupid. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

@FirefighterGeek @GreenSkyOverMe I think this is what causes weight stigma: most of us have experience making changes to our diet and seeing the effect of those changes, so we think that should just work for everyone. But I have long suspected, and the effectiveness of these drugs confirms, that it’s hormonal changes that drive the weight gain, and you can’t realistically make long term changes in the face of hormones that effect energy storage, cravings, thoughts, and fatigue levels, etc.

Oh no, “This is not Amsterdam” is also being used in Dutch cities to stop attempts to reduce car traffic 🤦🏻 https://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/het-is-nog-even-wennen-in-het-autoluwe-centrum-van-sneek-we-willen-de-stad-meer-lucht-geven~b721f3b9/ @notjustbikes

@GrrlScientist Is hard to stop buying plastic when everything you need to buy comes with a side of plastic packaging. Tell governments to ban plastic packaging.

@pettter @researchfairy These are not specifically problems with democrats, but problems with a two-party system. It’s impossible to hold either party in a two-party system to account (what are you going to do, vote for the other side?!). It’s inherently undemocratic and allows horrible policies to persist on both sides. And it’s nearly impossible to expand the number of parties once your system has devolved to this state.

@TechConnectify @cbehopkins @dysfun @JustinH I want this platform to work for folks like you, so I'm trying to wrap my head around this. I assume that the volume of block requests you would have to submit is unworkably high, not that your instance is ignoring your block requests? For instance, we're quick to block accounts that are aggressively annoying our users, but we're only like 5 users with the most followed having under 5k followers, so we only get about 1 request/wk.

Why is it when you put a bunch of sheets and pillowcases in the dryer with a duvet cover, the duvet cover swallows everything else in the dryer and rolls it all into a tight ball so after a full cycle nothing is actually dry?

Dear Katie Benner of the NYT, who thinks we need to listen more to Trump supporters because "there's something there we're not understanding." It's RACISM. Sure their answers don't make sense because no one is going to say "it's because I'm racist", so they make something else up. But I grew up in the suburban south and I can tell you my dirt-poor relatives with job insecurity HATE Trump. The ones that love him are the better-off ones with secure employment who I happen to know are racist.