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It’s #winter. The buzzing has stopped - mostly. So what’s happened to all the #bees? Let me explain. Please #repost this thread. Don’t just like/look. It literally takes you a second. Costs you nothing. Bees are in trouble and need you good people to help. Thank you. #share 1/14
So after a relatively good summer here for #bees what are they up to now you’ve probably been wondering? Okay then, let’s take a broad look at our little #friends at this time of year. Again please #repost / #share. The more informed more folks are the better for bees. 2/14
#Honeybees don’t hibernate. They reduce the colony numbers but stay active within the hive. As temperatures drop (below 50ºF) they form a cluster (ball of #bees) in the #hive in order to use body heat primarily to keep the queen alive. This cluster will have a densely… 4/14
…packed ‘outer shell’ of #bees surrounding a less tightly packed inner core and requires a lot of honey and body vibrating to maintain the heat required for survival - up to 100ºF in the centre. #Honeybee worker life expectancy increases greatly during the #winter from… 5/14
…around 6 weeks during the summer to up to 6 months over #winter due mainly to the lower work load. Male honey bees don’t do winter - dying off before the colony retreat to the hive! In warmer climes the colony works all year round.
After mating in spring/summer the female will have prepared a nest into which she will have laid her eggs in individual pods/cells - fertilised eggs will become females and unfertilised eggs often laid nearer the nest entrance will become males. She will have provisioned… 7/14
…these pods with food before sealing them up. The males and females will have died off shortly afterwards leaving the kids to ‘fend for themselves’. The eggs hatch and the larvae will eat the food provided and develop into adults while overwintering in their pods/cocoons… 8/14
And finally to the big girls of the bee world - the bumbles. Towards the end of summer #bumblebee nests come to a natural end - the males, female workers and old queen die leaving just the new queens alive. These queens feed up and go into… 9/14
…#hibernation (some for as long as 9 months!). They will dig their own hibernaculum usually in loose well drained soil on a north-facing bank (banks are less likely to flood and north-facing means that they are less likely to emerge too early due to unseasonable sunny… 10/14
…days heating the soil over the winter). They will dig down about 4/5 inches into the soil and when comfortable enter a dormant state. During hibernation glycerol in the #bumblebee body acts like antifreeze preventing water in the bee body turning to ice. Other preferred… 11/14
…#hibernation sites include inside tree hollows, under bark, beneath fallen #leaves, #compost heaps and even in plant pots - so be vigilant in your #garden!
In the UK and Ireland we are now increasingly seeing ‘winter active’ #bumblebees specifically Buff-tailed bumbles. 12/14
This phenomenon and how to help bees over the winter I will cover in a separate thread. Hope this has helped increase your understanding of #bees a little. Thread is a generalisation and there are variances between species and regions. Please share among your crew. #repost 🙏🏼 13/14
In a world that appears ever more divided, ever more angry, ever more willing to embrace the obvious annihilistic option we refuse to give up on the premise that most #people are #decent. That most people #care deeply. Maybe we can #unite over #bees. Do the right thing for once. Make the good choice. Maybe? Please share this thread far and wide. #repost We know you care. Show us. Show one another. Show the bees you care. It’s okay to care. It’s more fulfilling than hate.
More natural than vitriol More infectious than Covid. More godly than prayer. More active than hope. More powerful than greed. Don’t be afraid to care. Deeply. You’ll find you’re not alone. Promise.
Thanks for your time. I’ll shut up now… 14/14 Part 2/2
Cory's rousing #enshitification talk mentioned how capital always imagined the web as a kind of interactive cableTV, a series of walled gardens, reminded me of this text of mine from 2013, one of many on how the internet cam to be centralized. #39c3
A more in-depth look at the forces of counterantidisintermediation, not nearly as catchy a term as enshitification, but key to understanding it underlying logic
A letter to the editor which reads: "APPARENTLY it costs the NHS over E300,000 a year to remove foreign objects from people's rectums. Why aren't we removing British objects instead? was Brexit all for nothing? - Gerry Paton, London"
In the Netherlands we had a weird law introduced a while ago: to fight sodas the government introduced a tax on all drinks, with the exception of dairy (because, you know, lobby). For some reason it was exceptionally difficult to make a distinction between sodas and fruit juice, so they got swept up in the tax.
The food industry retaliated by adding trace amounts of milk to their fruit drinks. After all, there’s no legal distinction between a milk drink with added fruit flavor or a fruit juice with added milk.
So we got this kind of nonsense: fruit juice “with a twist of dairy” to avoid the tax. Dutch innovation at its best I guess.
#GNOME Foundation supports the infrastructure for a lot of foundational technologies that are widely used.
If you are a company or individual, consider donating to the GNOME Foundation so we can help make the infrastructure sustainable of this software. donate.gnome.org/
Don't want my TV to be smart, only connect to RF or video. Never the Internet or even LAN/local WiFI, because, Google, Amazon and NONE of the TV makers can be trusted at all.
Surely you've a better example than "spying" so-called smart TVs?
I got weirdly good sleep last night. It could have been better, but at this point I'll take what I can get. I've had my usual two cups of coffee and I'm pretty sure breakfast is happening. I'm not 100 percent on that but even if not it's all right. I switched back to old WhatsApp which has improved things a lot, hoping I don't get force updated, again, if I do I'll cross that bridge. Even though there is some physical discomfort I'm in an oddly good mood. Hoping to stay that way. I've been down as of late and I hate it. Fuck you depression.
Do you want help with using Mastodon or the wider Fediverse?
Please feel free to ask if you have any questions about using this place! There's no such thing as a silly question, it's fine to ask about anything however simple.
I'm especially keen to help new or non-technical people on here 🙂 And yes I am a human being, I don't use AIs!
(Alternatively, you can browse my website at fedi.tips which has lots of easy-to-understand help and advice.)
There's a new FREE Thirteenth Doctor audio story releasing this week, it joins 9 other free stories released by Big Finish! Find out more in TARDIS Guide Weekly!
I did the WhatsApp switch. Yeah sure I got used to the new one but the old one handles better. Don't know how long this is going to be a thing but I'll take it as long as it is.
@JEkis Before doing all of this, make sure that you uninstall whatsapp that you installed from microsoft store. First download this zip file: drive.google.com/uc?id=12Z3kjH…
Enable developer mode in windows. Extract the wa folder from inside the zip file you downloaded to c:\. Open powershell and enter this command. Add-AppxPackage -Register "C:\WA\AppxManifest.xml"
Heutiges Knie-Update: Heute blieb das Pflaster drauf, morgen auch noch, um dem Knie eine Chance zur besseren Heilung zu geben. Es zieht und tut an der Wunde leider immer noch weh beim Beugen oder Strecken, oder wenn ich aufstehe. Hoffentlich beruhigt sich das bald! Ansonsten war der Sonntag ruhig, und es gab von einem Lieferdienst noch einmal lecker Ente mit Rotkohl und Knödeln.
I just found an interesting video segment on PBS about the old Eureka A4 Braille computer, featuring it singing, playing music, and more. youtube.com/watch?v=84C5SFRh81…
Special thanks to archive.org for hosting these episodes. Downloads of all these episodes and more can be found at: http://archive.org/details/computerchroni...
Morgen beginnen die „3 Tage der Pyromanen“. Ab 5.00 Uhr stehen sie Schlange vor den Geschäften und werden ihre Gehälter oder Transferleistungen in knallende und rauchende Objekte investieren, um dem „Gott der kleinen Penisse“ zu huldigen und ihre paarungswilligen weiblichen Pendants zu beeindrucken.
Die #39c3-Principles-Infobeamerfolie spricht von physical & psychological circumstances — physischen und psychologischen „Umständen“.
Hier der Reninder, dass wir dafür ein Wort haben. Es ist „disability“ oder „Behinderung“. Es ist kein böses Wort. Lassen wir doch einfach die ewigen Euphemismen für und in diesem Fall auch ganz besonders der Individualisierung von solchen Problemen sein.
I'm just making a note of this because I'm old enough to remember and a lot of people aren't – I saw someone claim that Google stole the name Chrome "from Firefox's internals", which makes no sense.
Back in the early 2000s, "chrome" was common programmer slang for "user interface". Like in general. Any user interface at all was "the chrome." I have no doubt Firefox's older source code refers to it as chrome, because I'm pretty sure I was referring to UI as "chrome" in my own university homework assignments at the time.
The term became much less common after Google Chrome launched because it became too confusing. Google's own claim is that the name was inspired by sports cars, and the programmers found it funny because having less "chrome" in the UI sense was an explicit goal. Whether that's true or not: they definitely didn't spitefully steal some secret Firefox codeword???
The above post is not to be construed under any circumstances as general approval of Google and everything they have ever done ever, and anyone yelling at me about how I'm a bad member of their religion because I said this SPECIFIC accusation is ahistorical will be blocked to the moon and back.
I'm old enough to remember chrome.pl, a very popular Polish XMPP server in the early 00's. That was my first instance of coming across the word in a tech context but I wasn't bothered to research the origin back then. Once Chrome arrived, that was my first association and I thought it must be secret code for something in tech. haha
We just released Polish as an additional language for the pbx annoncements. You can select it for your extension in Guru3 guru3.eventphone.de/ and afterwards try it by calling 0311 for example. Thanks to @dragoonaethis for translating. #amazingtimetomarket #39c3
Otra cosa que me sorprendió de la película se armó el belén, teniendo en cuenta que es de 1970, es la expresión "vía satélite." Sinceramente, no sabía que ya se usaba hace tanto tiempo.
Yo esta expresión la recuerdo de los corresponsales de la radio cuando hacían crónicas desde lugares que en aquel momento eran difíciles para las comunicaciones, aunque no recuerdo bien las fechas. @modulux
W tym roku z ekipą @c3lingo również tłumaczymy niektóre prelekcje na język polski na 39C3! Możecie usłyszeć tłumaczenie na trzeci język wybierając ścieżkę dźwiękową "Translated-2" na media.ccc.de #c3lingo #39c3
One of the best activities to wrap up the year with? Reading over 2500 donor comments for @kde's fundraiser. Thank you to everyone who donated to make our work over the next year possible! Here are some of my favorite notes donors left with their donation. 💙 🐉
my latest blog post, which feels kinda like a work in progress, but helped me organize some of my ideas about this somewhat cryptic klezmer's mutual aid society. alte.klezmor.im/2025/12/28/som…
With the ice storm announced... What are your plans if you lose power for multiple days? At our old house we had a firewood fireplace. But we kinda have no backup plan here :/
Running a heater takes major wattage. A battery backup will only take you so far. People need to be making a bugout plan if they don’t have an alternate means of heating their home for at least 72-hours.
Also, it shouldn’t need to be said but running a gas stove or propane heater indoors is a no-go.
[EDIT: same goes for generators!]
People: remember to shut off your main water supply and open a few faucets before you go.
@crispius given how utilities (Hydro Quebec here) are blocking the deployment of house solar panels.... but they keep the electrical grid vulnerable to that kind of weather.
@hub BCHydro did the same thing here for years; de-incentivized people from installing home solar.
And now they’re running out of generating capacity, buying power from Alberta, and rebuilding lines that get destroyed every year because of wildfires. 🤦♂️
Hi all. Hope everyone is having a good Sunday so far. It's the last day of my vacation until Wednesday and then there'll be another break. It'll be quiet for the most part. I'll be going to a yoga class with a sound bath late this afternoon which will be lovely. Then just waiting to see what the latest storm will bring.
I took the last couple weeks off, but not the 2nd I'm pretty sure, so I have one day, then the weekend. But then I'm writing some documentation for a piece of Linux accessibility infrastructure that I maintain, and I need to clean it up, and a release is due on Saturday, so I have work to do anyhow. I'm really glad that I'm allowed to work on that when I don't have other important things to do, since it's kinda my responsibility regardless, unless someone takes it over from me. But then i might also have other things to work on, so we'll see. Sorry--I'm just rambling at you now, but I kinda wish I was off until the 5th.
@MikeGorse I didn't officially take Wednesday off but I'll talk to my supervisor tomorrow (unless we are home from the crap weather). I think she'll agree that it's dumb to be in the office as no one will be on campus and I need my admin there to do the pieces of work that needs doing before I tackle it.
Showerthought: Suno is The Sims for music. You can have a lot of fun with Suno, and even share some cool stuff. But nobody would share a livestream of The Sims and call it a movie. In the same way, creations made by Suno are neat, but they're an entirely different genre of thing than human music. Also, some of us have fun torturing our creations in both Suno and The Sims. Because Suno is incapable of saying "No, a modern pop version of that would not work and should not exist". As someone entirely nonmusical, it really does feel like having a musician trapped in my basement that I can torture with all of my impossible bad ideas.
"Moon bags" in Japan refer to stylish, crescent-shaped crossbody or shoulder bags, often with a sleek, structured design or inspired by Japanese aesthetics like minimalism and art, made from materials like leather or unique Japanese textiles, serving as fashionable, practical carriers for daily essentials. They're a trend focused on a curved, half-moon silhouette, popular for their modern look and versatility in carrying essentials hands-free. Also, perfect for the Cadence Braille displays. I'll be using one in the future to avoid my mishap again.
either completely removed with a toggle or presented under a heading (<hx> HTML tag). I'm totally blind, so contrasts, colors and borders don't work for me and anyway violate #Accessibility standards.
Fun fact: @kagihq allows users to block certain websites from showing up in search results (you can also pin websites to the top of results, or raise or lower them). They also provide stats (kagi.com/stats) including top domains being blocked. The top 7 domains blocked by users are all iterations of pinterest.
The Bee Guy
in reply to The Bee Guy • • •Okay then, let’s take a broad look at our little #friends at this time of year.
Again please #repost / #share.
The more informed more folks are the better for bees.
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The Bee Guy
in reply to The Bee Guy • • •And they do need better from us!
Spoiler alert!
Bumbles - new queens in hibernation.
Solitaries - kids in cocoons.
Honeys - small ball of hot hive-bound bees.
So let’s start with honey #bees and get them out of the way as you know they’re not really our thing here.
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The Bee Guy
in reply to The Bee Guy • • •As temperatures drop (below 50ºF) they form a cluster (ball of #bees) in the #hive in order to use body heat primarily to keep the queen alive. This cluster will have a densely…
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The Bee Guy
in reply to The Bee Guy • • •5/14
The Bee Guy
in reply to The Bee Guy • • •…around 6 weeks during the summer to up to 6 months over #winter due mainly to the lower work load. Male honey bees don’t do winter - dying off before the colony retreat to the hive! In warmer climes the colony works all year round.
Next up we have the solitary #bees.
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The Bee Guy
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The Bee Guy
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The Bee Guy
in reply to The Bee Guy • • •…which is where they are now.
And finally to the big girls of the bee world - the bumbles.
Towards the end of summer #bumblebee nests come to a natural end - the males, female workers and old queen die leaving just the new queens alive. These queens feed up and go into…
9/14
The Bee Guy
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The Bee Guy
in reply to The Bee Guy • • •11/14
The Bee Guy
in reply to The Bee Guy • • •…#hibernation sites include inside tree hollows, under bark, beneath fallen #leaves, #compost heaps and even in plant pots - so be vigilant in your #garden!
In the UK and Ireland we are now increasingly seeing ‘winter active’ #bumblebees specifically Buff-tailed bumbles.
12/14
The Bee Guy
in reply to The Bee Guy • • •Hope this has helped increase your understanding of #bees a little.
Thread is a generalisation and there are variances between species and regions.
Please share among your crew.
#repost 🙏🏼
13/14
The Bee Guy
in reply to The Bee Guy • • •In a world that appears ever more divided, ever more angry, ever more willing to embrace the obvious annihilistic option we refuse to give up on the premise that most #people are #decent. That most people #care deeply.
Maybe we can #unite over #bees.
Do the right thing for once.
Make the good choice.
Maybe?
Please share this thread far and wide.
#repost
We know you care.
Show us.
Show one another.
Show the bees you care.
It’s okay to care.
It’s more fulfilling than hate.
14/14 Part 1/2
The Bee Guy
in reply to The Bee Guy • • •More natural than vitriol
More infectious than Covid.
More godly than prayer.
More active than hope.
More powerful than greed.
Don’t be afraid to care.
Deeply.
You’ll find you’re not alone.
Promise.
Thanks for your time.
I’ll shut up now…
14/14 Part 2/2