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Some lichen on a tree, Dec 2016 (couple more in post text)
A couple more pics from the same day/tree
Can anyone identify this song (5s live recording) [SOLVED]
EDIT - this has been solved over on BSky - Lee & Molly by Ziggy Marley (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1bPoJacEl8)
That's not my BlueSky post, but sharing it here to see if anyone can work it out.
https://bsky.app/profile/daveofandrozani.bsky.social/post/3mkiudbzfh22fOpen linkView original on lemmy.worldBlueSky down [Working again!]
Seems to have just gone down, 9am UK time (4am Eastern, 1am Pacific)
EDIT - actually, looking at the graph on a monitor rather than my phone, it looks like it went down a couple of hours before that.
EDIT 2 - seems to be back! 10:52 UK time. It's running quite slow though.
EDIT 3 - gone again? 14:20 UK (EDIT 3a - Back almost immediately 14:25)
https://downdetector.co.uk/status/bluesky/Open linkView original on lemmy.worldDid Android 16 mess up anyone else's text and object sizes?
Just upgraded, and now some things are huge, and other things are small, and it's a pain in the backside, frankly.
Also, wtf is with that battery icon? It's MASSIVE, and ugly, and the only way to make it smaller is to adjust text scaling, which then makes all other text much too small.
FFS Google.
BBC Radio 4 - Screenshot, Twin Peaks
I've not listened to this yet but it's Mark Kermode, who I really rate, so hopefully it's a good show.
Not sure how available this will be outside the UK, apologies if you can't listen in.
Description:
For a very special 100th episode of Screenshot, Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode explore David Lynch and Mark Frost's cult classic TV show. With guests Mark Frost and Tim Roth.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002gqz1Open linkView original on lemmy.worldGOB's not on board...
BBC News - Warning after 250 million bees escape overturned truck in US
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c23mrprk952oOpen linkView original on lemmy.worldInconsistent distances on Google Maps
I'm currently trying to get in better shape and to that end have started dieting and cycling in my local area. For motivation, I've decided to try to 'virtually' cycle from John O'Groats (henceforth JOG) in the north of Scotland to Land's End (LE) in the south of England.
To do this, I measure how far I cycle each day (locally) and record my progress, which I then use to map where I would be on the route Google Maps recommends for cycling (I'm handwaving altitude comparisons because it's just for fun).
Ok, so - Maps says the recommended cycling route from JOG to LE is 965 miles. Fine. I've covered 21.1 miles so far (I've only just started and am not very fit).
Now, on the full 965 mile route, that 21.1 miles gets me to a small village called Haimer. However, if I ask Maps to plot me a route from JOG to Haimer, Maps says it's only 18.7 miles.
I've tried the same thing with other towns on the route, and the same is true there too - there's a roughly 10% disparity, even though the route being plotted is identical. A few yards here or there I could understand, but a 10% difference?? FFS.
A Big Hand for a Little Lady (aka Big Deal at Dodge City) (1966 480p)
This is a sort of comedy western, based around a high stakes poker game. I saw it years ago and loved it. Truth be told, I can't remember a great deal more about it, and don't want to spoil it for myself by looking it up, but I definitely remember enjoying it a lot.
Mitchell soundtrack album?
I unironically LOVE the music in Mitchell, and was hoping I could find it, ideally on vinyl. But I can't find any evidence that it was ever released - anyone happen to know if it was?
TIL that not only is Measles very dangerous in itself but it also strips away and resets much/most of your immune system.
So, even if you had been immune, through previous illness, vaccination or via maternal milk, you may not be anymore after having measles.
I had never heard this until today, and it's an absolutely horrifying thought.
You're welcome.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211112-the-people-with-immune-amnesiaOpen linkView original on lemmy.worldThe Final Sacrifice - now available on the official MST3K YouTube channel??
Turns out there is beer on the sun if you wait long enough.
Purdy and Bosa both out for Packers game
Josh Brandon Allan will start at QB.
Packers game already looked tough, this just feels like another kick in the teeth.
Wish this season would just end tbh.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/42549080/san-francisco-49ers-qb-brandon-allen-start-vs-packers-brock-purdy-injuredOpen linkView original on lemmy.worldReferee David Coote suspended over video of foul-mouthed Klopp rant [The Guardian]
Well, that's a bit awkward...
"Coote was the video assistant referee when a challenge by the Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford on Virgil van Dijk that left the Liverpool defender with an anterior cruciate ligament injury went unpunished."
"Coote also drew the ire of Klopp as the VAR for the 1-1 draw between Liverpool and Arsenal last December after an apparent handball in the box by Martin Ødegaard did not lead to a penalty."
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/nov/11/referee-david-coote-video-jurgen-klopp-liverpool-pgmol-premier-leagueOpen linkView original on lemmy.worldIs it possible to group favourited communities or users into a single feed?
Per this thread, I'm wondering if it might be possible to create feeds of favourited people or communities.
I guess this would be similar to how multireddits worked and since that's not available on Lemmy, this might not be either. But maybe some smart person out there knows of a way.
It's not even me that wants to do it, but I'm invested in an answer now! :-)
Ricky Pearsall injury update: 49ers rookie WR returning to practice six weeks after shooting incident - CBSSports.com
Returning to practice a month and a half after getting shot? Goddamn...
Sunrise over Edinburgh [OC]
Love it when this happens to the clouds. Purple and red and yellow and on fire...
Question about Firefox - any way to open specific sites as if they were an app or program (similar to an option in Chrome)?
I've decided (after seeing the advice repeatedly!) to try and move away from Chrome and use FF instead. However I've immediately come across an issue which is a bit of a deal-breaker for me, and although I've looked into it, I haven't seen an answer anywhere.
One of the best features in Chrome is the abilty to create a shortcut for an individual URL. This shortcut can then be placed on the desktop, start menu or quicklaunch toolbar (Win 10) and opened as if it were a program in its own right - so, no URL bar, no tabs, no bookmarks, just the site content.
I use this method every day for a number of different sites - Outlook, Gmail, Calendar, Keep, Sheets, Docs, etc, and it's perfect. So much so that I usually forget that I'm technically opening all of these in Chrome at all, not least because the site favicon shows in the taskbar in place of the browser logo.
So, I assumed that FF would be able to do the same thing... but apparently not. Am I missing something? I've found people discussing old features like SSB (site-specific browsing) and PWA (progressive web apps), but as far as I can tell all work on this in FF has been discontinued.
I would maybe just put up with this, and use Chrome shortcuts for these sites, and FF for everything else, except that links clicked from within them will open in Chrome intead of FF, which makes for a confusing experience.
Anyone know of a good solution to this? Thanks in advance!
